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GrabShack.com- A Search Engine To Find Best Prices Across Hundreds Of E-Commerce Sites

29Jul By AdityaNo Comments

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GrabShack.com- A Search Engine To Find Best Prices Across Hundreds Of E-Commerce Sites

GrabShack proudly launches its search engine for finding and comparing the best prices on deals. It has been created to solve the problem every consumer faces when ordering online. The problem of “How do I find the best price on a product or a deal? I surely can’t go through every e-commerce website out When two childhood friends and serial entrepreneurs came across this problem, they figured out that the Indian market can hugely benefit from a search engine focusing on finding products prices from every e-commerce website. And thus the idea of GrabShack was born. It took Harsh Rajat and Robin Srivastava almost a year to develop GrabShack in a way which made finding the offers on products across Flipkart, Amazon, SnapDeal, PayTM and hundreds other websites. Harsh and Robin aren'...

27Jul By reutersNo Comments

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Revenue and Identity Crisis of Yahoo

When senior Yahoo executives gathered at a San Jose hotel for a management retreat in the spring of 2006, there was no outward sign of a company in crisis. The internet pioneer, not yet a teenager, had just finished the prior year with $1.9 billion in profits on $5.3 billion in revenue. The tough days of the dot-com bust were a distant memory, and Yahoo Inc, flush with lucrative advertising deals from the world's biggest brands, was enjoying its run as one of the top dogs in the world's hottest industry. But for one retreat exercise, everyone was asked to say what word came to mind when a company name was mentioned. They went through the list: eBay: auctions. Google: search. Intel: microprocessors. Microsoft: Windows. Then they were asked to write down their answer for Yahoo. "...

Marisaa Mayer Letter To Yahoo Employees After Verizon Deal

25Jul By NitishNo Comments

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Marisaa Mayer Letter To Yahoo Employees After Verizon Deal

As Verizon Communications Inc announced that it would buy Yahoo Inc's core internet properties for $4.83 billion in cash to expand its digital advertising and media business, in a deal that ends a lengthy sale process for the fading Web pioneer. CEO and Head of Yahoo, Marisaa Mayer wrote an emotional letter to all search based employees. She mentioned in the blog - Today is a big day for Yahoo! This is the email that I sent to Yahoos around the world today. Given the interest around our journey to this point, I wanted to share more about today’s announcement. –Marissa. Dear Yahoos, Moments ago, we announced an agreement with Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s operating business. This culminates a rigorous, thorough process over many months, and yields a great outcome for the c...

WeWork Controversy- Startup Thinknum Removed After Negative Blogpost

24Jul By PriyankaNo Comments

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WeWork Controversy- Startup Thinknum Removed After Negative Blogpost

WeWork Cos, the office-space sharing start-up with an estimated $16 billion valuation evicted one of its tenants which wrote and take down a negative blog on medium that suggests members leave has surged in recent months. The posting on Tuesday by Justin Zhen, whose data analytics firm Thinknum operates out of a WeWork site on 42nd Street in Manhattan, also said that member engagement on WeWork's social networking platform is surprisingly low. The platform is seen inside the company as a key tool for creating a sense of community at WeWork locations. The company sees its fortunes tied to the premise that the entrepreneurs and young urban workers populating its workspaces will form lasting communities in part by being active on the network. Zhen's analysis said WeWork's historical churn ...

Dalitfoods.com: A Website For Pure Dalit Foods

18Jul By AdityaNo Comments

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Dalitfoods.com: A Website For Pure Dalit Foods

When was the last time you visited a restaurant with all Dalit chefs? Or picked up a cookery book with authentic recipes of Dalit cuisines? Or even bought a masala unique to Dalit recipes? Possibly never. For that matter, what counts as ‘Dalit food’ to begin with, you may ask. Not very surprisingly, the omniscient Google would be of little help here. Type ‘Brahmin recipes’ on the search bar, and you’ll be deluged with options, each sounding more tempting than the other. But type ‘Dalit recipes’, and suddenly Google Baba is as blank as the rest of the country. It is this invisible character of Dalit food that Dalit entrepreneur and adviser to the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chandrabhan Prasad, is seeking to address through his new e-commerce venture dalitfoods.com whi...

Electronicsewa: A Solution To Complete Mobile Protection

9Jul By RishabhNo Comments

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Electronicsewa: A Solution To Complete Mobile Protection

With the world going digital and everything on our fingertips, our mobile phones have become quite an integral part in our daily lives! Eventually most of our daily domestic as well as office-work are now done via mobile-phones. Hence nowadays the fear of losing our phones is much more than that of our wallets! Our mobile phones now not only have access to our personal lives and data but is a house of all our account details and its access. Mobile phones are now an irreplaceable item that beside its greater support, now needs a better care! “Every day new mobile-phones are launching; the demands are very high but the supply of services is very minimal! There is a hassle of companies in the market providing an abundant supply of handsets, who often fail in providing an equivalent number...

1Jul By NitishNo Comments

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Real Story Behind Tesla Autopilot Crash in Model S From Tesla

We learned yesterday evening that NHTSA is opening a preliminary evaluation into the performance of Autopilot during a recent fatal crash that occurred in a Model S, Tesla wrote on its official blog. Company has also recognized and described how the autopilot mode accident occurs. The company said that this is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles. It is important to emphasize that the NHTSA action is simply a preliminary evaluation to determine whether the system worked according to expectations. Following standard practice, Tesla informed NHTSA about the incident immediately after it occurred. ...

Infographic: How Domino’s is Winning The Pizza War In India

25Jun By NitishNo Comments

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Infographic: How Domino’s is Winning The Pizza War In India

Domino's Pizza in India is dominating the market. With a 70% share of the pizza market and 16% share of the total QSR (Quick Serve Restaurants) market they are clearly in first place. India's QSR market may reach Rs 25k in the next 5 years. Studying how Domino's has internationalized for the India is an MBA case study being written daily. In this article you will see why they are winning: 1. Centralized Management Domino's in India is run by Jubilant food works as a master franchise (source). This single owner concept is a big reason for speed & success. In other countries, Domino's has many different store owners that need communication from corporate. In India, corporate communicates only to Jubilant. They have been able to plan and execute with complete cont...

Uber’s Rival in Pakistan Uses Rickshaws, Low-Tech Phones

20Jun By reutersNo Comments

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Uber’s Rival in Pakistan Uses Rickshaws, Low-Tech Phones

As taxi hailing giant Uber enters Pakistan, a little-known local competitor is counting on a mix of new ideas and old technology to tap what could be a big chunk of the market: low-income residents who travel in rickshaws, not cabs. Known as Rixi, the Lahore-based service hails rickshaws instead of cars. Its platform is not smartphones, but older SMS phone messaging that allows nearby drivers to bid for any user's business. Pakistan has more than 130 million cellphone subscriptions, but only 21 percent subscribe to data packages, and, while the proportion is rising, there are opportunities across emerging economies in Asia to tap a relatively low-tech customer base. In Thailand, Taxi Radio uses calls and text messages to put cabs and people in touch and is popular with those without s...

Meet Anvitha Vijay – A 9 Year Old Girl and Youngest Attendee at Apples Developer Conference

14Jun By NitishNo Comments

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Meet Anvitha Vijay – A 9 Year Old Girl and Youngest Attendee at Apples Developer Conference

A nine-year-old Indian-origin girl anvitha vijay has earned the distinction of being the youngest app developer at Apples annual developer conference with her apps for children and she now dreams of meeting the tech giants CEO Tim Cook. Anvitha Vijay from Australia is the youngest attendee at WWDC 2016 in San Francisco and has already built several apps for iPhone and iPad, a report in Fortune said. Anvitha Vijay spent a year watching free coding tutorials on YouTube and the web, and learned how to program. "Coding was so challenging. But Im so glad I stuck with it," she said. Anvitha Vijay, who has been developing apps about empowering children, hopes to meet Cook during the conference. "Its my dream to go to WWDC and meet Tim Cok," she said. Vijay is attending WWDC as p...

A Social Platform To Find Gentleman’s in Games

12Jun By RishabhNo Comments

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A Social Platform To Find Gentleman’s in Games

How many times it has happened to you that you make a plan of playing some sport, be it cricket or football or planning to go for a bicycle ride with some of your buddies, make a team and just as you all become psyched about it, some of the players back out! It breaks heart! This is a persistent problem that probably every one of us has faced quite a lot. Bringing a solution to such problem, Pixr8 brings you the story of one such startup that goes by the name “JumpSum-The Sports Match Maker”. THE SOLUTION Jumpsum is a social platform dedicated to sports & fitness designed to connect enthusiasts from all across India, giving them a chance to connect with users of common interest. If you are looking for a cycling partner, Jumpsum will help you find one. If you are look...

Indian Chai Stirred Into Silicon Valley Coffee Culture

29May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Indian Chai Stirred Into Silicon Valley Coffee Culture

San Francisco (AFP) - In a Silicon Valley culture known for brilliant ideas boiling up in coffee shops, Gaurav Chawla is pouring his heart into chai. Chawla was on a break from his job as an engineering manager at San Francisco-based cloud-computing star Salesforce when he began lamenting how tough it was to find a cup of chai as good as he makes it at home. That frustration, and echoed complaints by other natives of India, where the blend of spiced tea and simmered milk is woven into daily lifestyles, prompted him to start tinkering. "I took a rice cooker apart and reconfigured it to make chai," Chawla told AFP. "It made good chai, and I realized this process could be automated." While his background is in software engineering, Chawla went to work developing a chai machine as ...