The Era of E-Commerce

Friends we are seeing some real competition in E-Commerce,  till months back it was Flipkart vs #Snapdeal ( which started as a coupon seller) and then entered the big Amazon India,  but now the mobile recharger Paytm is taking all by storm with its great cash back policy.

The second battle is for cheapest car experience giver,  from the yellow taxies on kolkata Street we have two players fighting,  the first is multinational #Uber and on the other side is #ola cabs which recently acquired TaxiForSure and has also launched its services in kolkata.  In other cities ola also provides Auto Rickshaw services. Now both Uber and Ola are giving ride @ Rs 9 /Km with other charges and on the other hand the Ambassador charges Rs 12 /km.

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‘Digital India – Decoding it”

WE NEED FOOD. We need power. We need water. But as the year 2014 has been declared by the government as the year for “DIGITAL INDIA,” we demand an uninterrupted supply of broadband as well. The mayor of San Francisco once said Wi-Fi was a fundamental human right. I’m going along those lines—not quite, but close.

“The citizens of India have mobile phones in their hands, they have mobile connectivity, but can we walk in the direction of mobile governance? We have to move in a direction where every poor person is able to operate his bank account from his mobile, is able to demand various things from the government, can submit applications, can conduct all his business, while on the move, through mobile governance and if this has to be done, we have to move towards `digital India` and if we have to move towards `digital India` then we have a dream” said the Prime Minister in his hour-long extempore speech addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 68th Independence Day.

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Big Data and Being CA

Meaning of Big Data

Big data is a blanket term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. The challenges include capture, storage, search, sharing, transfer, analysis and visualization. The trend to larger data sets is due to the additional information derivable from analysis of a single large set of related data, as compared to separate smaller sets with the same total amount of data, allowing correlations to be found to "spot business trends, determine quality of research, prevent diseases, link legal citations, combat crime, and determine real-time roadway traffic conditions”. In today’s world Data are being captured every second by corporates, mobile and internet service providers, and many more. These data are captured to give you a perfect experience of life.

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