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Online Knowledge Sharing Platform Quora Now Avaliable in Hindi

31May By NitishNo Comments

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Online Knowledge Sharing Platform Quora Now Avaliable in Hindi

Online knowledge sharing firm Quora will now available in Hindi, a move that will allow about 500 million Hindi speakers to engage on the platform in Hindi. Founded in 2009 by Adam D'Angelo, former CTO of social networking giant Facebook. About half of Quora's user base is from outside the US, including from India. The question-and-answer platform already supports languages like Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. The platform gets over 200 million unique monthly visitors. "Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge. The platform has been popular in India for years now and with the addition of Hindi language, we expect the participation from India to grow further," Quora India Country Manager Gautam Shewakramani said to Pixr8 team. Shewakramani said the c...

21Apr By AnkitaNo Comments

FUNDING

Quora Raises $85 Million Funding For Ad Business

Quora has raised a fresh round of $85 million dollars funding. The funding will use to promote more Q&A activities for People and generate ads through it. About a year ago Quora began introducing advertising as a way of making money. The round values the company at roughly $1.8 billion, according to a company spokesperson (who said that the valuation had roughly doubled from its previous valuation of $900 million). Quora launched privately in 2009 but and quickly drew buzz in the tech community in part because it was started by two well-respected early Facebook employees. The website opened to the public in 2010, serving as something of a high-end message board where people can ask questions and get solid answers. The site currently serves 190 million unique visitors a mont...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora Account Hacked

27Jun By AnkitaNo Comments

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora Account Hacked

Google CEO Sundar Pichai's Quora account has been hacked by the same group which previously broke into Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, according to a media report today. The hacker group called OurMine Team has been posting messages on Quora through Pichais account. The breach of his account became apparent when tweets linking to his Quora posts appeared on his official Twitter account yesterday. The Indian-born Google CEOs has 508,000 followers. The hacker group initially wrote, hacked using his account. "Hey its OurMine, we are just testing your security, please visit OurMine to upgrade it," it said in later posts, The Verge reported. Pichai or perhaps his team, however regained control of the Quora account soon, and the tweets were deleted within fe...

Chat Session with Ankur Warikoo, Co-founder & CEO, Nearbuy (formerly Groupon India)

27Jan By NitishNo Comments

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Chat Session with Ankur Warikoo, Co-founder & CEO, Nearbuy (formerly Groupon India)

A Serial Entrepreneur, a Consultant, a Venture Partner and a Teacher – Yes, we are talking about just one person! Ankur Warikoo, CEO and co-founder of Nearbuy. He had a Chat session originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Post his management degree from the IndianSchool of Business, Ankur was a Management Consultant with A.T. Kearney for 3 years. He worked in Delhi, Dubai and New York during this time. He Co-founded Accentium Web in 2007 along with 2 other batch-mates from ISB, while continuing with his role at A.T. Kearney. In 2009, he left Kearney to work on Accentium full-time. Accentium runs websites such asSecondshaadi.com, Gaadi.com, Taaza.com amongst others. After Accentium, Ankur joi...

12Jan By NitishNo Comments

FUNDING

Hike raises undisclosed funding from founders Of Quora, WordPress & other Silicon Valley veterans

NEW DELHI: Indian messenger app, Hike, has raised undisclosed funding from a number of tech veterans, including Quora founder, Dropbox's Vice President Engineering Aditya Agarwal, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Ruchi Sanghvi, VP Dropbox. "It's great to have the world's top brains in tech share Hike's vision; and not just entrust us with their investment, but more importantly, also advise us on our product and strategy. Each of the them brings with him/her a core area of expertise, which we at Hike find immensely useful as we aggressively grow in India," Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder and CEO, Hike Messenger, said in a statement. "India is close to our hearts and we understand the challenges faced by the billion plus people of India. It's quite clear that messaging is playing a key...

How online startups like Quora, reddit and Airbnb acquire their first users

17Apr By NitishNo Comments

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How online startups like Quora, reddit and Airbnb acquire their first users

For online startups to gain user traction in any domain is a bumpy ride? There is no rocket science, but a perfect marketing strategy which sometimes works like Dropbox, which goes from 5000 to 75,000 users in one night using a video. Same like Dropbox today we are going to share insightful stories of online startups like Quora, Airbnb etc on "How they able to get such large numbers of users in such little amounts of time". Two online startups giants Quora and reddit solved the "empty site = no users / no users = empty site" problem in the same ways. The founders of both online startups spent the first months filling them with content themselves. On Quora, the founders simply answered and asked lots of questions under their own profiles. But the reddit approach wa...