India's First News Bot

Started by IIT, IIM and Ivy League alumni; Gurgaon-based news technology start-up NewsBytes launched its automated bot on Facebook Messenger. The beta version of their cross-platform bot is a part of Facebook's Messenger program revealed at F8 conference. It is known to be India's first news bot.

In its one year of existence, NewsBytes, by Elysium Labs Private Limited, with around 40k downloads on Play Store, has seen a spectacular growth so far. It is one of the highest-rated news apps in India. Its primary focus is to reduce information overload in your everyday news consumption

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Why ecommerce websites need a blog?

Blogs has a unique place in every business to generate traffic, increase sales conversion and to make your business familiar to audience. In ecommerce, blog plays a vital role as it is essential to make the online shoppers get a clear perspective about the business and the product that they are looking for. 

Only when you have visitors, you can convert them into your customers. So the first thing you have to do is to make the customers discover your business.


If you write a blog containing the interesting and trending information that people like to know about then you can easily drive them to your business. In SEO point of you, it helps to generate internal and external links via different means.

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Best Webshop in Spain : Promofarma

Promofarma has won the award for Best Webshop in Spain. The online marketplace that’s filled with products from local pharmacies won the most important prize during the Ecommerce Awards, an event hosted by Club Ecommerce last week.

For the seventh consecutive year, Club Ecommerce handed out the Ecommerce Awards. Last Thursday, over 200 attendees of the Museum of Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid saw how Promofarma went home with an award for Best Webshop. In total, there were eight different awards companies could win.

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Ola Launches Luxury Car service in Mumbai

Taxi app Ola has introduced its newest service category, ‘Ola Lux’ in Mumbai offering luxury cars and Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) on demand to customers. 

The cars one can hire under this service include Jaguar, Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Toyota Fortuner and Honda Accord, Ola said. 

Ola Lux is available for booking at a minimum fare of Rs. 200 and Rs. 19 per/km. A ride time charge of Rs. 2 per minute is also applicable. 

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Snapdeal's CPO Anand Chandrasekaran quits

The chief product officer of e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal, Anand Chandrasekaran, has quit the company to start his own entrepreneurial venture.

Chandrasekaran was brought on board in June last year to revamp the company's platform, especially mobile.

Anand has done some stellar work on the product side at Snapdeal. 

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Twitter drops media attachments from 140 character limit

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday that user names and media attachments such as photos and videos will no longer count toward the length of a tweet but the 140-character limit will remain.

Twitter said the change, part of its efforts to simplify its micro blogging service, will happen in the next few months.

A few simple changes to make conversations on Twitter easier! And no more removing characters for images or videos!" Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said in a 115-character tweet.

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Italy ecommerce to reach €19.3 billion in 2016

Ecommerce in Italy is expected to generate 19.3 billion euros in 2016, which would mean the online retail industry of the Southern European country will increase by 17 percent, compared to last year. Much growth is expected from tourism, IT & electronics and clothing.

The prediction was done by the Italian ecommerce association Netcomm during the eleventh edition of the Netcomm Ecommerce Forum. As said, if the predictions come true, ecommerce in Italy will have been increasing by 17 percent compared to the situation in 2015. Even more impressive is the growth of the Italian online retail industry if you look back at the last couple of years. In 2010, the industry was worth just 8 billion euros, which means it has grown by 140 percent during the last six years.

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