Mahesh Sharma

In a move that could ease paper money’s stranglehold over the Indian economy and society, Mobikwik is releasing a mobile wallet for the country’s burgeoning Android smartphone-class to digitally buy…

The year-long saga of the Pakistan government’s YouTube ban has just taken another twist, as a case to unblock the website has been referred to a panel of Lahore High…

Kenyan accelerators, following mixed results from their rookie season, have tweaked their strategies for mentoring and investing in local entrepreneurs, in a bid to produce more successful startups. Accelerators 88mph and Savannah Fund are experiencing the…

An unauthorised app that lets Android users chat on Apple’s closed iMessage network is causing a big stir. It’s had viral downloads in the tens of thousands amid claims that…

App developers are struggling to make money in India because of low credit card penetration, according to Michael Stencl, CEO of maps provider Sygic, which has now dropped the $5.58…

Investors have recently piled millions into same-day delivery startups such as New York’s Zipments and San Francisco’s PostMates, and now Palo Alto firm Deliv has become the latest beneficiary, with plans to use a $6.85 million…

In a bid to relieve the staff from one of the most stressful and lengthy parts of an Indian employee’s day — the commute — the fast-growing e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal…

New York based Zipments, a same-day delivery marketplace that connects retailers with couriers, has closed a $2.25 million seed round to further build out its product and expand to new…

After ignoring repeated requests to appear in a court case challenging the Pakistan government’s year-long YouTube blackout, the country’s elusive IT minister is expected to appear at a hearing later…

Looks like Recruit Co, the Japan-based HR and recruitment site giant that has long been gearing up for an IPO, is on the acquisition trail again, just a month after…

Ali Rehan and his university cohorts had just won Pakistan’s Startup Weekend hackathon when they decided to quit their PhD research project to build a photography app. Weeks later they…

After months of hype and countless dollars, Yahoo! has unveiled the next big move in its ambitious transformation: a slimmed down logo.

Crowdsourced bug bounty marketplace Bugcrowd has raised $1.6 million from investors to grow its community of 3,000 vetted security penetration testers who can find vulnerabilities and weaknesses in a new…

Returning for his fourth and final visit to the Indian offices that would grant him a coveted five-year business visa, social entrepreneur Alex Stevens* was confident his wild goose chase…

Transportation tech startup Uber is continuing its aggressive expansion across Asia. As of this week, it is now live in India, starting first with a luxury car service in its tech…

Four Indians are exposing India’s sexual harassment hotspots via Safecity, a website for victims to anonymously report when and where they were abused. The founders hope that it could be the…

Project collaboration startup Wrike has rolled out a minimalist user interface in the latest update of its Graphite application, which emphasises a well-structured task view and also features the ability…

Flipkart, the largest e-commece site in India, has been likened to Amazon both for what it offers and its presence in the market. But it has one crucial difference: because credit…

India’s budding democracy has dipped its toe into the digital waters, as the government launched a website allowing citizens to file Right To Information requests online. It digitises a popular…

Google has added a half dozen new travel and entertainment features to its personalised search app Google Now, aiming to capture the attention of the real-world consumer, such as a…

Drones don’t have the best reputation on the subcontinent and in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, sandwiched between war-torn regions of Pakistan, Kashmir, and Nepal, villagers no doubt harbour suspicions…

Indian real estate startup CommonFloor has made its first major move since raising $7.5 million investment from Accel and Tiger Global in July: it is hiring air-conditioned hatchbacks, sedans and…

As low internet penetration stifled Facebook’s early growth in emerging markets in 2011, Indian startup U2opia developed an SMS-like system for users to post messages and read notifications by navigating…

Hoping to address the software developer skills crisis choking Australia’s startup ecosystem, Learnable.com is giving away $10 million in credits to high school students to access its library of web development…

Karl Mehta, the man who helped coordinate the technology response to Hurricane Sandy, has moved his attention to another emergency situation: India’s decaying social infrastructure. He has personally funded a…

Hoping to trump heavily-funded and tightly-networked Silicon Valley firms, cashed-up Indian startup InterpretOmics will harness India’s cheap skilled labour resources to develop a $100, mass market app that uses big…

The recent launch of cheap Nokia devices featuring the proprietary S40 and Asha operating systems, and deals with India’s four biggest mobile operators, have stimulated a growing appetite for apps…

Rocket Internet’s e-commerce properties continue their march towards new horizons in all corners of the glob: in Europe, ASOS-investor and fashion entrepreneur Anders Holch Povlsen has taken a 10% stake…

While most messaging app developers are chasing each others’ fluffy white tails further and further down the rabbit hole (i’m pretty sure there’s a sticker out there that illustrates this…

In its smartphone debut, Meru Cabs is targeting a more diverse group of users than just taxi customers: it’s hoping to save people caught in a dangerous situation — a…