September 5th, 2017Using mobile phones during pregnancy is unlikely to adversely affect the child's brain development linked to language or movement abilities, a study claims.
Researchers from Norwegian Institute of Public Health found that children born to mobile phone users had a 27 per cent less risk of having lower sentence complexity, 14 per cent...
August 28th, 2017Taking photos may actually help you remember the visual details of your encounters, whether it is lying on the beach, touring a museum, or just waiting in line at the grocery store, a study suggests.
"Our research is novel because it shows that photo-taking itself improves memory for visual aspects of an experience but can hurt memory...
August 14th, 2017Using a smiley face emoji or similar emoticons in work-related e-mails may not create a positive impression and could actually portray low competence, a study suggests.
"Our findings provide first-time evidence that, contrary to actual smiles, smileys do not increase perceptions of warmth and actually decrease perceptions of competence....
March 29th, 2017Despite rise in e-commerce business, brick and mortar stores still generate 91 per cent sales globally, a study has claimed.
"Despite the rise of e-commerce, the physical stores still draw a significant shopping crowd. In fact, 91 per cent of all retail sales are still being generated in brick-and-mortar stores," the study released by...
September 20th, 2016A study by leading Job Portal reveals that 55% Gen Y and 53% Gen Z employees were disappointed with their first-drawn salaries. Dissatisfaction with salary is not new, however the reasons may have changed with changing aspirations of different generations.
"This disappointment with salaries is due to many factors - the lack of a...
June 27th, 2016The under Rs 10,000-smartphone segment is expected to grow 44 per cent this year, constituting 70 per cent of the market, a CMR report said.
According to the research firm, smartphone shipment in the country is expected to grow to about 130 million handsets this year from 97 million last year by 163 brands.
"The entry-level or sub-Rs...
June 13th, 2016Filpkart, Amazon and Snapdeal were the most preferred e-commerce websites among sellers, with the highest top of the mind recall, a recent study of Nielsen has revealed.
The findings came as a result of a study by Nielsen for the January-March quarter, which surveyed 1,184 online sellers.
It revealed that 39 percent of online...
May 30th, 2016The reach of the digital payments platform Freecharge has grown from 17% to 30% in the period from October 2015 to April 2016 in India -- the highest growth in app usage for any payments app in the country, a Nielsen study revealed on Monday.
Freecharge also emerged as the most engaging app in the category with the...
February 7th, 2016NEW YORK: You must have heard about the famous "six degrees of separation" theory that everyone on the planet is connected to everyone else by six other people. Facebook has just upended this theory, saying that world is more closely connected than you might think.
After studying 1.59 billion people active on the social networking...
