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Amazon Launchpad For Startups- Register For Rs 5000 and Sell Your Product Worldwide

6Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Amazon Launchpad For Startups- Register For Rs 5000 and Sell Your Product Worldwide

E-commerce giant Amazon today rolled out its global programme 'Launchpad' in India to provide startups in the country a platform to market, sell and deliver products across the globe. India is the seventh country where Amazon Launchpad has been made available, and the platform, "tailormade" for startups, is available for a fee of Rs 5,000 a month. Launchpad is already available in the US, UK, China, Germany, France and Mexico. Through the Launchpad page startups and entrepreneurs can sell products on a global scale, overcoming general marketplace challenges like requirements of large investments to get noticed and loss of margins in channels, the company said. Amazon Launchpad will offer startups and small enterprises access to custom pages where sellers can showcase their products th...

Indian PM Modi Wins Online Reader’s Poll For TIME Person of The Year

5Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Indian PM Modi Wins Online Reader’s Poll For TIME Person of The Year

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won the online reader's poll for TIME Person of the Year 2016, beating out other world leaders like US President-elect Donald Trump, incumbent US leader Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Modi won with 18 percent of the vote when the poll closed last night, getting significantly more votes than his closest contenders, including Obama, Trump and Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange, who all received 7 percent of the 'yes' vote. Modi was also placed far ahead of other prominent figures of this year, like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (2 percent) and US Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (4 percent), Time said. Time's editors will decide the final Person of the Year later this week, but the online poll results provide a look at how the world...

Pulse Candy Maker DS Group Eyes 20-24% Revenue Growth This Fiscal

4Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Pulse Candy Maker DS Group Eyes 20-24% Revenue Growth This Fiscal

Diversified firm Dharampal Satyapal Group (DS Group) expects its revenue to grow by 20-24 per cent this fiscal with food and beverage and mouth freshener businesses driving the growth. "We have been growing at an average of nearly 20-24 per cent in last few years and that is a growth trend we would like to maintain, with emphasis on first-class quality and innovative products," DS Group Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar told Pixr8. The food and beverage (F&B) and mouth freshener businesses are driving the growth of the group and the past year has seen the company entering new areas in both to further strengthen our FMCG offerings, he added. The Noida-based group, which is well known for its consumer goods brands like 'Catch' and 'Pass Pass', had reported a turnover of more than Rs 7,7...

3Dec By NitishNo Comments

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World’s Most Functional Smart Wallet Launched in India by Cuir Ally

We all have forgotten our wallets at restaurants, offices, shops, or at even at our own houses only to lose them eventually. Now imagine if your smartphone could notify you if you leave your wallets behind, imagine if you could ring your wallet to find it and what if you could take a selfie with your wallet, wouldn’t that be something amazing to own? Cuir Ally, a recently launched luxury leather goods brand has launched their flagship product, the Voyager Smart Wallet which not only amazes us with the above features but also promises a design revolution in the leather wallet segment, which has seen hardly any major innovations over the past several decades. Voyager Smart, made of fine-grain premium leather prides itself in being the World’s Most Functional Smart Wallet, as apart from...

Australian Cricket Legend Shane Warne Launches The First Individual Emoji App for a Cricketer

2Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Australian Cricket Legend Shane Warne Launches The First Individual Emoji App for a Cricketer

Following in the footsteps of international superstars Justin Bieber, Ellen, Ronaldinho and Usain Bolt, emoji app developer StarMojis is launching the WarnieMojis app, which promises to add plenty of fun into the communication world with family and friends. The app features hundreds of unique and exclusive emoji stickers, GIF's, audio comments and a custom message maker that cover all aspects of legendary Australian spin bowler Shane Warne's life. From cricket to family, poker to golf to his other colourful activities, there is a variety of emojis everyone will enjoy. As Warne himself explains, "One thing we all know is that I love a text message and emojis are a big part of the way I communicate. Life can get way too serious on occasions and this app allows people to have a laugh wi...

Alibaba Backed Out To Acquire Indian E-commerce Firm Snapdeal

2Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Alibaba Backed Out To Acquire Indian E-commerce Firm Snapdeal

China's Alibaba Group Holding is not buying Indian e-commerce company Snapdeal and is not in talks to do so, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday, dampening talk that an acquisition was in the works. Rumour rumour on the wall, which troll did you callYou said sold, they said bought, but whoever listened to you didn't get diddly squat.— Kunal Bahl (@1kunalbahl) December 1, 2016 Hangzhou, China-based Alibaba was also in talks with Flipkart for a potential buyout but it seems like the talks have fallen through as Alibaba takes an interest in acquiring Snapdeal, which has raised over $1.76 billion in 12 funding rounds. Alibaba had already invested in India's leading online payment platform Paytm in September 2015, also acquired 40% stake. A strategy likely t...

TeamIndus Inks Pact With ISRO; Aims to Raise $45 Million By October 2017

1Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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TeamIndus Inks Pact With ISRO; Aims to Raise $45 Million By October 2017

TeamIndus has inked a commercial launch contract with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for its mission to land a spacecraft on the moon as it attempts to win the USD 25 million Google Lunar XPRIZE. TeamIndus is the only Indian team competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE that requires privately funded teams to land their spacecraft on the surface of the moon, travel 500 metres and broadcast high definition video, images and data back to earth. The team, which has received support from industry veterans including Ratan Tata (Tata Group), Nandan Nilekani (Infosys), Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (Flipkart) and Venu Srinivasan (TVS Group) among others, also aims to raise about USD 45 million by October next year to fund the project. "The total expense of the project is abo...

Global IT firm Ericsson Willing to Mentor Startups in India

1Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Global IT firm Ericsson Willing to Mentor Startups in India

Global IT firm Ericsson today said it is willing to extend helping hand to mentor start-ups in India. "The start-up economy in India is booming. In the next couple of years, it will be huge," Ericsson India Global Services managing director Amitabh Ray told Pixr8 on the sidelines of Infocom ICT seminar here. He said Ericsson is studying how the start-up ecosystem is being built in India. "We want to see how the start-ups are doing and what kind of disruptions can it bring. If we find that any start-up needs mentoring, we can think of it," Ray said. When pointed out 99 per cent of the start-ups were failing, he added VCs hire people who were expert in killing companies which do not have a future in order to stop the drainage of resources. To a query, he said Ericsson does not ha...

30Nov By Ankita SinghNo Comments

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Biggest Shake for SAMSUNG In 47 Years..

REUTERS- India has the highest level of collaboration globally between sales and marketing departments to strengthen their relationship to drive business success and achieve revenue growth, showed a research by network tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, under pressure from shareholders to improve investor returns, said on Tuesday it will consider creating a holding company in what would be the biggest shake-up in its 47-year history. The move and a plan to raise dividends come after U.S. hedge fund, Elliott Management in October called for the South Korean firm to split itself into a holding vehicle and an operating company. However, the world's top maker of smartphones, memory chips and televisions, said it was "absolutely neutral" about whether to proceed and provided little ...

India Leads The Sales Marketing Collaboration : Linkedin

30Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

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India Leads The Sales Marketing Collaboration : Linkedin

India has the highest level of collaboration globally between sales and marketing departments to strengthen their relationship to drive business success and achieve revenue growth, showed a research by networking website LinkedIn. India has a higher level of collaboration (85 per cent) compared to South East Asia (84 per cent), Australia (74 per cent), the United States (76 per cent), and the United Kingdom (73 per cent),the research showed. Commissioned by LinkedIn and conducted by Join the Dots, the research examined 7,140 sales and marketing professionals from September 26, 2016, to October 19, 2016, across five key markets, including Australia, the United States, United Kingdom, India and South-East Asia .. About 89 per cent of employees surveyed strongly believe that the curr...

170 Million Downloads-This Chinese Application Has Outperformed Indian Applications

29Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

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170 Million Downloads-This Chinese Application Has Outperformed Indian Applications

SHAREit started its campus activities on November 14, 2016. The teams summed up with many well-known Indian bloggers went on campus to discuss with college students about the impact of SHAREit on the Indian Internet market, sharing interesting stories in the course of development, maintenance and application of the software. There are around 170 million users in India, out of which most of them are college students. The process of information sharing is mainly from that group, and they most likely rely on speed sharing through SHAREit. At Indian universities, all students are familiar with SHAREit as the main near field transmission software. In daily life, it has become the most commonly used app among college students, sharing photos, music, videos. SHAREit recently topped the Too...

Jio Crosses 50 Million Subscriber Mark in 83 Days, 1,000 Customers Per Minute And 6 Lakh Per Day

28Nov By PriyankaNo Comments

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Jio Crosses 50 Million Subscriber Mark in 83 Days, 1,000 Customers Per Minute And 6 Lakh Per Day

Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Jio has crossed the 50 million subscriber mark in less than three months after its full-fledged 4G services launch to emerge as the largest broadband operator in the country. According to sources, Jio setting a new record has acquired 1,000 customers per minute (since September 05) and 6 lakh per day. "Jio continues to be the fastest growing company in the world and has crossed 50 million subscribers in record 83 days," sources pointed out. Airtel reached the same milestone of notching 50 million subscribers in 12 years, Vodafone and Idea took 13 years each. Reliance Jio Infocomm, the new entrant in the 4G market which is competing with the likes of Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular -- had launched its commercial services on September 5, and as per the la...