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The best of your favourite apps, such as BookMyShow, PVR, PayTM, TicketNew, etc. are your go-to buddies when it comes to booking tickets online. But they often charge what is known as ‘internet handling fees.’Most of us are ready to pay this extra amount of money, that varies in accordance with the amount of transaction we make. This is...

The number of digital ad frauds in India is rising at an alarming pace.With time the amount of money being spent on advertising is growing, as so are the attempts to misrepresent advertisers through ad fraud. Reports have shown that as much as $6 billion is stolen from advertisers every year through ad frauds, and India is no exception...

People who are actively using the internet and participating in online forums, discussions and downloading resources from various baiting websites have got the inner phobia of their personal info either getting hacked or stored. It is reported that 60% of internet users in India have a fear of unauthorized stockpile of their personal data. And only 11% of internet users...

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) owned video sharing platform YouTube has recently introduced a new feature that gives additional information about the authenticity of users' sensitive search query. This additional information comes as a popup at the top of the search result page on YouTube. The search recommendation algorithm of YouTube is rewired to fact check the search query of sensitive information that...

For the last couple of weeks, the internet is abuzz with the rumours about the specification of OnePlus 7, the price of Oneplus 7 in India and the launch date of OnePlus 7. Yes, you read it correctly; we are talking about the upcoming success of OnePlus 6T which was tagged as futuristic flagship killer by a number of reviewers....

The number of Internet users in India has exceeded half a billion people in 2018! Fixed at a whopping 566 million, this success has been urged on by rural internet growth and usage.In consonance with a report on digital adoption and usage trends in India, compiled by Kantar IMRB's Icube 2018, the number of Internet users in India grew 18% annually....

India is the second largest country by population, and this has a significant impact on the employment opportunities in the country. The unemployment rate in India is rising every year depicts the data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). Unemployment has become one of the revolving issues the nation is ardently trying to combat. This is...

In today's digital world, developers have awesome opportunities like hackathons and coding contests to bag hefty cash rewards. One such shining opportunity is Alexa Developer Rewards Program introduced by the e-commerce major Amazon.com, Inc.(NASDAQ: AMNZ).Amazon has expanded its Alexa Developer Rewards program to India. It is an open call to all developers who would produce competent interactive skills for Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant in...

Just a week ago when Spotify made its much-awaited India debut, little did anyone knew how exactly the market is going to react to the world's largest online music streaming platform. In less than a week, the eye-popping response to Spotify is a testimony to the fact that the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Spotify is here to give...

The much-awaited Paytm subscription program is here. By launching first of its kind premium subscription-based rewards and loyalty programme, the digital payments major in India, Paytm, is hoping to catch up with its formidable rivals like Amazon and Flipkart. Nominally priced at Rs 750 per year, Paytm First brings to its subscribers an eclectic mix of offers from some...

One must be living under the rocks if they don't know about the most popular social video app as of now, TikTok! This Chinese app which has long disrupted the social video sharing category, closing in on Western firms like Facebook and Snapchat has now hit yet another benchmark. Amidst metaphorical drum-rolls, TikTok has enlisted itself into the big-billion group;...

The global smartphone industry showed trends of improvement in 2018. According to a report from GFK, global smartphone sales increased 5% amounting to $522 billion in 2018. However, it's the contribution of the APAC region which is no less than a surprise. A whopping $254 billion worth of the smartphones sold in the Asia Pacific region alone!The report also...

India has outlined a new draft policy to govern its rapidly increasing ecommerce market. And, no one more than Amazon India and Flipkart would be disappointed with it.The new policy outlined Saturday aims at providing greater protection and support to homegrown etailing firms, perhaps taking a cue from China where Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent have gone on to become global...

The India ecommerce market growth is estimated to miss the market expectations as e-commerce juggernauts which was earlier going full throttle seems to have slowed down ever since the new FDI rules kicked in on Feb1, 2019.Morgan Stanley, the US-based banking and financial services expert, has revised its estimates for the Indian e-commerce sector, citing a number of reasons for doing...

Salary hike in IT sector of India looks quite satisfactory. Indian professionals working in the IT sector who have expressed their anguish at getting less than 5% pay hike and in many cases, even no hikes at all in the recent past, finally have some reason to cheer about.After a dismal 2018 which saw only a 6-8% salary hike...

The India launch of Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 is set for 28 February 2018. Manu Kumar Jain, Global Vice President, Xiaomi and Managing Director, Xiaomi India, has just announced it on Twitter. He also hinted out 7 uber cool features of Redmi Note 7 through an image added in his tweet.The meteoric rise of Xiaomi in India is no more a surprise....