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15 top-funded startups in India (Infographic)
Flipkart is on top, but Bigbasket, Oyo, Grofers and others have logged in with solid funding.
Holaa! A new mobile app from India identifies callers and blocks spam. It’s a challenge to Truecaller
Made in India by local developers, Holaa! claims to help smartphone users manage their calls better.
New Call Telecom grabs majority stake in Nimbuzz for $175 million
Nimbuzz will continue to exist as New Call Telecom’s unit in India and also incubate the British company’s apps.
Despite WhatsApp’s dominance in India, investors still bet on local chat apps like Hike
Indian instant messaging app Hike just received $14 million in funding from Bharti Softbank, according to the Economic Times. The app reports 15 million registered users, 80 percent of them in its home
It’s time for messaging apps to quit the bullshit numbers and tell us how many users are active
One of the biggest trends of the last few years is messaging apps. Dozens of startups and major web companies have leapt into this social space, and hundreds of millions
Indian messaging app Nimbuzz lets users search and swipe local listings right in their chat
Today the makers of Nimbuzz, one of India’s entries in the mobile messaging app space, unveiled a new feature that lets users search and share listings of local businesses. The
Nimbuzz takes a stab at Skype and telcos with cheap international calls from India
European-made chat app Nimbuzz has long been popular in India, and it might be about to grow even more with the launch of cheap international calls to regular, landline phones
Can India’s startups beat their international counterparts to the punch?
Every day, more and more people in India gain access to broadband internet via either mobile or desktop. Because of its massive population, India is set to be the next big market
Chat apps are destroying SMS in India: Indians now only send 2 SMS per day
We’ve seen it happen in the US and Europe, and then in China. Now it’s happening in India. The popularity of sending SMS in India is at an all-time low
Indian chat apps: should we be watching the quiet innovation in India?
I think we’re all too focused on the chat apps from East Asia, are we neglecting the quiet innovation that is happening over in India in the chat app space?



