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Meet Google New Army – ‘Google Assistant’, ‘Google Home’, ‘Allo’ ‘Duo’ And Android N

20May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Meet Google New Army – ‘Google Assistant’, ‘Google Home’, ‘Allo’ ‘Duo’ And Android N

Internet giant Google's Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has announced several new features like 'Google Assistant', 'Google Home', a new messaging app called 'Allo' and video calling feature 'Duo' at the ongoing I/O (input/output and 'Innovation in the Open') conference in Mountain View, California. 'Google Assistant' helps one with performing daily tasks like booking movie tickets and 'Google Home' is a voice-activated product that lets users enjoy entertainment, manage everyday tasks and get answers from Google. "It makes it easy to buy movie tickets while on the go, to find that perfect restaurant for your family to grab a quick bite before the movie starts, and then help you navigate to the theater. It's a Google for you, by you," Pichai wrote in a blog post. "The Assistant is an am...

Ratan Tata Invest in An Artificial Intelligence Based Chatbot Niki.ai

19May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Ratan Tata Invest in An Artificial Intelligence Based Chatbot Niki.ai

Leading industrialist Ratan Tata has invested in niki.ai , an artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbot . The company has also received funding from existing investor Ronnie Screwvala-led Unilazer, it said in a statement. It, however, did not disclose the details of the funding or the total amount it has raised till date. The Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus has made more than 25 investments in startups in the last two years, including online marketplace Snapdeal , digital wallet provider Paytm , cab hailing service Ola, data analytics company Tracxn Technologies, online pet supplies store Dogspot.in and online lingerie store Zivame. Last year, Tata had invested in Infinite Analytics, an artificial intelligence-based predictive analytics startup. Founded in April 2015 by IIT Kha...

18May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Bengaluru Based Bhive Co-working Space Raises $1million Funding

BHIVE Workspace, one of the well known brands in Bangalore’s startup ecosystem, has raised about $1 million in funding led by Blume Ventures. BHIVE Workspace is the largest co-working space in Bangalore catering to over 150+ ventures. With this $1 million funding, BHIVE plans to expand strongly in Bangalore while also establishing a presence in the top 6 cities of India. The funds will also be used to attract top talent, build technology that will further enhance customer experience and in turn position BHIVE as an undoubted leader in the office space market. Prior to this, BHIVE had attracted investments, from the likes of Raghunandan G (Founder, TaxiForSure), Rajesh Rai (Venture Capitalist and co-Founder, Venturesity), Arihant Patni (Managing Director, Hive Technologies), Sanjay M...

Logistics Solutions Provider Rivigo Eyes on 3000 Truck Fleet

18May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Logistics Solutions Provider Rivigo Eyes on 3000 Truck Fleet

Eyeing a larger market share, logistics solutions provider Rivigo is banking on drivers relay system for faster delivery of goods and is looking to take its trucking fleet to 3,000 this fiscal. The firm, which has a fleet of 800 trucks, claims that based on its innovative drivers relay system, truck loads are delivered to Chennai from Delhi in two days instead of conventional eight days. "Logistics is one of the largest industries -- more than USD 100-billion size -- and there is enough to do in this market... we started working on the Driver Relay Model wherein we change over the drivers after every few hundred kms... This improves the turnaround time and service levels," Rivigo CEO Deepak Garg said in a statement. Garg, who is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Lucknow, is a f...

Tatas E-commerce Platform CliQ to Go Live on May 27

17May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Tatas E-commerce Platform CliQ to Go Live on May 27

Tata Unistore, a Tata group business venture, today announced that its e-commerce platform, Tata CLiQ, will open to consumers from May 27 across its website, mobile site and mobile apps. At the launch, Tata CLiQ will offer consumers a new shopping experience in apparel, electronics and footwear categories. Over the next few months, the plan is to expand the offering by adding many more categories, brands and exciting features, Tata Unistore said in a statement here. Over the past few years, e-commerce in India has been growing at a faster rate than brick-and-mortar retail. Ads by ZINC. According to a Goldman Sachs report released last year, the e-commerce market will account for 2.5 per cent of India's gross domestic product by 2030, growing 15 times and reaching USD 300 billion....

16May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Apple Raises One Billion Funding From Warren Buffett Led Company Berkshire Hathaway

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc revealed a more than $1 billion stake in Apple Inc, a rare foray into the technology sector that the billionaire has largely shunned, apart from a poorly performing investment in IBM. Shares of Apple got a boost from the Berkshire imprimatur, rising more than 3 percent on Monday. Berkshire made its investment in the first quarter, before the iPhone maker in April reported its first quarterly revenue decline in 13 years. In a regulatory filing detailing most of its stock holdings, Berkshire said it held 9.81 million Apple shares worth $1.07 billion as of March 31. The value has since fallen into the low $900 million range. Berkshire's largest technology bet has been Buffett's $12 billion stake in International Business Machines Corp. Apple...

16May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Smartivity, an Augmented Reality Based Education Technology Startup Has Raised Rs 6.6 crore Funding

An augmented reality-based education technology startup Smartivity, has raised about Rs 6.6 crore in a pre-Series-A round of funding led by publishing firm S Chand and early-stage investment firm AdvantEdge Partners. The round also saw participation from Singapore-based fund CFG Offshore Holdings, Silicon Valley-based fund Tandem Capital and a clutch of angel investors. The company said the funds will also be used to expand its reach and aim for the global market. “With this round of funding, we want to expand our current portfolio in STEM and augmented reality products to provide interactive learning to kids and also develop IoT (internet of things)-enabled toys and robot-led learning for kids,” said Ashwini Kumar, cofounder of Smartivity. “Smartivity has shown tremendous gro...

Saudi Arabia Blocked Social Networking Giant Facebook’s Messenger Service

16May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Saudi Arabia Blocked Social Networking Giant Facebook’s Messenger Service

In a bid to protect the revenues of traditional telecom companies, Saudi Arabia has now blocked social networking giant Facebook's Messenger service. Internet calling over WhatsApp and Viber were already blocked in Saudi Arabia but similar apps including Tango and Line are still available in the country. Although the authorities claimed that the service has been blocked since it violated regulations, the independent reports. "The service had been banned because it failed to comply with regulations," an official told local news services. експресс займзайм с автоматическим одобрениемзайм онлайн только по паспорту

Now, a Student-Run Internet-Based Radio Station`Radio G`

15May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Now, a Student-Run Internet-Based Radio Station`Radio G`

With the launch of its internet-based radio station, Radio G, the G.D. Goenka University has given the students an opportunity to get trained in radio journalism. The first broadcast featured an interview of Dr. Deependra Kumar Jha, Pro Vice Chancellor of the University. Congratulating the School of Communication on the launch, he said, "I am very happy at the launch of Radio G. It will give the students an opportunity to get hands on training." The radio station, which has been set up by the School of Communication, will be run by the students of the Communication School. According to Prof. Sunil Saxena, "Radio G will be used to train undergraduate and post-graduate students to create programmes that can be broadcast live and can be heard across the world. The programmes that the...

This Idea Can Save 125,000 Life in The United States Annually

14May By PriyankaNo Comments

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This Idea Can Save 125,000 Life in The United States Annually

This is a story of how a new medical adherence and management, TrackMyStack.com -- designed to help people manage their regimen for their health condition is helping patients quickly learn about alternatives for their treatment and discover other’s going through the exact same thing as them. About 125,000 deaths occur annually in the United States alone due to non-adherence to medical treatments. Now that I've got your attention (hopefully!) let me tell you more about what adherence means in this context, it means taking the right dose at the right time at the right frequency, consistently till required. The reason people become non-adherents is because they either forget to take their medication, run out of it, patients feeling like it is ineffective or because of side effects. The ...

14May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Saas Startup Zarget Raised $1.5 million Seed Funding

Founded in 2015 by three ex-Zoho employees Arvind Parthiban, Naveen Venkat, and Santhosh Kumar, Zarget has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from global venture capital firms Accel Partners and Matrix Partners, and angel investors such as Girish Mathrubootham, CEO of Freshdesk. The company launched its Zarget platform, a conversion rate optimization tool built as a Chrome plugin and intended for use by marketers, product managers and web designers. The new platform is a much needed solution for firms that previously used multiple software products to complete A/B testing, funnel analysis, and heatmaps. Zarget provides all of these tools in one platform with the added simplicity of a Chrome plugin, so users no longer need to waste time and valuable resources loading websites into an...

13May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Online Hotels Aggregator Startup Stayzilla Raises $13 Million Funding

As per the mint report, Stayzilla has raised $13 million Series C funding from existing investors Matrix Partners and Nexus Ventures, according to documents filed with the Registrar of Companies. In report the funding round of online aggregator of budget hotels split into three tranches of $8.8 million (Rs.58.5 crore), $1.9 million (Rs.13 crore) and $2.4 million (Rs.16.3 crore), between November 2015 and March 2016. About Stayzilla - Stayzilla was founded by Yogendra Vasupal, Sachit Singhi and Rupal Yogendra. The company which started off by offering travelers stay options in budget hotels, last year forayed into home stays, connecting travellers with homeowners with spare accommodation in their houses. Earlier, Stayzilla raised close to $20 million from Nexus Venture Partners...