Don’t Miss to Celebrate Rakhi on Aug 3 by Pre Ordering Rakhi Gifts from HalfCute.com

Halfcute.com is India’s on-demand online marketplace for gifting & celebrations. It comes with a motive “Har Tyohar Ka Tohfa” which translates to “Gift for Every Celebration/Festival”.  But it goes beyond that by covering all the possibilities of gifting and celebrating which includes relation specific gifting, purpose of gifting like unique, thoughtful etc. It also covers a diverse set of categories of products from both brands and manufacturers from all over India to cover each intent of the sender and the likeability of the receiver. HalfCute enables online personalization by building strong tech required which can speed up both ordering for customer and end manufacturing involved.

Raksha Bandhan is celebrated this year on Aug 3rd, monday. As we all know, Rakhi is a widely celebrated festival for indians to strengthen the relationship between a brother and sister. Due to lockdown restrictions and containment zones, pre-planning and pre-ordering are required to be able to celebrate rakhi without any interruption. There are high chances that you won’t be able to personally meet your brother or sister, so sending a rakhi or a return rakhi gift hamper will ensure that your celebration is not spoiled.

Considering the importance of Rakhi and current scenario both, Halfcute has come up with an online rakhi store https://halfcute.com/rakhi to enable raksha bandhan celebration online. HalfCute covers rakhis & rakhi gifts for each relation including brother, bhaiya bhabhi, sister and kids. Rakhi catalog includes jewellery rakhis (silver, gold and metal), designer and fancy Rakhis (wood, kundan, stone and pearl), lumba rakhis, kids cartoon rakhis, personalized photo rakhis and more along with multiple sweets, dry fruits and chocolate hampers to choose from. Majority of rakhis will be delivered through courier within 3-5 days and might be delayed further due to covid restrictions in particular areas.

Halfcute also highlights eco-friendly raksha bandhan by listing plantable rakhis & clay rakhis from top d2c brands. By sending a plantable rakhi, your gift will result in planting a new tree making it more memorable and can act as resemblance for the bond between you and your siblings.

“Physical distancing shouldn’t stop us from Celebrating”

Halfcute is hoping to enable a memorable rakhi celebration by ensuring the best rakhi gifts delivery to your brother or sister. Pre-order your rakhi before 29th to make sure you get it before august 3rd considering the current scenario.

Google staff will not get bonus this year

Google Inc, owner of the world’s most-used search engine, is giving employees mobile phones instead of cash gifts this year as it reins in costs during the recession, according to a person familiar with the matter.

About 85 per cent of workers will get a handset powered by Google’s Android operating system as a holiday gift, said the person, who asked not to be identified. Google handed out $1,000 cash gifts to most employees last year.

Chief executive officer Eric Schmidt said last month that Google is seeking to control expenses and add fewer jobs as the global slump curbs online advertising growth. T-Mobile USA Inc began marketing the G1 Android phone in October, offering many of the same features as Apple Inc’s iPhone, including Web browsing.

The holiday gift is separate from the performance bonus handed out by the company, the person said.

“The current economic crisis requires us to be more conservative about how we spend our money,” Mountain View, California-based Google said in an internal memo that was posted on technology industry blog Valleywag.

The memo lists 17 countries where the phone won’t work, including Brazil, Russia, India and China. Employees in those countries will receive about $400, the cash value of the phone, Google said in the memo.

Krista Bessinger, a Google spokeswoman, didn’t return a call seeking comment.

Ad spending

Google, which offers employee benefits such as free gourmet lunches and massages, has clamped down on costs as the recession squeezes online ad revenue. Douglas Anmuth, an analyst at Barclays Capital in New York, lowered his forecast for US Internet ad spending last week by 11 per cent to $25.1 billion in 2009.

Google added 519 workers in the third quarter, compared with 2,130 in the same period a year earlier. Google said last month it would reduce the use of contract workers. At the end of the quarter, the company had more than 20,000 regular employees, up from almost 11,000 at the end of 2006.

Technology companies throughout Silicon Valley and beyond are grappling with a slowing economy, forcing them to cut workers and roll back other expenses. Printer and computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. is freezing salaries to lower expenses, people with knowledge of that decision said. Technology services company Unisys Corp said yesterday it was cutting about 4.5 per cent of its workforce and halting some pay raises.

Half of chief information officers are looking to cut consulting-services costs, 35 per cent want to reduce computer and server expenses, and 23 per cent are seeking savings on software, according to a Goldman Sachs Group Inc survey.

Source: Agencies