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Two major undersea cables belonging to Reliance Communications were hacked by General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence company, sometime between 2009 and 2011. This helped the UK based company to have…

President of India Pranab Mukherjee has stirred a hornet’s nest this time; and the controversy, which has nothing to do with it’s content, is threatening to snow-ball into a major issue. His new book: “The Dramatic Decade: The Indira…

Popular Indian music streaming service Saavn which offers millions of Indian and international hits to its users through its mobile app and web interface has now partnered with the micro blogging site Twitter, an arrangement which will…

If you have been on the internet even for a very short period of time, you will know it. When you are registering or commenting on a site, you often get those anti-bot phrases that you need to recognize. And, Most of them are so bad that…

2014 probably would have been the most fascinating year for e-commerce in India. This year witnessed acquisition of largest fashion e-tailer- Myntra, Reliance’s entry into e-commerce, Flipkart’s Big Billion Dollar Day blunder and many such…

If there is an iota of truth in these rumours, internet users across the country will be in for a huge treat as the major players offering services fight it out to capture the markets. Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance JIO Infocomm got the…

Indian Railways is all set to introduce WiFi across 400 stations all over the country, and in some select trains (Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duranto Category). The stations where WiFi connectivity will be introduced are ‘A1’ and ‘A’ category.…

Ecommerce industry in India is going through an exciting phase of exponential growth from all quarters. But there exists two major problems which are hindering it’s all out growth: a) Delivery of orders from rural areas, as there is…

We are now in the last month of the year and less than a month away from welcoming new year. December is generally the month when you will come across many articles and reports that sum up the whole year for you. Microsoft’s…

Reserve Bank of India has finalized the guidelines and norms for Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS), which will enable every citizen to pay their different bills under the same window. Thus, from now on, all you need to do is collect your…

Indian eCommerce industry is all set to witness some major fireworks as industry biggies: Amazon and Alibaba are in a major acquisition mode. As per reports coming in from various sources, Amazon is inching towards acquiring Jabong and…

Earlier this month, we had reported that Government of India is planning to impose a complete ban on pornographic websites, and talks are on with ISPs to implement the same. The government argues that porn is a bad influence on our culture,…

The VC funding money flowing into India’s lighthouse eCommerce portal Flipkart is next to unbelievable. The ToI reports that Flipkart has raised another $500 to $600 million in funding from it’s existing investors at a pre-money valuation…

As a part of our dynamic Prime Minister’s Digital India project which envisages providing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure at the grass root level and empowering the citizens of the country digitally through…

Based on complaints registered via Twitter, Bangalore Crime Branch took action against a fake ecommerce portal which advertised too-good-to-be-true offers, and then duped ignorant customers. The raid was well documented on Bangalore Crime…

Internet Users in India will cross 300 million mark by December 2014 according to ‘Internet in India 2014’ report jointly published by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International. The year on year growth rate…

Twitter has decided to embrace Big Data is a major way: Every tweet ever posted on the website is now searchable, and indexed in their database. For digital marketers, this is one huge announcement. When Twitter filed their IPO last…

In 2012, a research conducted in USA had estimated that Facebook.com, world’s most popular social network has resulted in loss of 80 billion hours of productive work in a year, which turns out to be $1.4 trillion or 1.5% of overall GDP of…

Even though Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal hog majority of limelight, the fact remains that IRCTC is not only the largest eCommerce site in India, but also one of the largest in entire Asia-Pacific region. The kind of transactions that…

Reliance, which is India’s most powerful public company (as per Forbes ‘Global 2000 List’) has launched their first purely ecommerce portal: RelianceFreshDirect.com. They are targeting households in Mumbai who wish to order grocery…