Tech Terrain

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) website owned by the Karnataka State Government on Friday morning were in for a surprise. They found that the website ( www.bbmp.gov.in ) had been hacked. The BBMP officials, who were flummoxed by the unexpected turn of events, immediately set about trying to restore it.

Amazon, the internet shopping giant has sprouted it’s offshoot in India as Junglee. Amazon decides to try a different tactic to woo Indian customers from competing websites like Flipkart and Infibeam by acting as an yellow page where big and small retailers can upload their catalogues and sell their products. Amazon does this so that  it can boast a wider variety of products than it’s competitiors.