Americans Love To Home Shop: Real Estate Sites Generate 86 Million Leads
DENVER: Real estate is in the midst of a consumer and technology-driven revolution, said industry leaders gathered at "The Tightrope" event, sponsored by home lender Eave for brokers and agents early this month.
Nick Bailey, CEO of Century 21 Real Estate, offered numbers to illustrate how rapidly the landscape for the profession is changing.
In 2011, there were 5.8 million residential...
Global Payments: SWIFT extends gpi to all cross border payments
WELLINGTON: The SWIFT Community is to universally adopt the gpi service, in a move which will see all 10,000 banks on SWIFT's global network use the global payments innovation service (gpi) for cross border payments.
SWIFT is a global member owned cooperative and the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services.
The SWIFT global payments innovation (SWIFT gpi) is the...
Food Delivery: Zomato adds tips feature; grows delivery fleet 40k people in India
Zomato adds new features - tips and bios to its app; grows delivery fleet in India to 40,000 executives
Zomato adds a short bio feature for delivery executives, and an option to add a tip - in its food delivery service
Zomato seeks to change social behaviour towards delivery personnel with these newly added features
Zomato acquired last mile delivery leader Runnr...
Opinion: 5 Reasons a Startup Needs an Incubator
By Rajan Navani
If you’ve recently taken inspiration from the success story of an entrepreneur who decided to take the road less traveled by and yet, made it BIG in the start-up world, but are unsure of how to tick mark the many little boxes on your business checklist, then it’s time to meet – The Start-up Incubator.
Gone are the...
Artificial Vision-Tech: OrCam’s MyEye 2.0 device to empower people who are blind or partially sighted
Melbourne: We take our ability to read for granted and use this crucial skill a thousand times a day: reading, emails, documents, labels, door signs, smart phones, indicator boards…
But imagine if you could not read? How would you cope in the modern world?
Accessing all the information we are presented with each day is becoming increasingly challenging for people with...
NGINX raises $43 Million in series C funding led by Goldman Sachs
NGINX, Inc., the company based on the popular open source project and offering a suite of technologies designed to develop and deliver modern applications, has raised $43 million in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (GS Growth), a platform within Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division. NGINX has experienced tremendous growth and customer traction, including adoption by...
ConsenSys to host Ethereum Blockchain Hackathon and Ethereum Foundation Workshop
The world’s largest blockchain technology firm, ConsenSys, is convening a first of its kind Ethereum Foundation Workshop in India on 12th July, 2018. The workshop will be led by Mr. Karl Floersch and Mr. Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation, an organization initiated by Ethereum Founder – Mr. Vitalik Buterin. The foundation aims to promote and support the Ethereum platform...
14 entrepreneurial women from China & India you must know about
By Avani
The startup culture has been on a boom in India and China. Both countries are seeing an influx of their top talent which has studied or worked overseas come back to the country and set up innovative ventures.
Women entrepreneurs in both the countries have come up with a number of companies in the last few years.
These include a...
Clean Planet: How a Delhi Summit went green with no flex standees or plastic bottles!
By Shailesh Vickram Singh
Summits are generally yada yada affairs with an opportunity to escape the routine and meet fellow industry people. There are always more people outside chatting away than inside.
On top of it, being our very first event, the huge challenges of arranging delegates/speakers etc et. The event management company advised us subtly to have cocktails and dinner...
How Timelio is helping Aussie businesses through its invoice financing marketplace
Founded in 2014 in Melbourne by ex-RBS London executives Charlotte Petris and Andrew Petris, Timelio has hit over $250 million in invoice financing for small businesses. The startup has raised over $5.5 million in equity funding from prominent investors.
As CEO of Timelio and a member of Australia's Fintech advisory group, Charlotte Petris gives an insight to Harsimran Julka into her business...
Stories Behind 13 Top Apps and why they became popular
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
For 84% of smartphone owners, it’s firing up their favorite smartphone app. Whether you stream music, scroll through your Instagram feed or check your morning commute, one thing is clear. Apps play an integral role in our daily lives.
Apps are big business. It’s projected that by the...
Startups to join a grand coalition next month to solve India’s Pollution Crisis
Even as 14 Indian cities are ranked as world’s most polluted by World Health Organisation, Noida based startup venture fund GoMassive is hosting the Massive Earth Summit 2018 in New Delhi on June 6 which will seek to explore ideas to create a “Pollution Reduction Industry” similar to the Information Technology industry in India.
The event being held at Taj...
How GDPR is the biggest change in data protection laws from EU
By Anant Maheshwari
In two days, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become enforceable. A tectonic shift in the global privacy paradigm, the data protection law will herald a new era in consumer trust. As a company, Microsoft has individual privacy rights and security in its DNA. That is why in February of last year we announced we...
How Walmart’s buyout of Flipkart impacts investor sentiment in India
By Sunil K Goyal & Vivek Mansingh, YourNest Venture Capital
Unlike the Demonetization of 2016, the Walmart investment in Flipkart was not what Nassim Nicholas Taleb termed a ‘Black Swan’ event: this was more like the long, slow waltz – or even a swayamvar with multiple suitors vying for the hand of a bride.
Everyone knew that Flipkart would be sold:...
Indian startup Ola launches in Brisbane, Gold Coast & Canberra
Following launches in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, Ola, one of the India’s largest ride sharing companies has now launched operations in Brisbane, Gold Coast and Canberra.
When Startupanz tried Ola in Melbourne, the services were seen to be operational only in central business districts and not in suburbs, where Uber still enjoys a monopoly. After Australia, New Zealand could be...
Opinion: “I was wrong. Too much tech is ruining lives “
By Vivek Wadhwa
Just four years ago, I was a cheerleader. Social media was supposed to be the great hope for democracy. I know because I told the world so. I said in 2014 that no one could predict where this revolution would take us. My conclusion was dusted with optimism: a better connected human race would find a way to better itself.
I...
