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Matrimony.com, India’s first pure play Consumer Internet Company  listed on the stock exchanges, announced that its marriage service MatrimonyMandaps, the largest wedding venue booking platform in India to find best Mandaps &  Banquet halls, recently expanded to three other states in southern India – Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala.

Image Source – Matrimony

Besides the cities serviced earlier – Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore and Trichy, in Tamil Nadu, now Matrimonymandaps has its presence in Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Cochin & Bangalore, with over 2,000 mandaps and banquet halls listed on the platform.

MatrimonyMandaps helps customers to find the right wedding venue, check availability, get the best price quote and easily book the venue, by leveraging the relationship built by MatrimonyMandaps with the wedding venue partners. Offering comprehensive information of about 60 features on each venue, it helps customers search, compare & shortlist the venue for weddings.

Photographs of the venues & 360-degree videos shot by professional photographers provides a great visual experience of wedding venues in the website, with multiple images capturing the key aspects of the venue, helping customers and their family members to take a collaborative decision.

The service team of MatrimonyMandaps helps customers book the venues that suit them by guiding the customer through every step, based on the requirements provided by the customers.

Speaking about the expansion, Murugavel Janakiraman, Founder & MD – Matrimony.com, said

A key strategy for driving monetization is to increase the length of our relationship with our customers and increase the amount of revenue earned from our customers by offering additional marriage services to our online matchmaking user base. A majority of the categories of marriage services in India are unorganised and highly fragmented, presenting a potential opportunity for an organised aggregator to provide these services.

In this regard, we have leveraged our brands, user activity on our platforms and our online matchmaking client base to diversify into marriage services to take advantage of the lack of organised services. MatrimonyMandaps is our latest foray into the huge marriage service market and we’ll offer better choices to customers.

About Matrimony.com

Matrimony.com is India’s first pure play consumer internet company to be listed on the stock exchanges. It’s a signature internet conglomerate, managing marquee brands such as BharatMatrimony, the largest and most trusted matrimony brand that has also established a considerable retail presence with over 140 self-owned retail outlets across India. The company delivers matchmaking and marriage related services to users in India and the Indian diaspora. The company has pioneered several new business models such as EliteMatrimony, MatrimonyPhotography, MatrimonyBazaar, MatrimonyMandaps, MatrimonyDirectory & CommunityMatrimony, a consortium of over 300 community matrimony websites.

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The Vivaldi browser unveiled the new History feature, giving users insights into their online behavior. The latest release also includes more options for taking notes in the browser, powerful sound control for tabs and other improvements.

History like never before

Vivaldi’s new History feature lets users explore their browsing patterns, backed by statistics and visual clues.

Jon Von Tetzchner, CEO at Vivaldi Technologies said

We want to make browsing history more useful than ever before. Instead of having to scroll through hundreds of lines, Vivaldi gives a comprehensive overview of history, presented in a visual way. This lets our users analyze their online activity and helps them find what they are looking for.

Million ways to find everything

The new History feature lets Vivaldi users quickly scan through visited websites and get helpful hints for finding old URLs.

In addition to the list of URLs offered by most browsers, Vivaldi shows history in a calendar view with detailed statistics about previously visited sites. Graphs and a color-coded heat map overlay add another dimension, showing peaks of online activity and key browsing trends.

All this data helps find previously visited web pages even when users cannot remember the right search term. Vivaldi’s history puts searches in context – it may be easier to find an old URL if the user recalls seeing it on a certain day when he or she was particularly active online.

Vivaldi users can also narrow down the search to a date range either from the monthly view or from the Day Picker Calendar. In addition to that, users can filter search results by date, title, address and views.

For your eyes only

All of this information is strictly private and local to a user’s computer-Vivaldi doesn’t collect user’s history data.

The new History feature shows the kind of data that could be tracked by third parties. Instead of trying to monetize our users’ browsing patterns, we are giving them this data – for their eyes only.

With the ability to analyze this information, users can decide if they want to adjust their online behavior or remove certain items from the list.

History on your side

Vivaldi’s Side Panel with fast access to bookmarks, downloads, notes and websites of users’ choice now also includes History. Clicking on the History icon will reveal a list of previously visited URLs alongside open websites. This way, users can quickly search through history without leaving the current page.

Always striving for more

With each release, Vivaldi strives to improve every aspect of the program, and 1.8 is no exception. Some of the highlights include:

  • Create notes with drag-and-drop – Vivaldi lets users take notes in the Side Panel as a convenient way of adding thoughts and ideas to websites. It is now possible to create notes by simply dragging and dropping selected text into the Notes menu – not only from the browser itself, but from any other application. Users can also right-click on the text on the website they are currently browsing and select ‘Copy to Note’ from the drop-down menu to create a new note.
  • Advanced tab muting – Vivaldi offers many ways of controlling unwanted noise in the browser, and the latest release adds new options for muting tabs. Users can now choose if they want to allow sounds in all tabs; only let the active tab play sound or let the background tab play sound, as long as the active tab doesn’t.
  • Preference to enable or disable auto-updates on Windows.
  • Option to set the home page to Start page.
  • Ability to open links in the current tab from the right-click menu.
  • An option to display hibernated tabs in grayscale.
  • Matches are highlighted in the address bar drop-down menu.
  • Translation improvements for Chromium.
  • Image search from the right-click menu.

Source* – Vivaldi

About Vivaldi Technologies

Vivaldi Technologies is an employee-owned company that creates products and services for discerning web users. In everything it does, Vivaldi believes in putting its users first. For more information, please visit Vivaldi

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BigRock, one of India’s leading domain registrars, has announced the launch of their new marketing campaign in collaboration with the .ASIA registry. The campaign started with the launch of a brand new commercial to promote the .ASIA domain extension to small and medium businesses in the country.

The commercial conceptualized and produced by ideas@work, communicates the strong relevance of the .ASIA domain extension for businesses that wish to establish their digital footprint on a global scale and increase relevance amongst potential customers in Asia.

Using BigRock’s trademark tongue-in-cheek communication style, the film showcases the potential adoption of traditional Indian products in other Asian markets.

Shashank Mehrotra, General Manager and Business Head, BigRock India, commented

India is currently witnessing the dawn of a digital era through the combination of rapid internet penetration, government initiatives and entrepreneurial ventures. This means that a large number of businesses will seek to establish an online presence in an effort to reach a wider audience. Our latest campaign aims to reach out to consumers who wish for a more localized version of the internet medium.

With businesses constantly looking to strengthen and promote their brand, the .ASIA extension will help them towards targeting local markets and establishing their presence online to reach out to millions of potential customers in Asia.

With over 1 billion Internet users registered in Asia alone, statistics indicate that overall Internet penetration in the region is still at less than 35%.

Launched in 2007, .ASIA has grown substantially to become one of the leading domain extensions in the world with over 300,000 registered domains. Since its launch, BigRock has seen a steady growth in the demand for .ASIA domain names, and the new campaign is only expected to see this trend continue.

As part of the campaign, BigRock is offering .ASIA domains at just Rs. 99/- per year.

About BigRock

BigRock, an ICANN accredited registrar and hosting company, is a leading provider of web-presence solutions to small-businesses, professionals and individuals. It’s product portfolio includes – domain registration, web-hosting services, Personal email services & Business Email services, website builder products, Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and digital certificates

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BigRock, one of India’s leading domain registrars and web hosting companies, announced its nationwide campaign to launch a brand new domain extension – ‘.desi’. As a part of this contest, BigRock has invited entries from participants in the form of creative image submissions that helps decode what being DESI [Indian] implies to them.

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How to register for the event

  • In order to register for the contest, interested participants will need to register themselves on this link.
  • Participants will then be asked to post their entry & share it within their network of friends on popular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
  • The entries with most number of Facebook likes and shares on Twitter will be short-listed to win.

Prizes to be won

To be conducted between April 8-15, 2015, the contest will choose one lucky winner for the grand prize of– Hyundai Eon Magna Plus car while the next two winners will stand a chance to win an iPad Mini3 tablet and a Motorola Moto G [2ndGen] smartphone respectively.

BigRock has tied up with Miss Malini, who is widely regarded as India’s first and most famous celebrity blogger, to choose the prize winning entry. She will announce the lucky winner on April 17, 2015.

Targetting the DESI audience

By virtue of its unique name, the .DESI domain lends an air of credibility to local entities and is thus a powerful targeting platform to connect Indian individuals, businesses and charities from around the world with more than 1.7 billion global Indians.

BigRock aims to encourage wide scale adoption of the .DESI domain extension for entities who wish to associate with the diaspora of Indians spread across the globe.

The Indian community is considered to be amongst the largest in the world and represents a unified culture and a cohesive, shared identity. As such the .DESI extension enables entities to reach out to a group of highly passionate and active online group without restriction by geography.

BigRock plans to offer the .DESI domain extension to businesses who may be interested in effectively exploring this vast and often under-served market, at competitive prices starting from INR. 499/year.

About BigRock

BigRock, an ICANN accredited registrar and hosting company, is a leading provider of web-presence solutions to small-businesses, professionals and individuals. We provide our customers a complete suite of products that help them establish & grow their online presence. Our product portfolio includes – domain registration, web-hosting services, Personal email services & Business Email services, website builder products, Virtual Private Servers (VPS) & digital certificates.

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Zoho has launched Zoho Expense, the expense reporting software that automates business and travel expense management. Available immediately in web and mobile versions, Zoho Expense takes the hassles out of expense report management for sales representatives, employees, managers & finance departments.

Zoho Expense also works with the company’s online accounting & customer relationship management applications – Zoho Books and Zoho CRM – to unify customers’ front office and back office operations. Users can try a 14-day, free trial account of Zoho Expense at Zoho Expense website

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Exploring Zoho Expense

In most companies, expense reporting and reimbursement is dominated by challenges such as lost receipts, long processing time, and violations of expense policies. In turn, employees delay expense reporting for as long as possible, and managers let their desks pile up with expense reports waiting to be processed for reimbursement.

Zoho Expense simplifies expense management for employees, managers, and back office staff with highlights such as:

Automated expense recording

Users simply scan and upload their receipts using Zoho Expense and the corresponding expenses are automatically created – no manual data entry required.

Import credit card statements

Users who regularly use credit cards for business spending can integrate their banks in Zoho Expense and import their statements. Importing credit card statements lets users instantly convert selected transactions into expenses and avoid data entry.

Faster approvals and reimbursements

Zoho Expense automatically notifies managers of expense report submissions. It also raises alerts for violations of company expense policies configured in Zoho Expense, so managers don’t have to analyze each expense.

Pre-integrated with Zoho Books and Zoho CRM

With the Zoho Books integration, expenses approved in Zoho Expense are automatically transferred and recorded in Zoho Books. With Zoho CRM integration, Zoho CRM users can be imported into Zoho Expense. Going forward, users will be able to create Zoho Expense entries directly from the Zoho CRM interface.

Expense management on the go

For travelling employees, Zoho Expense is available now for Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices. The app uses the device’s built-in GPS to let users track mileage when on the move, avoiding manual data entry. Users can also submit expense reports to managers while working remotely.

Google Apps integration

Zoho Expense works with Google for Work to simplify expense reporting at companies that use Google’s application suite. Google users can find Zoho Expense on Google Apps Marketplace at following link.

Pricing and Availability

Zoho Expense is available immediately & the mobile apps are for iOS, Android & Windows Phone as well.

Zoho Expense is $15 per month for 10 users. Each additional user is $2 per month. Annual plan subscribers receive a two-month discount, paying just $150 per year for 10 users and $20 per year for each additional user.

More information on Zoho Expense is available at https://www.zoho.com/expense.

Additional Zoho Resources

Zoho blogs – http://blogs.zoho.com
Zoho on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/zoho
Zoho on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/zoho

About Zoho

Zoho is a comprehensive suite of online productivity, collaboration and business applications for businesses of all sizes. Over 13 million users rely on Zoho apps. Zoho’s productivity and collaboration applications include Email Hosting, Document Management, Office Suite, Project Management & more along-side a host of business applications ranging from CRM and Campaign Management to Customer Support, Accounting and more. These applications are offered directly via Zoho or through hundreds of partners in the Zoho Alliance Partner Program

|In: Recruitment|Last Updated:

On user’s request, we reviewed IISC, Bengaluru on the lines of user-reviews, fee structure etc; in this article we review “Amity University”.

Note – This review is based on user-request & the author has no affiliations with Amity University/CollegeDunia.

Amity University [Noida]

Amity University is a private university in India. Established by the non-profit Ritnand Balved Education Foundation in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh; it has campuses in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurgaon, Gwalior, Greater Noida,Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Noida, Patna, Pune, London, Dubai, Singapore, Mauritius, New Jersey, and China. In 2014, Amity University has been named by Quacquarelli Symonds [QS] as one of Asia’s top 300 universities [Source – Wikipedia]

Courses & Fee Structure

Some of the unique achievements are –

  • Its Law Programmes are accredited by Bar Council of India
  • Its Architectural Programmes are accredited by Council of Architecture
  • Its Educational Programmes are accredited by National Council of Teachers Education
  • Its Distance Education Programmes are accredited by Distance Education Council
  • It is also recognized as a Scientific and Research Organisation by DISR, Ministry of Science Technology, Government of India
  • The Engineering Programmes of Amity University listed under the International Accredited Programmes by the Institution of Engineering and Technology [IET]

Amity University, Noida offers range of courses in different fields namely – Engineering, Agriculture, Architecture etc. You can find the complete list of the courses offered by Amity, Noida at the Amity University Courses link.

CollegeDunia_Amity_Courses

The complete fee structure can be found at the Amity University Fee Structure link.

In case you need more information about Amity,Noida please drop a comment or drop us an email…

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Few weeks back, we had reviewed “College Review Website” – CollegeDunia, after which we received lot of requests from our readers which varied from request to connect with the founder[s], asking for specific college reviews etc. with Indian Institute of Science[IISC] & Amity University topping the list. In this article, we review IISC Bengaluru w.r.t user-reviews, fee structure etc.

Note – This review is based on user-request & the author has no affiliations with IISc/CollegeDunia.

Indian Institute of Science [IISc]

Indian Institute of Science [IISc] is a public university for scientific research and higher education located in Bengaluru.. Established in 1899 unofficially with active support from Jamshetji Tata it is also locally known as the “Tata Institute”. It is an institute that has produced scientists and scholars of the highest repute and takes pride in the presence of a faculty that has dedicated its time and talent towards creating individuals who would take India to the peak of success.

IISc is a pioneer in field of research & also has an Entrepreneurship cell. You can read about IISc Admissions at IISc Admissions link & here.

Courses & Fee Structure

IISc offers range of courses in variety of fields from Agriculture, Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Telecom etc. Below is the complete list of courses with the complete Fee Structure. The complete list of courses are listed at the Courses offered in IISc link.

PS – [Click on the image to enlarge]

CoursesIISc

To know more about IISc, please follow IISc Group on Quora some interesting questions can be found here, here

For more information, please visit IISc on CollegeDunia.

|In: Business|Last Updated: | 4 Comments

One of the fast emerging marketing techniques is couponing business. CouponMAMU has brought a revolution in the way marketing takes place. You simply produce a booklet with different schemes in it after tagging certain hotshots of various categories and the customers can benefit from the discounts relevant to those brands. It is a win-win situation for the buyer and the brand offering discounts as the latter gains multiple customers within a short span of time.

Different Types of Couponing

If you are a shopping enthusiastic or an ardent businessperson, knowing what all kinds of coupons you can enjoy the benefits or offer would be of great advantage to you. Thus, the following types of coupons are available:-

Cash discounts
You may use these types of coupons for any period of time and attain the said discount benefits on relevant products.

• Limited time

These coupons are issued only for a limited period of time after which you cannot attain benefits from it. But usually, given to the limited time duration, such coupons are highly lucrative for, both – the consumers & business people, as well.

• Discount today
This is an immediate discount scheme wherein you get upfront discounts based on the purchases you have made.

• Deferred Discount

In this type of coupons, you get discounts each time that you make a purchase and it keeps on accumulating until a substantial amount is accrued which you can make use of at a later date. It brings more customers and increases the purchase of goods of the respective brand.

• Coupon mix
Here, more than one kinds of coupon scheme are clubbed so that the businesses can devise a scheme that is highly beneficial to itself & which also seems attractive to customers.

Strategies for Couponing Business

In order to thrive in the couponing business, a businessperson has to be smart enough to device perfect strategies for marketing.

• Word Of Mouth
You can gain exclusive hoards of customers once you spread the word about your coupons. Word of mouth is really effective to gain customer fan-base in a short span of time for free or minimal cost.

• Communication skills
The way you represent the coupons and show their prospects makes a lot of difference. You should be convincing and, yet, not  overbearing to the customer.

• Lucrative offers
Too many lucrative schemes would do you no harm, in fact, it would drag potential customers to you like you’re some hot shopping hub.

• Customer loyalty
You need to tap customer loyalty by staying in touch with them, updating them of newer schemes & establishing cordial relations with them.

• Online buzz
Internet is a great medium for marketing. You may put a post on any Social-networking website’s or create a viral video regarding your coupons and their benefits and your work is done! People would spread it like crazy !!!

CouponMAMU holds a wide range of gadgets, accessories and apparels. Do give them a spin & let us know your comments …