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22Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Airtel Hits Back After Jio Allegation Over Ookla backing

Bharti Airtel today lashed out at Reliance Jios allegations around its fastest network ad campaign, saying the complaint is a deliberate attempt to "malign the brand" and "misguide customers". Further, mobile internet speed testing firm Ookla has stood by the finding that Airtel had the fastest broadband network in the country, a claim which has been challenged by Reliance Jio. "Ookla fully stands behind Airtel being named India?s Fastest Mobile Network," Speedtest (Ooklas app) COO Jamie Steven said in a statement. Ookla has named Airtel as the "Fastest Mobile Network" in India based on data from Q3 and Q4 of 2016 which has been challenged by Reliance Jio. Jio has approached advertisement sector watchdog ASCI against Bharti Airtel, saying the latters claim of being "officially ...

Mc’Donald’s Trumpet’ – Company Apologises For Hacked Tweet Slamming US President

17Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Mc’Donald’s Trumpet’ – Company Apologises For Hacked Tweet Slamming US President

AFP- McDonald's apologized Thursday after it briefly posted on Twitter a blast criticizing President Donald Trump, which the company blamed on a hack from an external source. They quickly deleted the tweet and offered an uncharitable appraisal of Trump, saying, "You are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have Barack Obama back, also you have tiny hands." The tweet was removed mid-morning Thursday soon after being posted to one of McDonald's official Twitter feeds -- but not before being retweeted more than a thousand times and garnering plenty of attention in political and media circles. "Based on our investigation, we have determined that our Twitter account was hacked by an external source," said McDonald's spokeswoman Terri Hickey in a statement. ...

Key LinkedIn Exec Eduardo Vivas to Quit Later This Year

14Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Key LinkedIn Exec Eduardo Vivas to Quit Later This Year

Eduardo Vivas, an executive in charge of shaping one of LinkedIn's biggest revenue generators, plans to leave, a company spokeswoman confirmed on Friday. Vivas is the head of product for Mountain View, California-based LinkedIn's Talent Solutions business, which includes paid tools for corporate recruiters to find candidates on the work-focused social network. It accounted for $1.8 billion of $3 billion in total revenue in 2015, the last full year of financial results before Microsoft Corp acquired the company last year for $26.2 billion. Vivas plans to leave later this year, the spokeswoman said. His departure comes amid a broader change in how the company handles product responsibilities in its upper ranks after its sale to Microsoft. Until January, LinkedIn was somewhat unus...

Vacancy of Office Space Lowest in Bengaluru at 4%

12Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Vacancy of Office Space Lowest in Bengaluru at 4%

Bengaluru has the lowest vacancy of office space at nearly 4 per cent among the seven major cities on account of robust demand from corporates, according to property consultant JLL India. The demand of office space is expected at 8 million sq ft in the 2017 calendar year against 8.6 million sq ft occupied in last year. "Among the seven major office markets in India, Bengaluru continues to have the lowest vacancy levels at slightly less than 4 per cent," JLL India CEO and Country Head Ramesh Nair said in a report. "In a trend led by the IT capital of India, how can other IT cities be far behind? Pune and Hyderabad too have vacancy levels at over 5 per cent and 9 per cent respectively," he added. The vacancy level in Chennai is around 11 per cent, Mumbai 18 per cent, Kolkata at o...

FlowerAura: The Most Trusted Online Florist Not Just Delivers Flowers, But Emotions

12Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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FlowerAura: The Most Trusted Online Florist Not Just Delivers Flowers, But Emotions

We, here at Pixr8, recently came across an online Flower and Gifting portal, run by the name of FlowerAura. The startup has already been in the market for a long time now, and most of us would be familiar with the name. FlowerAura.com is a startup that chose to deliver people’s feelings; a platform that helps its customers to express their emotions to their loved ones on special days such as birthdays, anniversaries and several festivals by sending their way designer bouquets along with occasion specific gifts. How to express your feelings when you are hundreds of kilometers away from your loved ones! FlowerAura.com is an online flower and gifting platform, which has been into existence since 2010, and delivers flowers and gifts to your loved ones in 175+ cities across India. ...

Jana to Launch Internet Browser With Free Data Service in India

9Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Jana to Launch Internet Browser With Free Data Service in India

Mobile advertising company Jana will launch tomorrow an internet browser for Android users that will enable consumers to surf the web by offsetting mobile data costs. The company plans to invest over USD 90 million in India and other emerging markets to strengthen its customer base. "We have raised nearly USD 92 million which we will be putting into both in India and other emerging markets, but India is our largest market," Jana co-founder and CEO Nathan Eagle told Pixr8 here. A user of the browser, mCent, would initially get a data refund of up to 10 MB per day and 70 MB per week and will also be provided with unrestricted internet access to online content. mCent, which will compete with the likes of UC browser and Opera mini, is an ad-sponsored model through which advertisers wo...

Google India Announces Launch of SMB Heroes Programme

8Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Google India Announces Launch of SMB Heroes Programme

After launching Digital Unlocked, a training programme to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) go digital, Google India today announced the launch of SMB Heroes, a nation-wide programme designed to recognise SMBs that have embraced digital platform to grow their business. A nation-wide programme SMB Heroes will comprise three categories -- Business Innovation through Digital, Impacting Change through Digital and Woman Business Leader, Kevin OKane, Managing Director, Google Marketing Solutions- Asia Pacific, told reporters here. Google today launched Digital Unlocked programme here. Since its launch in January this year, Google has hosted Digital Unlocked workshops in five cities across the country and trained over 4,000 businesses across the offline and online training. Startin...

Blowhorn Raises Rs 25 Crore From IDG Ventures & Others

7Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Blowhorn Raises Rs 25 Crore From IDG Ventures & Others

Intra-city logistics start-up, Blowhorn, has raised USD 3.65 million (about Rs 25 crore) from IDG Ventures India, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and existing investors Draper Associates and Unitus Seed Fund. The company plans to utilise the proceeds from the Series A funding to expand operations to eight cities in the next 24 months, with over 25,000 daily active drivers, Blowhorn said in a statement. Founded in 2014 by Mithun Srivatsa and Nikhil Shivaprasad, Blowhorn offers a tech-enabled platform to connect customers to mini-truck owners, enabling intra-city, sub 2-tonne deliveries. The company has 50 full-time employees and is present in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. "We have been able to leverage technology and operational innovation to emerge as a market leade...

Infographic: 10 Biggest Cyber Crimes and Data Breaches in History

2Mar By AdityaNo Comments

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Infographic: 10 Biggest Cyber Crimes and Data Breaches in History

According to a 2016 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, organizations rank cybercrime as the second most reported type of economic crime, up from fourth place. (It’s worth noting that most cybercrimes go unreported.) Rarely a week goes by without news of another data breach at another corporation. And cyber thieves are taking different types of data and doing more things with them. If you have been caught committing any cyber crimes then you may want to look into getting legal assistance as you won't have full knowledge of the law. Look for someone like these philadelphia criminal lawyers to help you. So here we mentioned 10 of the most notable cybercrimes, either by size or significance. They illustrate the growing threat to businesses, consumers and governments.

Reliance Clarifies No plans to Launch App Based Taxi Service

25Feb By AdityaNo Comments

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Reliance Clarifies No plans to Launch App Based Taxi Service

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has no plans to launch an app-based taxi service as the company sees no logic in diversifying into unrelated sectors. It has been speculated for months that Reliance Jio, the company's telecom venture that has created ripples by signing up 100 million customers in just 170 days of launch, will soon launch a taxi service. The company had not commented on the speculations so far but took to the Twitter to deny the foray after an online publication stated that Jio has ordered some 600 cars to "kickstart" the service. A Reliance spokesperson tweeted that the report is "WRONG and DENIED". The company has no plans to get into unrelated diversification , another official explained. Reliance Jio had earlier this week announced a strategic ...

22Feb By AdityaNo Comments

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Snapdeal to Lay Off 600 People Over Next Few Days

SoftBank-backed Snapdeal will lay off around 600 people across its e-commerce, logistics and payments operations over the next few days. According to sources, the company started the process last week and will lay off 500-600 people across Snapdeal, Vulcan (logistics) and Freecharge (digital payments business). The sources added that the reduction will include employees across levels and the process will be completed in the next few days. A Snapdeal spokesperson said, "On our journey towards becoming India's first profitable e-commerce company in two years, it is important that we continue to drive efficiency across all parts of our business, which enables us to pass on the value to our consumers and sellers." "We have realigned our resources and teams to further these goals and d...

DBS Launches Hack2Hire to Recruit 100 Techies for Hyderabad Hub

22Feb By AdityaNo Comments

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DBS Launches Hack2Hire to Recruit 100 Techies for Hyderabad Hub

Singapore's largest bank DBS said it is planning to hire 100 skilled professionals, in emerging and disruptive technologies across cloud, machine learning and Big Data, for its Hyderabad hub. DBS has launched the recruitment drive 'DBS Hack2Hire' and collaborated with leading technology providers such as Amazon Web Services, Cloudera and Pivotal for conducting the hackathon. In a statement, DBS said that taking this new approach to recruitment, it will break banking industry norms by recruiting successful candidates through a hackathon. "The 100 new selects will join DBS Asia Hub 2 in Hyderabad, India. This coding challenge, which has already received more than 3,000 applications, is open to both fresh graduates and experienced professionals who can apply up to March 12, 2017," it...