GoDaddy Partners With EduSkills to Help Boost Digital Skills Development in India

Business Wire India
GoDaddy, the company empowering everyday entrepreneurs, today announced a partnership with EduSkills, a non-profit social enterprise designed to help boost entrepreneurship and digital skills development in India. With this partnership, GoDaddy and EduSkills aim to create a talent pool of thousands of skilled youth in the country, by offering GoDaddy’s newly created online training and certification program, GoDaddy Academy. In addition, the program aims to train educators across EduSkills’ 800+ partner universities and Engineering colleges across India. This partnership will help empower students and educators to gain knowledge and expertise needed to thrive in today’s evolving digital world.
 
The GoDaddy Academy offers a combination of elementary and advanced technology courses, in an innovative and participative learning environment, to create a unique learning journey suited for digital career goals. The courses cover basic coding language concepts such as HTML and Java Script, along with more intensive topics such as Database and Cloud applications. The GoDaddy Academy program also includes a wide array of modular courses ranging from understanding the basics of building a professional website and a more feature-rich WordPress website, including tools and ideas for digital marketing, SEO and other digital topic areas.
 
Commenting on this partnership, Shubhajit Jagadev, Executive Director, EduSkills said, “the ongoing pandemic has definitely made Indians rethink about their career options, with many employers around the world choosing candidates with technical skills and other proficiencies needed to adjust to the new ways of working in a digital environment. We at EduSkills, have a strong vision to extend Industry 4.0 skills to higher education institutions and students across the nation. We believe that the GoDaddy Academy certifications will be an important addition helping to make our students more employable and relevant in the job market. We are excited to partner with GoDaddy for this initiative and work towards creating a digital skills ecosystem that prepares India’s workforce for jobs of the future.”
 
 “With the variety of challenges and uncertainties being experienced by this global pandemic, digital technology has become integral to the way the world operates, especially in a developing nation like India. This has opened up avenues for young Indians to develop new age technology skill sets and explore differentiated career opportunities. We believe that the students who embrace these digital skills today will be the skilled entrepreneurs of tomorrow, shaping the future of a digital first India in the post COVID-19 new normal environment. Through our collaboration with EduSkills, we aim to help further digital readiness among the country’s youth and hope to create a vast pool of GoDaddy-certified web professionals better positioned to get qualified career placements in the industry,” Nikhil Arora, Vice President and Managing Director, GoDaddy India further added.
 
EduSkills invites all its partner educational institutions in India (Technical Universities, Engineering Colleges, Polytechnics & Science Colleges) to be a part of this initiative and take full benefit of the expert technology and business courses as part of the GoDaddy Academy Program.
 
GoDaddy offers an integrated suite of products for small business owners and entrepreneurs, ranging from domain names, hosting, website building, to email marketing, security protections and an online store. GoDaddy offers 24/7 customer support, locally and in regional languages, to help guide customers in the growth of their venture, and to find the tools that best meet their needs.

GoDaddy Launches App For Domain Auctions in India

GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), which operates the world's largest domain name aftermarket, today announced the launch of its first mobile app for domain investors in India. The GoDaddy Investor app, launching on iOS and Android, will allow investors to watch and bid on domains at auction and stay on top of their current bids all from their mobile device.

Aftermarket domain auctions are time-sensitive and highly competitive, and it's critical that investors are able to easily participate at any time and from anywhere, not just from their computers.

GoDaddy Investor app offers several additional features not previously available. After downloading the app, domain investors are able to monitor a watch list of active expiry domain auctions in real time, as well as view their bidding history. Investors can also see the auction history for each domain, including the number of bidders and the prices of their bids. Investors can also place proxy bids and securely re-authenticate with finger authorization. A streamlined, visual dashboard count shows, at-a-glance, how many auctions investors have won, bid on, or are watching overall. Finally, since auctions are won and lost in an instant, push notifications will immediately alert investors when they've been outbid on auctions that are ending soon.

“Having the right domain name is critical for any business and their inherent value makes domain names akin to being the ‘real estate’ on the Internet. Domain investors have a unique opportunity to invest in domain names that can be capitalised for a profit in the future. GoDaddy’s Investor App is designed keeping in mind the timely nature of bids, allowing investors to register valuable pre-owned domain names, win auctions and keep a closer eye on their bids, no matter where they are,” said Rajiv Sodhi, Vice President and Managing Director, GoDaddy, India and Australia. “With internet penetration accelerating in India, an increasing number of businesses and individuals are realising the importance of having the right, identifiable domain. Though with approximately four million registered domain names, domain penetration in India is relatively lower, we foresee significant momentum for domain name growth with more businesses coming online, along with the availability of more top-level domain name choices."

GoDaddy Investor v 2.2 is now available on iPhone and iPad (iOS 8 and above) and Android phones (4.1 and above) in English-speaking markets.

• To download GoDaddy Investor for iOS, visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/godaddy-investor/id1056238239?ls=1&mt=8


• To download GoDaddy Investor for Android, visit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.godaddy.gdm.investorapp

Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz. USA, GoDaddy also has offices across other locations including in Washington, Massachusetts, Iowa and California in the U.S., and international locations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore and in the U.K.

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GoDaddy Acquires FreedomVoice and Also Announces a Strategic Partnership With ShopClues

GoDaddy Inc., the world's largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, has entered into an agreement to purchase FreedomVoice for $42 million in cash plus up to $5 million in potential future milestones payments. The addition of FreedomVoice's team and its cloud-based communications products furthers GoDaddy's commitment to helping small businesses succeed.

There are over 210 million small businesses globally and the vast majority rely on mobile or desktop phones to communicate with their customers. With this acquisition, GoDaddy now provides another essential service for small businesses and organizations to create and maintain their digital identity – adding voice services to naming, presence and productivity.

FreedomVoice offers a product suite that delivers intuitive and affordable communications specifically for small businesses. Products include a custom cloud number (local, toll-free, vanity) that automatically routes business-related calls to a user's mobile phone, and a cloud-based phone system that delivers enterprise-quality voice over IP for small offices. Like GoDaddy, FreedomVoice further differentiates itself by providing customized customer care from knowledgeable experts who take pride in solving problems.

"At FreedomVoice our mission has always been to help companies start, run and grow, and we're ecstatic to join GoDaddy who is just as passionate about helping small businesses succeed," said FreedomVoice CEO Eric Thomas. "There is great synergy between our companies and our team can't wait to get started on delivering the next generation of voice to small businesses around the world."

Mr. Thomas will become Telephony Revenue and Integration Officer at GoDaddy.

GoDaddy recently created a new Telephony business unit to oversee the Company's communication products strategy and execution, including products related to FreedomVoice. The business unit will be led by Intuit and small business veteran Barry Saik, who recently joined GoDaddy as General Manager and Senior Vice President, Telephony.

FreedomVoice products will continue to be available online and through partners. GoDaddy and FreedomVoice plan to deliver new cloud-based voice products in the near future.

FreedomVoice will continue to maintain offices in Encinitas, California.

Apart from this, GoDaddy has also announced a strategic partnership with ShopClues. With domains from GoDaddy, ShopClues merchants can now drive potential customer web traffic directly to their page listed on ShopClues and at the same time, building their online identity and brand with a distinct domain name from GoDaddy. The ability to drive traffic to their specific page using a short and memorable URL, presents SMBs with the ability to offer promotions and better target its customers with their own website address via a link as the 'call-to-action'.

To register for a new domain name, customers can visit Domains on GoDaddy and who already have a domain name, GoDaddy enables customers to quickly connect their domain name to any website or blog or to other pages they control, like Facebook, LinkedIn or YouTube profile pages.

Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz. USA , GoDaddy also has offices across other locations including in Washington, Massachusetts, Iowa and California in the U.S., and international locations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore and in the UK.

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