Technology

How New Google PLA Adding to Google’s Bottomline ?

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Product Listing Ads (PLAs) are Google’s search ads that include richer product information, such as an image of the product, price and merchant info, without requiring additional text or keywords. When users search for an item, Google will automatically show the most relevant products along with the image, price, and product name. These PLAs now form the backbone of a user’s Google Shopping experience.

The Following Picture Shows Google’s New PLA laid out on the search result page which is contributing to Google’s Bottom line heavily, even in the Mobile Ads Format.

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The Rise and Rise of Instagram

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If you fast-forward not quite two years later and Instagram has become a leading platform both for users and brands. We look at the growth in adoption of Instagram both by users of most demographics as well as, importantly, by brands (and future potential big Instagram advertisers).

Both the number of brands with active accounts (accounts that are used more than once per month) and the number of brands that regularly post photos (a common marketing use case) has increased by more than 50% over the past year. Furthermore, the percentage of global

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JustDial’s Local Search Gets More Competitive with Rise of Getit

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getit local search business vs justdialWith the rise of Internet penetration in India, SME-related search and allied services are likely to undergo a significant transformation. Getit Infomedia (Getit) is one of the key players in this fast evolving landscape. Getit is building a formidable presence in India’s local search market through acquisitions and alliances with global Internet brands.

India’s SME ad market has already changed significantly when voice-based directory services (notably, Justdial) expanded this market and gained market share against traditional print classifieds / yellowpages services. In our interaction, Getit’s CEO indicated that with increasing Internet penetration, the SME ad market is likely to expand and undergo another significant shift

Getit Partnerships & Expansion
Getit expanded its SME relationships by

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Real Time Entertainment on Internet renders TV Obsolete

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Real Time Entertainment Using iNternet Replaces TVSince the inception of the TV business, the rules have been very clear: If you want to sell TV services, you need something in short supply – Broadcast Spectrum, vast sums of capital to run every home with coaxial cable and the last one in the evolution was DTH/DBS orbital slot and a geosynchronous satellite. Today, to sell video services, you need a web server. Real time entertainment (RTE) is the most significant source of fixed-line data traffic in every region of the world. It makes up 62% of traffic in North America, 46% in Asia and 36% in Europe

We’re in the midst of two revolutions: the rise of broadband and the proliferation of apps. These two revolutions will meet. And, that meeting will likely occur in your living room. In effect,

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Stop! The Internet in India – Exponential Growth Ahead!!

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From Shaadi to Shopping, Banking to Travels, Learning to Leasing, The Internet is India’s new mantra—slowly but surely it is gaining commercial scale in areas such as advertising, retail and travel. The Indian Internet story is unique—it is already large (190 mn Internet users), but still has an exponential growth ahead of it in terms of penetration (only 17%) and participation (less than 10% Internet users transact online). Over three-fourths of its users are less than 35 years old and thus keen to embrace this change. The Indian Internet market is driven by (1) High Speed Connectivity (2) Content, (3) Rising Income and

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JustDial from Local Search to MarketPlace e-Commerce – Compete Flipkart / eBay / Amazon

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JustDial from Local Search to ecommerce facilitatorJustDial is likely to generate non-linear revenue growth in the time to come with the launch of new transactional nature services like food delivery, table bookings at restaurants, placing order for wine, taking appointment with a doctor, placing order for flowers and cake (tie-up with ‘Ferns N Petals’), grocery and medicines, courier pick-up service, laundry service, travel booking (Redbus), AC maintenance services etc. Several of the above services are already operational and the rest will likely be launched shortly. These unique services and first mover advantage (as a one-stop shop) in the same should create a diversified scalable revenue stream for Just Dial. These services will allow

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Why we Appreciate Google / Amazon’s Future Vision & Investment in Technology ?

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Google and Future of TechnologyClose on the heels of Amazon’s delivery drones PR, Google’s Andy Rubin is reminding everyone that GOOG also has very broad ambitions. Rubin granted the New York Times access to previously non-public information regarding his next venture within Google. Rubin ran GOOG’s Android group until March 2013. At the time, GOOG simply stated that he was going to do other thing within GOOG, but did not disclose his new focus until today. According to the New York Times article,

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Aadhar Card / UIDAI Biometric Card Enrollment in India Touches 500Mn

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UIDAI Aadhar CardThe enrollment in the ambitious Indian Government’s Unique Identity Authority of India – UIDAI a.k.a Aadhar Card has touched 490Mn [little short of 500 Mn / 50 Cr] and is all set to reach the 600m targeted by Mar’14. As we have highlighted before, UID aims to lower fraud risks and its applications such as DBT help reduce government expenditure leakages; far outweighing its US$3bn cost.

The benefits of giving every Indian a unique identity (UID) through the biometrics based UID number which is almost impossible to duplicate. The US$3-3.5bn project has already seen 488m enrollments. The number is rising by about 25m/month with rising acceptance of the same across India. Multiple efficiency improving applications can be built on UID. Direct benefit transfer (DBT) is one of the most

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Intel Mobile Chips Ready to Compete Qualcomm, MediaTek

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Intel Mobile CPUSWhereas Intel is ahead on transistor technology, it is still playing catch-up on mobile integration and network technologies. Intel at its analyst day is showing concrete measures of accelerating its mobile push around integration of baseband, application processor and connectivity, working to catch-up to Qualcomm and Mediatek with well-developed roadmaps of integrated solutions. Intel has engaged low cost tablet makers and targets 4x growth to 40mn+ units (15% share) and will ramp LTE more sharply in 2H14. Intel in mobile will have low impact on TSMC the next 2 years, as its integrated LTE baseband + AP will not be out until mid- 2015 and its low cost chip stays at TSMC through 4Q15.

Key challenge for Intel is catching up to a crowded

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The Complete List of SingTel’s Investment in Digital Life Startup Companies

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List of Companies SingTel Has Invested in Digital lifeIn our Previous Article we explained What SingTel’s Group Digital Life is all about and how it is chasing its dream to be a Smart Network Services Company. In this backdrop, the innovative Product Managers are exploring opportunities to be a part of Winning Applications and Services on the Telecom Networks. Our team have compiled the list of investments SingTel has made directly or through subsidiaries directly under its control in the following companies.

Shop Spot – Mobile shopping platform focused on Thai market at the moment. E commerce
Flocations – Online travel app/portal providing options based on traveller’s budgets E commerce
Bubble Motion Mobile social messaging business. Had more than 7mn users in 4 countries – (India, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines – at the time of funding. Mobile messaging
Stream Media Allows mobile transactions without exiting a mobile app. It aggregates mobile payment platforms including Android Market Inapp, Billing, Amazon Payments,

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