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WhatsApp Extend Group Users Limit From 100 Users to 256 Users

5Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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WhatsApp Extend Group Users Limit From 100 Users to 256 Users

Facebook Owned messenger App WhatsApp has silently updated its Android version group limit of users which includes now 256 users. Earlier the group user limit was 100 users per group. iOS users have also received an update that brings the same functionality, with version 2.12.13 of the app. It is worth mentioning that the new group limit is only visible on Android and iOS for now. However, it should reach Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and other platforms soon. WhatsApp last month got rid of its $1 (approximately Rs. 68) annual subscription fee. Until now,WhatsApp asked some users to pay an annual fee for using the app after the first year of use - though as many of us experienced, most users were not asked to pay after a year, and instead were given extensions each year. I...

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Big Blow For Aamir Khan, Snapdeal Will Not Renew The Contract as a Brand Ambassador

As per the report, Snapdeal one of India's biggest e-commerce company has decided not to renew Bollywood star Aamir Khan's contract as brand ambassador of the ecommerce company. The one-year endorsement deal ends later this month. Snapdeal may not replace Khan with another celebrity as it looks to rationalise ad expenditure and focus instead on repeat customers, enhancing categories and trying to encourage buyers to shop through its FreeCharge wallet. Last month the tourism ministry dropped Khan as brand ambassador of the Incredible India campaign that the actor was associated with since 2009. He was replaced by Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra. (Source)

4Feb By AdityaNo Comments

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Happy 12th Birthday Facebook

Today, February 4, marks Facebook’s 12th birthday. Each year Facebook recognize this day as Friends Day and invite the world to celebrate and reflect on the importance of connecting. When people connect, powerful things happen and lives are changed. We see this on Facebook every day, whether it’s an exchange with an old friend that brings a smile to your face or a new connection that changes your life path, or even the world. - said facebook in a press release. To celebrate, Facebook released an updated degrees of separation statistic, highlighting inspiring stories about the power of friendship, and launching new products to further encourage our community to rally around their friends today. Facebook Community Continues to Grow Closer Facebook said people are more connecte...

She Is The First Woman CEO At An Indian Unicorn

4Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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She Is The First Woman CEO At An Indian Unicorn

Mu Sigma, the world’s largest pure-play provider of decision sciences and analytics solutions, announced today that Ambiga Dhiraj, formerly Chief Operating Officer, will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective immediately. Founder and former CEO, Dhiraj Rajaram, will continue in a full-time capacity with the company and remain as chairman. Ambiga has been with Mu Sigma for more than eight years, having led functions of talent management, marketing, innovation and product development before assuming the role of COO in February 2012. In that role she drove major improvements to the company’s India operations and the global delivery of products and services to the market. Now she joins an exclusive and short list of female CEOs to lead privately held companies with bil...

Google Search Chief Amit Singhal To Quit, To Be Replaced By AI Head

4Feb By reutersNo Comments

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Google Search Chief Amit Singhal To Quit, To Be Replaced By AI Head

Reuters- Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) said Amit Singhal, the longtime chief of its Internet search business, will leave the company and be replaced by the head of the technology giant's artificial intelligence business. John Giannandrea, currently a vice president of engineering, will replace Singhal, a 15-year Google veteran, once he leaves on Feb. 26. "Search is stronger than ever, and will only get better in the hands of an outstanding set of senior leaders who are already running the show day-to-day," Singhal wrote in a blog post. The appointment of Giannandrea, who joined Google in 2010, underlines the growing importance Silicon Valley is attaching to artificial intelligence technology. Giannandrea led Google's machine learning efforts, applying the technology to produ...

First time, Alphabet Disclosed The Profitability of Google's Search Engine

2Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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First time, Alphabet Disclosed The Profitability of Google's Search Engine

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Alphabet Inc. announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2015. Alphabet easily beat Wall Street's quarterly profit forecasts on Monday, helped by strong mobile advertising sales, sending the shares of Google's parent higher in after-hours trading to surpass Apple Inc as the most valuable U.S. company. "Our very strong revenue growth in Q4 reflects the vibrancy of our business, driven by mobile search as well as YouTube and programmatic advertising, all areas in which we've been investing for many years. We're excited about the opportunities we have across Google and Other Bets to use technology to improve the lives of billions of people," said Ruth Porat, CFO of Alphabet. For the first time, the company disclosed the profitabil...

One Billion People are Using WhatsApp. That’s Nearly One in Seven People on Earth.

2Feb By AdityaNo Comments

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One Billion People are Using WhatsApp. That’s Nearly One in Seven People on Earth.

As of today, one billion people are using WhatsApp. That's nearly one in seven people on Earth who use WhatsApp each month to stay in touch with their loved ones, their friends and their family. We are proud of this milestone, and we're humbled by the extraordinary ways all of you have used WhatsApp. Whether it's sharing vital information during natural disasters or health emergencies, finding a date, growing a small business, buying an engagement ring, or seeking a better life – we're honored to be a small part of what people are doing to make their lives and the lives of those around them better - Whatsapp team shared on his blog. WhatsApp began with a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standin...

Indian Govt Plans to Develop Northeast as Startup Destination

31Jan By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Indian Govt Plans to Develop Northeast as Startup Destination

Northeast is an emerging destination for new ‘Startups’ from across the country and plans are there to provide ‘venture’ fund for new entrepreneurs, Union Minister Jitendra Singh has said. Inaugurating the ‘Youth Connect’ programme organised by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar College of University of Delhi, Singh said under the ‘Startup India, Standup India’ plan announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there are provisions of two years of tax-free facility and three months’ exit period. “These are unique features of this plan and on behalf of the Ministry of DoNER, an added incentive is being contemplated in the form of a ‘venture’ fund for new entrepreneurs so as to provide them relief from financial liabilities,” he said. The Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) said th...

Trai Set to Reject Differential Pricing For Data, Free Basics and Airtel Zero Services

30Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Trai Set to Reject Differential Pricing For Data, Free Basics and Airtel Zero Services

A big move taken by Trai (Telecom Regulator of India) is ready to reject differential pricing for data services. This move will end the debate on Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel Zero Services. Specially as a huge setback for Facebook, which has spend 300 crores on free basics support Advertisement. The order is also expected to bar free or subsidised data packages that offer access to only a select services, such as Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp messenger. "These are discriminatory and are against the concept of digital democracy. We will not allow them," a source said to TOI.(Source)

Big Blow For Paytm & Mobikwik- IRCTC Barred Usage of E-wallets between 8AM to 12PM

30Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

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Big Blow For Paytm & Mobikwik- IRCTC Barred Usage of E-wallets between 8AM to 12PM

The railway ministry on Thursday announced new rules for booking of online tickets through the IRCTC website, which will be effective from February 15. It has barred usage of e-wallets and cash cards between 8 am and 12 noon, besides reducing the maximum number of ticket bookings allowed to an individual user to six in a month from the current 10. The ministry of railways’ decision could affect Paytm and Mobikwik’s plans to get train travellers to use their mobile wallets. Only last month Gurgaon-based One MobiKwik Systems Pvt Ltd, which runs Mobikwik, had said that it expects to facilitate railway ticket bookings worth Rs 1.75 crore in the next six months. Indian Railways had chosen Mobikwik as its primary wallet for IRCTC Connect Android App. Paytm, run by One97 Communications L...

Worried Analysts Question Amazon’s Logistics Plans

29Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

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Worried Analysts Question Amazon’s Logistics Plans

In the wake of Amazon.com Inc's disappointing financial results that sent shares plunging Thursday, analysts blamed rising costs to deliver goods, which increased to $4.5 billion in the quarter, up 24.4 percent from the same quarter last year. And they sharply questioned the company's plans to continue to make heavy investments in logistics, even at the expense of profits. They wondered why it was planning to buy more assets like trucks, and reportedly to lease jets, and worried it planned to spend the money to take on shippers like United Parcel Service Inc. "The so-called (earnings) miss was half fulfillment and half marketing," said Michael Pachter, a managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities. The growing popularity of Prime, which promises free, two-day del...

Bus-aggregator Shuttl Touched 1 Million Rides Across Delhi-NCR in 194 Days

28Jan By AdityaNo Comments

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Bus-aggregator Shuttl Touched 1 Million Rides Across Delhi-NCR in 194 Days

Gurgaon-based Shuttl, a bus-aggregator company claims to hit another milestone by, reaching its one millionth completed rides across Delhi-NCR in only 194 days of its operations. From being an intra-city to a pan Delhi-NCR public transit service, Shuttl has seen massive transformation. Shuttl has also been able to save Rs 5.10 mn per day in fuel cost for commuters, has kept 4,727 vehicles off the road daily and saved 53,460 tonnes carbon emissions till date during all it operational days. Currently, 50% of users board their Shuttl from Gurgaon, the business haven of NCR, 33% from Noida, and 17% from Delhi and rest of NCR. Speaking on the occasion, Shuttl co-founder and CEO Amit Singh said, “It’s been a phenomenal ten months for the team. The public has embraced Shuttl beyond our expecta...