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Amazon Prime Video to Launch Baahubali’s Animated Series
2Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Amazon Prime Video to Launch Baahubali’s Animated Series

Amazon Prime Video today said it has partnered with filmmaker S S Rajamouli, Graphic India and Arka Mediaworks to launch "Baahubali: The Lost Legends", a new animated series based on blockbuster film, "Baahubali". "The animation series will allow our customers to discover hidden stories and legends from the Baahubali world," Amazon Prime Video India Director and Country Head Nitesh Kripalani said. "Baahubali: The Lost Legends" is set before the Kalakeya invasion depicted in the movie, when Baahubali and Bhallaladeva are still both young princes of Mahishmati, a release said. It said the animated series will feature new, never before revealed stories about the characters from the film, including Prince Baahubali, Bhallaladeva, Kattapa and Sivagami, as well as dozens of new characte...
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Myntra’s Big Billion Days – 10 Things to Look Forward to
2Oct By NitishNo Comments
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Myntra’s Big Billion Days – 10 Things to Look Forward to

India's leading platform for fashion brands and a pioneer in m-commerce Myntra's Big Billion Days (BBD), is right around the corner and here are a few great picks that you absolutely can't miss at Myntra. Sanhita Dasgupta, Myntra Fashion Stylist, tells you how to dress-to-impress by picking great ethnic outfits this festive season and shares tips on styling them perfectly.   Women Straight Kurta: This silhouette has officially taken over the women's fashion world. Colourblock, quirky printed or solids, the options are plenty. They are delicate, feminine and graceful, just like you. Pair them with palazzos to complete the look. Cropped Palazzos:This breezy bottom wear is exactly the thing you need in Indian weather. Comfortable yet stylish, they can take your ethnic avatar to a...
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Google Will Open a New Cloud Region in Mumbai
30Sep By PriyankaNo Comments
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Google Will Open a New Cloud Region in Mumbai

Google will open a new Cloud Region in Mumbai that will help the tech giant offer its cloud platform services to developers and enterprise customers in India. Expected to be live in 2017, the local region in India will help make Google cloud platform services even faster for Indian customers, company said in a statement. The announcement was made at the Horizon event in San Francisco. However, the company did not disclose any financial details. The business-to-business (B2B) based Cloud services have also been re-branded as Google Cloud. With more than one billion end-users, Google Cloud has gained significant traction in India and across the world. Its global customers include Snap Inc (formerly SnapChat), Niantic Labs (Pokemon Go), Telus International, and Evernote, among others...
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DIPP to Hire Consultants to Push Startup India
29Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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DIPP to Hire Consultants to Push Startup India

The commerce and industry ministry is looking to engage consultants to promote the government's Startup India campaign for budding entrepreneurs. The department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP), under the ministry, has issued an advertisement for engaging a senior consultant and two consultants for the Startup India initiative. It has invited applications from eligible candidates for "engagement as senior consultant/consultant on contractual basis." It said the job responsibilities for the senior consultant include assessment of the existing startup ecosystem in the country, identifying the national and international best practices, making recommendations to facilitate growth of startups and monitoring implementation of action plans, schemes and programmes. Those of th...
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Design Café Brings the First-ever Home Design Experience Lounge to Bangalore
28Sep By AnkitaNo Comments
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Design Café Brings the First-ever Home Design Experience Lounge to Bangalore

In a quest to make design more accessible to everyone, Design Café, one of the leading interior design firms in Bangalore, launched its first Home Design Experience Lounge this week in Bangalore. Set in the plush residential locales of Whitefield, the 2500 sq. ft., experience lounge will compliment their revolutionary website http://www.designcafe.xyz, which allows you to design your home online in four easy steps. At the lounge, you can meet award-winning designers who will guide through 100's of pre-curated home designs for every room and create instant 3D designs for you. The lounge also showcases the latest materials and brands from all over the world and in every budget, so you can touch and feel everything before you make your home. This is the first-of-its kind lounge that bridges t...
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Secretive Silicon Valley Firm Palantir Accused of Bias Against Asians
27Sep By reutersNo Comments
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Secretive Silicon Valley Firm Palantir Accused of Bias Against Asians

The U.S. Department of Labor filed an administrative lawsuit against Palantir Technologies on Monday, alleging that the data analytics and security company systematically discriminated against Asian job applicants. The Privately held firm helps government agencies track down terrorists and uncover financial fraud. It raised $880 million in funding late last year, for a $20 billion valuation, and is considered one of Silicon Valley's most secretive companies. The lawsuit alleges Palantir routinely eliminated Asian applicants in the resume screening and telephone interview phases, even when they were as qualified as white applicants. Representatives for Palantir could not immediately be reached for comment. Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel and Joe Lonsdale, two of Silicon Valley's...
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Elon Musk’s SolarCity Sued By Khosla Ventures & Cogenra Solar
27Sep By reutersNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s SolarCity Sued By Khosla Ventures & Cogenra Solar

Elon Musk's SolarCity has been accused of intellectual property theft by Cogenra Solar, a wholly owned subsidiary of SunPower Corporation, and Khosla Ventures. In a lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Monday, the parties accused SolarCity of gaining undue advantage of Cogenra's Shingling technology that helps in manufacturing high-efficiency commercially viable solar panels. SolarCity and its subsidiary Silevo misappropriated Cogenra's trade secrets, manufacturing processes, and other intellectual property to give themselves a competitive advantage and head start in developing shingled-cell solar modules, Cogenra said in the lawsuit. SolarCity said that last week it discovered that a former SolarCity employee had unlawfully downloaded confidential information, copied that informatio...
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On its 18th Birthday, Google Launches Service to Take Internet to India Malls, Cafes
27Sep By PriyankaNo Comments
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On its 18th Birthday, Google Launches Service to Take Internet to India Malls, Cafes

On his Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said on Tuesday it launched Google Station in India, a service that aims to deepen its reach across the country, as the search giant seeks to bring more people on to its Google platform. Under the service, Google will roll-out Wi-Fi hot spots in places frequented by a large number of people, such as malls and transit stations, and in social hangout locations such as cafes and universities, the company said on Tuesday. "The goal is to give people many hot spots within a few minutes walk from their home, university, or workplace, unified by a simple login process that works across all of them," Caesar Sengupta, Vice-President, Next Billion Users at Google was quoted as saying in the statement. Google currently offers free Wi-Fi access at 53 rai...
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Renault-Nissan and Microsoft Partner to Deliver the Future of Connected Driving
27Sep By NitishNo Comments
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Renault-Nissan and Microsoft Partner to Deliver the Future of Connected Driving

Companies sign global, multiyear contract to work on next-generation connected car technologies and driving experiences The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Microsoft Corp. have signed a global, multiyear agreement to partner on next-generation technologies to advance connected driving experiences worldwide. The companies will work together to develop next-generation connected services for cars powered by Microsoft Azure, one of the company's intelligent cloud offerings. These new services will improve customer experience via advanced navigation, predictive maintenance and vehicle centric services, remote monitoring of car features, external mobile experiences and over-the-air updates. "A car is becoming increasingly connected, intelligent and personal," said Ogi Redzic, Renault-Nissan...
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Amazon to Set Up 3 More Fulfillment Centres By Year-end
26Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Amazon to Set Up 3 More Fulfillment Centres By Year-end

E-commerce giant Amazon will set up three more fulfillment centres in India taking the total number to 27 by the end of this year, a senior executive of the company said here today. "Right now, we have 24 fulfillment centres. By the end of this year, we should be closing with around 27 fulfillment centres. That would give a storage capacity of around 7.5 million cubic feet. That is one of the largest investments we committed to India," Noor Patel, Director Category Management, Amazon India told reporters in a press conference. However, Patel declined to reveal the locations for the proposed centres. A senior official of Amazon said currently 24 centres are located across 10 states in India. "This is the only country where Amazon is having its own delivery infrastructure," he ad...
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Skype Will Use Aadhaar-based ID Authentication: Microsoft
23Sep By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Skype Will Use Aadhaar-based ID Authentication: Microsoft

Microsoft today said it has presented to central authorities various “case scenarios” on how its Skype service can be used for identity authentication using the Aadhaar database. “We have presented various case scenarios on how Skype can be used. We already support iris authentication (on Windows 10). Now it depends on them how they want to proceed,” Microsoft India Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik said. Citing an example, he said Skype can be used by people to authenticate themselves for accessing government services that require Aadhaar-based authentication. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is in discussions with handset makers and operating system providers for embedding the identification technology onto mobile devices. This will help people authenticate their Aadhaa...
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