Kochi-based startup Aucupa offers security app iFollow; what’s new?

Aucupa Innovative Solutions Pvt Ltd, a Kochi-based mobile app developer, has rolled out a personal security app called iFollow, which will send out alerts when the user is in danger. An Android app, iFollow is free to download and essentially targets women users. You can add up to three personal con...

Sainul K Abudheen

MobiTatva offers ‘fun learning’ app CramBuddy; can it engage teens?

Bangalore-based tech startup MobiTatva has developed CramBuddy, a learning, quizzing, gaming and social networking app for teenage students. This Android app has learning and quizzing tools embedded in it, as well as relevant content sourced from different providers. The content includes general and...

Sonam Gulati & Rashi Varshney

App Tracker: Which app will help you banish hunger pangs in time?

After sorting out which apps to use for travel and shopping we are now featuring the most critical need—food. A few food ordering apps are available for the hungry (and lazy) souls who don’t enjoy cooking and are too addicted to their phones and tablets to look for numbers of restaurants to plac...

Sainul K Abudheen

Bubbles enabling ‘handwritten’ mail on web; claims 47K users in 5 months

Bubbles, an e-mail platform that enables users to send ‘handwritten and feature-packed’ electronic letters via the internet, has bagged more than 47,000 users across the globe since it came out of beta in January this year, a top executive told Techcircle.in. Owned and operated by California-bas...

Rashi Varshney

Stelae upgrades content conversion software Khemeia, targets India’s BPO/KPO hub

Stelae Technologies, a software firm offering cloud-based content conversion software Khemeia, is looking to expand team, add more languages to its flagship product and gain more clients in India and the US, according to a top executive of the company. It is also planning to raise venture capital fu...

Sonam Gulati

Grocery e-tailer Ekstop seeking to make a mark where others failed, eyeing multi-city growth

Ekstop, an online store dealing in grocery and daily essentials, claims to be doing around 165 orders a day with an average transaction value pegged at Rs 1200-1300. Currently operating only in Mumbai, the startup is now looking to expand into other cities like Delhi, Bangalore and Pune. Talking to ...

Anand Rai & Sonam Gulati

App Tracker: Which e-commerce app stands out from the crowd and why?

Last week we brought to you a no-holds-barred look at how the apps of OTAs stack up and this time around we are looking at how the popular e-commerce companies fight it out via their apps on the iOS and Android platforms. E-commerce has been one of the fastest growing online categories and a large ...

Sainul K Abudheen

Yummybay claims wide footprint in online food ordering business, also expands overseas

Online food ordering ventures have seen a number of players entering the market. While some like JustEat and Foodpanda are national players, there are many other city-based ventures focused on single markets. Kochi-based Amicitia Food Mart Pvt Ltd, which owns and operates food ordering portal Yummyb...

Anand Rai

Travel planning cum hotel-booking site Tripstor banks on social connect to carve a niche

Ranking Analytics Pvt Ltd, the company that owns and operates Tripstor.com, comes across as yet another new generation firm targeting the now crowded online travel agency (OTA) business. One of the startups which showcased its product at Techcircle Demo India event recently, Tripstor seeks to differ...

Sainul K Abudheen

Graphic India bets on digital comics with homegrown superheroes, can it create a niche?

Mumbai-based Graphic India, which creates comic characters and super heroes for offline and online worlds, is looking to tap into the 500 million-strong youth population in India to grow its business, a top executive of the firm told Techcircle.in. Graphic India, which raised an undisclosed sum in J...