The leading e-commerce platform Amazon has announced the launch of its first Hindi version of the Android app and website. This move has been primarily taken to make deeper footprints into India’s fast-growing e-commerce market, boosting up its battle with Walmart’s Flipkart. This move clearly signifies the importance of the Indian market in the e-commerce […]
Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa from the past few months is bringing in various modifications for the purpose of increasing its customer base. Now, Alexa has introduced a feature that its users can teach it local Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi and Bengali. The e-commerce major Amazon announced a new skill aimed at improving Alexa’s speech recognition. As […]
Online knowledge sharing firm Quora will now available in Hindi, a move that will allow about 500 million Hindi speakers to engage on the platform in Hindi. Founded in 2009 by Adam D’Angelo, former CTO of social networking giant Facebook. About half of Quora’s user base is from outside the US, including from India. The […]
Global leading search giant Google launched its virtual personal assistant in the Hindi language. The assistant will be available on Android 6.0+ version & above. Google Assistant was launched as the successor of Google Now and Voice Search back in 2016. The company is also planning to make this language assistant available from 19 to 30 languages till 2019. […]
[dropcap]O[/dropcap]xford Dictionaries will now have a Hindi Word of the Year for 2017. The Hindi word of the year will be a word or phrase that has aroused great interest this year. The word chosen should reflect the ethos, mood or concerns of the year. It is not necessarily a new word, but it should […]
The community of Hindi readers may appear thin or even non-existent to the larger English- reading crowd but it appears they are simply doing what they do best- quietly reading good literature in some corner. With Hindi confined to the dark ends of most bookshops and shelves groaning under the weight of English bestsellers, English […]
Start-up Data Xgen Technologies has started a paid email address service in Hindi or Devanagari, and plans to roll out free registration of such IDs on the lines of Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo soon. “A few hundred IDs have been created till now on .bharat domain, which is available in Devanagari script. Anyone interested in […]
Hindi social networking portal ShabdaNagari has raised undisclosed amount of bridge funding from ah! ventures. The company had said that it plans to use the funds raised to expand its genres and improve its user interface, marketing and promotional activities. Artha Energy Project’s Anirudh Damani & others also participated in this round. “ShabdaNagari team’s thorough […]
Alibaba.com, the wholesale trading platform of China’s Alibaba Group, today unveiled its first physical trade facility centre in the country at Jaipur and a Hindi portal, aimed at connecting small and medium businesses with global buyers. “We are excited about working with our Indian partners to provide comprehensive and dedicated trading solutions for local Indian […]
New Delhi, Jan 22: Hindi social networking portal, ShabdaNagari, today said it has raised $2,00,000 funding from Kanpur angel fund and clutch of other investors. The portal was launched in January 2015, by IIT Mumbai alumni Amitesh Mishra along with Kaplnesh Gupta and Nikhil Tiwari. The funding will be use in its future expansion plans. […]
Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organization and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre. They also published a small press release on it’s Khan Academy Blog – Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in Hindi! If you speak Hindi, […]
Video publishing platform YouTube acquires Indian video e-commerce platform Simsim.