ANI- Counting and handling cash may soon become a thing of the past for offline retailers. FreeCharge, the digital payments platform, has inked a partnership with Ezetap, the Bangalore-based pioneer in mobile payments, allowing the entire base of FreeCharge users to immediately start using their wallets to make payments at thousands of Ezetap service points […]
BARCELONA– Pranav Mistry, VP, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd today Launched the Samsung Gear 360, a 360-degree camera that lets consumers easily create, view and share their favorite experiences through video and still image content. Gear 360 is designed for travel, festive gatherings and every activity in between to provide an all-encompassing visual experience. The new camera […]
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016, Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg said digital disruption will come to every industry in 2016 and made major announcements in 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud. With these announcements, Ericsson solidifies its positions as a leading ICT transformation partner for customers across industries. As Ericsson’s vision […]
Magicpin, a hyperlocal discovery app, founded by Investor-turned-entrepreneurs Brij Bhushan and Anshoo Sharma have raised $3 million in Series A round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners. The app offers Instagram-like features where users can take pictures and selfies to avail of offers and discounts at neighbourhood stores. “While looking at the market from an […]
New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest person, has said Reliance Jio will be ready to commercially launch its much talked about 4G telecom services in second half of 2016, offering 80% of Indians high-speed mobile Internet as well as voice services. Reliance Jio had, in late December, unveiled fourth generation (4G) service for its employees, marking […]
NEW DELHI: Indian railway future looks bright because of the activity Railway ministry has shown to improve railway service quality has clearly seen. Whether it’s about cleanness drive on stations, technology use (wifi & tie-up with startups) and better communication approach using twitter and caller service. As we reported last to last week that Indian Railway has […]
AFP, SAN FRANCISCO: Google chief executive Sundar Pichai will meet next week in Brussels with the European Union’s competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, a source familiar with the matter said Saturday. European competition officials have been investigating the US tech giant for years over alleged monopolistic practices involving its search engines, but any resolution has been […]
Yahoo Inc officially launched the sale of its core business on Friday, a move seen as a positive step for frustrated investors but not enough to keep an activist hedge fund from pursuing a proxy fight against the struggling Internet company. Yahoo shares jumped after the company announced its board has formed a committee of […]
New Delhi- Advocating the need for more content in Indian languages to propel internet penetration, a report titled ‘Proliferation of Indian Languages on Internet’ finds that enabling local language content on the Internet will lead to a growth of 39% in the current Internet user base. 75% growth will be from the rural users while only […]
AFP, COLOMBO: A Google balloon, part of the company’s high-speed Internet service known as “Project Loon“, crashed in a Sri Lankan tea plantation during its maiden test flight, local police said today. Villagers found the deflated balloon with its electronic equipment in the island’s central tea-growing region of Gampola on Wednesday night, an officer told […]
BENGALURU: Founded in 2013 by Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia Capital) and Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners), Tracxn a startup research platform has raised a new round of angel funding from Nandan Nilekani, Mohandas Pai, Neeraj Arora and Junglee Cofounder Anand Rajaraman. Tracxn had earlier raised funding from Ratan Tata, Flipkart’s Sachin and Binny Bansal and Delhivery cofounder […]
Paytm, India’s leading Mobile wallet and e-commerce firm scrapped ‘per transaction fee’ for consumer-to-merchant offline wallet transactions, a move to boost digital money transfer on the platform. The fee ranged from 0.5% to 1.75%, depending on the merchant service provider. “Often these charges discourage a merchant to accept a digital transaction and they end up […]