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12Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

BUSINESS

Hotstar Launches in the UK with Two Subscription Plans

One of the most popular Indian video streaming platform Hotstar has launched its services in the United Kingdom. This has been done ahead of the Asia Cup cricket tournament that is starting on Saturday. With this move, Hotstar has now expanded its services in four markets including India, the United States, Canada and now the United Kingdom. The video streaming platform claims that it will offer more than 60,000 hours of television shows, and more than 2,000 Indian movies, along with live sports such as Cricket, Kabaddi, Badminton and Hockey to consumers in the United Kingdom. The service will be made available through two different plans - a monthly plan priced at £11.99 and a yearly plan priced at £59.99. The streaming platform will now have two business verticals - advertising-led...

VOOT to Debut the International Market with the United Kingdom

3Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

BUSINESS

VOOT to Debut the International Market with the United Kingdom

Indian video-on-demand platform Voot which is owned by Viacom18 is all set to foray into the International market by launching its services in the United Kingdom in November 2018. The service will be launched as a paid service in the United Kingdom, in a partnership with Virgin Mobile. In the initial stage, it will be exclusive to Virgin Mobile users in the country and will be later available to all users through the Apple App Store and Google Play store. The company has further not revealed any information about the deal. Viacom18 is a 51:49 joint venture between Reliance Industries and US media conglomerate Viacom. "Owing to the last mile measurability that the medium provides, our entire content strategy is based on a deep data-backed analysis of the needs and desires of our cons...

Ola Appoints Ben Legg as Managing Director of UK Operations

13Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Ola Appoints Ben Legg as Managing Director of UK Operations

The ride-hailing service provider Ola has appointed Ben Legg as managing director of its lately launched UK operations. It has been reported that Legg will lead and build the senior leadership team, drive strategy and operations and build up a UK nationwide presence by the end of the year 2018. The company based in Bengaluru had recently announced its intent to enter into the UK which accounts for its second overseas expansion after Australia. Prior to Ola, Legg was associated with the New York-based global marketing technology company AdParlor, where he was CEO for two years. Before that, he was group CEO of Adknowledge, a digital advertising technology firm. He has also worked for Google Europe as the COO. Ben Legg, managing director of Ola UK said, “I’m excited to be joining Ola ...

7Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

BUSINESS

Now Book Ola Cab Service in England Too

Soon after launching its services in Australia, the cab-hailing major Ola is planning to foray into the United Kingdom (UK) market and has also received a license to operate in South Wales and Greater Manchester regions. The company is planning to launch its operations in the UK within the next month and claims that it would be the only ride-hailing player there that can legally offer customers both private hire and black cabs on its platform. Furthermore, it would expand more in the UK by the end of this year. “Ola is excited to announce its plans for the UK, one of the world’s most evolved transportation markets. The UK is a fantastic place to do business and we look forward to providing a responsible, compelling, new service that can help the country meet its ever demanding mobility...

UK Says WhatsApp Lets Paedophiles and Gangsters Operate Beyond the Law

4Oct By reutersNo Comments

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UK Says WhatsApp Lets Paedophiles and Gangsters Operate Beyond the Law

Britain said WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption communication services allowed paedophiles and organised crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law and called on the messaging service to move faster to help governments catch offenders. After four militant attacks in Britain that killed 36 people this year, senior ministers have stepped up demands over the past six months to make internet companies do more to suppress extremist content and allow access to encrypted communications. The government says full-scale encryption has complicated the job of law enforcement both in thwarting extremist attacks and in investigating more commonplace crimes. Internet companies say they want to help governments remove extremist or criminal material but also have to balance the demands of s...

UK Doctors Using WhatsApp, Snapchat to Share Patient’s Data

7Jul By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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UK Doctors Using WhatsApp, Snapchat to Share Patient’s Data

Doctors in the UK are increasingly using Facebook, WhatsApp and Snapchat to discuss information about their patients, despite a ban on the use of internet- based messaging apps, experts say. Due to the lack of digital sharing systems, UKs National Health Service (NHS) doctor use groups on Facebook and Whatsapp to share details about patients, according to Alisdair Macnair, an NHS doctor based at Cambridge. Use of internet-based messaging apps to send patient information is banned by the NHS. "I have also seen chat on Facebook groups that sails pretty close to the wind in terms of discussing medical information," Macnair told the BBC. "I've definitely seen stuff which is one step away from being patient identifying," Macnair said. "I am empathetic with doctors because there is a nee...

RBS to Cut Over 400 Jobs in UK, Move Many of Them to India

26Jun By AdityaNo Comments

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RBS to Cut Over 400 Jobs in UK, Move Many of Them to India

British lender Royal Bank of Scotland said today that it is cutting 443 UK jobs dealing with business loans, and plans to shift many of the roles to India. The UKs largest government-owned bank said it was moving the jobs, which help handle loans for small businesses, as part of an ongoing cost-cutting drive. "As we become a simpler, smaller bank, we are making some changes to the way we serve our customers. Unfortunately, these changes will result in the net reduction of 443 roles in the UK," a spokesperson for the bank said. The bank said it would support staff affected by the "disappointing news", including by moving them into new roles where possible. Workers union Unite said British workers and taxpayers would lose out from the move. "By shipping these jobs to India, RB...

Crackdown on Immigration could affect Google’s Future Plans- Sundar Pichai

16Nov By AdityaNo Comments

Entrepreneurs Talk

Crackdown on Immigration could affect Google’s Future Plans- Sundar Pichai

Google's Indian-origin chief Sundar Pichai today said the global tech giant remains committed to Britain and will go ahead with a new one-billion-pound London headquarters that will create 3,000 jobs by 2020, but warned that post-Brexit crackdown on immigration could affect future plans. "Here in the UK, it's clear to me that computer science has a great future with the talent, educational institutions, and passion for innovation we see all around us," he told BBC during his first visit to the UK as Google's chief executive. "We are committed to the UK and excited to continue our investment in our new King's Cross campus," he said. Pichai's remarks will be a big boost to British economy after the June referendum in favour of the UK leaving the 28-member European Union. But Pichai did...

London Woos Indian Startups; Key to Growth, Jobs Post Brexit

13Nov By NitishNo Comments

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London Woos Indian Startups; Key to Growth, Jobs Post Brexit

London's technology sector is wooing Indian startups and software firms, which are among the key drivers of growth and jobs for the capital city and the wider UK economy. "India is the second largest investor into London, after the US... Despite concerns over foreign investment inflows after the Brexit referendum, it will continue to be a top investor for us," Rajesh Agrawal, deputy mayor of London for business, told PTI here. Agrawal also chairs London & Partners, the official promotional company for London. The deputy mayor is visiting India on an international trade mission aimed at strengthening tech and trade links between London and India. He revealed that London is home to 39 per cent of the fastest growing Indian companies based in the UK, compared to 25 per cent last year....

$10 Billion Deal- Two Indian Brothers in Talk With Chinese Company For Server Deal

5Sep By NitishNo Comments

ACQUISITION

$10 Billion Deal- Two Indian Brothers in Talk With Chinese Company For Server Deal

Two Indian-origin brothers, who were declared as Britain's richest family this year, were today said to be close to clinching a whopping 5 billion pound deal to sell a stake in one of the worlds biggest computer hosting networks to a Chinese consortium. Mumbai-born brothers - David and Simon Reuben - are in advanced talks to sell half of their UK based company Global Switch, which runs data centres in locations ranging from London to Hong Kong and Singapore, according to The Sunday Times. Global Switch's two centres in Canary Wharf, east London, are together the biggest in Europe. They manage servers for a range of Wall Street banks and Sprint, the US wireless internet provider. The Chinese consortium is led by Daily Tech, a data centre giant run by its founder Li Qiang. Daily Tec...

4Sep By PriyankaNo Comments

FUNDING

Coconut Entrepreneur From Gujarat Cracks the Dragons Den, Received $1 Million Funding

Dragons Den is a BBC Television Series in the UK where entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multi-millionaires willing to invest their own cash. The Gujarati hopeful to enter the Den on Sunday the 21st August 2016 along with her business partner from Kerala was Manisha Solanki. Manisha lived most of her life in Paris, France and decided to move to London after spotting Cocofina in 2007 at the SIAL trade show in Paris. Having enjoyed the taste of coconut from a young age acquiring a 50% stake in the business was an easy choice. Cocofina won the coveted Excellence in Food and Drink Award in 2005and has never looked back since. Fast forward to 2016 and Cocofina now has a range of 30 products and is sold in thousands of stores in 28 countries including ic...

Mahindra Incubator Based Startup TerraPay Acquires UK Based Pay2Global

29Aug By PriyankaNo Comments

ACQUISITION

Mahindra Incubator Based Startup TerraPay Acquires UK Based Pay2Global

TerraPay today said it has acquired UK-based Pay2Global, a move that will help the Mahindra Comviva incubated company fast-track its entry into the European market. However, the company did not disclose the deal size. Pay2Global is a regulated digital international money transfer company with rights into the European Economic Area (EEA). "We have completed the acquisition of Pay2Global Limited, following regulatory approvals. Europe is one of the biggest regions for money transfer accounting for an estimated quarter of global remittance flows," TerraPay founder and CEO Ambar Sur said. This acquisition will help TerraPay instantly scale service footprint in the 32 countries of the EEA with a range of money transfer products, he added. He, however, declined to comment ...