Surveymonkey, one of the introductory organizations in Google Captial's portfolio, proclaimed that it has collaborated with Pew Research Center and Westat to "inspect non-profitable sampling and potential frameworks for estimation and assessment."
The essential focus of the collaboration, Surveymonkey says, is to better see non-likelihood research and distinctive methods for gaging review quality.
"We're eager to be working in association with the country's top research associations to help make a predictable set of measures and strategies," said Jon Cohen, Surveymonkey VP of Survey Research. "We plan to enhance understanding of this new era of sentiment research and propel the whole business."
"Having no particular framework for non-likelihood sampling is constraining the experiences market researchers and assumption surveyors can convey," said Mike Brick, a Westat Senior Statistician. "On the whole, we need to investigate the presumptions of the basic model and if, or how, corrections ought to be made to reevaluate quality in our industry."
Each of the associations will help data and staff time to the initiative. Surveymonkey will give access to its online panel.
Surveymonkey was the first of three beginning Google Capital investments, raising $800 million early last year in a round that included Google and others.
All the contestants of India's Raw Star has strong music association and can win the title of India's Raw Star Winner. There is intense rivalry between Darshan Raval, Mohit Gaur and Rituranjan Mohanty because of these are most prevalent contestants according to group of onlookers voting.
Rituranjan Mohanty turn into the first India's Raw by Winning the Title of India's Raw Star Final Winner. He Got Rs. 50 lakh Cash Prize from Star Plus and a Maruti Swift Car. Rituraj Mohanty is 26 years old and lives in the capital of Orissa which is Bhubaneswar. According to him music is his passion, life and love to which he is fully dedicated and loves it like anything. The show is well known as Yo Honey Singh is the perpetual judge of the show. India's Raw Star is popular Music reality show in India which concentrates in figuring out the best and capable Indian Singers. Star Plus is the authority Broadcaster of India's Raw Star. The show was started from August month and now arrived at Grand Finale Night. Yo Honey Singh picked the main 10 last contestants for the show from different spots of India by doing tryout through online gateway.
Twitter is presenting another service called Twitter Offers, which will allow companies to share in-store and online deals/coupons and discounts right from a tweet. The deals will show up in advanced tweets, and anybody on Twitter will simply need to click a button to claim them. The service will begin in US, and if the Visa is now stored on Twitter, the deal will get connected with the card and will naturally be recovered once its utilized to purchase.
The new service is an approach to offer deals, which will help different companies. The ones that depend on in-store traffic will have the capacity to offer deals on Twitter and let individuals effortlessly claim them for later use in stores. The employments of these deals will be tracked, which implies companies will know whether they're effective or not. Furthermore in the event that they are effective then this could turn into a solid notice offering for Twitter on its proceeded with way towards profits.according to organization's blog entry, they will with modest bunch of brands to at first test this new peculiarity amid the holidays in United States.
Be that as it may, the drawback of these offers is that they aren't initiated promptly upon purchase. Twitter says that the discounts will be connected to a card statement a few days after the purchase is made, which may make purchasers a bit vigilant as they hold up to see whether the offer was effectively recovered or not.
This is the most recent way that twitter is bringing commerce to its stage. Back in later past, Twitter allowed companies to place purchase buttons within tweets so that individuals could purchase straight from their food.
In an alternate late news, Twitter is demonstrating analytics inside your tweets, so you can see whether your tweets are great or acclaimed. According to the news from The Verge, those included in the trial see a 'perspective analytics subtle elements' button inside tweets on the portable application. At the point when tapped, you're demonstrated aggregate impressions, engagement rate and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
Initially accessible to promoting accomplices, Twitter Analytics stage is currently open to people in general also. "View Analytics Details," which shows up underneath individual tweets, opens a view that reveals to you impressions and engagement rates regarding what number of individuals have seen and clicked the tweet, fundamentally.
Phillip Hughes has died on as an result of the injuries he maintained when struck by a bouncer on Tuesday, Cricket Australia has affirmed. He was 25.
Team doctor Peter Brukner confirmed the news in a statement on Thursday evening.
"It is my tragic duty to educate you that a brief time back Phillip Hughes passed away," Dr Brukner said. "He never recaptured cognizance emulating his injury on Tuesday. He was not in ache before he passed and was encompassed by his family and close companions.
"As an issue group we grieve his misfortune and augment our deepest sensitivities to Phillip's family and companions at this inconceivably dismal time. Cricket Australia generous solicits that the security from the Hughes family, players and staff be regarded."
Players, coaches and different companions had been good and done with St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney all through Wednesday and Thursday, going to Hughes and supporting his family, and one another. Australia's captain Michael Clarke, a nearby companion of Hughes', had been at the hospital until after 12 pm on Wednesday night and returned at around 6am on Thursday.
Brad Haddin, Steven Smith, Shane Watson, David Warner, Nathan Lyon, Moises Henriques, Mitchell Starc and Daniel Smith all invested time at the hospital, as did Ricky Ponting, Simon Katich, Phil Jaques and Brett Lee. Some flew in from interstate, including Aaron Finch, Matthew Wade, Peter Siddle, Peter Forrest, George Bailey, Ed Cowan, Justin Langer, and Cricket Australia's CEO James Sutherland and superior manager Pat Howard. The national mentor Darren Lehmann was there also.
Likewise keeping vigil at the hospital were the Hughes family, including his mother and sister, who had been at the Sheffield Shield match between South Australia and New South Wales on Tuesday when Hughes was struck by the bouncer while batting on 63. At a question and answer session at St Vincent's Hospital on Thursday evening, Clarke read a statement in the interest of Hughes' guardians Greg and Virginia, and sibling and sister Jason and Megan.
On Tuesday, Hughes was playing for South Australia against his previous state New South Wales when he missed his endeavored snare and the ball struck him on the neck beneath the head protector. He experienced surgery on Tuesday in the wake of being hurried to hospital from the SCG, and was then in an affected unconsciousness.
Hughes played 26 Tests for Australia and scored three centuries, and he showed up a solid opportunity to win a review for one week from now's first Test against India at the Gabba, with Clarke anticipated that will be discounted because of injury. Hughes initially developed as an international cricketer on the 2009 voyage through South Africa, where at 20 years old in Durban he turned into the youngest man ever to score two centuries in a Test.
He scored 26 top notch hundreds of years and was a productive scorer for New South Wales, for whom he had appeared at 18 years old, and later for South Australia. Hughes had been a piece of Australia's latest Test squad, for the series against Pakistan in the UAE, yet he was not called on to play a Test in that series.
Indian ecommerce industry is all situated to witness some major firecrackers as industry biggies: Amazon and Alibaba are in a major acquisition mode. According to reports rolling in from different sources, Amazon is crawling towards procuring Jabong and Alibaba is viewing Snapdeal nearly, and an arrangement might leap forward whenever now.
Amazon-Jabong
On the off chance that this Amazon chooses to acquire Jabong (and appears chances are high), Indian Ecommerce will witness its greatest acquisition till date. Sources are letting us know that the first level of talks in the middle of Amazon and Jabong is presently over, and management groups from both the portals are encircling out the details. According to insiders, this first level of talk had happened short of what a week prior.
In spite of the fact that Indian FDI laws doesn't allow investments in Jabong, henceforth its an inventory based ecommerce model, though Amazon India is fundamentally a marketplace. Fashion is the greatest market starting now, and no one needs to miss the first move.
This arrangement, if facilitated effectively, will by one means or another impersonate the Flipkart-Myntra acquisition, where the management from both the gatherings made some perplexing corporate structures to traverse the Government approbation.
Jabong reported horrible stock quality (GMV) of Rs 509.5 crore from 3.197 million orders amid the January-June, 2014 period, and if their growth trajectory stays steady, then before the end of March 31, 2015, they will report sales of Rs 1300-1500 crore. Valuation in Indian ecommerce industry is regularly 3.5 times the aggregate sales in a year; which makes Jabong worth around Rs 5000 crore or around $900 million.
Flipkart Myntra arrangement was pegged around $340 million, which is hailed as the greatest acquisition in the Indian ecommerce sector starting now. Amazon-Jabong acquisition is consistently discussed in the scope of $1.1-$1.2 billion, which will dominate the past record by a decent edge.
Both Amazon and Jabong has declined to remark on this advancement.
Alibaba – Snapdeal
Jack Ma, organizer of Alibaba and China's richest individual with a total assets of $30 billion is in India alongside a designation of 99 top representatives from the place where he grew up of Zhejiang. Furthermore according to reports coming in, he will meet a few entrepreneurs from India, including Snapdeal's originator Kunal Bahl.
Presently, an unimportant gathering between two big cheese entrepreneurs is not a news, however the way that Kunal Bahl has transparently expressed their plan of action is near Alibaba's plan of action makes this gathering really fascinating.
Prior, Kunal Bahl had advised to CNBC 18, "If Alibaba in China, which is the business we are most like, creates $5 billion EBITDA a year, there is a purpose behind it. They are not a retailer, they are an innovation stage and that provides for me certainty that at the appointed time course… we will see comparative matters of trade and profit developing out of our organization also,"
In spite of the fact that Alibaba has a vicinity in India, which they propelled in 2010, it has unimportant impact in the primary B2b market, contrasted with China where they charge 80% of the market!
Snapdeal, which has gotten individual investment from Ratan Tata, other than very nearly one billion dollar venture capital (till now, including Softbank's late $627m investment), may search extremely guaranteeing for Alibaba, which is currently in a major expansion mode crosswise over Asia.
Absolutely some energizing days for the Indian ecommerce, with some top notch mergers and tie-ups in the offing. We will keep you redesigned as more points of interest come in.
While the speculations have been going ahead in the media from over a month now around Amazon securing Rocket Internet upheld Jabong, the same may be working out soon.
In October, distributers like Firstpost, ET, Trak and so on reported that the two firms may be shaking hands, however in a late development it has surfaced that the first phase of talks for Amazon to secure Jabong have been finished. Also Amazon would obtain the organization in a deal sum worth USD 1-1.2 Billion.
Jabong is a piece of Rocket Internet's Big Foot Retail (Family of Jabong, Dafiti, Lamoda, Namshi and Zalora), henceforth the billion dollar deal may include these other global retailers as well.
A source with the knowledge relating to this matter told Vccircle that post acquisition, Amazon would keep Jabong as an issue substance. Jabong is an inventory based e-tailer, where FDI in not permitted, and the structure of the deal hasn't been uncovered
Amid January-June 2014 period, Jabong reported Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) of INR 509.5 crore from 3.197 million orders. The organization has two other significant shareholders other than Rocket Internet i.e. Swedish speculation firm Kinnevik and UK's CDC.
Big Foot Retail with Rocket-Internet supported locales, for example, Jabong, Dafiti, Lamoda, Namshi and Zalora cases to have worth around USD 2.5 billion as of September 30, 2014.
In the event that the deal experiences, then Amazon would have the capacity to rival Flipkart neck to neck. Myntra and Jabong both are favored fashion destinations, in spite of Amazon & Flipkart having various categories including apparel. Flipkart's marriage with Myntra, provided for it an edge over Amazon. However now if Amazon gets Jabong, it would have the same ammo to stay in the competition.
However now if Amazon gets Jabong, it would have the same ammo to stay in the competition.
MTV Roadies, a youth based reality show, will soon be returning in its twelfth season.
In any case, the two men who wear the cap of the judges – Raghu Ram and Rajiv will be seen giving a miss to this season. Ram was the producer of the show when he helped to establish Colosseum Media, which he quit not long from now.
It might be reviewed that the twin brother as of late propelled their new venture, Monozygotic - a Content and Brand Communications studio.
MTV Roadies X2 (title of the promising new season) will see another arrangement and four new individuals wearing judges' caps. The personalities incorporate actor Esha Deol, boxer Vijender Singh, actor Karan Kundra and ex-Rodies winner and actor, Rannvijay Singh.
The faction reality show is an across the country chase for the "roadie" - the person who has it in him or her to turn into a hero. The two heavyweights Raghu-Rajiv were known for chopping down contestants to size with their sharp comments and overwhelming tasks.
The MTV Raodies auditions, which hold the refinement of being a standout amongst the most troublesome audition rounds for any television show, implied stand out thing - inspiring Raghu and Rajiv.
Presently, with the twosome stopping, it stays to be seen what MTV is getting ready for the promising new MTV Roadies X2, particularly with the news of restricting for new judges.
For the record, Roadies is a youth reality show where the contestants bicycle starting with one spot then onto the next performing different testing tasks (laid out by the software engineers) along the way. Triumph relies on upon how he or she performs. The organization has additionally been adjusted globally in some Asian nations. Pakistan was the first to receive it, in 2010.
After Ratan Tata's late ventures in e-commerce, Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the USD 40 billion Aditya Birla group, is looking to enter into Indian e-commerce market with plans to either procure e-retailers or to launch another remain solitary e-commerce venture.
As Bloomberg reported, He declined to uncover more insights about his e-commerce plans be that as it may, the group is taking a gander at numerous business verticals rather than concentrates on a particular one.
"There's a considerable measure of ground for new ventures in e-commerce," he said. "I am not saying that we can take an Amazon head-on. However there are a ton of green spaces." Birla joins the association of disconnected from the net business tycoons like Ratan Tata and Mukesh Ambani, who are discovering the online pastures green.
Birla is additionally searching for speculators in his current blocks and-mortar retail businesses, which incorporate the "More" chain of supermarkets and Pantaloons attire stores, which was prior under Future Group. He said, "E-tailing is the path forward, It reflects the new India. It's about new lifestyles, new spending examples, its about new family structures. What's more we need to be in that space."
Snapdeal as of late raised USD 1 billion in the not so distant future from ebay, Ratan Tata and Azim Premji; Japanese enterprise Soft Bank had likewise invested USD 627 million in the organization.
Amazon plans to use USD 2 billion for amplifying its Indian operations. Flipkart, an adversary of both Snapdeal and Amazon, shut USD 1 billion headed by Tiger Global, DST and Accel Partners.
An alternate logged off retailer, Kishore Biyani, additionally has been in news of late around talking transparently the deficiencies of existing online retailers. Also his organization, Future Group, as of late declared a partnership with Amazon India, through which it will solely offer its attire online.
What's more his organization, Future Group, as of late declared a partnership with Amazon India, through which it will solely offer its attire online.
As per Google's annual online shopping growth trends report discharged on Thrusday, done in a cooperation with Forrester Research, India will have 100 million online shoppers including 40 million women, by 2016. The quantity of online shoppers was 8 million in 2012 and is 35 million not long from now. This implies there will be a growth component of 12x somewhere around 2012 and 2016.
Mobile is driving this growth in e-trade and India is required to cross 300 million internet clients by end of the year. Rajan Anandan VP and MD, Google India said, " Mobile is driving most if not all the growth on the Internet. All the huge markets like China and the US, created as Desktop markets, however India is consistently created as an issue market." The review secured 6589 respondents covering 50 urban areas including tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 urban communities. The growth in nearing year will originate from Tier 1 as 71 percent respondents in this section will purchase in the following 12-year and a half. In Tier 1, women outspend men by two times. Furthermore, 1 in 4 women will be shopping by means of their mobile devices.
As indicated by Google officially 1 out of 3 individuals in tier 1 and tier 2 urban communities are executing online by means of their mobile devices and in Tier 3 urban areas as a large portion of the transactions happen through mobile devices. What's more, shopping queries has grown from 24 percent in 2012 to 57 percent in 2014.
By 2016, Indian e business could have retail revenues of Usd15 billion. Nitin Bawankule, Google India's industry executive for e-business, nearby, and characterized said, "The shopper certainty to shop online has grown fundamentally in the most recent year and a half. "
Around 65 per cent individuals purchase online because of accommodation, 64 per cent purchase on account of the variety, and 60 per cent purchase to enhance social status. The report incorporates that hardware is a well known fragment now and classifications like Skin Care, Baby Care, and Home furniture are becoming quickly.
The report additionally found that 62 percent individuals who shopped online have not been fulfilled by their shopping experience. A large portion of the grievances originated from Tire 2 down urban areas bounced from 58 percent in Tier 1 to 70 percent to Tier 2 urban communities. 67 percent individuals likewise highlighted that returning purchased item was entangled and costly.
Google has turned out with this report without a moment to spare for the Great Online Shopping Festival 2014, which is planned from tenth to twelfth December in the not so distant future. Consistently online organizations take part in GOSF, and run offers to pull in the shoppers in the nation. In spite of the fact that it has ended up being a frustration for a few online shoppers, it is to be perceived how Google will oversee it in the not so distant future.
What do you think is the main reason behind this boom? Government policy? Internet Penetration? Boom in E-commerce? Consumer Awareness? Like our article and share your views with us.
Is it accurate to say that you are burnt out on staring at the same old icons on your Android Phone home screen? Take a stab at installing new custom Android launchers to have a superior experience of your Smartphone. A decent launcher can give your phone an aggregate makeover, from changing the look and feel with changed icons and themes, to including new usefulness, for example, keen folders and assistive search. A Good launcher can make your old phone looks great while utilizing. A launcher let you customize your phone home screen and widgets + icons and folders. Launcher topic changes your experience of utilizing your android phone + tablet.
Here are Top 5 best Android Launchers
1. Google now launcher
You can utilize the Google Now Launcher application to get to Google Now and utilize your voice from any Home screen on Android 4.1+ gadgets. To utilize the launcher on your gadget first downlad application from google play store. Google Now is an interface that obliges zero exertion, zero additional customization. On the other hand, that may imply that some of you more exceptional Android clients may favor a portion of alternate launchers we discuss here. It doesn't provide for you additional customization, and doesn't let you apply additional themes to change the look of the framework. With Google Now Launcher, you can open Google Now by swiping to the leftmost screen.
Best peculiarity of Google now is Voice search like siri – SAY OK Google you can give voice summons to your to do message, dial contact, open contacts, make calls, open applications + games and schedule meetings and dates. Get more details
2. Themer launcher
Themer is a launcher with free themes that incorporate High definition wallpapers, clean symbol packs, and sharp widgets to suit your inclination or considering. All themes are completely customizable, and you can utilize them as they are or as you need. To utilize themer launcher themes you don't host to introduce third get-together applications, all that you need is as of now included in each one subject. All themes of Themer launcher are completely free. Themer engineer's week after week or month to month adds 10 to 15 themes. In Themer there are more than 500 premium themes accessible with classifications like: Card UI, Nature, Space, Minimal, and a lot of people more. Themer launcher is controlled by Zooper Widget. Themer Receives progressed data about your battery, climate, and framework and all the more specifically on your home screen without any setup.
Best features of themer launcher are smart icons, installed music player, climate application and utilization of Gestures. Get Themer Launcher now.
3. Aviate Launcher
Aviate is a prevalent launcher obtained by Yahoo prior in its improvement, and through a short shut beta, its turned into an extremely develop alternative for those searching for a cleaned general Android experience. Yippee fly is least difficult, secure and shrewd launcher. Yippee Aviate is the launcher that will take your phone to the following level. Gone are the times of a jumbled and exhausting stock Android phone. Yippee Aviate consequently composes your applications and demonstrates to you the data you require. Fly will tell you movement conditions amid your morning drive.
Best features of Yahoo Aviate are wise datebook features at work, music applications and widgets when you connect to your headphones – in addition to your most-utilized applications are on your core screen so you never need to chase for them again. Get Aviate, Get Wow.
4. Buzz Launcher
Buzz Launcher is a Launcher application with limitless customization properties. Buzz launcher that let clients impart their Homescreen outlines to anybody as far and wide as possible. Offer Homescreens with your companions and Buzz your phone.buzz Launcher was as of late perceived as the best Personalization App for the Best App Ever Awards and the Best of Best Brand Identity for the Red Dot Awards "Buzz Launcher" is a very customizable launcher that empowers you to apply imparted Homescreens to your smartphone. Buzz Launcher is a commercial free custom launcher that has more than 650,000+ free themes.
The best features of Buzz launcher are Customize wallpaper or topic. You can apply new home screens at a touch of a catch, immediately. You can impart home screens to a solitary touch by means of Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. You can include no. of widgets like clock, news and climate and social pop ups. Get Buzz Launcher now.
5. Launcher 8 (fake window 8)
Numerous individuals love window phones, however in genuine they don't purchase it simply in light of paid applications and uncustomizable UI, yet you can experience window 8 obstruction on your android phone. This Launcher 8 is a launcher for Android handsets that permits you to include the appearance and the interface of a Windows Phone to your cell phone or tablet with Google's android working framework. Likewise with all Android launchers, once it is introduced you simply need to press the begin catch and you will get a message asking which 'home page' to view. Numerous Launcher 8 clients are certain to think that it hard to oppose Windows Phone interface's numerous charms. It is significantly more colorful and engaging the eye than the customary Android desktop. Get Launcher 8 App now. The best features Launcher 8 is you can customize icons and basically its an extraordinary launcher with novel colorful looks.
Explore list of all 90+ available Android launcher here. Please share your experience with your android launcher below.
At long last today Nokia reported their new Android based Tablet N1. After so much bits of gossip yesterday Nokia showcased a teaser about their promising new extend.
This tab looks like ipad and Nokia company is even now propelling new items and they are obviously bypassing confinements forced by Microsoft on utilizing brand name and features.
On Tuesday eighteenth November, Sebastian Nystrom, Head of Products at Nokia Technologies advertised dispatch of Nokia's first Android based tablet N1. Sebastian Nystrom said that our new tablet will be accessible at the sticker of $249 and its a straightforward modern item for Nokia fans.
Nokia N1 tablet features a 7.9-inch (2048×1536 pixel) IPS LED-illuminated presentation ensured which is secured by Gorilla Glass 3, and is fueled by a 64-bit 2.3ghz Intel Atom Z3580 processor (4 centers, 4 strings) coupled with a Powervr G6430 GPU and 2gb RAM. It is having 32gb of inbuilt storage, yet it doesn't help Microsd card in light of the fact that memory is Non expandable.
Nokia N1 features 8-megapixel auto-center camera with 1080 video recording abilities, which is really useful for an android tablet of this classification. Video talks and selfies are made conceivable by a 5-megapixel front-confronting cam.
Audio is duplicated by a couple of 0.5w stereo speakers matched by a Wolfson Wm8958e codec. Battery backup points of interest are not specified by Nokia, yet we aresure that its Nokia item and N1's will be having 4000mah + rechargeable lithium polymer battery that would not disillusion Nokia Fans.
Nokia N1 tablet features Nokia Z Launcher interface. This tablet is fueled with Android Lollipop operating system. Nokia N1 is one of a kind tablet with one piece aluminum outline and delicate completion. From back this tablet looks indistinguishable ipad3. This tablet doesn't features calling offices. However it underpins all the fundamental features of an android tablet like Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/air conditioning at 2.4 and 5ghz and MIMO recieving wires for better gathering. The thickness of this tablet is just 6.9 Mm, which demonstrates its uniqueness.
Here are some key features and details of Nokia N1 tablet: 1. 7.9-inch, 2048×1536 (4:3) IPS LCD with Gorilla Glass 3 and completely covered zero air gap. 2. Intel Atom Z3580 processor, Powervr G6430 GPU with 2gb RAM 3. 32gb in assembled memory 4. 8 megapixel back camera, 5 megapixel front camera 5. Slim and smooth Aluminum outline which will be accessible in Natural Aluminum or Lava Gray colors
This tablets will be available in market at price $249 (approx INR 15,400) excluding taxes by next year.
Short messaging app Snapchat has banded together with mobile payment company Square to launch another payment service Snapcash.
The recently launched service permits Snapchat users to connection their debit cards to their account and send money to a contact by beginning a chat on cell phone, writing the dollar sign, entering a sum, and hitting the green catch, Snapchat wrote in its official Blog Post. The same is indicated in the feature below.
This move is in accordance with Snapchat's extension plans which esteemed at USD 10 billion in its late raising support. As per a late report by comscore, Snapchat is presently the third most prevalent app among millennials (18-34 year olds). The app is more famous than Twitter, Pinterest, Vine, Google+ or Tumblr inside millennials demographic.
"We set out to make payments speedier and more fun, yet we additionally realize that security is key when you're managing money" the company included.
Until further notice, Snapcash is accessible in the United States for users who have a debit card and are 18 or more established. Also, the Snapchat said that debit card data will be safely put away by Square, who will quickly transform the payment and send money straightforwardly to user companion's bank account.
This gimmick will be constrained by Square's penetration universally, and Snapchat will need to tie up with diverse nation particular shippers to abstain from getting into issues with government dominant voices in the separate nations. Despite the fact that US could be a guinea pig for this peculiarity, since doing fiscal exchanges over a cool messaging app may not draw in all the users. Also after the late news of Snapchat pictures being spilled on the net the security is still an issue.
Snapchat likewise advertised on Monday that it will bann all third party apps access to its apps to improve user privacy and security, however this still may not relieve the suspicious ones.
Worldwide online food delivery marketplaces Foodpanda and Delivery Hero on Monday proclaimed a series of partitioned securing deals. The two have gained companies possessed by the other in India, Mexico, and five Latin American nations.
Foodpanda assumed control Tastykhana in India, augmenting its position in food delivery markets around the world. Tastykhana will remain a free brand. Together, Foodpanda and Tastykhana will partner with in excess of 10,000 restaurants in India, covering in excess of 173 cities.
Foodpanda additionally procured the Mexican food delivery organizations Pedidosya, Semeantoja and Superantojo and targets market initiative in Mexico. The group has been operating in the Mexican market including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru since December 2012 under the hellofood brand. After the acquisitions, Mexican clients in 10 cities will have the choice from in excess of 2,500 restaurants.
Delivery Hero gained the Hellofood organizations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, and caught its market position in these markets, collecting 17,500 restaurants over eleven nations in Latin America, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Ralf Wenzel, Co-Founder and Managing Director of foodpanda group: "The acquisitions permit us to expand our business sector authority in India and enhance our solid position in Mexico. Consolidated with our efforts in other paramount markets, for example, Russia, Brazil and South East Asia." Niklas Östberg, CEO of Delivery Hero Holding: “Latin America holds a central role in our long-term strategy. With these acquisitions we further extend our leading position in a region with tremendous growth.”
About Foodpanda / HellofoodFoodpanda together with hellofood and Delivery Club, is the leading global online food delivery marketplace, active in 38 countries on five continents. The company enables restaurants to become visible in the online and mobile world and provides them with a constantly evolving online technology. Foodpanda operates in India, Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia and Serbia. hellofood operates in Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Algeria. Delivery Club operates in Russia.
About Delivery Hero Delivery Hero is a global network of online food ordering platforms with more than 75,000 partner restaurants worldwide. Delivery Hero has over 1000 employees in 23 countries, including 440 in its Berlin headquarters. Investors in the company include among others Insight Venture Partners, Kite Ventures, Team Europe, ru-Net, Tengelmann Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Phenomen Ventures and Vostok Nafta. www.deliveryhero.com
Reliancefreshdirect to deliver grocery products in a few neighborhoods of Mumbai.
The site is expected to offer fruits & vegetables, dairy products, basic supplies, bundled food, Drinks, confectionery items, Household and personal care products to the residents of Navi Mumbai, South Mumbai and parts of Thane.
According to a Medianama report, Reliance Retail had completed a pilot project at the Reliance Corporate Park office in Navi Mumbai where around 10,000 employees profited its offices through the website. To utilize the service, clients need to first register on the website then organization delivers the products to them either from the closest Reliance Store or by means of its other appropriation channels.
The website likewise have a 'My List' feature to spare a personal list of products and deliveries are free for requests above INR 750. Dependence Fresh Direct offers installment choices both online (Credit/Debit cards/Net Banking) and logged off (Cod). Concerning the return, trade and discount strategy, as of now it has a "no inquiries asked return approach" and sum is discounted by means of credit, store credit account, or through the installment system utilized by the client. The organization does not make any money discounts. Alternate points of interest like when it will broaden its services to different urban areas crosswise over India, are still undisclosed.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will begin selling India International Trade Fair (IITF) entry tickets for Business Days (14th Nov to 18th Nov 2014) from Friday i.e. fourteenth November 2014 and for general public days (19th Nov to 27th Nov 2014) from Wednesday i.e, nineteenth November 2014.
The IITF entry tickets for general public days (nineteenth Nov to 27th Nov 2014) will be accessible all the Metro stations with the exception of Airport Express Line, where tickets will be accessible for Trade Fair at one and only station i.e, Dhaula Kuan station. Hence, general public is exhorted that to keep away from a minute ago rush of buying tickets at Pragati Maidan Metro station, they should buy the tickets from their starting station. Nonetheless, tickets for Business Days (fourteenth Nov to eighteenth Nov 2014) will be accessible just from 30 Metro stations. These stations are: Rithala, Dilshad Garden, Jahangirpuri, HUDA City Center, Noida City Center, Anand Vihar, Central Secretariat, Inderlok, Kashmere Gate, Rajiv Chowk, Barakhamba, Saket, MG Road, Noida Sec-15, Vaishali, Laxmi Nagar, Rajori Garden, Janakpuri West, Dwarka Mor, Dwarka Sec-9, Dwarka Sec-21, Mundka, Peeragrahi, Punjabi Bagh, Badarpur, Govindpuri, Lajpat Nagar Mandi House, Janpath and Dhaula Kuan Metro station. IITF tickets for both business and general days can be purchased from Customer Care Centers of Metro stations from 08:30 AM to 04:00 PM on all days. The IITF Business days & General days entry tickets at Metro stations will be priced as under:
Business Days(fourteenth Nov to eighteenth Nov 2014) = Rs. 400
General Days (nineteenth Nov to 27th Nov 2014)
Price of ticket for weekday / weekend is Rs. 50 / Rs. 80 for adult and Rs. 30 / Rs. 50 for child. To encourage the public utilizing Delhi Metro while about-facing from progressing IITF at Pragati Maidan, the Delhi Metro will be solely working 20 token/smart card counters from inside the premises of IITF, Pragati Maidan close to its Gate No. 10 from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM on all general days i.e, nineteenth Nov to 27th Nov 2014
The IITF tickets will be sold from stations just for that day as the tickets are day particular just and no development tickets will be accessible available to be purchased. The DMRC is anticipating that monstrous swarms will utilize the Pragati Maidan Metro station and along these lines extra ticket counters will be opened at Pragati Maidan Metro station. Extra DMRC officers & staff, customer help specialists and security staff will likewise be sent at all stations.
NOTE: At Pragati Maidan Metro station, Trade Fair tickets will be accessible just for Metro clients. Individuals originating from our outside Metro premises need to purchase the tickets from ITPO Gate No. 1 and 2.
Train Operations: During the General days of IITF 2014 i.e, (nineteenth Nov to 27th Nov 2014), DMRC will be running crest hour recurrence of 2 min 45 sec on Line-3 from Dwarka to Yamuna Bank for the duration of the day i.e, from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Other than this, two trains on each one Line will likewise be kept as standby amid Trade Fair to encourage better traveler taking care of, at whatever point needed.
Micromax, the second biggest cell phone company in India, has some incredible plans for the promising new future. Presently with the aim of giving a remarkable user experience, the company disclosed their new brand called Yu.
As per the company's Yu Televentures, will be a completely claimed subsidiary of Micromax Informatics. It's the posterity of a tie-up in the middle of Micromax and Cyanogen. Cyanogen is, obviously, known world over for making one of the best custom ROM's for Android cell phones. So this tie-up will definitely mean great things for the Indian consumers.
Micromax prime supporter Rahul Sharma said "This will be a diversion changer in India, as well as globally as well. Yu has been imagined for building an ecosystem of associated devices and offer modified experience to users."
Considering the utilization for a gadget with substantial adaptability is for advanced users, the results of the brand Yu will be sold online. The company is as of now in chats with e-trade organizations to clear a path for the take off of these devices. The principal gadget from this brand will be presented one month from now.
In accordance with the open source nature of Cyanogen, Yu will be setting up a gathering where the users can help with ideas and tweaks for the operating framework. The proposals from this gathering may get consolidated in the fortnightly updates. For people who whine about the inaccessibility of updates on Indian producers, this ought to be inviting news.
A learning management system (LMS) is a software application or Web-based technology used to arrange, actualize, and evaluate a particular learning process. Commonly, a learning management system furnishes an instructor with an approach to make and convey content, screen student investment, and evaluate student execution. A learning management system might likewise furnish students with the capacity to utilize intuitive peculiarities, for example, strung discourses, feature conferencing, and exchange discussions. The Advanced Distance Learning gathering, supported by the United States Department of Defense, has made a set of details called Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) to empower the institutionalization of learning management systems. The learning management software industry has undergone some recent shifts. See how that’s affected the list of the Top 20 Most Popular LMS. Explanations for the changes are below, but first, here are the new rankings, with previous ranks in parentheses:
Moodle (1)
Edmodo (2)
Blackboard (4)
SkillSoft (10)
Schoology (6)
Cornerstone (9)
Collaborize Classroom (7)
SuccessFactors (8)
Instructure (11)
D2L (13)
Litmos (15)
DigitalChalk (16)
Interactyx (14)
Meridian (17)
Latitude Learning (18)
Docebo (12)
Educadium (19)
Rcampus (20)
eLogic (new)
BIS Training Solutions (new)
Please find the infographics below and explore all of the major changes and shifts in the LMS industry.
The becoming popularity of electronic cigarettes has now started the notice of the admirable Oxford Dictionaries, which has picked "vape" as the word of the year for 2014. The word can be a noun or a verb; it prevailed over contenders, for example, "bae" and "normcore."
Noting that e-cigarettes have made some amazing progress since the early 1980s, when the "vape" was initially inhaled into life, the folks at Oxford Dictionaries say it took briefly for the new market, and the new word, to develop.
"A hole developed in the dictionary, as an issue was needed to depict this action, and recognize it from "smoking," " as per the lexicon's announcement. "The word vape emerged to fill this hole, and it has proliferated along with the propensity."
In the event that you've never frequented a vape shop, the word can apply both to breathing an e-cigarette's vapor and to an e-cigarette gadget.
"I especially love viewing a word like "vape" make etymological thump on impacts, such as listening to the word "tobacco" now used to qualify "cigarette," " says Casper Grathwohl, president of the Dictionaries Division at Oxford University Press. "Anyway in the not so distant future "vape" likewise served as a clever window onto how we characterize ourselves."
For more iconic issues, here are the words that Oxford Dictionaries says are the wannabes of 2014:
bae, noun:
Utilized as an issue of charm for one's sentimental accomplice.
budtender, noun:
An individual whose employment is to serve clients in a cannabis dispensary or shop.
contactless, descriptive word:
Identifying with or including advances that permit a savvy card, cellular telephone, and so forth to contact remotely to an electronic peruser, ordinarily to make an installment.
indyref, noun:
The submission on Scottish freedom, held in Scotland on 18 September 2014, in which voters were asked to answer yes or no to the inquiry "Ought to Scotland be a free nation?"
normcore, noun:
A pattern in which normal, unfashionable garments is worn as an issue style proclamation.
slacktivism, noun, informal:
Activities performed by means of the Internet in backing of a political or social cause however viewed as obliging little time or contribution, e.g. marking an online appeal to or joining a crusade aggregate on a social networking site.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been given Z-category security by the central government considering his "vulnerability to assaults from his rivals".
The decision has been taken by the home ministry in the wake of getting inputs from security organizations and expanded view of threat to Ramdev, official sources said.
As such, Ramdev was qualified for Z-category security just inside the locale of Uttarakhand according to a decision of the state government.
Near saffron forces, Ramdev, originator of Haridwar-based Patanjali Yogpeeth, had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi not long ago.
The sources said Ramdev will be given commandos of one of the paramilitary forces with quick impact. Upwards of 40 security staff will be guarding him round-the-clock.
Ramdev has been vocal for a few years requesting activity to bring back black money stashed abroad and discipline to those discovered guilty.
As a component of his against debasement development, he had held an open rally for a couple of days at Ramlila Maidan here in 2011. Taking after a police crackdown, he fled the site wearing lady's attire.
Three Congress minister Sachin Pilot, Beni Prasad Verma and Jitin Prasada are situated to lose their Z security spread, sources said.
Keeping in mind the end goal to clear its inventories, Motorola has sliced the prices for the Moto X (first gen) by Rs 6,000. At one time valued at Rs 24,000, Motorola is presently offering the smartphone for Rs 17,999 on Flipkart.
Dispatched in August 2013, the Moto X features a 4.7-inch show with a 10mp primary camera and a 2mp secondary camera. The smartphone is powered runs on Android Kitkat OS, and is pressed with dual-core 1.7 Ghz processor with 2gb RAM.
Pros:
Ultimate screen; Smooth UI navigation; Excellent gaming performance; Very great music output; Kitkat 4.4.4 out-of-the-box.
Cons:
Fails to offer the premium touch; Disappointing camera; Average battery life; Limited storage; Not perfect for one-gave utilization.
Key Specifications
Not at all like its forerunner, the Moto X (2014) is about crude force. Sponsored by a Snapdragon 801 chip (quad-core timed at 2.5 Ghz), its the most influential handset in its value range. The inside storage is 16 GB. Of which 12 GB is client available. Most Android fans will be disillusioned by the absence of memory extension space. This single SIM telephone accompanies a 13 megapixel camera with dual LED glimmer. Different specs incorporate Wi-FI, A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, and 2300 mah battery.
Software
The new Moto X boats with Android 4.4.4 Kitkat. Since Motorola has quit altering Android after its tragic Motoblur UI, the launcher on Moto X is like what you get on the Nexus gadgets.
Verdict
The Moto X is compelling handset with a great screen. So on the off chance that you are into gaming, try for this handset. Then again, evaluated at Rs 33,000, the telephone doesn't feel premium. The battery performance is disappointing. In the event that you have any adoration for camera, stay far from the Moto X. In this value range, the HTC One (E8) additionally has its impart of disadvantages, however given a decision I'll rather pick it over the Moto X (2014).
Features: 4/5 Outline and Build Quality: 3/5 Performance: 4/5 Esteem For Money: 4/5 Mojo: 4/5
Following two years of popping up at prominent occasions donning Google Glass, the contraption that changes eyeglasses into spy-motion picture commendable engineering, Google fellow benefactor Sergey Brin walked out and out into a Silicon Valley celebrity main street occasion on Sunday.
He'd cleared out his pair in the auto, Brin told a journalist. The Googler, who heads up the top-mystery lab which created Glass, has scarcely abandoned the product — he as of late wore his pair to the shoreline.
In any case Brin's timing is not favorable, nearing as numerous designers and early Glass clients are losing enthusiasm toward the greatly built up, $1,500 test form of the product: a cam, processor and stamp-sized machine screen mounted to the edge of eyeglass edges. Google Inc itself has pushed back the Glass take off to the mass market.
While Glass may discover some particular, even lucrative, utilizes as a part of the work environment, its prospects of turning into a purchaser hit within a brief span of time are thin, numerous designers say.
Of 16 Glass application producers reached by Reuters, nine said that they had ceased chip away at their projects or surrendered them, generally due to the absence of clients or constraints of the gadget. Three increasingly have changed to producing for business, abandoning customer projects.
A lot of bigger engineers stay with Glass. The almost 100 applications on the official web site incorporate Facebook and Opentable, albeit one noteworthy player as of late surrendered: Twitter.
"On the off chance that there was 200 million Google Glasses sold, it would be an alternate point of view. There's no market right now," said Tom Frencel, the Chief Executive of Little Guy Games, which put advancement of a Glass diversion on hold in the not so distant future and is taking a gander at different stages, including the Facebook Inc-possessed virtual-reality goggles Oculus Rift.
A few key Google representatives instrumental to creating Glass have left the organization in the most recent six months, including lead designer Babak Parviz, electrical building chief Adrian Wong, and Ossama Alami, executive of engineer relations.
Furthermore a Glass subsidizing consortium made by Google Ventures and two of Silicon Valley's greatest financial speculators, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz, quietly erased its website, steering clients to the primary Glass site.
There's no market as of right now
Google demands it is resolved to Glass, with many engineers and officials chipping away at it, and also new fashionista supervisor Ivy Ross, a previous Calvin Klein official. Several thousands use Glass in the pilot purchaser program.
"We are totally energized and as energized as ever about the open door that wearables and Glass specifically speak to," said Glass Head of Business Operations Chris O'neill.
Glass was the first extend to rise up out of Google's X division, the hidden gathering tasked with creating "moonshot" products, for example, heading toward oneself cars. Glass and wearable devices general add up to another innovation, as smartphones once were, that will probably require significant investment to advance into a product that clicks with consumers.
"We are as dedicated as ever to a purchaser launch. That is going to require significant investment and we are not going to launch this product until its completely prepared," O'neill said. Brin had anticipated a launch in the not so distant future, yet 2015 is presently the probably date, an individual familiar with the matter said.
GLASS SELLING… ON EBAY
After a beginning blast of energy, signs that consumers are abandoning Glass have been building.
Google named the first set of a few thousand Glass clients as "Pilgrims." But as the Explorers hit the roads, they drew gazes and jokes. Some individuals saw the gadget, fit for surreptitious video recording, as an unpalatable protection interruption, criticizing the once-pleased Explorers as "Glassholes."
"It looks super geeky," said Shevetank Shah, a Washington, DC-based expert, whose Google Glass now assembles clean in a drawer. "I'm a card convey geek, however this was one card too much."
Glass now offers on ebay for as meager as half list cost, Buy now.
A few designers as of late have felt unsupported by financial specialists and, at times, Google itself.
The Glass Collective, the subsidizing consortium co-run by Google Ventures, put resources into just three or four little new companies by the start of this current year, an individual familiar with the statistics said.
A Google Ventures representative declined to remark on the quantity of ventures and said the Web site was shut for effortlessness. "We simply thought that it was' simpler for entrepreneurs to come to us specifically," she said.
The absence of a launch date has provided for a few designers the feeling that Google still treats Glass as an experiment.
"It's not an enormous enough stage to play on truly," said Matthew Milan, author of Toronto-based programming firm Normative Design, which put on hold a Glass application for logging practice and biking. Portable amusement organization Glu Mobile, known for its prominent "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood" title, was one of the first to launch a diversion on Glass. Spellista, a puzzler discharged a year prior, is still accessible, yet Glu has ceased chip away at it, a representative for the organization said.
An alternate designer, Sean Mccracken, won $10,000 in a challenge a year ago for making an outsiders themed video amusement for Glass, Psyclops, however Google never put it on the official center for Glass applications, making it harder to discover. He has stopped chipping away at updates.
Still, there are some energetic designers. Cycling and running application Strava discovers Glass appropriate for its clients, who need constant information on their workouts, said David Lorsch, VP of business advancement. Furthermore business visionary Jake Steinerman said it is perfect for his organization, Drivesafe, which discovers if individuals are nodding off at the worst possible time.
In April, Google launched the Glass at Work program to help make the gadget helpful for particular businesses, for example, medicinal services and assembling. So far the exertion has brought about applications that are generally tried or utilized at organizations, for example, Boeing and Yum Brands' Taco Bell. Google is offering Glass in mass to a few businesses, offering two-for-one rebates.
Crowdoptic, which uses Glass as portable computers for specialists and other individuals out of offices, is presently being used at 19 U.s. hospitals and anticipates that that will develop to 100 hospitals right on time one year from now, said Chief Executive Jon Fisher.
Alex Foster started See Through, a Glass advertising analytics firm for business, after a wander firm recently withdrew its offer to back his shopper situated Glass wellness organization when it got to be clear no enormous buyer Glass discharge was fast approaching.
"It was obliterating," he said. "The majority of the buyer glass new businesses are either totally dead or have turned," to big business products or adversary wearable
