Samsung Electronics has lost its crown as the top smartphone seller in India for the first time in six years, as it was outsold by China’s Xiaomi in the final quarter of 2017, data from two tech research firms shows. Xiaomi’s aggressively priced suite of high-spec handsets and market expansion strategy enabled it to take […]
India downloaded more apps than the US in 2017, a new report by app analytics provider App Annie has revealed. Riding on increased smartphone penetration and dirt-cheap 4G data access, India accounted for nearly 58 billion of the world’s 175 billion app downloads in 2017. Only China, the world’s largest internet market, is ahead with […]
Big Bazaar, one of the leading hypermarket chains from Future Group, has for the first time created a mobile game to promote its mega property, ‘Big Bazaar Sabse Saste 5 Din’. Designed and executed by L & K Saatchi & Saatchi, Big Bazaar’s ‘Deal Skyfall – Sabse Saste 5 Din’ game is set to transform […]
Mobile messaging service Hike just launched Total, a new service that lets Android users in India make payments to businesses and transfer money, read news, book train tickets, and chat with their contacts on the platform – all without mobile data. The company, which claims 100 million users on its platform, has been working for […]
Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab today said it has acquired Bengaluru-based payments startup iKaaz to strengthen its payments platform. Grab, which competes with the likes of US-based Uber, said the “rich functionality of iKaaz mobile payments platform and its experienced leadership team will accelerate feature development and partner integration of GrabPay (its payments platform)”. It, […]
Television viewers and spectators at Sunday’s grand finale at the Vodafone Premier Badminton League broke into impromptu smiles when they realized they had unexpected company. Lending an entirely unique experience to complement the nail biting match, were the adorable Vodafone Pugs in ‘augmented’ avatar. This is the first time that augmented reality has been seen […]
We live in an age of lung-busting endurance epics. Of early mornings and ice baths. Of failed attempts and constant hurt. What unites us is the need to be better. That we don’t want to lose. That maybe the next time we will score that goal or smash that PB. This campaign by TBWA\India is […]
UC Browser, a mobile browser owned by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has become more popular than Google’s Chrome in some of Asia’s fastest-growing markets, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing data from web analytics firm StatCounter, the paper reported that millions of people in India, Indonesia and other emerging markets getting online for […]
To step up its efforts to rival Google’s unified payments interface (UPI) application Tez, digital payment company Paytm is now pushing for the QR code to become the primary method of acceptance of payments using either UPI or debit cards at zero cost. The Indian government recently subsidised the charges on debit card payments that […]
Twitter India recorded a 17% increase in revenue during the 2016-2017 period as reported by Economic Times. Twitter’s net profit saw an increase of 15% to INR Rs.4 crore. Meanwhile its rival, Facebook India has seen an increase in its revenue by 93% to Rs 341.8 crore; and the profit has increased from Rs. 31 […]