Here is a quick wrap-up the posts published on Trak.in last week.
ASSOCHAM and Yes Bank conducted a study about counterfeit luxury products in India and found some startling facts. They found 25% of all fake luxury goods which are sold in India are sold via eCommerce portals!
Every online publisher, have in some way always wanted to gain more eyeballs to their old content. However, despite their best efforts, the pageviews to most part of the archive is still not a very promising number. Well, this Indian startup, Parallel Dots is set to change that.
Some mention countries formerly classified as emerging markets as developing countries, including those that are obviously emerging markets, like China, India and Turkey. Here is some thought on how to define emerging or developing markets.
According to a mail sent to Nokia suppliers & Nokia account holders, company will be renamed from Nokia Oyj to Microsoft Mobile Oy, which will be a wholly-owned Microsoft subsidiary and will be the mobile devices arm of Microsoft. This also gets clearly mentioned in the mail sent to Nokia account holders.
According to some reports, Google is working on a budget $100 (sub Rs. 6500) Nexus phone that will be even more affordable than its predecessors.
It was always on the cards but I did not expect it to act so quickly. With a price that competes with iPhone, Samsung knew that they were in dangerous waters. They have rectified the mistake and the phone which was priced at over Rs. 51000 is now under Rs. 47000. However Samsung has refused that their was any price cut.
Invention Labs the Chennai based company and creators of Avaz app that helps autistics kids has just secured a $550k seed funding from Mumbai Angels, Inventus Capital, Google India MD Rajan Anandan and Raju Reddy of Sierra Atlantic and a few more. The funding will be used to spread across geographies and dishing out more features for the app.
Biggest Indian IT Company TCS is now ranked among the top 10 global IT services companies. Last year, TCS was ranked #13 in this exclusive list but this year, with its improved performance, now has been ranked at #10.
Over last few weeks Google have added yet another feature that will help Indians tremendously. Google’s voice recognition now understands Hindi and Hinglish phrases.
In a recent blog post by WhatsApp, it has been revealed that they have crossed 500 million threshold as of now, with a scintillating pace of 25 million new users every month!
Micromax has confirmed that they have started manufacturing handsets at their Rudraprayag facility in Uttarakhand. The spokesperson who shared this news with PTI added that as of now, all their tablets are being manufactured at this facility and since last 2 months, they have started producing handsets as well.
It is sometimes really surprising that large companies make such a rudimentary mistake. If you visited Tata Docomo URL (TataDocomo.com) last week, for a few hours on 22nd April you would have found that Tata Docomo domain has expired.
Dell becomes the latest manufacturer to come out with an official warning given to consumers for buying Dell products from Snapdeal. Over last 12 months Lenovo, Toshiba and Netgear have come out with similar warnings.
Next time you are looking for a DJ in your area for your college event, you do not have go ask around for a good one any more. Try Gigstart, an online portal that lists DJs, singers and entertainers who you can avail for your event.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to allow the use of Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) including cellphones on flights. According to the release, the use of PEDs shall be in the non-transmitting mode commonly called flight mode.
Like every year, TIME magazine opened it’s poll for the 100 most influential people around the globe. People’s voting results were out a few days back and Arvind Kejriwal took the poll position while Narendra Modi trailed for the second spot.
Amazon has certainly thought of this business strategy as it has introduced a very unique and disruptive shipping mechanism, which can totally change the eCommerce game: Kirana Store Pick-ups.
Designer Samuel Herb has come up with a design that aims to bring Nintendo DS like gaming experience to your phone. Called Flippypad, this controller turns your phone into a clamshell device with gaming controls.
Indian Railways has gone ahead and launched National Train Enquiry System or NTES app on Windows platform. Available on both Desktop Windows store as well as Windows phone mobile store this new app developed by Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the information and technology arm of railways.
Amazon has entered Apparels category with the launch of ethnic and Indo-western wear for women. The new category has over 12,000 contemporary & traditional styles from over 90 apparel brands offered by private labels and national & regional retailers.
According to monthly TRAI telecom subscription report, India added 10.03 million new mobile subscribers in month of February, taking the total tally of subscribers to 903.36 million.
TRAI has recently released a report titled, “Amendment to the Standards of Quality of Service for Wireless Data Services Regulations, 2012” which mandates all telecom companies to publish the minimum internet speed which their consumers will receive under all circumstances, along with the prices and plan features.
Apple was able to sell just 16.3 million iPads in 2nd Quarter 2014, compared to 19.2 million as expected by the Wall Street. During the same period last year, Apple was able to sell 19.4 million iPads. Compared to previous quarter (1Q2014) the sales fell by a whopping 10 million units.
According to an announcement made last week, NTT Docomo board of directors have resolved to exercise option for the sale of the company’s entire stake (1,248,974,378 shares, or about 26.5% of outstanding shares) in Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), a DOCOMO-affiliated company accounted for by the equity method, as soon as the conditions for such exercise are met.
We hereby present you the four Indians who were included the final list of prestigious Time’s Top 100.
In a recent market research, it has been revealed that Honda Activa is now India’s best selling two wheeler.
