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FreeCharge Drives Cashless Payments With Ezetap

23Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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FreeCharge Drives Cashless Payments With Ezetap

ANI- Counting and handling cash may soon become a thing of the past for offline retailers. FreeCharge, the digital payments platform, has inked a partnership with Ezetap, the Bangalore-based pioneer in mobile payments, allowing the entire base of FreeCharge users to immediately start using their wallets to make payments at thousands of Ezetap service points consisting of small and mid-sized retailers across India. The partnership draws FreeCharge closer its vision of creating an ecosystem where organised and unorganised merchant networks can come together and accept electronic payments. Ezetap's Universal Mobile Wallet Acceptance is India's first universal solution that allows merchants to accept customer payments from any mobile wallet through their existing Ezetap mobile point of s...

Freshdesk Acquired Noida Based Company Having 1000 Companies To Communicate on Visual Files

23Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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Freshdesk Acquired Noida Based Company Having 1000 Companies To Communicate on Visual Files

Framebench, a fast visual collaboration platform which, over the past 3 years, enabled more than a 1000 companies to annotate and communicate on visual files in real-time got acquired by Freshdesk. The amount of the deal has not been disclosed. After weeks of keeping it secret, we’re excited to announce that we’ve been acquired by Freshdesk, Inc and the team will move on to building superior customer engagement experiences in our new roles. – said Framebench Team. We’d like to thank everyone who tried and used Framebench. It’s because of you that we’ve kept building awesome stuff along the way. While we’re not accepting any more sign ups, Framebench will continue to work as is for all current customers. Some of the questions Framebench team has answered below regarding this acquisit...

After Google, Now Indian Firm Joister Wants to Offer Free Wi-Fi at Railway Stations in Maharashtra

22Feb By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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After Google, Now Indian Firm Joister Wants to Offer Free Wi-Fi at Railway Stations in Maharashtra

After launching free Wi-Fi services at about 500 locations in four major cities of Maharashtra, broadband and gaming provider Joister Infomedia has offered to provide free Wi-Fi at all railway stations in the state. Google had last year announced that it will provide free Wi-Fi access at 400 railway stations in the country, and started the rollout in January. Joister Infomedia, which offers free Wi-Fi to about two lakh registered users in Mumbai, Pune, Thane and Navi Mumbai, has approached Central Railways and Western Railways to offer free Wi-Fi at all stations in Maharashtra. "We appreciate the government's 'Digital India' campaign and to lend our bit of support, we have sought permissions from Central Railway and Western Railway to give free Wi-Fi facility at all railway stations ...

22Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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40,000 Crores Service Industry Found a Aggregator Platform Foodcentral, Founded by IIT Kanpur Alumni

The world is changing faster than ever. And with every change comes an opportunity for people to come together for one reason or the other. There are countless social gatherings possible, personal or professional. And with every possible social gathering, it becomes imminent for somebody to host the gathering. The catering services industry in India has been consistently growing at the annual growth rate of 15 to 20 percent and in 2016, is expected to attain the worth of INR 40,000 crore. One good thing about the Indian catering industry is that despite the tumbling stock market and recessive economy, it didn't have a direct impact. You may ask why? Well, since it is not directly related to how the market behaves, it is more of a personal thing than strict business. The catering s...

After Chaayos Now PressPlay TV Will Provide Free Video Service in Indian Railway

21Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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After Chaayos Now PressPlay TV Will Provide Free Video Service in Indian Railway

NEW DELHI: Indian railway future looks bright because of the activity Railway ministry has shown to improve railway service quality has clearly seen. Whether it's about cleanness drive on stations, technology use (wifi & tie-up with startups) and better communication approach using twitter and caller service. As we reported last to last week that Indian Railway has tie-up with Chaayos to serve chai in luxury trains. Moving one step further Indian railway has now tie-up with Video streaming application PressPlay TV for started offering free video service in some trains. PressPlayTv expand service in about 30 trains soon. "PressPlay TV has tied up with Northwestern Railways to offer free VoD service Delhi-Bikaner and Delhi-Udaipur bound Delhi Bikaner Intercity and Chetak Express resp...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Heading to Brussels For Antitrust Talks: Source

21Feb By AdityaNo Comments

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Heading to Brussels For Antitrust Talks: Source

AFP, SAN FRANCISCO: Google chief executive Sundar Pichai will meet next week in Brussels with the European Union's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, a source familiar with the matter said Saturday. European competition officials have been investigating the US tech giant for years over alleged monopolistic practices involving its search engines, but any resolution has been elusive. Three successive proposals by Google for an amicable settlement have been rejected. Vestager last year sent a "statement of objections," saying Google had diverted traffic from rival price-comparison services like Kelkoo, which operates in several European countries, to favor its own comparison shopping service. Google responded in late August that Brussels's findings were "wrong," and bas...

Yahoo Inc Officially Launched The Sale of Its Core Business

20Feb By reutersNo Comments

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Yahoo Inc Officially Launched The Sale of Its Core Business

Yahoo Inc officially launched the sale of its core business on Friday, a move seen as a positive step for frustrated investors but not enough to keep an activist hedge fund from pursuing a proxy fight against the struggling Internet company. Yahoo shares jumped after the company announced its board has formed a committee of independent directors to explore strategic alternatives, and that it has hired investment banks and a law firm to run the process. The launch of the auction process, a move activist hedge fund Starboard Value and other shareholders have pushed since late last year, showed the company was moving another step closer to selling its core business, which includes search, mail and news sites, rather than spin it off as previously planned. The move follows more than t...

Use of Indian Languages is Critical to Achieve The Digital India Dream: Report

20Feb By NitishNo Comments

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Use of Indian Languages is Critical to Achieve The Digital India Dream: Report

New Delhi- Advocating the need for more content in Indian languages to propel internet penetration, a report titled ‘Proliferation of Indian Languages on Internet’ finds that enabling local language content on the Internet will lead to a growth of 39% in the current Internet user base. 75% growth will be from the rural users while only 16% growth will come from urban India. The report, published by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), finds that The English language still accounts for 56% of the content on the worldwide web while Indian languages account for less than 0.1%. However, while The Internet in India is predominantly English, there is a high potential for regional language content. According to the report, in the last year alone, Hindi content on the web has gro...

Funding Round- Collegedunia Raises 3 crores Funding, IAN Invests In UK Based Startup Ascema

19Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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Funding Round- Collegedunia Raises 3 crores Funding, IAN Invests In UK Based Startup Ascema

Delhi-based Collegedunia has raised Rs 3 crore in Pre-Series A funding round from Umang Kumar, co-founder and, CEO of Gaadi. Collegedunia is an extensive search engine for the students, parents, and education industry players who are seeking information on the higher education sector in India and abroad. The startup was founded in 2014 by Sahil Chalana who is an Alumni from BITS Pilani. As per the data of company Collegedunia have 40000+ unique visitors per day and it comes under 2000 website. The company claims to scale up its traffic up to 1 Lac+ in next few months. Collegedunia has also launched an app and received 10000 installs. Collegedunia claims to feature 12000colleges/institutes/Universities and fees structure on its platform. Collegedunia covers areas like fee, placement, a...

Google’s Internet Balloon ‘Crashes’ in Sri Lanka Test Flight

18Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Google’s Internet Balloon ‘Crashes’ in Sri Lanka Test Flight

AFP, COLOMBO: A Google balloon, part of the company's high-speed Internet service known as "Project Loon", crashed in a Sri Lankan tea plantation during its maiden test flight, local police said today. Villagers found the deflated balloon with its electronic equipment in the island's central tea-growing region of Gampola on Wednesday night, an officer told AFP. "Tea plantation workers found it crashed in the plantation. They picked up the pieces and brought it to the station," the officer, who is not authorised to speak with media, told AFP by phone. However, Sri Lanka's Information and Communication Technology Agency, which is coordinating the tests with Google, described the landing as controlled and scheduled. "Google loon balloon safely landed under standard operating proce...

Paytm Scraps Transaction Fee For Offline Merchants, Last year Transaction was $120 million

17Feb By NitishNo Comments

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Paytm Scraps Transaction Fee For Offline Merchants, Last year Transaction was $120 million

Paytm, India's leading Mobile wallet and e-commerce firm scrapped 'per transaction fee' for consumer-to-merchant offline wallet transactions, a move to boost digital money transfer on the platform. The fee ranged from 0.5% to 1.75%, depending on the merchant service provider. "Often these charges discourage a merchant to accept a digital transaction and they end up asking the consumer to bear the cost, which is illegal," said Nitin Misra, payment products head at Paytm. "By eliminating this cost, we are looking at an opportunity to digitise that 95% of India which still deals in cash," he added. "We have crossed credit card transactions and today 95 out of 100 wallets are Paytm," said Misra. "In our business, I think we have reached a sweet spot. We have a payment business, we have a m...

Housejoy Acquired Orobind, a Personal Fitness Tech Startup

17Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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Housejoy Acquired Orobind, a Personal Fitness Tech Startup

Keeping success efforts up, housejoy have now extended its dominance in the industry by acquiring Orobind, an ‘at-home’ personal fitness tech startup. This move helps housejoy to further strengthen our fitness offering and offer a highly differentiated experience to its customers. Orobind, founded by Satya Vyas and Shubhanshu Srivastava in December 2014, has been a leader in the ‘at-home’ personal fitness space and is serving more than 1000 customers in Bangalore alone, with around 135 active personal trainers on the platform. As a part of this deal, Housejoy acquired the trainers of Orobind, its customer base and the technology. Talking about the acquisition, CEO & Founder Housejoy, Saran Chatterjee, said, “The acquisition is a part of our strategy to become leaders in thi...