Professionals looking to set up an e-learning businesses quickly are flocking to startups like Knorish and Invanto, and earning big money in the process. Yoga trainers, wine connoisseurs, primary school teachers, digital marketers, cybersecurity experts and business management grads are all looking to the startups to build personalised websites so that they are impart skillsets through paid video content. Software as a Service startup Knorish, launched in 2018, has built e-learning businesses for 4,500 creators in the last four months, after onboarding just 500 customers till March. “These creators upload recorded videos or take live…
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Reliance launches Jio Glass: What it is and how it works !!
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) hosted its 43rd annual general meeting (AGM) on Wednesday. At the event, which was held virtually for the first time in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the company launched the Jio Glass. Jio Glass is a mixed reality (MR)-based holographic lens system that enables users to perform various tasks such as host conference calls, share and view presentations and hold discussions among other things. Design wise, Jio Glass comes with a plastic frame that has a camera in the front between the two lenses. At the back it…
Read MoreReliance AGM 2020 highlights: Google investment, homegrown 5G and lots more !!
Reliance Industries held its 43rd Annual General Meeting today. The company made some major announcements and developments on different products. Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani announced a new investment in Jio Platforms from Google. Jio and Google will also work on an entry-level phone for Indian users. Jio Glass, a Mixed Reality-based smart glasses was also unveiled at the event. Here are the highlights from the Reliance AGM : Net carbon-zero by 2035: Reliance aims to become net carbon-zero by 2035. JioMart grocery platform: Jio is currently piloting the beta version of JioMart…
Read MoreApple paid Samsung almost $1 billion penalty, here’s why !!
Apple has reportedly paid Samsung a penalty amount of almost $1 billion for failing to purchase OLED displays as required. Samsung Display is Apple’s biggest OLED supplier for its iPhones. It was earlier reported that Apple paid Samsung around $745 million for not meeting the OLED display purchase requirement. But a new report from Display Supply Chain says that the penalty was actually around $950 million. This payment has also reportedly boosted Samsung’s Q2 revenue with the company estimated to have received a “one-time gain related to its display business”. Samsung didn’t…
Read MoreAirtel BlueJeans video conferencing app is here, set to take on Reliance’s JioMeet, Zoom !!
Airtel on Tuesday announced a partnership with US-based telecom giant Verizon. As a part of this partnership Verizon is bringing its BlueJeans video-conferencing solution in India. Airtel BlueJeans, as the newly launched video-conferencing solution is called, it is available only to the enterprises. This is quite similar to video-conferencing platforms such as Cisco WebEx and Microsoft Teams that are available only to businesses. As far as from the features are concerned, Airtel BlueJeans comes with a host of features that make it make an ideal for the enterprises. For starters, it can…
Read MoreGoogle is planning a big change to how you play music on Chrome !!
Google is ‘shaking up’ the way you watch videos and listen to the music on Chrome and is soon going to let you control playback without having to switch tabs. Google Chrome is going to get a new floating panel soon that it will allow users to play, pause, stop and also skip media without having to go to the particular tab where the content is playing. You will not have to stop what you are working on to control the media you are looking at or listening to. First spotted…
Read MorePUBG Mobile updates Spectating System, makes it harder for players to cheat !!
PUBG Mobile has announced a new anti-cheat measure in the game today that is going to help improve competitiveness and crack-down hard on players who are trying to cheat. This update builds on the existing Spectating System and adds a peer review mechanism. The game server will now determine realtime if a player is visible in the view of the game host and with that information decide whether or not to transmit location data to spectators. The new update to the Spectating System resolves the possibility of cheating by manipulating the…
Read MoreAlphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $10 billion fund to bolster India’s digital economy !!
Bengaluru: Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday (July 13) announced a $10 billion (around Rs 75,000 crore) fund to accelerate the India’s digital economy. The announcement came hours after his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is worth noting that the US-based tech behemoth is all set expand its presence in the main overseas market. “Today, I’m excited to announce the Google for India Digitization Fund. Through this effort, we will invest Rs 75,000 crore, or approximately $10 billion, into India over the next 5-7 years. We’ll do…
Read MoreGoogle for India 2020 on July 13 at 2 pm: Where to watch the event live and what to expect !!
Search engine giant Google will be hosting its sixth annual Google for India event on July 13. Unlike previous years, the Google for India event 2020 will be hosted virtually due to the pandemic. Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and some other Google executives will be addressing the event. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications, Electronics and IT, Law & Justice will also be attending the Google for India event. Google for India 2020 live-stream details Since Google for India 2020 is limited to a virtual-only event, the…
Read MoreAmazon is delaying next video game New World by half a year after Crucible flops !!
Following scathing reviews of a computer game it released in May, Amazon is delaying its next big-budget game by at least six months. The decision represents another setback for the technology giant’s ambitions to break into the gaming industry. The next game, New World, was supposed to debut in late August but is now scheduled for spring 2021, Rich Lawrence, director of Amazon’s game studio, wrote in a blog post Friday. The company wants extra time to implement changes suggested by players who have been testing the game, he wrote….
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