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Apple is 20 times bigger than the net worth of the two wealthiest narcotic dealers combined Read More
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The agritech revolution has empowered farmers to get better quality inputs, timely information , access to markets and thereby the potential to yield higher income levels. Read More
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Gaming was the fastest-growing segment with a rapid increase in consumption translating partially into monetization, although from a lower revenue base Read More
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Square, Visa, PayPal and MasterCard are collectively worth $1.07 trillion, while the “big six” banks, which include JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are… Read More
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China has sold over 93 million units of 5G mobile phones this year so far Read More
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While customer growth amounted to 30% year-over-year overall, the number of organizations spending over $1 million annually was up 78% over last year’s July quarter Read More
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Extend your apps with conversation notifications and bubbles, try one-time permissions, surface devices and media in the controls Read More
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India was one of the biggest markets for PUBG with the game earning Rs 22,500 crore from the Indian market till July 2020 Read More
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Facebook Watch launched in 2018. Back in June of last year, the company said that 720 million people were watching at least one minute of Watch content every month. Read More
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The social media firm will limit message forwarding, and use its improved AI to remove hate speech Read More
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Covid-19 has reeled in retail tech funding in 2020. Investors particularly scaled back funding in Q2’20 as the impact of the pandemic set in. Read More
3 months ago
Xiaomi announced that it will officially kick-start mass production of smartphones equipped with the 3rd Generation Under-Display Camera next year Read More
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Neural TTS is a part of the Azure Cognitive Services and converts text to lifelike speech for a more natural interface Read More
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A museum in Amsterdam has uploaded a scan of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch painting that’s so detailed you can see individual brushstrokes and cracks in the paint Read More
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UX work happens “behind the scenes”. You are not bothered by it unless it is deficient. Read More
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An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers at the bottom of market access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers… Read More
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Lead plaintiff Nimesh Patel sued Facebook in 2015 in one of three consolidated class actions, claiming the social network started mapping users’ faces for its “Photo Tag Suggest” function in… Read More
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In addition to helping users identify open calls for entry-level roles, the Kormo Jobs app is also designed to help them learn new skills, and easily create a CV. Read More
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A presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points. Read More
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy, bankruptcies are on track to hit the highest level in at least 10 years Read More
4 months ago
Epic Games’ Fortnite offered a direct in-app payment system bypassing apple’s (with 30% cut) & google’s; violating their rules and got itself removed. Fortnite has now charged them for being… Read More
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After about a decade since online food ordering through aggregators began in India, the space today is at an interesting juncture. Read More
4 months ago
Primary forces are the root causes of disruption: technology, globalization, demographics and environment Read More
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Russia first to register coronavirus vaccine worldwide, Putin claims, saying his daughter has had it Read More
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The last fully intact ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed, losing more than 40% of its area in just two days at the end of July Read More
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Google said the more information a user provides, the easier it would be for others to find them on Google Search. Read More
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Average Chinese consumer is projected to spend around US$1,600 with payment apps in 2020 Read More
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The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people Read More
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Aside from watching Netflix, playing video games is one of the few activities perfectly suited for life in a pandemic Read More
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India has the highest FinTech adoption rate globally of 87% which is significantly higher than the global average rate of 64% Read More
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Google is making these big moves now that its YouTube Music service is in full swing as its replacement Read More
4 months ago
The Delhi government launched electric vehicle policy in an effort to promote EVs in the national capital and reduce air pollution. Read More
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E-commerce, Fintech, AI and SaaS are top 4 core competence sectors of world’s unicorns, making up 45.9% of the sectoral universe of these unicorns Read More
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The average internet user now spends 6 hours and 43 minutes online each day. That’s 3 minutes less than this time last year, but still equates to more than 100… Read More
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Interest: do you think about it in your free time and bring it up in random conversations? Importance: will it benefit others? Contribution: do you have something novel to add?… Read More
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The number of internet users in India increased by 128 million (+23%) between 2019 and 2020 Read More
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Michael Levitt is a Nobel Prize-winning structural biology professor at Stanford who has been tracking the coronavirus consistently for the past six months. Read More
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Boasting a median base salary of $110,000, as well as a job satisfaction score of 4.4 out of 5, data scientist role had claimed the top spot on Glassdoor’s Best… Read More
4 months ago
Google parent Alphabet’s quarterly sales fell for the first time in its 16 years as a public company, but the decline was less than expected as many advertisers stuck with… Read More
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Last up 6.2% at $408.78 in midday trading, Apple’s market capitalization stood at $1.748 trillion. After Apple bought back $16 billion worth of shares in the June quarter, it had… Read More
4 months ago
United Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in July surged to highest ever tally of 1.49 billion, with the total value of transactions carried out also touching a lifetime high of Rs… Read More
4 months ago
Apple has acquired Mobeewave, a startup with technology that could transform iPhones into mobile payment terminals, according to people familiar with the matter. Read More
4 months ago
Cybersecurity firms have identified an exponential rise in crypto-related scams in Russia during the first half of 2020. Researchers identified 23,000 sites involved with crypto scams that are still online… Read More
4 months ago
Despite the success of the India deal, the Rafale is still trailing its major European competitors in sales. Along with India and France, the jet is also in service with… Read More
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Investment app eToro is to launch a debit card, following its acquisition of Marq Millions Ltd, the U.K. based e-money business. Marq Millions will now trade as eToro Money and… Read More
4 months ago
Iran has reportedly issued permits for 14 bitcoin mining farms and will cut up to 47% off of the electricity tariff in order to support authorized cryptocurrency mining centers. Crypto… Read More
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Dubai’s Department of Economic Development, or DED, and state-run bank Emirates NBD are rolling out their so-called UAE KYC Blockchain Platform Read More
4 months ago
• Top algorithms used were linear/logistic regression, decision trees/random forests and Gradient Boosting Machines • The most used machine learning frameworks were Scikit-learn and TensorFlow • Top tools for machine… Read More
4 months ago
• In FY20, Indian IT-BPM industry generated $191bn revenue (75% from export) and employed >4.3mn people • Indian IT industry provides IT services, Engineering R&D, Products and Business Process Management… Read More
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• Like 10nm chipsets earlier, Intel’s 7nm designs may also face delays while AMD moved to 7nm chips this year, and Qualcomm has moved to even smaller 5nm designs •… Read More
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Key highlights of ‘RIDING THE STORM- Towards the Giant India SaaS Opportunity | July 2020’ by Nasscom: Indian SaaS Revenues at $3.5 Billion in FY2020, growing at 30% with global… Read More
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Australia has been named the top destination for migrating millionaires Australia and the US were consistently named at the top of the world's immigration "wish lists." Australia was named the… Read More
4 months ago
The open interest, or total value of contracts that have not yet been settled, on Ethereum futures has passed the $1 billion mark, according to market analytics firm Skew. Read More
4 months ago
• By 2030, close to 1/5 of the world’s working-age population will be Indian. • An average of 10 million Indians will join the working-age population each year until 2030… Read More
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The Department of Pharmaceuticals launched a ‘Production Linked Incentive Scheme’ on 21st July 2020, to address the constraints in the manufacturing of medical devices in India. Read More
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• Asia-Pacific went from having 20% of all top ecosystems in 2012 to 30% today • Silicon Valley remains the top performer in value creation and exits, with ecosystems like… Read More
4 months ago
• Huawei has the largest declared 5G portfolio, followed by Samsung and ZTE • Qualcomm and Intel are the largest US companies holding declared 5G patent families • Sharp and… Read More
5 months ago
1. Just 7 strategies cover every consumer apps’ early growth. 2. Most startups found their early users from just a single strategy. 3. The most popular strategies involve going to users directly — online, offline and… Read More
5 months ago
• On average, global internet users spent 2 hours and 23 minutes on social media sites everyday • Emerging markets spend the most time on social networks, perhaps due to… Read More
5 months ago
What is RaaS (Robotics-as-a-service)?Performing tasks by robots/ embedded electronics/ IoT, connected via cloud; benefited by tech like Data Analytics, ML, etc. Why RaaS?Robots made an impact in the automotive and… Read More
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• 1994: First online purchase.• 1997: First mobile payments and first contactless payments.• 1999: Paypal launches electronic money transfer service.• 2003: Alibaba launches Alipay in China.• 2007: M-PESA created the… Read More
5 months ago
• The world’s largest digital literacy program, PMG Disha, has already trained around 3 crore candidates. • JAM (JanDhan, Aadhaar and Mobile) trinity facilitated the direct benefit transfers worth more… Read More
5 months ago
• Instagram Reels is currently being tested in India that lets users record 15-second videos with music and audio clips. • Facebook had recently shut down its TikTok clone app… Read More
5 months ago
Edtech startup TagHive has announced a pre-seriesA round of investment that takes its valuation to $10 million. Read More
5 months ago
A middle ground between a mobile-friendly website and a mobile app, PWAs deliver a mobile app-like experience. Read More
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Key highlights of Contribution of Smartphones to Digital Governance in India by ICEA and KPMG (July 2020): • India is expected to get 829 million smartphone users by 2022. •… Read More
5 months ago
Key highlights of 'Middle East FinTech Study' by Deloitte: • The average usage of P2P money transfer solutions among banking customers in the Middle East is 42% • 22% of… Read More
5 months ago
Key announcements at Reliance India's 2020 AGM include: • Jio5G: India's first 5G network• Google's investment for 7.7% stake in Jio• Google-Jio to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable… Read More
5 months ago
• Asia: 90% of countries offer business registration and business license application services online. • Oceania: The most commonly offered online service is applying for government vacancies (86%) and the… Read More
5 months ago
• Social media users have grown by more than 10% over the past year, taking the global total to 3.96 billion by the start of July 2020. • An average… Read More
5 months ago
• 463 exabytes (1 Quintillion bytes) of data will be created each day globally by 2025• Global data centers market is expected to grow with a CAGR of 15.1% over… Read More
5 months ago
Germany offers the public employment service that places people in the labor world every year without independent mediation by a staff member. This is made possible by "Arbeitsamt online", the… Read More
6 months ago
• A visitor spends less than 9 minutes per visit on an e-retail platform. • 1 in 2 visitors browse the image gallery and only 1 in 15 click the… Read More
6 months ago
Private investors had funded at least 52 quantum-technology companies globally since 2012, many of them are from university departments. Read More
6 months ago
Within one year from its establishment (from August 2017 to August 2018), the Court accepted 12,103 cases and concluded 10,626 cases; more than 88% of cases were filed online and… Read More
6 months ago
The heart of EdTech surge is the US, with 43% of the world’s EdTech enterprises having their headquarters located in the USA. India has the second-highest number of EdTech startups,… Read More
6 months ago
In India, 10 Million new internet users were added every month in the year 2018. It was also found that 90% of the new internet users preferred regional language. Read More
7 months ago
By the year 2023, it is estimated that MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) digital lending may increase 10-15 times to arrive at INR 6-7 Lakh Crore ($80-100 billion) worth… Read More
7 months ago
The government of India has proved to be a catalyst in the growth of the digital payments ecosystem in the form of modernization of payment infrastructure, digital literacy and offering… Read More
7 months ago
Introduced in the Finance Act 2016, an "equalisation levy" at the rate of 6% (on the nonresident companies indulged in the digital advertisement space) sought to address the tax-related challenges… Read More
7 months ago
Public health infrastructure:Kerala has at least two primary health centers for every three villages, which is one every 3.95 kilometers against the national average of 7.3km. Efficient contact tracing:Through contact… Read More
8 months ago
RFID tags are inserted in the parcel label and when the parcels approach an RFID scanner at the carrier, the RFID label is automatically read and updated with EDI messages… Read More
8 months ago
Interventions by the Indian government in the following subjects may help benefit the business amid Coronavirus: Read More
8 months ago
The economic effects of the pandemic are expected to pull FDI flows by 40%, to its lowest level of the past two decades. Read More
8 months ago
Implementations of travel restrictions, declaration of it being a pandemic by the WHO, testing of international passengers with mandatory quarantining, etc. are some of the measures that indicate that a… Read More
8 months ago
Y Combinator is typically a 2-3 month programme where startup founders get to interact with industry experts as well as other founders and investors while building their business. Read More
9 months ago
It can be noticed in various projects that 'data analytics' is often presented as just the 'visualization of data' with no or less 'data science' being involved in the analysis… Read More
9 months ago
With the MUDRA scheme, more than Rs 11 lakh crores of loans were disbursed to first-time entrepreneurs and youth without a bank guarantee. Read More
9 months ago
Market intelligence studies the external and internal sources of useful information to script an accurate prospect of market parameters that may help understand the direction of focus, for the overall… Read More
10 months ago
• Purchase incentive of ₹5,000 per kWh of battery capacity. • Ride-hailing service providers will be allowed to operate electric two-wheeler taxis. Read More
10 months ago
Key points from the talk by Sir Howard Davies (Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the former Director of London School of Economics): ⁃ More cash has gone… Read More
10 months ago
MediaNama's Discussion on India’s Data Protection Law; Jan 9, 2020, Delhi Read More
10 months ago
It all started with social media giant Facebook investing an undisclosed amount in Meesho in June. Meesho is a marketplace for resellers and connects them with customers via social media… Read More
10 months ago
The idea that digital identity can be a conscious-being operating under the digital mechanism, taking in case the philosophies of Transhumanism is not something unimaginable. The concept has been visualized… Read More
10 months ago
HSBC was guilty of a "blatant failure" to implement anti-money laundering controls and wilfully flouted US sanctions, American prosecutors said, as the bank was forced to pay a record $1.9bn… Read More
10 months ago
"H1N1 caused worldwide concern but later the declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised concern. Many countries including Germany, Italy, France and UK concluded secret agreements… Read More
10 months ago
Valeant Pharmaceuticals is a Canadian multinational pharmaceutical company that might have somehow been responsible for the extremely high prices on medicines in the U.S. market and have possibly manipulated the… Read More
10 months ago
A quote from Ray Kurzweil says that “Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the… Read More
12 months ago
Long tail is a phrase popularized by Chris Anderson, former editor of WIRED Magazine, in 2004. Anderson compared Long Tail to the blockbuster or hit-driven business models of media and… Read More
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