2014

Talking about employment, the new age entrepreneurs have paved way to some new age techniques like flexible hours, 5 day week, comp offs, work-from-home and many such policies to elevate the employee’s productivity. In the pages of such…

Hope all of you have had a great extended long weekend. Here is a quick wrap-up of the buzzing posts we published on trak.in last week. Delhi Metro is certainly popular, and to justify it’s popularity, here is the evidence: In a…

In the latest ‘State of the Internet’ report by Akamai, it has been revealed that broadband connectivity in India is improving and expanding at a healthy rate. As per the report, the average Internet connection speed in India is 2 MBPS,…

Months before WhatsApp agreed to Facebook’s offer of $19 billion, Google had contacted them and initiated negotiation for the same purpose. Reportedly, they had offered them $10 billion, which was refused. Facebook later finalized the deal,…

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. - Mahatma Gandhi Since 1835, Britishers had imposed a weird ‘Salt Tax’ on Indians; according to which…

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time. - Jenny Mollen Long back during the industrial age, entrepreneurs worked with machines and human being were just a means to manage those machines. In case…

The Indian rupee fell sharply by 2.1% on September 30, 2014, the worst plunge it has taken after the august 2013 debacle when it fell by an unimaginable 8.8%!! The rupee ended the day at 61.7450 / 61.7550 per dollar compared with…

Microsoft Corp will launch commercial cloud services Azure and Office 365 (cloud computing platforms) through data centres in India before the end of 2015, told Satya Nadella, the Microsoft CEO who is currently visiting India, to the press…

Looks like cab aggregator now wants to go cash-less. Uber pioneered it and now Indian cabbies are following suite pretty quickly In the month of August, we had showed how Uber is disrupting the taxi service paradigm in India, when we…

Following the lead of Uber, Ola has given a green signal to cash-less cab rides. Ushering in some very valuable features, Ola Cabs are set to pave way to hassle free cab rides. One can now book an Ola cab through their inbuilt app and “gift…