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How Dorsey Manages Being CEO Of Both Twitter And Square companies

23Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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How Dorsey Manages Being CEO Of Both Twitter And Square companies

The busy CEO reveals his secret to managing a busy life. Jack Dorsey, the CEOs of both Twitter and payments technology company Square, has a secret to keep from being overwhelmed. “I look to build a lot of consistent routine,” he said during a question and answer session Tuesday on the online forum Product Hunt. “Same thing every day. Allows a steady state that enables me to be more effective when I do have to react to something out of band.” Many have questioned whether Dorsey can successfully hold two jobs simultaneously at public companies. It is a work load that few others have tried. Of course, Steve Jobs successfully ran both Pixar and Apple for years. But after that, it’s a short list of people who have been able to pull off holding dual roles. Dorsey said in response t...

Talko, a mobile app for business team communications acquired by Microsoft

23Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Talko, a mobile app for business team communications acquired by Microsoft

Microsoft has acquired Former Microsoft chief architect Ray Ozzie project Talko. Talko allows you to create multiperson conversations that combine voice, text and photos all laid out over an evolving timeline. Talko Features - Amazing things can happen when we talk with each other. Thoughts are shared, ideas formed and problems solved. Talko is the best way to use your voice to get things done. Talk: Voice is the fastest and clearest way for people to communicate. Talk when and how you want – live or not. Share: Photos bring conversations to life. By tapping the camera to share as you talk, others will instantly see what you see. Do: Use voice to get things done. Organize, find, replay and share key moments using tags and bookmarks. About the Deal I am pleased ...

Aditya Birla group announced 25 start-ups name under it's first incubation programme “Bizlabs”

14Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Aditya Birla group announced 25 start-ups name under it's first incubation programme “Bizlabs”

The Aditya Birla Group will collaborate with 25 start-ups to bolster its new areas of business in retail, financial services and telecom. The company’s Bizlabs incubation programme, started in October, has named the firms as “collaboration partners” on its website, but is yet to make a formal announcement. [Source] Most of these new firms provide digital solutions to engage with consumers and enlarge their base. Some of the companies named are Red Monster Games, Torch, Dressy, ePaisa, Mswipe, Touchfone, Instakash, Bankbazzar, Wealth Pack, Cloud Cherry, Faircent and Coverfox Insurance. Bizlabs has not revealed the funding it shall provide to incubate startups, but has received thousands of applications in the past few months, a company official said on the condition of anonymity....

12Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Uber Expands Its UberEATS App

Uber announced on Wednesday that it’s delving further info into food delivery with its new UberEATS app, separating its food delivery from its ride-sharing service. The original UberEATS launched in Los Angeles last year, and has since moved into Toronto, New York City, Austin, Chicago, and Barcelona. It promised delivery in 10 minutes or less, but only operated during certain hours, which vary in the different locations, with a selection limited to just a couple of options. The UberEATS app, currently only available in Toronto, offers longer hours and a much wider selection. It will be available every day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and customers can view full menus from over 100 restaurants. It will also offer an Instant Delivery menu during lunch hours for a quicker option that sh...

Tired of Useless Meetings? 9 Ways to Make Them More Effective. (Infographic)

11Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Tired of Useless Meetings? 9 Ways to Make Them More Effective. (Infographic)

Meetings. What a drag they can be. They go longer than they’re supposed to. Someone blabs out of turn or off topic. Your mind drifts to tasks you could be checking off instead of sitting there, stuck. Then come the action items and, tag, you’re it. Your to-do list just got longer. Sound familiar? Sure does to us. But, believe it or not, not all meetings are total timesucks and not all meetings are boring. Some run like clockwork. With an attendee nip here and an agenda tuck there, they can be much more efficient, productive and, if you’re lucky, even a little fun. From holding walk-and-talks outside in the fresh air, to scheduling start times like a Swiss train conductor (we kid you not), here are nine clever ways to have more effective meetings, care of the meeting makers at CT Busi...

Logistics startup BlackBuck raises $25M from Tiger Global

10Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Logistics startup BlackBuck raises $25M from Tiger Global

BlackBuck, a business-to-business logistics startup, has raised $25 million in Series B funding from Tiger Global and other investors. Russian billionaire investor Yuri Milner’s Apoletto fund and existing investors Accel Partners and Flipkart also put money in this round, BlackBuck said in a statement. The startup, owned by Zinka Logistics Solutions Pvt Ltd, would use the funds for expansion, to build products and set up the team. BlackBuck was founded in April this year by IIT Kharagpur alumni Rajesh Yabaji, Chanakya Hridaya and Ramasubramaniam B. It had received $5 million in funding earlier this year from Accel Partners and Flipkart. BlackBuck has 200 employees and has presence in 40 locations across the country. It plans to expand to 200 locations over the next year. The c...

Kejriwal's odd-even rule to benefit startups

9Dec By PriyankaNo Comments

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Kejriwal's odd-even rule to benefit startups

In a bid to control the alarming levels of Delhi's air pollution, CM Arvind Kejriwal has planned to allow private vehicles with even and odd registration numbers on alternate days from January 1 next year. This step, however odd it may sound, can get really beneficial for bus aggregation startups like Shuttl and ZipGo, who can jump on the opportunity to offer their services to more people now. Shuttl, which is the largest bus aggregation players in the Delhi-NCR has around 500 vehicles on its network. ZipGo too has entered the Delhi market, and has plans to launch women-only buses. 3 million people already use metro every day to commute, while for buses this number is 5 million. With 50% of Delhi's private vehicles taken off road, the public transport needs to be made more efficient....

Ola joins global alliance to take on Uber

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Ola joins global alliance to take on Uber

India’s largest cab aggregator Ola has joined international peers Didi Kuaidi, Lyft and GrabTaxi to form an alliance against San-Francisco-based Uber. The global alliance enables international travelers to avail cab-hailing services of the four companies through the same app they use in their home country. The partnership would provide ride-sharing coverage for India, China, Southeast Asia and the US, Ola said in a press statement. The arrangement is an extension of an ongoing pact between US-based Lyft and Chinese cab aggregator Didi Kuaidi. Didi Kuaidi had recently participated in a $500 million fund raising round at Ola. Ola, Didi Kuaidi, Lyft and GrabTaxi have collectively raised about $7 billion in external funding. The taxi-hailing business in India is heating up as...

Hotel chain operator Hilton payment systems hit by malware

25Nov By PriyankaNo Comments

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Hotel chain operator Hilton payment systems hit by malware

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it identified unauthorized malware in some payment systems that targeted payment card information. A Hotel chain operator revealed that a third-party investigation found that the malware targeted specific payment card information, that included cardholder names, payment card numbers, security codes and expiration dates. Italiapharmacia24.com Hilton said customers who used their cards during a 17-week period – from Nov. 18 to Dec. 5, 2014 or April 21 to July 27, 2015 – were advised to check their bank statements. The information targeted, however, did not include addresses or personal identification numbers (PINs), the company added. The owner of the Conrad and Double Tree hotel chains did not provide details on the number of...

LG Electronics to develop own mobile payment system

20Nov By PriyankaNo Comments

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LG Electronics to develop own mobile payment system

LG Electronics Inc said on Thursday it signed an agreement to develop its own mobile payment service called LG Pay. LG, which signed the agreement with South Korea's largest and second-largest credit card firms Shinhan Card Co Ltd and KB Kookmin Card Co Ltd, did not give a timetable or description of its planned technology. The mobile payment market is getting crowded as smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd have launched their own mobile payment services. LG Electronics' mobile payment system will be able to be used in all LG smartphones, unlike Samsung Pay which is available only in the recent Samsung smartphone models, South Korean wire service Yonhap reported on Thursday, without citing a specific source. An LG spokesman declined to comment ...

Apple's iPad Pro to go on sale Wednesday

10Nov By PriyankaNo Comments

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Apple's iPad Pro to go on sale Wednesday

Apple Inc said its iPad Pro will be available to order online on Wednesday and arrive ga naar at stores later this week. The 12.9 inch-screen tablet, which starts at $799 but costs more than $1,000 if buyers also want a keyboard and an optional stylus, will be available in more than 40 countries, including the United States, the UK, China and Japan. Sales of iPads have been falling for several quarters as big-screen iPhones appeal to more consumers. Apple sold 54.86 million iPads in the year ended Sept. 26 – a drop of 19 percent from a year earlier. Since launching iPad with a 9.7-inch screen in 2010, Apple has released a mini version in 2012 with a 7.9-inch screen. Apple unveiled the larger iPad Pro on Sept. 9, hoping to rival Microsoft Corp's 12-inch Surface Pro 3 in at...

YouTube to support virtual reality video on its app

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YouTube to support virtual reality video on its app

YouTube announced two new features Thursday for its Android app that expand the video site’s use of virtual reality, giving the new technology its biggest platform yet. The app now supports VR video – a format that gives viewers what the company says are more realistic 360-degree perspectives of films. To view it, a user would call up a virtual reality video on the YouTube app, click a button on the video for VR mode, and place the phone in Alphabet Inc’s “Cardboard” device, a handheld gadget made from the standard box material that creates a VR viewing experience. Makers of virtual reality content can upload VR videos compatible with the Cardboard viewer directly to YouTube. YouTube said there are about a dozen VR videos, including one stemming from the R...