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  • Best sites to buy car parts online

    Best sites to buy car parts online

    The automobile industry is a sure short example of innovation and technology. Nowadays the inbuilt car accessories or automotive features are attracting customers. Moreover, to enjoy the comfort and smooth drive people are rushing towards online websites so that can attach the latest accessories in their older models. Along with rocking music, everyone loves to have security features in their vehicles. But in the auto industry, every feature or accessories fitted inside it is categorized according to its price. So some people search for the best spare parts website. By this, they can also give a new look to their old models. It is a fact that while investing in a vehicle we check its feature for a smooth drive. Therefore in case, when car parts stop functioning, then replacing it with the other one becomes necessary. So for this, you can search the online portals like https://boodmo.com/catalog/3359-shock_absorber/

    Best online websites from where you can buy car parts:

    These websites are known for the price and functioning of mechanical equipment. Buying new accessories from online websites can provide you a comfortable experience. Without traveling here and there you can buy the accessory by searching its model number. So now there is no need to request your dealer for ordering a specific part from the manufacturer. Buying it from online websites means you will get the order in a limited amount of time.

    1. Boodmo:

    Ordering parts from online websites can give you relaxation. At ecommerce websites there is a huge range of products which you can order for your vehicle. For every model, there are unlimited types of items that you can buy according to your comfort. For every brand, there are ample of spare parts available at boodmo. It is a trustable website, so you can easily add the required accessory in your cart and enjoy the comfort. Get the comfort at boodmo and enjoy your drive:

    Advantages:

    ● High-quality products

    ● Cost-effective price

    ● Variety of spare parts

    2. Advance Auto Parts:

    The website is known for latest technology equipment. Advance Auto Parts brings you the most innovative accessories for your vehicle that can provide the new look to your old car. Without rushing at the store now you can order it from your phone. Moreover, we can say that at advanced spare parts you can enjoy multiple benefits:

    ● You can enjoy the Discount coupons 

    ● Best functionality and certified products

    ● Top recommended products in your budget

    3. eBay.com:

    For cheap and latest designs or models, you can choose eBay.com. For your vehicle at eBay, there are a wide amount of options. This is a popular name for buying online car equipment at a reasonable price. You will observe that there is a huge difference in price at eBay. The trustworthy website can relax you with its product specifications as well as functionality. From minute spare parts to brake pads, filters and bumpers; everything is there which you can order. The spare parts you buy from eBay are known for their originality. Whether you are searching for it or your engine or safety purpose, get everything at free of cost.

    ● You can buy original OEM parts

    ● Auto body parts with the latest designs

    ● Cheap auto parts for every model

    4. Amazon.com:

    Amazon is the reputed website, so if you want to buy car parts, then must visit to grab the offers. In the last few years where Amazon is known for its large variety of catalog, adding spare parts is the new strategy to attract customers. The automotive parts available at Amazon are certified, so order it and feel the changes. The shipping or ordering process is so simple that you will get the part within 2-3 days. There are huge options for one single spare part. Thousand of car accessories in pocket-friendly price such as filters, brake pads, screws or nuts, rotors, suspension parts, music-system, oils, batteries as well as tires. Wide varieties of options are available at Amazon:

    ● Multiple ranges and variety of products

    ● From tires to safety features everything is available in a different price range

    ● Discount options are there 

    ● The products are supplied direct from manufacturer, so no dealer charges are involved

    ● Guaranteed and warranted products

    5. Rock Auto:

    For buyers, there are thousands of options available at Rock Auto. It is an independent website from where you can order spare parts which are certified by manufacturers. If you are confused about originality, then free shipping and refund facility are available here. All vehicle parts function like your new one. Here you will get the mechanical components for even international brands. 

    ● Quality car parts 

    ● Effective price range

    ● Car parts are supplied direct from manufacturers

  • Amazon Echo says experience everyday magic in new campaign

    Amazon Echo says experience everyday magic in new campaign

    MUMBAI: In today’s world, where people are worried that the growth of technology is drawing them apart, Amazon Echo’s new campaign aims to bring Indian families together with its smart speaker technology. The campaign stitches together an Indian family’s everyday situations that lead to small moments of everyday magic enabled by the Amazon Echo device.

    Conceptualised by Ogilvy Bangalore and directed by Aarthi Kakkad of Curious Films, the films tell the story of an Indian family where the father, mother and daughter encounters an endearing family moment that is relevant to a daily family setting. One film captures a sweet moment of the father being caught off guard by the mother and daughter secretly dancing to the tunes of a popular Bollywood song. While the other film encapsulates the traditional bond between a father and daughter.

    Ogilvy Mumbai executive creative director Neville Shah, “The simplicity of creative was broken down to one thing. How can the Echo be part of your everyday; like a family member. And since this is an extremely new category, familiarizing people with the use of the product is key.”

    “With the successful launch of Echo, Indian consumers have shown that they are more than ready to adopt new technologies which are relevant to them. The current campaign is continuation of our launch campaign about how Echo fits seamlessly in the lives of consumers and makes everyday moments special,” adds Amazon India director mass and brand marketing Ravi Desai.

    Ogilvy South senior vice president for head of planning Anirban Roy mentions, “The category is at a nascent stage and hence demonstrating relevant use cases of Amazon Echo was critical for us. We are trying to build the category and at the same time trying to create a positive disposition towards us.”

  • Amazon’s Amit Agarwal promoted as SVP in parent company

    MUMBAI: Amazon.com has promoted its India country head Amit Agarwal to the level of senior vice-president. Agarwal, who will continue to remain the India head for now, was the vice president at Amazon earlier. The company confirmed the news in an emailed statement.

    “This indicates how excited Amazon is about the progress the company is making in India, and the opportunity Amazon sees ahead,” it added.

    Amazon CEO and president Jeff Bezos recently included Agarwal in a senior leadership team that reports directly to him.

    Amazon entered India in June 2013, years after Flipkart (2007) and Snapdeal (2010) started. It has made more than $3 billion investments in the country and has $2 billion in its plan.

    Competition is further heating up as the Chinese e-tailer Alibaba gears up for a stronger play in India through Paytm.

  • Amazon.com to ‘double down’ on India ops; sales up 20% to $23 billion

    Amazon.com to ‘double down’ on India ops; sales up 20% to $23 billion

    MUMBAI: Amazon.com has reiterated that it will continue to double down on its India operations, which is its fastest growing geography. Amazon India remains the company’s fastest growing geography in sales, and India’s online store is the largest with over 25 million products.

     

    In its financial results for its second quarter ended 30 June, 2015, Amazon.com’s net sales increased 20 per cent to $23.18 billion, compared with $19.34 billion in second quarter 2014. Excluding the $1.39 billion unfavourable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 27 per cent compared to second quarter 2014. Operating income was $464 million in the second quarter, compared with operating loss of $15 million in second quarter 2014.

     

    Net income was $92 million in the second quarter, or $0.19 per diluted share, compared with net loss of $126 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, in second quarter 2014.

     

    Amazon’s operating cash flow increased 69 per cent to $8.98 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $5.33 billion for the trailing twelve months ended 30 June, 2014. Free cash flow increased to $4.37 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.04 billion for the trailing twelve months ended 30 June, 2014.

     

    In India, Amazon launched the Global Selling Program for sellers, which enables them to access hundreds of millions of customers around the world. The Indian portal (Amazon.in) also introduced Sunday delivery across 100 cities in India for all FBA products at no additional cost. Moreover, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will also open a new region in India in 2016, which will enable customers to run workloads in India and serve Indian end-users with even better latency.

     

    Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said, “The teams at Amazon have been working hard for customers. We unveiled Amazon Business, opened Amazon Mexico, launched Prime free same-day, rolled out our ninth Prime Now city, broke our Black Friday record with the first-ever Prime Day, received 11 Emmy nominations for Transparent, debuted six new kids pilots, brought Echo to general availability, introduced the Alexa Skills Kit and Alexa Voice Service, opened FBA Small and Light, continued to double down on our fastest growing geography — India, launched 350 significant AWS features and services so far this year (ahead of last year’s pace), introduced AWS Educate, and entered into agreements for new solar and wind farms — enough to exceed our 2016 goal of 40 per cent renewable energy.”

  • GOSF: Bringing out the shopping bug

    GOSF: Bringing out the shopping bug

    MUMBAI: The e-commerce sector is booming and how. The very purple patch, every now and then, gets a boost with OTT sale bonanzas.

    The addictive online shopping portals lured customers through Big Billion Sale or Diwali Dhamaka Week throughout this year, but the icing on the cake has been the Google promoted Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF).

    The 72 hour shopping festival was expected to bring out the crazy shopaholic within us all, and if stats are to be believed then it has succeeded in many ways. For instance, in  December LimeRoad, witnessed explosive growth that sent its implied revenue run rate shooting up to Rs 450 crore on the first day of GOSF 2014 – this despite the platform being only focused on women.

    Quick deliveries, cash on delivery, and big deals have made it hard for even non-shoppers to resist the temptation to shop online.

    The portals too are glad to have made the most of it.

    “Successful in creating a delightful shopping frenzy, Google Online Shopping Festival this year has witnessed a great response from the consumers. Three days of this shopping carnival is not less than some annual festival that customers await around this time of the year. On the first day itself, we have observed an extraordinary leap with our revenue rising four times compared to our sales on any regular day.  There has been a rise in revenue from mobile at least by six times as compared to the last GOSF.  Even the traffic from GOSF on the website has significantly risen by eight times as compared to the last year. This tremendous excitement shown by our customers has made us open doors to some of the best offers from exclusive brands like River Island, Dorothy Perkins, Miss Selfridge and more. All in all, we are geared to double the excitement and make this festival bigger, better and brighter like never before,” said Jabong.com founder and MD Praveen Sinha.

    Added, LimeRoad founder and CEO Suchi Mukherjee, “Whilst the growth in sales is interesting and a reflection of our non-linear growth curve throughout the rest of this year, we are super delighted both at the scale and at the trajectory of our organic traffic.”

    Speaking about the response on GOSF 2014, CouponDunia.in CEO and founder Sameer Parwani said, “So far we have seen a very good response to GOSF. Our traffic increased 4X as compared to the daily traction on the website. There was a massive spike as soon as GOSF started during midnight however the traffic peaked the highest on the first day of GOSF during lunch hours.”

    However, he believes that GOSF 2014 was comparatively lukewarm if 2013 edition is taken into account. One of the reasons for this is the kind and number of deals merchants provided compared to GOSF last year or even for that matter deals during Diwali, a few months back. “GOSF 2014 deals were both, less in number and not providing as deep discounts as we’d expected. Also some of the bigger players, have already exhausted their best offers due to their own festivals like Flipkart’s Big Billion Day, Amazon’s Appiness day and Snapdeal’s ongoing 9am to 9pm shopping fest. Most of them have offered almost 40-50 per cent discounts on regular days or their special days, so they do not have anything bigger than that to offer at the moment.”

    He also added, “As a result of frequent online shopping festivals, these festivals are no longer a novelty factor for the consumer. They have higher expectations and expect the best from everyone and are not impressed easily now it is the e-tailer’s turn to come up with better and bigger deals every festival to meet these demands and expectations.”

     

  • Amazon to get its first physical store soon

    Amazon to get its first physical store soon

    MUMBAI: Amazon.com, the online giant may soon open its first physical store, at a prime site in Midtown Manhattan, according to The Wall Street Journal.

     

    It would be the first brick-and-mortar outlet in its 20-year history and attempt by Amazon to connect with customers in the physical world.

     

    Expected to open in time for the holiday shopping season, the store may also display Amazon’s proprietary products, such as its Kindle line of e-readers and tablets, Fire smartphones and video-streaming boxes. If the store takes off, Amazon may also expand to other cities, the Journal reported.

     

    The leading e-commerce platform plans to open its first full-fledged store across from the Empire State Building, at 7 West 34th Street, the report added. The site will double as a mini-warehouse to support same-day delivery, returns and order pickups within New York.

     

    A store would mark a significant move for an online retailer that has capitalised on its Internet business model and the cost-savings of doing away with a vast physical network.

     

    In recent years however, the company’s CEO Jeff Bezos has led a number of initiatives that have mandated a physical presence in cities. The company has also on occasion set up pop-up stores in malls, though those have been rare.

     

    Amazon also has set up large metal lockers in convenience stores and parking garages around the country to accommodate deliveries and returns. The lockers don’t offer same-day delivery, however. The lockers have been a popular option, and Amazon has expanded them to a number of cities, including overseas, after initially just offering them in Seattle.

     

  • Pritish Nandy’s Ogle to be India’s Netflix

    Pritish Nandy’s Ogle to be India’s Netflix

    MUMBAI: Backed by Pritish  Nandy Communications’ digital arm, PNC Digital, Ogle, an upcoming digital platform, promises to bring an array of international and national content to Indian viewers.

     

    From streaming international television shows, Hollywood to Bollywood movies, it also promises to bring international TV shows within 24 hours of them being aired.

     

    According to media reports, Pritish Nandy hopes to give users in India a service similar to that provided overseas by Netflix Inc., Hulu.com and Amazon.com’s Instant Video. It will bring content to viewers irrespective of the device. It can be used on televisions, PCs, tablets and smartphones.

     

    Consumers can access Ogle through any device through a browser or an app. If it’s a Smart TV, the app can be downloaded onto the TV. Otherwise, the company will provide a set-top box to display the content on a traditional TV.

     

    Launching on 22 September Ogle will offer multiple plans to subscribers. The basic plan that offers unlimited access to Ogle’s services on five pre-registered devices, is priced at Rs 500 per month and an additional Rs 1,000 per month (taxes additional) will provide free unlimited access to stream content, as per the reports. Another plan offered is a Rs 1,500 per month plan that also offers a 2 Mbps broadband connection without any limit in addition to the benefits of the Rs 1,000 per month plan.

     

    Ogle promises to carry over 150 international television shows (all seasons) as well as over 500 English movies. It has already lined up Indian content as well as a large library of music from India and across the world to add in the coming months after launch. The company plans to add more genres including concerts, sporting events and probably also become a distribution channel for content that regular distributors are not interested to distribute.

     

    Ogle was acquired by PNC Digital in July from its developer Harshawardhan Sabale, who now leads the business as chief executive of PNC Digital.

  • “We are customer obsessed, not competition obsessed”: Amit Agarwal

    “We are customer obsessed, not competition obsessed”: Amit Agarwal

    Since its inception over 20 years ago in the United States, Amazon.com has been obsessed with a fervor to serve its consumer and being the ‘earth’s biggest bookstore’. It has grown from a ‘dot-com’ corporation into a king in the domain of internet retail. And now, its Indian arm under the leadership of Amit Agarwal, is looking at achieving the same landmark.  

     

    Describing his current role as ‘Bringing Earth’s Biggest Selection to India; building India’s most customer-centric company’ on Linkedin, the new role has countless firsts for Mumbai-born Agarwal, now an American citizen. He has never worked in India in a business-facing role and never headed country operations as well.

     

    The IIT-Kanpur and Stanford alumnus has been with Amazon since 1999. He has worked in various departments in the company including technical advisor to CEO Jeff Bezos between 2007 and 2009, before heading the operations in India.

     

    Born in 1974, Agarwal joined Amazon as a part of its technology team.

     

    Just a year old and Amazon India has already become the biggest threat to the seven-year old Flipkart in the Indian e-retail market. With an action-packed first year, the global online retail giant is gearing up to play a dominant role in the $13 billion Indian e-commerce industry.

     

    In an interview with Indiantelevision.com’s Pranati Deva, Amazon India VP & country manager Amit Agarwal discloses Amazon India’s journey in the Indian e-commerce space and plans for the future.

     

    Excerpts…

     

    What inspired you to finally start an arm in India? Flipkart started in 2007, why did you think 2013 was the right year to jump into the Indian e-commerce space?

     

    We believe that we entered the India market at the right time. Indian e-commerce space is still in a very nascent stage with significant potential for innovation to improve customer experience. We believe that the growth is at an inflection point and there is tremendous opportunity. 

     

    We have received a fabulous response from both customers and sellers in the last 14 plus months of our India operations. We launched in India with two departments – Books and Movies & TV Shows – and in these 14 plus months, our total selection now stands at more than 17 million products across 30 departments and hundreds of categories. We have witnessed phenomenal selection growth across several categories and are already the largest store  in 12 of the 30 departments that we have on amazon.in including Books, Music, Video Games, Toys, Home & Kitchen, Luggage and Backpacks, Fashion Jewellery, Beauty Products, Movies & TV shows, Men’s inner wear , Sports, Fitness & Outdoors and Pet Supplies.

     

    What is your current strategy in India? And how will your strategy change if the e-commerce sector opens up to FDI?

     

    Our strategy for amazon.in is the same as our global vision to be India’s most customer-centric company by giving customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient experience – and provide sellers a world-class e-commerce platform. The execution of this strategy is local. If you look at the logistics infrastructure, Amazon has built one of the most sophisticated logistics infrastructures that has ever been built to serve sellers and customers

     

    We start with the customer experience and work backwards from it. Building a great customer experience drives traffic; traffic attracts sellers; more sellers drive more selection and this further improves the customer experience.

     

    We have always maintained that opening up this sector to FDI will be good for consumers and Indian businesses as it would allow us to partner with local manufacturers to source products not carried by other sellers in the marketplace, giving Indian consumers unique and wider choices at lower prices. Allowing FDI, also, positively impacts infrastructure development in the country.

     

    The announcement for the $2 billion investment in Amazon India came in just days after Flipkart announced fundraising of $1 billion. Was the announcement strategically placed?

     

    We are customer obsessed and not competition obsessed.  We aspire to provide Earth’s biggest selection and the most trustworthy and convenient online shopping experience to our customers in India.  And we have been investing aggressively right from the beginning.

     

    Our rapid growth in a short time and the significant opportunity ahead of us makes us very comfortable in making this large additional investment. We are not surprised if our rapid growth and customer experience ambitions have increased investment elsewhere as well.     

     

    What areas will you mainly focus on now, after the investment?            

      

    We don’t talk about any of our future plans but essentially it will go towards growing our business and enhancing customer and seller experience. 

     

    Which categories contribute the most to your revenue?

     

    Categories with the strongest growth are Books, Consumer Electronics, Shoes, Baby Products, and Watches.

     

    To increase your demand in the Indian space, which brands have you associated with recently for their products?

     

    We are witnessing that both brands and SMEs are willing and are excited to use the Amazon India marketplace to reach to consumers nationally. Brands and sellers see a lot of value in their association with us. We not only play a significant role in driving sales but also in building consumer awareness about products and educating them about the benefits of these offerings so that they are able to make smart purchase decisions.

     

    Today several sellers and brands are keenly exploring possibilities of exclusive associations with us. For example Amazon India is the exclusive retail partner for Microsoft’s entire Interactive Entertainment Business portfolio which includes Xbox One, Xbox 360, Kinect, Xbox Live, Xbox Accessories and all Microsoft-published Xbox game titles. Similarly, Philips has made available its new Philips Disney Imaginative Lighting range for kids exclusively on www.amazon.in. In mobiles we have exclusive launch deals with Samsung for the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom, Karbonn, Lava, XOLO, OPPO mobiles, etc.

     

    We are also the exclusive online partner for KitchenAid, a premium kitchen appliances brand from Whirlpool that launched in India in March, for Waterlily LA, a premium leather handbag brand headquartered in Los Angeles that made its India debut on Amazon.in as well as for many more. There are several such examples across the 30 departments that we, at present, have on Amazon.in. We are very excited to see this response from brands and sellers and this stands proof to the value that they see in associating with us.

     

    What is Amazon India doing differently to stay ahead of the competition in India?

     

    In terms of services – we were the first ones in India to introduce premium guaranteed delivery services including the ‘One-Day Delivery’ service for items fulfilled by Amazon. Within a short time we have been able to make available over 300,000 products for next day delivery across hundreds of pin codes in India. More than 60 per cent of our customer demand is already eligible for next-day shipping on products fulfilled by Amazon.

     

    We are investing in making sellers successful; continually looking for ways to do the heavy lifting for them; and enabling them to sell more and make more money. We started with over 100 sellers and today this base has grown to more than 10,000 sellers.

     

    We now have seven fulfilment centres in India with a total storage capacity of half million square feet. All FCs are aimed at meeting fulfilment needs of retailers and small and medium-sized businesses and to help them achieve nationwide scale.

     

    We are the first ones in India to introduce customised, personalised and multi-lingual Amazon.in Gift Cards that enable customers to buy over 15 million products (excludes ebooks) from our marketplace. Customers can purchase the Amazon.in Gift Cards of any value starting from Rs 10 up to Rs 10,000. Available in nine Indian languages including Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali and Punjabi in more than 200 designs that celebrate various special and memorable occasions in a person’s life.

     

    Indian Postal Services (IPS) is one of the prime carriers that Amazon India uses as a delivery channel Amazon uses the extensive IPS network to service over 19,000 pin-codes through 140,000 post-offices across all 35 states and union territories in India. Number of deliveries through India Post has increased from 800 (June 2013) to 35,000 (in July 2014)

     

    For us it is always ‘Day 1’ and today we believe we have the right ingredients to entice and delight our customers with a trusted online shopping experience.

     

    Learning points so far about the Indian consumer and the e-commerce market in India?

     

    Our experience of working around the world has shown one thing, that customers around the world are similar. Customers around the world always want a vast selection at low prices and a convenient, reliable and trustworthy online shopping experience. Indian customers are no different.  I am yet to come across a customer who will say that they want a smaller selection or higher prices. And we are focused on ensuring that we are able to deliver and raise the bar for online shopping in India.

     

    What are your views about the Indian e-commerce industry and what are your expectations from the sector in the coming future?

     

    Indian e-commerce space is still at a very nascent stage with significant potential for innovation to improve customer experience. The growth is at an inflection point. With increasing internet penetration, both broadband and smartphones, there is an interest and demand from mini metros and smaller towns across the country. We see as a tremendous opportunity and are very excited by it.

  • Amazon.com enters into the world of online gaming

    Amazon.com enters into the world of online gaming

    MUMBAI: E-commerce giant Amazon.com bought Twitch Interactive, a popular Internet video channel for broadcasting and watching, people play videogames, for about $970 million in cash.

     

    The move, announced by the two companies is the largest deal in Amazon’s 20-year history and will help the US e-commerce company vie with Apple and Google in the fast-growing world of online gaming, which accounts for more than 75 per cent of all mobile app sales.

     

    Talking about the acquisition, Amazon.com’s founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said, “Broadcasting and watching gameplay is a global phenomenon and Twitch has built a platform that brings together tens of millions of people who watch billions of minutes of games each month – from The International, to breaking the world record for Mario, to gaming conferences like E3. And, amazingly, Twitch is only three years old.

     

    “Like Twitch, we obsess over customers and like to think differently, and we look forward to learning from them and helping them move even faster to build new services for the gaming community,” he added.

     

    Twitch is a multi-channel online platform for people who not only enjoy playing video games, but find it entertaining to watch others who might impart tricks and tips for excelling at their favorite games. In July, more than 55 million unique visitors viewed more than 15 billion minutes of content on Twitch produced by more than 1 million broadcasters, including individual gamers, pro players, publishers, developers, media outlets, conventions and stadium-filling e-sports organisations.

     

    “Amazon and Twitch optimise for our customers first and we are both believers in the future of gaming,” said Twitch CEO Emmett Shear. “Being part of Amazon will let us do even more for our community. We will be able to create tools and services faster than we could have independently. This change will mean great things for our community and will let us bring Twitch to even more people around the world.”

     

    Twitch will help Amazon accelerate a push into web video that is brought it into competition with Netflix and Google’s YouTube. Twitch seized on the popularity of games like League of Legends and Minecraft, developing tools to let players broadcast their game sessions to an audience of more than 55 million users and generating revenue from advertising and subscriptions.

     

    According to media reports, Google also held talks about potentially acquiring Twitch as early as May.

     

    The deal, expected to close in the second half of the year, is an unusual step for Amazon, which tends to build from within or make smaller acquisitions.

  • Intel Media opens offices in LA, New York in TV push

    Intel Media opens offices in LA, New York in TV push

    MUMBAI: Setting up shop in Los Angeles’ Santa Monica and New York’s Nolita brings Intel closer to the major TV networks and production studios that the world’s biggest chipmaker must strike deals with to gather content for its live and on-demand service, Intel spokesman Jon Carvill said.

     

    Opening the offices is a sign that Intel is committed to moving ahead with the venture even though progress making deals has been slow. Some industry insiders have expressed doubts about Intel’s ability to successfully create a business to challenge traditional cable operators.

     

    “It suggests that there’s an ongoing level of interest, maybe an incremental positive to their commitment,” said Williams Financial Group analyst Cody Acree. “They have to continue down this path or there’s no hope of being successful.”

     

    Intel plans to introduce the TV service, to be delivered through the internet and a set-top box, this year in a phased rollout in regional markets, Carvill said.

     

    In July, Intel Media hired Moe Khosravy, a cloud-computing expert who previously worked at Microsoft Corp and VMWare Inc, as head of software and user experiences. Intel has about 375 people working on the TV business, most of them based at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

     

    Some content providers have agreed with Intel about how their content would be distributed, but as of June the chipmaker had yet to sign any deals despite offering to pay sizeable premiums over traditional cable rates.

     

    Carvill declined to comment on Intel’s negotiations.

     

    Intel is not the only technology company trying to revolutionise the TV industry, where Comcast Corp, Time Warner Cable Inc and DirecTV are players and have much to lose from potential new entrants. Apple Inc, Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc are believed to be working on their own new TV services and products.

     

    Media companies typically give better prices to operators with more viewers, such as large cable companies, and charge higher prices to smaller or newer entrants. Since Intel’s TV service has yet to start, it can expect to pay a premium.

     

    While Intel has not said how much it plans to charge for its TV service, Intel Media head Erik Huggers has billed it as a premium product, with small bundles of channels and an attractive user interface rather than as a cut-rate option for consumers hoping to save money by canceling their cable subscriptions.