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| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
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21901. [Tech30 Special Mention] With clients like Facebook, Jio, and IPL, Superfan Studio is riding the AR filter trend in India
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- Founded in 2017 by Snehal Dhruve, Superfan Studio is a browser-based no-code tool to personalise and create augmented reality (AR) filters for social media platforms.
- Besides these, Superfan Studio also serves clients, including Puma, Fossil, University of Southern California, Reliance Jio, Sony, Fox, Samsung, Star Sports, World Cup, and Asian Games, among others. The startup has completed over 250 AR projects since its inception.
- In six months, the startup transformed the product from a niche AR marketplace to a template’s marketplace in order to create a fully automated solution to build AR experiences for existing AR-powered social media platforms.
21902. [Tech30 Special Mention] How Gurugram startup Shippigo is digitising logistics for online SME sellers
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- One of Saurabh Jaitly’s friend — a platinum seller on Amazon India — confided in him the challenges he had to encounter while shipping his products. While the local logistic companies helped ship the orders, with no simple tracking mechanism, Saurabh’s friend had to process every order manually. In fact, he had to do the same for the orders he received on Shopify.
- “At a click, orders can be synced and processed with a carrier of their choice. We offer a host of delivery monitoring and customer engagement tools, which enables a two-way interaction between the shipper and the customer,” Nitish says.
- “Customers can reschedule deliveries, cancel shipments, rate delivery experience, and product satisfaction level, etc. Companies can also send their inventory to the fulfilment centre, and we keep it safe for them. Once an order is received, we pack it, process it, and dispatch it. Users can book inbound and outbound requests, and also keep track on their inventory levels at all points via the Shippigo dashboard,” says Nitish.
21903. Actor, producer, and entrepreneur Rana Daggubati on starting YouTube Channel South Bay
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- South Indian actor Rana Daggubati has launched his own YouTube channel called South Bay, which is focussed on creating diverse content. The platform will also focus on regional languages.
- He explains that today, with the growth of multiple OTT platforms and digital content platforms, audiences are more receptive, allowing creators to go beyond the threshold and bring exciting, fresh, never seen before content. South Bay is just a step towards that vision.
- “There needs to be a sense of relevance for the younger generation with a focus on jobs, and what will be helpful for them in terms of news. For that, we are working with Bengaluru-based Under 25 club to disseminate news of relevance,” says Rana.
21904. TV maker SPPL announces Rs300 crore investment in India to increase capacities
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- Domestic television manufacturer Super Plastronics Pvt. Ltd(SPPL) announced a Rs300-crore investment in India, phased over three years, to build its manufacturing capacities. The company said the investment will go towards strengthening its capabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to meet the demand of the “new Indian customer".
- The company aims to use the investment towards strengthening its capabilities in Internet of Things technologies to meet the demand of the new Indian customer The company said the investment would help Kodak’s HD LED TVs “disrupt the market" and help address consumers’ work from home needs
- The company’s TVs will connect to other smart home devices and it will also develop a mobile application to integrate TVs and appliances, which will work through voice commands.
21905. [RAISE 2020] How two childhood friends are making knowledge accessible through a one-stop video localisation startup
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- India is a country with a population of over 1.3 billion, 90 percent of whom do not speak in English. Not surprisingly, there are 22 major languages spoken in India, and nine out of 10 people joining the internet are local language speakers. However, the educational content available on the internet that can be consumed by the masses of India (ie, local language videos) is very low.
- With a combination of tech and business skills, Pratik and Hassan started working on VideoWiki in January 2018 to develop a tool that would help Wikipedia to add videos to their article.
- Pratik tells YourStory, “We both wanted to use our skills to help the society rather than focus on making money. While I had the insight into multilingual videos, Hassan had the technical skills to pull it off. So we got together in building VideoWiki. However, from day one, we knew that we wanted to structure our organisation as a tech non-profit rather than build just another startup.”
21906. Sona Comstar to invest Rs 370 crore in new manufacturing facility
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- Sona Comstar inaugurated a differencial assembly manufacturing plant in Manesar, Haryana being set up at a cost of 370 Cr.
- `It is expected to generate direct employment to 720 skilled workers and indirectly thousands of jobs. The plant manufacturers differencial assemblies and e-drive modules for its global customers, furthering the vision of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' and 'Make in India'for the world.
- It’s an Indian origin, global automotive systems and components manufacturers with nine manufacturing and assembly plants across India, China, Mexico and US
21907. Renewable Energy: Greenko To Invest Rs 30,000 Crore To Set Up A Hybrid Project In Rajasthan’s Baran District
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- India’s leading renewable energy company Greenko Group plans to invest Rs 30,000 crore to develop a hybrid project at Shahpur, Baran district of Rajasthan. The hybrid project also includes a pumped hydro storage project of 2,520 megawatt (MW) capacity estimated to cost Rs 11,882 crore.
- Pumped hydro storage allows energy from intermittent sources such as solar, wind and other renewables to be saved for periods of higher demand. Greenko Group has a current operational capacity of about seven gigawatt (GW) and a pipeline of about eight GW
- The project when completed by 2023-24 will be the world’s largest renewable energy asset and would contribute to the state’s efforts as a model in the adoption of solutions for a sustainable future,” said Anil Chalamalasetty, founder, managing director and chief executive officer, Greenko Group.
21908. NLC India-Coal India JV to invest in 3,000 MW solar power projects
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- Chennai: Integrated lignite mining-cum-power generation company NLC India Ltd and Coal India Ltd have plans to get into 3,000 MW of solar power generation, a top NLC India official said.
- "NLC India and Coal India have formed a joint venture company Coal Lignite Urja Vikash Private Ltd. We will be bidding for about 3,000 MW of solar power projects that will be tendered. The investment needed will be about Rs 125 billion," NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director Rakesh Kumar told IANS.
- He said Coal Lignite Urja is a 50:50 joint venture company and NLC India has already invested Rs 1 lakh as its share of equity. "As per plans the debt-equity ratio will be 70:30," Kumar said.
21909. This edtech startup aims to provide holistic education by integrating liberal arts with science and technology
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- The Bengaluru-based edtech startup takes a holistic approach towards education and is looking to provide courses on history, culture, communication, diversity, and so on to provide soft skills to technical engineering and management students.
- The founder also revealed that the company, which was initially expected to launch in March this year, got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The startup is looking to officially launch its product this month (November), and has already partnered with institutions for starting the courses for the upcoming batches.
- “Due to the coronavirus crisis, our operations started only in July 2020. While it delayed the product development process, this came as a blessing in disguise as during this period the government announced the National Education Policy, which perfectly aligns with DALHAM’s core thought of holistic learning and liberal education, especially with regard to higher education,” he adds.
21910. Start-up Homingos secures funding from global and Indian investors
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- Bangalore-based start-up Homingos, building one of the world's first Augmented Reality (AR) based social networking platform, today announced a round of funding. Founded by Shourya Agarwal, Malhar Patil and Rajat Gupta, BITS-Pilani graduates, Homingos will use the investment to accelerate the development of a first-of-its-kind intelligent, scalable and seamless AR powered platform and camera interface.
- Using the Homingos camera app as an interface to the real world, the platform will allow users to experience the magic of AR as they connect, share, express and interact in ways rarely experienced before.
- The funding will also go towards user acquisition, strengthening the talent pool and developing innovative tools as the mainstay of social sharing, going beyond games, filters and effects. User-generated content is the lifeline of any social networking platform. One of Homingos' early offerings, "Smartphotos" has turned out to be the new way of how people store videos in a printed photo. Any user can order a Smartphoto through the Homingos website or the mobile app, by uploading or creating a video.