If any organization can give an accurate, or almost accurate, statistics of internet users in India, it has to be Google. Every PC & mobile internet user uses Google, they could surely even categorize the demography of internet users in India. According to Rajan Anandan, VP-Sales & Operations at Google India, who was speaking at […]
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15 Years of Internet in India: Book, stats by Verisign
According to the press release from Verisign, The Internet economy in India has been in existence for more than 15 years. During this time, it has revolutionized businesses, the economy and society. Key India Internet facts include, With 81 million Internet users1 India today ranks fourth in terms of Internet users worldwide Rediff.com was the […]
Email usage: Web-based down, mobile up says comScore
According to comscore’s latest report on Email evolution in US (Nov 2010), The number of visitors to web-based email sites (gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail etc) declined 6 percent compared to the previous year Email engagement declined at an even greater rate (i.e. email was not their medium of communication) The number of users accessing email […]
Column: Ecommerce – save on group buying sites
My 14th column in “Vijay Next” newspaper (Kannada) was about Group Buying in India. Main points were, The year 2010 has seen very good e-commerce activity in India. We saw one of the leading e-commerce companies, Makemytrip.com, got listed in the US stock exchange successfully. Bulk buying is nothing new. In Bangalore, the rates in […]
India Browser War: Firefox flat, Chrome gains
Many of you must have seen advertisements of Chrome in print (and few hoardings too). Is it paying off? The latest survey does show Chrome gaining ground on the great Indian browser war. Firefox has remained flat, where as IE has lost ground. Safari is popular on Mac systems, I don’t see many on PCs […]