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Bengaluru Based Startup Changing The Perception of The Way You Look at Media

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Bengaluru Based Startup Changing The Perception of The Way You Look at Media

Bengaluru-based Contex8 is changing the perception, the way you look at media. It provides a visual interface with three timelines based newsfeed across various media sources on past trends, future trends and the current trending topics. Aggregation undertaken by algorithm is reviewed across news/social wires perspectives and represented in the form of news-wall with integrated public opinion. The Team is working across bureau from Bengaluru, Kolkata, Guwahati and Noida. How Contex8 Works - It's solving the problem of accessing news from multiple sources and impact analysis. Shreya Kar, VP-Marketing adds, “At Contex8, the delivery of news to the user end is carried out in an impactful manner, thereby ensuring that the news, it’s origin, analysis and related feed acros...

How NewsBytes got 1500 downloads in 4 days with their innovative campaign!

Valentines week this year was filled with campaigns of e-commerce companies giving away discounts. In the middle of all the mess we came across an innovative campaign by a news technology company- NewsBytes, with a theme ‘Intelligence is the new sexy’. Pixr8 got in touch with the founders to understand how this worked out! NewsBytes is a Gurgaon based news technology company, started by Sumedh Chaudhry, Shikha Chaudhry, Romesh Khaddar, and Sripriya Yegneswaran. They call themselves a bunch of geeks who discuss start-ups when relatives talk about marriages, who get excited when they see a 3D printed iPhone case, who have strong opinions about random things they read on Quora and who think they are la-di-da entrepreneurs. “A lot of entrepreneurs say that you should be able to measure eve...

Decoding: Is Jack Ma the Rupert Murdoch of China?

Last Year China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba announced to buy Hong Kong’s oldest English newspaper the South China Morning Post (SCMP) and other media properties for an undisclosed amount. People related to tech and e-commerce world was surprised on this move. Many were asking questions on motive of acquisition? But People very close to Jack Ma said, Ma’s ambition to explore the media business is strategic. His e-commerce empire has seen him invest in the media sector and he has publically spoken about his interest in the sector. Jack Ma knows clearly why American and other European companies rule over the world? Reason is Media. So why not invest in it to sustain your power. Jack Ma recently told Bloomberg TV during an interview in November that Alibaba needs the media to promote SME...