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APPLE ACQUIRES TURI A ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STARTUP

Apple is upping the ante on artificial intelligence (AI). The smartphone giant has reportedly acquired AI startup Turi for $200 million. According to a report in GeetWire, "The acquisition reflects a larger push by Apple into artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also promises to further increase the Cupertino, California-based company's presence in the Seattle region, where Apple has been building an engineering outpost for the past two years." Nitish Joshi Shashank Aggarwal

SmartVizX announces R&D facility in Bengaluru

Virtual reality firm SmartVizX has introduced a dedicated R&D facility in Bengaluru. Located at ORR Marthahalli in the city, it will focus on the development of high quality VR products helping SmartVizX become a full fledged VR products company from its current largely service based model

Founded in 2015, SmartVizX is currently one of the highest funded Indian startups in the VR domain. Post the launch of its R&D facility, the SmartVizX Team also plans to enter new sectors such as edutainment, game content, hospitality, retail through their VR based solutions.

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HEWLETT PACKARD TO SET UP INNOVATION HUB IN INDIA

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the enterprise division of HP that became a separate company effective November 1, plans to open an innovation hub in India that will assist startups to scale their operations.
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HPE will sell the computer servers, data storage, networking, software and consulting services that run a modern company
• HPE plans to open an innovation hub in India that will assist startups to scale their operations
• A number of technology MNCs have begun to work with startups in India

Uber Cabs has introduced number masking technology in India , In which The passenger's personal number will not get revealed to the cab drivers and vice versa. This initiative has taken by India based cab service Ola cabs to ensure passenger privacy and security

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has just released a report, according to which, India has been declared as the youngest startup nation in the whole world. The report mentions that an average entrepreneur from India is less than 35 years of age, which is the lowest median age, globally.

Chandigarh Based start up(Pump Kart.com) CEO (K.S Bhatia) has praised by google CEO Sundar Pichai. Find out the story of

"The online journey started when my 14-year-old son, who is quite an internet wizard, gifted me this domain (also the idea) on my birthday two years back. He told me that this vertical has not been touched and it was so true," said jubilant Bhatia, a 45-year-old chemical engineering graduate, founder and CEO of Pumpkart.com.

"We put in place a team for search engine optimization and invested in Google Adwords and today if you type 'water pumps' anywhere in the world, including Google UK and Google US, Pumpkart's name pops up. Seeking our growing presence, even top e-commerce companies were forced to introduce water pumps in their list of commodities. Other companies created websites and left it at that"He said to his interview to Times of India.

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Anmol Tukrel: Meet the 10th grader who claims high school project is 47% more accurate than Google

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Anmol Tukrel: Meet the 10th grader who claims high school project is 47% more accurate than... Tukrel, 16, said he took a couple of months to design , and about 60 hours to code the engine, as part of his submission into Google Science Fair.

Around 77 per cent of internet users in India can access the web via a mobile device. In fact, smartphone use in the Asia Pacific region continues to grow at a pace on par with the rest of the world, with page-view volume on mobile websites and apps approaching global averages.

According to the APAC State of Mobile Advertising report from Opera Mediaworks in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, countries which Opera refers to as the “P4” (Power 4) sub-region has seen a dramatic 545 per cent increase in smartphone adoption since 2013, making it one of the fastest growing sub-regions in the world.

The findings in the report are based on Q2 2015 data from 400 million unique users on the Opera Mediaworks platform.

The P4 countries represent less than half (43 per cent) of the population of Asia, account for less than 30 per cent of regional internet users - and yet over 76 per cent of these users access the internet via mobile.

Mobile growth can largely be attributed to the rapid adoption of Android devices. In the second quarter, the Android operating system took the no. 1 position in market share of impressions served to mobile devices, accounting for more than 60 per cent of traffic in APAC and over 55 per cent in India.

There is high demand for and rapid adoption of mobile video-ad units across the region. The ratio of video-ad impressions served in India is 0.68:1, which is higher than the average across Asia

Apple published a new patent today related to facial recognition in digital images, which is given a title ‘Systems and methods for sending digital images.’ The patent was filed last year in February, but came to attention on Thursday.

Apple is trying to replicate a similar attempt to enable its users to automatically share photographs with contacts on their smartphone, or social media list. Users can thus upload a picture to a particular cloud service for facial recognition and then instantly send out shared photo alerts to all identified in the picture.

Upon analyzing a given group photo, the system should be able to propagate a list of potential recipients based on information at hand. Using that information, the service could recognize images of the person in the uploaded photo and send the digital photo to them

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC), the management consulting unit of oilfield services specialist Schlumberger for an undisclosed sum.

The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, and completion of the acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and other conditions.

SBC provides consultancy to the upstream oil and gas industry and has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2004 and now has 250 consultants operating from nine offices worldwide.

All of the Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC) employees will become part of Accenture Strategy.

“The upstream oil and gas sector is undergoing a fundamental transformation, partly driven by oil price volatility, but also by increased regulation and technology advances,” said Jean-Marc Ollagnier, group chief executive, Accenture’s Resources operating group.

“Energy companies are also under pressure to improve internal performance in delivering large capital projects, reduce production costs and extend into new areas, including renewables. This acquisition will enhance our capabilities in helping clients navigate these challenges.”

Happy Anniversary HP! Hewlett-Packard was officially incorporated today in 1947, eight years after William Hewlett & David Packard first founded it. They started their company in this Palo Alto garage with only $538!