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SBI Wakes Up To Ecommerce; Signs MoU With Amazon For Payment, Eyes Deal With Snapdeal & PayPal
India’s largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) has decided to embrace eCommerce in a big way. Signifying that they are now going full throttle into this new, digital economy, SBI has announced their partnership with Amazon for providing…
Google To Soon Launch New Web Photo Sharing Service
Google, the search engine giant is coming up with something new. Google is reportedly said to reveal the new photo sharing platform by the end of this month. Google’s developer conference i.e. Google I/O 2015 is to be held at end of the…
Google Fiber 1Gbps Broadband Soon Coming To Telangana In India
Google is one of the fastest yet affordable broadband service providers in the U.S. ever since its launch. The West has too many great Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to choose from but we Indians don’t have very good ISP options,…
Offline Retailers Drag Govt To Court Demanding FDI Level Playing Field With Online Retailers
Looks like, the fight between offline and online retailers is not going to end any time soon. Retailers Association of India, who has large organized offline retailers like Future Group, Shopper’s stop and Reliance Retail as their…
MTNL Opines Internet.org & Airtel Zero Violate Net Neutrality; No Update From Govt. Yet!
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), which provides telecommunication services in Mumbai and New Delhi, has come out strongly against Internet.org project and Airtel Zero scheme, terming them against Net Neutrality principles.…
Google Launches 2 Budget Chromebooks In India Priced Below Rs.14,000!
Since their launch couple of years back, Chromebooks have steadily gained acceptance world over. While the world is not going gaga over these devices, they have been doing quite well with a segment of users who are constantly on the move…
To Discourage Online Sales, LG & Videocon To Stop Offering After Sales Support For Products…
The fight between offline and online retailers in India is spreading – more and more brands are now trying to discourage online purchases of their products in order to save their offline retail partners. The newest manufacturers to join…
WOAH! Google Will Soon Show Buy Buttons In Search Results, To Open Online Marketplace!
Google is ramping up with it’s search engine in everyway possible. In last few months they have introduced many new features including searching for flights, sending directions, finding your phone or even setting an alarm. But this news…
Amazon, Snapdeal & Jabong Refuse To Follow Flipkart & Myntra’s Mobile Only Approach
Effective May 15th, Myntra.com website is no more existent. All desktop and laptop users are being asked to download their mobile app inorder to purchase a product from their platform. Earlier, we had reported that both Flipkart and…
The Great Ecommerce Divide: Flipkart, Snapdeal Opposes FDI In Ecommerce; Amazon, Ebay Supports It!
Indian Government has started consultation with ecommerce portals, offline retailers and Internet activists regarding FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) in B2C segment of ecommerce. And it has opened up an interesting debate.
Ecommerce…
Facebook Instant Articles Will Bring Content Directly Into Newsfeed; 9 Publishers Signed In
Facebook has launched a new product for publishers: Instant Articles, which will directly inject news and content into user’s mobile newsfeeds. As of now, publishers can only share link on their Facebook pages. A user can view a…
Hyderabad Gets Google’s Largest Campus Outside US ; Becomes 1st Indian City covered by Google Street…
Hyderabad, capital of newly formed state Telangana, is fast emerging as the most preferred IT city. State IT Minister KT Rama Rao announced via Tweets that Google has agreed to build their largest campus outside US in Hyderabad at an…
India Post Launches It’s First Android App ‘Post Info’ With Focus on Ecommerce Niche
Telecom Minister Ravi Shanker Prasad has officially launched India Post’s first Android app: Post Info, which is now ready for download. Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology (CEPT) has designed and developed this app.
As of…
Now, Google Maps Transit Adds Indian Railways Schedule For Over 12000 Trains!
Google Maps keeps improving and making your life easier, whether you are traveling within your city or whether it is travel across states or even internationally- it can help you tremendously in any kind of travel.
Now, Google Maps…
CCI Initiates Fresh Investigations Against Ecommerce Companies for Violating Resale Price…
Last week we had reported that Competition Commission of India (CCI) has absolved major ecommerce portals from accusations of anti-competition charges filed by a strong lobby of offline retailers.
But it seems that the woes of…
Facebook Launches URL Search Engine In Mobile App To Counter Google Search
While using any app, especially social networking such as Facebook or Twitter, the biggest problem which a user faces is while sharing links. Either you need to go back to Google or any other search engine to locate a particular link or…
Govt Launches KhoyaPaya, A Web Portal For Missing Children
Here is yet another initiative by Government of India that uses technology to make it easier to resolve some serious issues our society faces. They have launched KhoyaPaya portal, a new initiative to provide a platform to the public to…
On National Technology Day, Here Are India’s Top 6 Technology Fuelled Innovations
On May 11, 2008, India successfully tested 5 nuclear powered bombs in Pokhran, Rajasthan, to demonstrate it’s defense capability and might. This is regarded as one of the defining moments of Indian history, as the world was in awe and…
Google Adds Food Ordering To Search, Eyes $370B Online Food Delivery Market?
After disrupting flight search and insurance market, Google has jumped into the $370 billion online food delivery market by introducing a feature in mobile search, wherein users can directly order food.
As of now, this feature has…
Indian Govt.’s Verdict on Net Neutrality Today; TRAI Chairman Says Internet Should Not Be Policed
Today, May 9th, 2015 is going to be a historical day for the Freedom of Internet in India, as the Government is about to announce it’s verdict on the whole controversy. Last month, IT Ministry under Ravi Shankar Prasad had set up a…