YU, the online-focused brand from a Micromax founder, said it will hold a special sale of its Yuphoria phone for selected customers guaranteeing availability. “The exclusive sale will be held on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 between 2pm-5pm on Amazon.in and will provide a privilege to the fans as they are guaranteed to get the YUPHORIA […]
ICICI Bank has upgraded its mobile banking app ‘iMobile’ by taking the total number of services that the users can avail of to over 100. The new app will help customers connect with the Bank’s call centre from within the app without any further authentication, withdraw cash from an ATM without using a card, tag […]
Global e-Commerce sales made via mobile devices are expected to cross $638 billion by 2018, according to the joint study brought out by ASSOCHAM and Deloitte said. Currently, the availability of e-Commerce applications on various mobility devices is helping to drive sales and revenue, Assocham said. “E-tailers like Flipkart, Amazone and Jabong now get 50% […]
Ola Cabs, arguably the biggest taxi aggregator in India, has cut its prices in Mumbai to Rs 11 per km from 13 per km, making it considerably cheaper than the local black and yellow cabs for long distances. Ola Cabs has been a pioneer in the low-cost, Taxi aggregation business, also known as the app-based […]
Retailer Shoppers Stop said it would invest Rs 60 crores over the next 3 years to build up an ‘omnichannel’ delivery platform that would encompass physical stores, web, social, TV and marketplaces. It has chosen SAP as its technology solutions partner. The move would involve its group companies HomeStop, Hypercity and Crossword as well. By […]
Tata Trusts and Google India today announced the launch of a special program called “Internet Saathi” to help rural women use the Internet and benefit from it in their daily lives. “The joint initiative is aimed at bridging the technology gender divide, which currently puts women in rural India at further risk of getting […]
Online retailer Flipkart announced a strategic partnership with three of the country’s largest home retail brands—Home Town (Future group), HomeStop (Shoppers Stop) and @Home to sell home decor items. “The partnerships will introduce a whole new range of products from these retail brands—adding to Flipkart’s existing portfolio of 1000+ brands with seven lakhs home products,” […]
Infibeam Incorporation Ltd, which some call the fourth or the fifth biggest online portal in India, has filed for a Rs 450 cr initial public offer with the markets regulator. With this, the company has beaten Flipkart, which was widely expected to be the first online shopping portal to go public, to the bourses. Infibeam.com […]
Reliance Industries’ chairman Mukesh Ambani has said that the group will invest Rs 2.5 lakh crore in projects related to Digital India, the government’s vision to boost growth of information technology in India, and will set up a network of 1.5 lakh retailers who will sell and service mobile phones and other smart devices. Most […]
After the Great Online Shopping Festival, it’s the Great Online Home Festival or GOHF. The ten day long online event, organized by Magicbricks, GroupM and Google – will be held from 18th July till 27th July, 2015. Property stock worth upto Rs. 3000 cr will be available for customers to choose from, Magicbricks said in […]
Flipkart, which has recently been overtaken by Amazon India as India’s most visited ecommerce website, has announced a new ‘Image search’ feature on its mobile app. With the app, you can take a snap of anyone wearing any dress, and that app will try to locate a similar dress for you. “The added feature has […]
State Bank of India has launched an enterprise-wide loyalty programme – State Bank Rewardz through which it will reward its customers for various types of banking transactions with the Bank. Customers will be enrolled automatically into this programme as soon as they start using at least one of services that offer points. Customers will be […]
Flipkart has been ranked second in top book sellers in the world according to a survey called ‘Top 40 Global Bookstore Mind Share,’ (BMS index). This survey which has assessed both offline as well as online book sellers across the globe has ranked Flipkart ahead of companies like Barnes & Noble of the United States, […]
State Bank of India and MakeMyTrip.com signed an agreement today which will see the travel portal make use of India’s biggest bank’s infrastructure to meet its finance and banking related requirements related to its online travel portal. “SBI aims at becoming a “One Stop” solution provider for the entire range of financial needs of e-Commerce […]
Sony will ‘air’ its mythological show, ‘Suryaputra Karn’ first on Sony LIV, its app, before airing it on its TV channel, Multi Screen Media said. “Fulfilling its promise of a digital-first approach, MSM is screening the pilot episode of this big-ticket primetime show exclusively on its digital entertainment brand on 29th June, 2015 at 4 […]
Housing.com, one of the most aggressive real estate classifieds firm in India, said it had sold 300 homes of builder Mantra Properties, worth over Rs 60 crores, within a month through a special campaign on its website. The achievement makes it one of the most successful online realty campaigns in India. The announcement comes close […]
Magicbricks, one of the players fighting it out in the highly competitive online real estate classifieds business, said it had implemented a full-fledged map search feature on its website. Map search, in which users can visually search for apartment complexes and photo-view are the two features that helped disruptive start-up housing.com to corner a large […]
It looks like Flipkart is very eager to get some of its exclusive items moving off its shelves, going by the kind of offers and discounts that the online retailer is offering today – the last day of its Big App Shopping Days. The best offers in the electronic segments are the following. Xiaomi Mi […]
Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries, said it has received a provisional license from the government of India to conduct cable TV operations across India. The license will enable the company to launch its brand of Jio boxes, which work over LTE as well as over regular cable. Jio boxes will enable users […]
The Department of Telecom is unlikely to allow all telecom operators to conduct spectrum swapping, and permit only those players who hold only auctioned spectrum to do so. This move is likely to severely restrict the benefits and applicability of spectrum swapping as ‘subsidized spectrum’ allocated in earlier years is lying co-mingled with newer auctioned […]
