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Paytm gets title sponsorship rights for Indian c0ricket home series at a price of INR 203.28 Cr

30Jul By NitishNo Comments

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Paytm gets title sponsorship rights for Indian c0ricket home series at a price of INR 203.28 Cr

Indian e-commerce shopping giant Paytm has bagged title sponsorship rights of Indian cricket team for all series played at home till 2019, tweets BCCI. Paytm will pay Rs 2.42 crore for every international match hosted by BCCI. Approximately eighty-four matches are scheduled in the calendar so far. The first home series will be against South Africa starting September. BCCI welcomes @Paytm as the new home series title sponsor pic.twitter.com/y1XHaDvVI6 — BCCI (@BCCI) July 30, 2015 .@Paytm gets title sponsorship rights for India home series for 4 years. Winning bid was at a price of INR 203.28 Cr pic.twitter.com/ie4yhaLFFp — BCCI (@BCCI) July 30, 2015 "I am thankful to @Paytm for their interest and faith in Indian Cricket and welcome them on board" - @ianuragthakurpic.t...

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Google unveils buying button in mobile search ads

Google on Wednesday unveiled a new feature called "Purchases on Google," which allows shopper to buy items directly from mobile search ads. The eagerly awaited "buy" feature, which Google said it was testing with a few retailers, uses saved payment credentials from the user's Google Account for transactions. Both Google and Facebook have been stepping up efforts to advance location-based technology as consumers spend more time on smartphones. Along with the ads that pull up in search results, shoppers would also get information on product ratings and availability at nearby stores, the Internet search giant said in a blog post. The additional information will be available on Google Chrome for Android this month, with iOS support to follow in the coming months, the compan...

Hike messenger on web very soon – Kavin Bharti Mittal (CEO of Hike)

15Jul By AdityaNo Comments

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Hike messenger on web very soon – Kavin Bharti Mittal (CEO of Hike)

Indian popular instant messaging app "Hike Messenger" (owned by Bharti SoftBank) has decided to launch a new web version which will let you seamlessly sync your messages on the desktop browser. "The news was made official by the CEO of Hike, Kavin Bharti Mittal on his Twitter page, along with a screenshot which reveals how the feature works. It seems like this is still in Beta, judging by the screenshot. In just a week since the acquisition, images of the said feature have made their way to the web". It seems Hike looking to give a tough competition to WhatsApp's in web app series. Now Hike users for those on the computer to message their contacts without having to take out their phones. Now we have to look, the authenticated process of user's account with Hike Web will be the s...

Matti Makkonen known as the “Father of SMS” died at 63

1Jul By NitishNo Comments

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Matti Makkonen known as the “Father of SMS” died at 63

Matti Makkonen, widely considered as the "father of SMS" after developing the idea of sending messages via mobile networks has died from illness at the age of 63. Matti Makkonen (16 April 1952 – 26 June 2015) was a Finnish engineer in the field of mobile communications. He was employed (among others) by Nokia Networks and Tele Finland, as well as Finnet Oy. Matti Makkonen played a leading role in creating the mobile communication unit of what is today TeliaSonera. He was quick to downplay his involvement and saw SMS as a "joint effort" between many people (Friedham Hillebrand developed the 160-character format in 1985, for example), but much of the initial credit belongs to him. In 2008, Matti Makkonen was awarded The Economist Innovation Award in the computing and telecommunications c...

Bangalore based Simplilearn acquires Silicon Valley start-up for $10 million

27Jun By AdityaNo Comments

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Bangalore based Simplilearn acquires Silicon Valley start-up for $10 million

Simplilearn, a Bangalore-based Edu-tech start-up, which provides online certification courses to professionals, has acquired Market motive, a Silicon Valley-based startup, which trains professionals on digital marketing. Market Motive, founded in 2007, is led by Michael Stabbins, John Marshall and Avinash Kaushik. Simplilearn, which already has its presence in the US, is looking at the prospect of expanding its business further. Michael Stabbins, who would remain the CEO of Market Motive and work alongside as Chief Innovation Officer for Simplilearn. Simplilearn presently caters to professionals and young graduates in 150 countries through its 250 courses offered in various industry verticals. Market Motive boasts to have served fortune 500 companies through its web-based certificat...

Inspirational story of Shrikant Pantawane, auto driver turned Indigo Pilot

15Jun By NitishNo Comments

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Inspirational story of Shrikant Pantawane, auto driver turned Indigo Pilot

IndiGo, on Monday, shared on micro-blogging site Twitter, an excerpt of Mr Pantawane's exceptional story which features in their in-house magazine for the month. Make sure you catch the inspirational story of Shrikant Pantawane,auto driver turned pilot, in this month's Hello 6E! pic.twitter.com/09nirwwa0D — IndiGo (@IndiGo6E) June 15, 2015 Born and raised in Nagpur, Mr Pantawane's father worked as a security guard. His humble background meant Mr Pantawane had to start earning early and he juggled school with a job as a delivery boy, driving around in an auto. It was during an airport delivery that Mr Pantawane struck up a conversation with a tea-stall vendor there and learnt of the pilot scholarship program run by aviation regulator DGCA or the Directorate General of Civil Aviation...

TOP 10 tweets on Dick Costolo Stepping down as a Twitter CEO

12Jun By NitishNo Comments

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TOP 10 tweets on Dick Costolo Stepping down as a Twitter CEO

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, who helped turn the trendy messaging startup into a global town square, is stepping down amid criticism over the company's disappointing financial performance and a recent stock slide. Co-founder Jack Dorsey, who served as CEO during Twitter's early years, will temporarily take the reins while the San Francisco company looks for a permanent replacement. Looking the height of intensity of this news, we find out Top 10 reactions from twitterati and guess what? we find out some of the best tweets which are mentioned below. Have a look, First announcement from twitter itself - Our CEO, @dickc, will step down as CEO, and we’ll welcome @jack as Interim CEO on July 1 #TWTRannouncement: http://t.co/q8Ygg91jzc — Twitter (@twitter) June 11, 2015 ...

6Jun By NitishNo Comments

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List of TOP 5 Accelerators in India!!!!

What is an Accelerator? Seed accelerators also known as startup accelerators are fixed-term, cohort-based programs, that include mentorship and educational components and culminate in a public pitch event or demo day - wikipedia Business Accelerator exploration is the engine that drives innovation, innovation drives economic growth, and to be on this right track to explore things and have sustainable economic growth, a business needs excellent mentoring. This is where ‘Accelerators’ come to play a crucial role. So here is a list of top 5 accelerators from India, who not only help startups to enlarge their vision but also guide in market expansion and other focus areas. Below we have mentioned about them and their funding & equity data. Have a look, List o...

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Twitter in talks to acquire flipboard

Twitter has been talking with article sharing platform Flipboard over a possible acquisition, valuing the company at more than $1bn. Tech blog Re/Code, citing sources with the knowledge of the situation, reported Twitter has been engaged in an ongoing series of talks since the beginning of 2015 to acquire Flipboard in an all-stock deal. The talks have been spearheaded by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, according to the report. Nevertheless, the talks between the parties, who already have a number of tie-ups between them, seem to be currently stalled, despite a flurry of activity in recent times, the sources said. Both Twitter and Flipboard declined to comment on the report. The attempt comes as the social network looks to grow its audience and improve on its products. ...

6Jan By AmanNo Comments

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Young tech startups relocating overseas??

A recent observed change in the Indian Startup ecosystem is raising eyebrows over the projected growth in a recently started new year. As per a leading think tank in the country iSPIRT(Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable), approximately 75% of the young tech startups eyeing the global market may shift overseas to make a new base, reason being better investment opportunities, better regulatory environment and facilities. Indian eCommerce giant Flipkart and leading mobile advertisement firm InMobi have already their bases in Singapore and many more startups are thinking of catching the same train unless government takes some steps to provide some better opportunities. On the other side, hungry for intellectual growth, the government and investors in other countries a...

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Dark Social – The traffic you get, but doesn’t count.

If you’re a person who works on the web, which is probably why you are reading this, then you might have often wondered where most of your traffic comes from. Of course web analytic systems clearly show some social network or a user forum but truth be told, all those forces might not even make up half your traffic. That’s right, over half the web traffic comes from unknown sources and to top it off, even the web analytic systems cannot track this. So what is this called? ‘DARK SOCIAL’ says Alexis C. Madrigal, a senior writer at theatlantic. The origins of dark social could be many, but to effectively identify and classify, it is simply the traffic that arrives from a source without a referral link. For example, if you've just sent an e-mail to your friend with a link to an article, it h...