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Online Shopping Trends In Indian Apparel Market [Infographic]
Indian e-commerce industry has been growing at a scorching rate during the last few years with hundreds of million dollars being invested by venture capital funds in the sector. E-commerce has been around in India for more than a decade but…
Data Universe Will Expand To 44 Trillion GBs By 2020: Report
EMC, the global Cloud Computing behemoth and IDC (International Data Corporation), leader in market research and analytics have accomplished a very exciting study understanding the Internet of Things, and have come up with some mind…
Times Internet’s GoCricket.com Goes Live; Will Stream Pepsi IPL Matches
Times Internet has launched a new cricket portal – GoCricket.com - that will offer original, editorial cricket content that is deeply integrated video features. The new platform will offer live scores, upcoming fixtures, results, exclusive…
Facebook Transparency Report: India Leads With 4765 Content Pieces Blocked
According to Facebook Transparency report released for 6 month period between July-December 2013 shows that India leads all the countries in the world when it comes to blocking of content.
4765 pieces of content on Facebook put up by…
Cybercriminals Expose 552 Mln Identities in 2013: Symantec
According to recently released Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), 2013 was the year of the mega breach in security world. There was a 62 percent increase in the number of data breaches from the previous year, resulting in…
Has Heartbleed Compromised Your Passwords? You Can Still Fix This
Earlier this week a new bug named Heartbleed was uncovered by a Finnish security firm Codenomicon and an Google researcher. It is being claimed that, although, being around for almost two years, this is the first time, it has been detected.…
Flipkart Brings Their Shopping App To Windows Phone
If you have read the recent Indian Ecommerce growth report, one thing stands out quite distinctly. Indians now increasingly prefer shopping on their mobiles. According to the report, By 2016, mobile shopping is expected to grow a whopping…
Facebook Crosses 100M Users In India; Largest Userbase Outside USA
When Facebook opened their first office in India at Hyderabad in 2010, only 8 million Indians used Facebook. Now that figure has crossed 100 million users, making India the largest userbase for Facebook outside US.
About 180 million…
Google Launches Visual “Know Your Candidates Tool”
Few days back, Google’s Election hub got a major facelift with launch of new features like Pledge to Vote, Google Score of Politicians and Hangouts. Today Google announced yet another feature that would be quite helpful to millions of…
Indian E-Commerce Stats: Online Shoppers & Avg Order Values To Double In Next 2 Years!
Indian E-Commerce space is growing rapidly. Infact, it is a reached a stage where consolidation is starting to take place. Flipkart last month announced that they have crossed 1 Billion sales, while Snapdeal is expected to reach the…
Canonical Shuts Down Its Ubuntu One Cloud Service- Result Of Competition?
Market dynamics are real interesting. Everything starts with an idea. Then, a bold person ventures into the idea, invests both money and time in it until it bears fruit. If the idea gains pace, other start flocking towards it.
This is…
Microsoft Now Offering Free Windows For Any Device Less Than 9 Inch
Microsoft has done something which even they never had assumed: Free Windows!
Few hours back during Microsoft’s Build 2014 event in The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, they have officially announced that Windows would be free for…
Croma Is Now Challenging Online Portals with Store Pickup Concept
Croma Retail has introduced a very interesting new feature: Store Pickup. Using this, consumers can now order online via Chroma website and pick up their product from the store on the same day itself.
This new service was inaugurated by…
There We Go Again… Myntra Investors Pushing For Merger With Flipkart
I am not sure what to make of this, but the talks of merger / acquisition between 2 leading Indian ecommerce companies, Flipkart & Myntra, just do not seem to go away.
Just couple of months back, same talks were doing rounds. First,…
Google+ Starts Offering Profile & Content Views To Users
Google has introduced a new feature on its social networking platform: Google+, which enables everyone to see how many views any profile or page has received till now.
This new update was shared via an official Google post.
You can…
Google Slapped With Rs 1 Cr Penalty By Competition Commission of India
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has slapped a fine of Rs 1 crore on Google Inc.
The fine has been placed on Google as it failed to provide CCI with the requested information and details pertaining to the ongoing anti-trust cases…
Indian Govt Makes 4401 User Account Requests To Google, 66% Complied: Transparency Report
Google has released their six monthly Transparency Report and according to it, Indian Government made 2513 data requests that requested information on 4401 Users/Accounts in the period between July 2013 to Dec 2013. This is second highest…
Google Slashes Cloud Pricing, Amazon Responds! So, Who Is Cheaper?
There is a distinct advantage being a huge company with large reserves, you can slash the rates as per your convenience. It is even more advantageous when your primary source of revenue is not affected in the process. Owing to this, Google…
FlairStrip’s 48Mbps Unlimited Broadband @ Rs. 479 p.m; Worry Not, It is an April Fool’s Joke!
FlairStrip, an unknown Indian ISP that had suddenly surfaced made Indian netizens skip a heartbeat with their internet plans. It was kind of dream come true for them.
Here is what FlairStrip was purportedly offering. Broadband speeds of…
Google Elections Hub Gets A Facelift, Offers Politician Score, Pledge, Infographics & More
The upcoming Indian elections will be the largest democratic elections in the history, with over 600 million Indians expected to cast their votes to choose their next ruling political party and the Prime Minister.
With Internet…