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Rediff Spruces up Product Search

Rediff Spruces up Product Search

Rediff has spruced up Product Search. It still essentially remains a retail aggregation model. Some things that Open2Save.in (we wrote about them Yesterday) can learn from this model and vice versa. A lot of innovative feature and interesting mashups. Search made interesting with peripherals.

More on My Space’s India Strategy

More on My Space’s India Strategy

MySpace – for those of you who don’t know is a unit of Fox Interactive Media owned by Media Baron Rupert Murdoch. It’s a community forum that has sites in countries such as the US, Brazil, Canada, Austria, Denmark, and recently Korea. 
 
 
 
 
According to various reports MySpace globally signs on 300, 000 new users daily and [...]

OOha! A Venture That Offers Free Internet In Chennai

OOha! A Venture That Offers Free Internet In Chennai

We all are aware about the growing popularity of internet in India. And these days Indian Entrepreneurs are busy exploiting it. Back in December 2007 SITG (Smile Interactive Technology Group) had declared its plan of setting up 97,000 e-commerce kiosk within 3 years across the India. Providing with music downloads, airline and railway tickets [...]

Trying Lingerie Goes Virtual: KnickerPicker.com

Trying Lingerie Goes Virtual: KnickerPicker.com

 

 
Recently we had blogged about ShopImagine.in - A visually appealing lingerie portal! And also it is a very good market to exploit. I have noticed many lingerie portals being launched recently. I wonder what new do they have to offer to the consumer.
 
I came across this site called KnickerPicker.com
 
KnickerPicker is an online lingerie store which [...]

China & The Internet. India Has a Lot of Catching Up to Do!

China & The Internet. India Has a Lot of Catching Up to Do!

The Chinese Government recently released some very interesting statistics - That of the number of Internet users in the country – the number at this point is pretty exciting. 210 Million are the number of Internet users in China – that’s about 5 times the number of Internet users in India!
 
 
 
The number also is quite [...]

Books - Most Sought after Items Online

A new research has revealed that more books are sold on the Internet than any other product and the number is rising.
 
 
Neilsen Online conducted a survey of 26, 312 people in 48 countries, which found out that about 41% online users had purchased books.
 
 
2 years back – the figure was at 34%
 
 
The Figure is quite comprehensive [...]

Indians Apparently Filling up their Online Shopping Bags

Indians Apparently Filling up their Online Shopping Bags

A recent research by Nielsen has indicated that a large number of Indians are wielding their credit cards online – and they are second only to Turkish and Irish e – shoppers.
 
 
According to the report, about 85% of users online are engaging in e – commerce. In Ireland, 91% of shoppers are undertaking transactions online, 86% in Turkey [...]

SpiceJet Ties Up With BillDesk For Secured Online Transaction

 
In one of my earlier post I had mentioned about SpiceJet and Jet Airways thinking of implementing a security system. Now SpiceJet has partnered with BillDesk, which will enable the SpiceJet customers to pay their tickets through secure online banking account rather then using their credit cards.
 
 
On the launch of this service, Mr.Siddhanta Sharma, Executive [...]

Indian Railways to open up API

Indian Railways to open up API

 

Since the time I first used it, I have always maintained, that the Indian railways website is one of the most informative one. Leaving a few design issues aside, the website serves its purpose pretty well. In the recent times, the Indian Railways has emerged as an efficient organization. It has reduced its expenses successfully, [...]

Do you know that e-commerce transactions in India are to reach $100 bn in 2008?

Electronic commerce or e-commerce which means buying and selling of products or services over Internet or other electronic or computer networks has dramatically grown in India since the spread of Internet. Though e-commerce in India is at a very nascent stage compared to western world, if you compare it with last year it has grown [...]

Toll Free Number Launched to Combat Cyber Crime!

Cyber Crime is all over the internet space, India ranks 3rd in Phishing. To fight against Cyber Crime Agape India, a computer and mobile forensic specialist has decided to launch a special toll free number that will enable the users to inform the specialists about the crime. This number is to be official launched [...]

Indian E-Commerce Trade To Cross Rs. 9000 Crores By End Of Mar’08

As we had mentioned in our previous posts about Fabmall-manorama launching an e-commerce site and the launch of Futurebazaar, Indian e-commerce market is booming right now. Big players like Big Bazaar, Indiaplaza.in, Globus, Reliance, Pantaloons and others have been making plans to capture a slice of the e–commerce market. Some of them have even launched [...]