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10 Best Free VPN Services for 2019 With growing attacks from hackers and digital policing from government agencies, privacy and confidentiality have become major concerns nowadays. Whether it is to enjoy some of the shows and movies blocked in your region or hide your footprints while browsing the internet, VPN (or a Virtual Private Network) is the preferred solution that many techies are banking upon. While the highest rated VPN services have to be paid for before you can use them, there is a score of VPN services which are either completely free to use, or offer the basic VPN features for free with an option to pay if you would like to utilize better features, get higher speeds, and other additional benefits. So, if you’re looking for some great VPN services to check out, here are the 10 best free VPN services you can use. Note:  Some of the VPN services mentioned below work with services like Netflix and Spotify as well. Spotify and Netflix don’t like VPNs, and while ...

Google Search, Google Lens Get New Shopping Features in India Google has announced it has revamped its  shopping search features  to make the experience more personal and allow users to easily filter through offers, review prices from multiple retailers and find the products they are looking for. The new experience is available via a “Shopping” home page, shopping tab in Google search and style search in  Google Lens , an image recognition mobile app, Google said. “ More than 40 million Indians are coming online every year, and search is an integral part of their online journey. From seasoned desktop shoppers to first-time users with entry-level smartphones, we hope this new shopping experience will make finding what people are looking for just a little bit easier ,” Surojit Chatterjee, Vice President – Product Management, Google  wrote . The new “Shopping” home page is a made-to-browse destination for shoppers to search across multiple product cate...

Flipkart Looking For Video Partners to Challenge Amazon Prime Flipkart and Amazon are the two dominant forces in the Indian e-commerce industry, but Amazon’s diverse portfolio of services, especially the Prime Video platform, gives Amazon a slight edge over Flipkart. Flipkart is now planning to invest in videos in order to challenge Amazon on yet another front after e-commerce. In an interview with the  EconomicTimes , Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy revealed that the company will launch a video platform and collaborate with other companies to produce video content such as movies. “At a high level, I can say we will launch video. The company has focused on quality products made affordable across private label and fintech solutions. At the core… the focus will not change from that. So will we get into producing and directing movies on our own? The answer is no. We will partner” , Krishnamurthy said Flipkart’s video offering could be offered as a perk for the Flip...

Google Acquires ‘Where is My Train’, An Indian App to Locate Trains Without Internet India has a massive market when it comes to anything related to public transport, especially Indian railways and Google realizes that. After significant efforts in the area of providing internet connectivity to passengers at Indian railway stations, Google’s new step should help Indians book tickets and track their rides better.  The Economic Times  reports that Google has acquired Bengaluru-based Sigmoid Labs, the developer of the Android app called “Where is My Tain”. The app is fairly popular on the Google Play Store (free) and has  more than 10 million downloads  and Google’s backing is likely to push it further. A key characteristic of the app is that it is  available in eight different languages  so that information is easily accessible to a large population of users. Another appealing aspect of the app is it  runs even with limited or no ...