Trying to differentiate itself from regular ecommerce websites and apps, Yes Bank has launched an impulse buying app known as Tap To Shop.Unlike regular online shopping apps, Tap To Shop will be focused exclusively on delivering deals that are not available at most times. The customer must have installed the
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Content app ALTBalaji said it has signed on with Opera TV, a platform that powers smart TVs, DVD players and other instruments."All Smart TVs, Blu-ray disc players and Set-top boxes powered by Opera TV will provide instant access to over 250 hours of original content from ALTBalaji. Simultaneously, ALTBalaji
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The Anil Ambani Group has relaunched Bigflix, the homegrown competitor to Netflix, with an expanded focus covering regional language content as well as an eye on audiences outside India.The service will have 2000 HD movies in nine Indian languages to start with, the group said.These languages are Hindi, Telugu,
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Vodafone India said it would like to be given the power to manage the size of videos watched by users on its mobile network and lower it automatically "for overall quality welfare".Participating in the discussions related to Net Neutrality and the powers to be given to telecom operators in traffic management, the
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Vodafone said any of its subscribers that uses its website or app to subscribe to Amazon Prime service in India will get Rs 250 cash back in the form of payment balance in their Amazon account.Technically, operators in India are forbidden from giving cheaper data access to any particular website
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PayTM, India's biggest mobile payment company and a minority subsidiary of Alibaba Group, said it partnered with Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur to bring its cashless payment solution to the country’s premier engineering college.Under the program, students will be able to make payments using the mobile app at hostel canteens,
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Zee Group-owned Siti Cable will launch high-speed broadband services in five different cities by June this year, company sources revealed.Siti Cable, a brand of Siti Networks, currently operates broadband services in Delhi, Hisar, Rohtak and Karnal. The new locations are likely to be outside Haryana, according to our sources."We will
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Customers of PayTM, India's largest wallet service can now make payments using the Unified Payments Interface, the government of India's open payments platform.The company has signed up with ICICI Bank be able to receive payments from its customers who are on the UPI platform using its ID 'paytm@icici'.However, customers cannot simply transfer
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Paynear, which helps shopkeepers and businesses to accept card payments without buying a point-of-sale (POS) machine, has tied up with Axis Bank to implement support for UPI or Unified Payment Interface.UPI allows users to send and receive money and make payments using IDs that resemble email addresses (for example, rajesh@icici).Paynear
Read MorePayTM, India's largest wallet company, has been cheated to the extent over Rs 6.15 lakh by 48 customers claiming illegal refunds for goods they already received.The fraud does not involve any leakage of money from the wallet service, but is centered around claiming illegal refunds for goods that were ordered,
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Freecharge, owned by Snapdeal, said users of BEST public transport buses in Mumbai can pay for their tickets using its wallet service.This has been achieved by tying up with Ridlr, the official mobile ticketing app partner of BEST."BEST commuters can now pay for their bus tickets and monthly passes
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Pokemon Go, the virtual reality game where players have to 'catch' and 'train' creatures called Pokemons, has officially been launched in India, months after it first became available in markets such as the US.The India launch has been done in association with Reliance Jio, the 4g mobile operator from the
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Snapdeal-owned FreeCharge has tied up with ICICI Bank's Merchant Services, which will allow consumers to pay their bill at over 1 Lakh ICICI stores with their Freecharge accounts.These merchants are located at across 700 cities and towns in India, the company said. "FreeCharge’s partnership with ICICI Merchant Services, powered by
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Airtel Payments Bank, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited, today said that it has rolled out a pilot of its banking services in Rajasthan. The pilot is aimed at testing systems and processes ahead of a full scale pan Indian launch.With this, Airtel Bank has become the first payments bank
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While nearly all the major banks with the exception of SBI and HDFC have come up with UPI apps for regular users, ICICI Bank has gone a step further by bringing out an app specially dedicated to merchants.The app requires a current account with ICICI Bank to operate, and any
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In what is becoming something of a routine, yet another rumor has been spread that Reliance Jio is about to start a DTH service and you will be able to get all the channels at half the price that you currently pay.According to this, 350 TV channels will be offered
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Reliance Communications, which will merge its wireless operations with Aircel in the coming months, has released its international calling app Reliance Global Call in India.Somewhat similar to the Jio4G Voice app, the app helps you make international calls using RCom's network using your data connection.Call rates are as low as
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Razorpay, a payment processing company, announced eCOD, a new service that lets customers pay for deliveries after the delivery is actually made.Unlike other recent offerings like Wallet on Delivery etc, Razorpay has built in support for UPI -- which means that you can pay directly from your bank account without
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Wallet provider Freecharge, one of the first to support the new UPI platform, has now tied up with Indian Oil to let customers make payments for gas deliveries via a PIN number.Once the pin number is provided to the gas delivery boy, the amount will be deducted from your Freecharge
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Intex Technologies, one of the leading Indian handset player said it has partnered with Tata Teleservices subsidiary mRUPEE to launch their first ever mobile wallet.The mobile wallet, named ‘Intex MyWallet’, will include quick integrated payment functionalities and conveniences within the device related to recharge, money transfer, shopping, booking train, movie
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