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With AI Enabled Camera, OPPO R15 Pro Launches in India

9Jan By PriyankaNo Comments

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With AI Enabled Camera, OPPO R15 Pro Launches in India

OPPO, a leading global smartphone brand, dedicated to providing products infused with art and innovative technologies, announced the launch of its latest R series product OPPO R15 Pro. After recently launching R17 Pro in December 2018, the R15 Pro comes with OPPO's latest breakthrough which is a 6.28 inch and a 19:9 full screen with ultra-wide visual field. Priced at INR 25,990, the smartphone will be exclusively available on Amazon.in from 9th January 2019 onwards. The R15 Pro comes with a host of features such as a new flagship sensor, the IMX519 which has been customised by OPPO for better portrait photography. It is also one of the first devices to be water resistant along with AI Scene Recognition technology which can also be referred to as a photography technique consultant. The...

Facebook Accelerates Outsourcing to Indian IT Firms to Manage Fraud

31Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook Accelerates Outsourcing to Indian IT Firms to Manage Fraud

The social networking giant Facebook has accelerated its reach to Indian IT services firms including HCL Technologies, Wipro and Tech Mahindra for the purpose of content moderation, anti-money laundering and data analytics as it faces increased global pressure and scrutiny to curb rumours as well as fraud on the platform. The social network has increased the engagement in the “the last few months” with the Indian companies. One of the executives of a tech firm said the combined contracts of Indian companies with Facebook is valued at over $400 million and would only increase as the social network seeks human help in resolving issues that it had earlier thought would be helped by technology. After the scandals broke out, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had p...

Amazon adds “Tens of Millions” of New Prime Subscribers on its Platform

27Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Amazon adds “Tens of Millions” of New Prime Subscribers on its Platform

Amazon has announced that it added “tens of millions” of people who signed up for Prime memberships, both paid and on a trial basis. Its worldwide customers also shopped and ordered more items than ever before, including “millions more Amazon devices” compared with this time last year. The device best-sellers, as on Black Friday, again included Amazon Echo speakers and Fire TV. Specifically, Amazon said its top devices sold over the holidays were the Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K and the Echo. Millions of Fire TV devices, Fire tablets and Kindle devices were also sold. Smart home devices sold in record numbers as well, with best sellers including Amazon Smart Plug, Ring Video Doorbell 2, TP-Link Kasa Smart Plug Mini Outlet and the iRobot Roomba 690. The lower-cost Echo Dot has...

JD.com Launches P2P Online Lending Products

25Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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JD.com Launches P2P Online Lending Products

E-commerce giant JD.com has become the first Chinese tech tycoon to launch peer-to-peer online lending products. "Hefeng online lending" or literally "Hefeng Wangdai", a platform providing information service on P2P online lending under JD.com, sold out all the products within seconds after it started operation on Sunday. This made JD the first BATJ or Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and JD, to enter peer-to-peer online lending market. The P2P online lending platform provide one-month, three-month, six-month and 12-month products with 5 percent, 5.5 percent, 6 percent and 6.5 percent annual return rates. The lending benchmark was 1,000 yuan ($144.96) and almost all the borrowed money was expected to be used for daily consumption. Peer-to-peer online lending has experienced serious ...

Xiaomi’s Mi Pay to Make a Debut in Indian Market

21Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Xiaomi’s Mi Pay to Make a Debut in Indian Market

The Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi is all set to make a debut of its payments app called Mi Pay in India. The company has started beta testing of the Mi Pay platform in the country. For this, the company has entered into a partnership with ICICI bank along with PayU to launch Mi Pay in India. The Indian variable of the app is slightly different from the NFC-powered payments app which is available in China. In India, it is similar to the Google Pay app. Also, the Mi Pay is not only a UPI payments app, it claims to support debit and credit card as well. With this, the company might take advantage of MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) technology. MST is already used by Samsung in India for Samsung Pay. This technology allows users to use t...

Instagram Rolls Out Three Fresh Features to its Stories Format

20Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram Rolls Out Three Fresh Features to its Stories Format

Photo-sharing social media platform Instagram has launched new features that change the way you interact with the people you follow on the platform. With the new updates, the users will now be able to use the questions sticker for music recommendations in Stories. A person's followers will now respond to question sticker with a song from the music library. These responses will appear right above the list of people who have viewed your Story and you can tap on it to play the track. Also, you will be able to share their response to your Instagram Story as well and while doing that, you’ll be able to capture a photo or video as the music plays in the background. Moreover, there will be new effects in the music mode that "respond to the beats and sounds of a song." It mus...

Snapchat Launches its First Indian Snap Lens for Shah Rukh Khan Starrer Movie

19Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Snapchat Launches its First Indian Snap Lens for Shah Rukh Khan Starrer Movie

The popular photo sharing social platform Snapchat has partnered Red Chillies Entertainment and has reportedly launched its first Indian Augmented Reality (AR) Lens for a film in India. This lens has been introduced ahead of the release of Shah Rukh Khan starrer Zero on December 21. The lens went on Tuesday and will be available through December 22. It will enable Snapchat users to become the main character Bauua Singh, and interact with the plot line of the movie. To use this lens, users can launch the lens carousel by tapping on their face on the camera screen and swipe to choose the lens. "This Bollywood-first activation will provide a unique and fun opportunity for Snapchatters to interact with the movie ahead of its launch" said Ben Schwerin, VP of P...

Handset Maker Micromax to Foray into the South African Market

17Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Handset Maker Micromax to Foray into the South African Market

Indian smartphone maker Micromax is reportedly foraying into the South African market as the company is looking to further bolster its international operations. It is expecting to contribute as much as 20% to its overall revenues by next fiscal. Along with this, the handset maker is also looking at expanding its range of consumer durable products like television sets and smart accessories to Russia and Middle East. Micromax, which is facing heavy competition from Samsung and Chinese players like Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, among others, in the Indian smartphone market, operates in Russia, Middle East, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. "We will soon enter the South Africa market and have partnered Vodafone there. There is a big opportunity there, about 8 million devices a mont...

Oppo Plans to Hire 500 Engineers for Hyderabad R&D Centre

15Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Oppo Plans to Hire 500 Engineers for Hyderabad R&D Centre

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo is reportedly planning to hire over 500 engineers to support its newly launched research and development (R&D) centre in Hyderabad. Over the next few years as it looks to strengthen its market presence in India by bringing more localised products and services. The BBK Electronics-led brand plans to make this facility its largest out of China in the next three years. It will not just focus on handsets but will also contribute significantly towards items such as smartwatch and Internet of Things (IoT) products that the company plans to launch next year. “India market is growing very fast, and we want to get deeper consumer insights to offer a better experience that will help our business,” Tasleem Arif, vi...

YouTube Took Down 58 Million Videos that Violated its Policies

15Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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YouTube Took Down 58 Million Videos that Violated its Policies

The biggest video streaming platform YouTube has reportedly taken down more than 58 million videos and 224 million comments during the third quarter based on violations of its policies. Along with this, government officials and interest groups in the United States, Europe and Asia have been pressuring YouTube, Facebook and other social media services to quickly identify and remove extremist and hateful content that critics have said incite violence. The European Union has proposed online services should face steep fines unless they remove extremist material within one hour of a government order to do so. An official at India's Ministry of Home Affairs speaking on the condition of anonymity stated that social media firms had agreed to tackle authorities' requests to rem...

Adobe Brings Government ID Authentication Option for Adobe Sign

12Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Adobe Brings Government ID Authentication Option for Adobe Sign

Adobe Sign that is Adobe’s e-sign solution has introduced a new signer identification solution called Government ID Authentication that uses a physical ID including a driver’s license or passport, as a form of digital ID authentication. With this, signers can take a picture of the physical ID card through their mobile phone, after which Adobe Sign automatically evaluates the ID card’s security features. These include patterns, fonts, and layout, to authenticate the signer's identity and complete the signature process. The company stated that this would help their customers implement e-signatures in a whole new set of business processes and industries, such as banking and other financial services. It has also announced integrations with two key HRsolutions that...

Instagram Rolls Out Walkie-Talkie Messaging Feature

11Dec By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram Rolls Out Walkie-Talkie Messaging Feature

Facebook-ownedphoto sharing social platform Instagram has reportedly launched its own walkie-talkie feature. With this,the users can now communicate through voice messages. Users can hold down the microphone button to record a short voice message that appears in as an audio wave form that recipients can then listen to at their leisure. Voice messages are up to one-minute long, stay permanently listenable rather than disappearing. Being one of the most popular social media apps, hands-free Direct messaging could make Instagram a more appealing chat app for drivers, people on the move with their hands full or users in the developing world who want a more intimate connection to pay for the data for long audio or video calls. The launch hold down deepens Facebook’s entry into th...