59-676: MakeMyTrip Limited is an Indian online travel company , which was founded in 2000. Its headquarter is located in Gurugram , Haryana , the company provides online travel services including airline tickets , domestic and international holiday packages, hotel reservations, rail and bus tickets. As of June 2023, the company has 146 active franchisees operating in over 100 cities. MakeMyTrip also has international offices located in New York , Singapore , Kuala Lumpur , Phuket , Bangkok , Dubai , and Istanbul . In September 2019, Ctrip/Trip.com Group ,
118-456: A $ 15 million innovation fund to support travel start-ups. In April 2015 MakeMyTrip acquired MyGola, a travel planning website. The acquisition was done through the innovation fund, and all employees of MyGola were absorbed into the MakeMyTrip team. In July 2015, MakeMyTrip invested in the travel information and hotel review portal HolidayIQ and picked up approximately 30% stake in the company. In
177-518: A Windows Phone device. The "Office Hub" can access files from OneDrive and Office 365 , as well as files which are stored locally on the device's hard drive. Although they are not preinstalled in Windows Phone's "Office Hub", OneNote Mobile, Lync Mobile, and OneDrive for Business can be downloaded separately as standalone applications from the Windows Phone Store. Multitasking in Windows Phone
236-499: A beta in the United States in the first half of 2014, before expanding to other countries in early 2015. Windows 10 Mobile was announced on January 21, 2015, as a mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets running on ARM architecture. Its primary focus is unification with Windows 10 , its PC counterpart, in software and services; in accordance with this strategy, the Windows Phone name has been phased out in favor of branding
295-444: A contact's tile or accessing their card within the "People" hub will reveal their recent social network activity as well as the rest of their contact information. If a contact has information stored on multiple networks, users can link the two separate contact accounts, allowing the information to be viewed and accessed from a single card. As of Windows Phone 7.5, contacts can also be sorted into "Groups". Here, information from each of
354-582: A customizable background image for the Start screen. The image is visible through the transparent area of the tiles and features a parallax effect when scrolling which gives an illusion of depth. If the user does not pick a background image the tiles render with the accent color of the theme. Users input text by using an on-screen virtual keyboard , which has a dedicated key for inserting emoticons , and features spell checking and word prediction. App developers (both inhouse and ISV) may specify different versions of
413-461: A dark theme that prolongs battery life on OLED screens as fully black pixels do not emit light. Alternatively, users may choose a light theme in their phone's settings menu. The user may also choose from several accent colors. User interface elements such as links, buttons and tiles are shown in the user's chosen accent color. Third-party applications can be automatically themed with these colors. Windows Phone 8.1 introduces transparent tiles and
472-503: A major Windows Mobile update may have begun as early as 2004 under the codename "Photon", but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled. In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started work on a new mobile operating system. The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone, but several delays prompted Microsoft to develop Windows Mobile 6.5 as an interim release. Following this, Windows Phone
531-419: A new method of typing by swiping through the keyboard without lifting the finger, in a manner similar to Swype and SwiftKey . Internet Explorer on Windows Phone allows the user to maintain a list of favorite web pages and tiles linking to web pages on the Start screen. The browser supports up to 6 tabs, which can all load in parallel. Other features include multi-touch gestures, smooth zoom in/out animations,
590-438: A new way, with the end user in mind as well as the enterprise network. Terry Myerson , corporate VP of Windows Phone engineering, said, "With the move to capacitive touch screens, away from the stylus, and the moves to some of the hardware choices we made for the Windows Phone 7 experience, we had to break application compatibility with Windows Mobile 6.5." From the beginning of Windows Phone until at least 2015, Joe Belfiore
649-582: A partnership was formed with MakeMyTrip to integrate forex services into MakeMyTrip's platform. List of companies of India India is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.4 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world. The Indian economy is the world's fifth largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity . Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of
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#1732868618820708-400: A phone along with Xbox Live functionality, including the ability for a user to interact with their avatar , view and edit their profile, see their achievements and view leaderboards, and send messages to friends on Xbox Live. The hub also features an area for managing invitations and turn notifications in turn-based multiplayer games. Games are downloaded from Windows Phone Store . Bing is
767-587: A platform for travel agents. In May 2021, the company entered into a strategic partnership with the digital payment arm of Amazon — Amazon Pay for providing travel services on Amazon. By March 31, 2022, the company had over 125 franchisee-owned travel stores throughout India. They also leased offices in South-East Asia , Dubai , the USA, and Latin America . In April 2022, TripMoney, the fintech arm of MakeMyTrip, announced
826-463: A playlist of songs stored on the phone similar to the song or artist selected. The Pictures hub displays the user's Facebook and OneDrive photo albums, as well as photos taken with the phone's built-in camera. Users can also upload photos to social networks, comment on photos uploaded by other people, and tag photos posted to social networks. Multi-touch gestures permit zooming in and out of photos. An official file manager app called Files , which
885-482: A sample. This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations which have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct. Windows Phone Windows Phone ( WP ) is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft Mobile for smartphones as
944-593: A stripped-down desktop interface similar to Windows on PCs, with support for keyboard and mouse input. Windows 10 Mobile featured Skype message integration, updated Office Mobile apps, notification syncing with other Windows 10 devices, support for the Microsoft Edge web browser, and other user interface improvements. Microsoft developed a middleware known as Windows Bridge to allow iOS Objective-C and Android C++ or Java software to be ported to run on Windows 10 Mobile with limited changes to code. With
1003-482: A tile could display a live update of the weather. Since Windows Phone 8 , live tiles can also be resized to either a small, medium, or large appearance. Several features of Windows Phone are organized into " hubs ", which combine local and online content via Windows Phone's integration with popular social networks such as Facebook , Windows Live , and Twitter . For example, the Pictures hub shows photos captured with
1062-457: A user's Facebook news feed and a "Pictures" section show pictures from those social networks, while a "Me" section within the "People" hub shows a user's own social network status and wall and allows them to view social network updates. Contacts can also be pinned to the Start Screen. The contact's " Live Tile " displays their social network status and profile picture on the homescreen. Clicking on
1121-451: Is available for download from the Windows Phone Store, enables users to move and rearrange documents, videos, music and other files within their device's hard drive or to an external SD card. Windows Phone supports WAV, MP3, WMA, AMR, AAC/MP4/M4A/M4B and 3GP/3G2 standards. The video file formats supported on WP include WMV, AVI, MP4/M4V, 3GP/3G2 and MOV (QuickTime) standards. These supported audio and video formats would be dependent on
1180-413: Is invoked through long pressing the "back" arrow, which is present on all Windows Phones. Windows Phone 7 uses a card-based task switcher, whereas later versions of Windows Phone utilize true background multitasking. Zune Software manages the contents on Windows Phone 7 devices and Windows Phone can wirelessly sync with Zune Software. Syncing content between Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 and Windows PCs or Macs
1239-452: Is made up of "Live Tiles", which have been the inspiration for the Windows 8 live tiles. Tiles are links to applications, features, functions and individual items (such as contacts, web pages, applications or media items). Users can add, rearrange, or remove tiles. Tiles are dynamic and update in real time – for example, the tile for an email account would display the number of unread messages or
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#17328686188201298-513: The Linux kernel), Elop enjoyed familiarity with his past company where he had been a top executive. The pair announced integration of Microsoft services with Nokia's own services; specifically: The partnership involves "funds changing hands for royalties, marketing and ad-revenue sharing", which Microsoft later announced as "measured in billions of dollars". Jo Harlow , whom Elop tapped to run Nokia's smartphone business, rearranged her team to match
1357-566: The Lumia 900 , featuring a 4.3-inch AMOLED ClearBlack display, a 1.4 GHz processor and 16 GB of storage. The Lumia 900 was one of the first Windows Phones to support LTE and was released on AT&T on April 8, 2012. An international version launched in Q2 2012, with a UK launch on May 11, 2012. The Lumia 610 was the first Nokia Windows Phone to run the Tango Variant (Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh) and
1416-819: The US market to cater to the overseas Indian community for their US to India travel needs. It started its Indian operations in September 2005 by offering online flight tickets to Indian travellers and also started focussing on non-air businesses like holiday packages and hotel bookings. MakeMyTrip limited was listed on the NASDAQ on 17 September 2010 after its initial public offering . MakeMyTrip also acquired Luxury Tours and Travel Private Limited ( Singapore ), ITC Group Hotel Travel Group, and ETB Group—to enter new markets in Southeast Asia and Europe . In September 2014, MakeMyTrip instituted
1475-538: The United States . In 2011, Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.5 Mango . The update included a mobile version of Internet Explorer 9 that supports the same web standards and graphical capability as the desktop version, multi-tasking of third-party apps, Twitter integration for the People Hub, and Windows Live SkyDrive access. A minor update released in 2012 known as "Tango", along with other bug fixes, lowered
1534-910: The Windows NT kernel used by the PC versions of Windows (and, in particular, a large amount of internal components from Windows 8 ). Due to these changes, the OS was incompatible with all existing Windows Phone 7 devices, although it still supported apps originally developed for Windows Phone 7. In 2014, Microsoft released the Windows Phone 8.1 update, which introduced the Cortana virtual assistant , and Windows Runtime platform support to create cross-platform apps between Windows PCs and Windows Phone. In 2015, Microsoft released Windows 10 Mobile , which promoted increased integration and unification with its PC counterpart , including
1593-512: The fastest-growing major economies and is considered a newly industrialised country . For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see: "Business entities in India" . This list shows firms in the Fortune Global 500 , which ranks firms by total revenues reported before 31 March 2020. Only the top ranking firms (if available) are included as
1652-460: The "Notebook" to keep information from Cortana or reveal more about themselves. All Windows Phones come preinstalled with Microsoft Office Mobile, which provides interoperability between Windows Phone and the desktop version of Microsoft Office . Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, and SharePoint Workspace Mobile apps are accessible through a single "Office Hub", and allow most Microsoft Office file formats to be viewed and edited directly on
1711-530: The MakeMyTrip brand. Their air ticketing business primarily serves domestic and international travel to and from India. In 2017, they expanded their operations by acquiring the Ibibo Group, which operates the Goibibo brand. MakeMyTrip ventured into the hotels and packages business in 2005 and manages it through MMT India and Goibibo . As of 2020, it had over 60,000 accommodation properties in India and 5,00,000 outside
1770-670: The Nokia X series of smartphones (later discontinued) using a version of Android forked from the Android Open Source Project. The operating system was modified; Google's software was not included in favour of competing applications and services from Microsoft and Nokia, and with a user interface highly modified to resemble Windows Phone. Windows Phone 7 was announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on February 15, 2010, and released publicly on November 8, 2010 in
1829-523: The United Kingdom and United States by Cortana , a digital personal assistant which can also double as an app for basic searches. Cortana allows users to do tasks such as set calendar reminders and alarms, and recognizes a user's natural voice, and can be used to answer questions (like current weather conditions, sports scores, and biographies). The app also keeps a "Notebook" to learn a user's behavior over time and tailor reminders for them. Users can edit
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1888-413: The ability to connect devices to an external display or docking station to display a PC-like interface. Although Microsoft dropped the Windows Phone brand at this time in order to focus more on synergies with Windows 10 for PCs, it was still a continuation of the Windows Phone line from a technical standpoint, and updates were issued for selected Windows Phone 8.1 devices. While Microsoft's investments in
1947-485: The ability to save pictures that are on web pages, share web pages via email, and support for inline search which allows the user to search for a word or phrase in a web page by typing it. Tabs are synced with Windows 8.1 devices using Internet Explorer 11 . Contacts are organized via the " People hub ", and can be manually entered into contacts or imported from Facebook , Windows Live Contacts , Twitter , LinkedIn , Google , and Outlook . A "What's New" section shows
2006-494: The acquisition of BookMyForex, an online foreign exchange services provider, BookMyForex. As of June 2023, they have 146 active franchisees operating in over 100 cities. They also have international offices located in New York , Singapore , Kuala Lumpur , Phuket , Bangkok , and Dubai . In 2016, MakeMyTrip and Ibibo Group , India 's largest travel booking portals, merged through a stock transaction. Through this transaction, MakeMyTrip acquired its rival, Ibibo Group, in one of
2065-673: The biggest acquisition in India's online travel space. MakeMyTrip provides flights, places to stay, villas and homestays, rail and bus tickets, inter-city cab service, holiday packages, forex, and hotel booking services on its portal. In 2012, MakeMyTrip launched travel mobile applications for Windows Phone , iPhone , Android , and Blackberry devices. In 2012, MakeMyTrip launched routeplanner, allowing users to search across 1 billion routes and modes within India. It provides information on distance, available modes of transport (flights, trains, buses, cabs), estimated duration, and fares. The company started its air ticketing operations in 2000 under
2124-683: The codecs contained inside them. It has also been previously reported that the DivX and Xvid codecs within the AVI file format are also playable on WP devices. Windows Phone does not support DRM protected media files that are obtained from services other than Xbox Music Pass. The image file formats that are supported include JPG/JPEG , PNG, GIF, TIF and Bitmap (BMP). Users can also add custom ringtones which are less than 1MB in size and less than 40 seconds long. DLNA streaming and stereoscopic 3D are also supported. The " Games hub " provides access to games on
2183-572: The contacts is combined into a single page which can be accessed directly from the Hub or pinned to the Start screen. Windows Phone supports Outlook.com , Exchange , Yahoo! Mail and Gmail natively and supports many other services via the POP and IMAP protocols. Updates added support for more services such as iCloud and IBM Notes Traveler . Contacts and calendars may be synced from these services as well. Users can also search through their email by searching in
2242-399: The country listed on its site. The company owns and operates its bus ticketing business primarily through redBus , an online platform for bus ticketing. The company has partnerships with various major bus operators in India, Peru , Colombia , and select countries in Southeast Asia . BookMyForex founded by father-son duo in 2012. In 2016, it received funding from Faering Capital. In 2016,
2301-533: The default search engine on Windows Phone handsets because its functions are deeply integrated in the OS (which also include the utilization of its map service for location-based searches and queries). However, Microsoft has stated that other search engine applications can be used. In the area of location-based searches, Bing Maps (which is powered by Nokia's location services) provides turn-by-turn navigation service to Windows Phone users, and Local Scout shows interest points such as attractions and restaurants in
2360-507: The device's camera and the user's Facebook photo albums, and the People hub shows contacts aggregated from multiple sources including Windows Live, Facebook, and Gmail . From the hub, users can directly comment and 'like' on social network updates. The other built-in hubs are Xbox Music and Video, Xbox Live Games, Windows Phone Store , and Microsoft Office . Windows Phone uses multi-touch technology. The default Windows Phone user interface has
2419-525: The device, and links directly to the "Xbox Music Store" to buy or rent music and the "Xbox Video Store" to purchase movies and TV episodes. Xbox Music also allows the user to stream music with an Xbox Music Pass. When browsing the music by a particular artist, users are able to view artist biographies and photos. The Xbox Music hub also integrates with many other apps that provide video and music services, including, but not limited to, iHeartRadio , YouTube, and Vevo . This hub also includes Smart DJ which compiles
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2478-456: The diminishing interest and application development for the platform, Microsoft discontinued active development of Windows 10 Mobile in 2017, and the platform was declared end of life on January 14, 2020. Windows Phone features a user interface based on Microsoft's " Metro " design language , and was inspired by the user interface in the Zune HD . The home screen, called the "Start screen",
2537-586: The duopoly of Android and iPhone remained the dominant platforms for smartphones, and interest in Windows Phone from app developers began to diminish by mid-decade. Microsoft laid off the Microsoft Mobile staff in 2016, after having taken a write-off of $ 7.6 billion on the acquired Nokia hardware assets, while market share sank to 1% that year. Microsoft began to prioritize software development and integrations with Android and iOS instead, and ceased active development of Windows 10 Mobile in 2017. Work on
2596-414: The hardware requirements to allow for devices with 800 MHz CPUs and 256 MB of RAM to run Windows Phone. Windows Phone 7 devices can not be upgraded to Windows Phone 8 due to hardware limitations. Windows Phone 7.8 was released as a stopgap update in 2013 to include some of the user interface features from Windows Phone 8. On October 29, 2012, Microsoft released Windows Phone 8 , a new generation of
2655-495: The largest online travel agency in China and one of the largest travel service providers in the world, completed a share exchange with Naspers and became the single largest shareholder of MakeMyTrip. In 2016, MakeMyTrip acquired the Ibibo group, which owned sites such as Goibibo and Redbus.in . Founded by Deep Kalra , an alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad , in 2000, MakeMyTrip was launched in
2714-473: The nearby area. On Nokia devices, Nokia's Here Maps is preinstalled in place of Bing Maps. Furthermore, Bing Audio allows the user to match a song with its name, and Bing Vision allows the user to scan barcodes, QR codes, and other types of tags. Every Windows Phone has either a dedicated physical Search button or an on-screen Search button, which was previously reserved for a Bing Search app, but has been replaced on Windows Phone 8.1 devices and later in
2773-541: The operating system. Windows Phone 8 replaced its previously Windows CE-based architecture with one based on the Windows NT kernel with many components shared with Windows 8 . Windows Phone 8.1 was announced on April 2, 2014, after being released in preview form to developers on April 10, 2014. New features added include a notification center, support for the Internet Explorer 11 web browser, with tab syncing among Windows 8.1 devices, separate volume controls, and
2832-407: The option to skin and add a third column of live tiles to the Start Screen. Starting with this release, Microsoft dropped the requirement that all Windows Phone OEMs include a camera button and physical buttons for back, Start, and Search. Windows Phone 8.1 introduced Cortana , a voice assistant similar to Siri and Google Now . Cortana replaced the previous Bing search feature, and was released as
2891-573: The platform as an edition of Windows 10, although it is still a continuation of Windows Phone, and most Windows Phone 8.1 devices can be upgraded to the platform. Windows 10 Mobile emphasized software using the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which allowed apps to be designed for use across multiple Windows 10-based product families with nearly identical code, functionality, and adaptations for available input methods. When connected to an external display, devices could also render
2950-424: The platform were headlined by a major partnership with Nokia (whose Lumia series of smartphones, including the Lumia 520 in particular, would represent the majority of Windows Phone devices sold by 2013) and Microsoft's eventual acquisition of the company's mobile device business for just over US$ 7 billion (which included Nokia's then-CEO Stephen Elop joining Microsoft to lead its in-house mobile division ),
3009-571: The replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune . Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design language . Unlike Windows Mobile, it was primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. It was first launched in October 2010 with Windows Phone 7 . Windows Phone 8 succeeded it in 2012, replacing the Windows CE -based kernel of Windows Phone 7 with
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#17328686188203068-460: The same month, it invested $ 5 million in a startup called Bona Vita. In January 2016, the travel booking company Ctrip agreed to invest $ 180 million in MakeMyTrip. In March 2018, the company had 14 company-owned travel stores across 14 cities. The company acquired the Mumbai -based corporate travel management company Quest2Travel for an undisclosed amount in 2019. The company launched myPartner in 2020,
3127-472: The structure led by Microsoft's VP of Windows Phone, Terry Myerson . Myerson was quoted as saying, "I can trust her with what she tells me. She uses that same direct and genuine communication to motivate her team." The first Nokia Lumia Windows Phones, the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 , were announced in October 2011 at Nokia World 2011. At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2012 Nokia announced
3186-592: The subject, body, senders, and receivers. Emails are shown with threads, and multiple email inboxes can be combined into a single view (a feature commonly referred to as "combined inbox") or can viewed separately. Xbox Music and Xbox Video are built-in multimedia hubs providing entertainment and synchronization capabilities between PC, Windows Phone, and other Microsoft products. The two hubs were previously combined until standalone apps were released in late 2013, shortly before Windows Phone 8.1 debuted. The hubs allow users to access music, videos, and podcasts stored on
3245-533: The virtual keyboard in order to limit users to certain character sets, such as numeric characters alone. Users may change a word after it has been typed by tapping the word, which will invoke a list of similar words. Pressing and holding certain keys will reveal similar characters. The keys are somewhat larger and spaced farther apart when in landscape mode. Phones may also be made with a hardware keyboard for text input. Users can also add accents to letters by holding on an individual letter. Windows Phone 8.1 introduces
3304-499: The words "It is now a three horse race". Elop stated the reason for choosing Windows Phone over Android, saying: "the single most important word is 'differentiation'. Entering the Android environment late, we knew we would have a hard time differentiating." While Nokia would have had more long-term creative control with Android ( MeeGo as used by Nokia resembles Android more than it does Windows Phone 7 as both Android and MeeGo are based on
3363-503: Was aimed at emerging markets. On September 2, 2013, Microsoft announced a deal to acquire Nokia's mobile phone division outright, retaining former CEO Stephen Elop as the head of Microsoft's devices operation. The merger was completed after regulatory approval in all major markets in April 2014. As a result, Nokia's hardware division became a subsidiary of Microsoft operating under the name Microsoft Mobile . In February 2014, Nokia released
3422-407: Was developed quickly. One result was that the new OS would not be compatible with Windows Mobile applications. Larry Lieberman, senior product manager for Microsoft's Mobile Developer Experience, told eWeek : "If we'd had more time and resources, we may have been able to do something in terms of backward compatibility." Lieberman said that Microsoft was attempting to look at the mobile phone market in
3481-517: Was the head of development and the face of the platform's initiatives. On February 11, 2011, at a press event in London, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced a partnership between their companies in which Windows Phone would become the primary smartphone operating-system for Nokia, replacing Symbian . The event focused largely on setting up "a new global mobile ecosystem", suggesting competition with Android and iOS with
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