Google takes the crown of most influential brand in India

Google has taken the crown of the most influential brand in India. Moreover, Patanjali Ayurveda and Reliance Jio have also made it up to top ten on the list. The research by global firm Ipsos has revealed. Microsoft comes at a distant second and Facebook at third position respectively. Surprisingly Patanjali has secured the fourth position in the list. Moreover, the…

ByTechPluto StaffJuly 18, 20170Comments

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MobiKwik and Samsung Pay form alliance for single payment gateway

The digital payments company MobiKwik has formed an alliance with Samsung Pay. It would enable consumers to make payments with a single push of a button through their Samsung handsets. Mobikwik wallet is now available with Samsung Pay Mini, as a part of the tie-up. Moreover, it will enable 1.4 million Mobikwik merchants to use…

ByTechPluto StaffJuly 17, 20170Comments

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Paytm Mall goes quality conscious; makes it tough for sellers to register on their platform

Hence forth it won’t be easy for sellers to register on Paytm mall – an e-commerce division of Paytm. This is because it has imposed several new mandatory rules on existing sellers as well prospective sellers wanting to register on their e commerce platform. These new rules that will help to keep a check against…

ByGirish ShettiJuly 17, 20170Comments

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Google wins fight against Labour Department over pay gap data

Google has been able to win the fight against the department of labour over the issue of supplying pay gap data. The administrative law judge has ruled in the favour of Google. Therefore the federal contract compliance program is, in fact, have been overstepping its boundaries. Google had argued that the Labour Department was asking…

ByTechPluto StaffJuly 17, 20170Comments

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Google plans to expand its Cloud business in India by doubling its employee headcount

The search engine giant Google is all set to expand its Cloud Business Unit in India. Google’s top executive in India said that it’s planning to double the employee headcount at their Hyderabad office this year. Google is concerned about the increasing dominance of other tech-giants like Microsoft and Amazon in India and has made…

ByAnkit KumarJuly 17, 20170Comments

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Uber merges with Yandex in Russia

Uber has merged its functions with Yandex.Taxi after it launched itself three years ago in Russia. Moreover, the ride hailing company will merge all of its functions with its counterpart. Uber released this news through its blog post. Yandex operates from Moscow as one of its tech giants. It operates in countries like Ukraine, Turkey, Belarus, Kazakhstan including the…

ByTechPluto StaffJuly 14, 20170Comments

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ESPN takes flight of VR for X-Games

The sports network ESPN will shoot the X-Games for the skateboarding and BMX tournaments for the first time in VR. It will stream the sports event using 360-degree cameras. Now the audience will be able to see a lot of action through the technology of VR. It not just ranges within Google or Facebook headsets. But rather they…

ByTechPluto StaffJuly 14, 20170Comments

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Paytm Consolidates Presence in Ticketing Space, Acquires Insider.in

One 97 Communications, which owns digital payment statrtup Paytm, has acquired majority stake in insider.in - an online ticketing platform that gives people access to curated lifestyle events. This is according to the statement released by the company. As per the media reports, the entire deal is valued a little over 35 crore. Insider.in was founded…

ByGirish ShettiJuly 13, 20170Comments

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Flipkart-Snapdeal saga flares up again – Snapdeal seeking $900M

Snapdeal is reportedly asking for $900 million as the acquisition cost if Flipkart wants to take it over. Earlier Flipkart had disrupted the unicorn status of Snapdeal by making an offer of $400 million. Snapdeal rejected the offer and told Flipkart that its money making firms in logistics are not up for sale either. It is reported…

ByTechPluto StaffJuly 13, 20170Comments

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Google gets hold of Bengaluru AI startup Halli Labs

Google with its dream to become an 'AI-First' company has acquired yet another AI startup called Halli Labs. The startup operates from Bengaluru. Halli, which means 'the village' in the local language, stated the news of Google buy-up on its blog post. Later Google also confirmed the news of the acquisition. The blog post says that the Halli…

ByTechPluto StaffJuly 13, 20170Comments

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