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13Jul By AdityaNo Comments

INDIA

Google to Invest $10 billion in India: Sundar Pichai

New Delhi, Jul 13, 2020: Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that they plan to invest $10 billion (Rs 75,000 crore) in India over the next five to seven years to help accelerate the adoption of digital technologies in the country. Pichai, who held a virtual meeting with Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi on Monday morning, made the announcement at the annual ''Google for India'' event via video conference. Announcing the $10 billion investment in India over the next 5-7 years through ''Google for India Digitization Fund'', Pichai asserted that the move is a reflection of the company's confidence in the future of the country and its digital economy. Pichai said a whole new generation of technologies are happening in India first, and that people in the country no longer have to wa...

GrabShack.com- A Search Engine To Find Best Prices Across Hundreds Of E-Commerce Sites

29Jul By AdityaNo Comments

Story

GrabShack.com- A Search Engine To Find Best Prices Across Hundreds Of E-Commerce Sites

GrabShack proudly launches its search engine for finding and comparing the best prices on deals. It has been created to solve the problem every consumer faces when ordering online. The problem of “How do I find the best price on a product or a deal? I surely can’t go through every e-commerce website out When two childhood friends and serial entrepreneurs came across this problem, they figured out that the Indian market can hugely benefit from a search engine focusing on finding products prices from every e-commerce website. And thus the idea of GrabShack was born. It took Harsh Rajat and Robin Srivastava almost a year to develop GrabShack in a way which made finding the offers on products across Flipkart, Amazon, SnapDeal, PayTM and hundreds other websites. Harsh and Robin aren'...

Marisaa Mayer Letter To Yahoo Employees After Verizon Deal

25Jul By NitishNo Comments

Story

Marisaa Mayer Letter To Yahoo Employees After Verizon Deal

As 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 employees. She mentioned in the blog - Today is a big day for Yahoo! This is the email that I sent to Yahoos around the world today. Given the interest around our journey to this point, I wanted to share more about today’s announcement. –Marissa. Dear Yahoos, Moments ago, we announced an agreement with Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s operating business. This culminates a rigorous, thorough process over many months, and yields a great outcome for the c...

Local Business Dicovery Platform Nowfloats Acquired Lookup

19Jul By NitishNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Local Business Dicovery Platform Nowfloats Acquired Lookup

It's wedding between search and chat. NowFloats a business discovery services platform has acquired Lookup a chat service that connects consumers to local business. The amount of the deal is undisclosed. The marriage is analogous to, perhaps, a Facebook and WhatsApp coming together to create a compelling platform for consumers and businesses said Jasminder Singh Gulati, Co-Founder/CEO of NowFloats. The another significant reason for NowFloats to acquire Lookup was based on the findings of the NowFloats Digital Desh Drive which attempts to uncover ‘Inside the Internet of India” and thus the evolving consumer and business behaviors, he added. Over the past year, NowFloats has conducted three research sprints across India (that includes driving across the country & meeting people), a...

15Oct By NitishNo Comments

Entrepreneurs Talk

Amit Singhal: The master of Google’s “ranking algorithm”

Amit Singhal is the current Senior Vice President and head of head of Google's core ranking team. His main area of interests are Information Retrieval (IR), its application to web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Born and brought up In Jhansi this brilliant entrepreneur graduated from IIT Roorkee and the gained his M.S. degree from University of Minnesota Duluth and later in 1996 he entered the prestigious league of Doctorate in the field of Computer Science at Cornell University. According to him, "UMD was the turning point in my life. Studying Information Retrieval with Don Crouch and then Don recommending that I move to Cornell to study with Gerard Salton, is the main reason behind my success today. Don gave me the love for search, I have...