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Kalyan Jewellers Launches Sanskritimatrimony.com, an Intuitive Matchmaking Website
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Kalyan Jewellers Launches Sanskritimatrimony.com, an Intuitive Matchmaking Website

India's largest jewellery chain, Kalyan Jewellers will now be making inroads into the marriage industry with its new initiative Sanskritimatrimony.com. With this unique matchmaking website, the wedding jewellery brand intends to simplify one's search for a life-partner. Sanksritimatrimony.com promises to quicken the search for the perfect match through a slew of unique functionalities. Built with proprietary algorithms, the website's Compatibility Meter has been designed to help connect individuals with the most compatible matches. Matches are made based on varied criteria ranging from basic ones such as age, gender, etc., to cultural, psychological factors. Speaking about the new launch, a company spokesperson stated, "Kalyan Jewellers has been a household name for many years. For d...
Microsoft Launches Dynamics 365 and AppSource in India
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Microsoft Launches Dynamics 365 and AppSource in India

Microsoft Launches Dynamics 365 and AppSource in India and will be Available From Local Data center on App-based Subscription Model. Retail, BFSI & Manufacturing Enterprises are Using Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Power Their Digital Transformation. These services will be delivered to customers as Software-as-a-Service (Saas) from its datacenters in India. Dynamics 365 is a cloud-based suite of applications that integrates CRM and ERP capabilities to provide the full power of advanced data analytics, machine learning and intelligence to high growth, new age companies in India. Microsoft AppSource is the new destination for business users to find and try out line-of-business SaaS apps from Microsoft and its partners. Presently, AppSource contains more than 200 business SaaS apps, a...
Innovation Helped us Hold Over 3/4th Market Share: Ola COO Pranay Jivrajka
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Innovation Helped us Hold Over 3/4th Market Share: Ola COO Pranay Jivrajka

Transport aggregator Ola today said its India-focussed innovations like offline booking and local language apps have helped the homegrown company "effectively hold onto over three-fourth market share". The SoftBank-backed firm, which is locked in an intense battle with US-based Uber, also claimed that every bit of technology it has built has been "made from the ground up without any premise to use as a base". "When they (Uber) launched in India in 2013, Ola hardly had a first mover advantage as we were doing just about 2,000 bookings a day. In spite of this, we have continued to build on our innovations effectively holding onto over three-fourth of the market-share," Ola COO Pranay Jivrajka told Pixr8. He added that the focus needs to be on localisation for building customised products f...
SBI in Association With BSNL Launched Digital Wallet ‘State Bank MobiCash’
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SBI in Association With BSNL Launched Digital Wallet ‘State Bank MobiCash’

The country’s largest lender State Bank of India   (SBI), in partnership with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Saturday launched its mobile wallet application ‘State Bank MobiCash’ for feature as well as smartphones. The new wallet services will initially be available in Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana and Bihar and expanded pan-India by the end of December. MobiCash will allow users to deposit cash through BSNL retail outlets and withdraw funds from their account. SBI already has an application named SBI Buddy for smartphone users. With the large network of BSNL and SBI, this wallet will reach the remotest areas of the country, in line with the government's digitisation mission, said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who launched the wallet. быстрый займ без отказа на картузайм по см...
Cognizant Acquires Australian Firm Adaptra For ‘Undisclosed Sum’
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Cognizant Acquires Australian Firm Adaptra For ‘Undisclosed Sum’

Nasdaq-listed IT major Cognizant has entered into an agreement to acquire Australia-based consulting, business transformation and service provider Adaptra, for an "undisclosed sum". Generisches levitra online kaufen Sydney-headquartered Adaptra, established in 1998, works with five of the top 10 insurers in Australia and New Zealand. Adaptra specialises in consulting, programme management and implementation of core platforms such as Guidewire to enable insurance companies to drive improvements across areas like underwriting and policy administration. The acquisition would further strengthen Congnizant's insurance, business transformation and platform capabilities, a company statement said. "As part of the acquisition, approximately 100 professionals will join Cognizant. The terms of...
Trivago Announces Pricing of Shares Under IPO
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Trivago Announces Pricing of Shares Under IPO

Trivago, a global hotel search platform, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 26,110,118 American depositary shares (ADSs) representing Class A shares of its affiliate, travel B.V.* (the Company) at $11.00 per ADS. The Company is selling 18,110,091 ADSs, and certain shareholders of the Company are selling 8,000,027 ADSs in the offering. The Company and the selling shareholders have granted the underwriters the option to purchase up to an additional 3,916,517 ADSs at the initial public offering price less the underwriting discount. The ADSs are expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "TRVG" on December 16, 2016. The offering is expected to close on December 21, 2016, subject to customary closing conditions. Found...
KKR-Backed Emerald Media, Premji Invest Lead $35 Million Funding Round in Amagi Media Labs
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KKR-Backed Emerald Media, Premji Invest Lead $35 Million Funding Round in Amagi Media Labs

Emerald Media, the Pan-Asia company backed by leading global investment firm KKR for investing in the media and entertainment sector, today announced that it has acquired a significant minority stake in Amagi Media Labs (‘Amagi’), the leader in targeted TV advertising and cloud-based TV broadcast infrastructure. Premji Invest, the investment arm of Azim Premji, (an existing shareholder) is also participating in this combination of primary and secondary US$35 million Series D round. Mayfield India and Nadathur Holdings will continue to remain invested in the Company. Headquartered in Bengaluru with offices in New York City, London, and Hong Kong, Amagi is a next-generation media technology company providing cloud-based managed broadcast services and targeted advertising platforms to c...
mCanvas Launches High Impact Scroller For Mobile Websites
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mCanvas Launches High Impact Scroller For Mobile Websites

mCanvas today launched Scroller, a high impact mobile ad unit that enables brands to deliver storytelling ads to millennials in a polite, non-intrusive manner. The Scroller has been in the beta for three months and is now available on the mCanvas marketplace, which consists of premium content websites in India. When a user scrolls while reading an article, the ad unit interestingly reveals the brand's message within a horizontal window. The brand's message is placed in the background and stays pinned in a fixed position while the website content moves over it. . Tapping on the unit will redirect the user to a brand's URL or can expand to deliver a brand's story via rich media and/or video innovations. The unit is designed to be 100% viewable. "Countless research studies indicate that...
Airtel Payments Bank Rolls Out Pilot in Andhra, Telangana
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Airtel Payments Bank Rolls Out Pilot in Andhra, Telangana

After Rajasthan, Airtel Payments Bank has now rolled out pilot services in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. "In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Airtel Payments Bank is rolling out pilot services across 8,000 Airtel retail outlets in Andhra Pradesh and 7,000 outlets in Telangana, which also acts as banking points," it said in a statement. This follows the pilot rollout in Rajasthan, where over 1 lakh customers opened savings accounts in less than two weeks of commencement of services, it added. Airtel Payments Bank is the first payments bank in India to go live. Customers opening a savings account with Airtel Payments Bank will get one minute of Airtel mobile talk time for every rupee deposited. For example, if a customer opens an account with a deposit of Rs 500, then he/she will get 5...
None of Mobile Payment Apps in India Fully Secure: Qualcomm
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None of Mobile Payment Apps in India Fully Secure: Qualcomm

While government is pushing for digital payments through mobile phones, chipset maker Qualcomm said that wallets and mobile banking applications in India are not using hardware level security which can make online transactions more secure. "You will be surprised because most of the banking or wallet apps around the world don't use hardware security. They actually run completely in Android mode and users password can be stolen. Users use fingerprint which might be captured... in India that is the case for most of all digital wallets and mobile banking apps," Qualcomm Senior Director Product Management SY Choudhury told Pixr8. He said that even most famous digital payment application in India is not using hardware level security. "Reason we are saying that none of them is using it bec...
Paytm’s Net Loss Rise To Four-Fold to Rs 1,549 for FY’16-17
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Paytm’s Net Loss Rise To Four-Fold to Rs 1,549 for FY’16-17

E-wallet service provider Paytm’s losses grew four-fold to Rs 1,549 crore in FY’16, the Times of India reported on Tuesday citing documents filed with the Registrar of Companies. It had reported a loss of Rs 372 a year ago compared to a profit of Rs 5 crore during FY’14. According to the report, Paytm’s founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma drew an annual salary of Rs 3.1 crore in FY’16. Last week, Sharma sold 1 percent stake in the company for Rs 325 crore to fund his payments bank. Paytm is said to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of PM Modi’s demonetisation drive. The company expects to hit 2 billion transactions by the end of this year. One97 Communications, the firm that owns Paytm will restructure its current business in preparation of its upcoming Payments Bank. As per the direct...
Hubli-based Aissel Technologies Wins Startup Karnataka Top Tech 25 Awards 2016
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Hubli-based Aissel Technologies Wins Startup Karnataka Top Tech 25 Awards 2016

Hubli-based Aissel Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has been chosen as a winner in Startup Karnataka Top Tech 25 Awards 2016. At the BengaluruITE.Biz event on 30th November, the award was presented to Aissel by IT Minister Priyank Kharge, former Infosys CEO Kris Gopalkrishnan, Principal Secretary of ITBT V. Manjula and Director of ITBT Tanushree Dev. Co founders Suraj Prabhu and Mahesh Grampurohit received the award. Aissel Technologies is an enterprise cloud software company based in Hubli. Their medical thought leader management solutions are deployed at leading global life sciences companies. Aissel's solutions help their life sciences customers understand the landscape of key opinion leaders in any disease area and create targeted communications strategies thereby achieving stronger professio...