The Amazon App Store is finally available in India and users can download it to their Android device for free. The Amazon app store was built to service Amazon’s new Kindle Fire line which is built on top of Google’s mobile stack. Amazon also lets other users download the app store since that might get it more revenue. The good thing about the app store is the fact that you can get one premium...

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....

There is no doubt that India’s Internet Growth is accelerating at never before seen pace. Fueled by rapid proliferation of portable electronics Indians are using more internet based products & services than ever before. However, Internet Giants seem to have completely ignored these healthy growth signals & are favouring relatively smaller destinations like Singapore to host their Data Centers. Why...

Continuing the global expansion of its Appstore for Android, Amazon has announced to take its store available in 200 countries including India, Australia, Brazil, Canada,  South Africa and Japan. The upcoming international expansion follows the launch of Amazon’s Appstore for Android in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Amazon says that the app store will be rolling out internationally...

Amazon has announced that it will be acquiring book recommendation service and the reader social network, Goodreads. The service currently has around 16 million users and 30,000 book clubs, according to Amazon. Amazon’s intention behind picking up the service may be because of the wealth of quality data generated on the service. People can review their favorite books and converse with other people....

Multinational e-Commerce company Amazon was gearing up to introduce its own brand of Smartphones. However, it seems the world will have to wait a little longer than the earlier envisaged release period of second quarter of 2013. The official manufacturing partner for the said smartphone is none other than Chinese company Foxconn International Holdings (FIH). Incidentally, the same company manufactures...

Mobile devices are fast becoming the place where numerous technologies converge, thus creating useful services and applications for consumers and enterprise-level customers. With the growing rise in smartphones and Internet video services and consumption, it can be easily said that mobile video has been largely adopted all across the globe. Improving economic conditions and the relatively cheaper costs...

eBay came to India when the e-revolution was on the brink of breaking out. Amazon reached India and was active much before any sort of credibility was set in the e-commerce market. These global online businesses are giants of the e-commerce world and till some time back, no Indian e-commerce website could think of competing with these giants even in the Indian market let alone on a global scenario,...

Owing to the increasing number of complaints over invasion of privacy by apps and sites, The Federal Trade Commission has issued a set of guidelines for makers of mobile platforms and developers of applications for mobile telephones and tablets to help observe truth-in-advertising and basic privacy principles. However, the guidelines are non-binding; they are a set of recommendations issued with the...

Amazon is all set to take on Apple iTunes. Today, music has gone digital. Gone are the days of CDs, cassettes and any hardware music device. People purchase, access and listen to their songs online or offline albeit digitally. Amazon has been the online shopping go-to platform since the late 1990s. When music had still not gone digital (Steve Jobs had not thought of iTunes and digital music just yet),...