Facebook introduces new feature to facilitate blood donations in India

Facebook is planning to launch a new feature to facilitate blood donations from October 1 in India which is it's second largest user base. This new feature will make it easier and faster for people, hospitals and blood banks to connect to blood donors in that particular location. While many people are willing to donate…

ByAnkit KumarSeptember 28, 20170Comments

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Google Bars Youtube Access to Amazon Echo Show

No Youtube access for Amazon echo show. In surprising turn of events, Amazon said on Tuesday that its smart speaker device Echo Show is no longer able to stream Youtube videos. The company said that the device lost access to Youtube since afternoon. The matter appears to be a completely technical issue, but is not. The issue…

ByGirish ShettiSeptember 27, 20170Comments

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HomeShop18 acquires Shop CJ Network in a deal worth $27.45 million

Popular Noida based online marketplace and television based home shopping network, HomeShop18 has acquired 74% stake in Shop CJ Network in a deal worth $27.45 million. HomeShop18 is one of the many ventures of Network 18 Media and Investments. Private equity investor Providence Equity Partners and Korean firm CJ O Shopping have an equal joint…

ByPrashant SharmaSeptember 27, 20170Comments

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Tesla Wants to Enter India, Hold Talks with Government: Report

Tesla Wants to Enter Indian car market. American electric car maker Tesla, founded by talismanic entrepreneur Elon Musk, has started discussions with government to get entry into the Indian car market. A report in Times of India claims that Tesla wants to enter Indian market through single-brand retail route, which would mandate the company to fulfill…

ByGirish ShettiSeptember 27, 20170Comments

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Google Cloud acquires Bitium to elevate its cloud identity and access management potentiality

Google Cloud has acquired Bitium, a company that provides identity and access management (IAM) services which allows users to give their employees a single login to access multiple cloud services. Bitium offers Single sign-on (SSO) service which ensures that employees only need to remember a single password to accessing a number of services. Also, it gives administrators…

ByPrashant SharmaSeptember 27, 20170Comments

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Flipkart acquires hardware repair services chain F1 Info Solutions

Indian e-commerce giant, Flipkart has acquired mobile and IT hardware repair company F1 Info Solutions for an undisclosed amount. F1 Info Solutions was founded in the year 2012. It has 158 owned and franchised centres all over India. Its employee base of 10,000 people handles over 50,000 calls every month. It is a service partner of…

ByPrashant SharmaSeptember 27, 20170Comments

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Lenskart invests $1 million in US-based startup Ditto

Delhi based online eyewear retail firm Lenskart has invested $1 million in US-based startup Ditto to acquire a minority stake. Ditto offers 3D graphical face modelling feature fir virtual trial service to Lenskart. Lenskart is already using its 3D try-on feature on its website and app. However, to increase user engagement on its platform, it wants…

ByPrashant SharmaSeptember 26, 20170Comments

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Alibaba invests $807 million in Chinese logistics firm Cainiao

Alibaba has agreed to invest $807 million to take a major ownership in the Chinese logistics firm, Cainiao. Cainiao was founded in 2013 to bring regularity in logistics, especially in e-commerce deliveries. In 2016, Cainiao raised its first outside funding of $1.54 billion from Temasek Holdings and GIC in Singapore, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional and China-based Primavera Capital.…

ByPrashant SharmaSeptember 26, 20170Comments

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Flipkart to rely on Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence Solution for Future Sales

Flipkart to deploy Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence Solutions. Bengaluru based e-commerce major Flipkart has said that it will be collaborating with Microsoft to install artificial intelligence and machine learning-based solutions for all the future sales. The collaboration with technical giant will expectedly help Flipkart in overcoming technical glitches that usually occurs during heavy traffic on its website. Flipkart,…

ByGirish ShettiSeptember 26, 20170Comments

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Apple Ditches Bing, Settles for Google on Siri and macOS Searches

Apple drops Bing, opts for Google. Next time you search something on internet with Siri on IOS or Spotlight on macOS, your search results won’t be dashed out by Bing but Google. This is the result of Apple’s decision to part ways with Bing and switch over to Google as a new default user on both…

ByGirish ShettiSeptember 26, 20170Comments

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