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16Jun By sharadNo Comments

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Yahoo Shutting Down Yahoo Messenger

American multinational technology company Yahoo Inc. has announced the shutting down of its chat service Yahoo Messenger from August 5 this year. However, the company has asked all its users to move to the new version of the Messenger, introduced last year. "In December of 2015, we announced a brand new Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop, built on a new modern platform. This complete revamp brings users an incredibly fast, beautiful and smart way to send - and unsend - messages, photos and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations," Yahoo chief architect Amotz Maimon said while explaining the company's move. "While today we provide basic interoperation between the legacy product and the new Messenger, we encourage all of our users to comple...

Telecom Solutions Provider U2opia Will Invest Around Rs 20 Cr in Indian Startups

11Jun By AdityaNo Comments

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Telecom Solutions Provider U2opia Will Invest Around Rs 20 Cr in Indian Startups

Telecom solutions provider U2opia Mobile will invest USD 3 million (around Rs 20 crore) over the next three years to fund startups working on scalable mobile technology. Under its Catapult programme, in the first year, U2opia will invest in five-six companies that have about 2-4 members. The programme is aimed at helping early-stage startups and entrepreneurial teams that are finding it difficult to raise funds, U2opia Mobile co-founder and MD Sumesh Menon said. These companies could be working in areas like mobile security (antivirus), gaming or solutions for operators, he said. "Under this programme, all teams will be given access to state of the art technology infrastructure, ample working space, brand and marketing support, management and financial cover," Menon added. Bes...

India is Celebrating It’s Own Tech Innovation: Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

30May By NitishNo Comments

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India is Celebrating It’s Own Tech Innovation: Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

India-born CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella today said developers and entrepreneurs from India are playing a key role in driving innovation both in the country and outside and the company wants to be the platform for creators here. Nadella, on a one-day trip to India, today met Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad as well as student developers and entrepreneurs this morning. He is scheduled to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi later in the day. "Its so inspiring for me to come here to see this broad spectrum of student developers, entrepreneurs, artists and even some big brands, e-commerce companies who are all changing the landscape of India and thereby, the world," Nadella said while delivering keynote address at Microsofts Tech For Good, Ideas for India event. ...

29May By AnkitaNo Comments

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A New Technology to Mask Call Drops

Trying to deflect heat over poor service quality, mobile operators are taking refuge in a new technology to "mask" call drops that show a call as remaining connected even when the network connection is lost and the caller is unable to hear voice from the other side. Earlier, the call used to get automatically disconnected in case of the user moving to a poor network area, making it a dropped call under the current regulatory framework. The new technology ensures the call remains artificially connected until the caller or receiver decides to terminate it and the user is billed for the entire duration despite not being able to talk for full or part of the call duration. "Telecom operators are using Radio-Link Technology (RLT) which is helping them mask call drops while the consumer is...

Why Did Apple Invest $1billion in Didi (China)?

18May By NitishNo Comments

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Why Did Apple Invest $1billion in Didi (China)?

From last 2-3 days, we were discussing a topic daily in our team meeting that Why Apple invested $1Billion in Chinese Taxi aggregator Didi xihuang? Why an iPhone maker company changes its strategy? Is this a master stroke from Apple to convince chinese government that they are not US based company only? Or Apple wants to show chinese people that they are ready to invests on chinese people on the theory of "if you care about us, we care about you"? Or A Gameplan from chinese government to show the world that how world's most innovative smartphone company depended heavily on China? Yesterday, I was watching a youtube video of Jack Ma (Alibaba founder) speech in Harward university, where he said that at business point both country's China and America should support and mai...

16May By PriyankaNo Comments

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Smartivity, an Augmented Reality Based Education Technology Startup Has Raised Rs 6.6 crore Funding

An augmented reality-based education technology startup Smartivity, has raised about Rs 6.6 crore in a pre-Series-A round of funding led by publishing firm S Chand and early-stage investment firm AdvantEdge Partners. The round also saw participation from Singapore-based fund CFG Offshore Holdings, Silicon Valley-based fund Tandem Capital and a clutch of angel investors. The company said the funds will also be used to expand its reach and aim for the global market. “With this round of funding, we want to expand our current portfolio in STEM and augmented reality products to provide interactive learning to kids and also develop IoT (internet of things)-enabled toys and robot-led learning for kids,” said Ashwini Kumar, cofounder of Smartivity. “Smartivity has shown tremendous gro...

Building a Startup in Pakistan: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

12May By No Comments

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Building a Startup in Pakistan: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Startups and entrepreneurship are the buzz words in today’s world. The seemingly overnight successes of Google, Facebook, Twitter & Uber have inspired people, especially young university graduates, to stop working for others and go out to try their luck. Over the last 5 years, we have seen exponential growth in the number of startups across the world. Being a founder of a potentially million dollars startups at a young age is the most cool you can get these days. To attain a high level of achievement you will need to take advantage of platforms that can support you in reaching your potential. You can find out more about why this is important at this website. Moreover, it is important that startups market themselves in an effective fashion. Starting a business also is based on business rela...

First Safety Wearable in the World Designed Specially For a Factory Floor Worker

5May By AnkitaNo Comments

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First Safety Wearable in the World Designed Specially For a Factory Floor Worker

The Tata Group today said it has developed a watch exclusively for factory workers which can provide critical real-time safety data and announced that it is looking to sell wearable devices to tech-savvy consumers in the future. "This is the very first safety wearable in the world designed specially for a factory floor worker," the conglomerates Group Chief Technology Officer Gopichand Katragadda told reporters, displaying an image of the watch sporting a Tata logo. He said the watch has been designed by multiple Tata Group companies. The basic idea came from Tata Steel whose workers will be using it soon, with user inputs from Tata Chemicals and Tata Motors whose shop-floors will also benefit. It is supported by TCS cloud-based analytics platform, designed by Tata Elxsi and will be m...

Rich and powerful warn robots are coming for your jobs

4May By reutersNo Comments

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Rich and powerful warn robots are coming for your jobs

Some of the richest, smartest and most powerful humans have an important message for the rest of us as they convened this week to discuss pressing global issues: the robots are coming. At the Milken Institute's Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, at least four panels so far have focussed on technology taking over markets to mining - and most importantly, jobs. "Most of the benefits we see from automation is about higher quality and fewer errors, but in many cases it does reduce labor," Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, said on Tuesday during a panel on "Is Any Job Truly Safe?" The four-day annual conference, which began on Sunday, has 3,500 invite-only participants exploring "The Future of Human Kind." Technology has not only done away with l...

I Sold My Entire Apple Stake Because of China – Billionaire Carl Icahn

30Apr By reutersNo Comments

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I Sold My Entire Apple Stake Because of China – Billionaire Carl Icahn

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn said Thursday he had sold his entire stake in Apple Inc, citing the risk of China's influence on the stock. Icahn, in an interview with cable television network CNBC, also said he was "still very cautious" on the U.S. stock market and there would be a "day of reckoning" unless there was some sort of fiscal stimulus. Icahn had been a huge cheerleader of Apple, acquiring a stake in the company almost three years ago, repeatedly calling the investment a "no brainer." In an open letter to Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook in May 2015, Icahn had argued that shares of the iPhone maker were worth $240, about 90 percent more than they had been trading. At $240 a share, Apple's market cap would be $1.4 trillion, Icahn asserted. But Icahn, wh...

23Apr By AdityaNo Comments

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Build an App Without a Line of Code

Nowadays, you don’t need to know how to code to build something cool online. We put together a collection of 7 handy tools you can use to build an app (or maybe just a prototype) without a line of code. These days, it’s hard to launch a startup without knowing how to code—or hiring someone who does. But, when you have basically no budget early in your company’s life, it isn’t always feasible to drop five figures (or more) on hiring a web or app developer. Luckily, there are so many great tools on the market now to help you build a website or app without needing to write a single line of code. They are definitely time and money savers if you’re looking to launch on a dime, and fast. Here are seven of the Product Hunt community’s favorite “no code required” programming tools. 1. Bubb...

How Swedish Startup Neo Technology Helped Crack The Panama Papers

23Apr By reutersNo Comments

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How Swedish Startup Neo Technology Helped Crack The Panama Papers

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 from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. Neo Technology's "graph database" literally connected the dots for them, helping find names of the rich and powerful and linking them to offshore accounts. "I was blown away," co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem said of the moment he discovered, just hours before publication, that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) had been using his product for the Panama Papers. "It's such a ...