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India’s drug stores plan protest against online pharmacy

10Oct By AnkitaNo Comments

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India’s drug stores plan protest against online pharmacy

Reuters- As many as 850,000 small chemist shops in India will shut for a day next week to protest against a burgeoning online pharmacy industry that is attracting big money backers. The one-day nationwide strike on Oct. 14, called by the All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) comes as a government panel started working on regulations for the sector. Healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd plans to start online drug sales in India, while Zigy, and Sequoia Capital-backed 1mg already have e-pharmacies to tap a retail market IMS Health says is worth about $13 billion. (more…)

Rahul Gandhi will meet startup’s founders in Bengaluru today

9Oct By AnkitaNo Comments

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Rahul Gandhi will meet startup’s founders in Bengaluru today

Rahul Gandhi, the Vice-President of Congress, India's main opposition party will meet founders of start-ups in Bengaluru today over tea. Mr. Gandhi will meet startups like Taxi aggregator Ola, grocery portal Big Basket, Skan Ray Technologies, Paper boat represented by their founders. Flipkart might be missed because its founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are out of the city. (more…)

Alphabet has Dropped Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Motto

7Oct By NitishNo Comments

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Alphabet has Dropped Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Motto

A simple loss of innocence or something more? The restructuring of Google in August 2015 was a major tech shakeup, where a new parent company ‘Alphabet’ was set up and Google became one of the seven companies working under it. Apart from Google, the Alphabet umbrella covers Google Ventures, Calico, Nest , Google Capital, Fiber and Google X. It was also informed that each of these companies is to have its own CEO and motto. (more…)

Micromax invests in Scandid, a mobile product and savings discovery platform

7Oct By AnkitaNo Comments

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Micromax invests in Scandid, a mobile product and savings discovery platform

In world's top 10 mobile makers, Micromax announced a strategic investment in Scandid, a mobile product and savings discovery platform. The Scandid app helps customers compare prices and discover discounts across top e-commerce and local retailers, helping them make informed choices. The Scandid investment further reinforces Micromax's foray into application services and building an integrated mobile ecosystem. (more…)

Cafe Coffee Day set to launch its IPO on 14 October

7Oct By NitishNo Comments

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Cafe Coffee Day set to launch its IPO on 14 October

India's biggest coffee chain, The Cafe Coffee Day, will launch an initial public offering next week. Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd (CDEL), the holding company of the Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) aiming to raise up to $176 million in the country's biggest IPO in nearly three years. Cafe Coffee Day's share sale is scheduled to close on Friday next week and the stock is due to start trading in Mumbai on Nov. 2. The price band for the offering has been set at between 316 rupees and 328 rupees a share, said two sources directly involved in the deal separately on condition of anonymity. Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd, which competes with Starbucks Corp among others in India, is backed by private equity firm KKR & Co. India has seen fewer IPOs in the last few years because of volatile markets ...

Facebook will now deliver internet from space

6Oct By AnkitaNo Comments

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Facebook will now deliver internet from space

Facebook said on Monday, that it would launch a satellite called AMOS-6 in partnership with France's Eutelsat Communications to bring Internet access to large parts of sub-Saharan Africa. The satellite is a part of Facebook's long-term goal, Internet.org, to expand internet access mainly in rural areas via mobile phones. (more…)

Oxigen Wallet, Sponsor Of South African Cricket Team, Website Hacked

5Oct By NitishNo Comments

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Oxigen Wallet, Sponsor Of South African Cricket Team, Website Hacked

As per the report on desigyan, Oxigen wallet, a money secured wallet has been hacked around 9:40PM on 3rd of October. This is the second hacking news after Ganna.com incident. Oxigen wallet is also the Team Jersey sponsor of South African Cricket team. The website is hacked by TN Hackers and it was hacked for 1hour, 45 minutes as per the data given by the website Desigyan. This is the fresh example of hacking and it shows that nothing is secure in this online world. Which put a big question mark on the data security of users. Reason behind the Hacking: The reason behind this activity is to spread believe in a particular community. The hackers promoted themselves as Tunisian Fallaga Team.

Shocking: A Chinese Company punishes sales staff by making them crawl around lake

4Oct By AnkitaNo Comments

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Shocking: A Chinese Company punishes sales staff by making them crawl around lake

Chinese netizens have been lashing out at the bosses of a company in Zhengzhou, China’s Henan Province, after it was reported that they had punished some employees by making them crawl around a lake. According to City Report, a local media outlet in Henan, around a dozen people were seen crawling on the wooden path along the lake on Friday. Nearly everyone’s clothes were worn out, while some had suffered bruises and scrapes and were bleeding. (more…)

Paytm Now Backs A Bus Ticketing Service & An Income Tax Filing Startup!

3Oct By RishabhNo Comments

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Paytm Now Backs A Bus Ticketing Service & An Income Tax Filing Startup!

Powered by One97 Communications Ltd., the online mobile wallet and E-commerce website Paytm has recently invested in AbhiBus, a bus ticketing service and ClearTax, an income tax filing website. According to the sources, the invested amount is not yet disclosed and no official announcement has been made. AbhiBus is an online platform, founded back in 2007 for booking of bus tickets, that has become India’s fastest growing platform with over 1,500 operators and 15,000 routes running through the major cities like Hyderabad, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore etc. Today, AbhiBus is also the preferred Information Technology Partner for State Transport Corporations and Private Bus Fleet Operators. AbhiBus is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. (more…)

3Oct By PriyankaNo Comments

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Bye bye Google, hello Alphabet

Google Inc has morphed into Alphabet Inc. After U.S. markets closed on Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company that will house Google's search and Web advertising businesses, maps, YouTube and its "moonshot" ventures such as driverless cars. (more…)

2Oct By NitishNo Comments

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Facebook introduced a looping video as a profile picture

World's leading social media network Facebook has announced that it has added some new features and controls for your profile which, allows you to use a looping video as your profile photo. Facebook in a press release share, People visit Facebook profiles more than four billion times per day, and we’re continually looking for ways to make profiles the best place for people to curate their online identities and connect with others. Today, we’re unveiling some new, mobile-friendly features for Facebook profiles. (more…)

Review: Meet Tesla’s Model X, 250-mile range, Falcon Wing doors

1Oct By AnkitaNo Comments

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Review: Meet Tesla’s Model X, 250-mile range, Falcon Wing doors

Yesterday, Elon Musk founder of Tesla has revealed new Model X in two versions called P90D (Performance All-Wheel Drive), 90D (All-Wheel Drive). Tesla Model X is the safest, fastest and most capable sport utility vehicle in history. Standard with all-wheel drive and a 90 kWh battery providing 250 miles of range, Model X has ample seating for seven adults and all of their gear. And it’s ludicrously fast, accelerating from zero to 60 miles per hour in as quick as 3.2 seconds. Model X is the SUV uncompromised. (more…)