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This One Video Convinced Google to Buy YouTube in $1.65 billion

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This One Video Convinced Google to Buy YouTube in $1.65 billion

What is YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's favorite video? The one that convinced her Google needed to buy YouTube. In 2006, Wojcicki was overseeing Google video and in charge of its acquisitions. The search giant was looking at YouTube, then a tiny unprofitable Silicon Valley startup, when Wojcicki stumbled upon a video of two boys in China lipsynching to the Backstreet Boys "As Long As You Love Me." The video of the two boys outrageously lip-synching while their roommate did homework in the background was hilarious to the Google exec, she said onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit. "That was the video that made me realize that 'Wow, people all over the world can create content, and they don’t need to be in a studio,'" Wojcicki said. A light bulb went off in ...

3Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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Lenskart Office – A Place of Lens

Lenskart is India's fastest growing eyewear company founded by Peyush Bansal in November 2010. With a unique brick and mortar presence, Lenskart today offers over 10,000 different styles and high quality prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses and contact lens to fit all pocket sizes. Lenskart has grown more than 200% year on year in the last 2 years, to be among the top 3 optical businesses in India today. Lenskart currently has over 100 stores across more than 66 cities in the country with delivery in over 100 cities. (more…)

With Yessettle.com, avoid “Tareekh Pe Tareekh” in a Court

1Dec By RishabhNo Comments

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With Yessettle.com, avoid “Tareekh Pe Tareekh” in a Court

In India people often get disappointed by the repetitive story of “tareekh pe tareekh” concept risen in Indian Courts. Whether be it a matrimonial dispute, a minor misunderstanding between two business partners or any other type of litigation, people have always chosen to go to the District Courts or Family Courts. They generally don’t have any other option to escape and solve this litigation. But now, they have a choice! With Yessettle people now don’t need to go after advocates and bear their high profile fee structure, or wait for the scheduled date in the Law Court. They now have a platform which is complete and ready to solve any kind of litigations rose in any part of world. Adding to the convenience factor, this platform is absolute free to join. Yessettle is one in the world’s ...

Steve Jobs Knew How to Run a Meeting: Here’s How He Did it

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Steve Jobs Knew How to Run a Meeting: Here’s How He Did it

Brilliant. Passionate. Overbearing. Impatient. Steve Jobs's management style has been described in many ways, both positive and negative. Love him or hate him, there's no denying what he accomplished: Within a short time, he built the most successful company on the planet. Before that, though, Jobs was actually forced out of Apple (in 1985). A few months later, he founded another company. This startup, appropriately named NeXT, focused on producing high-powered computers for the higher education industry. A talented team left secure positions at Apple and followed Jobs to his new endeavor--evidence of how much people believed in him. The following video shows excerpts of a company retreat that Jobs orchestrated during the first three months of the company. And it's fascinating. (m...

A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate his job, including to automatically email his wife and make himself a coffee

28Nov By NitishNo Comments

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A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate his job, including to automatically email his wife and make himself a coffee

There’s a hilarious project that’s popular on Github, the website that hosts all kinds of software that programmers want to share with each other. The project was shared by a programmer named Nihad Abbasov (known as “Narkoz” on GitHub). It consists of a bunch of software scripts with some funny names. Narkoz says that the scripts came from one of his coworkers who left for another company, the type of guy that, “if something — anything — requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that.” After the guy left for a new job, his former co-workers were looking through his work and discovered that the guy had automated all sorts of crazy things, including parts of his job, his relationships and making coffee. The guy wrote one script that sends a text messa...

MyLeastPrice launches new online price comparison website offering lucrative Cashback on every purchase

25Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

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MyLeastPrice launches new online price comparison website offering lucrative Cashback on every purchase

MyLeastPrice, an online search and price comparison website has launched their operations in India. With over 1.5 Crore products from all the leading online stores, MyLeastPrice is a surprisingly easy to use search engine that helps its user find the best prices and deals on products available online. Moreover, they offering lucrative Cashback on every purchase made through their website. MyLeastPrice is a young company started by a group of Indore based IT enthusiasts. The goal of the company is to provide quick and unbiased information about all the products available on different online stores, and set themselves as the most trusted and efficient destination to help buyers make their purchase decision. Where most of the websites are offering Reward Points, their Cashback feature make...

Meet India’s biggest wedding portal team called Weddingplz, having more than 38000+ wedding vendors

23Nov By NitishNo Comments

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Meet India’s biggest wedding portal team called Weddingplz, having more than 38000+ wedding vendors

There are 100 lakh weddings that happen in India annually and wedding industry stands tall at 38 billion growing @ 25%. It’s a space that’s still unorganized with no one big player having a connect with the millions of young to-be-weds and vendors. There is no “one place” that has it all – the features, the convenience, the ‘everything’ that goes in the making of a big fat Indian wedding, and this is where we aim to position Weddingplz at. A place where you can find everything related to a wedding and by everything, we mean EVERYTHING under one roof. Weddingplz is a wedding vendor discovery platform that houses everything that a to-be-wed couple needs to plan, manage and organize a wedding. Besides providing the maximum and most detailed information about wedding vendor’s products and se...

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Alibaba’s Singles Day Sales in Pictures

The craziest shopping day of the year in China, Singles Day, has come to an end. Total sales for Alibaba this year hit $14.3B compared to last year’s $9.3B. All the media headlines are talking about Alibaba’s Singles Day sales data and how much money Alibaba made. I am going to tell you the story behind Alibaba Singles Day Sales. Ever wonder how Alibaba is able to achieve such huge sales numbers? Find out below: Alibaba’s Singles Day sale started at the strike of midnight, and Alibaba employees were all-hands-on-deck ready for the shopping “war.” Here is the Alipay building all lit up. Alipay is Alibaba Group’s third-party online payment platform with no transaction fees. Check this out! Temporary beds were set up in the board rooms. Everyone was read...

Three numbers that tell you where Asia’s mobile Internet is going

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Three numbers that tell you where Asia’s mobile Internet is going

Is Asia developing towards mobile, or away from it? Three numbers from the Google-TNS Asia Pacific Mobile App Usage Study suggest an answer: as it expands, it will move towards mobile, not away from it. The study asked people from across Asia about how they used their apps, revealing how central mobile has become to Asia’s daily life. And in markets where smartphones are only just becoming mainstream, we can expect that trend to strengthen. We can sum this up in three numbers and two colors in the above chart. As is common in these kinds of surveys, Korea emerges as the smartphone paradise: they have the second highest smartphone penetration in Asia, the third-highest proportion of people who consider the smartphone their main device, and they install the most apps on their phone....

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This Loyalie App Wants To Tap The Loyalty of Kolkata Market

We have always prided ourselves at being a regular at our favourite joints around the city. If we fond of a place, we will go there time and again to a point where we recognised by the members of the staff. However, we noticed that there wasn’t getting any returns for our loyalty towards them. It was then that the idea for an app like Loyalie was conceived. Loyalie is the first of its kind digital loyalty card and rewards portal to tap the Kolkata market. We at Loyalie have identified the need to deviate from the age old concept of physical loyalty cards that clutter the wallet, to a more systematic and digitalised version. We aim at connecting the merchants to their loyal customers by creating unique reward programs and enabling them to interact with each other in various ways. We b...

This Newcastle Based Startup Neatly Changed Data Management process!!!

19Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

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This Newcastle Based Startup Neatly Changed Data Management process!!!

A couple of years ago a lot of our clients made the change and moved all of their systems from the traditional hardware to the cloud. This was great and opened up a new world for them in terms of functionality and cost, however, it also presented its own challenges. One of these was that there was no longer a central location for all of their data, and they were having to search for different metrics and update internal spreadsheets! So, we decided that it would be great if there was a platform which connected them all together, so that a business could get an overview of their metrics at any time and from any device. And so https://neatly.io was born. We decided on the name ‘neatly’ as the key here was to avoid the use of spreadsheets and manage your data easily and neatly! ...

Send Giftwrapped Happiness for Everyone This Diwali With Giftease.com

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Send Giftwrapped Happiness for Everyone This Diwali With Giftease.com

Giftease.com now Helps you Send Diwali Wishes to Your Loved Ones With Their 'Special Combos' Diwali forms one of the most important and most-awaited festivals in India. People celebrate the festival of lights with sweets, dry fruits and gifts. Giftease.com - an online gifting specialist gears up and joins the festivities with its carefully curated assemblage of products. This season, they have come up with a range of special combos with elements that have the festive essence of Diwali and are varied to suit multiple tastes and add to the joy. People believe that the joy and luck Diwali brings multiplies when you share it. In spite of the geographical distance between families, during festivals, people long to connect with their family and celebrate together. While being together in p...