Kiran Rathee And Karan Choudhury

Stories by Kiran Rathee And Karan Choudhury

Warning: Searching for Sonakshi Sinha can be dangerous

Warning: Searching for Sonakshi Sinha can be dangerous

Rediff.com   13 Oct 2016

A search for "Sonakshi Sinha + Torrent" resulted in a 21 per cent chance of connecting to a malicious website

Spectrum sale ends, proceeds way off target

Spectrum sale ends, proceeds way off target

Rediff.com   7 Oct 2016

Upfront payment of Rs 32,000 cr just half of Budget estimate; no takers for 700 & 900 megahertz bands

Billion-dollar online sale ends, war of words begins

Billion-dollar online sale ends, war of words begins

Rediff.com   7 Oct 2016

While the first half of the year saw India's e-commerce market shrinking, the success of Diwali sales will boost the sector beyond last year's benchmark

Race on as e-tailers eye $1.5 bn in festive sales

Race on as e-tailers eye $1.5 bn in festive sales

Rediff.com   3 Oct 2016

Flipkart and Myntra, together, post higher sales than Amazon

Jio tussle: Trai comes down hard on telcos

Jio tussle: Trai comes down hard on telcos

Rediff.com   27 Sep 2016

Jio makes data on call drops public, says 121 mn calls failed in a day

Mittal's battle cry: Bring it on Jio, Airtel is ready for the challenge!

Mittal's battle cry: Bring it on Jio, Airtel is ready for the challenge!

Rediff.com   21 Sep 2016

Sunil Bharti Mittal, bottom, left, says he is fond of Bill Gates' famous quote: "Success is a lousy teacher." Back from a long foreign business trip, the founder-chairman of Bharti Enterprises talks to Malini Bhupta and Kiran Rathee about the challenges posed by Reliance Jio and how he is determined to come out on top once again. Mittal says , today, Airtel is as ready as Jio in pure-play 4G operations.

Ola tries old-school transporter model

Ola tries old-school transporter model

Rediff.com   20 Sep 2016

With Ola Corporate, aims to provide services to 10,000 firms by next year

Mounting sick leave makes India Inc nervous

Mounting sick leave makes India Inc nervous

Rediff.com   19 Sep 2016

Assocham estimates offices are facing staff crunches of 15 to 25 per cent with the various strains of fever.

With fatter wallet, Paytm goes for the kill

With fatter wallet, Paytm goes for the kill

Rediff.com   15 Sep 2016

The mobile wallet player plans to add more Chinese sellers to its e-commerce platform and boost technology for its soon-to-be-launched payments bank

Regional languages to be mandatory in mobiles

Regional languages to be mandatory in mobiles

Rediff.com   13 Sep 2016

The move by the government to make local language support a must in mobile phones is aimed at making users communicate in local languages and access government services

Hackers attack Ratan Tata, Trai chief's Twitter accounts

Hackers attack Ratan Tata, Trai chief's Twitter accounts

Rediff.com   11 Sep 2016

Tata has 6.13 million followers on Twitter and has tweeted only 119 times since he joined the microblogging platform in April 2011

PM Modi's world outreach

PM Modi's world outreach

Rediff.com   10 Sep 2016

Ministers will travel to different countries across the world, mostly where no ministerial visits have taken place in the last 20 to 25 years, to establish 'sampark' (contact) and 'samvad' (communication).

Jio, incumbents call truce on interconnect

Jio, incumbents call truce on interconnect

Rediff.com   10 Sep 2016

Big three telecom companies term Jio's free voice calls predatory pricing

Soon you will be able to access driving licence on your mobile

Soon you will be able to access driving licence on your mobile

Rediff.com   8 Sep 2016

The DigiLocker platform, launched on July 1, 2015, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has 2.1 million registered users and 2.4 million documents have been uploaded

Paytm to raise $300 million, valuation pegged at $5 billion

Paytm to raise $300 million, valuation pegged at $5 billion

Rediff.com   29 Aug 2016

Paytm, which recently hived off its e-commerce and payments bank businesses into separate companies, would use these fresh funds to bolster the two businesses

HCL Infosystems gets a breather as postal dept blacklists

HCL Infosystems gets a breather as postal dept blacklists

Rediff.com   26 Aug 2016

Interestingly, in December 2014 also, the DoP had issued an order blacklisting HCL Infosystems and its subsidiaries for a period of five years.

350% rise in cybercrime in India in 3 years: Study

350% rise in cybercrime in India in 3 years: Study

Rediff.com   26 Aug 2016

Operating systems are increasingly subject to cyberattacks, as many are built around legacy technologies with weaker protocols

Start-ups master the art of deal making

Start-ups master the art of deal making

Rediff.com   16 Aug 2016

No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising

Alibaba betting on Paytm in India

Alibaba betting on Paytm in India

Rediff.com   13 Aug 2016

Alibaba is playing a big role in helping to train the senior management of the upcoming Paytm Payment Bank

For telcos, data war may not be a bad thing

For telcos, data war may not be a bad thing

Rediff.com   12 Aug 2016

Analysts believe making mobile data more affordable will fuel mass market adoption of data services