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Bengaluru Based Messaging Platform Nudgespot Got Acquired By Boomtrain

10Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Bengaluru Based Messaging Platform Nudgespot Got Acquired By Boomtrain

Boomtrain, a marketing platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to drive relevant interactions with users at every touchpoint, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire partner, India-based Nudgespot. Nudgespot has built a best-in-class messaging platform that will integrate into Boomtrain's technology to deliver a seamless experience for businesses to communicate with customers and visitors on websites and in mobile apps. Boomtrain and Nudgespot initially partnered nine months ago, and have been co-developing a product that combines Nudgespot's platform with Boomtrain's AI technology. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. "The acquisition of Nudgespot will accelerate our strategy to enable AI-powered communications between businesses a...

Local Business Dicovery Platform Nowfloats Acquired Lookup

19Jul By NitishNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Local Business Dicovery Platform Nowfloats Acquired Lookup

It's wedding between search and chat. NowFloats a business discovery services platform has acquired Lookup a chat service that connects consumers to local business. The amount of the deal is undisclosed. The marriage is analogous to, perhaps, a Facebook and WhatsApp coming together to create a compelling platform for consumers and businesses said Jasminder Singh Gulati, Co-Founder/CEO of NowFloats. The another significant reason for NowFloats to acquire Lookup was based on the findings of the NowFloats Digital Desh Drive which attempts to uncover ‘Inside the Internet of India” and thus the evolving consumer and business behaviors, he added. Over the past year, NowFloats has conducted three research sprints across India (that includes driving across the country & meeting people), a...

Year’s Biggest Tech IPO- Line Launch Goes Well

18Jul By PriyankaNo Comments

BUSINESS

Year’s Biggest Tech IPO- Line Launch Goes Well

Japan's Line Corp saw its shares rocket on their Tokyo debut, extending a strong start in New York the day before, and taking the value of the messaging app firm to $8.6 billion in the year's biggest tech IPO. The operator of the world's seventh most-used messaging app listed first in New York in a move widely seen as a sign of determination to challenge global peers and eventually expand beyond strongholds of Japan and Southeast Asia. However, Line's 218 million global monthly active users pale in comparison to the 1 billion of market-leader WhatsApp and 900 million of Messenger, both owned by Facebook Inc. Tencent Holdings Ltd's WeChat, which dominates in China, has 697 million. "We're providing the same kind of services as Facebook and Google, the internet giants of the world," Chi...

Meet Google New Army – ‘Google Assistant’, ‘Google Home’, ‘Allo’ ‘Duo’ And Android N

20May By PriyankaNo Comments

News

Meet Google New Army – ‘Google Assistant’, ‘Google Home’, ‘Allo’ ‘Duo’ And Android N

Internet giant Google's Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has announced several new features like 'Google Assistant', 'Google Home', a new messaging app called 'Allo' and video calling feature 'Duo' at the ongoing I/O (input/output and 'Innovation in the Open') conference in Mountain View, California. 'Google Assistant' helps one with performing daily tasks like booking movie tickets and 'Google Home' is a voice-activated product that lets users enjoy entertainment, manage everyday tasks and get answers from Google. "It makes it easy to buy movie tickets while on the go, to find that perfect restaurant for your family to grab a quick bite before the movie starts, and then help you navigate to the theater. It's a Google for you, by you," Pichai wrote in a blog post. "The Assistant is an am...

Saudi Arabia Blocked Social Networking Giant Facebook’s Messenger Service

16May By PriyankaNo Comments

MIDDLE EAST

Saudi Arabia Blocked Social Networking Giant Facebook’s Messenger Service

In a bid to protect the revenues of traditional telecom companies, Saudi Arabia has now blocked social networking giant Facebook's Messenger service. Internet calling over WhatsApp and Viber were already blocked in Saudi Arabia but similar apps including Tango and Line are still available in the country. Although the authorities claimed that the service has been blocked since it violated regulations, the independent reports. "The service had been banned because it failed to comply with regulations," an official told local news services. експресс займзайм с автоматическим одобрениемзайм онлайн только по паспорту

Indian Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Will Visit The Co-working Place in Delhi Today

16Apr By AdityaNo Comments

News

Indian Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Will Visit The Co-working Place in Delhi Today

To take stock of Start-up India action plan, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today have an open chat with budding entrepreneurs at a centre that provides basic facilities to new-age ventures. "Rather than budding entrepreneurs coming to the ministry to raise their grievances and share feedback on the action plan, the minister has decided to visit the co-working office of young entrepreneurs and have an open chat with them about their expectations and experience," an official said. The exercise is aimed at giving a thrust to budding entrepreneurs, he said. As many as 50 start-up companies and over 70 budding entrepreneurs are expected to participate in the interaction with the Minister. Prominent ones include Velmenni Lifi, Fitternity, Glance, DeliveryTrack, ...

MagicX Raised $1million (Rs 6.6 crore) From Infosys Co-founder Kris Gopalakrishn

12Apr By No Comments

FUNDING

MagicX Raised $1million (Rs 6.6 crore) From Infosys Co-founder Kris Gopalakrishn

MagicX, an on-demand chat-enabled app to manage day-to-day tasks, today said it has raised USD 1 million (about Rs 6.6 crore) from marquee investors including Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, Manipal Education and Medical Group MD Ranjan Pai. The fund raised will be used for team expansion, marketing initiatives, addition of service categories and technology up gradation, MagicX said in a release. "The backing weve received from some of the smartest investors and entrepreneurs in the business will help us build on our cutting-edge technology platform. We will also use some of the funds to market our app to the right audiences," MagicX Co-founder and CEO Pratyush Prasanna said. The company is also in talks with four venture capital firms to raise a USD 5 million Series A round....

Skype Co-founder Launches Ultra-private Messaging App, Wire

13Mar By reutersNo Comments

News

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...

Google Acquired Singapore Startup Pie, Looking to Build Engineering Team

20Feb By AnkitaNo Comments

FUNDING

Google Acquired Singapore Startup Pie, Looking to Build Engineering Team

Google has acquired Singapore-based startup Pie.co, a slack like chat platform. The move behind this acquisition is to bring good engineers from Asia-pacific into Google. In its blog Google said, According to the UN, 300 million people came online for the first time last year. Put another way, in 2015, there were more people using the Internet for the first time than there were Americans using the Internet already. But the computing experience for most of these first-timers, coming online in places like India, Indonesia and the Philippines, is very different from the one many of us grew up with – and not the one that most of Google’s services were originally designed for. Their main (and in most cases, only) “computer” is a low-cost smartphone. Connectivity is expensive in relatio...

WhatsApp Scam – A New Digital Scam in The Social Media

6Feb By AdityaNo Comments

News

WhatsApp Scam – A New Digital Scam in The Social Media

The Independent Reports that WhatsApp has reportedly been the target of a new scam which deceives users into disclosing personal information. In the scam, the links appear to come from your friend but instead lead you to a discount page which then asks for your personal details. Unassuming users are then led to a fake website which infects your phone with malware, allowing the scammer to obtain sensitive information. WhatsApp's popularity has exploded in recent years. It now has nearly one billion users worldwide and has become a key target for scammers. Speaking to This Is Money, David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, an internet security and anti-virus software company, says the scam operates in a range of languages. "We have noted that this WhatsApp sc...

WhatsApp Extend Group Users Limit From 100 Users to 256 Users

5Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

News

WhatsApp Extend Group Users Limit From 100 Users to 256 Users

Facebook Owned messenger App WhatsApp has silently updated its Android version group limit of users which includes now 256 users. Earlier the group user limit was 100 users per group. iOS users have also received an update that brings the same functionality, with version 2.12.13 of the app. It is worth mentioning that the new group limit is only visible on Android and iOS for now. However, it should reach Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and other platforms soon. WhatsApp last month got rid of its $1 (approximately Rs. 68) annual subscription fee. Until now,WhatsApp asked some users to pay an annual fee for using the app after the first year of use - though as many of us experienced, most users were not asked to pay after a year, and instead were given extensions each year. I...

Chat Session with Ankur Warikoo, Co-founder & CEO, Nearbuy (formerly Groupon India)

27Jan By NitishNo Comments

Entrepreneurs Talk

Chat Session with Ankur Warikoo, Co-founder & CEO, Nearbuy (formerly Groupon India)

A Serial Entrepreneur, a Consultant, a Venture Partner and a Teacher – Yes, we are talking about just one person! Ankur Warikoo, CEO and co-founder of Nearbuy. He had a Chat session originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Post his management degree from the IndianSchool of Business, Ankur was a Management Consultant with A.T. Kearney for 3 years. He worked in Delhi, Dubai and New York during this time. He Co-founded Accentium Web in 2007 along with 2 other batch-mates from ISB, while continuing with his role at A.T. Kearney. In 2009, he left Kearney to work on Accentium full-time. Accentium runs websites such asSecondshaadi.com, Gaadi.com, Taaza.com amongst others. After Accentium, Ankur joi...