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Soon You May be Able to Buy Medicines Online, Govt to Consider Revising Drugs Act
Many ecommerce companies were lately under scanner of the regulatory board for selling medicines online. Now suddenly diverging from that, the government is looking forth to ‘modifying the Drugs and Cosmetics Act’, so that the ecommerce…
India Is 4th Largest Victim Of DDoS Attacks; Web Application & Gaming Favorite Targets For…
Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) has doubled in the last three months; and India has emerged as 4h largest victim of these attacks. India accounted for 7.43% of all DDoS attacks, whereas with 37.01%, China is the top victim.
US shared…
Is Google Against Net-Neutrality? Emails Show That Google Has Joined Facebook For Lobbying…
Net neutrality movement in India has received one of the biggest shocks ever: Google is turning evil as they seem to have teamed up with Facebook to lobby Zero Rating plans in India.
Zero Rating is a telecom jargon which means that…
Smartphone Addiction Causes Digital Amnesia: Kaspersky
The fact that people are getting addicted to in-hand devices is not novel. Day in and day out, life comes to a standstill without having the gadgets at disposal. With the gadgets comes Internet, and with Internet, comes Google.…
Flipkart One Stop Launched in 20 Cities, A Support Platform For Sellers
Out of 30,000 registered merchants / sellers on Flipkart, 90% are small businesses. In order to assist them and help them grow, Flipkart has launched a support and consultancy platform called Flipkart One Stop or F1 Stop.
Flipkart…
Global E-commerce Industry Makes $1.2M Revenue Every 30 Seconds: Study
Social networking is playing a major role in growth of e-commerce. Advertisers now swear by remarketing, boosting the revenue of the e-commerce industry. Mobile payment companies with their luring offers are making buyers irresistible.…
YouTube Space Coming to Mumbai; A Youtube Creator’s Ultimate Playground
Google is putting in efforts to connect more and more talent from India, which is one of world’s biggest technology markets. The tech giant has already set up YouTube spaces in Los Angeles, London, New York City, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, and…
Flipkart Drags Nikon To Court Over Cautioning Consumers Against Shopping From Online Portals
The war over warranty for products bought via online portals has resumed; and this time there is some serious legal implications.
Last year in the month of June, Nikon had put an advisory note on their website, stating that Flipkart…
Hindi Content Consumption on Internet Growing at Whopping 94%: Google
We are lately seeing a lot many sites taking interest in developing the pages in vernacular languages. E-commerce websites are also launching apps in vernacular languages, and the existing ones are adding up more languages.
Just…
Facebook Revamps Notes To Attract Bloggers; Google Hangouts Is Now A Standalone Website!
Both Facebook and Google has introduced some major changes to their products, aimed at higher engagement and more usage.
Facebook Notes Revamped
Facebook now wants its users to blog on their platform; and to enable large scale blogging,…
Android M is Android Marshmallow, Here is How it Tastes!
You have been hearing about Android ‘M’ for a long time now, but always wondered what does that M stand for (or which is the next sweet it will it be named after?). It’s out now. Google has revealed the latest Android 6.0 as Android…
Microsoft Can Remotely Disable Your Pirated Games and Unlawfully Hacked Devices on Windows 10
The new update has just been around for a tiny span of time, and is spinning the controversy wheel, darting on piracy issues one after the other. Video game piracy, or counterfeit games as its called, has been a major issue in the PC…
Beware! This is Why You Should NOT Put Your Number on Facebook!
Privacy on social networking sites has been a debatable issue ever since its formation. Facebook users might have to give a second thought now if they’re open to sharing their mobile number on Facebook, even under the ‘private’ header.…
1GB Of Free Data Per Month At 1MBPS Speed For Every Citizen: Delhi Government’s WiFi Promise
Aam Aadmi Party’s promise of free WiFi in New Delhi reached a new milestone yesterday. As per their newest assurance, every Delhi citizen will get 1 GB of free data per month, at a minimum speed of 1 MBPS. And this time, a fixed…
Ebay Sellers Can Now Get Collateral Free Loans Upto Rs 1 Crore From Capital Floats
The marketplace model is now geared towards empowering the sellers so that the platform keeps growing. And the latest to join this bandwagon is Ebay.
In order to make their sellers more powerful and independent, Ebay has teamed up…
Twitter Finally Eliminates the 140-Character Limit for Direct Messages
The pain to type in the boundary of characters like we did in the SMS era has been discomforting on Twitter. Users can now exchange direct messages privately of up to 10,000 characters - with the idea being that Direct Messages should…
Govt. Says Airtel Injected Scripts In Browsers To Improve ‘Customer Experience’; Assures…
Either the Govt. of India is too naive to believe whatever telecom operators are saying about the user's data snooping or the customers are being fooled here.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that Airtel is injecting…
Twitter Transparency Report: Account Removal Requests Double, but Twitter Complies with None
The Twitter transparency report for period between Jan-Jun 2015 is out – and according to it, account information requests by Indian Government to Twitter have seen significant rise. A total of 113 account requests were made during…
Is Facebook Attempting To Rationalize Internet.org in India With $21 Million ‘Benefits’ From…
“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch” – Popular Corporate adage
In a blog post published yesterday, Facebook has shared that FbStart, their one year old program to help early stage mobile app developers has released more than…
The Verdict Is Out: ‘Haha’ Is More Popular Than ‘lol’ When It Comes To Online Laughing
Dear netizens: LOL is now passé, because Haha is the new language of e-laughing.
Facebook has come up with a unique study to determine how does netizens laugh online, or rather how can they exhibit their funny emotions in the best…