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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A three-part series that documents the rise and decline of the original Indian social media company.
This is the first of a three-part series that will document the rise and fall of Hike—India’s original, homegrown social media company.
Before there was ShareChat, there was Hike. A much-celebrated messaging platform that had emerged in the early 2010s, and quickly turned into a promising super app as well as a unicorn. For a while, Hike was the largest and the most popular. It was India’s answer to WhatsApp.
And then one day, Hike was none of those things.
In the company’s 12-year trajectory, a lot has simply been forgotten—the early idea and success, failures, a pivot like no …
Parent AceVector is headed for a public market debut next week. As much as 97% of its revenue comes from two businesses. One is already a listed entity, the other a missed opportunity.
FY26 numbers show that Airtel is stealing a march on its larger rival on most counts and is unrelenting in its ambition, casting a cloud on Jio’s valuation.
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
