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Now Play Temple Run By Swiping Your Finger Across Your Arm

6May By AdityaNo Comments

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Now Play Temple Run By Swiping Your Finger Across Your Arm

Soon, you'll be able to play Temple Run by swiping your finger across your arm as a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has developed a new wearable technology Called SkinTrack that can turn the entire lower arm into a touchpad. Developed by the Human-Computer Interaction Institute's Future Interfaces Group, the new system allows for continuous touch tracking on the hands and arms. It also can detect touches at discrete locations on the skin, enabling functionality similar to buttons or slider controls. Previous "skin to screen" approaches have employed flexible overlays, interactive textiles, and projector/camera combinations that can be cumbersome. SkinTrack, by contrast, requires only that the user wear a special ring, which propagates a low-energy, high-frequency ...

NASSCOM, Facebook ink Signed MoU to Engage With Indias Entrepreneurs

5May By AdityaNo Comments

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NASSCOM, Facebook ink Signed MoU to Engage With Indias Entrepreneurs

The trade body of Indian IT firms NASSCOM has signed a MoU with Facebook to build a product design initiative to engage the country's young entrepreneurs into becoming problem solvers and solution builders. Signed in Silicon Valley this week, the NASSCOM-Facebook initiative is likely to propel innovative thinking and approaches to build solutions in key sectors where technology can play a transformational role, NASSCOM President R Chandrashekhar said. "This is a joint initiative to catalyse the innovation ecosystem and to help design thinking. Today, we are at an inflection point where the industry is at the next phase of revolution and moving towards the whole startup and innovation part, which is coming on the heels of the two-decades-old of the growth of the services company," Chand...

Myntra Does a U-turn, To Re-Launch Website From June 1

4May By AdityaNo Comments

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Myntra Does a U-turn, To Re-Launch Website From June 1

A year after going app-only, fashion e-tailer Myntra will now launch again its desktop website on June 1. Myntra, part of eCommerce giant Flipkart, had attributed the decision to the manifold growth in traffic from smartphones, which prompted it to go mobile-only from May last year. Myntra said the U-turn in its decision was based on consumer feedback and launch of new categories like home furnishing and jewellery. "The premises of going on an app only strategy were based on mobiles being personal devices that enable a tailored experience unlike desktops and that mobiles are the future of computing devices," Myntra CEO Ananth Narayanan said in an emailed statement. Both the premises were proven to be right and Myntra app became the most loved amongst leading Indian eCommerce firms,...

Ixigo Launched Reverse Bidding Model for Outstation Cabs

3May By AdityaNo Comments

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Ixigo Launched Reverse Bidding Model for Outstation Cabs

Cab and taxi booking service provider Ixigo cabs recently introduced outstation cab bookings by building a marketplace of inter-city cab aggregators and vendors with a unique reverse bidding model. Inter-city commuters will no longer have to deal with calling up multiple intercity cab vendors as over 250 of them will compete internally, getting you the lowest possible fare in under 120 seconds. Outstation and inter-city cab bookings with the reverse bidding model are now available on ixigo's website and app for more than ten cities in North India including Delhi (NCR), Jaipur, Agra, Chandigarh, Rishikesh, Dehradun, Jammu, Shimla, Manali, Meerut and Alwar. Commenting on the launch, Venus Dhuria, Business Head, Cabs, ixigo.com, said: "Our primary objective has always been to simplify a t...

Uber to Pay USD 2,25,000 as Settlement in Lawsuit

2May By AdityaNo Comments

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Uber to Pay USD 2,25,000 as Settlement in Lawsuit

American multinational online transportation network company Uber has agreed to pay USD 2,25,000 over three years to the National Federation of the Blind to settle a lawsuit alleging discrimination against blind riders. The settlement also requires Uber to notify drivers that they must provide transport to customers with service animals (a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for a person with a disability), the Verge quoted the company as saying in a statement. The National Federation of the Blind will also have to take the blind customers to test rides to ensure the settlement is being followed. "Our goal at Uber is to make transportation options more accessible to all individuals, including those who are blind, low-vision or have other disabilities. We are...

Reliance Jio Launch Delay Frustrating Investors: Citi Group Report

1May By AdityaNo Comments

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Reliance Jio Launch Delay Frustrating Investors: Citi Group Report

IANS- The excessive delay in Reliance Jio's commercial launch is frustrating investors, a Citi Group report said. "The ensuing delay could be testing investors' patience. It raises concerns of Jio further eroding its first mover advantage. The capital expenditure targets also continue to go up," the report said. The delay is expected to be on the account of the company's chase for "perfection", it said. "RIL (Reliance Industries Ltd) is leaving no stone unturned in ensuring Jio does not over-promise and under-deliver. The company now plans to fully integrate Reliance Communication's 800 MHz spectrum before the Jio launch (making it the only player with sub-1GHz pan-India LTE spectrum," the report said. "It (RIL) also plans to increase the coverage to 90 per cent (from 70 per ce...

GirnarSoft Acquires SaaS Startup Connecto

30Apr By AdityaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

GirnarSoft Acquires SaaS Startup Connecto

GirnarSoft, the parent company of India's top auto portals CarDekho.com, Gaadi.com and Zigwheels.com, has acquired SaaS startup Connecto in a cash and stock deal. With this acquisition, GirnarSoft will leverage Connecto's tools to improve user experience across all the websites and apps of the company. Connecto has built device-agnostic tools to help product managers and marketers communicate more efficiently with their customers. It provides users with services like notification engine, A/B testing, custom integrations and automatic user profiles creator. Talking about the new acquisition, Amit Jain, Co-founder and CEO, GirnarSoft, said, "Being a tech-intensive company, we are always on the look-out for more hi-tech startups to augment our tech expertise. Connecto will help us creat...

Anil Kapoor Backed Social Video Platform Goes Live in India

29Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Anil Kapoor Backed Social Video Platform Goes Live in India

Backed by renowned Bollywood actor and International Celebrity, Anil Kapoor, Indi.com registers its presence in the Indian market with a dedicated platform. As a social video platform for millennials and beyond, Indi.com aims to democratize talent discovery and boost social media engagement for brands, whilst integrating multiple popular platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Initially serving as an online artist consortium, Indi.com was incepted in 2012 in Southern California. Today being accessed by people from over 200 countries, the platform works as an extensive resource for brands to drive more meaningful and deep-rooted social media engagement. Brands can initiate challenges and contests which the user will participate in by creating original content at Indi.com and s...

23Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Build an App Without a Line of Code

Nowadays, you don’t need to know how to code to build something cool online. We put together a collection of 7 handy tools you can use to build an app (or maybe just a prototype) without a line of code. These days, it’s hard to launch a startup without knowing how to code—or hiring someone who does. But, when you have basically no budget early in your company’s life, it isn’t always feasible to drop five figures (or more) on hiring a web or app developer. Luckily, there are so many great tools on the market now to help you build a website or app without needing to write a single line of code. They are definitely time and money savers if you’re looking to launch on a dime, and fast. Here are seven of the Product Hunt community’s favorite “no code required” programming tools. 1. Bubb...

Peppertap Shuts Down Grocery Delivery Operations

23Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Peppertap Shuts Down Grocery Delivery Operations

PepperTap, a Hyperlocal delivery startup founded in 2013 by Navneet Singh and Milind Sharma shuts down its grocery delivery operations. Peppertap will focus on building a logistics company to compete with startups including Delhivery, Flipkart's ekart division and go Javas head on, multiple sources told Pixr8. In March, Bengaluru-based grocery portal BigBasket raised $150 million (about Rs 1,000 crore) in funding led by Dubai's Abraaj Group to strengthening its express delivery service and expand its reach. Grofers too raised $120 million led by Softbank earlier this year. Grofers too shut down operations in nine cities, including Ludhiana, Bhopal, Kochi, Coimbatore and Visakhapatnam earlier this year. The company already runs a reverse logistics arm through its parent company Nuvoex...

Biz2Credit Partners With TaxSpanner,to Boost Financing Success

19Apr By AdityaNo Comments

BUSINESS

Biz2Credit Partners With TaxSpanner,to Boost Financing Success

Biz2Credit, a leading online resource in personal and small business finance, today announced a marketing partnership with TaxSpanner, one of Indias largest and most trusted company that offers online preparation and filing of Income Tax Returns (ITR) for individuals and businesses. "Our agreement will ultimately enable individuals and entrepreneurs to access personal and business finance more efficiently," suggests Biz2Credit CEO Rohit Arora. "Were always seeking opportunities to enhance the experience of our clients and we are pleased to be able to provide them with a valuable resource on our platform." Through this partnership, Biz2Credit and TaxSpanner will leverage their client channels to offer customized services that will holistically grow their companies. Individuals who are see...

Expanding India’s Connectivity to the World, Reliance Jio Stretched 8,100 km Cable System in Bay of Bengal

18Apr By AdityaNo Comments

BUSINESS

Expanding India’s Connectivity to the World, Reliance Jio Stretched 8,100 km Cable System in Bay of Bengal

Mumbai, 18 April 2016: Reliance Jio announces the launch of a new, state of the art 8,100 km cable system, the Bay of Bengal Gateway (BBG). BBG provides direct connectivity to South East Asia and the Middle East, then onward to Europe, Africa and Far East Asia through seamless interconnection with existing cable systems. Reliance Jio owns and operates the strategically important undersea cable landing facility in Chennai, providing a high-speed, high-capacity, low latency route connecting India to the rest of the world.“ “We are excited about the launch of BBG as it offers not just direct connectivity in and out of India through Chennai and Mumbai but also acts as a state-of-the-art 100 Gbps extension of Jio’s 100 Gbps core network,” said Mathew Oommen, President Reliance Jio. “This globa...