NEW DELHI: Ride-hailing major Uber on Monday said it has set up its second centre of excellence (CoE) in Visakhapatnam and will hire about 500 people for the facility by the end of next year.

The US-based company which is locked in an intense battle with Bengaluru-headquartered Ola for market leadership in India already operates a CoE in Hyderabad.

Set up at a cost of $800,000 (about Rs 5.73 crore), the new centre will create about 500 new jobs.

We expect to have about 500 people by the end of next year," he said.

Lin added that the launch of the second centre in India is a reiteration of the company's commitment to the Indian market. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575288006.0557547/Uber-sets-up-new-centre-in-Visakhapatnam,-to-hire-500-people?ref=audio_experience

What is a creative, less-used approach people can use to encourage people to take part in a company-branded giveaway?

Personalize the PrizesThe biggest mistake companies make when running giveaways is giving away generic prizes.

Think about your audience’s core desire and play to that instead of giving away things that are convenient.

Try to come up with a giveaway prize that brings together your product with another brand’s solution.

Hold a giveaway contest in which you’ll choose a winner and part of the reward is to use their ideas in your products. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575286206.8432477/11-Creative-Ways-to-Encourage-Participation-in-Company-Giveaways?ref=audio_experience

He said that to further propel the growth to the next level, India needs to address two aspects — liquidity and exits.

Rangaswami told PTI that everything is on ‘right track,’ resulting in the growth of the startup ecosystem, including venture capitalists, angel investors, big corporates, customers and others.

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However, there require more exits as this will give a massive boost to the startup funding ecosystem in India, he added.

According to Inc42 DataLabs report, in the first quarter of 2019, Indian tech startups have raised total funding of $3.4 Bn. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575284404.8063376/Indian-Startup-Ecosystem-Needs-Liquidity-And-Exits-To-Grow:-VC-MR-Rangaswami?ref=audio_experience

Black Friday consHowever, not everyone thinks making a few extra sales is worth the madness.

“But because the sustainability movement is gaining more traction, I think people are starting to ‘vote' with their money too – supporting brands and businesses that have a social impact.

In 2016 alone, SnapDragon prevented the sale of $10bn worth of counterfeits and successfully removed over 600 links to counterfeit items.

Jones knows first hand the damage that can be done to small businesses by online scams.

“It is worth considering publishing information about your authorised sellers on your website or social media platforms. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575282605.2688706/Black-Friday-for-small-businesses-–-is-it-worth-it??ref=audio_experience

Download The Mobile Finance Report 2019 and see what opportunities lie in India and the APAC region.

Decoding innovation in mobile financeThe research is a collaboration between Adjust and mobile data and analytics platform, App Annie.

Retention: Adjust data finds that retention is exceedingly high for finance apps, but low for payment apps.

Why finance app growth is strongest in APACAccording to the report, finance apps have gained huge momentum all around APAC — with downloads leaping from 383 million downloads in 2014 to reach a massive 1.8 billion in 2018.

He adds, “Finally, an important factor to consider is that many consumers in Asian markets download several finance apps rather than a single central one. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575280805.1139355/Finance-apps-retain-long-and-strong-says-a-new-report-from-Adjust-and-App-Annie?ref=audio_experience

While Google may be getting better at indexing Javascript content, it turns out that it still takes quite a while in some cases.

This is relevant for anyone who has a site with content in which indexing can make or break impact i.e news website or ecommerce store.

Here’s what he suggests:Use a tool like Onely to identify the content generated by Javascript on a page.

Use the ‘site:’ command on Google to check for pages that it is indexing.

This will help you understand if Google is indexing your JS content in a timely fashion or whether it is even indexing the content at all. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575279005.3414927/Why-Google-delays-indexing-Javascript-content-and-what-you-can-do-to-deal-with-it?ref=audio_experience

realxdata GmbH, one of Germany’s leading AI and smart data companies for the real estate and financial sectors, has successfully raised Series A capital.

The funding will also support growing the realxdata team on a large scale.

Builtworld Innovation Forum at ExpoReal also awarded realxdata the Real Estate Innovation Award from over 1,000 market proptech disruptors.

Previous investors include prominent real estate market experts and technology funds such as Oliver Hermann (redos real estate GmbH), Oliver Puhl, westpol Proptech with Prof. Dr. Stephan Bone-Winkel and Rheingau Founders.

The realxdata team turns them into concrete, tailor-made and user-friendly products for the financial and real estate sectors. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575277214.4713125/Berlin-based-realxdata-raises-approx-€5-million-from-SIGNA-Innovations-and-Ventech-finance,-to-accelerate-growth?ref=audio_experience

Notably, CAIT, raising almost the same concerns, has previously written to the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman as well.

The letter written to Goyal comes at a time when the minister is addressing the alleged violation of FDI norms by ecommerce companies.

Additionally, the CAIT also alleged that these brands provide exclusive products only to ecommerce companies and not to the offline market, which disrupts the sales of retailers.

It also alleged that these practices help ecommerce companies to maintain predatory pricing and deep discounting more effectively on their platforms.

However, these banks are going against the provisions of competition law and policy of the Reserve Bank of India, by limiting these offers to online players only, CAIT alleged. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575275405.7397814/Amazon-And-Flipkart-Are-Economic-Terrorists:-CAIT-Warns-Piyush-Goyal?ref=audio_experience

Here are 8 startup ideas every pharmacy professional should consider.

If you’re an epigenetic coach, you can offer truly personalized medical advice based on someone’s lifestyle and genetic information.

This area is growing, and you may be able to use it to sell complementary products in your pharmacy.

For example, you could provide expert medical advice for patients considering or currently taking hormonal supplements.

For example, you might help them add travel medicine and travel vaccinations to the list of services they provide. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575273710.1998382/8-Startup-Ideas-For-Pharmacy-Professionals---Young-Upstarts?ref=audio_experience

Because influencers are used to working with limited characters to promote products, they’re very familiar with tools like a word counter.

Today, brands are tapping influencers in hopes of broadening their brand reach and gaining more loyal customers.

Because influencers can come from different social media platforms and promote almost anything, it can get hard to clearly define who and what influencers are.

Another way to optimize influencers is to give them affiliate links with exclusive discount codes that their followers can use.

By attaching the influencer’s name to an official product, their followers will flock to your storefronts on the day it goes on sale. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1575271808.1710846/Will-Tapping-Influencers-Really-Improve-Sales?---Young-Upstarts?ref=audio_experience