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Amazon Launches Hindi Version of its App and Website
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Amazon Launches Hindi Version of its App and Website

The leading e-commerce platform Amazon has announced the launch of its first Hindi version of the Android app and website. This move has been primarily taken to make deeper footprints into India’s fast-growing e-commerce market, boosting up its battle with Walmart’s Flipkart. This move clearly signifies the importance of the Indian market in the e-commerce sector. With the addition of Hindi language support, Amazon looks to capture a wider audience in the country. Also, a notable thing is that the app does not need to be updated to make use of this new feature. “What we believe is, Amazon.in in Hindi is a critical step to actually address the next 100 million customers,” Manish Tiwary, vice president (category management) at Amazon India stated. The language button now has the option ...
Hindi Social Networking Portal ShabdaNagari Raised Funding From ah! ventures
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Hindi Social Networking Portal ShabdaNagari Raised Funding From ah! ventures

Hindi social networking portal ShabdaNagari has raised undisclosed amount of bridge funding from ah! ventures.  The company had said that it plans to use the funds raised to expand its genres and improve its user interface, marketing and promotional activities. Artha Energy Project's Anirudh Damani & others also participated in this round. "ShabdaNagari team's thorough understanding of the Hindi speaking market and their innovative solutions to the various requirements make them stand apart. The positive results we have witnessed in the last one year makes us confident that ShabdaNagari is soon to be the biggest player in this niche category." said Harshad Lahoti, founder and CEO of ah! Ventures. ShabdaNagari had earlier raised Rs 1.2 crore from Kanpur Angels and a clutch of other...
Khan Academy Launched in Hindi Version
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Khan Academy Launched in Hindi Version

Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organization and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre. They also published a small press release on it's Khan Academy Blog - Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in Hindi! If you speak Hindi, you can learn math through our video lessons and practice problems mapped to India’s NCERT curriculum. Wherever you are Mumbai, Jaipur, a village in Haryana, or anywhere else around the globe, we believe you deserve the opportunity to learn at your own pace and in your own language. Khan Academy in Hindi brings us one step closer to our mission of a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and we thank our friends at Central Square Foundation for ...