How Do APIs Work?
API, short for Application Programming Interface, is a software intermediary (think of it as a human translator) that allows two applications to talk to each other. Image someone who speaks only French needs to talk to someone who can converse only in Japanese. They would require someone who knows both languages to work as an […]
Read MoreScrape Hotel Data from Booking.com
The COVID-19 pandemic hit every section of society and had an impact on almost all major industries. However, one sector that was hit the worst is travel and transport. Flight bookings were down, hotels were closed, no one was renting cars for sightseeing, all cruise ships were docked– a complete nightmare played out as the […]
Read MorePredatory Pricing in the Pulse Oximeter Category by E-commerce Sellers
Of all the magnanimous shifts brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and social, the shift in consumer product demand has been the least talked about. The word oximeter was probably unheard of before March 2020. And now it has become a household staple, third only to face masks and hand sanitisers. Almost every family […]
Read MoreTakeaways from PromptCloud’s demo at Unpluggd
Last weekend was eventful at Unpluggd with scores of entrepreneurs, techies, investors and fellow startup community members coming together to unveil a landscape that’s only imaginable. Implying, only when you attend something like this do you realize with what pace the startup culture is evolving and what’s trending (this time around I gathered it was […]
Read MoreIdentifying Influencers Using Social Media Crawling
Advertising pre-social media slides towards the more creative side of the industry and the Advertiser decides what kind of content attracts the potential target audience for the brand. The advertiser here is generally the senior person in the company with the most years of experience credited to their name. Not to undermine their experience, but […]
Read MoreLeapfrogging With Structured Data
Going back a few years, when some of the media and investors are quizzing Mr. Mukesh Ambani, why was an oil company like RIL (Reliance Industries) spending 10’s of billions of dollars on a telecom network? Mr. Ambani replied, “Data is the new oil.” While the commodification of data in Jio’s context is different from […]
Read MoreIntroducing Ready-to-use Big Data Packages
In response to the hustle in the market, we have recently launched ready-to-use data packages for some popular websites which carry a lot of relevant and meaningful information for businesses to function. Our powerful crawlers have already crawled millions of URL’s in this regard and our extractors have structured this data with relevant attributes. These […]
Read MoreHow Retailers Can Make The Most Of Location-Based Data
The retail sector is continuously growing. According to Statista, total retail sales in the United States are projected to amount to 5.94 trillion U.S. dollars in 2024, up from around 5.47 trillion U.S. dollars in 2019. As we approach 2022, it appears that retail location data seems irreplaceable and necessitates its use in every industry, […]
Read MoreHow is Big Data Revolutionizing The Digital News Industry?
Digital data is what digital data does. No, really. If it were to manifest itself in more tangible forms, we’d actually be in for a pretty rude shock. It is absolutely destroyed and rebuilding itself every day. Literally. Hyper-acceleration is the only word that can somewhat describe the pace at which our digital world is […]
Read MoreCryptocurrencies – New World Order?
Cryptocurrency – A New World Order? This is the opening statement in the abstract written by Satoshi Nakumoto, who wrote a paper on Bitcoin released right after the world went through a financial crisis that resembles the great depression of the 1930s. The financial institutions and big banks that are too centralized misused their “too […]
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