Snapdeal invests $20M in GoJavas

Sneha Johari writing for MediaNama:

Ecommerce player Snapdeal has invested $20 million in logistics firm GoJavas to further enhance its supply chain and logistics. GoJavas will use the funds to add 100 more cities to its repertoire in the next 6-12 months. Snapdeal had picked up a minority stake in the company for an undisclosed amount in March this year.

According to Snapdeal, GoJavas has been one of its ‘best performing’ last mile logistics partners, reducing Snapdeal’s delivery time by 24 hours in the last 6 months. Snapdeal says that it has invested $100 million in the last 6 months to improve delivery timelines by 70%, while looking to invest another $200 million in the next 12 months to strengthen its supply chain.

October 8, 2015 ✚ Permalink

Porsche chooses Apple CarPlay because Google reportedly asks for too much data

Rich McCormick writing for The Verge:

[Motor Trend] says that Android Auto tracks variables including vehicle speed, throttle position, fluid temperatures, and engine revs, information that is collated and then sent back to Google. Apple’s CarPlay, on the other hand, only checks with the car’s powertrain control module to ensure that the vehicle is moving. Porsche was apparently unwilling to enter a deal that would send reams of information back to Google — partly, Motor Trend says, because the manufacturer thinks those details make its high-end autos special, and partly because Google itself is in the midst of building its own car.

I can’t possibly imagine why Google would want all that data. Can you?

October 6, 2015 ✚ Permalink

American Apparel Files for Bankruptcy

Hiroko Tabuchi reporting for The New York Times today:

[…] the bankruptcy would wipe out American Apparel’s current shareholders, including Mr. Charney, whose stake in the retailer that he founded in 1989 was worth about $8.2 million as of Friday. It would instead put the company’s creditors in full control, including Standard General, the little-known hedge fund that is also leading the turnaround at RadioShack, which went bankrupt in February.

I didn’t see that coming.

October 5, 2015 ✚ Permalink

Evernote Crosses 5 Million Users in India

At the end of February 2013, we announced 1 million users in India and within just 2 and a half years, we’re excited to announce that we’ve crossed the 5M user mark.

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Our new users have increased by 3000% between Dec 2010 and Sept 2015. Evernote users in India are growing rapidly and we expect to meet our next 5 million users in record time as well.

October 2, 2015 ✚ Permalink

Gruber’s iPhone 6s Review

Of all the reviews that I’ve read so far, John Gruber has the best take on it over at Daring Fireball.

This part was particularly interesting:

I have only two bad things to say about 3D Touch. First, Apple missed an opportunity to borrow a great feature from Apple Watch. On Apple Watch, you can force touch in the notification list and you get an option to Clear All. 3D Touch has no effect in iOS 9’s notification list, and there remains no way to clear all notifications at once.

Downright lunacy there, Apple. Come on!

September 23, 2015 ✚ Permalink

Tim Cook awarded $58M of Apple stock for performance & tenure achievements

Chance Miller writing for 9to5Mac:

As noted in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today, Tim Cook on Monday was awarded 560,000 restricted Apple stock units. Cook was given these stocks as time and performance awards. At Apple’s stock price at the end of day Tuesday of $103.12, those stocks are worth roughly $57.5 million.

Cook chose not to sell any vested restricted stock units, although 290,836 were withheld by Apple to keep in line with minimum statutory tax withholding requirements.

August 26, 2015 ✚ Permalink

iPhone sales grow 93% in Q3 2015

Gulveen Aulakh writing for ETtech:

The Cupertino-based company’s sales of iPhones in India grew 93% in the third quarter albeit off a far lower base faster than 87% growth in Greater China markets, comprising China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The company’s global phone sales rose 35% to 47.5 million units.
 
“(In) India we grew at 93% and this is on top of the Greater China numbers that grew 87% during the quarter against a market of 5%,” Apple’s chief executive officer and director Tim Cook said during an earnings call Wednesday morning. “So, we did exceptionally well I think in any way that you look at it,” he said.

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iPhone sales growth in India were higher than 45% growth recorded in several countries, including Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Turkey, Cook said, while sales more than doubled in Germany, Korea, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

The iPhone 5s was selling like hot cakes a few months ago when it was available on Flipkart, Amazon.in and Snapdeal for as low as ₹30,000. No wonder the numbers did so well.

July 24, 2015 ✚ Permalink

Password Related Changes coming in WordPress 4.3

WordPress 4.3 Beta is now ready for testing and the team has listed the notable changes arriving with version 4.3. This one below is really good to have.

We put a lot of work into Better Passwords throughout WordPress. Now, WordPress will limit the life time of password resets, no longer send passwords via email, and generate and suggest secure passwords for you.

I wish Automattic themselves offered a Two-Step Authentication plugin for self-hosted WordPress installations.

July 6, 2015 ✚ Permalink