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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Soon JustDial Will Be An Internet Company; Should They Worry?

NextBigWhat Daily Digest

Of E-Commerce in the 90s to starting up BigBasket: Hari Menon [Video]

Hari Menon, the CEO & Co-Founder of BigBasket.com, is not new to entrepreneurship. Back in 1998, he was part of the team which started India’s first e-commerce venture called Fabmall. From then to now, e-commerce has changed a lot. By 2007, the team had ventured into offline retail as well. After selling the chain of…

Founded by Ashish Gupta & Lavesh Bhandari both from IIT (Delhi), TheShoppingPro is creating a set of web and mobile tools to help online shopping.

So, what do we need to optimize? Is it only the website for the search engines, or is it time to actually see where we are lacking as far as the engaging ability of our website is concerned and optimize our website so as to get the best of conversion?

We’ll have regular inputs, insights from these folks on a variety of topics that matter to all of us. And every now and then, you can expect a real gem that we will showcase as “NextBigWhat Select”.

Big data startup Minetta Brook Inc, DIY App Platform SnapLion and local grocery shop LocalBanya has raised funds from investors.

Internet & Mobile contributed to 62% of total search requests on Just Dial as compared to 54% last year. Its primary revenue source is paid campaigns through advertisers and it grew 21% compared to last year.

CATapp helps you revise and make sure you are getting things right. You still have to study with books and other reference materials.It contains CAT papers from 1994 to 2008 to help students prepare for the entrance exam.

There was speculation that the company had raised $6 mn in April. However, at the time, Accel Partners had only made a strategic investment in Power2Sme.

In 2012 the Government had come up with the National Policy On Electronics (NPOE) in order to fill the gap between domestic demand and production of electronic goods.

In comparison, it has the lowest average connection speed in the Asia Pacific region. China’s average speed is 1.7 Mbps and South Korea has 14.2 Mbps, the latest Akamai State of the Internet report said.