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Flipkart Starts Offering Sexual Wellness Products Too!
Flipkart is getting bigger, not only in terms of the amount of funding they are raising, but also in terms of number of new categories they are adding to their popular platform. If you visit Flipkart site, you will find a big banner…
Google To Provide ‘LaunchPad’ For 25 Indian Startups With One-to-One Mentorship
For the first time in its history, Google will be providing direct mentorship and guidance to 25 Indian startups via their 5 day event called Launchpad, which will be happening during the first week of November.
As per reports coming…
CERT-In Alert: Lethal Bladabindi Virus Is Targeting Windows OS In India
Computer Emergency Response Team – India (CERT-In), Government of India organization under Ministry of Communication and IT has just released an alert for all Indian internet users on Windows Operating System: Stay clear from Bladabindi…
Flipkart Launches E-learning Category, Starts Selling Certification Courses & More
To capitalize on the huge traffic that it receives, Flipkart seems to be now foraging into off-beat categories that you generally may not associate with a multi-brand online store. Flipkart has now launched a new category called…
HDFC Beats ICICI On Social Media; SBI Triples Its Digital Presence In 3 Months
Social media presence of Indian banks is slowly but gradually improving. In the month of May, we had presented a research on present state of social media rankings of Indian banks, wherein ICICI bank was the clear winner.
The rankings…
9 Memorable Firsts of The Internet: From 1st Ever eMail Sent To 1st Book Sold On Amazon!
Internet doesn’t require any introductions: you must be reading this blog using Internet, checking your mail and reading news using the same Internet. Internet has no doubt become one of our primary necessities in life and as per a…
What? Flipkart Raises a Eye-Popping $1 Billion In New Funding Round
The Flipkart Funding juggernaut keeps on rolling and it is setting benchmarks, not only in India, but probably across the world. According to an ET report that cites 2 people, Flipkart may have raised over $ 1 Billion in funding from…
Google Maps, Now Available in Hindi!
We have witnessed many instances previously that shows Google’s thrust on localizing content. Last year they enabled their hugely popular translate tool for several Indian languages and then went on to add phonetic support for them as…
Facebook Brings ‘Save’ Feature – The Ultimate Bookmarker?
Facebook is the largest community on Earth – if Facebook was a country, it would be now nearly equivalent or may have even surpassed China (In 4Q2013, they had 1.23B active users). So, obviously when Facebook introduces any new feature,…
Ultimate Social Media Guide For Working Professionals
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and many other social media platforms are invaluable for building contacts, networking and promotion. There is little doubt about that. However it is a double edged sword. The lay man is suddenly…
Indian Government To Unveil Hindi Domain Names On Independence Day
Internet in India is predominantly an English affair. It is true that there are webpages that range from Hindi to Bengali to Tamil now but still, to reach these pages, you still need to know some amount of English. The domain names are…
DataWind Partners With BSNL To Offer Free Internet For A Year
Datawind, which manufactures low cost tablets Akash has partnered with BSNL to offer free one year Internet to all its users. This offer is only for their UbiSlate 7Cz and UbiSlate 3G7 tablet buyers.
Additionally, they have also…
9 Common Mistakes To Avoid When Starting An eCommerce Store
Running a Digital Marketing Agency, I see number of businesses trying to get on the E-Commerce bandwagon, and that number is increasing day by day. With availability of SAAS ecommerce platforms in abundance, it’s pretty easy for anyone…
Google To Subsidize Android One Handsets In India, To Invest Whopping 6000 Crore!
While reports that popped up yesterday stated that Google is investing as much as Rs. 100 crore to promote Android One in India, fresh reports from earlier today suggest that the figure is actually closer to $1 billion (or Rs. 6000…
Google Noto, A Unified Free Font For All The World’s Languages
Google’s effort in the area of localization of content is unmatched. At anytime hundreds of Google engineers are involved in coming up with solutions for people who do not read or understand English language.
With Google Fonts…
5 Marketing Illusions Every Digital Entrepreneur Should Kill Right Away
Digital Marketing needs patience, focus and unlimited dedication with very less expectations; marketing on the web is slow, painful and full of nasty surprises. Often digital entrepreneurs assume success to be like a race – wherein you…
Microsoft To Launch $199 Laptops & $99 Windows 8 Tablets To Kill Chromebooks & iPads!
It seems the new turf for mobile and internet companies is playing the “affordable” card. Google has made it famous with their various value for money offerings that include devices like Nexus smartphones and Chromebooks. They have gained a…
5 Interesting Social Media Insights On The Union Budget 2014-15
When Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his government’s first Union Budget on July 10th, the social media was abuzz with opinions, viewpoints and observations. Salaried professionals, entrepreneurs, students, activists, politicians…
#AmazonCart Feature Arrives on Amazon India Site. Add Via Twitter, Buy It Later
Are you aware of #AmazonCart ? It’s fine if your did not know as it was not available for Indian Amazon site till now. But now looks like the #AmazonCart feature has been enabled for Amazon.in as well.
#AmazonCart is is targeted for…
Can Railway Logistics Support To eCommerce Companies Be A Game Changer?
In the recently announced Rail Budget by BJP Government, there were several technological and operational initiatives announced. But one announcement among them was closely followed by eCommerce companies; a decision which can have far…