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Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Sold All His Bitcoins

27Jan By RishabhNo Comments

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Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Sold All His Bitcoins

In his recent conference at the Nordic Business Forum in Stockholm, the Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak said that he has sold all his Bitcoins, that he once bought for $700. As per the price, he must have carried out the purchase either in June, or late October-early November of the year 2017. Although, he never revealed the quantity he purchased but he did say, "I remember getting interested in bitcoin some time ago. It was $70 for a bitcoin, man and I went online and you had to have a special bank account at a special bank and I couldn't buy any bitcoin so I gave up. Eventually I got some of them at the $700 stage and it went down to $350. I didn't invest, I did it so I could play with bitcoin," in an interview in June, 2017. He also said that he just wanted to experime...

Everything You Need To Know About ASEAN Members and India

25Jan By RishabhNo Comments

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Everything You Need To Know About ASEAN Members and India

What is ASEAN? ASEAN- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a regional intergovernmental organization, founded in 8 August 1967 that comprises of ten Southeast Asian countries which promotes unity of Asian peoples and resist the Western imperialism and colonialism and promote Asian values over European values. The association of ten nations includes these 10 states- Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. 1 Observer – Papua New Guinea. The association was however founded in by the five original member countries- Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The organization’s membership later expanded to include Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. ASEAN works on finding measures to i...

Now its Tencent Backed ‘Super-App’ Vs. Tencent’s own WeChat

25Jan By RishabhNo Comments

CHINA

Now its Tencent Backed ‘Super-App’ Vs. Tencent’s own WeChat

Another issue that is rising in China is tech apps taking over its rivals from the same backers. Recently, Meituan, a kind of Chinese technology that very few people out of the country understand is giving some serious competition to WeChat. Tencent Holdings Ltd, the messaging giant app is the developer of WeChat and a key investor in Meituan and watching its siblings take over each other, is something that nobody wants. Meituan has grown very popular in China. It has a restaurant review feature like that of Yelp (San Fransisco based review MNC), while its app also lets users order food off the menu from phone. Even to pay, users don't have to leave the Meituan app. This is the reason why its giving serious competition to Tencent's WeChat. the startup is already the world's fourth...

24Jan By RishabhNo Comments

INDIA

10 Images Showing Indian Glamour at World Economic Forum 2018

India is indeed one of the most talked about topic at 48th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The temperature is freezing, but the zeal is not. The World Economic Forum has witnessed great participation and applause from all around the world. PM Modi was the first Indian Prime Minister who opened the session of World Economic Forum. Accompanied by several ministers and several business delegates, he shared his views inviting global CEOs for business in India. Below are some of the amazing memories from World Economic Forum after its first day!

World Economic Forum 2018: Key Highlights After First Day of the Conference

24Jan By RishabhNo Comments

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World Economic Forum 2018: Key Highlights After First Day of the Conference

The year is 2018 and World Economic Forum is bigger than ever, the reason is obvious- 'India'. There are several highlights that we'll be talking about later, but the World Economic Forum is perhaps one of the biggest platforms in the world on which Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's hosted an opening session, sharing his views and inviting global CEOs to India for business opportunities. Accompanied by several ministers, a high-powered business delegation, and two yoga instructors who will host yoga training sessions for the entire duration of the week-long gathering, PM Modi's speech was very inspiring making every sector of the gathering, be it strong business leaders or other delegates that India has really emerged out loud and bold and will be the "future superpower". What i...

Ratan Tata Backed Artificial Intelligence Startup Tied Up With Federal Bank

23Jan By RishabhNo Comments

BUSINESS

Ratan Tata Backed Artificial Intelligence Startup Tied Up With Federal Bank

Indian industrialist tycoon Ratan Tata backed Niki.ai has tied up with Kerala-headquartered Federal Bank to launch a virtual assistant in Federal Bank's smartphone application, a financial daily reported. Federal Bank confirmed saying that the chatbot will be helping customers to access m-commerce services right within the app, VCCircle reported. With this integration, the customers can simply perform operations by writing it in the virtual assistant's chat box like top-up their numbers, book movie tickets and pay their bills. The bills will automatically be charged on the user's account. “For payments, the customer need not get redirected to any other platform or take the hassle of loading their digital wallets, the debit happens directly from the federal bank account and the pay...

ScoopWhoop In Trouble- How India’s Viral Content Company Lost Its Track

20Jan By RishabhNo Comments

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ScoopWhoop In Trouble- How India’s Viral Content Company Lost Its Track

Disclaimer: The facts and incidents mentioned in the story have been already published by other media companies. We are just distributing the content supplied by third parties or subscribers. . Neither the Company nor any third-party provider of information guarantees the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. We don't intend to provide any opinion on the matter. The Launch It was just another evening in a Mayur Vihar's small apartment of Rishi Pratim Mukherjee. He was hanging out with two co-workers, Sriparna Tikekar and Sattvik Mishra from WebChutney, an Indian webdesign and online marketing company. A little drunk and a discussion over "listicles" the term coined because of the popular US-based internet co...

Is Your iPhone X Secure Against ‘chaiOS’ Bug? Check Here

18Jan By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Is Your iPhone X Secure Against ‘chaiOS’ Bug? Check Here

'ChaiOS' is the latest bug discovered software developer Abraham Masri, that can cause the messaging app of iPhone to crash, or worse. The bug could even freeze your iPhone or restart it. What triggers it? The alarming 'ChaiOS' bug exploits the fact that iPhone Messaging app preloads the links of web-pages coming through a message. This is where the bug does its job. Masri explained that he created a webpage hosted on Github and stuffed its metadata with a large number of unnecessary characters. Messages crashes as soon as it tries to load all of this irrelevant information(characters), and even sometimes crashes the entire system. ? Effective Power is back, baby! chaiOS bug: Text the link below, it will freeze the recipient's device, and possibly restart it. https://...

4Jan By RishabhNo Comments

INDIA

RBI To Issue Chocolaty New Rs 10 Notes

The Reserve Bank of India will be issuing new Rs 10 notes under Mahatma Gandhi series. The new Rs 10 notes will soon be available in chocolate brown color as the base with a picture of Konark Sun Temple. As per the source, the government has already printed around 1 billion pieces of the new Rs 10 note. It was only last week that the designed got approved by the government, which has not been changed since 2005. The new Rs 200 and Rs 50 notes were launched in August 2017 under the Mahatma Gandhi series. The aim of introducing new notes of lower denominations is solely to prevent counterfeiting of notes and promote digital economy. The government has been trying hard to promote digital money, i.e. payments by debit, credit cards or digital wallet in a bid to eliminate black money o...

3Jan By RishabhNo Comments

News

Ads Drive Main Revenue In Short News App InShorts

Short news app InShorts became profitable from November 2017, generating a net revenue run rate of Rs 25 crore in 2017, as compared to Rs 3 crore in 2016, through advertising a financial daily reported. "We have over 200 advertising clients on board and are generating enough revenue from advertisements to become operationally profitable. Some of our biggest clients include Vodafone, Mercedes, Amazon, amongst others," told Azhar Iqubal co-founder of InShorts to Economic Times. InShorts, as now being profitable, is also planning to launch a video-based news app in the year 2018. It is currently available in Hindi and English, but soon will be exploring options in other Indian languages and grow focus on tier 2 and 3 cities. "We have seen over 10 million downloads so far, but a large p...

Amazon Shipped Over 5B Products Via Prime Last Year

3Jan By RishabhNo Comments

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Amazon Shipped Over 5B Products Via Prime Last Year

E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc in a recent press release stated that it has shipped 5 billion+ items worldwide via its premium service Amazon Prime in 2017 and has reached an all time high of prime members. The online retailer revealed the data for its Prime shipments for the first time in its entire history. It gave no comparable full-year shipment number for 2016. Across all the items from various categories that Amazon sells, its Fire TV and Echo Dot, a smart voice controller device were the best selling among its Prime members across the USA. Amazon Prime is premium subscription that Amazon offers for its users, who after subscribing this service get facilities like free two-day delivery on selected purchases, streaming of movies and TV shows worldwide and some of its exclusi...

2Jan By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Not So Happy New Year For Bitcoin

The year 2018 seems "not" to be cryptocurrency friendly! Ever since the year 2015, it started the year by declining from its value, sliding from an all time high of $19,511, which it reached on December 18. The virtual coin fell to $13,624.56 as of 5 p.m. in New York on Monday, down 4.8 percent from Friday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s also a drop from the $14,156 it hit Sunday, according to coinmarketcap.com, which tracks daily prices. The cryptocurrency fluctuated in Asian trading on Tuesday, trading 1.9 percent lower as of 3:22 p.m. in Hong Kong. Compared to this, in 2017, Bitcoin started off around $1000 and gave returns of more than 1,300 percent. Ever since then it has ignited discussions among the economists and investor firms on Wall Street. The rally...