Bharti Airtel has selected IBM and Red Hat to build its new 5G-ready telco network cloud to support core operations, monetise the telco’s pan-India 4G network with the help of new services and be more competitive against main rival Reliance Jio Infocomm. Both IBM and RedHat will help Airtel build its next-generation core network, analytical […]
Big tech has crushed the news business. That’s about to change
Representative Image By Ben Smith It reads like a coroner’s report on the news business, 623 pages filled with charts and graphs detailing the devastating decline in local news and public policy reporting of the past decade. It landed on the Australian prime minister’s desk last summer, unnoticed by most news consumers in America and […]
New-age brands look for a direct connect with users
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi New-age brands in the personal grooming, hygiene, premium packaged foods, and clothing space are expanding their online footprints beyond ecommerce leaders Amazon and BigBasket, moving supply chains from China to India and rejigging product portfolios to focus on health and wellness due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At least ten brands, including Wow […]
ETtech Top 5: Demand sputters for non-essentials, Lenskart expects uptick in sales & more
As India enters the last week of Lockdown 3.0, there are many questions as to what will happen after May 17. While the Indian Railways restarted bookings for passenger trains, it remains to be seen whether this is a step to ease the country out of the lockdown. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also met chief […]
Marriott International ties up with Swiggy for home delivery
Marriott International has announced its “Marriott on Wheels” delivery service initiative will now be available in more cities through a partnership with Swiggy. This association would be the first of its kind for Marriott International hotels across India, as they adapt to this new model for their home delivery service. Over 20 hotels in Bengaluru, […]
E-comm to gain as malls suffer: Report
About 54% of consumers are expected to cut spends in malls largely to avoid crowds while boosting spends on channels like e-commerce, said a report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Up to 35% consumers said they would increase spending through e-commerce, the highest compared to other retail formats. This is an indication of e-commerce emerging […]
Spotify signs licensing deal with Saregama for India market
Music streaming service Spotify has struck a licensing deal with Saregama for the India market, enabling the company to offer the label’s music catalogue on its platform. As per the deal, Spotify will get access to more than 100,000 music tracks across various genres like Film, Carnatic, Hindustani classical and devotional music in over 25 […]
With no crowds, e-funerals are the new normal
If the Hindu shradh is a long, social goodbye packed with rites and rituals, hundreds gather at church pews to honour and eulogise their loved one at a Roman Catholic funeral mass. The rituals of saying final goodbyes run deep in every faith. But the Covid-19 pandemic has robbed families of such tradition, no matter […]
SJM’s Ashwani Mahajan raises concern over foreign funded e-pharmacies
Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an affiliate of the Sangh Parivar, raised concern over NITI Aayog allegedly “promoting” foreign-funded e-pharmacies, which the front said are functioning illegally in India. SJM national co-convenor Ashwani Mahajan tweeted on this issue, tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to flag his concern. “Respected @narendramodi ji please see CEO @NITIAayog is promoting e-pharmacies […]
India tops Zoom downloads in April
India was the biggest market for Zoom in terms of the number of mobile application downloads in April despite the security issues and government warnings. Zoom was the most downloaded non-game app worldwide for April 2020 with close to 131 million installs, a 60x growth from April 2019, according to Sensor Tower. The countries with […]