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Zomato Founder Apologies for Zomato’s Porn Campaign

19Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Zomato Founder Apologies for Zomato’s Porn Campaign

Deepinder Goyal, Founder of Zomato apologised on Zomato Blog because of some folks got offended by the recent porn campaign. Zomato had tried an advertising campagin that involved using websites similar in nature to porn7 to, however, this tactic seemed to backfire with Zomato's audience, causing the founder to offer an apology. In Blog, he posted about how this less expensive marketing tactic works but at the same time felt sorry for "such cheap marketing was not expected from a brand of our standard and also supporting abuse." Deepinder Also wrote - For a start, we’re killing the porn site campaign, because we sense we crossed the fine line between marketing irreverence and cultural insensitivity. If we did, and ended up offending or disrespecting anyone in any way at all, we are so...

Now Facebook Video Can Load Through HTML5 by Default

19Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Now Facebook Video Can Load Through HTML5 by Default

Facebook Inc. announced today that all of its videos will load through HTML5 by default. Like Facebook Many other tech giants are working to kill off Adobe Flash due to the format’s vast bugs and security flaws. “We are continuing to work together with Adobe to deliver a reliable and secure Flash experience for games on our platform,” Facebook front-end engineer Daniel Baulig wrote in a blog post, “but have shipped the change for video to all browsers by default.” “We decided to initially launch the HTML5 player to only a small set of browsers, and continuously roll out to more browsers, versions, and operating systems as we improved it and fixed small bugs,” Baulig said. Not only did launching the HTML5 video player make development easier, but it also improved the video experience...

Sanjiv Goenka (owner of Pune IPL Team) led Spencer has acquired Gurgaon-based Online Grocery Platform MeraGrocer.com

16Dec By AdityaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Sanjiv Goenka (owner of Pune IPL Team) led Spencer has acquired Gurgaon-based Online Grocery Platform MeraGrocer.com

Spencer’s Retail has forayed into online space with the acquisition of 100 per cent stake in meragrocer.com at an undisclosed sum to grab 10 per cent of revenue in 4-5 years.The deal is a mixture of debt and equity. This acquisition makes meragrocer.com a subsidiary of Spencer’s, and will form the starting point of Spencer’s online retail business, Spencer’s said in a statement. “With the acquisition we will be able to enter the online channel for Spencer’s soon. However, this does not stop us from tying with other hyper local delivery startups”, sector head Shashwat Goenka said. “Currently we will be in Gurgaon and Delhi as the acquired company is present in these markets. By April-June quarter of 2016, we will launch the service in Kolkata”, he said. Spencer’s, he said, is workin...

12Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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‘Facebook at Work’ Is Finally Launching

Facebook at Work, Facebook Inc's professional version of its social network, is expected to launch in the coming months, after spending a year in tests, a company executive said. The new service, geared towards workplace collaboration, is nearly identical to its ubiquitous social network, with a scrolling news "feed", "likes" and a chat service. "I would say 95 percent of what we developed for Facebook is also adopted for Facebook at Work," Julien Codorniou, director of global platform partnerships at Facebook, told Reuters. However, Facebook at Work users will maintain special profiles that are distinct from their existing Facebook profiles. The company is also developing exclusive products for Facebook at Work, including security tools, Codorniou said. Facebook started beta...

The Top 10 Companies to Work for in 2016

9Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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The Top 10 Companies to Work for in 2016

If you are a business owner, providing perks for your employees is a great way to boost morale and increase productivity. Perks like health insurance (visit this website for more information) and paid sick days are vital to keep your employees happy. If you are a small business then you obviously can't provide massive perks like multi-billion dollar businesses are about to. Every year jobs and career site Glassdoor publishes the 10 best large companies to work for, as ranked by employees. Typically, it's not hard to predict who will make the list. Benefit-happy tech companies like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are safe bets. Case in point: Last year, Google nabbed the top spot. This year, however, Google's place on the throne has been usurped by a dark horse candidate. In fact, in t...

War of Words : OLA (Taxi Aggregator) vs JUGNOO (Auto Aggregator)

8Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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War of Words : OLA (Taxi Aggregator) vs JUGNOO (Auto Aggregator)

As Startup movement soaring up in India, so there is some war of words would be exchanged as well. To sustain their model and to be in positive cash model, startups are trying to implement every kind of opportunity (By Hook or Crook). In its blog India's leading Auto aggregator Jugnoo, accused Ola of poaching employees and taking its employee and driver database to disrupt business in its hometown Chandigarh, ahead of Ola's plan to launch its auto rickshaw hailing service in the city. Dear Ola, You got us all confused now. First you ignore us, then you laugh at us, then you fight us and finally, I am guessing here, we win! (Fist punch) If this is what you are trying to do, then we accept the compliment and I promise, will keep running this marathon just like we always have been. ...

Dr Lal PathLabs raises $28.6M ahead of IPO

8Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Dr Lal PathLabs raises $28.6M ahead of IPO

Dr Lal PathLabs Pvt Ltd, operator of the second-largest medical diagnostics services chain in the country, has raised Rs 191 crore ($28.6 million) by selling shares to anchor investors ahead of its initial public offering. The company allotted 34.80 lakh shares at Rs 550 apiece to anchor investors, it said in a statement on Monday. The anchor investors included investment funds and mutual fund schemes operated by Fidelity, T Rowe Price, JP Morgan, Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund and SBI Magnum Mutual Fund. Mutual fund schemes of DSP Blackrock, ICICI Prudential, Kotak Mahindra and Reliance Capital also invested. The IPO will hit the capital markets on Tuesday and close on Thursday. The company has fixed the price band for the IPO between Rs 540 and Rs 550 per share. The firm had file...

First-Of-Its-Kind Partnership In India – Buy Smartphone OnePlus X, Straight From The Ola App

5Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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First-Of-Its-Kind Partnership In India – Buy Smartphone OnePlus X, Straight From The Ola App

Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for personal transportation and OnePlus, a fast growing technology startup, today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership in India, giving users an opportunity to buy the latest smartphone OnePlus X, on-demand, straight from the Ola app. For one-day only on December 8, 2015, OnePlus together with OlaCabs and Amazon India is bringing a whole new dimension to your smartphone purchase experience. A first in India, buying a OnePlus X is as handy as hailing for a cab on your app with same-day delivery guarantee (in less than 15 minutes of placing the order) and consumer-friendly payment options. The partnership will take place across seven cities namely Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad. Fans wishing to purchase the O...

3Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Lenskart Office – A Place of Lens

Lenskart is India's fastest growing eyewear company founded by Peyush Bansal in November 2010. With a unique brick and mortar presence, Lenskart today offers over 10,000 different styles and high quality prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses and contact lens to fit all pocket sizes. Lenskart has grown more than 200% year on year in the last 2 years, to be among the top 3 optical businesses in India today. Lenskart currently has over 100 stores across more than 66 cities in the country with delivery in over 100 cities. (more…)

BSNL Revenue : Rs 672-crore operating profit in 2014-15, first Net profit by 2018

28Nov By AdityaNo Comments

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BSNL Revenue : Rs 672-crore operating profit in 2014-15, first Net profit by 2018

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, an Indian state-owned telecommunications company is back on track for recovery with Rs 672-crore operating profit in 2014-15 and is likely to report the first net profit in the last nine years within 2018, communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. The company’s income from services grew 4.16% to 27,242 crore in 2014-15, the highest in the last five years. The company has registered an impressive growth in mobile connections in recent months — It went up from 900,000 in May this year to 1.6 million in July. It has also adopted mobile number portability (MNP) from July 2015, and has since then added 1,57,564 subscribers. “We are confident of achieving the target of becoming cash positive by 2018 and all 225,000 employees are committed to achie...

26Nov By AdityaNo Comments

FUNDING

GOQii raises $13.4 million in Series A round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates and Cheetah Mobile

Fitness tracker startup GOQii has raised Series A funding worth $13.2 million (Rs 88 crore) led by New Enterprise Associates and Cheetah Mobile, with participation from Great Wall Club, DSG Consumer Partners, Ilkka Paananen (CEO and co-founder of Supercell) and Pravin Gandhi (co-founder of Seedfund) reports Mint. GOQii will use the funds to expand to China and other unnamed markets, and is working on Chinese content before launching it there. The report adds that Cheetah Mobile’s investment may help in GOQii’s China expansion as well as on Xiaomi’s Mi user interface, given Cheetah Mobile’s chairman Jun Lei is the founder of Xiaomi. (more…)

23Nov By AdityaNo Comments

Entrepreneurs Talk

After a Success Of Gadgetsguru.com, Arun Kapur new app called ‘ OK Sir ’ be present on a National platform soon

Arun Kapur, a technocrat and the founder of the highly successful e-commerce site gadgetsguru.com, talks about his latest e-offering ‘OK Sir’. OK Sir is an app that aggregates and makes available over 300 daily need and emergency service providers like key makers, plumbers, peons, tutors, nurses to helicopter joyrides on a single click. Excerpts from his vision of creating a single organised platform of assured employment for the unorganised sector, a secured and cost effective - standard pricing service platform for daily need services and providing a 24x7 platform with over 50,000 registered service providers. Q. Tell us about OK Sir? OK Sir is a daily need and emergency service based application that provides its users with over 300 services across categories and is available...