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The E-Commerce committee headed by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant held its first meeting on Monday to discuss issues related with the sector. In the meeting, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) and IT body Nasscom gave detailed presentations to the members on fast the growing e-commerce sector, the PTI report published in TOI stated. Last month, the government had set up the committee to look into all issues, including foreign direct investment norms, pertaining to the e-commerce industry. Members in the panel include officials from Ministry of Commerce and...

Global ed-tech company Simplilearn has strengthened its leadership team by the appointment of Ashish Virmani as Vice president – Marketing and Categories. Virmani will focus on driving growth for the business through integrated plans across marketing and category functions. Virmani comes with over 11 years of diversified experience across India’s fastest growing start-ups and established FMCG brands as well. He joins Simplilearn from FreeCharge where he was the Associate Vice President – Marketing. Prior to that, he used to head Offline Marketing initiatives at Flipkart. The appointment is the latest...

Capital Float, one of the largest digital lending platforms to SMEs in India, has partnered with OfBusiness, a B2B e-commerce marketplace, to help small scale Indian manufacturers and traders avail easy funding for expanding their business. Through this partnership, buyers on the OfBusiness platform can leverage Capital Float’s Pay Later product to avail instant funds for procuring industrial materials. This partnership will help in bringing informal borrowers into the mainstream credit ecosystem. Buyers on this platform often face hurdles in obtaining timely finance to operate and expand their business, due...

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a telecommunication services provider, said that customers can switch their existing 2G/3G SIMs with 4G ready USIMs completely free of cost at any Airtel retail store in 37 towns in Assam including Guwahati, Silchar, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Tinsukia, Bongaigaon, Sibsagar, Nagaon, Lakhimpur, Barpeta, Duliajan, Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Dhemaji, Golaghat, Gaolpara, Mangaldoi and Nalbari. Airtel plans to launch 4G services in Assam soon. With the USIM upgrade, customers can continue enjoying their existing 2G/3G services, while staying ready to experience Airtel 4G from the day of its launch. Read...

Social media platforms have always been a powerful tool to create a dialogue with the end users and understand their expectations from the brand. On the sidelines of much talked about RJio Launch, leading telecom vendors such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, and Idea Cellular are now enhancing their digital footprints why focusing on social media engagement. Telecom companies want to utilize the feedback from netizens to frame better customer satisfaction policies in order to retain its loyal customer base. For this, they are using data analytics and web-crawling tools...

Mukesh Ambani’s ambitious Reliance Jio 4G service that aims to digitally connect over 10 crore people in the country is finally out. What Ambani terms as “Datagiri”, RJio’s attractive tariff offers that promises to free its users from voice calls, RJio has rightly hit the minds of customers. Rolled out on the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, RJio has already disrupted the telecom market in India, compelling its rivals to slash tariff rates. RJio is expected to further intensify the data battle among telecom vendors, ultimately benefiting the digital revolution...

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has built a prototype wireless unit incorporating inter-subarray coding technology, which makes it possible to achieve high-speed transmissions, in excess of 10 Gbps, for 5G mobile wireless base stations and access points. It has achieved these high speeds whilst maintaining low power consumption levels on par with Wi-Fi. In verification tests, the prototype successfully transmitted signals simultaneously to multiple devices. In order to achieve 5G ultra high-speed communications, for which development is ongoing with the aim of practical implementation by about 2020, attention...

Social Media Week, a week-long global digital conference that connects leaders across industries to “re-imagining human connectivity”- is scheduled to be organized in Mumbai from September 12 to 16, 2016. The driver for the Global theme for 2016 is the acceptance of changing technology and communications – ‘The Invisible Hand’: Hidden Forces of Technology (and how we can Harness it for Good). The international conference, SMW - Mumbai is organised and ho Several other eminent speakers including Sean Gardner, Forbes no 1 social media power influencer; Vivek Nayer, Chief Marketing...

Corporate Affairs Ministry has assured Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of taking up the pending payment issue of cash-strapped e-commerce firm on priority basis, ET Tech reported. Representatives of All India Online Vendors Association (AIOVA) recently met Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the issue of pending payment from askmebazaar.com. Since the issue raised by AIOVA pertained to Ministry of Corporate affairs, Sitharaman has sought intervention of Corporate Affairs Secretary to resolve the matter. “Corporate Affairs (Secretary) assured Sitharaman that he shall take up the issues raised by AIOVA on a priority basis,” the...

The India International Innovation Fair 2016, the first of its kind in India, will begin from 9th to 11th September,2016 at BIEC, Bangalore. Organized by the Indian Innovators Association and supported by the International Federation of Inventors Association (IFIA), a Geneva based body. The Department of science and technology, GOI has also extended their support. 25 member countries of IFIA will be participating at IIIF 2016. Bangalore, the ‘Silicon valley of India’, has emerged as the tech capital and innovation hub of India, is rated among the top 10 cities...