by Paul Joseph
July 11, 2011
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Ahmedabad, India; July 11th 2011: Looking for new books at throwaway prices? Infibeam launches Magic Box Readathon week starting Sunday, July 10, 2011 during which it would offer lowest prices on one book every day. Book readers have a special reason to rejoice, as books they wish to buy/read, stand a chance to feature in the Magic Box ‘Readathon Week’ simply by writing on the comments section of the page. Commenting on the launch, Mr. Vishal Mehta, Founder, Infibeam.com said, “Combining our strengths in Books, Magic Box and following on the social network we have launched the Readathon Week where we would like to give out books of their choice virtually free to everyone. Although there would be seven titles put up during the week – these titles would be chosen by users themselves by comments through their social profiles.” Customers can share their comments on their social profiles on Facebook and intimate their friends of the same. Further, Magic Box completed 100 days of its successful operations on July 9, 2011. Having retailed more than 100 products and few thousand pieces it has created a following among a large audience. Commenting on this Manu Midha, VP, Infibeam said, “It feels great to have sold such a huge number of products and have so many satisfied customers in the Magic Box. It has helped a great extent in enabling more people to try Infibeam.com and listen closely what they have to say. We would continue to offer such attractive discounts and keep listening to each one of them.” Infibeam today has more than 100Lac books on the site, with books from all major publishers and authors listed on the site. Infibeam also India’s houses largest eBooks store and has more than 5Lac eBooks. http://www.infibeam.com/deal-of-the-day.html # # # About Infibeam.com Infibeam.com is India’s leading eCommerce platform with a selection of more than 120 Lac products across books, media, lifestyle, gifts, electronics and automobiles. Infibeam.com is known for its innovative navigation, lowest prices, free shipping and dedicated customer service. Infibeam.com also offers its web-store technology and associated infrastructure as a service to well- known brands and retailers such as Crossword, NDTV, K Sera Sera, Hidesign, TTK Prestige etc. Infibeam recently launched Builabazaar.com a Do-it-yourself e-commerce platform for merchants and sellers. It provides the necessary e-commerce technology, payment and data infrastructure to create a store within minutes. Infibeam.com was founded in 2007 by a group of ex-Amazon employees with expertise in e-commerce and technology. Headquartered in Ahmedabad, Infibeam has 250 employees based out of offices in Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai. The leadership team consists of MIT, IIM and IIT graduates amongst others with more than 100 years of combined experience in Retail and eCommerce. For any queries please write to us at pr@infibeam.net
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by Paul Joseph
June 23, 2011
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Aircel commercially launched its mobile application store PocketApps for its post and prepaid subscribers across India in August last year. Aircel was the first operator to launch an application store in partnership with Infosys for its subscriber’s across all platforms and handsets. PocketApps was the fourth app store in the country. Application categories in PocketApps Currently, seven categories of applications are available at PocketApps. 1) Everyday Convenience, 2) Education and Career, 3) Finance, 4) Health and Living, 5) Games, 6) Music and Fun, 7) Social Networking Everyday Convenience apps offer services such as bill payments, ticket bookings, local searches and news etc. Education and Career apps are for students. They are meant to make learning fun and help people plan their career. Apps in this section include MobileMaths, which helps with mathematical calculations; and Shakespeare’s World, which helps improve vocabulary. Finance and Business apps aid users in taking charge of their portfolio, and apps such as Loan Calculator and Money Manager help them make investments. Health and Living apps perform the functions of gym instructors and fashion magazines, and help you keep a check on your weight, maintain a workout schedule, and get fashion news. In this section, you can try apps such as The Gymlog and vClinic Mobile Wellness. The Games section has games with great sound effects and graphics; and Music and Fun apps allow you to create ring tones and share them with friends, and let you take your music collection along. In this section there are apps such as Vringo and Foice. Socially connected apps allow you to stay in touch with your friends and do a lot on social networking sites such as Facebook. While surfing PocketApp to download apps, users are informed of the price and size of each app. This information is displayed against applications on the list page. Once you click on the application you wish to download, the size and price of the application can be seen just beside the download button on the detail page.
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