The app is available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Symbian devices and is the result of parent company, i.e. Naspers’ investment in China based Tencent Holdings (i.e. its actually a Tencent app, marketed by ibibo in India).
The app is available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Symbian devices and is the result of parent company, i.e. Naspers’ investment in China based Tencent Holdings (i.e. its actually a Tencent app, marketed by ibibo in India).
30% of new Facebook users in India register on a mobile phone*, suggesting they don’t also have an Internet-connected PC, Emily White, Facebook’s director of mobile partnerships, said in a presentation at the Social Loco conference on Monday
With this, over 253 million Airtel customers across countries including India, South Asia and Africa will now be able to leverage Opera Mini’s unique proxy-server-based technology to compress data by up to 90% and decrease their data transfer costs.
68% of users have made an online purchase using their smart phone: Digital Commerce is gaining traction with Indian smart phone users.
Surprisingly, women use online apps substantially higher compared to men, driven mainly by chat apps such as WhatsApp Messenger (which women use three times as much as men), Google Talk and Nimbuzz.
Google recently did a survey on Mobile Internet usage and the most surprising finding is that despite having less than 50% of USA’s 245 million users, Indian smartphone users access the Internet multiple times a day more than what citizens in the US do through their smartphones. More insights from the survey: 56% of smartphone [...]
The Chinese browser,UCWeb which launched in India in November 2011 has seen an unprecedented growth over the last few months – so much so that the browser is among the top 3 browsers in India and if the growth story continues, it could even beat Nokia browser*. We earlier reported how Android browser which has [...]
Do you think people browse more of mobile Internet on weekends than weekdays? A report from Opera suggests that 33 countries had fewer unique users on weekend days, while 17 countries had more unique users on weekend days. – Two thirds of the top 50 countries saw fewer unique users on weekend days.- One third [...]
“Internet is still not open, accessible and user-friendly to a major chunk of our population due to lack of regional language support. Indian entrepreneurs should look at this untapped market as this opportunity might not be available two years from now.”, mentioned Sachin Pilot, , Minister of State for Communications and IT. As per the [...]
The mobile explosion is certainly gathering more momentum as millions on mobile users in India look to get online through these devices. Recently, we came across interesting data collected by StatCounter tool that Android browser edged out Opera to claim the title of the most popular mobile browser worldwide. The India story, however is completely [...]
