- Google Secretly Launches Domain Registrar Service, Google Domains, In India In a bid to bolster its presence in India, search engine giant Google has stealthily launched its web domain registrar service in the country. Dubbed as Google Domains, the service, which will compete with the likes of GoDaddy, Hostgator, Bluehost, Namecheap and BigRock, has not been announced publicly yet. Currently available in beta phase, Google […]
- Movers And Shakers Of The Week [July 10-July 15] Paytm has moved over 800 personnel actively involved in the growth of Paytm Mall have been moved from One97 Communications. Paytm had the mall entity commissioned seperately in May 2017. The company is also planning to hire 2,000 new personnel across various business and tech roles to effectively scale its operations. The firm has put […]
- Movers And Shakers Of The Week [28 November – 3 December] Flipkart’s former chief technology officer Peeyush Ranjan and private label head Mausam Bhatt have resigned from the company. Ranjan held the position of SVP of engineering and will now move to homestay network AirBnB in the US. He was formerly with Alphabet Inc’s Google for close to nine years in US. Ravi Garikipati, Flipkart’s head of engineering, is […]
- 15 Of The Most Unusual Office Gimmicks Time was, you had to walk into a bank to find bank vaults to deposit your valuables and keep them safe. But online lending platform Quicker Loans took the quickest way to solving this pain point and …yeah, you guessed it, used an actual bank vault and repurposed it into a meeting room! How’s that […]
- News Roundup: 8 Startup Stories That You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [3 October – 8 October] The festive season saw an upswing in traction for all the ecommerce players this week. Flipkart claimed to sell 15.5 Mn units during its five Big Billion days, with sales on October 3 crossing $210 Mn (INR 1,400 Cr). Amazon India, on the other hand, boasted of clocking an average of 38 orders per second […]
- GoDaddy Launches Social Networking App Flare: A Tinder For Business Ideas Cloud-based internet domain name enterprise GoDaddy has launched a community-based app called Flare that aims to materialise business ideas into reality. Flare offers a platform for its users to share ideas with entrepreneurs with an immediate feedback. Users can also become advisors for the entrepreneurial community via the app. They can share their insights and […]
- News Roundup: 11 Startup Stories That You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [26 September – 1 October] Google has been busy turning 18 this week. At the second edition of its signature Google for India event, it announced five new products that are tailored for expanding access to the Internet for Indian users. This includes YouTube Go, faster browsing, Google Station WiFi platform and new data-saving features in Google Chrome for mobile. Google has […]
- News Roundup: 8 Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [26 October – 31 October] This week, MakeMyTrip, GoIbibo and Yatra have delisted Oyo Rooms and Zo Rooms from listing and marketing hotel properties stating the reason that OTA sector is a highest margin category, and they don’t want to help their rival companies while taking a hit on their own business. Let’s have a look at the important developments […]
- GoDaddy upgrades security settings as developer loses @N Twitter Account Naoki Hiroshima, a Californian Web developer lost access to his rare “@N” twitter username in a recent hacking activity. Hackers reportedly extorted four digits of a credit card provided by a PayPal customer service representative and handed it over to another representative at GoDaddy as identification proof, has resulted in GoDaddy modifying its account policies. […]
- How My $50,000 Twitter Username was Extorted from Me I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up. While eating lunch […]