Twitter Inc., has announced it will acquire Indian mobile phone marketing start-up ZipDial as the U.S. microblogging service looks to expand in the world's second-biggest mobile market. The deal is said to be in the region of $30 million. One of the founders of ZipDial is California-born Valerie Wagoner who...
Innovative Razor creates surprising avalanche
In 2010, Procter & Gamble launched the new razor “Gillette Guard.” The razor is priced at $0.34 while the blade costs $0.11. In order to come up with the new product, a team from Procter & Gamble was sent to India to conduct ethnographic research such as in-home visits and...
500 Startups invests in Bangalore’s tech firm ZipDial
The company 500 Startups is a seed fund based in the US that began investing in India just over a year ago and now has closed its tenth deal in the country with ZipDial. According to Paul Singh, a partner at 500 Startups, the investment was standing between $250,000 and...