2014

The year 2014 has been an eventful one for various stakeholders of the e-commerce industry. Whether it was investors pouring billions of dollars in the business or players hosting shopping extravaganzas like GOSF by Google, Big Billion Day…

Emarketer, a leading research and analysis firm, has revealed that the world will have 2 billion smartphone users by 2016. India will be a leading catalyst in this tremendous technological push, as it will overtake USA to become world’s…

With the incidence of the Uber taxi rape, concerns about women’s safety have taken front seat. After the Delhi rape case in 2012, there was a surge in women’s safety apps that hit the market. Use of technology to ensure the safety of women…

Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, who has $14.9 billion of personal assets, has made his first acquisition of an Indian startup: BestDecisions.com. Murdoch led Newscorp acquired this Mumbai based finance education portal for undisclosed amount.…

The research consultancy firm PwC predicts the 4G subscriber base in India to touch 10-15 million within a year. Thanks to superior networking experience, competitive internet usage plans (tariff battles among the leading player already…

Evidence acquired by Trak.in indicates that India’s largest IT services company: TCS is firing employees en-masse - Upto 25,000 to 30,000 employees can be fired in the next few months. Here is a letter as received by a TCS employee, who…

Last week (in article below) it was rumoured that Flipkart had raised around $180 million funding from Hong Kong based Steadview. The rumour had a very conservative number in terms of Funding. Flipkart on Saturday has officially…

We are now into the last full week of 2014 and it is start of Christmas week! Before we move forward, let us do a quick wrap-up of the buzzing stories we published on trak.in last week. Twitter and Bing have already shared their 2014…

Microsoft CityNext has partnered with Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) to develop Surat as a smart city with advanced urban planning and citizen empowerment processes never heard in India. Using Big Data, Internet and eGovernance,…

There has been a lot of rumors that many people have issues to avail warranties on products that they buy online. A few words in reviews or a thread running with people upset about not getting warranties for their costly phones. However,…