Google Online Shopping Festival Kicks Off Today, Flipkart Gives A Miss

Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) 2014 kicks off today for a period of 3 days i.e will run till 12 Dec.2014 and the participating e-commerce stores in India are SnapDeal, Amazon, Jabong, LimeRoad, Rediff, YepMe, NaapTol, Freecultr, FirstCry etc. However India's e-commerce giant Flipkart is not participating in GOSF this year.

Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) is a Google initiative created by Google India on 12 December 2012 in collaboration with a number of Indian online shopping portals. The concept of the GOSF was that the online shopping sites would give heavy discounts for one day, in order to promote their sales.

GOSF 2014 online festival will see over 400 partners offering their products on discount for three days till Friday.

Google is launching new sections like GOSF exclusive launches and one for first-time buyers. The exclusive launches section would feature products in a wide range, including tech products and fashion labels. Also, there is a section which offers users a chance to win 14 minutes of free shopping hosted by brands like Asian Paints, Jet Airways, Kindle, Micromax, HP, Big Bazaar, KOOVs, Lakme and Lenovo.

To persuade and charm the budget conscious buyers Indian buyers, GOSF has this year launched another section called - 'Rs 299 Corner', where all products listed will be available for Rs 299. Several e-tailers such as Snapdeal, ebay, Jabong, Firstcry, Fab Furnish, Lenskart and Yepme.com are offering the Rs 299 deals on products like wrist watches, electronics, clothes, linen and furnishing.

Even as major e-commerce players like Amazon, Snapdeal and Jabong are getting ready for the 3-day GOSF, Flipkart has decided to skip this year’s festival a miss. The e-commerce company has launched yet another discount fest, Big App Sale, which started two days earlier than GOSF. While GOSF is slated to be held between December 10 and 12, Flipkart’s Big App Sale started from December 8 and goes on till December 12.

Google Chromecast Officially Comes To India at Rs.2999

Not a big fan of the small screens of your phones, tablets or laptops? Always aspired to watch your favorite serial or movie trailer on a bigger and better screen? Well, Google has finally made your wish come true with its Chromecast making an official debut in India.

The streaming media device connects to an HDTV via the HDMI port and allows the user to stream content from their laptops, tablets or phones to their TV. Chromecast combined with a good broadband connection will make it super easy for users watch their favorite show like Bigg Boss or Comedy Nights with Kapil on a bigger screen. Currently, around 35 percent of people access YouTube on their mobiles and a large number of them keep switching between two to three devices everyday, Chromecast will help these mobile content lovers in bridging the gap between their TV and their devices.

The device will be available in India via Snapdeal starting from today (10 December). The device has been exclusively priced at Rs. 2,999 keeping the Indian audience in mind.

Although, before this official launch Indian users could buy Chromecast device from Amazon and Flipkart but at much higher price which was around Rs.3800-Rs.4200, which because of unavailability in India, used to shipped from US to India. From today onward Chromecast will be available in India itself.

Google will launch the Chromecast in the Indian market as a part of the Great Online Shopping Festival event that will take place from 10-12 December. It has partnered with Snapdeal.com and Airtel in order to bring the Chromecast to the Indian market. This piece of information was tweeted by Rajan Anandan, Vice President and Managing Director, Google India.

Chromecast is very easy to set up and tucks away neatly behind your TV. It can work with iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and ChromeOS devices.  You will not face any difficulty in using the Chromecast for the first time as it taps the same experience of using applications and web that you are familiar with on your phones, laptops or tablets. Chromecast provides you the ability to cast from your Chrome browser, tablet or phone by simply opening the browser or a supported application and pressing the cast icon.

In India, the device currently supports hundreds of applications like Google Play Movies and YouTube etc. It will also run applications from partners like Eros Now, YuppTV  and Spuul.

The device will also be available on selected Airtel stores apart from Snapdeal.

Google Chromecast Officially Comes To India at Rs.2999

Not a big fan of the small screens of your phones, tablets or laptops? Always aspired to watch your favorite serial or movie trailer on a bigger and better screen? Well, Google has finally made your wish come true with its Chromecast making an official debut in India.

The streaming media device connects to an HDTV via the HDMI port and allows the user to stream content from their laptops, tablets or phones to their TV. Chromecast combined with a good broadband connection will make it super easy for users watch their favorite show like Bigg Boss or Comedy Nights with Kapil on a bigger screen. Currently, around 35 percent of people access YouTube on their mobiles and a large number of them keep switching between two to three devices everyday, Chromecast will help these mobile content lovers in bridging the gap between their TV and their devices.

The device will be available in India via Snapdeal starting from today (10 December). The device has been exclusively priced at Rs. 2,999 keeping the Indian audience in mind.

Although, before this official launch Indian users could buy Chromecast device from Amazon and Flipkart but at much higher price which was around Rs.3800-Rs.4200, which because of unavailability in India, used to shipped from US to India. From today onward Chromecast will be available in India itself.

Google will launch the Chromecast in the Indian market as a part of the Great Online Shopping Festival event that will take place from 10-12 December. It has partnered with Snapdeal.com and Airtel in order to bring the Chromecast to the Indian market. This piece of information was tweeted by Rajan Anandan, Vice President and Managing Director, Google India.

Chromecast is very easy to set up and tucks away neatly behind your TV. It can work with iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and ChromeOS devices.  You will not face any difficulty in using the Chromecast for the first time as it taps the same experience of using applications and web that you are familiar with on your phones, laptops or tablets. Chromecast provides you the ability to cast from your Chrome browser, tablet or phone by simply opening the browser or a supported application and pressing the cast icon.

In India, the device currently supports hundreds of applications like Google Play Movies and YouTube etc. It will also run applications from partners like Eros Now, YuppTV  and Spuul.

The device will also be available on selected Airtel stores apart from Snapdeal.