Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had been very public about his wife pregnancy and the impending birth of his daughter. He’d been posting updates and pictures, and the world had gushed at the arrival of the first infant of the tech world. However, an Indian student had been following the developments with completely different aims in mind, and now he’s made bank.
A web hosting company sees all its data disappear in flash as a developer types in a few wrong characters of code.
South Korean electronics giant LG has commenced manufacturing smartphones in India at its Noida unit. It launched two new models – the K10 and K7 – which will be manufactured in India and targets to manufacture 1 million phones in India annually.
Businesses are often accused of copying images, content, designs, and sometimes the entire business models. But sometimes you can get called out for copying another website’s privacy page of all things.
In a Twitter post, Pramod Rao, Zomato’s head of marketing, today called out Burrp, one of India’s first restaurant review and lifestyle websites, for having copied its entire privacy page. How did Zomato know? The copy was such a shoddy job that Burrp managed to copy a link to Zomato’s website as it is.
Punit Soni, after a protracted period of speculation, has finally quit Flipkart. He’s sent a farewell mail to senior management to this effect, and Friday will be his last day at work. An OfficeChai source has seen a copy of the email.
China’s largest e-commerce company Alibaba is expanding its footprints to South East Asia. It has announced buying a controlling stake in online retailer Lazada for about $1 billion.
After American ecommerce giant made its India debut in 2013, and Chinese giant Alibaba made strategic investments in the country before announcing to open operations in India, now it’s Japanese ecommerce biggie Rakuten that has its eyes set on India.
Close on the heels of the Karnataka government implementing a policy that would regulate cab fares, the Maharashtra government has followed suit. The new rules shall put caps on the number of taxi aggregator vehicles allowed on roads and will also seek to rein in higher peak-hour fares.
Doordarshan has started broadcasting free TV to mobile phone in 16 cities. Mobile TV can be received in and around these cities usingdongles on smartphones, tablets, and TV sets.