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GoDaddy Launches WordPress Powered Websites to Help Small Businesses

GoDaddy, the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures, today announces the launch of WordPress Websites for the India market. The new offering from GoDaddy is the easiest way to build a professional online presence easily and affordably using WordPress. Though it wouldn’t hurt to also check out web hosting deals at ProductExpert, […]

China’s Ctrip.com Acquires Online Travel Company Skyscanner in $1.74 billion Deal

Ctrip.com International Ltd , China’s biggest online travel company, said on Wednesday it agreed to buy travel search website Skyscanner Holdings Ltd in a deal valuing the Scotland-based company at about 1.4 billion pounds (USD 1.74 billion). Ctrip’s shares were up 9.2 percent at USD 44.75 in extended trading. Skyscanner, a result of CEO and […]

Facebook Sets $6 Billion Buyback; Accounting Chief to Leave

Social media giant Facebook on Friday set a $6 billion buyback programme for its Class A shares, beginning in the first quarter of 2017. Facebook’s shares were up 1.1% at $118.24 in after-hours trading. The company had a market value of about $337 billion at close. The company also said Chief Accounting Officer Jas Athwal […]

Secretive Silicon Valley Firm Palantir Accused of Bias Against Asians

The U.S. Department of Labor filed an administrative lawsuit against Palantir Technologies on Monday, alleging that the data analytics and security company systematically discriminated against Asian job applicants. The Privately held firm helps government agencies track down terrorists and uncover financial fraud. It raised $880 million in funding late last year, for a $20 billion […]

Anand Chandrasekaran Will Join Facebook Messenger App Team

As per the sources Facebook hired Snapdeal former executive and a high-profile investor Anand Chandrasekaran to help develop strategies for its Messenger app. The announcement could be made tomorrow. Both Anand and facebook didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Anand Chandrasekaran resume includes company like Yahoo & Snapdeal as a former senior executive. He also served at India’s […]

KartRocket Appoints Gaurav Gupta as Their Chief Technical Officer

KartRocket, which offers an end to end eCommerce solution to help SME’s setup their online presence, has announced the appointment of its Chief Technical Officer, Gaurav Gupta. Prior to this, he was with the Free Culture Apparels Pvt. Ltd, an online fashion platform with a unique idea which enables users to monetize their digital designs. […]

Now, Get Your Email Address in Hindi

Start-up Data Xgen Technologies has started a paid email address service in Hindi or Devanagari, and plans to roll out free registration of such IDs on the lines of Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo soon. “A few hundred IDs have been created till now on .bharat domain, which is available in Devanagari script. Anyone interested in […]

Apple Started Bounty Bug Program For Developers

Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that already offer payments for help uncovering flaws in their products. Such rewards are already offered by dozens of firms, including Facebook Inc, Google, Microsoft Corp, Tesla Motors […]

Whatsapp Co-founder Invested In Delhi-based Startup

Delhi-based Trak N Tell, a car tracking telematics solution startup has recently raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a group of investors, led by Whatsapp co-founder Brian Acton. This is one of the major investment in any Indian startup involving a high profile Silicon Valley’s entrepreneur. While the terms of the Series-A round were […]

Twitter Invests $70 million in SoundCloud

Reuters- Twitter Inc has invested about $70 million in Berlin-based music service SoundCloud, technology website Re/code reported citing people familiar with the deal. Twitter confirmed the investment, but did not provide any financial details. “Earlier this year we made an investment in SoundCloud through Twitter Ventures to help support some of our efforts with creators,” […]

Snapdeal Opens Data Sciences Centre in California

Online marketplace Snapdeal today said it has established a data sciences centre in San Carlos, California to get top global talent and build high-value solutions. The centre will focus on big-data and advanced analytics to add clarity to Snapdeals consumer-centric initiatives, help shape business strategy and optimise the operational efficiencies using data. “We have set […]

80 Percent of India Preferring to Shop Online Instead of Visiting Stores – Report

Online shopping is more popular among consumers with 80 per cent of buyers preferring to shop over the Internet instead of visiting different stores to purchase their favourite products, according to a new survey. The study undertaken jointly by Yahoo and Mindshare analyses the shopping behaviour of customers to reveal that 31 per cent shoppers […]