The BBC Worldwide Service today said its plan to launch services in 11 new languages, four of them Indian - Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati and Punjabi - was progressing well and they would be operational...
November 3rd, 2016Leading global professional network LinkedIn today said it has signed an agreement with the human resource development ministry to create more job opportunities for Indian students.
As part of the MoU, LinkedIn's 'Placements' product will be adopted by all Indian colleges affiliated with All India Council for Technical Education...
September 20th, 2016Microblogging site Twitter has decided to discontinue engineering tasks in India, a move that will lead to lay offs at its development centre in Bengaluru.
The company, however, did not disclose the number of people being handed pink slips.
When contacted, Twitter in an emailed statement said: "As part of our normal business review,...
July 25th, 2016As Verizon Communications Inc announced that it would buy Yahoo Inc's core internet properties for $4.83 billion in cash to expand its digital advertising and media business, in a deal that ends a lengthy sale process for the fading Web pioneer.
CEO and Head of Yahoo, Marisaa Mayer wrote an emotional letter to all search based...
July 18th, 2016Dailyhunt, an app for news and e-book invested Rs 15 crore in the local news language portal OneIndia also known as Greynium Information Technologies, owned by Rajesh Jain and BG Mahesh. The funding from DailyHunt seen as a revenues sources for advertisement spend on digital with increasing smartphone users.
Dailyhunt and Oneindia...
June 4th, 2016Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL) also known as Times Group would like to invest in Flipkart Ltd, India’s largest e-commerce firm. The amount is about Rs.500 crore for small equity. The deal is partly by cash and ads, as per mint report said.
As per the report, Flipkart will issue shares to BCCL in return for cash and ads of its...
May 31st, 2016Started by IIT, IIM and Ivy League alumni; Gurgaon-based news technology start-up NewsBytes launched its automated bot on Facebook Messenger. The beta version of their cross-platform bot is a part of Facebook's Messenger program revealed at F8 conference. It is known to be India's first news bot.
In its one year of existence,...
May 17th, 2016Public Broadcaster Prasar Bharati has decided to auction prime time slots, between 7-11 pm, on its national channel as per a new policy under which the producers will provide content in return for a share in the advertising revenue.
The modalities of the new 'slot sale' policy were discussed in a meeting of Prasar Bharati Board, which...
May 14th, 2016What's behind the accusations that Facebook is manipulating its "trending topics" feature to promote or suppress certain political perspectives?
According to the technology blog Gizmodo, a former Facebook contractor with self-described conservative leanings said Facebook downplayed news that conservatives are interested in and...
May 8th, 2016According to the report, LinkedIn is in the process of discussing a similar product with publishers that will enable the latter to publish their stories on LinkedIn. Facebook's Instant Articles, where publishers post content directly on to Facebook instead of putting links that direct users to their websites, has been a success with both...
May 1st, 2016IANS- The excessive delay in Reliance Jio's commercial launch is frustrating investors, a Citi Group report said.
"The ensuing delay could be testing investors' patience. It raises concerns of Jio further eroding its first mover advantage. The capital expenditure targets also continue to go up," the report said.
The delay is...
April 13th, 2016I suffer from all sorts of mania — often conflicting, always annoying for others:
Chai-o-mania: drinking chai to the point that my stomach cries of acidity.
Fitbit-o-mania: completing my daily 8k steps even if that means that I have to run clumsily at 11:45 pm on my arguably fragile terrace.
Passion-o-mania: keep...
