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This Healthcare Start-up Completed 30,000 Registrations in Three Months

23Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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This Healthcare Start-up Completed 30,000 Registrations in Three Months

Recently launched professional networking platform for accredited medical practitioners, eMediNexus has completed 30,000 registrations in a nominal period of three months. With the promise of providing the latest developments in medicine as well as helping doctors regularly update their knowledge, eMediNexus reaches over 2 lakh doctors on a daily basis through its e-newspaper eMediNews. Working at the intersection of clinical learning, networking, and advocacy needs of the medical profession, this platform has within a very short period of time established itself as a consolidated voice of doctors in India. In fact, it has seen great success in digital advocacy having had successfully run the IMA Satyagraha campaign with the Indian Medical Association aimed at garnering support of...

FreeCharge Drives Cashless Payments With Ezetap

23Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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FreeCharge Drives Cashless Payments With Ezetap

ANI- Counting and handling cash may soon become a thing of the past for offline retailers. FreeCharge, the digital payments platform, has inked a partnership with Ezetap, the Bangalore-based pioneer in mobile payments, allowing the entire base of FreeCharge users to immediately start using their wallets to make payments at thousands of Ezetap service points consisting of small and mid-sized retailers across India. The partnership draws FreeCharge closer its vision of creating an ecosystem where organised and unorganised merchant networks can come together and accept electronic payments. Ezetap's Universal Mobile Wallet Acceptance is India's first universal solution that allows merchants to accept customer payments from any mobile wallet through their existing Ezetap mobile poin...

5G, IoT, Cloud Will Disrupt Every Industry in 2016: Hans Vestberg, Ericsson CEO

22Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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5G, IoT, Cloud Will Disrupt Every Industry in 2016: Hans Vestberg, Ericsson CEO

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016, Ericsson President and CEO Hans Vestberg said digital disruption will come to every industry in 2016 and made major announcements in 5G, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud. With these announcements, Ericsson solidifies its positions as a leading ICT transformation partner for customers across industries. As Ericsson's vision of 50 billion connected devices approaches, three fundamental ICT forces - broadband, mobility and cloud - are rapidly reshaping value chains, digitalizing business models and creating possibilities that were previously unimaginable. As an ICT leader, Ericsson is enabling this transformation and simultaneously evolving itself. Vestberg said: "Along with our industry and our customers, Ericsson is on a transformation journey. T...

22Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Selfi Discovery App for Hyperlocal Magicpin Raises $3 million Series A Funding

Magicpin, a hyperlocal discovery app, founded by Investor-turned-entrepreneurs Brij Bhushan and Anshoo Sharma have raised $3 million in Series A round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners. The app offers Instagram-like features where users can take pictures and selfies to avail of offers and discounts at neighbourhood stores. “While looking at the market from an investing lens, it was quite clear that India is entering a phase where everyone would be connected through their smartphones. A trip to China in late 2014 was an eye opener for the kind of businesses and value such an environment would create. There is an opportunity window today in India for creating a massively valuable business that leverages data, technology and people networks around offline transactions, and w...

Reliance Jio Will Be Ready to Commercially Launch in 2016: Mukesh Ambani

21Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Reliance Jio Will Be Ready to Commercially Launch in 2016: Mukesh Ambani

New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest person, has said Reliance Jio will be ready to commercially launch its much talked about 4G telecom services in second half of 2016, offering 80% of Indians high-speed mobile Internet as well as voice services. Reliance Jio had, in late December, unveiled fourth generation (4G) service for its employees, marking Ambani’s return to the telecom sector years after Reliance Group’s telecom unit had gone to his younger brother Anil following a split between the two siblings. “We’ll be ready to launch in the second half of 2016. 80% of India’s population will have high-speed, mobile broadband internet. ”So 80% of the 1.3 billion Indians will have high-speed, mobile internet. And by 2017, we would cover 90%. And by 2018, all of India would be covered by ...

After Chaayos Now PressPlay TV Will Provide Free Video Service in Indian Railway

21Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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After Chaayos Now PressPlay TV Will Provide Free Video Service in Indian Railway

NEW DELHI: Indian railway future looks bright because of the activity Railway ministry has shown to improve railway service quality has clearly seen. Whether it's about cleanness drive on stations, technology use (wifi & tie-up with startups) and better communication approach using twitter and caller service. As we reported last to last week that Indian Railway has tie-up with Chaayos to serve chai in luxury trains. Moving one step further Indian railway has now tie-up with Video streaming application PressPlay TV for started offering free video service in some trains. PressPlayTv expand service in about 30 trains soon. "PressPlay TV has tied up with Northwestern Railways to offer free VoD service Delhi-Bikaner and Delhi-Udaipur bound Delhi Bikaner Intercity and Chetak Express resp...

Google Acquired Singapore Startup Pie, Looking to Build Engineering Team

20Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Google Acquired Singapore Startup Pie, Looking to Build Engineering Team

Google has acquired Singapore-based startup Pie.co, a slack like chat platform. The move behind this acquisition is to bring good engineers from Asia-pacific into Google. In its blog Google said, According to the UN, 300 million people came online for the first time last year. Put another way, in 2015, there were more people using the Internet for the first time than there were Americans using the Internet already. But the computing experience for most of these first-timers, coming online in places like India, Indonesia and the Philippines, is very different from the one many of us grew up with – and not the one that most of Google’s services were originally designed for. Their main (and in most cases, only) “computer” is a low-cost smartphone. Connectivity is expensive in relatio...

19Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Jana The Second Largest Mobile Advertising Platform in India Raised $57million Funding

Many of you did not hear about this company but Jana (meaning “people” in Sanskrit) the only Facebook competitor in emerging markets regarding free Internet service raises $57million in Series C funding, led by new investor like Verizon Ventures, with participation from our existing investors, Spark Capital and Publicis Groupe. Jana mission is simple, yet ambitious: they want to make the Internet free for the next billion people. Jana known as mCent app launched in July 2014, more than 30 million users in 15 of the fastest-growing emerging markets have benefited from free, unrestricted Internet. Jana is the second largest mobile advertising platform in India next to Google and have partnered with 311 mobile operators around the world to expand their reach into new markets. Jana of...

Google’s Internet Balloon ‘Crashes’ in Sri Lanka Test Flight

18Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Google’s Internet Balloon ‘Crashes’ in Sri Lanka Test Flight

AFP, COLOMBO: A Google balloon, part of the company's high-speed Internet service known as "Project Loon", crashed in a Sri Lankan tea plantation during its maiden test flight, local police said today. Villagers found the deflated balloon with its electronic equipment in the island's central tea-growing region of Gampola on Wednesday night, an officer told AFP. "Tea plantation workers found it crashed in the plantation. They picked up the pieces and brought it to the station," the officer, who is not authorised to speak with media, told AFP by phone. However, Sri Lanka's Information and Communication Technology Agency, which is coordinating the tests with Google, described the landing as controlled and scheduled. "Google loon balloon safely landed under standard operating proce...

Nandan Nilekani, Mohandas Pai Invests in Tracxn

18Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Nandan Nilekani, Mohandas Pai Invests in Tracxn

BENGALURU: Founded in 2013 by Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia Capital) and Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners), Tracxn a startup research platform has raised a new round of angel funding from Nandan Nilekani, Mohandas Pai, Neeraj Arora and Junglee Cofounder Anand Rajaraman. Tracxn had earlier raised funding from Ratan Tata, Flipkart's Sachin and Binny Bansal and Delhivery cofounder Sahil Barua besides a $3.5 million series-A round from venture capital firm SAIF Partners. Tracxn have database over 100 sectors including enterprise infrastructure, enterprise applications, tech, consumer, mobile, digital marketing, health, and education across major countries like the US, India, China and Southeast Asia The company grew its customer base by over 400% in the last year with client base including...

First Product Manager at Freecharge Made a Platform Where Shopping Decisions Made Simple

18Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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First Product Manager at Freecharge Made a Platform Where Shopping Decisions Made Simple

FindYogi is a shopping decision platform which helps you decide which product to buy and from where. This is achieved through structured and comprehensible data about products backed by expert personalized advice. The main idea is to give enough to a consumer to help them make a confident by decision. What we do different from others is the personalized 1-to-1 advice from an expert. While there are many sources on the web that serve generic data, FindYogi gives you contextual personalized advice. FindYogi was launched in June 2013. The aim was to help consumers make better buying decisions. We initially believed that feature scores, filters, sorting, comparison etc. would be enough to drive decisions. What we realized later is that these features only capture spec-sheet driven facts ...

17Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

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Online Videos Creator The Viral Fever Raises $10 million Funding

Tiger Global another investment in India and, this time, they invested $10 million (Rs.65.6 crore) in India's popular online video content creator The Viral Fever (TVF) also known as Qtiyapa. As per the report, Tiger Global has picked up close to 25% stake in the firm valuing it at around Rs.270 crore. The Viral Fever aka Qtiyapa was set up by IIT graduate Arunabh Kumar in 2010. He was later joined by Amit Golani and Biswapati Sarkar. For Tiger Global, this is the second investment in the online video content space. In 2015, Tiger, along with venture capital fund Zodius Capital, invested $18 million in Culture Machine, which runs the Being Indian and several other YouTube channels. READ: Podcast with Arunabh kumar (The Q-tiyapa Guy) The American investor has stakes i...