2014

Connaught Place in New Delhi is World’s 8th and India’s most expensive office location as of June, 2014. World’s most expensive office location is still London’s posh West End area while Hong Kong’s Central is at #2 and Beijing’s Finance…

In an announcement which can change the landscape of rural India, Government has decided to provide 2,50,000 villages with high speed broadband internet connection within 3 years. 50,000 villages would be covered by the end of this…

CMR's quarterly tablet PC market review for the Indian sub-continent is out for Q1 2014 (January - March). In those three months, nearly 0.75 million tablets were shipped across the country. Even so, the number is actually a depreciation as…

Flipkart has decided to go full throttle in reaching out and helping small and medium scale Businesses (SMEs). In a major step towards complete empowerment of SMEs in India, Flipkart has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with…

Housing.com, the much talked about map-based online real estate portal started by 12 IITians has raised their third round of funding of Rs. 115 Crore (approx USD 19.1 million) from Helion Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and…

Out of 162 countries, India has been ranked a lowly 143 in terms of peace index. The research: “Vision of Humanity” was done by Institute of Economics & Peace which tried to measure national peacefulness based on several quantitative…

The much awaited, the much rumoured and the much talked about Amazon’s new 3D phone is out! It called the Fire phone, and from what we can gather, there are a lot of things to talk about. But first things first… Is it really a 3D phone?…

Crowdfunding has now become a global phenomenon and gone mainstream! However, in India crowdfunding is still at a nascent stage. There is no legal or regulatory framework around this new phenomenon. SEBI, India’s Stock market regulatory…

Chinese phone maker Xiaomi is coming to India. Xiaomi had already announced plans to enter several key Asian markets last year. That isn't all; the US Smartphone market is also on the Xiaomi's radar. However, while analysts were expecting…

India’s largest online movie ticketing and event booking site, BookMyShow.com has raised Rs. 150 crore from SAIF partners which values the company at Rs. 1000 Crore (approx USD 167 million) reports Times of India. Their existing investors…