In an initiative to expand its user engagement, Indiamart.com, an online business to business (B2B) marketplace, has introduced their mobile site — m.indiamart.com and Android App on Google Play Store. By using the website and Android app, prospective buyers can now find suppliers in specific locations or cities. It also allows them to send business enquiries and SMS directly from their mobile phones....

Are negative search results hurting your business? Does your company lack any presence in the search results at all? No matter what issues you face, having control of your online reputation is possible with the right strategy. Establishing your company’s online presence is not easy as it seems to be. First of all, you need to create a website to showcase your company’s offerings of products or...

txtWeb, an open platform for SMS-based applications has recorded 10 million mobile users in India since it was launched in February, 2011. The txtWeb platform claims to boasts of  3000+ apps that are built by more than 250 organizations, publishers and developers. It works on all the phones and provides users with information they need. The service which is a boon for people with low or no internet...

Soon after giving its Android and iOS apps a tweak yesterday, Pinterest has rolled out a new feature that will make it easier for users to send pins to their friends. The popular social scrapbook has added a ‘Send‘ button that lest users send pins directly to your friends and family on both mobile and the web. “You can send pins to fellow pinners (if you both follow each other),...

Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer Panasonic will try its luck again in the growing Indian smartphone market. After a hiatus of more than 5 years, the company has been actively promoting its new Android based phone (P51) in the media. Panasonic has evidently tied-up with Delhi based Jaina Group. The Indian counterpart is supposed to take on a holistic role for the Japanese Company’s stability...

Yahoo is reportedly looking to buy Tumblr as part of its series of acquisitions and buy-outs to improve the service. The deal, according to sources, could reach as high as $1 billion (€778 million), which would put it in the same league as Facebook’s Instagram acquisition last year.  Since taking control of Yahoo, CEO Marissa Mayer has pursued a string of acquisitions, including Summly, Astrid,...

While the Google Glass has been making headways as to how it might redefine the way people communicate and interact on the move, several social networking and popular app companies already seem to be vying for a chunk of the whole action. The new apps include Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Evernote, CNN, Elle and a game called Ice Breaker. The new apps join Path and The New York Times as official Glassware...

Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS continued to dominate the worldwide mobile OS market in the first quarter on 2013, as per the latest report from IDC. The  report suggests that Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform has grabbed third place from BlackBerry in global smartphone shipments in the first quarter. Android and iOS combined for an overwhelming 92.3 percent of all smartphone...

Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (India) has announced multi-city coffee meet-ups with entrepreneurs, starting May 27, 2013. The Accelerator program team will travel to four key startup hubs of India – Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai to meet entrepreneurs and answer their queries related to the startup ecosystem of India as well as the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (India)...

Online restaurant guide Zomato has reported revenues of Rs 11.38 crore ($2 million) at an EBITDA loss of Rs 10.03 crore ($1.8 million) for financial year ended March 31, 2013 (FY13). Operating revenues of the company were 0.33 Crore in FY 10-11 and 2.4 Crore in FY 11-12 . The revenues of this year has hence catapulted to five times compared to last year. The prime reason for which is its global...