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Shoppers Stop Eyes 2 Million Online Users, 15% Online Sales By 2020

10Nov By AdityaNo Comments

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Shoppers Stop Eyes 2 Million Online Users, 15% Online Sales By 2020

Fashion retailer Shoppers Stop is looking at doubling its mobile application downloads to 2 million and 15 per cent sales through its digital touch points by 2020, a senior executive said. "We are following a four-pronged strategy to grow our business by enhancing the customer experience, offering a wider assortment, leveraging technology and focusing on innovation to meet our 2020 target of 15 per cent sales through digital touch points," Shoppers Stop Customer Care Associate and MD Govind Shrikhande told reporters here. "Our mobile application, launched six months back, presently has over 9 lakh downloads and we are looking to double that by 2020," he added. The retail company, which is celebrating its 25th year, presently offers 60 per cent of its products online and plans t...

6Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

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Gurgaon based On Demand Laundry Startup Pickmylaundry Raises Funding

Pickmylaundry, a Gurgaon-based on demand laundry startup has raised $200k in a new funding round from Kedar Lele (a top level executive of a leading FMCG major) and existing investor GHV Accelerator. The startup has raised about $200K and had commitment of another $300K from a couple of angels. The new round of funding will use the newly raised funding in expanding its operations to entire NCR and explore opportunities in other cities. Pickmylaundry will also set up offline stores to reduce the last mile logistics cost, which is at currently around Rs 100 per order. “We will also roll out 24 hours delivery service and overnight service,” said Gaurav Agarwal, Founder, Pickmylaundry. Founded by Gaurav Agarwal, along with Ankur Jain and Samar Sisodia in May 2015, Pickmylaundry had previ...

Microsoft Launches Messaging System “Microsoft Teams” For Businesses

4Nov By reutersNo Comments

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Microsoft Launches Messaging System “Microsoft Teams” For Businesses

Microsoft has launched a messaging system for businesses, Microsoft Teams, on Wednesday, putting it in direct competition with fast-growing startup Slack and Facebook's Workplace product. The new software will be part of Microsoft's Office 365 services, a cloud-based software suite that has more than 85 million monthly active commercial users. Slack, whose customers include CBS Corp, BuzzFeed, universities and the U.S. government, had over 4 million daily active users in October. San Francisco-based Slack took out a full page ad in the New York Times on Wednesday, addressing the entry of Microsoft Teams. "We're genuinely excited to have some competition," Slack said in the ad. Microsoft said a preview of Teams will be available to Office 365 commercial customers with enterpris...

3Nov By NitishNo Comments

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Instagram to Test New Shopping Feature To Buy Products From Retailers

Facebook Inc's Instagram said that it will start tests next week on a new shopping feature through which users can buy products from US-based retailers via the photo-sharing app. Retailers will be able to showcase up to five products in a Instagram post, and clicking on the various tags will give users a lot more detail about the product than was previously available, Instagram said in a blog post on Tuesday. Instagram has also added a "shop now" link on each product, which, when clicked, will redirect users to the retailer's website where they can buy the product. The new features are aimed at keeping Instagram users, who now number more than 500 million, on the app for longer during their shopping experience than before, when they would have to exit the app to research and bu...

IRCTC Launched New App “IRCTC Connect” For Hassle Free Journey

30Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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IRCTC Launched New App “IRCTC Connect” For Hassle Free Journey

To make train journeys pleasant and hassle-free, railways will launch an integrated mobile app for availing all travel-related services such as hiring taxis, porters and booking retiring rooms and lounges at stations among others. The app "IRCTC Connect" which aims to provide a one stop solution for various services can be used for booking tickets, ordering food from a favourite restaurant or finding hotel rooms of passengers' choice outside the stations. The application is likely to be launched early next year as the required ground work for it is underway, a senior Railway Ministry official said. Currently, a few apps are operational for booking tickets and food but there is no such app for availing multiple services. As per plan, the app will offer 17 services like porter, whee...

Vine a Mobile App For Video Sharing Will Be Discontinue

28Oct By reutersNo Comments

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Vine a Mobile App For Video Sharing Will Be Discontinue

Twitter Inc announced Thursday that it would discontinue the video-sharing mobile app Vine, as it moves to cut 9 percent of its workforce worldwide to keep costs down after beating Wall Street quarterly earnings expectations. In the post twitter said, "Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at loops and see creativity unfold. Today, we are sharing the news that in the coming months we’ll be discontinuing the mobile app." The decision comes on the heels of a failed attempt to sell Twitter as it fights against stagnant user growth and mounting competition from other social media platforms. In a post published jointly by Twitter and Vine to the blog platform Medium, the social media services said that the Vine website would stay live even after the mobile app is...

Hike Messenger Launched Video Calling Feature

26Oct By AnkitaNo Comments

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Hike Messenger Launched Video Calling Feature

India’s home grown messaging platform, Hike Messenger, has launched video calling feature on its app. Video calling, the beta of which was rolled out in September this year to a select set of less than a hundred thousand, will now begin to roll out to the entire userbase starting with Android users this week. Live Caller Preview is another interesting aspect of video calling on Hike. This allows the user to see a live video preview of the caller before answering the call. Hike video calling is available immediately on Android. If users updated their Hike Messenger in September this year, video calling would have automatically been enabled for them and will now be accessible. The iOS version will be launch soon. On this occasion, Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder and CEO, Hike Messenger...

Property Consultant JLL Invests in Tech Startup Foyr.com

24Oct By NitishNo Comments

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Property Consultant JLL Invests in Tech Startup Foyr.com

Property consultant JLL India today launched a new vertical to invest in technology start-ups in the real estate sector, making first such investment in Foyr.com. JLL did not disclose the amount invested in Foyr.com -- a technology platform for visualising real estate space. But it expects three more investments this year and 10-15 in the next 12-18 months. Foyr's technology allows developers to market their developments and also customisation of interiors on the fly. The new independent real estate technology investment vertical will see infusion in start-ups or growth-stage companies developing innovative and disruptive technology solutions specific to the real estate sector, JLL said in a statement. "The purpose of this vertical is to invest into early-stage companies - or s...

Wipro Secretly Acquired a US Based Cloud Service Company Appirio

21Oct By PriyankaNo Comments

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Wipro Secretly Acquired a US Based Cloud Service Company Appirio

Wipro Limited, India's leading information technology, consulting and business process services company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquired Appirio, for USD 500 Million. Established in 2006, Appirio, a global cloud services company that creates next generation worker and customer experiences. Appirio is headquartered in Indianapolis with offices in San Francisco, Dublin, London, Jaipur, and Tokyo and has 1250 employees worldwide. The US based company is a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading brands, including Stryker, Robert Half, Johnson Controls, Cardinal Health, Coca-Cola, eBay, Facebook, Home Depot, and Sony PlayStation. Once completed, Wipro’s acquisition of Appirio will create one of the world’s largest cloud transformation practices, a game...

Amazon challenges Apple and Spotify with New Music Streaming Service

12Oct By reutersNo Comments

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Amazon challenges Apple and Spotify with New Music Streaming Service

Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday launched a full-fledged music streaming service with subscriptions as low as $3.99 per month for owners of its Amazon Echo speaker, accelerating the industry trend toward more flexible pricing after years of sticking to $9.99 subscriptions. The new streaming service, called "Amazon Music Unlimited," lets users access a vast catalog of songs on demand, similar to Spotify and Apple Music. Subscriptions to play music on the Echo cost $3.99 per month; for access beyond that device, subscriptions cost $7.99 a month for members of Amazon's Prime shipping and video service and $9.99 for non-members. Amazon will continue to offer Prime members a limited streaming service for free. As it plunges deeper into the crowded streaming field, Amazon is counting on the Ech...

Best Time to Send Push Notifications and Increase Mobile Engagement

12Oct By No Comments

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Best Time to Send Push Notifications and Increase Mobile Engagement

What are the best practices for sending IOS & Android push notifications? We recently analyzed the mobile user behavior on our platform of over 100 million app launches and a few million uninstalls. What did the results reveal? The research below yielded some compelling information, the informative data includes the most common time of day a user launches an app to when they make a purchase. Sign up for a free CleverTap demo account and discover new ways to drive mobile engagement and personalization for your app. The article was first published here - https://blog.clevertap.com/best-practices-to-send-push-notifications-and-increase-mobile-engagement-2/ About Author: Shawnee Swarengin Shawnee Swarengin is the Vice President of Content Marketing for...

A Manipuri Youth Received $40,000 Facebook Grant

10Oct By NitishNo Comments

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A Manipuri Youth Received $40,000 Facebook Grant

Monish Karam, a manipuri youth and founder of Jobsenz has received a $40,000 grant from Facebook to develop a mobile application which he founded in 2015. Monish Karam based out of Singapore received the grant under the FbStart initiative, which helps startups. FbStart initiative, Facebook’s worldwide program which helps mobile startups, selected Jobsenz for its impressive development. “We applied for it and the minimum criteria is to have an app which has gained some traction. According to Facebook, the app was chosen because of its impressive development so far and its potential for continued growth. We have already crossed a significant number of downloads in India ,” said Karam, who is from Imphal. From job search, multi-lingual resume builder to preparing for jobs ...