New Delhi : Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia on Wednesday called for a comprehensive national e-commerce policy to tap the huge opportunities in this segment. According to the Minister, the country was not entirely ready to tap the opportunities offered by e-commerce...
New Delhi : Panasonic India on Monday made available its hitherto online-exclusive smartphones -- including the recently-launched P-100 (2GB variant) -- across leading retail outlets in the country. ElugaI9, Ray 500 and Ray 700 devices which were available only on...
San Francisco : Online retailer Amazon has decided not to sell any of the new products from Google's smart home division Nest, once its current stock runs out, the media reported. Amazon, in a conference call late last year, told Nest that it would not be listing any...
San Francisco : To help local businesses hire the right people, Facebook has expanded the ability to apply to jobs directly on its platform to more than 40 countries. Rolled out in the US and Canada in 2017, Facebook's job application feature is different from...
San Francisco : In a bid to make customer experiences better on Twitter, the micro-blogging site has relaxed the rules for customer service Direct Messages (DMs) and introduced a new feature that makes sure businesses can always respond to the customers DMs. "We have...
By Faisal Kawoosa, Are all smartphones in India sold online? Not really. This is something which should come as a surprise to the cyber-savvy buyers of gadgets and gizmos. A study from Google, published in 2012 but still relevant, says that 70 per cent of Indians...
San Francisco : Facebook has started opening up its Community Help feature -- part of the Safety Check system -- to businesses and other organisations so that that they can provide critical information and services for people to get the help they need in a crisis. The...
New Delhi : Microsoft and online marketplace Paisabazaar.com on Saturday announced that they have entered into a partnership to develop "industry first" innovations on the tech giant's Cloud platform using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. As part of...
San Francisco : Google removed over seven lakh malicious apps from Play Store in 2017 that violated its policies - 70 per cent more than the apps it took down in 2016 -- the company said on Wednesday. "Not only did we remove more bad apps, we were able to identify and...
New Delhi : In a bid to take on WhatsApp Business and Facebook Messenger, Apple is set to introduce "Business Chat" for its users to communicate directly with businesses right within its iMessage instant messaging service. "Business Chat is a new way for users to...