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Matrix Cellular Launches App, Enters Into E-commerce Space

20Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Matrix Cellular Launches App, Enters Into E-commerce Space

International mobile sim seller Matrix Cellular today launched an app for international travellers to help them book movie tickets, restaurants and taxi, among other things. Matrix Travel Companion App is now available for free on Android and Apple iOS platform, Bollywood actress and Matrix Cellular Independent Director Gul Panag said. She said the app has been incubated by Matrix Cellular but its business will operate independently from sim service business of Matrix. "Though we will like existing Matrix users to use this app but it is not mandatory for them to download it. It is free for everyone across the globe," Panag said. She said the company has partnered with Zomato, Uber to provide services in which they specialise while Matrix on its own has worked on tie-up with ven...

OLA Reach Out to Over 1,00,000 Driver Entrepreneurs Across 10 Cities

18Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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OLA Reach Out to Over 1,00,000 Driver Entrepreneurs Across 10 Cities

Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for transportation, today announced plans to reach out to over 1,00,000 driver entrepreneurs through ‘Auto Driver Partner Melas’ across all major cities and towns in India. This follows the success of the first-ever Auto Driver Partner Mela – ‘Ola Baasha Mela’- that was held in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The three-day Chennai Mela held between 8th April to 10th April witnessed hundreds and thousands of auto rickshaw driver partners availing the opportunity of becoming micro-entrepreneurs by owning auto rickshaws for the first time. They also benefitted from other value additions such as free vehicle insurance, and garage services, etc., including the unique opportunity to join Ola as a driver partner on the platform. Ola plans to replicate the grand suc...

Snapchat App is For Everyone and We are “Grateful” To Have Indian users: Official

17Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Snapchat App is For Everyone and We are “Grateful” To Have Indian users: Official

Snapchat today refuted the reported claims of a former employee who alleged that its CEO Evan Spiegel made negative comments about the Indian market, saying the multimedia mobile app is for everyone and the company is "grateful" to its Indian users. "Obviously Snapchat is for everyone! It's available worldwide to download for free," a spokesperson for Snapchat said in a statement to CNN. Snapchat is strongly denying allegations by a former employee Anthony Pompliano, who alleged in a lawsuit that Spiegel had once shot down his suggestion to pursue growth in certain international markets. Pompliano alleges that Spiegel said Snapchat is "only for rich people" and that he didn't want to "expand into poor countries like India and Spain. "Those words were written by a disgruntled fo...

India is Poor Country To Exapnd Snapchat: Evan Spiegel

15Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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India is Poor Country To Exapnd Snapchat: Evan Spiegel

Evan Spiegel, Snapchat founder & CEO making controversy saying India is 'too poor' to consider expansion of its user base. According to one of their ex-employee, the founder of US fastest growing social media app Snapchat said that, "This app is only for rich people. I don't want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain,". The ex-employee said that during a user growth meeting in 2015, Evan Spiegel put emphasis on acquiring only premium users. The ex-employee is currently engaged in a lawsuit against Snapchat after he accused the company of presenting misleading inflated statistics of user data to its investors. According to the lawsuit, Pompliano worked at the firm for three weeks before he was fired for uncovering ‘massive internal systematic failure’ and reporting...

Facebook Messenger Crosses 1.2 Billion Monthly Active Users

13Apr By PriyankaNo Comments

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Facebook Messenger Crosses 1.2 Billion Monthly Active Users

Facebook's Messenger today said it has crossed 1.2 billion monthly active users milestone with the addition of about 200 million new users in last eight months. "We now have over 1.2 billion people actively using Messenger every month," Facebook Head of Messenger David Marcus said in a post on the social networking platform. In July last year, Facebook had said it had 1 billion users of Messenger, its messaging service on the social networking platform. Facebook has seen similar traction for its other products as well with India being a key consumer. WhatsApp, its mobile messaging app, has over one billion users of which about 200 million are from India. Its photo-sharing app Instagram has about 600 million users globally. Reports suggest Facebook's flagship app has 1.74 billion m...

8Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

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Uber Android App Banned in Italy

An Italian court has banned the use of smartphone apps for the ride-hailing group Uber, saying they contribute to traditional taxis facing unfair competition, local media reported. In a ruling that is subject to appeal, a court in Rome yesterday upheld a complaint filed by taxi unions and gave Uber ten days to end the use of various phone applications on Italian territory, along with the promotion and advertising of them. If Uber does not comply it could face a fine of 10,000 euros for each day it remains in defiance of the court. Uber said it was shocked by the ruling and that it would appeal immediately, seeking suspension of the ruling. The court's ruling follows a decision by a court in Milan two years ago to ban the company's UberPop application, which was deemed under Ita...

It’s War Against Uber, Company Will Be Profitable in 2 Years: Ola CEO

7Apr By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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It’s War Against Uber, Company Will Be Profitable in 2 Years: Ola CEO

Indian cab aggregator Ola today said the firm is focussing on building a sustainable business and will turn profitable in two years even as it used the analogy of "Vietnam War" to describe competition with its US-based rival Uber. "...this is corporate war and the competition between us and Uber is very intense... the analogy that I gave about India is that this is like Vietnam War. "We are the local guerillas...We have the Americans carpet bombing us but we will go into the nooks and corners of the country and we will find those opportunities in niche areas and in large areas," Ola co-founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal said at a TiE event here. He added that the Bengaluru-based company is focussing on building "more sustainable" and profitable solutions to grow its market share in ...

Sachin Starts Digital Innings; Launched His App

31Mar By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Sachin Starts Digital Innings; Launched His App

Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar today started his digital innings as a mobile phone app dedicated to him, "100 MB" was launched here. The app is conceptualised and developed by JetSynthesys and has been envisioned by Sachin himself. A song sung by Sachin with the ace singer Sonu Nigam will feature on the app on Sunday at 10 PM. Speaking on the occasion, Sachin said, "Many of you and my friends have asked me what are you going to do in your second innings of life. The first innings went on for 24 years. There are number of things which I am involved in, but something which I am looking forward to starting soon, in fact now, is the digital innings." It will allow me to get closer to my fans. My journey started as a 10-year-old who saw India win the World Cup in 1983, so in my so...

SHAREit’s Global Users Surpass One Billion

30Mar By AnkitaNo Comments

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SHAREit’s Global Users Surpass One Billion

On March 16, 2017, SHAREit announced that its global user number surpassed one billion, including over 300 million internet users contributed by India, and more than 60% were Indian netizens. Up to now, SHAREit has already covered over 200 nations with monthly active users of nearly 400 million. Consistently ranking No.1 in the GooglePlay Popular Tool List among 33 nations and No.1 in the AppStore Productivity Rating among 62 nations. More than 700 million documents are distributed through SHAREit every day. It has a huge potential of crunching big data. Along with the technological development from Internet to mobile Internet, the world is even more interconnected. But in the current stage, India is facing a lot of obstacles. Among them, the comprehensive construction of internet in...

Uber Stalls India Leasing Scheme as Driver Incomes Drop – Sources

25Mar By reutersNo Comments

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Uber Stalls India Leasing Scheme as Driver Incomes Drop – Sources

Global ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies is rethinking its car leasing strategy in India, its second-biggest market, as drivers have returned dozens of leased cars early after the company cut incentives, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Uber had planned to buy 15,000 new cars last year and lease them out in a bid to attract more drivers - a strategy it has used in other markets - but it suspended the scheme for a while in December after leasing just a third of that total. After burning through millions of dollars over three years in a battle for market share with local rival Ola, backed by Japan's Softbank , Uber has cut the incentives it gives to drivers and raised the fares it charges passengers. The incentives - from free smartphones to cash bonuses worth as much...

App Usage Grows 43℅ in India And Few Categories Lead in It

24Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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App Usage Grows 43℅ in India And Few Categories Lead in It

43 per cent in 2016, with entertainment and finance categories witnessing highest traction, as per a study by Yahoos Flurry Analytics. "Indias app usage grew 43 per cent year on year. The India app usage grew at 92 per cent during the same period last year (2015)," the State of the App Nation in India study said. Messaging and social apps remain one of the most engaged categories in Asia and India. Time spent on messaging and social apps grew by an impressive 52 per cent in India compared to 44 per cent globally. Globally, app usage grew by only 11 per cent, it said. "The decelerating rate of global growth could signal market maturity, saturation or simply the end of the app gold rush. "Going back to Indias six-month mobile trend delay, theres no better time for local develo...

Interior Design Startup Furdo Races to Profitability in Under 14 Months

22Mar By PriyankaNo Comments

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Interior Design Startup Furdo Races to Profitability in Under 14 Months

Bangalore-based online interior design platform, Furdo, has achieved what most well-funded startups have struggled to achieve since inception - 'Become Profitable'. Started with an angel investment of $400K, Furdo has been growing at an average of 30% month-on-month since April 2016, that lead to them achieving operational breakeven in September 2016. The key driver to this breakeven story lies in a single word, that everybody at Furdo across verticals and hierarchies, is asked to internalise - 'IMPACT'. "We are an impact focused organisation. Maximum impact from minimum effort/spend has always been the primary goal across verticals," says Ishwar Sundararaman, Co-founder & CEO, on the single-most important thing that has been responsible for Furdo's race to profitability. Foun...