'Byah Ho Gaya Tumhara': OYO's new check-in policy for unmarried couples sparks meme festOYO has introduced new check-in rules requiring unmarried couples to provide valid proof of relationship. The new policy is currently imple...
06 Jan, 2025, 01.12 PM IST
Manager explains why Oyo hotels in Meerut are turning away unmarried couplesOYO has introduced a new policy for its partner hotels in Meerut that bans unmarried couples from checking in without proof of their relati...
05 Jan, 2025, 09.26 PM IST
Q-comm audits; modest Q1 for IT firmsHappy Wednesday! Due to recent hygiene lapses by quick commerce, the government has intensified surprise inspections of their warehouses. T...
03 Jul, 2024, 07.24 AM IST
Chandrayaan-3 success sends startup founders and investors over the moonThe excitement was not limited to space technology startups, but felt across the ecosystem. The sentiment was that India’s moon landing emb...
24 Aug, 2023, 11.58 AM IST
India’s Startup Mafia 2.0: Oyo, Ola, Udaan lead the wave of entrepreneurship; more women logging out of tech jobsIndia’s top internet firms like Flipkart have been fertile breeding grounds for entrepreneurs who left jobs to start something of their own...
15 Jun, 2023, 07.51 AM IST
ED summons crypto execs; startup valuations drop sharplyED has issued notices to a few crypto firms and summoned their top executives as it probes alleged violations of India’s foreign exchange l...
06 Jul, 2022, 07.19 AM IST
Half machine, half artist – meet DALL-E 2DALL-E 2 (a mishmash of WALL-E and Dali) builds on the success of its predecessor DALL-E, which OpenAI unveiled in early 2021, and improves...
07 May, 2022, 08.00 AM IST
Oyo’s IPO filing; Facebook official grilled in US senateOyo Hotels & Homes, India’s third-highest-valued private startup, has filed its draft IPO papers with the capital markets regulator. It see...
01 Oct, 2021, 07.48 PM IST
Oyo IPO details: The DRHP, decodedOyo Hotels & Homes, officially called Oravel Stays Ltd, plans to raise Rs 8,430 crore in an initial public offering (IPO), draft papers of ...
01 Oct, 2021, 06.27 PM IST
Welcome to the metaverse; Oyo’s pre-IPO movesLike Zoom calls, food delivery and work from home, the idea of building the “metaverse” has surged in popularity during the pandemic. Orave...
08 Sep, 2021, 08.02 PM IST
Is responsible marketing getting lost in translation?As consumer expectations continue to rise by the day, brands face an uphill task of gaining their trust with response efforts and marketing.
12 May, 2021, 04.54 PM IST
View: The time is ripe for India's hospitality industry to pull together and revive itselfCompanies have also used the pandemic to re-innovate themselves. They are strengthening the marketplace model of distribution, enhancing te...
04 Oct, 2020, 11.37 PM IST
Oyo acquires Copenhagen-based data science company Danamica for an undisclosed sumAcquisition comes about a month after the SoftBank-backed company committed €300 million investment in its European vacation rentals busine...
03 Sep, 2019, 08.00 AM IST
Room for growth: Indian Hotels MD Puneet Chhatwal's key to unlock valueChhatwal wants to unlock value by matching growth with optimum use of resources and consolidation.
24 Feb, 2019, 10.06 AM IST
Budget 2018: Development of 10 prominent tourism sites should boost tourism, say expertsIn his budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley said the government is proposing to develop 10 prominent tourist sites into iconic tour...
01 Feb, 2018, 08.34 PM IST
Industry experts credit Modi government for boosting tourismGovernment initiatives such as e-visas and visa on arrival, as well as the focus on tourism and infrastructure development, have kept the m...
25 May, 2017, 08.30 AM IST
Mobikwik files patent for power wallet platform that integrates with payment platform of retailersThis comes soon after Snapdeal-owned Free-Charge indigenously developed an authentication alternative to the SMS-based one-time-password.
30 Dec, 2015, 04.00 AM IST