Will mobile phones be the future for cash payment? Will mobile payment usher in a cashless society? Are services like Western Union threatened by mobile payment? These are all the questions that Aditya answers in this podcast. Aditya Menon is Chief Information and Technology Officer of Obopay India. He started the US company’s India operations. […]

Futurebazaar.com is India’s latest big ticket shopping site that comes from the group which owns India’s largest retail chain. FutureBazaar.com recently got infused with a funding of $25 million and is bound to give established etailers in India many sleepless nights. Led by Kishore Biyani, the group owns and operates huge retail chains including Pantaloons, […]

Listen to the man who heads Sify.com, one of India’s biggest portals and also heads marketing for Sify Iways, one of Asia’s biggest cybercafe chains with over 3300 cafes in more than 150 cities in India. Sivaramakrishnan talks about his experience and challenges in both these businesses. Sify is a leader in Consumer Internet and […]

Harish founded Smile Interactive, the company that incubated Quasar, one of India’s top digital advertising agencies. It’s also behind Tyroo, an advertising network that Yahoo recently bought a substantial part of. It also built the technology behind MakeMyTrip, India’s biggest travel portal. In this podcast, Harish talks about what it takes to incubate small companies […]

Traffic Jams are a curse to city life. Finally, a startup has found a solution to overcome some of the problems. When I was in Bangalore recently, a city notorious for its atrocious traffic jams, I was pleasantly surprised to see a sign at a traffic signal which told me how much time it would […]