New Delhi: A recent government contest to promote domestic mobile apps received the maximum number of applications under the business apps category, followed by social networking, e-learning and the health and wellness category. “Hope this will help kickstart an app ecosystem in India,” Singh, who is also the CEO of Digital India Corporation, added. While 19 firms with male founders eventually won, five apps with women founders made the final cut. Interestingly, female participants have won all the awards in Games category.Bengaluru emerged as the top city with seven winners, followed by Chennai and Mumbai. Some of the winners included Zoho Invoice, Books & Expense, e-learning app Disprz, Caption Plus under the entertainment category, StepSetGo (SSG) in the health category; education app IsEqualTo, MapmyIndia Move, along with others such as AskSarkar and short-video app Chingari.

Source: Economic Times September 12, 2020 03:22 UTC