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19Mar By AdityaNo Comments

FUNDING

CustomerSuccessBox raises $1 Million Pre-Series A funding

Bengaluru, March 19, 2018 – B2B Saas Platform CustomerSuccessBox has raised $1mn in pre-Series A funding led by pi Ventures with participation from Axilor Ventures. The funding will use for growth hacking and product improvement as per the information mentioned in the press release. CustomerSuccessBox is a customer success platform which helps B2B SaaS companies to grow their recurring revenue. It applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to automate customer onboarding, product usage analysis, and user communication. Thus enabling success managers to deliver a superior customer onboarding experience, retain customers, drive, upsell and improve Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) and Lifetime Value (LTV) for SaaS businesses. Founded in 2016 by Puneet Kataria (CEO) an...

Xiaomi Usurps Samsung To Become Top Smartphone Seller in India

25Jan By reutersNo Comments

Tech

Xiaomi Usurps Samsung To Become Top Smartphone Seller in India

Samsung Electronics has lost its crown as the top smartphone seller in India for the first time in six years, as it was outsold by China’s Xiaomi in the final quarter of 2017, data from two tech research firms shows. Xiaomi’s aggressively priced suite of high-spec handsets and market expansion strategy enabled it to take the top spot in the world’s biggest smartphone market after China, said Tarun Pathak of Counterpoint Research. The Chinese company, which is exploring a public listing and is now valued at close to $100 billion, entered India just over three years ago. Its strategy there has so far rested on flash sales on leading homegrown e-commerce player Flipkart and U.S. tech giant Amazon.com’s Indian site, an approach that helped it snatch market share without have to spend hea...

Is Your iPhone X Secure Against ‘chaiOS’ Bug? Check Here

18Jan By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Is Your iPhone X Secure Against ‘chaiOS’ Bug? Check Here

'ChaiOS' is the latest bug discovered software developer Abraham Masri, that can cause the messaging app of iPhone to crash, or worse. The bug could even freeze your iPhone or restart it. What triggers it? The alarming 'ChaiOS' bug exploits the fact that iPhone Messaging app preloads the links of web-pages coming through a message. This is where the bug does its job. Masri explained that he created a webpage hosted on Github and stuffed its metadata with a large number of unnecessary characters. Messages crashes as soon as it tries to load all of this irrelevant information(characters), and even sometimes crashes the entire system. ? Effective Power is back, baby! chaiOS bug: Text the link below, it will freeze the recipient's device, and possibly restart it. https://...

2Jan By reutersNo Comments

CHINA

China’s WeChat Denies Storing User Chats

Tencent Holdings’ WeChat, China’s most popular messenger app, on Tuesday denied storing users’ chat histories, after a top businessman was quoted in media reports as saying he believed Tencent was monitoring everyone’s account. “WeChat does not store any users’ chat history. That is only stored in users’ mobiles, computers and other terminals,” WeChat said in a post on the social media platform. “WeChat will not use any content from user chats for big data analysis. Because of WeChat’s technical model that does not store or analyse user chats, the rumour that ‘we are watching your WeChat everyday’ is pure misunderstanding.” Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Holdings, owner of the Volvo car brand, was quoted in Chinese media on Monday as saying Tencent Chairman Ma Huateng “must be watchi...

WhatsApp Accidentally Rolled Out Its Latest Feature ‘Private Reply’

30Dec By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

WhatsApp Accidentally Rolled Out Its Latest Feature ‘Private Reply’

WhatsApp is generally not known for mistakes, but recently it committed a blunder by accidentally rolling out its latest feature 'private reply' on Windows Phone beta users. This latest feature update will let users send private message to a person in a group chat, without letting other group members see it. WhatsApp is rumored to roll out the update for quite some time now, and is its one of the most awaited update. According to @WABetainfo, a WhatsApp watcher, the company added the feature only in the beta version and will taking it back in the next beta update. 'In the new WhatsApp beta for Windows Phone 2.17.344, the private reply feature is disabled. Probably WhatsApp has wrongly enabled it in 2.17.342,” WABetaInfo tweeted. WABetaInfo said that the option will only be availab...

26Dec By reutersNo Comments

CHINA

Pressure Of Debt Piles Up On LeEco’s Jia Yueting, Summoned To China

China’s securities regulator has formally ordered the founder of indebted tech conglomerate LeEco to return to China and sort out a mounting debt pile linked to his firms, ramping up pressure on the head of the embattled entertainment-to-autos group. The Beijing branch of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said in a notice late on Monday that LeEco Chief Executive Jia Yueting must return to China before Dec. 31 to “fulfill his obligation” and protect investors’ rights. LeEco, an entertainment, electronics and electric vehicles group founded by Jia, has struggled to pay its debts after rapid expansion into multiple sectors sparked a cash crunch, a plunge in the shares of a listed unit and led to multiple defaults. The watchdog said it had previously asked Jia to retu...

These 5 Companies Dominate China’s Smartphone Market, Samsung Is Not Among Them!

7Dec By RishabhNo Comments

CHINA, Tech

These 5 Companies Dominate China’s Smartphone Market, Samsung Is Not Among Them!

Chinese market is the most popular smartphone maker and market in the world. China is now the world’s largest smartphone market and continues surging forward as its economy and people ramp up their consumption of things to match their already vast production. Kantar Worldpanel shows that now China's top five phone vendors own the market accounting for 91 percent of the overall market. The top five brands are; Huawei Xiaomi Apple Vivo Oppo That’s up from 79 percent a year earlier, extending a lead that now sees companies like ZTE, Meizu, and Lenovo struggling to find a foothold in their home country. Global smartphone leader Samsung is now at a 2.2 percent share in China and deteriorating, according to Kantar’s Dominic Sunnebo. Each of these companies have selected...

25Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

Tech

Now Charge Your Smartphone In Seconds

You may soon be able to charge your smartphone within seconds, thanks to a novel technology developed by researchers that can significantly improve energy-storage devices known as supercapacitors. The design doubles the amount of electrical energy the rapid-charging devices can hold, paving the way for eventual use in everything from smartphones and laptops, to electric vehicles and high-powered lasers, researchers said. "We are showing record numbers for the energy-storage capacity of supercapacitors," said Michael Pope, professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. "And the more energy-dense we can make them, the more batteries we can start displacing," said Pope, who led the research published in the journal ACS Nano. Supercapacitors are a promising, green alternative to tr...

Researchers Uncover Flaw That Makes Wi-Fi Vulnerable To Hacks

17Oct By reutersNo Comments

Tech

Researchers Uncover Flaw That Makes Wi-Fi Vulnerable To Hacks

Cyber security watchdogs and researchers are issuing warnings over risks associated with a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications after the discovery of a flaw that could allow hackers to read information thought to be encrypted, or infect websites with malware. An alert from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Response Team on Monday said the flaw could be used within range of Wi-Fi using the WPA2 protocol to hijack private communications. It recommended installing vendor updates on affected products, such as routers provided by Cisco Systems Inc or Juniper Networks Inc. Belgian researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of Belgian university KU Leuven disclosed the bug in WPA2, which secures modern Wi-Fi systems used by vendors for wireless c...

Bharti Airtel Is Selling iPhone 7 at Rs 7,777

16Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

News

Bharti Airtel Is Selling iPhone 7 at Rs 7,777

Bharti Airtel is selling iPhone 7 32GB at a down payment of Rs 7,777 and 24 monthly instalments of Rs 2,499 each through its online store, which went live today. The company will sell other devices as well through its online store and the handsets will come bundled with monthly mobile service plans. "Airtel's online store went live today with Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus variants and the company plans to add devices from all leading brands to the stores offerings in the near future... The iPhone 7 (32 GB) is available at a down payment of just Rs 7,777 and 24 monthly instalments of Rs 2,499," Airtel said in a statement. The monthly instalments have a built-in high-end postpaid plan which offers 30 GB data, unlimited calling (local, STD, national roaming), and Airtel secure packa...

16Oct By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Apple Partners With LG Display To Make Foldable iPhone

Following the launch of iPhone X, which is being considered as a the start of new future phones, Apple is now working with LG Display (LGD) to make a foldable iPhone. Reports have that LG Display has already been working on a foldable OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) panels for the Cupertino giant, and we could see the first foldable iPhone before 2020. The recently launched iPhone X represents a significant change in the design pattern that Apple had been following, which includes a front-facing sensors that could read your face to unlock the phone. And not to forget the new bezelless OLED screen and the removal of the home button. Samsung has already been working on foldable OLED Screens and foldable phones, which might not be very far from reach of common man now. ...

Now Interact in Virtual Reality Using Your Smile

9Oct By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

Tech

Now Interact in Virtual Reality Using Your Smile

Scientists have developed a new technology that allows users to interact in a virtual reality environment using only mouth gestures such as a smile. The proliferation of affordable virtual reality head- mounted displays provides users with realistic immersive visual experiences. However, head-mounted displays occlude the upper half of a user's face and prevent facial action recognition from the entire face. To combat this issue, researchers from Binghamton University in the US created a new framework that interprets mouth gestures as a medium for interaction within virtual reality in real-time. The team tested the application on a group of students. Once a user put on a head-mounted display, they were presented with a simplistic game. The objective of the game was to guide t...