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Google India Inks MoU with Telangana Government

6Mar By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Google India Inks MoU with Telangana Government

Google India and Telangana government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at supporting the digitisation efforts of the state. Google India will provide Google Cloud credits and access to all cloud platform products to eligible startups engaged with Telangana government's T-Hub initiative and through its Developer Relations team provide technical mentorship and advisory support to various startups, a release issued by the government said here today. The MoU was signed yesterday in the presence of Telangana Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao and Google India representatives, it said. Other initiatives as a part of the agreement include, making all government websites mobile friendly and introduce programmes to help local small and medium businesses go online a...

25Feb By NitishNo Comments

CHINA

China Third Party Mobile Payments Alipay Climbs to USD 5.5 Trillion

Driven by the explosive growth of Internet finance, China is now witnessing a boom on mobile payment market which touched a whopping USD 5.5 trillion last year. Data showed that value of Chinese third-party mobile payments has tripled to 38 trillion yuan (USD 5.5 trillion) in 2016, state-run People's Daily reported on Saturday. With the popularity of mobile payment, Chinese people can enjoy life without cash or cards as what they need is a mobile device, it said. Even the farmers and herdsmen living in the remotest villages in Tibet can now use their cell phones to purchase daily necessities online since local administrative villages have been completely covered by communication signal. A survey by Nieslen, a US-headquartered global information data and measurement company, showed ...

Spice Digital Ties up With MoMagic For Mobile Ad Analytics

19Feb By AdityaNo Comments

BUSINESS

Spice Digital Ties up With MoMagic For Mobile Ad Analytics

Telecom solutions firm Spice Digital today said it has partnered with mobile application marketing firm MoMagic Technologies to launch mobile advertisement analytics platform AdGyde. "The potency of the app market is enormous. Undoubtedly, for higher growth rates it is necessary to address the challenges app marketers and developers face..AdGyde Solutions will monitor analytical data of the App users and provide insights to optimize growth hacking," Spice Mobility Chairman Dilip Modi said in a statement. AdGyde will help mobile app companies to understand user experience and identify quality users, the statement said. "App marketers and developers have been struggling to discern meaningful patterns from user engagement for their apps and introduce new opportunities for workflows a...

No Decision Yet on Apple’s Demand For Concessions: DIPP

6Feb By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

No Decision Yet on Apple’s Demand For Concessions: DIPP

The government has not taken a final decision yet on the concessions being sought by US iPhone maker Apple for setting up a manufacturing unit in India, a top official said today. Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Ramesh Abhishek said that Apple has submitted certain demands for the government's consideration. "We had a meeting of all the concerned ministries and departments (on those demands) and we have asked them to look at those issues and take a view. No ministry has yet taken a final decision on any of those. But we are in touch with them," Abhishek told reporters here. He said the government supports all manufacturing, including value manufacturing, in the country by companies. "So we would definitely like to promote this. So we are coord...

Samsung to Launch Mobile Payments Service For Its Android Users

2Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

News

Samsung to Launch Mobile Payments Service For Its Android Users

Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it will launch a mobile web payments service for all smartphones powered by Google Inc's Android mobile operating system in South Korea in the first quarter. The service, called Samsung Pay Mini, will allow Android smartphones to make online transactions in Samsung's home country after downloading a dedicated app. The company did not comment on whether the service will be offered in other markets. The announcement comes as Samsung seeks to boost its services offerings in a search for new growth. In October-December, the South Korean firm fell behind archrival Apple Inc in the global smartphone market for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2015, hurt by the demise of the fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones. The new ...

31Dec By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA, News

Apple to Make iPhones in Bengaluru

Apple is all set to start manufacturing its iconic iPhones in India at Bengaluru, as part of efforts to cash in on the world's second largest smartphone market in a big way. Local manufacturing is expected to help Apple price its phones more competitively in India as it currently attracts 12.5 percent additional duty on imports. The phones would be manufactured by Wistron, a Taiwanese OEM maker for Apple, according to top government sources. "Wistron has plans for setting up iPhone manufacturing plant for domestic market in Peenya," top government sources familiar with the developments told Pixr8. Another senior government official said Bengaluru has the talent required for quality high technology products and that was the reason for selecting the city. The official added that Foxcon...

mCanvas Launches High Impact Scroller For Mobile Websites

15Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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mCanvas Launches High Impact Scroller For Mobile Websites

mCanvas today launched Scroller, a high impact mobile ad unit that enables brands to deliver storytelling ads to millennials in a polite, non-intrusive manner. The Scroller has been in the beta for three months and is now available on the mCanvas marketplace, which consists of premium content websites in India. When a user scrolls while reading an article, the ad unit interestingly reveals the brand's message within a horizontal window. The brand's message is placed in the background and stays pinned in a fixed position while the website content moves over it. . Tapping on the unit will redirect the user to a brand's URL or can expand to deliver a brand's story via rich media and/or video innovations. The unit is designed to be 100% viewable. "Countless research studies indicate that...

Whatsapp Starts Monetising From Next Year, Launched Video Calling Services

15Nov By AnkitaNo Comments

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Whatsapp Starts Monetising From Next Year, Launched Video Calling Services

Popular messaging app WhatsApp will focus on rolling out commercial messaging next year for businesses as it looks to tap enterprises for monetising its platform. Earlier this year, WhatsApp had said it will stop charging USD 1 per year subscription fee to go completely free for its users across the world. While WhatsApp maintained that it will not introduce any third-party ads for monetisation, it said it will test tools that allows users to communicate with businesses and organisations like banks and airlines through its platform. "We decided to make WhatsApp free but we also talked about how we will make money. We have been working on ways for businesses to connect with users on WhatsApp... Commercial messaging will be big for us in 2017," WhatsApp Head of Business, Neeraj Arora t...

Foxconn $5 Billion Investment is Not Going Anywhere, Says Devendra Fadnavis

30Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

INDIA

Foxconn $5 Billion Investment is Not Going Anywhere, Says Devendra Fadnavis

As per the news that Taiwan-based tech giant Foxconn may shy away from its proposed USD 5 billion investment in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the company is "not going anywhere" and hoped issues raised by it will be resolved soon. "Foxconn had issues pertaining to the Central government. The company wants its manufacturing costs here to match those in China," he said while speaking to reporters at his residence 'Varsha' here. The world's largest electronics contract manufacturer plans to set up manufacturing units in India, which boasts of the world's second-largest base of mobile phone users, to mitigate rising labour costs in China and also lower manufacturing cost of iPhones. Fadnavis said the company, which counts Apple, Xiaomi, Blackberry and Amazon...

Best Time to Send Push Notifications and Increase Mobile Engagement

12Oct By No Comments

BLOGS

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...

How Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Fooled us in the Name of Cheaper Data

17Sep By VishwadeepakNo Comments

Story

How Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Fooled us in the Name of Cheaper Data

Disclaimer: We got this brilliant analytical piece about newly launched Reliance Jio scheme (of almost free data) from WhatsApp. We are publishing it because it shows the other side – which is obviously not so good - of the so called revolutionary idea, to promote awareness. In the name of fulfilling PM Modi’s dream for Digital India, Reliance used his image in its full page advertisement but the question remains unanswered. How will it help India to be more Digital ? Did Reliance Jio make false promises to make profit? Is Reliance Making the hay while sun is shining? We would like to know the name of the author. If any one can send us, that will be a great help. I must admit that I was euphoric over the Reliance Jio launch. Also, thanks to the media hype, I initial...

Apple Says Initial Quantities of iPhone 7 Plus Sold Out

15Sep By reutersNo Comments

News

Apple Says Initial Quantities of iPhone 7 Plus Sold Out

Initial quantities of the iPhone 7 Plus have sold out globally as Apple Inc prepares to roll out its new gadget in stores, the company said Wednesday. Supplies of the larger size of Apple's new phone have been exhausted in all shades, and the smaller iPhone 7 has also sold out in the new jet black color, the company said. Customers who enter Apple Stores Friday, when the gadgets hit shelves, will not be able to purchase the sold-out phones on site, but they can continue to place orders for their desired models online, Apple said. "We sincerely appreciate our customers' patience as we work hard to get the new iPhone into the hands of everyone who wants one as quickly as possible," Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said in a statement. Apple launched the new phones at a San Francisc...