Technology

Why Companies Must Invest in Social Media ?

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The growing presence of the social media offers a strong business opportunity to many companies in the West to invest time and capital in this medium. Over the past one year, most of the Fortune-1000 companies dedicated personnel at the senior management level primarily to look at social media. Companies are actively listening to their customers and responding to them in the shortest possible time, which is enhancing customer loyalty and experience.

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Accessories, Peripherals, Online & Social – Microsoft New XBox One Vs Sony PS 4

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ps4 vs xbox one accessories peripheralsWe have already discussed in detail about the Hardware / Console Specification of pS4 and XBox One here. Both Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft XBox one have considerably improved their Accessories & Peripherals to give the state of art gaming pleasure for gamers across the world.

Motion Sensing Camera – The next generation Kinect system comes bundled and is required to work with the xBox One offering improved voice recognition (conversational command prompts), better player detection (more joint detection) and depth perception, and we think it will have up to four player tracking. Sony’s PlayStation Camera comes with the PS4 and offers the same features as Kinect.

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Microsoft New XBox One & Sony PS 4 – Console Specfications

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specsSony and Microsoft have confirmed launch of new gaming consoles in 2013. Each console will have a stronger CPU and GPU compared to their respective predecessors, as well as a host of new Online features, console-specific peripherals, and a rich set of Media capabilities.

Console Specifications of XBox One / Sony PS 4

Chipset – Sony and Microsoft have each based their consoles on AMD’s newest Jaguar chipset and both feature an 8 core x86 CPU. Development engines for each console are Windows based and the xBox One will have dedicated operating systems for console, online, and combined operations.

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Can Marissa Meyer Really Make the Tumblr Acquisition Profitable ?

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Marissa Meyer headed Yahoo! will purchase Tumblr in an all-cash transaction for $1.1 billion. Tumblr would continue to operate largely independently. While we believe such a valuation is high, we believe the combination of Tumblr’s growing usage and Yahoo!’s ad technology present an opportunity to improve user monetization over time.

Tumblr should contribute meaningfully to user engagement for Yahoo!; the site had over 116M desktop unique visitors in April (+85% Y/Y, comScore). Tumblr should also bolster Yahoo!’s position in mobile, as its 14.5 million mobile unique visitors in the US (+227% Y/Y, comScore) give Yahoo! a large and rapidly growing mobile audience.

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Cloud and Smartphone – Disrupting Technology Industry

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From 2007-12, we saw an acceleration of a trend we called “disruptive mobility“, a move toward ultra-mobility and apps so powerful that it redefined the technology sector. We believe we are entering an age where mobility devices are becoming increasingly commoditized and the hardware builds that drove sector growth from device manufacturers to component suppliers … Read more

Justdial to Enter Car Listings, Enable Transactions

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Justdial OfficeJustdial is exploring various areas for users to offer to sell as well as buy, goods and services through it’s website. As a first step in this direction JDL is in process of developing a car listings website in which users can search and rate car models being offered for sale, list their cars for sale and receive price quotes from vendors of both new and used cars.

Enabling Transactions
In collaboration with service providers and vendors, JDL is in the process of developing the ability for users to complete a number of bookings and purchases which are integrated in the search results from company’s website.

Mobile apps

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Advertising on Justdial vs Sulekha for SMEs – A Review

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Restaurant Advertising Sulkha JustdialWe’d like to compare the experience of posing as an SME and Advertising on Justdial Vs Sulekha. Justdial offers Voice as well as Web based search and thus leads from both the mediums while Sulekha has presence only on the Web.

Justdial Advertiser
The very first thing they suggest is entry level package worth Rs30,000 annually which required the advertiser to pay up four months of monthly installments in advance. They also offer Platinum and Diamond listings wherein the advertiser’s name appears first and second respectively on search results within that segment. However, there is hectic competition for the same and slots booked in the category would not be available to others. Platinum listings cost Rs85,000 annually.

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51Job Moving the Social Networking Way Like LinkedIn

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51job, is a leading online recruiting player in China with ~40% market share, should continue to benefit from the online recruiting market expansion in China

The company saw 2.49mn total new online job postings in March 2013, up 13.3% YoY, largely in line with the growth rate recorded in January before the Chinese New Year. According to a recent survey published by 51job regarding the hiring demand for 2Q13, over 70% of the interviewed employers plan to hire more staff as compared to the same period last year. In addition, among medium size companies with total employees between 2,000 to 5,000, ~56% of them expect to step up their campus recruiting
efforts, up 11pts from a quarter ago.

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Comparison of Justdial / Askme / GetIt / ZatSe/ AskLaila / Sulekha /Burrp

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JustDial’s dial-in search service through its call centres for information business is a unique service. There are various competitors within the online local business search segment with similar offerings. Players such as Sulekha, asklaila, Getit, ZatSe and askme operate within the same space. It also faces competition from portals such as Zomato, burrp (within the restaurant and lifestyle segment). We’d like to review the User Experience of Justdial Vs Zatse vs Getit and see the comparison of all of the above on some metrics.

Justdial Vs ZatSe Vs Getit – User Experience
Just Dial – The call was answered promptly and with 5 seconds holding time. The executives were polite and offered further granularity on our search requests (e.g. – for a query on banquet halls, the executive asked whether we
preferred air-conditioned banquet halls, exact location and the capacity). A text message and email with the responses to our queries was sent immediately.

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