Paytm Goes After Insurance – To Cover Auto, Cab Drivers

India’s largest digital payments company, Paytm, through its mobile wallets is looking at ways to revolutionise India’s insurance business. It has launched a program to offer health insurance to auto and cab drivers – 300,000 of them – who use…

Twitter Shuts Down Development Centre In Bengaluru

Amidst increasing scrutiny from investors because of falling revenue growth, micro-blogging platform Twitter has shut its Bengaluru development centre. “While India is seeing a lot of multinational companies setting up R&D centres, most of the work that happens out of India…

Infy Exits Show Challenge For Sikka In Biz Makeover

The exit of Sanjay Purohit, the seventh key executive to quit Infosys, shows the challenges its first non-founder chief executive Vishal Sikka is facing. Sikka, a former board member at business software company SAP AG, has been trying to push…

Official Chat-Boxes: Startup Apps That Can Change Work Ways

It is the ‘up next’ thing in official communication. Enterprise apps (there are just two of them in India) — Flock and WorkApps — are set to change the way people communicate at workplaces. They are the Whatsapp and WeChat…

80 Million People Use Facebook Groups Every Month In India

Facebook Inc. announced on Wednesday that over 80 million people in India use Facebook Groups each month to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends. Globally, more than 1 billion people use…

Snapdeal Turns Into Your Shopping Assistant To Survive E-commerce Battle

In order to break away from the herd of e-commerce players who fight on discounts, faster delivery and selection, Snapdeal wants to be your shopping assistant. “Kunal (Bahl) has shown very progressive mindset by proposing the use of predictive and…

Snapdeal Whips Up Excitement: Will This Festival Season Be A Game Changer For E-Comm?

The e-commerce discount wars for the festive season will begin soon. Snapdeal has geared up for it with a change in logo and slogan. The change has been brought about, explains Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder and CEO, to "enable users to…

Flipkart To Sack 800 More Amidst Gloomy Biz Outlook

After sacking 400 “under-performing” employees in July, the country’s top etailer Flipkart is learnt to be in the process of letting go of 800 more employees. The e-commerce major plans to “out-place” half of these employees, while the rest will be…

Greyhound Radio on Reliance Jio Launch

Catch Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & CEO, Greyhound Research with Anshoo Nandwaani, VP & Principal Analyst, Greyhound Research in a conversation about the Reliance Jio announcement and its impact on the telecom sector in the country and across the globe on Greyhound Research’s knowledge sharing…

Reliance Jio Launch Set To Jolt India’s Telecom Sector

On 1st September 2016, Reliance Industries Chairman, Mukesh Ambani, announced details of the Reliance Jio launch in the company’s 42nd Annual General Meeting Per the company it will start offering services from 5th September but the commercial launch will be…

What Does Microsoft PowerShell’s Availability On Linux Means To Enterprises And CIOs?

Overall, the global software developer community and enterprises have given a positive response to Microsoft's recent move to make its automation and scripting platform PowerShell available to Open source software Linux including Ubuntu, Centos, Red Hat and Mac OS X…

收購Jet.com之後,沃爾瑪想在印度電商市場放手一博

近日,全球最大零售巨頭沃爾瑪以30億美元現金和3億美元沃爾瑪股票的價格收購了美國電商公司Jet.com。該筆交易將推動沃爾瑪電商業務的發展,使其在電商領域更具競爭力。此次沃爾瑪收購Jet.com將幫助該公司更接近電商業務的終極目標:擊敗亞馬遜。雙方在電商領域的較量會影響到印度嗎? 而IT行業研究諮詢公司Greyhound Research的CEO戈吉亞(Sanchit Vir Gogia)並不認同斯里瓦斯塔瓦的看法,他認為沃爾瑪需要花費一段時間才能走出美國市場,公司的當務之急在於平穩地完成對Jet的收購。 Source: hksilicon.com | cnad.com | weiot.net | wxrw123.com |

Should Flipkart & Amazon Watch Out For Ecommerce Competition From Walmart?

With the acquisition of Jet.com, the year-old US based ecommerce startup, Walmart Stores Inc. made its way into ecommerce. Its entry into the lucrative online retail market came at an expense of $3 billion (to acquire Jet.com). On the other…

With Technology At Helm, South Korea Ready To Contribute To Global Innovation

With AWS’s Seoul Data Centre region going live in January 2016 and Microsoft announcing plans in May 2016, all eyes were set on IBM and Google. While the latter is yet to make any announcement on this topic, the former…

How Hike Is Shaping Up To Be More Than Instant Messaging

From starting off as a chatting app, Hike, with its $175 million funding is now metamorphosing into a digital hub that can offer everything from discount coupons to news, as it seeks its next 100 million users. One of the…

Why Symantec Buying Blue Coat Makes Sense

Managing enterprise security in today's digital world is becoming increasingly complex with constantly evolving threats. This gives Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) a compelling reason to invest in a security partner who is committed to…

Why A Deal With Snapdeal Is A More Logical Choice For Flipkart Than Amazon

India’s e-commerce industry could see a major shake-up if online retailer Snapdeal’s preliminary conversations with local rival Flipkart and US-based Amazon to explore a possible merger make any headway. But a Flipkart-Snapdeal merger is a more likely scenario than a…

Surviving Brexit Aftermath Using Digital Transformation As Your Armour

Regardless of how the economy shapes up after Brexit, Britian's decision to move out of the EU in June has undoubtedly given birth to a new-world equilibrium for all in Britain and EU.  Greyhound Research believes that despite the proposed…

Using Bots To Enhance Experience And Engagement

In today’s digital world, bots are beginning to play an increasingly critical role by helping automate processes among other things. At Greyhound Research we are of the firm belief that while automation and efficiency are clear outcomes of using bots, the…

Making Big Data Drive Digital Transformation

As organisations adopt new applications and approaches to cater to non-traditional touchpoints, they are faced with an explosion of data. It's but natural for organisations to get overwhelmed by the large volumes of data generated daily (sometimes every few seconds)…

Workday Moves Test & Dev To IBM Cloud – Expect Increased Focus On Innovation

On 15 August, 2016 IBM and Workday announced a multi-year partnership wherein Workday will use IBM’s Cloud for its internal Testing and Development environment. The announcement adds to the existing IBM and Workday partnership which includes IBM’s global Workday Consulting…

外媒:加码Paytm 阿里巴巴将推天猫印度

8月15日消息,据印度斯坦时报(hindustantimes.com)报道,阿里巴巴正和印度最大移动支付和商务平台Paytm商议,将全资收购或持股后者旗下的电商平台Paytm Mall。 “一旦这种情况发生,阿里巴巴能够获得Paytm Mall很大一部分。阿里巴巴在印度就不用从头开始了。”Greyhound Research的首席分析师Sanchit Vir Gogia说。 Source: China.com | 10jqka.com.cn | Yinhang123.net | ebrun.com | toutiao.com | Colabug.com | dgju.com | rizhuan300.com | peng-yuan.com | chinaef.com |  

Top CEO Dilemma: Surviving Digital Disruption

Gone are the days when analysts and shareholders would spare organisations grappling with modest growth prospects. It's no wonder that in today's rapidly changing digital world, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are under constant pressure to deliver the goods.  Additionally, CEOs…

据传阿里巴巴欲全资收购Paytm Mall,或更名为天猫印度站

雨果网从外媒近日报道中了解到,阿里巴巴很快就要跟亚马逊印度站和Flipkart竞争了。 有消息指出,阿里巴巴已经同Paytm的所有人Vijay Shekhar Sharma讨论全资收购或拥有Paytm旗下Paytm Mall的大部分股份。 市场调研公司Greyhound Research的首席分析师Sanchit Vir Gogia表示:“阿里巴巴可以轻松拿下Paytm Mall较大的股份,这样阿里巴巴就不用从头开始印度的业务。” Source: CIF News

Should Flipkart & Amazon Worry About Walmart’s Entry Into E-tail Market?

World’s largest retailer Walmart Stores Inc. has finally entered the e-commerce business with the acquisition of a one-year old startup Jet.com. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Futurist, Founder and CEO of Greyhound Knowledge Group, feels that Walmart will take time to move out…

Managing Technology Costs In A VUCA World

It's a cliche to say that we live in a VUCA world - one riddled with Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.  However, organisations in this VUCA world that continue to strive to stay competitive and scale up either by acquiring…

Architecting Supply Chain In The Wake Of Digital

A company's Supply Chain is undoubtedly its backbone but a smooth process cannot be taken for granted. To remain competitive and secure earnings growth, organisations are looking at both process automation and newer technology systems to redefine their Supply Chain. The…

Alibaba Eyes India Market, In Talks To Take Control Of Paytm Mall

China’s internet giant, the Jack Ma-controlled Alibaba, might soon start competing with Amazon and Flipkart in India as it eyes new markets to hit Ma’s target of two billion users. Alibaba, which posted quarterly revenue of $4.84 billion on Thursday,…

Making Cloud A Rewarding Experience

Cloud offerings are no longer the preserve of startups and small and medium businesses. They now meet the criteria of enterprise IT and are also supported by traditional IT vendors like IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle among others. Cloud Computing as a…