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Digital
Online doctor search platform Practo launches diagnostic search across 8 cities
Online doctor  search platform Practo launches diagnostic search across 8 cities - YourStory.com
'Diagnostic Search' will offer an ease of search for consumers who are looking for information related to various tests, labs and their accreditation and doctors

Digital
Why IPO is no longer a priority for tech startups
NEW DELHI: Not way back, should you have been a younger, brash technologist with a world-conquering startup concept, there was a good probability you spent

Digital
Spice Digital partners with Ezetap to roll out mPOS
Spice Digital, a leading assisted e-commerce service provider has partnered with Ezetap,the first and the only Made-in-India, intelligent Mobile Point-of-Sale Solution provider to roll out mPOS services in 'SpiceSafar' retail outlets across India.

Digital
Digital India: MyGov makers to introduce apps in Indian languages
Digital India: MyGov makers to  introduce apps in Indian languages - Focus News
MyGov makers to introduce apps in Indian languages - The makers of MyGov mobile app, which connects the Indian government with citizens for good governance, said on Tuesday that they hope to make its …


Retail
Top 6 e-grocers: Liberal funding boosts growth
Top 6 e-grocers: Liberal funding  boosts growth - Economic Times
Taking out time to buy grocery after a grueling day at work has become a thing of the past with online grocery marketplaces transforming the way you shop.

Retail
Tech-enabling kirana stores solve woes
Tech-enabling kirana stores  solve woes - The Asian Age
Failure is the stepping stone to success and Kiran Gali, founder and CEO of NumberMall, is an ...

Retail
Pankh: A trust that trains disabled youth to join the retail industry
Pankh: A trust  that trains disabled youth to join the retail industry - Mid-Day
A trust called Pankh trains disabled youth to join the retail industry, enhancing their self-esteem, giving them an income and creating an alternative work force

Retail
Lifestyle product brand Swiss Military expanding presence in country with an investment of Rs 200 crore & 4,000 new stores in next two years
Lifestyle product brand Swiss  Military expanding presence in country with an investment of Rs 200 crore & 4,000 new stores in next two years - Firstpost
In its first phase of expansion, it began as a corporate gifting solution. In 2012, it moved into in-flight sales partnering with Jet Airways, Indigo and Air India.


Telecom
After Ratan Tata, now Vodafone's Arun Sarin: Ola ropes in corporate biggies to take on Uber
Ola seems to be the pick of the season as this is the second fund-raisal of its kind after Ratan Tata, the chairman Emeritus of Tata sons, invested in the app based taxi aggregator.

Telecom
India's best and worst telcos : Aircel and Airtel are India's best telcos, while the worst are Reliance Communications, MTNL and Idea- Livemint
A Mint-instaVaani survey shows that Aircel and Airtel are India's best telcos, while the worst are Reliance Communications, MTNL and Idea

Telecom
Low development cost sparks boom in mobile banking as Axis Bank's mobile transactions double in June
Low development cost sparks boom  in mobile banking as Axis Bank's mobile transactions double in June - Zee news
Third-largest private sector lender Axis Bank Tuesday reported doubling of its number of mobile transactions for June, with the total value touching the Rs 2,400 crore mark.

Telecom
'Industry pledges $75 bn on Digital India launch'
The industry has vowed a hefty investment of $75 billion (Rs 4,72,500 Crores) at the launch of the Digital India week Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad


Finance
ICICI Bank aims to double mobile banking userbase to 1 crore
ICICI Bank is looking to double its active mobile banking users to one crore in the next nine months, a move that will help the country's largest private sector lender lower cost of rendering services

Finance
Hindalco said to seek refinancing of $2.4 billion debt
Hindalco Industries, the Indian aluminum producer backed by billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla, is seeking to refinance about Rs15,000 crore of debt, people familiar with the matter said

Finance
Why E-wallets may be the new headache for banks after bad loans
Why E-wallets may be the new  headache for banks after bad loans - Economic Times
In 1981, the first credit cards were launched and later, debit cards were issued. As of now Indian banks have issued 57.4 crore debit and credit cards.

Finance
Nestle pays Ambuja Cements Rs 20 crore to destroy Maggi packets
These costs and other unforeseen costs will be dealt with in line with the applicable accounting standards, said the company


Food/FMCG
Nestle pays Ambuja Cements Rs 20 crore to destroy Maggi packets
Nestle pays Ambuja Cements Rs 20  crore to destroy Maggi packets - ET
Ambuja Cements is believed to have been paid the amount for burning the recalled packets of Maggi at its cement plant in Chandrapur in Maharashtra.

Food/FMCG
Diageo-owned USL sells its entire stake in United Breweries to Heineken for Rs 872 crore
Diageo-owned  USL sells its entire stake in United Breweries to Heineken for Rs 872 crore - ET
USL said on Tuesday that it is exiting all non-core investments having sold 85 lakh shares, or 3.21%, for Rs 872 crore in a block trade.

Food/FMCG
Vi-John: A little-known desi brand emerges as a leader with a foreign-sounding name
Vi-John: A  little-known desi brand emerges as a leader with a foreign-sounding name - Economic Times
Vi-John's volume market share in India stood at 29.2 per cent in May, over three times that of Dettol, almost four times that of Axe and over seven times that of Gillette.

Food/FMCG
Major food companies like Domino's and Coca-Cola deploying defence mechanisms to prevent brand damage
Major food companies like  Domino's and Coca-Cola deploying defence mechanisms to prevent brand damage - Economic Times
If Dominos is banking on neutral consumers to defend its brand, Coca-Cola is taking scientific measures to control any potential damage to its brands.


Software
How tech-startup CultureAlley's app 'Hello English' is ruling the charts on Google Play store in India?
How tech-startup  CultureAlley's app 'Hello English' is ruling the charts on Google Play store in India? - Economic Times
After graduation, Patni returned to Gurgaon from Chicago to work in a Khosla Ventures-backed solar energy startup, but kept alive his dream.

Software
TCS' R&D spending drops marginally to Rs 909 crore in 2014-15
TCS' R&D spending drops  marginally to Rs 909 crore in 2014-15 - Economic Times
The total expenditure on research and development (R&D) activities by the country's largest IT services firm TCS dipped marginally to Rs 909.25 crore in 2014-15.

Software
Google Earth may host 3D imagery of India's major cities
Google Earth may host 3D imagery  of India's major cities - Economic Times
3D imagery of buildings and terrain of India's major cities, including Rashtrapati Bhavan and PMO, could soon be seen in Google Earth.

Software
How can Digital India transform our Nation?
VISAKHAPATNAM : The Visakhaptnam Special Economic Zone (VSEZ), in association with Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) organised a programme to familiarise, popularise and extend the Digital India initiative of the NDA government. The main


Ecommerce
Housing.com holds meeting to field questions from employees, says will work to reduce attrition rate
Housing.com holds meeting to  field questions from employees, says will work to reduce attrition rate - ET Retail
Chief HR officer Ajay Nair replied that the "decision was not taken with regard to Rahul yadav's performance but because of lack of discipline."..

Ecommerce
Paytm has set aside $100 million to help sellers go online; planning to get nearly one lakh of them on its marketplace by the end of this year
Paytm has set aside $100 million (about Rs 640 crore) to help sellers go online. Paytm wants to get nearly 10,000 service providers on board.

Ecommerce
After maternity benefits Flipkart to roll out paternity policy too; to increase the paternity leave to 10 days
After maternity benefits  Flipkart to roll out paternity policy too; to increase the paternity leave to 10 days - ET Retail
The company will increase the paternity leave to 10 days either before the child is born or within six months after the child is born, the spokesperson said...

Ecommerce
Ola is helping consumers have an alternative travel medium, will invest in Indias consumer-facing businesses on the mobile: Arun Sarin
Former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, is the latest investor to bet on India's digital revolution with an investment in Ola. In an interview, he speaks about his role as independent director


Franchise
Building Types 101 for franchisees
Building Types 101 for  franchisees - Franchising USA Magazine
- Franchising USA MagazineBe cautious in locations where it's difficult to control your destiny; no amount of advertising will make anyone drive to the airport to shop or dine unless they are flying somewhere.


HR
HR Meets Technology: The Ten Facets Of Culture
HR Meets Technology: The Ten  Facets Of Culture - Forbes
HR is experiencing a watershed moment. It's not like the massive shift from virtual punchcards and e-forms to Cloud-based applications and analytics. It's not the sudden appearance of millennials texting in the staff cafeteria, or the first Internet conference call. It's the shift to a new paradigm: HR and Technology [...]

HR
Amazing to see Bengalureans' unfettered ambitions: NetApp CEO George Kurian
Last month, George Kurian was appointed CEO of the $6-billion, US-based computer storage and data management company NetApp.

HR
Ranbaxy manufacturing management said to be in Sun's sights for cuts
Sun Pharmaceutical is expected to start looking at the management of some of the Ranbaxy Laboratories manufacturing sites, with an eye toward flattening out the chain of command, as Sun Managing Director Dilip Shanghvi continues to clean house after completing the Ranbaxy acquisition.

HR
Job growth not GDP growth matters for India
Job growth not GDP growth  matters for India - East Asia Forum
Author: Rajiv Kumar, CPR Extensive commentary on the latest Indian GDP growth numbers has been unable to clear prevailing confusion on whether the economy is


Logistics
Green Tyres being Developed: Versalis, Ecombine and EVE Rubber Institute creating these, using Styrene Butadiene (s-SBR) and butadiene bubber ( Nd- HCBR), will enhance performance and be more environment friendly
The partnership will integrate Versalis' elastomers technologies with EVE's ATCM technology for the production of advanced elastomer compounds designed for the tyre market

Logistics
Ixigo,a leading mobile travel marketplace company launches PNR Prediction for Indian Railways trains; will show near accurate probability for next station bookings also
Ixigo,a leading mobile travel  marketplace company launches PNR Prediction for Indian Railways trains; will show near accurate probability for next station bookings also - Financial  Express
ixigo, India's leading mobile travel marketplace has launched a PNR prediction feature for train travellers. ixigo's popular train information application with over 1.5 million monthly active users, "ixigo trains & hotels", will now get PNR confirmation predictions in addition to the market-leading information, search & planning tools for train travellers.

Logistics
Indian Railways in pilot project with TCS to conduct recruitment exam online
Indian Railways  in pilot project with TCS to conduct recruitment exam online - Economic Times
"iON has about Rs 1,000 cr in revenue now. It could become a separate unit because it has an entirely different way of working," a TCS exec said...

Logistics
E-commerce major Flipkart to go app-only, following Myntra by September; has 1 crore hits daily and 80 lakh shipments per month
E-commerce major Flipkart to go  app-only, following Myntra by September; has 1 crore hits daily and 80 lakh shipments per month - Economic Times
E-commerce major Flipkart will go the Myntra way, the company it had acquired last year, by operating only through mobile app from September.


Construction
Bidding war for Sahara property in Gorakhpur
The Supreme Court on Tuesday entertained a fresh bidder for Sahara group's 45-acre property in Gorakhpur, who offered to pay almost twice the amount for which the cash-strapped group was selling it to another buyer.

Construction
Declining borrowing cost to spurt home buying
Drone user is a real estate portal stafferMUMBAI: A day after a professor of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) alerted the police about someone flying a drone outside the campus, the Trombay police on Tuesday detained an employee of housing.com, a real estate portal. An unidentified 

Construction
Home Builder delay leave with no option other than legal recourse
Try to approach the developer as a group. If no resolution comes through, take legal advice for further action

Construction
Rahul Yadav denies any role in Housing.com hacking episode
Rahul Yadav denies any role in  Housing.com hacking episode - Techradar India
Rahul Yadav, who seems to believe in 'any publicity is a good publicity,' has often been regarded as Rakhi Sawant and KRK of the corporate world by Twitterati.


Marketing
Indian Mobile Streaming App Saavn Raises $100 mn : Report
Indian streaming company Saavn announced Tuesday (July 7) the closing of $100-million in Series C funding, a strong signal of the market for legal music services in the world's second-most populous country. The round was led by Tiger Global Management, Bertelsmann India Investments and three other previous investors, and a number of new investors including private equity investor Quilvest.

Marketing
Flipkart to go `app only' by September, shut web site : report
Online retailer Flipkart is planning to shut its web site from September and switch over to an 'app only' model, using the mobile platform in a move to boost digital experience, reports quoting company officials said.

Marketing
The Most Important Marketing Stats of 2015 (So Far) : Exclusive
Business 2 Community
The Most Important Marketing Stats of 2015 (So Far)Business 2 Community63% of panelists reported an increase in spending on data-driven marketing and advertising over the past year. Big data has been a major buzzword across the business world of late, and marketing pros can take advantage of these insights. Putting the 

Marketing
Why Cisco just plunked $139 million for a cloud software company
Why Cisco just plunked $139  million for a cloud software company - Fortune
MaintenanceNet's tech could help Cisco grab more business as the Internet of things matures. The deal follows two other big Cisco buys.


Politics
Vyapam Scam A 'Silly Issue' That Does Not Require Statement From PM, Says Law Minister

UDAIPUR — Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda sparked off a controversy on Tuesday after he termed the multi-crore Vyapam scam that has claimed the lives of scores of people connected directly or

Politics

Politics
Relief For Priyanka Gandhi As HC Says Her Shimla Land Deal Can't Be Revealed For Now

SHIMLA—The Himachal Pradesh High Court today stayed an order of the State Information Commission that detailed information about the land purchased by Priyanka Vadra, daughter of Congress Presid

Politics
AAP intensifies demand for referendum on the issue of full statehood for Delhi

Intensifying its demand for referendum on the issue of statehood of Delhi, the AAP on Tuesday said it will work with the Delhi government.


Sports
Sri Lanka-born cricketer dies after being hit on chest during British Tamil league match

British cricketer dies due to injuries suffered after being hit on the chest during Division 3 match in British Tamil League.

Sports
Younis Khan's unbeaten 171 helps Pakistan chase record total, seal series 2-1 against Sri Lanka

Younis faced 271 balls in his marathon unbeaten knock, hitting 18 boundaries in his 11th 150-plus score.

Sports
Sachin Tendulkar's special wish for MS Dhoni on his birthday: Tum jiyo hazaroon saal…

Sachin Tendulkar posted a special message for birthday boy MS Dhoni on his Twitter account.

Sports
Wimbledon: Novak Djokovic wins five set marathon; Serena Williams, Maria Sharpova book semis berth

Wimbledon 2015: Novak Djokovic beat big serving Anderson while Serena Williams had a hard time against Victoria Azerenka in the QFs.


Entertainment
'Batman v Superman' is not 'Man of Steel' sequel: Henry Cavill

Actor Henry Cavill has denied speculations that his upcoming film "Batman v Superman" would be a sequel to the 2013 superhero hit "Man of Steel".

Entertainment
Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' video fastest to reach 1 billion views

Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" video has hit one million views and become the fastest to do so.

Entertainment
Aamir Khan Productions looking for fresh female face

Aamir Khan's production house is searching for a fresh female face, who can sing as well.

Entertainment
Shahid Kapoor marries Mira Rajput: Bollywood friends wish them a happy married life

Genelia D'Souza, Riteish Deshmukh, Bipasha Basu and others took to Twitter to wish Shahid and Mira a happy married life.


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