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Hurray! Google+ To Unbundle Itself From Other Google Products, Including Youtube
For Google, the last frontier ( Social Media) still remains out of reach. Google+, their foray into Social, first came on the scene a few years back and it showed a lot of promise back then. Few experts believed that it might even…
Flipkart’s New ‘f Qck’ Hyperlocal Service To Deliver Orders Within Hours; To Compete With Amazon’s…
Flipkart is currently testing their new service: f Qck, which will mark their entry into the red hot hyperlocal vertical within ecommerce niche.
As per media reports, Flipkart’s new service f Qck will enable delivery of orders within…
Awesome! All Govt Websites To Be Differently-Abled Friendly
Since the arrival of new government, we have been witnessing steep increase in the number of new online initiatives launched under Government's very ambitious “Digital India” program. Infact, the pace of such launches has been so…
Youtube Gets 400 Hrs of Content Uploaded Every Minute, Mobile Views Account More Than Half!
Some startling facts about Youtube were shared by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki while speaking at Vidcon event currently being held at Anaheim, California.
Youtube, even though, has already grown into a huge Video sharing and viewing…
LocalOye Returns To Desktop Model From An App-Only Service. Flipkart Are you Listening?
LocalOye, an upcoming and popular marketplace for local services, has returned to desktop model within 3 months of going app-only mode. Out of 43 odd services which are offered on their app, close to 13 services are now available on…
Amazon Sets Up Free WiFi Hotspots With Unlimited Internet in Pune, Hyderabad & Chennai
In a unique initiative to increase its popularity and public outreach, the e-commerce giant Amazon has planned to offer free WiFi internet with unlimited usage across select bus stops in Hyderabad, Pune, and Chennai.
With this move,…
Cortana For Windows 10 Is Coming To 7 More Countries Including India With Local Customizations.
Microsoft's smart and witty virtual assistant Cortana is coming to 7 more countries and that includes India. The Redmond-based company revealed in a blog post, that the reason for this delay in launch to these countries were the local…
Amazon Unleashes $5 Bln Warchest. Instant Video, Subscription Based Ecommerce Services Coming Soon
Amazon is pumping in another $5 billion into their Indian operations, to unleash a blitzkrieg of new offers, features and campaigns. They have already crossed $2 billion in revenues in India, and overtook Flipkart to become India’s most…
Yahoo Silently Launches LiveText – A Silent Video Messenger on iOs
Yahoo was the leader of the instant messenger market in the early days of the internet when its instant messenger- Yahoo Messenger was in full swing. As years passed by, social networks came along with mobile instant messengers like…
Net Neutrality: Assocham Demands Regularization of All Messaging & VoIP Apps- Have They Turned…
The debate and the fight over Net Neutrality has further intensified, as ASSOCHAM (The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India) has demanded all messaging and VoIP apps be regulated.
In layman terms, this means that if Assocham’s…
You Can Now Shop Products Directly From Mobile Ads Via ‘Purchase On Google’
We have been hearing about Google's plans to step up the online shopping with its ads since the last month, and now Google has made it official. 'Purchases on Google' will be rolled out in The U.S. in the next few weeks and will let the…
DoT Panel Says “The Core Principles of Net Neutrality Must be Adhered to”; Recommendations on Free…
Department of Telecom (DoT) had formulated a special committee to understand the impact of anti-net neutrality plans formulated by some telecom companies. The recommendations of the committee led by AK Bhargava are now public.
The…
Snapdeal’s App Based Shopo Marketplace Wants To Take On Quikr, Olx & PayTm
70% of payments received by Snapdeal originate via mobile phones; and Kunal Bahl, founder of Snapdeal is very keen to enhance their presence across mobile phones.
In a masterstroke, Snapdeal has re-launched Shopo as an app based…
Rs.1 Lakh Crore Worth Indian Ecommerce Industry Will Be Finally Defined By the Govt.; Taxes &…
By the time 2015 ends, Indian eCommerce industry will be worth Rs 1 lakh crore (as per IAMAI’s latest research). But the irony is that, Government of India is still undecided on it’s basic premises, including it’s definition and the…
Flipkart Disrupts Job Market With India’s First Adoption Assistance Program, Offers Employees…
How should a company disrupt the existing market? Selling below the MRP is certainly one of them, which Flipkart has been doing for quite some time now.
How about doing something which warms your heart, and inspires a movement which…
Amazon, PayTm, Snapdeal Help India Post To Boost Their Parcel Revenue by 37%
During 2013-14, India Post had reported a negative growth of 2% for their parcel delivery division. However, for 2014-15, they have dramatically increased their parcel revenues by 37%; all because of partnerships with…
Even Facebook Is Now Getting Into Online Music Streaming Business, Will It Be A Game Changer?
MusicAlly, a leading publication for music business, shared that Facebook maybe working on their new online music streaming service, similar on the lines of Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora and other such services.
As per their reports,…
SpeedFetch Partners With Ozone WiFi To Offer Free Video Downloads At 60Mbps Across India
We all do. But free and super-fast internet sounds like a hypothetical thing. We are witnessing the launch of fast mobile data networks like 4G LTE all over the globe, but watching videos on these mobile networks can be an expensive…
ICANN’s Plan To Remove Anonymity For Domain Name Registrations May Be Online Privacy Nightmare
A letter addressed to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been sent by the Digital Rights Activists rebuking the former's plan to end the website owner anonymity.
Currently while purchasing a domain name,…
Now Videos In Your Facebook News Feed Will Float As You Scroll
Facebook started off as a social network in 2004, but now it has become much more than a simple social networking website. People use it for various purposes now. Some use it for gathering information, interacting with the groups and…