Year in Review: SaaS firms tackle funding dip and a slump amid AI disruptionIndia's SaaS industry is facing challenges such as slowing demand, cautious investor funding, and the impact of AI. Funding levels remain b...
30 Dec, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Understand layoffs when struggling but this naked greed: Zoho CEO lashes out at company for reducing workforce by 13%Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu criticized Freshworks for laying off 13% of its workforce, despite having $1 billion in cash and announcing a $400 m...
08 Nov, 2024, 09.03 PM IST
End of BharatPe vs Ashneer Grover saga; Cred’s FY24 reportFintech major BharatPe has settled legal disputes with cofounder Ashneer Grover. Details on this and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
30 Sep, 2024, 09.07 PM IST
Juspay, others secure payment aggregator nod; Paytm shares reboundZoho is the first enterprise Saas player to get the payment aggregator nod from the RBI, joining the likes of Razorpay, Cashfree, Zomato an...
07 Feb, 2024, 07.47 PM IST
India’s Startup Mafia 2.0: Oyo, Ola, Udaan spawn most number of entrepreneursDrawing on a record inflow of venture capital in the past decade, 297 founders have set up some 253 startups, igniting talk of a new-look “...
16 Jun, 2023, 11.10 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
Smaller tech firms open to moonlighting, subject to disclosuresMid-tier technology companies and tech startups are having open discussions with employees to inspire confidence among moonlighters to disc...
26 Oct, 2022, 02.45 PM IST
Zoho says Freshworks intentionally accessed database in new complaintZoho seeks a discovery process into ‘scope of unauthorised access’ to investigate if other employees have committed more such actions; call...
10 Feb, 2022, 02.45 PM IST
How India’s SaaS sector is upending the legacy business model by remote marketingIndian SaaS companies have always used digital marketing to reach out to customers as their primary customer base has been largely overseas.
09 May, 2021, 08.58 AM IST
ETtech Morning Dispatch on Feb. 9, 2021: Twitter flies too close to the sun, WhatsApp Pay can't catch a breakHere's a look at the top tech news to start your day.
09 Feb, 2021, 08.01 AM IST
US court seeks Madras HC help in Zoho-Freshworks caseZoho filed a fresh complaint against Freshworks in November 2020 following one previously in March, accusing it of intentionally accessing ...
08 Feb, 2021, 05.43 PM IST
Freshworks plea to dismiss Zoho's data theft suitFreshworks has asked a US court to dismiss a case filed against it by rival Zoho, saying that the petition lacked "specificity and particul...
03 Aug, 2020, 08.16 AM IST
Astronauts, Y2K veterans roped in to ease work-from-home painsTata Consultancy Services conducted a video seminar for its nearly 4.5 lakh staffers with the American astronaut Ronald Garan, who shared h...
27 Apr, 2020, 08.00 PM IST
Indian tech firms are looking beyond traditional hubs to set up shop in the USAmerican headhunters also say that cities like Austin and Seattle are becoming technology hubs.
06 Dec, 2019, 09.57 PM IST
Indian SaaS startups need to turn inwards to move forwardThere is a myth among the local VCs that small business in India only uses pirated software and will never pay. The reality, however, is th...
12 Nov, 2019, 08.31 AM IST
Software rental firms turn the spotlight on IndiaJust as Bengaluru rose to prominence as a technology services hub, Chennai has silently become the SaaS capital.
28 Jun, 2019, 08.50 AM IST
Why these companies have chosen to remain single-product entitiesThere have been instances of large global companies that have cracked a single-product market and then focused on other markets.
21 Jul, 2017, 02.44 PM IST