E-Tailers Support Pandemic-Hit Offline Sellers with Tech Solutions
E-commerce players are approaching offline businesses, which are hurt by restrictions on brick and mortar stores, to join their platforms.
Online retailers including Grofers, Amazon, Flipkart, JioMart and Dealshare are reaching out to offline retailers to join their network in order to avoid lockdown-like restrictions.
Online grocery retailer Grofers is offering three programmes to grow its merchant base, bringing offline stores online and also partnering with entrepreneurs to open omni-channel retail stores.
Amazon India’s Local Shops, which launched in April last year, offers a ‘Prime Badge’ to an offline merchant on registration to improve discoverability in the store’s locality. More than 50,000 offline retailers and stores from metros to tier II and tier III cities were part of the program as of March 2021. Amazon India has also announced fee waivers and refunds for existing merchants on its platform for May.
In addition, Walmart-owned Flipkart is offering merchants ‘higher visibility’ in nearby pin codes, as well as the benefits of its supply chain.
Social commerce platform Dealshare, which primarily relies on its army of WhatsApp groups and community influencers to sell household basics, is on-boarding new local manufacturers across Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Further Reliance-owned JioMart’s online grocery delivery has made steady strides in on-boarding kirana stores in the past year. JioMart service saw 3x growth in kirana partnerships and added 10 new cities to its existing 23 cities, according to regulatory filings.
Samsung Develops Chip Packaging Tech for High-Performance Applications
Samsung Electronics has developed an advanced chip packaging technology for high-performance applications as the South Korean tech giant eyes to expand its leadership in semiconductor solutions.
The world’s largest memory chip maker said its next-generation 2.5D packaging technology, Interposer-Cube4 (I-Cube4), is expected to be widely used in areas like high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, cloud and largest data center applications as it creates enhanced communication and power efficiency between logic and memory chips.
I-Cube is Samsung’s brand for its heterogeneous integration technology that horizontally places one or more logic dies, such as central processing units (CPU) and graphics processing units (GPU), and several high bandwidth memory (HBM) dies on a paper-thin silicon interposer and makes them operate as a single chip in one package.
Samsung said it used a unique mold-free structure for the I-Cube 4 solution, which incorporates four HBMs with one logic die, for better thermal management and stable power supply, reports Yonhap news agency.
Koo Launches ‘Talk to Type’ Feature, to Support 22 Indian Languages
Koo, the ‘desi’ version of the microblogging site Twitter, has introduced a new Talk to Type feature that allows its users to post content on the platform using voice commands.
The company claims that it is the first social media platform globally to use this feature in the Indian regional and local languages – Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and Marathi – apart from English.
Koo will foray into all 22 official Indian languages this year and that the new feature will help empower regional creators.
Homegrown microblogging platform Koo, which has many similarities with Twitter, has crossed over three million users in February this year. Koo has a yellow bird as its logo in contrast to Twitter’s blue bird.
