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Starting April, India’s leading online fashion retailer Myntra will open up Marketplace for third party vendors to start selling their products on Myntra, according to a ET report. A lot has been happening at Myntra since the start of…

Bigcommerce, one of the fastest growing software-as-a-service ecommerce platform have made their entry into India to capitalize on her fast growing ecommerce space. With Bigcommerce, any individual or small businesses can open an online…

One of the leading Indian music streaming services, Dhingana has shut down. If you visit Dhingana website you will get this message. Their have been talks about Dhingana shut-down for past couple of months as new songs were not being…

India is a little lacking behind in the internet world. We do not have the best internet speeds and even people who have good speeds are few and far in between. This is however nothing compared to our internet protection, which is almost…

Amazon has been known to be extremely aggressive when it comes to competing with brick-and-mortar retail. Recently it has added a new feature to its iOS app which will make the life even more difficult for these retailers. The new feature…

Couple of weeks back there was big hue and cry over report (pdf) from researchers at Princeton University that came up to a conclusion that Facebook would lose 80% of their users by 2017. The report essentially said that they will get into…

Update: 6th Feb 2014: Finally we have an official confirmation from Myntra on the investment. Press Release sent to us by Myntra has confirmed that they have raised $50 million Round Of Financing Led By Premji Invest. Funds will be used…

We all have heard how NSA i.e. the National Security Agency of the United States, has been pestering and bullying tech firms to turn over customer information to the government for secret national security investigations. Now, after the…

What do you do when you have a mind-boggling 232 million monthly active users coming to your site but not adding anything to your revenue? Obviously try to make sure they loosen their purse strings. Well, microblogging site Twitter seems to…

Google has been pushing Chrome a lot ever since its inception. Starting from a simple browser that could just render webpages real fast, Chrome has spread to being a full-fledged OS (Chrome OS), having offline apps for desktop while still…

Myntra, arguably the online leader in the apparel segment is again in the news for two competing investment offers. While the Premji deal was about to get finalized, Myntra got an offer which seems more attractive. This had put a temporary…

CCAvenue is one of the oldest and probably the most widely used payment gateway in India. General impression has always been that CCAvenue has not been too SME friendly and catered mostly to larger online store-fronts. Looks like they…

Last Friday, the entire web communities across the globe were a terrified lot: Gmail was down for 25 to 30 minutes, and there was large scale hue and cry about it. Gmail users were seen frantically tweeting and posting updates on Facebook…

With a mission statement that reads ‘to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful’, it is not a matter of surprise that Google has turned into a behemoth of such huge proportions that it affects almost…

I do not know whether this is hilarious or sad. While we are still struggling with Pan-India 3G and just taking baby steps for 4G, South Korea has announced that by 2020, they want to upgrade their network for 5G capabilities. South Korea…

After ‘Namma Metro’ meaning ‘Our Metro’, Bangalore is all set to get something we all are dreaming of but never got - free Wifi, the first such service in the country, branded as ‘Namma Wifi’. With Lok Sabha elections fast approaching…

In December of 2013, Facebook had announced a major algorithm update that was much talked about in the media. At that time they tweaked their news feed algorithms so that more relevant and high quality articles were given higher coverage…

We have been telling you how Amazon has been innovating and using the first mover advantage to spearhead the Indian ecommerce space. All set to improve its logistics and back-end infrastructure, the crux of any ecommerce chain, Amazon has…

The ecommerce war just became hotter. After Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal launched same day product deliveries in select metros, now online shopping marketplace eBay just started a 9 hour delivery service. And that too without any extra…

Aha, Finally it has happened. Google is rolling out new service to Gmail and Google+ users, which allows Gmail users to directly send email to Google+ users through their normal email compose window. Here is how it works: When you are…