2015

The marketplace model is now geared towards empowering the sellers so that the platform keeps growing. And the latest to join this bandwagon is Ebay. In order to make their sellers more powerful and independent, Ebay has teamed up…

The pain to type in the boundary of characters like we did in the SMS era has been discomforting on Twitter. Users can now exchange direct messages privately of up to 10,000 characters - with the idea being that Direct Messages should…

Either the Govt. of India is too naive to believe whatever telecom operators are saying about the user's data snooping or the customers are being fooled here. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that Airtel is injecting…

The Twitter transparency report for period between Jan-Jun 2015 is out – and according to it, account information requests by Indian Government to Twitter have seen significant rise. A total of 113 account requests were made during…

“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch” – Popular Corporate adage In a blog post published yesterday, Facebook has shared that FbStart, their one year old program to help early stage mobile app developers has released more than…

Uber, the global taxi booking app which has disrupted the industry all over the world with their unique ideas and offerings, has once again created ripples across the Indian entrepreneurial scene. Their newest offer is UberPitch,…

First quarter of 2015 surprisingly witnessed Smartphone sales shrink by 7 percent, while the total mobile phone market fell by whopping 15 percent. For a fast growing market like India, this was something quite unexpected. However,…

Dear netizens: LOL is now passé, because Haha is the new language of e-laughing. Facebook has come up with a unique study to determine how does netizens laugh online, or rather how can they exhibit their funny emotions in the best…

Say hi to the new kid in the eCommerce town! Credit rating mechanism is here to make online shopping easier (and difficult to a few) for Indians. The eCommerce giants in the country are putting up quite some innovative techniques.…

Classifieds business Quikr is going beyond just that. They are now venturing deeper into automobiles vertical that will include cars, bikes and commercial vehicles. Called QuikrCars, it is going to be that one destination for all the…