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In continuation of its commitment to digitally empower India’s small and medium business community, Google today announced the launch of a new simple, free, and fast way to build a website through Google My Business. Helping SMBs leverage the power of internet and technology to become successful, ‘Website With Google My Business’ is a new feature aimed at building a mobile optimised website - easily and instantly. 
Announcing the launch, Shalini Girish, Director - Marketing Solutions, Google, said “With over 400 million Indians online, and 300 million of them on smartphones, the internet has emerged as the go-to destination to research and buy. So it's important for businesses to be where customers are. However, small business owners tell us that building a website can be complex, expensive, and time-consuming. In order to solve these problems for them, we introduced a new simple, free, and fast way to build a mobile optimised website through ‘Website With Google My Business’.”
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AppsDiscover Technologies Pvt. Ltd., claims to be revolutionising the advertising in the digital landscape. The young and zealous start-up has proved itself zillions of times since inception - 2013, and in just three years of active presence, AppsDiscover emerged as an elixir of marketing and branding for hundreds of products and services from a bevy of Industries.

In its endeavor to expand its online reach in India, Lenskart.com, one of India’s leading eyewear company, recently launched a revolutionary product. ‘Lenskart Lite’, India’s e-commerce industry’s first NO internet app, suited for android mobile phones will make shopping possible even without no internet. Lenskart Lite has been built to allow users to browse the varied range of eyewear products offered by the company and purchase them even in the absence of internet.

Ken Research has announced latest publication titled “National Broadband Plans in Asia-Pacific: Focus on Bridging the Digital Divide to Spur Economic Growth” which discuss scope of broadband in Asian region. It gives an understanding of the national broadband plans adopted by the governments in APAC region. The report analyses guidelines set under NBPs such as targets, technology, funding and role of governments as well as private operators. The report investigates NBPs in APAC countries. The report analyses targets, technologies, funding strategies and role of government and private sector in achieving the goals of NBPs.

Moving a step ahead, World’s first free linguistic email address service ‘DATAMAIL’ is now accessible through your computer using web browsers. User can now access the Marathi email address service from all popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Netscape, Safari, Flox etc.

Telenor published its WebWise report that analyses internet usage and access patterns of school going children. The report has findings of the safe Internet survey done in schools by Telenor India.

Happy to share that in recognition of his contribution in the field of Media and Communications for over two decades, Gurmit Singh, Vice President & Managing Director, Yahoo India has been conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts by Jagran Lakecity University (JLU), Bhopal.

Standard Chartered Bank is bringing its newest mobile and online banking platform to 1 million clients across 8 African markets, the most extensive digital rollout of its kind in Africa by an international bank. Supported by the Bank’s global-standard technology, clients will enjoy a consistent online experience across laptops, tablets or mobile phones, and the convenience of banking from the location of their choice. After the rollout to Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the first half of 2016, the Bank will launch fingerprint recognition technology in these markets later in the year, giving clients a more secure and convenient way to log in to their accounts.

Spectranet, a fibre internet service provider with its own fibre network, has embarked on a massive drive to empower the Digital India campaign with the launch of its 100 Mbps, truly-unlimited, symmetric residential internet service at a highly affordable price of Rs 1199. Spectranet is currently offering this service in Gurgaon along with a never-before no-obligation 3-month trial offer, with plans to replicate the same across the country.

Simplicity is the most loved thing in the world. It makes a websites look cool, reduce nagivation confusion. It also helps achieving desired goals and results (I.e., more signups, subscribers and sales). But too often it seems elusive to simplify your website design. No matter how hard you try, you can’t make your work look like Apple’s. So what does a website designer really needs to do? Fret not, for there are 5 starting points to simplify your website design.

Starting today, more than one billion people who have access to Internet.org's free basic services across Asia, Africa and Latin America will now be able to access more free services through the Internet.org Platform. In May we introduced the Platform as a way for developers to easily create services that integrate with Internet.org, and a way to give people more choice and control over the services they access. Starting today, the Platform is now live.

Ken Research announces the research publication on telecom, mobile and broadband industry in Oman available on their platform which provides an overview of the telecommunications industry in the country, major developments, regulatory environment, privatisation and telecom infrastructure.

Google has completed eighteen years of its existence. And it feels that the world will be dull and drab without it if it goes missing. Eighteen years back Google Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin begin their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web giving birth to Google.com. Google.com was registered as a domain on September 15th 1997. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google.com since then has seen tremendous growth and expansion touching lives of millions of users around the world.

In a bid to encourage its customers to ‘Go- Paperless’ Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL) in association with PayUMoney, an online payment solution has launched a “Pay and Win Scheme.” TPDDL customers can now easily pay their bills online through PayUMoney and win exciting prizes like ACs, LEDs, tablets etc.

V-Star Labs unveiled Cityscape, which the company claims is a new way of exploring our neighborhood and changing the way we connect with our locals. The app enables people to report, alert & raise local awareness by following and connecting with their local area and other locals. With features to share pictures, check-ins, selfies and fun content with those around as well as share and consume local news and events from the local community, the app helps users engage with their locals.

IndiaMART organized one of the biggest discussion platforms for the SMEs, IndiaMART Emerging Business Forum, in association with ZEE Business at Hotel Radisson Blue, Jaipur on June 12. Centering all its discussions around the key theme ‘Make In India - Unleashing the SME potential’, the Forum revolved around the key topic 'E-commerce & Traders: Opportunities & Challenges'. It showcased the new entrepreneurial opportunities coming up in the e-commerce space armed with ample scope for creativity and innovation. The Forum also touched upon the Modi Government's ambitious Digital India project and the modernisation of India Post.

The exploding popularity of smart phones and Internet has become a core part of life for many consumers across the globe and in India. This megatrend, which has already disrupted several sectors, is set to have a huge impact on Insurance sector in India. It is estimated that three in every four insurance policies sold by 2020 would be influenced by digital channels during either the pre-purchase stage, purchase or renewal stages, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Google India. This report, titled Digital@Insurance-20X By 2020, asserts that not only will insurance sales from online channels grow 20x from today by 2020, but overall Internet influenced sales would be INR 300-400k crore. Digital disruption is expected to impact insurance significantly and, whether considered an opportunity or a threat, insurers need to be creative to leverage this opportunity immediately.
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Happiest Minds Technologies has entered into a strategic partnership with Datawind-makers of Aakash Tablet PC, and a leading provider of wireless web access products and services, to develop cloud-based applications and solutions on Datawind's low cost tablet platform-UbiSlate. Through this partnership both the companies will also look to create affordable mobility solutions for education and healthcare sectors.

Akamai Technologies and Prolexic Technologies announced that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire Prolexic, a provider of cloud-based security solutions for protecting data centers and enterprise IP applications from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. 

Verizon Enterprise Solutions is expanding availability of its next-generation, cloud-based identity platform - Verizon Universal Identity Services - to Europe, effective immediately. The platform, previously available only in the U.S., also boasts new user-friendly features, including an updated mobile app, Quick Response code-enabled access, and a simplified end-user interface, making identities easy to manage and use. Verizon Universal Identity Servicesuses multifactor authentication to verify users are who they say they are by combining an individual’s username-password with a computing device that generates a one-time password or a biometric scan, such as fingerprint recognition. Once authenticated, users can securely access online content such as websites, corporate resources and even electronic medical records from their computer, smartphone or tablet. Verizon’s cloud-based identity services are an alternative to traditional solutions and provide an easier, faster, more flexibl…