2015

Sponsored search ads will now be displayed on Google Play as it will now be open to advertisers and developers. It had rolled out the pilot for a few in February, and is now officially rolling out ads on the store.

PM Modi’s Make in India campaign is giving rich dividends within 10 months of it’s launch. After creating 2.75 lakh new jobs, Make in India vision is driving mobile phones sales as well. As per CounterPoint Research’s latest report…

Snapdeal, which claims to be India’s largest online market place has joined hands with HDFC Bank, India’s 2nd largest private bank, to launch India’s first co-branded ‘e-commerce’ credit card. Visa would be the payment processing…

Cab hailing service Ola has now launched a Bug Bounty program for making its platform more secure. This is the first full-fledged bug bounty program launched by an Indian startup till date. Ola has acknowledged that many critical…

Editors Note: This is not an article, but one person's perspective about living in four Indian cities. The author had made a comment on one of our previous posts, and we thought that we could publish this for wider audiences. The…

Uber payments are getting easier. When Uber launched initially in India last year, a user needed an International credit card to star with their Uber ride. Over the course of last year, especially in last few months, Uber has opened…

There is something definitely wrong with Indian mobile wallet companies, as user experience continues to nose-dive. Backed by VC funds, these wallet startups have been promoting their services aggressively across all platforms; but are…

It’s not even a week since Flipkart made announcement of their $700 million raise from their existing investors. Now, Snapdeal, Flipkart’s closest rival, has announced half a billion funding round from Chinese eCommerce major Alibaba,…

It’s Monday morning and time to do a quick wrap-up of posts published on trak.in last week. If you were offline for any reason, go ahead check this out Indian couple Pranoti and Rishi Israni created an Automatic Rotimaker called…

Startups have triggered the new age gold rush in India. Global management consultancy firms are now eyeing early stage Indian startups, and creating incubation programs to tap ‘em young and hoping to make a fortune the way Indian…