November 14th, 2018The popular dating app Tinder has launched 23 new gender options for users in India. This will enable the users to add gender information which they believe represents them most authentically.
So far, Tinder users in India were offered only two options when selecting their gender: man or woman. For users who are identified as...
November 13th, 2018International payment companies like Visa, Mastercard and American Express now may have to pay around 15% tax on their India income. This may happen as they set up servers locally to comply with a central bank directive on data storage.
The Reserve Bank of India had ordered payments companies to locally store data on all...
November 10th, 2018Amazon has struck a deal with Apple to directly start selling more Apple products in India and other markets like United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan among others.
In the coming weeks, Amazon will start offering the latest editions of Apple's iPhone, iPad and other devices like Beats headphones in these...
November 10th, 2018The online sales of smartphone in India got a hype during the festive season sale on various e-commerce platforms and thus, it is all set to cross the 50 million mark in a year for the first time ever in 2018.
The year was driven by discounts, buy-back offers and easy financing options offered by retailers such as Flipkart and...
November 5th, 2018Tesla Motors' Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Elon Musk, has revealed the company's plans of expanding its overall market beyond North America, Europe, and China.
The owner of the largest EV company stated that he recently asked his service team to expand to all population regions (not just major metros) in North America, Eastern...
November 3rd, 2018India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a number of measures and services for the people of our country including the most interesting and valuable one under which, the small and medium enterprises will be able to sanction loans of up to Rs 1 crore in just 59 minutes through a special portal.
This has basically been done...
November 2nd, 2018Quick service restaurants startup Charcoal Eats which currently operates only in India is foraying into international markets starting with the Middle East and Europe. The company at present offers its services in about 30 locations across 11 cities in India.
The company is expecting to enter the Middle East through Bahrain with about...
October 31st, 2018Chinese technology giant OnePlus is set to enter the market, intensifying competition in a space which has already been disrupted by the entry of Xiaomi, another Chinese player. Chinese players have been dominating the Indian market for a long time and now, OnePlus is expecting to capture the smart TV segment as well.
Consumers of...
October 30th, 2018For a long time now, Facebook has been making efforts to cope up for the mistakes that the company made in the recent past and as part of its efforts to train 3,00,000 people in India on digital literacy, it has launched Digital Literacy Library.
This is a collection of lessons in six local languages - Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu,...
October 26th, 2018Online food delivery player Foodpanda has reportedly expanded its delivery network to 30 more cities in India which has further increased its existence to 50 cities across the country.
With this expansion, the company mentioned that its delivery network is now live in cities like Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar,...
October 24th, 2018With the growing number of Android users in India, the country saw 36.9 billion app downloads from Google Play Store between January 2012 and August 2018 which marks as the highest among all countries, according to mobile app analytics firm App Annie.
This study was done on the 10th anniversary of the Google Play Store. India...
October 24th, 2018The e-commerce player Amazon has set up captive call centres in India to handle some of its international and domestic customer and seller services. The company has taken a departure from its previous strategy of working purely with business process outsourcing companies.
The e-commerce giant is expecting to expand more and more in...
