VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Micromax Informatics has roped in Vikas Thapar as its new Senior Vice-President – Finance. In this role, Thapar will be responsible to build the company’s asset and revenue base while leading the external relationship developments with all the key stakeholders, including bankers, equity partners, investors and government authorities, among others. Thapar will also be responsible for overall financial and management accounting policies and procedures, fund syndication & financial resourcing, group operations, legal entity structuring while providing strategic support for business expansion through operational and functional optimizing activities. He will also be taking charge of risk management, control and ... Read more

AuthShield Labs has become OATH Certified recently, in line with its vision to develop world standard Cybersecurity products and technologies for the Indian Government and corporate world. The Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) is a collaboration of leading device, platform and application companies. As the industry is working towards the propagation of ubiquitous strong authentication, OATH has created the certification program to promote interoperability among products that implement OATH standards. It is an all-encompassing approach that allows strong authentication of all users on all devices across multiple networks. “Oath certification is a testament to the fact that AuthShield’s line of products follows internationally recognized standards that allow for stronger authentication across multiple platforms and networks. AuthShield and its line of products demonstrate a high level of commitment and compliance to OATH’s standards, processes and practices,” said Abhishek

Obi Worldphone has launched the “Obi Worldphone SF1″ in the Indian market after hugely successful entries in high-growth markets like the UAE, KSA and Vietnam. It will be available for consumers from December 7, exclusively on NDTV Gadgets360. The smartphone will be available in two variants – one with 2GB RAM/16GB storage and another with 3GB RAM/32GB storage the option of expandable memory in both the variants. Obi Worldphone SF1 is set apart by iconic industrial design complimented with the Obi Lifespeed, a custom user interface for Android that unifies the software and hardware experience. Obi has endeavoured to integrate elegant design with high-end technology from Qualcomm, Dolby, Sony, Corning Incorporated, Google, MediaTek, Japan Display Inc. and Samsung to deliver a powerful performance... Read more

Snapdeal has acquired Reduce Data, a Mountain View, USA-based programmatic display advertising platform. With this acquisition, the Reduce Data team will join Snapdeal and drive the roadmap to build a world-class discovery platform and associated tools for brands as well as over 200,000 sellers on the marketplace. Reduce Data is focussed at powering brands to deliver advertising strategies for consumers across platforms and devices. Its proprietary platform leverages artificial intelligence, real-time data and other tools, delivering high return on investment for advertising campaigns. It was founded in late 2012 by Asif Ali, a Technology Entrepreneur as well as the Lead Architect at the company. The engineering team led by Asif Ali, which currently has customers across US, UK, India, is now a part of the Snapdeal family. Speaking about this acquisition, Rohit Bansal, Co-Founder, Snapdeal, said, “At Snapdeal, we are always on the lookout for talented people who come with special

Alphabet, a new holding company of Google, is going to create a new dimension in the era of digital world. During the last three years, Google has developed so many emerging technologies which are going to have much importance in the coming days. It is just realignment of the new operating structure to increase the management scale and focus on its consolidated businesses and opportunities. Larry Page, Co-Founder, Google, said, “Our company is operating well today, but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable. So we are creating a new company called, Alphabet. I am really excited to be running Alphabet as CEO with the help from my capable partner, Sergey, as President.” Read more

WizRocket has announced that it has raised $8M in new funding from Sequoia India and Accel Partners. “WizRocket’s intelligent platform helps marketers make sense of user behaviour on their app. They can apply this knowledge to customize the user experience. We’re honoured to have Sequoia and Accel as partners in our quest to build a world class mobile marketing platform.” said Anand Jain, Co-Founder of WizRocket. wizrocket logo 300x95 WizRocket gets new funding of $8 millionThe company will use this funding to grow the industry’s first prescriptive engagement platform and a ‘naked API’ that offers developers unprecedented, code-level access to customizing user experiences. The platform enables developers to build one mobile app that creates multiple dynamic experiences for users and supports brands with smart campaigns right out of the box. In addition to this advanced functionality, WizRocket has the industry’s largest free messaging tier. Mohit Bhatnagar, Managing Director a

Girish Trivedi, Co-Founder – Monk Consulting at Digital India Conclave 2015 

Salezshark, a customer relationship management platform based on Relationship Cloud has been launched. SalezShark is the next-generation platform for sales and marketing that harnesses the power of customer intelligence and provides a 360-degree view of customers to drive better engagement and strengthen professional relationships that ultimately lead to exponential sales. salezshark logo SalezShark launched to harness power of customer intelligenceAjay Chauhan, Co-Founder, SalezShark, commented, “In the era of customer centricity, it is all about creating superior customer experience and better engagement. Traditional CRMs handle sales automation but do little to facilitate better relationships. SalezShark is born to address this void with its Relationship Cloud via Personalization, Contextual Intelligence and Customer 360 along with sales and marketing automation that makes it a complete solution to strengthen business relationships and perform better sales. We are excited to an

Innefu Labs has introduced a multi-layered Partner Programme in India. The programme is designed to expand the market for its multi-factor authentication solutions and helped partners to get benefit from this growing opportunity, while aiming at security SIs/VARs/MSPs/Security Resellers. A two factor authentication solution from Innefu, Authshield 2FA secures access to SAP ERP, Corporate Email, VPN, Remote Server Logins, Cloud Infrastructure and Web Applications with a second layer of protection and can be integrated in less than 30 minutes. AuthShield 2FA comprises dual mode of identification where along with the user ID and password of the user, verification is also done through a secure randomly generated one-time password (OTP) or a challenge response mechanism using PUSH Notification protocol. The OTP is generated automatically and provided to the user through multiple form-factors, including Hard Token, Mobile Push, Mobile Token, Soft Token, SMS Token and Voice Token. Auth

UrbanClap, the mobile service marketplace, has arrived in Mumbai with their mobile app. In Bengaluru, currently the company is offering services in 23 categories, but it is planning to expand and provide services in more than a hundred categories by the end of the year. The mission of the company is to help consumers find the best services easily and provide the large base of individuals/small businesses with a platform to manage and grow their client network. From a plumber to a wedding photographer or a yoga teacher, user just need to put the requirements and the platform will bring the right professionals. urbanclap logo UrbanClap steps in MumbaVarun Khaitan, Co-Founder & Director, UrbanClap.com, said, “We started UrbanClap inspired by the immense potential that the highly unorganized services market in India holds. After our success in the Delhi/NCR and Bengaluru, Mumbai is our next city of choice for launch. Being the economic capital of the country, the residents of Mu