Speaking with MediaNama, Vishal Anand, Burrp's Business Head, summed up the entire Zomato Vs Burrp episode as a PR nightmare for the company and reiterated that Zomato blew things out of proportion. Earlier, Zomato had alleged that Burrp had copied a listing from their site (also read Zomato CEO, Deepinder Goyal's interview), following which Burrp had also accused Zomato of poaching and posting fake reviews. Excerpts from our interaction with Anand: MediaNama: How would you respond to Zomato's allegations of copying listings? Anand: India's IPR laws allow any yellow pages business to list names, addresses and other contact details of businesses and no one has a copy right per-se on this. We have a data collection team of 100 people including data collectors who work for AskMe. We also have yellowpages.co.in under our business. I was really surprised and taken aback by all this brouhaha about that phone number on Saturday evening, and how Zomato chose to go public instead of resolving it by just giving us a phone call or sending us a mail. There have been two such instances earlier and we've repected their requests and removed listings. This time, they accused us of data theft, implying that we scrape data, which is not true at all. MediaNama: But you do agree that the listing was there on Burrp and that there were some goof-ups on the verification end? Anand: You should do a Google search with the phone number in question and you'd see many more listings on…
