Online directory service Truecaller has crossed 100 million users in India. A BGR report added that the company had reached 80 million users in India last month and added 20 million more users in less than a month. In August last year, we reported that more than 50% of Truecaller’s 70 million registered user base was in India, translating to at least 35 million registered users in the country, up from 30 million in April last year. Truecaller claims to have a database of 1.7 billion numbers from the country and blocks over 120 million spam calls daily. The company plans to hit 150 million users in India by the end of this year. Late last month, the company introduced an ‘availability’ feature on its Truedialer Android app where users could turn their availability to on and off. This feature is available under “Availability” in settings which reads ‘show other Truedialer users that I am busy during phone calls (3G/WiFi needed), calendar events and silent mode’. For this, both the users trying to call each other need to set Truedialer as their default calling app for to see these details, implying that the feature will be visible to only other Truedialer users Funding in the pipeline? In August, we reported that the company was looking to raise $100 million in funding from as yet unnamed companies (possibly new and existing investors including Google and Twitter). The funding would value Truecaller at $1 billion and be used to grow the product,…
