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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Evil, manipulative, unscrupulous. These are a few of the allegations levelled by the startup’s service partners. Its future depends on the choices it makes now.
If you go by the sheer number of reports, it would seem like the world is turning against Urban Company. Even the most loyal service partners, who worked hard over the years to make the company a household name, are up in arms. Seema Singh, who closed her own beauty parlour in 2017 to work with Urban Company, is one of them. The 35-year-old has become the face of the unrest. She is the first among four defendants named in a lawsuit—a copy of which has been reviewed by The Morning Context—filed by the home services company after protests …
The contrasting approaches are driven by two very different strategies. One wants to capture more markets; the other is focused on discipline and profits.
The instant house help business has become the centre of focus and investment at the home services company. But another fight may be brewing in its core business.
India’s grocery and food delivery platforms are increasingly displaying misleading images of food using artificial intelligence, defeating the very purpose of buying online.
