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Push Notifications Have Higher Engagement Rates Than SMS or Emails

15Jun By NitishNo Comments

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Push Notifications Have Higher Engagement Rates Than SMS or Emails

E-commerce giants unanimously agree that more than 50% of their transactions happen on mobile devices and the figure is expected to reach more than 70% by 2019. Amid the advent of cheap data plans, increasing broadband connections and plummeting prices of mobile devices, the users' engagement like push notifications on mobile is higher than yesterday. Reflecting on this latest trend and the rapid growth in the mobile sector, WebEngage recently hosted a panel discussion on 'Mobile Growth'. The panelists included Avlesh Singh - CEO of WebEngage, Zishaan Hayath - CEO of Toppr, Nischal Shetty - CEO of Crowdfire and Sidharth Verma - CEO of Beewise among others. They stressed on the need to not stop relying on organic channels who give 100% authentic users rather than pricey channels who may ...

Meet Anvitha Vijay – A 9 Year Old Girl and Youngest Attendee at Apples Developer Conference

14Jun By NitishNo Comments

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Meet Anvitha Vijay – A 9 Year Old Girl and Youngest Attendee at Apples Developer Conference

A nine-year-old Indian-origin girl anvitha vijay has earned the distinction of being the youngest app developer at Apples annual developer conference with her apps for children and she now dreams of meeting the tech giants CEO Tim Cook. Anvitha Vijay from Australia is the youngest attendee at WWDC 2016 in San Francisco and has already built several apps for iPhone and iPad, a report in Fortune said. Anvitha Vijay spent a year watching free coding tutorials on YouTube and the web, and learned how to program. "Coding was so challenging. But Im so glad I stuck with it," she said. Anvitha Vijay, who has been developing apps about empowering children, hopes to meet Cook during the conference. "Its my dream to go to WWDC and meet Tim Cok," she said. Vijay is attending WWDC as p...

Mumbai Based OrderZapp Goes Eco-Friendly; Starts Electric Bikes Delivery

5Jun By PriyankaNo Comments

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Mumbai Based OrderZapp Goes Eco-Friendly; Starts Electric Bikes Delivery

OrderZapp, a recently launched app which offers traditional snacks across Mumbai is taking multiple initiatives to support environmental causes and concerns. The company will initiate its delivering via electric bikes across Mumbai. The idea behind using electric bikes is not limited to support only the environment, but it also helps the start-up manage its operational costs. By taking this step, the company will provide vehicles to the delivery boys, who will now not have to use their own bikes. Along with this, OrderZapp also kick starts tree plantations drive in the drought struck areas of Maharashtra. The drive which begins from Sunday will go on across the months of monsoons. "We are very glad to implement these environment friendly initiatives in our organization. These ...

Jugnoo Launches Auto-Rickshaw Pooling Feature on Its Domain

5Jun By AnkitaNo Comments

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Jugnoo Launches Auto-Rickshaw Pooling Feature on Its Domain

India's leaidng Auto-rickshaw aggregator Jugnoo has announced the launch of its latest auto-rickshaw pooling feature, ' Jugnoo Pool' observing the World Environment Day. The feature gives the customers an option to share their trip with those traveling in the same direction. This is a humble initiative undertaken by the company, in a bid to counter the increasing carbon footprint and traffic situation in various parts of the country. The concept is not only environment friendly, but also comes across as a cost effective solution for customers, making the Jugnoo auto-rickshaw ride a little expensive but much more convenient than a public bus ride. In addition to this, the feature is lucrative for the auto drivers as well. Elaborating on the concept further, Founder and CEO Jugn...

Snapchat Overtake Twitter in Number of Daily Users Mark

3Jun By NitishNo Comments

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Snapchat Overtake Twitter in Number of Daily Users Mark

Snapchat now has more daily users than Twitter, according to a report from Bloomberg.The four year-old messaging app, which is hugely popular with millennials, reportedly has 150 million daily active users compared to less than 140 million users for Twitter. According to Twitter’s most recent figures it has 310 million monthly active users, but it hasn’t made any official statement as to how many of those use the service on a daily basis. Twitter and Snapchat both declined to comment to the publication. Snapchat has made communication more fun with many users sending selfies to each other with added graphics and filters, plus short videos. It’s also responsible for the popular ‘face swap’ meme in which the faces of the two people (or animals) in a photo can be switched. Twitter...

31May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Indian Government New Mobile App Give Access to over 1,000 Government Services

Government is working on a mobile app which will give access to over 1,000 services from Centre and state governments and would be launched by December 2016, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. "We are going to launch a common mobile. In this app we will give services of central government, state government and local bodies. On a click of button people will be able scan 1000 services of government. We will start it in December with National student scholarships, women safety and health care," Prasad said. Umang (Unified Mobile App for New Age Governance) will be available in 12 Indian languages in addition to English. Prasad said that with help of technology the government is improving governance in the country. "A former prime minister of India has said that...

mChamp, Bags Rs 5 Crore Seed Fund From MoMagic Technologies

26May By AdityaNo Comments

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mChamp, Bags Rs 5 Crore Seed Fund From MoMagic Technologies

Delhi-based mChamp Entertainments, a celebrity and entertainment-driven contest app, bags Rs 5 crore seed funding from MoMagic Technologies, a leading mobile Internet market and app ecosystem player. mChamp, a fund-driven contest app, in the past 9 months of its launch has already conducted 50 'Celebrity Meet and Greets' for contest(s) players. And the app is witnessing a 15% growth month-on-month, in terms of tie-ups and partnerships with leading FMCG brands, celebrity shows (TV/concerts) and productions houses. Founder, Paresh Shah, mChamp Entertainments, said, "We are indeed very honored and happy to bag the very first round of seed funding from MoMagic, a Foxconn and MediaTek invested company. Along with being seed funded, we believe our mission of: mChamp being the No 1 Cele...

Delhi Govt Notifies App-Based Premium Bus Services

24May By NitishNo Comments

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Delhi Govt Notifies App-Based Premium Bus Services

The Delhi government has notified the app-based Premium Bus services starting from June 1 which will enable people to book their seats in buses through their smartphone on the lines of app-based taxis services in the national capital. Only air-conditioned buses will ply under the scheme according to which one bus aggregator will have to run at lease 50 vehicles to get a licence from Delhi governments Transport department. A senior government official said, "Government has notified the app-based bus scheme to be rolled out from from June 1." While announcing the scheme last month, Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai had said that bus aggregators will have an individual app like Ola, Uber and they will be allowed to decide their fares, but if need arises government will prescribe upp...

Myshake – A New Smartphone App That Can Detect Earthquakes

22May By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Myshake – A New Smartphone App That Can Detect Earthquakes

Scientists have developed an app that crowdsources ground-shaking information from smartphones to detect earthquakes and eventually warns users of impending jolts from nearby quakes. The app called MyShake, developed by researchers at University of California, Berkeley, runs in the background and draws little power, so that a phones onboard accelerometers can record local shaking any time of the day or night. For now, the app only collects information from the accelerometers, analyses it and, if it fits the vibrational profile of a quake, relays it and the phones Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates to the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory in California for analysis. Since it was first released in English in February this year, more than 170,000 people have downloaded the app f...

Apples Cook Meets PM Modi, Concluded a Four Day Trip to India

21May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Apples Cook Meets PM Modi, Concluded a Four Day Trip to India

On last day of his maiden trip to India, Apple CEO met PM Modi on Saturday. Showing interest in making Apple products in India, the global technology giants chief Tim Cook discussed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "possibilities of manufacturing" and tapping the young talent pool in the country. On his maiden visit to India, the Apple CEO also discussed with Modi issues regarding cyber-security and data encryption. "Cook shared Apple Incs future plans for India. He spoke of the possibilities of manufacturing and retailing in India. He appreciated the breadth of young talent in India and said the youth have significant skills which Apple would like to tap," an official statement said. The head of the US-based Apple, which makes iconic iPhones and Mac computers, has al...

20May By AnkitaNo Comments

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O2O Retail Discovery Platform Appie Raises $1million Funding

Appie Mobiquity Pvt. Ltd, a Mumbai-based offline retail discovery platform raised $1 million funding (around Rs 6.7 crore) from a Mumbai-based angel investor and two European investors. “We plan to add 10,000 retailers across three cities and expand user base to half a million in the first year,” Kartik Sanghavi, founder of Appie said. As an O2O platform, we tied up with 1,200 retailers in Mumbai. The app is currently in beta mode and a formal launch is scheduled in June. The firm charges a commission of 0.2-0.9% per transaction from the retailers. In the online-to-offline (O2O) market, Appie’s competitors include Fashalot (raises fund fom yournest), Zakoopi and Ratale, Paytm (acquire Near.in). The O2O theory works on when users express an intent for buying a product, the retaile...

Yatra Partners Taxi Aggregators to Offer Cab Service

19May By AnkitaNo Comments

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Yatra Partners Taxi Aggregators to Offer Cab Service

Online travel solutions provider Yatra.com has joined hands with various taxi aggregators to offer cab services in 450 cities across the country, through its mob app. Under the collaboration, the customers can choose from a large range of cars including hatchbacks, sedans, SUV/MUVs and vans. They can take a cab for one-way, round-trip and multi-city trips, Yatra.com said in a release. "The company has built technology to simultaneously showcase the offerings of multiple cab aggregators, allowing the traveller the freedom to choose from a variety of service and price options. "At launch, we have aggregators offering both intra-city hourly cabs and inter-city taxi services," Yatra.com co-founder and Chief Information Officer Manish Amin said. Going forward, Yatra will be also tying u...