Is Amazon acquiring app aggregator Tapzo?

According to industry reports, Tapzo has been in advanced talks with Amazon for its acquisition by the latter. It is said that both Amazon and Tapzo have been in talks for over four months.

Sequoia Capital-backed Tapzo began talks with Amazon in April this year. Both the companies have given the green signal for the deal. If nothing goes wrong from here then the acquisition could be announced by the next month. However, the initial discussion didn’t take off owing to the valuation offered by Amazon to Tapzo, with fresh discussions starting only in July.

Tapzo is a super app which allows users to access more than 35 apps, such as Flipkart, Amazon, Ola, Uber, and others. As a part of its new business line, users can recharge mobile, DTH and data card, make bill payments, order cabs and food, book flight and bus tickets amongst many other things on a new technology layer that it is….Read More

 

$10 Billion opportunity for Digital Businesses- Breaking the Digital Barrier

Universal Acceptance for Indic Languages for Internet in India

To create a truly inclusive digital economy, Internet has to treat all domain names equally across scripts / languages. Addressing the opportunities of Universal Acceptance and the scope for adopting UA for Indic Languages, The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) supported by ICANN organized a seminar here today. Universal acceptance is the concept that all domain names and email addresses are accepted, validated, stored, processed and displayed in a consistent and effective manner.

UASG and ICANN have been actively working on realizing the importance of increasing linguistic presence on the web and encouraging developers to support all domain names and email addresses in multiple languages across the world….Read More

 

Dell EMC brings Enterprise Preferred Channel Program

Dell EMC announced Enterprise Preferred Channel Program in association with Dell EMC enterprise sales organisation. The program is leveraging joint sales and partner planning to provide a joint approach to the market, simplifying sales engagement and specifying how sales teams and partners work tougher.

The program includes dedicated channel team members to support sales engagement in Enterprise Preferred accounts, collaboration between teams to create joint account plans, leveraging strategic partner relationships, competitive pricing as part of a new acquisition deal registration, compensation uplift for Dell EMC sales teams – protecting their commission, partner protection through an ‘earned partner or record’ model….Read More

 

Why there is requirement of Cost effective SD-WAN ?

THE SDWAN market is experiencing explosive growth. Strong enterprise and communications service provider demand is dramatically disrupting the traditional branch-office router market and it comes with advantages by, simplify network operations. It’s adoption is easy, quick and reliable.

It is absolutely fact that, without virtualization in the network, virtualization in the cloud or data center will never be fully realized or effective. SD-WAN can help service providers increase profitability while accommodating WAN market trends. As the SD-WAN is fast moving, incorporating it into a managed service offering is particularly challenging as customer requirements and needs are changing all the time.

The growth of SD-WAN is attributed to the increasing popularity of modern telecommunications networks and datacenter infrastructure concepts such as software-defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). These technology concepts have enabled SD-WAN to provide enhanced capabilities such as agility, scalability, cost competitiveness, and reliability, as well as faster installation and provisioning times, over legacy WAN solutions. Key points for enterprise and IT decision makers considering moving from legacy WAN to SD-WAN includes on how the cloud migration and digital transformation (DX) journey of the enterprise to support existing and future business applications, reduce costs, and increase efficiency and business agility by reducing the overall total cost of ownership (TCO) for the enterprise without compromising quality of service (QoS) or service-level agreements (SLA)….Read More

 

Foxconn increasing its Products Portfolio

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company, headquartered in Tucheng.

Popularly known as Foxconn has agreed to buy Los Angeles-based Belkin International for $866 million in cash. With this FIT is a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the parent company behind the Foxconn brand. Belkin is known for having a broad range of device connectivity and power products under the Belkin, Linksys, Wemo and Phyn brands. With this we expect to enrich our portfolio of premium consumer products and accelerate our penetration into the smart home by leveraging Belkin’s research and development capabilities and consumer insights operations.

The deal is also a continuation of Foxconn’s movement away from being primarily a contract manufacturer for companies like Apple and towards one that has brands of its own….Read More

 

Why India’s data localisation Policy an Issue to US tech giants ?

Digitization and urbanisation brings change in the life of a common citizen and definitely it impacts the lifestyles of the netizens. It is also fact that technology teaches everyone to have better user experience, it resulted growing demand amongst Indians for Privacy and protection of the Information they share, specifically on digital platforms.

There has been an alarming rise in cybercrimes on a global scale. With India also moving towards a digital economy with the adoption of Aadhaar and an ever-increasing dependency on information, the concerns over cyber security, data protection and privacy are the most talkative agenda.

To address the growing concerns, the Government of India had set up a Committee of Experts, headed by Justice B. N. Srikrishna, to study the challenges surrounding data protection in India and provide their valuable suggestions and principles on which to base the data privacy legislative framework. The objective is to ‘ensure growth of the digital economy while keeping personal data of citizens secured and protected’, we can say as the is the first step in India’s Data Privacy journey. The Supreme Court of India also holding ‘Right to privacy’ as a fundamental right lays the corner stone for a strong data privacy regime in India. The data protection framework, proposed by the Committee of Experts under the chairmanship of former Supreme Court judge Shri B N Srikrishna, is the first step in India’s Data Privacy journey….Read More

 

Flipkart launches 2GUD for refurbished products

The market for used and refurbished mobile phones has skyrocketed in the last couple of years with technology becoming a necessity with each passing day as the population as well as the penetration of phones is extensively high. The expansion of e-commerce and retail chains has made the availability of used and refurbished mobile phones easy and the easy accessibility has triggered strong growth in India too.

Experts and analysts expect the market for refurbished phones to rise by a compounded 27% over 2019 and 2020 as new players join existing online marketplaces Amazon, Cashify, Shopclues and Togofogo. In India, millions of mobile phone users still purchase second-hand phones as they prefer buying refurbished or used phones with the features they need in less price than settling for a new phone at a comparatively higher price with lower specifications. Refurbished mobile phones category is growing at 400% year-on-year and its contribution in overall mobile phone sales has almost doubled in 2017….Read More

 

Complex and Crowded E-Commerce Space in India

Asoke K. Laha, President & MD Interra IT

If e-commerce is a barometer to measure the penetration of internet in a country, one can assume that India is in its fast pace towards a fully-wired and online society. E-commerce is growing by leaps and bounds. Whether it is real or hyped-up is something that analysts can foretell.

A few illustrative descriptions may be relevant in this regard. The foremost is about the war between two American e-commerce companies – Amazon India and Walmart for supremacy in the Indian market. Amazon might have established its Indian subsidiary before Walmart. But the latter’s takeover of the homespun online distribution company – Flipkart – has changed the profile and reach of the U.S. online giant. Close to US$17-billion takeover deal, which will be hopefully completed by the end of this year, has created flutter in the corporate circles across the world. E-commerce companies have realized the potential of India as a future market for online business.

Does it mean that the brick-and-mortar distributive trade is on the back burner or it would cease to exist? If you visit some of the websites, which dish out data on online users, one may get perplexed and will conclude that physical retail will not have any time span left. I believe that the brick-and-mortar stores will continue to exist with enhanced and new….Read More

 

RPA: A Groundbreaking Technology

India is undergoing a digital revolution which is helping the country in its renaissance. Adoption of technology is at its peak in recent days which is being triggered by better connectivity, rapid smartphone adaptation, increasing usage of mobile internet etc. Adoption of innovative technologies makes work easy and fast, increases efficiency of the workforce, takes less time in completing a task etc. Technology has always made human life smooth and easy.

In this wake of time, a ground breaking technology, Robotics Process Automation better known as RPA is emerging and touching almost every vertical. Though in a nascent state, it has already started spreading its effects in segments like banking, manufacturing, automation, micro finance, healthcare etc. The Institute for Robotics Process Automation describes RPA as an application of technology that allows employees in a company to configure computer software or a “robot” to capture and understand the existing applications for processing a transaction, manipulating data, triggering responses, and communicating with other digital systems.

IDC defines RPA as a software code that helps automates and assigns standardized, rules-based, repetitive, and high-volume processes involving several interoperable systems – which were traditionally executed by humans – to a robot….Read More

 

Zoho One completes one year

New capabilities like AI, Analytics and Search Highlight power the flagship suite

One year after its launch, Zoho has announced major updates to its flagship suite of applications, Zoho One, designed to put businesses completely in the cloud. Zoho One is enabling a new set of capabilities that bridge the gap between different departments and roles within an organization.

In the first year itself more than 12,000 business worldwide have become Zoho One customers, out of which 36% of Zoho One users are from India. The average Zoho One customer enables 16 applications for their business, often replacing software from different vendors, preferring instead to run their business from a single cloud platform. The company has added five new apps to Zoho One in the past year Cliq, Zoho Sprints, Zoho PageSense, Zoho Flow and Zoho Backstage at no additional cost….Read More