On 6th Jun 2017, BHive Workspace (run by Tusker Workspace Pvt. Ltd.) announced raising $1.2 million (Rs. 7.7 crores) funding from Blume Ventures and a network of HNIs from various business domains. HNIs network include investors like actor-director Ramesh Aravind, Meera Reddy (MD of SKCL) and few other high net-worth individuals. Established since Nov 2014, BHive Workspace is currently operational out of 10…
Continue Reading→Swiggy raises $80 million in Series E funding led by Naspers
On May 30 2017, Swiggy released an update that it has raised $80 million (~Rs. 517 crore) in Series E funding that was lead by global Technology investor Naspers. Swiggy is an online food ordering and delivery company based out of Bangalore. The Swiggy App is available on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.swiggy.android&hl=en) and iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/swiggy-food-order-delivery/id989540920?mt=8) and helps urban users order food…
Continue Reading→Google Instant: Potential Impact on SEO and SEM
On 14th Jun’11, Amit Singhal and his team at Google Inc. launched the various new features under Google InsideSearch. This included – data on searches (on Desktop and Mobile devices), Speech Search on Desktops, Search by Image and the super fast “Google Instant Pages”. “Google Instant Pages” would open up within milliseconds of clicking on a particular search result link.…
Continue Reading→Microsoft Skype deal – My take
Another landmark of a deal in the Internet scenario that you can’t fail to notice. Global major IT software products company Microsoft announces buying out Skype, an Internet telephony services product for an hefty amount of $8.5 Billion in cash. Valuation of businesses/ products are getting complex and are reaching new scales these days viz – the Twitter valuation by…
Continue Reading→“What would you like to be when you grow up?”
This Sunday, myself and my friend’s daughter were having a chat. There was a mild drizzle in Delhi and that had left the car dirty. I was doing the cleaning and she was telling me her side of the story. She’s just about 5-yrs old and already has a tough schedule to follow each day. Getting up early (be it winters / summers)…
Continue Reading→Tools to Analyze Your Twitter Activity – a presentation
Twitter has been a phenomena in the Social Media and its popularity has been growing as a great promotional tool. While individuals and corporates engage to use the platform towards meeting their objectives, heres a brief presentation on the various tools that one can use towards monitoring and analyzing their usage of Twitter. Will look forward to your feedback at…
Continue Reading→Back again
Hi … back again for a peek … but not sure if I will be able to blog much today. But would like to be a regular here. Perhaps its not the right time as yet. Ciao 🙂
Continue Reading→Hello WordPress Bloggers World
I, Kaushik Pal, registered myself today on 21st June ’08 as the 3389702th blogger at WordPress. I solemnly resolve to serve this community 🙂 While I was registering and after I went back to the homepage of WordPress in about 7-8 mins .. the number had gone upto 3389945 … Phew !!! Sure I will have a host of friends here…
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