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Video Streaming in India – Is bad internet the only reason?
Hulu, Vimeo, Netflix… Have you ever heard these names? Have you ever used them? The answer to the first may be yes to a lot of people but to second I think a few would answer yes. Except for Youtube, Bigflix and now maybe TED videos…
What Can The Indian Government Do Rather Than Banning Social Media
With the soaring communal violence the Government has proposed to ban social media and monitor it. But is banning social media the only way ahead? Can the government take one step further and use social media for its benefit?
Most visited Indian Websites, Social Media reigns supreme [ComScore]
US based digital analytics giant comScore published a study which revealed that 25% of all online minutes spent in India were on social networking websites. Most visited websites in June 2012 were Google Sites, Facebook and Yahoo, with…
Top 10 Tech news of the week
Here are the recent highlights in the world of technology: Top 10 tech news of the week. Facebook shares hit lifetime lows as lock-up period ends As nearly 271 million Facebook shares owned by early investors and employees became…
4 Brand New Facebook features you may not know of…
The social networking giant, Facebook, is well known to regularly bring new features, scrap the old ones (which see less adoption) and keep changing the interface of the site. Keeping the legacy alive, the website has been on a spree to…
Top 10 tech news of the week
Let's look at the top 10 news, launches and developments in the IT industry during this week. HCL Infosystems gets Rs. 2,200 crore contract for Unique ID The Unique ID Authority of India finally gave the nod to approve a contract worth…
Employee Death Benefits at Google – 50% salary for surviving spouse for 10 years
In a recent interview with Forbes, Google's Chief People Officer Laszlo Bock revealed a perk that was unheard of till today. In Google's Death Benefit policy, if an employee dies whilst being employed with the search giant, 50% of the…
How Indians skipped wired wagon and gone wireless!
India is a strange nation with even stranger habits… We are not adaptable to newness and generally prefer the older ways to the new horizons. The biggest proof of this might be the technological advancement that our country has seen. It…
Cognizant beats Infosys to become 2nd largest Indian IT Company with $1.79 Bln revenues
Cognizant posted revenues of $1.79 billion in the quarter ending 30 June 2012, becoming India's 2nd largest IT services provider after TCS. The year on year (YOY) 20% increase in revenues met the IT giant's guidelines and edged over…
President of India’s website redesigned: Citizens can now write to the President directly
In a press release, the President's Secretariat announced the launch of a redesigned website of the President of India. Apart from a more user friendly design, the website also features social media buttons to the President's YouTube…
Nimbuzz crosses 100 million downloads [Infographic]
The fast-growing communication Nimbuzz has announced that its user base has crossed the 100 million mark worldwide. The application’s growth has been concentrated in burgeoning mobile markets spanning much of Asia, according to a media…
India’s E-commerce: A USD 125 -260 billion industry by 2025
There is absolutely no doubt that Indian E-Commerce Market is growing at a break-neck pace. But, how big will it be 10 or 15 years down the line? According to the recently released Zinnov report, the E-Commerce industry in India has the…
Personal Branding Faux Pas on Social Media [15 DOs & DON’Ts]
What is your Personal Brand? Your Personal Brand is the unique brand value proposition that you offer; it is the reputation that you consciously build by consistently delivering your brand proposition - Your Brand Promise. It is a…
Top 5 Positives & Negatives of BYOD [Infographic]
BYOD – For some of you, this term (an acronym really) may still be alien. But in the corporate world this term is increasingly gaining importance. BYOD stands for “Bring your own device”. What this essentially means is, employees are free…
Current Facebook Engagement Rate Calculation Needs Revision
Social media today is not only about having a meaningful community but it is also about monitoring and measuring. Measuring social media activities has always been debated upon and will continue to be. One of the reason is that we are…
Indian Weddings – Social Comparison with America [Infographic]
This infographic is not strictly Business or technology related, however, makes for a very interesting viewing. We know the importance placed on weddings in India. Parents of Brides and Grooms generally don’t leave a stone unturned to…
Yebhi raises 100 Crore Series C Funding
Big Shoe Bazaar Pvt. Ltd., the parent company of Yebhi.com, India’s leading Lifestyle e-commerce store has raised Series “C” Funding led by Fidelity Growth Partners India and Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture capital investment…
Finally, Microsoft Windows 8 to arrive by late October
Almost three years back in October 2009, Microsoft Corporation had made Windows 7 to be available for common public. Now, the company is set to release Window 8 in October 2012. The software will be available in 109 languages across 231…
Infosys’ Gopalakrishnan to head India’s Cloud computing dream team
Earlier in 2009, Nandan Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys Technologies was pulled out from the company for a very prestigious project that had been started to equip every Indian with a biometric Unique Identification Card. Now, it…
UN Resolution confirms Internet Access as Human Right
The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), in its 20th session, has unanimously passed a resolution confirming Internet access being a fundamental human right. The resolution states that people should be able to express themselves…