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SCOOT, San Francisco Based Electric Scooter Maker Hits 1 Million Miles
15Mar By No Comments
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SCOOT, San Francisco Based Electric Scooter Maker Hits 1 Million Miles

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Scoot has reached 1,000,000 miles in San Francisco today. Thousands of members have taken thousands of rides over the past 3.5 years. Scoot launched to the public in September 2012, with just 35 scooters & 5 locations. Each year, Scoot has expanded its reach and availability for residents of the City by the Bay. San Francisco is, as we know, 7x7 so scooting one million miles is like riding from SOMA to Ocean Beach 142,857 times. More importantly, if every one of those million miles had been in a car or taxi, instead of on an electric scooter, there’d be an additional 1.2 million pounds of CO2 in the atmosphere. But there isn’t! Instead, our community rode one million electric miles on two wheels, thousands of times. ALSO READ: Scoot Quad – San Francisco’s ...
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Skype Co-founder Launches Ultra-private Messaging App, Wire
13Mar By reutersNo Comments
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Skype Co-founder Launches Ultra-private Messaging App, Wire

FRANKFURT: A group of former Skype technologists, backed by the co-founder of the messaging platform, has introduced a new version of its own messaging service that promises end-to-end encryption for all conversations, including by video. Wire, a 50-person startup mostly made up of engineers, is stepping into a global political debate over encryption that pits privacy against security advocates, epitomized by the standoff between the US government and Apple. The company said on Thursday it was adding video calling to a package of private communications services that go beyond existing messaging providers. Rivals such as Facebook's Messenger and WhatsApp or Telegram offer encryption on only parts of a message's journey or for a specific set of services, it said. Wire, which is b...
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Code.org Hacked, Emails and Locations Data of Volunteers Compromised
13Mar By AdityaNo Comments
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Code.org Hacked, Emails and Locations Data of Volunteers Compromised

An anonymous reader allegedly quoting an email from Code.org, claims that the database of the non-profit organization has been breached: Some personal data was accessed on our web site by a firm exploiting a client-side vulnerability. Your email address and your location, if you provided it, were compromised and may have been read. The exploit was limited to engineers and others who volunteered to help in classrooms. No student or teacher accounts were impacted, nor passwords or additional information. The exploit did not give hackers access to any of our servers. Earlier this week, a volunteer engineer told us he received an unsolicited recruiting email from a technical freelancing firm in Singapore. We determined the firm was able to retrieve the volunteer's private email addr...
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ISRO Developing ‘Front-End Chip’ for Satellite Navigation System
12Mar By AnkitaNo Comments
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ISRO Developing ‘Front-End Chip’ for Satellite Navigation System

IANS- The Indian space agency is in the process of getting ready the radio frequency chips for its satellite navigation system, a top official said on Thursday. "We are in the process of developing the front-end chip. The initial version is expected to be ready this year," A.S. Kiran Kumar, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman, told IANS in Sriharikota. Named as the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), the system consists of a constellation of seven satellites of which the sixth was put into orbit on Thursday. He said the seventh navigation satellite will be launched next month. Kumar said the signals from the fifth navigation satellite-IRNSS-1E- launched last month is being received. He said the information received from the orbiting navigation...
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Amazon Acquire 20 Boeing 767 Aircraft For It’s Air Delivery Network
10Mar By AnkitaNo Comments
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Amazon Acquire 20 Boeing 767 Aircraft For It’s Air Delivery Network

In a bid to assume more control over its supply chain and reduce costs, American electronic commerce and cloud computing company Amazon.com Inc has announced the signing of a deal to lease 20 Boeing 767 aircraft to handle more of its own deliveries in the United States. Amazon had spent USD 11.5 billion on shipping last year and relies heavily on carriers like United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx Corp to deliver most of its packages, Reuters reported. "This is an incremental negative for FDX and UPS as it will likely remove some higher yielding express freight and parcel volume from each of the respective networks," RBC Capital Markets analyst John Barnes said. Meanwhile, American global courier delivery services company FedEx said the announcement was not a surprise and called Ama...
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Indian Startup Vs. US Monopoly, An Execution Without Trial !!!
8Mar By RishabhNo Comments
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Indian Startup Vs. US Monopoly, An Execution Without Trial !!!

Facebook recently showed its anti-social behavior when it pulled down the page of Houzify, a Bangalore-based home improvement startup whose investors include T V Mohandas Pai and InMobi's Naveen Tewari - on the basis of a complaint from US-based Houzz. In a legal glitch Houzz had sent a legal notice to Houzify over trademark infringement issue. Houzify says that the Facebook Page was shut down without any notice from Facebook. Neither did they give any forewarning or called for consulting over the matter. This direct action taken by facebook came as a shock! Gunaseelan Radhakrishnan, Co-founder & CEO of Houzify, described the action as "execution without trial", while Pai said it "demonstrates the danger India and startups here face because of the monopoly of Facebook and its...
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Jail Authorities in Brazil Treated Me With Respect: Facebook VP
8Mar By AdityaNo Comments
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Jail Authorities in Brazil Treated Me With Respect: Facebook VP

Facebook vice-president Diego Dzodan, who was arrested due to a dispute over the company's encrypted WhatsApp messaging service for use in a secretive drug trafficking investigation, has said that the Brazilian jail authorities treated him with respect. Dzodan was arrested on Tuesday and was released the next day after an appeals judge overturned a court order to arrest him, Reuters reported. "I was treated with a lot of respect," Dzodan said at a Saturday conference on Latin American business trends organized by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. "The way that information is encrypted from one cell phone to another, there is no information stored that could be handed over to authorities," he said. "We are extremely committed to ...
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Google Marks Womens day with `Real Women` Doodle
8Mar By PriyankaNo Comments
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Google Marks Womens day with `Real Women` Doodle

Search giant Google on March 8 celebrated the International Women's Day with its doodle that features real women rather than animated characters. Google has started a campaign named #OneDayIWill to empower women across the globe and it is promoted by a video, which was produced after meeting 337 women from 13 different countries across the world. Creators of the doodle Lydia Nichols, Helena Leroux and Liat Ben-Rafael have tried to get together the aspiration of women around the globe and bring them in limelight so as to inspire the next generation. The video also features British primatologist Jane Goodall, Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai and activist Muzoon Almellehan. It even gives an option for women to share their #OneDayIWill experience and celebrate International Wome...
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Eric Schmidt, of Alphabet, To Head Pentagon's Innovation Board
6Mar By PriyankaNo Comments
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Eric Schmidt, of Alphabet, To Head Pentagon's Innovation Board

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has been picked by Pentagon to head a new advisory board on defense innovation. About the same time, Pentagon Press secretary Peter Cook announced on Wednesday in Washington DC that Defense Secretary Ash Carter met Schmidt during the annual RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. Schmidt will be the chairman of the first Department of Defense Innovation Advisory Board and will work with Carter to select up to 12 members of the board. In a statement, Cook said the initiative is an effort to tap innovators from the private sector in Silicon Valley and beyond, and board members will "represent a cross-section of America's most innovative industries, drawing on technical and management expertise from Silicon...
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Gurgaon Based Baxi To Expand Operations in UP Market
6Mar By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Gurgaon Based Baxi To Expand Operations in UP Market

NEW DELHI: Gurgaon-based Baxi will start services in Noida and Ghaziabad in the next few weeks as it expands operations and tap into the booming on-demand motorbike taxi segment. The company, which offers about 3,000 rides a day, is operational in Gurgaon and Faridabad in Haryana. "Before commencing operations in Gurgaon, we met the authorities and after certain changes were brought in, making motorbike taxis legitimate, we started operations there. Similarly, we have had discussions with the authorities for offering services in Noida," Baxi co-founder Ashutosh Johri told PTI. He added the company expects to start services in Noida later this month, followed by Ghaziabad. "There were no rules for two-wheelers under the Motor Vehicles Act, and therefore, we had to get it modi...
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Tech Mahindra To Launch ‘Startup Garage’ For Its In-House Entrepreneurs
6Mar By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
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Tech Mahindra To Launch ‘Startup Garage’ For Its In-House Entrepreneurs

MUMBAI: In a first for a corporate entity, Tech Mahindra is all set to create a 'startup garage' for its in-house entrepreneurs. "Within our set-up, we have a number of companies that is working already. But we are about to launch a garage soon ...ours will be the first corporate garage for the startups," TechM chief strategy officer and head of the 'growth factories' initiative Jagdish Mitra told PTI recently. At present, as many as 15 businesses have emerged from among the over 1.05 lakh TechM employees and they work as part of the 'growth factories' set-up, Mitra said. He said all the businesses which are getting incubated will be physically housed together in the garage and doing so will give them independence to operate. Mentoring the businesses will also be ea...
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