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NewsBytes Launches its News Bot on Facebook Messenger

Started by IIT, IIM and Ivy League alumni; Gurgaon-based news technology start-up NewsBytes launched its automated bot on Facebook Messenger. The beta version of their cross-platform bot is a part of Facebook's Messenger program revealed at F8 conference. It is known to be India's first news bot. In its one year of existence, NewsBytes, by Elysium Labs Private Limited, with around 40k downloads on Play Store, has seen a spectacular growth so far. It is one of the highest-rated news apps in India. Its primary focus is to reduce information overload in your everyday news consumption. Its engine along with human curators picks up the most significant news events of the day, summarizes them and creates the contextual timeline around them. Available globally, in English, the bot lets user...

When We Trended on Twitter By Spending Rs. 200!

I suffer from all sorts of mania — often conflicting, always annoying for others: Chai-o-mania: drinking chai to the point that my stomach cries of acidity. Fitbit-o-mania: completing my daily 8k steps even if that means that I have to run clumsily at 11:45 pm on my arguably fragile terrace. Passion-o-mania: keep talking about that one idea so passionately that everyone around me starts believing in it. List-o-mania: writing everything in the form of lists. And the list goes on! Some maniacs are short-lived, some last for a few months and some have been there since forever. One such mania is my obsession with lists and striking off an item from the list is my equivalent to the big O. So, it is only right if I say that the bucket list of our one-year-...

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...