Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, Amazon…are all familiar names to millions in India who use the Internet mostly on their smartphones. This number is expected to reach 168 million this year with 277 million Internet users in all, predicts research firm eMarketer. The New York Times reports that India already...
Twitter Establishes R&D Center in India
Twitter, the San Francisco-based social network company, plans to set up a research and design center in Bangalore, its first such facility outside the U.S. Financial Times reports that this decision was taken to enable Twitter to accelerate its growth in emerging markets, and to tailor its service for countries...
Go East, Young Entrepreneur!
Here are three stories of entrepreneurs that went east to India, survived, and succeeded: Valerie Wagoner started her company ZipDial, which was acquired last month by Twitter, based on her insight of the potential of missed calls in the bandwidth deprived Indian mobile market. In 2013, Greg Moran and David...
Twitter Acquires Indian Mobile Startup
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...
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...