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Bengaluru-based SlicePay, which began with offering purchase financing to students to help them buy phones or laptops, now also offers credit for booking flights or cabs or paying for phone recharge services. Several other startups including Simpl and ePayLater, too, are focused on the ‘pay-later’ market for small-ticket purchases, offering young people credit of about […]

Online lingerie brand PrettySecrets is making an entry in brick and mortar retailing with the launch of two stand alone stores in Mumbai. The brand will also launch additional 30 stores by 2017 and 300 stores by 2019. The first two stores that the brand is going to launch would be company owned stores and

MakeMyTrip to launch a new concept along with a new TVC campaign called Assured Hotels, covering around 5,500 hotels initially. With Assured Hotels the company plans to categorise and certify certain hotels based on parameters such as quality of reviews and service & thereby addressing the customer concerns while booking hotels online. Assured Hotels is a MakeMyTrip

Maharashtra government on Saturday chose to regulate the web-based taxi services in the state to ensure affordable travel for commuters. As per the newly drafted Maharashtra City Taxi Rules-2017, they will have to share equal responsibility for any untoward incident during a ride. Big Blue Taxi Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Datuk Shamsubahrin Ismail said

Online marketplace ShopClues has launched e-commerce enablement initiatives like a mobile point-of-sale system, QR code-enabled digital payments and business credit card as part of its offline strategy to on-board close to 1 lakh merchants by 2018-end. The business credit card offering is being developed in association with RBL Bank. These offerings, targeted mainly at small and

An Indian technology firm, working with IBM public cloud unit, is looking to help Indian kirana stores defend their turf in the online grocery war. Pace Automation, which has previously built software for restaurants, wants to bring 1,50,000 thousand local grocery stores onto its platform in three years and allow customers to order their groceries

After mere mortals, it is finally time for gods to accept digital payments. From Siddhivinayak Ganapati temple in Mumbai to Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah in the capital, scores of religious institutions across the country have partnered with digital wallets to receive donations from devotees. Over the past few months, many temples have started accepting donations through

Ashwin Srisailam, a former monk turned entrepreneur and Diane Bacchus-Quddus got together to set up an app called Ahhaa in 2015. The app, launched by AR Rahman, was then a platform for inner growth and fulfillment. The focus has now shifted to creating ‘Ahhaa spaces’ or meditation zones in corporate and educational campuses. The aim

AmazonPrime Video India has roped in Only Much Louder as its partner for the subscription streaming home for 14 stand-up comedy specials with India’s top comedians, which include YouTubers Kanan Gill, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Sapan Verma, Azeem Banatwalla and many more. Amazonannounced that it is a long-term arrangement with OML, which will feature hour-long specials of each

Paytm announced on Monday that it has partnered with several hospital chains to expand its acceptance across the country’s healthcare sector to assist millions of consumers as they can now use its cashless payment solution to pay for their medical expenses in a quick and hassle-free manner. The company’s new tie ups cover a wide range of