Friday, March 29

Author: Aditya

Breaking News: Internet.org presents its first offering,Aquila, solar powered air-craft,beams internet
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Breaking News: Internet.org presents its first offering,Aquila, solar powered air-craft,beams internet

Internet.org, which is facebook's endeavor to make internet accessible to the  world population and keeping it away from becoming a luxury, in its latest offering has launched, Aquila, a solar-powered aircraft, which provides internet access from the sky. "It has the wingspan of a Boeing 737, but weighs less than a car and can stay in the air for months at a time", said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook, in his latest post on Facebook. Zuckerberg also stated that the technology used by the aircraft, laser communications, to make internet accessible, was a breakthrough in itself. "We've also made a breakthrough in laser communications technology. We've successfully tested a new laser that can transmit data at 10 gigabits per second. That's ten times faster than any previous system, and ...
With Vivilio in market, there’s another temptation for bibiliophiles
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With Vivilio in market, there’s another temptation for bibiliophiles

Nothing’s more delightful to a bibliophile than the sight of a new book and the pleasure turns many folds if we are presented with the book. I, as a bibliophile, would love if I get to lay my hands on hundreds of book, given that they belong to the genre I am fond of. And visiting a book store or a library is out of question (they are miles away). India has one of the highest population of educated youth who spend the highest time in the world, on average, 10.7 hours a week on reading and that creates an amazing opportunity for start-up such as Vivilio to provide more value to this demography. Vivilio endeavors to create a community where the book lovers can discover great content created around books which strives to further impinge their interest in reading through interaction with...
Million Kitchen – An app which delivers home cooked meals
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Million Kitchen – An app which delivers home cooked meals

What if your neighbour has cooked pasta for lunch while her neighbour has rustled up a Nizami biriyani and you had the option to order in both piping hot at your workplace? That is no more wishful thinking now with Million Kitchen, a brand new mobile-based home food discovery and ordering platform that enables home cooked meals to be delivered at the doorstep. Say my mother has cooked amazing pasta today and your mother has cooked mutton curry. Anyone in a 5 to 7 kilometre radius looking for mutton curry today can just go and search and in three clicks order the pasta or the mutton. The app is available on Anroid only and the menu changes everyday. – Vimlendu Jha, Founder and CEO of Million Kitchen The mobile application which operates on the principle of “hyperlocal homemade food on...
Hike messenger on web very soon – Kavin Bharti Mittal (CEO of Hike)
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Hike messenger on web very soon – Kavin Bharti Mittal (CEO of Hike)

Indian popular instant messaging app "Hike Messenger" (owned by Bharti SoftBank) has decided to launch a new web version which will let you seamlessly sync your messages on the desktop browser. "The news was made official by the CEO of Hike, Kavin Bharti Mittal on his Twitter page, along with a screenshot which reveals how the feature works. It seems like this is still in Beta, judging by the screenshot. In just a week since the acquisition, images of the said feature have made their way to the web". It seems Hike looking to give a tough competition to WhatsApp's in web app series. Now Hike users for those on the computer to message their contacts without having to take out their phones. Now we have to look, the authenticated process of user's account with Hike Web will  be the s...
How ‘Inshorts’ raised $20 million from $4 million – Straight from the founders view
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How ‘Inshorts’ raised $20 million from $4 million – Straight from the founders view

Inshort, a mobile app focused towards providing news to its users in 60 words, has raised $20 million from New York- based Tiger Global investors. The company plans to utilise the raised capital to improve user experience and expand its presence. News in shorts video> News in Shorts, Noida-based firm, founded by Azhar Iqubal, Anunay Pandey and Deepit Purakayastha, has been in this business since 2013.  News in shorts started out being a part of Times Internet’s accelerator program called TLabs in 2013. It was then that News in Shorts received its seed funding of Rs 2 crore from angel investors Ankush Nijhawan, Gaurav Bhatnagar and Manish Dhingra along with co-founders of Flipkart—Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal.  News in Shorts, in February 2015, raised Rs 25 crore in its series A roun...
Podcast with Arunabh kumar (The Q-tiyapa Guy)
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Podcast with Arunabh kumar (The Q-tiyapa Guy)

While occasions such as Start-up Jalsa provide opportunities to connect with entrepreneurs, it helps team like ours to get talking  with people as inspiring as Arunabh Kumar, Founder of TVF. Finished with his part of speaking and meeting fellow entrepreneurs, fully exhausted Arunabh didn't deny our request for a little chat. Team pixr8 and Arunabh sat in a glass-walled cabin, where Arunabh shared his sentiments over today's digital world, Indian film industry, his gutsy attitude to work on a rejected TV show idea (Q-tiyapa), TVF's team and how Shahrukh Khan and Farah Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment has been his learning school. Below are the edited excerpts from the  candid chat that team pixr8 had with Arunabh Kumar, Founder TVF media labs.   [soundcloud url="https://a...
Bangalore based Simplilearn acquires Silicon Valley start-up for $10 million
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Bangalore based Simplilearn acquires Silicon Valley start-up for $10 million

Simplilearn, a Bangalore-based Edu-tech start-up, which provides online certification courses to professionals, has acquired Market motive, a Silicon Valley-based startup, which trains professionals on digital marketing. Market Motive, founded in 2007, is led by Michael Stabbins, John Marshall and Avinash Kaushik. Simplilearn, which already has its presence in the US, is looking at the prospect of expanding its business further. Michael Stabbins, who would remain the CEO of Market Motive and work alongside as Chief Innovation Officer for Simplilearn. Simplilearn presently caters to professionals and young graduates in 150 countries through its 250 courses offered in various industry verticals. Market Motive boasts to have served fortune 500 companies through its web-based certificat...
Innovation the need of the hour for IPL – Lalit modi former IPL Chief
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Innovation the need of the hour for IPL – Lalit modi former IPL Chief

Editor Note: IPL8 comes to end with gaining in popularity, despite the betting controversies that rocked the tournament last year. But the man behind this idea still feels to do some innovations in the current format of  IPL to make a better and fresh approach towards its audience and most important popularizing cricket in other countries. Below we post Mr. Lalit modi views about IPL and where its stand for, have a look...     There comes a time in every product's lifespan when it needs to reinvent itself. But, unfortunately, Indian Premier League (IPL), my baby has been left to fend for itself by its foster parents. Over the last five seasons, IPL has tried nothing new and has not set any benchmarks for the rest of the world to follow. Instead what we are l...