December 15th, 2015In a significant development today, babajob.com, India's largest online job marketplace for the informal sector, was identified as a member of the SME India Council set up by Facebook in Asia-Pacific today. Facebook, which has over two million Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs) on its platform, has set up a SME Council to help...
December 5th, 2015Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organisation and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre.
They also published a small press release on it's Khan Academy Blog -
Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in...
November 28th, 2015US consumers have turned into digital shopping ninjas this holiday season of Black Friday & Thanksgiving. As per the data released by Adobe, Record $4.45 billion are expected to be spent online by the end of the day - $2.72 billion on Black Friday, 14 percent more than in 2014 and $1.73 billion on Thanksgiving Day, a 25 percent...
October 19th, 2015Reuters - Last year, many tech IPOs enjoyed soaring valuations in their Wall Street debut, raining cash on the companies and their investors and boosting concerns about another Silicon Valley bubble.
Now, the party is winding down, according to data analyzed by Reuters: Five of the 12 U.S.-based tech companies that went public this...
October 18th, 2015Reuters - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is lobbying hard to stay off the U.S. Trade Representative's blacklist after coming under renewed pressure this year over suspected counterfeits sold on its shopping platforms.
Re-inclusion on the USTR's annual list of the world's most "notorious markets" for sales of...
January 12th, 2015Zomato, a leading India based online restaurant search service provider has acquired Urbanspoon for an undisclosed amount. Zomato backed by funding from Info Edge and Sequoia Capital (over US$113 million) have raised their game over the last six months by acquiring six such services in six countries.
Zomato made about 5 acquisitions...
