Byju’s is raising funds at $8 billion valuation & overtakes Snapdeal. It is the only one of the top three that hasn’t taken funding from SoftBank or its Vision Fund.
Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma is raising capital to protect his digital payments company from new entrants like Facebook, Google and Walmart's PhonePe.
The WhatsApp payments offering has been in beta mode in India since early 2018. It’s gearing to meet RBI’s data localisation rule to launch nationally.
The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
It is insane that education is marketed like soap and cosmetics using shah rukh Khan. What we require is three faces of education. At montessori let children have fun coming to school, make friends, learn to speak and enjoy their time at school. Between 1 to 5 let them become learners facilitated by teachers with a quest for knowledge. As they move beyond 6th, let children explore the world to pursue what they see as their passion, arts, scie ce, maths music whatever. None of these are met by these apps.
I do not understand the system of valuation and it appears very bloated. Hope for all the huge investments parents are making the bubble does not burst. I have no hope
The perfect example of bloated companies riding on insane valuations that don’t reflect the actual consumer perception. I’m very skeptical about the retention and renewal rate as quoted in the article. The learning experience is abysmal. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Students have trouble concentrating when there is an actual person teaching in front of them and how can you expect them to learn and understand anything when an animated character is teaching algebra! A case in point would be the consumption of VOD like Netflix now. Most of the consumers who use Netflix are almost always on their phones and the content is just like ambient noise. Netflix obviously doesn’t engage the consumer, as well as a movie theatre, would.
Extrapolate the same reasoning to Byju’s. Do you think teenagers who already have notoriously low attention spans, will concentrate on learning a mathematical and scientific concepts when a person is teaching it over the phone with zero real interaction?
This will not succeed. I hope to god it will not succeed.
It is insane that education is marketed like soap and cosmetics using shah rukh Khan. What we require is three faces of education. At montessori let children have fun coming to school, make friends, learn to speak and enjoy their time at school. Between 1 to 5 let them become learners facilitated by teachers with a quest for knowledge. As they move beyond 6th, let children explore the world to pursue what they see as their passion, arts, scie ce, maths music whatever. None of these are met by these apps.
I do not understand the system of valuation and it appears very bloated. Hope for all the huge investments parents are making the bubble does not burst. I have no hope
The perfect example of bloated companies riding on insane valuations that don’t reflect the actual consumer perception. I’m very skeptical about the retention and renewal rate as quoted in the article. The learning experience is abysmal. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Students have trouble concentrating when there is an actual person teaching in front of them and how can you expect them to learn and understand anything when an animated character is teaching algebra! A case in point would be the consumption of VOD like Netflix now. Most of the consumers who use Netflix are almost always on their phones and the content is just like ambient noise. Netflix obviously doesn’t engage the consumer, as well as a movie theatre, would.
Extrapolate the same reasoning to Byju’s. Do you think teenagers who already have notoriously low attention spans, will concentrate on learning a mathematical and scientific concepts when a person is teaching it over the phone with zero real interaction?
This will not succeed. I hope to god it will not succeed.