Snapdeal goes truly mobile

Snapdeal.com is offering a discount on mobile phone services. Its users do not need to carry print outs to avail the offer or discount.

 Snapdeal.com, one of India's popular discount and deal websites, has announced the introduction of a voucher of phone service. The new service allows users of snapdeal.com to avail deals bought from the website without having to carry a print out of the deal. The transaction is carried out through the SMS message that the customer gets on the registered mobile number after buying a deal.

As compared to the earlier process, which involved a physical voucher having to be carried around to avail the offer, the user now just needs to show the shop attendant the SMS, or the email containing the voucher number if he is using a GPRS connected phone.

Making of Snapdeal.com

Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal saw the growing number of people online, their large amounts of disposable income, the willingness of the retailer to use internet for sales and marketing. And their gut instinct told them, if they leveraged these, they could hit a jackpot. Thus was born Snapdeal.com.

Snapdeal.com features one attractive deal daily, with discounts of up to 90% on dining, health and beauty, recreation, entertainment, travel, sports and more. The site, which has 4 million subscribers, with a new subscriber signing up every second, was recently ranked the 21st most trafficked site in Asia by web usage tracking firm Alexa.

On April 25, Snapdeal.com sold 30,000 deals on a single day, one of the highest transactions on any e-commerce site in India. That day, it sold pre-paid recharge coupons of Rs 100 for half the price for leading telecom service providers like Aircel, Vodafone, Tata Indicom, Idea and Virgin. At one point in the day, almost 100 deals were being sold per minute. 

Handygo launches city specific information service

The Zing services provide the users updates about their city on daily basis through SMSes. Users won't be required to download and install any specific application for accessing this service.

To provide city specific news and information to its users, Handygo Technologies has announced Zing services in partnership with Buzz in Town, which offers city specific information.

The Zing services provide the users updates about their city on daily basis through SMSes. Users won't be required to download and install any specific application for accessing this service. Subscribers, apart from just receiving information, can also be a part of the Zing club where they will be able to share information using the Zing platform.