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Say hi to the new kid in the eCommerce town! Credit rating mechanism is here to make online shopping easier (and difficult to a few) for Indians. The eCommerce giants in the country are putting up quite some innovative techniques.…

Classifieds business Quikr is going beyond just that. They are now venturing deeper into automobiles vertical that will include cars, bikes and commercial vehicles. Called QuikrCars, it is going to be that one destination for all the…

In a surprise move of which no one had any inkling – Google has announced a major reorganization at the top. Google now has a new parent company, aptly called Alphabet (I love the name). Larry Page will be the CEO of the parent company,…

One of the very prolific startup investors in the country Sequoia India is lending a hand to Groupon India to break away from the Chicago-based parent company, which is worth $3 billion dollar. The daily deals and local commerce…

Cashing on the patriotism sentiments, Amazon India’s much hyped and advertised “The Great Indian Freedom Sale” finally started today, August 10, which will go on for the next 2 days till August 12, 2015. Amazon had left no stone…

In the recent past, there’s been evident change on the front pages of pink coloured business newspapers in the country. The ecommerce entrepreneurs are now replacing the space of the traditional stories of old businesses. The rules of…

The Internet has benefitted everyone from rich to poor. Guess who are the latest benefiters of it! The farmers. With the help of India's postal department, farmers will now be able to sell paddy, cotton, pulses or any other farm…

Shahrukh Khan has once again demonstrated why he is called the King Khan of Bollywood. The day Facebook launched their new feature: Live broadcast for their Mentions app, he became the first Indian celebrity to use it. The video shot…

In March this year, when Supreme Court scrapped Section 66A, the draconian law which enabled police to arrest anyone for posting content online, a new hope of a free India was envisioned by free thinkers. We had assumed that India will…

French researchers have found out a new way to invade any Internet user’s privacy, and the source is their battery. In a research paper published this week, researchers Lukasz Olejnik, Gunes Acar, Claude Castelluccia and Claudia Diaz…

Most mainstream media has reported that Government was quick to take the action after the backlash on their decision to over 850 porn sites in India – the reports stated that websites that do not have Child pornography will be…

Indian ecommerce industry is in the midst of a strange dilemma right now, which has nothing to do with revenues or profit. It’s the faster-than-imagined adoptation of mobile apps which is confusing them. After Myntra decided to ditch…

Sponsored search ads will now be displayed on Google Play as it will now be open to advertisers and developers. It had rolled out the pilot for a few in February, and is now officially rolling out ads on the store.

Snapdeal, which claims to be India’s largest online market place has joined hands with HDFC Bank, India’s 2nd largest private bank, to launch India’s first co-branded ‘e-commerce’ credit card. Visa would be the payment processing…

It’s not even a week since Flipkart made announcement of their $700 million raise from their existing investors. Now, Snapdeal, Flipkart’s closest rival, has announced half a billion funding round from Chinese eCommerce major Alibaba,…

A 13-inch MacBook Pro featuring an Intel i7 chip retailing for Rs. 50,330 or a Nokia Lumia 920 for Rs. 10,000. Hard to believe? It will soon be true on Amazon as it is looking forward to initiate sales in ‘Refurbished’ territory.…

Flipkart, whose valuation increased to $15 billion (Rs 96,000) after raising $700 million (Rs 4500 crore) during their 10th round of funding, is little concerned about the base on which their digital empire is being constructed: their…

With the central government’s talks to create a Digital India, the states (atleast a few of them) are not lagging far behind to provide hassle free Internet connection in every house. The advent of Internet has brought in changes of…

World's largest software company has once again proved why they are the market leaders. In a scintillating display of marketing strategy, Microsoft has launched their newest version: Windows 10 as a free upgrade across 190 countries. New…

In one of the biggest offline expansion ever performed by an Indian ecommerce portal (if we leave aside Chumbak), Flipkart has launched 20 ‘experience zones’ across 10 cities in India. These zones would enable their customers to ‘touch…