Recent Global News Highlights Report: TutorGroup, a Shanghai-based online language learning provider, raised nearly $200M in Series C round, led by Singaporean sovereign fund, GIC and Goldman Sachs bringing its valuation to over $1B Varsity Tutors, an online platform connecting students with tutors for in-person and online sessions, raised $50M in Series B round led […]
Every start-up hopes for a lucky break. Swedish company Neo Technology only found out it was getting one the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world. Journalists with access to the vast trove of data used the firm’s open-source database to make sense of 11.5 million documents, including emails, images, and spreadsheets, leaked […]
SalezShark, a relationship cloud based startup in USA will handle customer relationship management of Nasscom. Salezshark has chosen over the likes of Microsoft and American cloud computing company Salesforce.com to handle sales operations of Nasscom. SalezShark will now manage the entire gamut of operations from marketing, events and publications to internal member and non-member data, […]
International Standards Organisation or ISO, established in 1947, is a non-government federation of national standards bodies from around 150 or so different countries. A standard is a document that provides requirements, specifications, guidelines or compliances that can be used consistently to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose. Usually, implementing […]
NEW YORK: After changing the orthodox ways of chatting, video messaging application Snapchat is now reportedly working to give tough competition to Google with its own augmented reality (AR) “smart” glasses. According to a TechCrunch report, Snapchat has hired developers from major augmented reality groups like Microsoft’s HoloLens, PTC’s (formerly Qualcomm’s) Vuforia and eye-tracking tech […]
New Delhi, Mar.14 (ANI): Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has planned to set up two manufacturing plants in India and the company would be launching more devices in 2016. The president of Xiaomi has said he would be spending a lot of time in India analysing the market. “We believe it (China) will be a flat market, […]
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 […]
Commerce is becoming pervasive – every interaction with a consumer is an opportunity to inform, educate, and sell products. In order to become Product-Aware (as businesses today are location-aware) businesses are going to need reliable and comprehensive product information for making informed decisions. Product awareness is nothing but, a state where every app and website […]
“A friend shared her experience that happened to her on a late Saturday night, she was walking down the streets of Hyderabad because she couldn’t find a cab back home. She was complaining she has fished through all the apps for a long time, but was disappointed. It was high time to introduce a service […]
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 […]
Facebook owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced that its services would be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices by 2017. WhatsApp’s announcement also includes Nokia’s low-end S40 and S60 Symbian platforms, as well as the older Android 2.2 and Windows Phone 7.1 operating systems, the Verge reported. Based in Mountain View, California, WhatsApp was acquired […]
A day after some victims of theSan Bernardino shooting said that they would file a legal brief in support of the U.S. Government’s attempt to force Apple Inc. to unlock the encrypted iPhone owned by one of the shooters, technology giant Microsoft came out in support of the victims and asked Apple Inc. to unlock […]