Offline to Online Aggregator DotPe Merchant Focused
NCR Startup DotPe is distinct from that of a food-aggregator platform like Zomato. Zomato provides end-to-end discovery and delivery services while DotPe is more of a Shopify model. DotPe is a merchant-focused commerce platform which helps merchants get digitized and reach more consumers. It provides the following services to a…
Business Strategy for App Economy – Standalone App Vs SuperApp
The technology companies in America & Europe have focused on expanding into allied businesses largely inorganically, while retaining the identity of the acquired businesses separate from their core offerings. Think of WhatsApp and Instagram by Facebook and YouTube for Google. There are obvious synergies with respect to quality of data…
New JioFiber FTTH Strategy – Speed + OTT Access
New plans of JioFiber have done away with monthly data limits and are priced mainly on the basis of speed and access to OTT apps. The lowest priced plan has monthly rental of Rs399 (unlimited data at 30 Mbps) and should expand Fiber user base significantly. The profitability should be…
How Airtel / Vodafone-Idea Re-farmed Spectrum RAN for Mobile Data Network ?
Incumbent mobile service providers – Airtel and Vodafone Idea are running 2G /3G & 4G networks while new entrant Jio has started its journey with 4G and VoLTE for Voice. With advancement in Radio technology, incumbents have re-farmed their 2G/3G spectrum to 4G, enabling higher coverage / capacity without incremental…
Google, Facebook Early Leaders in Mobile Development and Monetization
Today the whole World is Buzz with the news that Facebook is going to attack Google on its Core Search Platform using Facebook’s Social Graph backed by Microsoft’s Bing Search Technology, a killer combination in our view. Firstly, Facebook Like Button is a clear Winner compared to Google+ and is…
e-Commerce Poised for Big Growth – The Challenges & Have Valuations Peaked ?
Most e-commerce companies in India are currently focused on driving up valuations by increasing market share at the cost of profitability. Can the Indian e-commerce bubble burst? It can be looked at two ways where one argument says – The bubble has already burst at the valuations level. In 2012,…
SAP core Business Suite Ported to HANA – In memory Database
Google could become a Search Giant not just because of the PageRank Algorithm but due to innovations at Software Defined Networking, In memory Data Serving, Data Mining and Retrieval from the Largest Unstructured Database known to anyone of us. Borrowing from the ideas of Google Scientists, Engineers at SAP Developed…
Can the Microsoft Windows Phone 8 impact Indian SmartPhone Mobile Market ?
The overall Mobile smartphone handset market seems to be fairly distributed in terms of market shares with Android sweeping the non-Apple market, can the advent of Windows Phone 8 could impact market shares and is something worth watching out for in 2013. One of the reasons Windows Phone 8 is…