Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Athleisure Brand Hustle Now Available on Flipkart; Aims to Become Rs 100 Crore Firm by 2020

Hustle; the fashion athleisure apparel brand got launched exclusively on Flipkart, one of India’s largest e-retail store.
Talking about the association, Vishal Patel, founder Tribesman Graphics Pvt Ltd., shared “We are super excited about this new association with Flipkart for our Hustle brand of products. I am sure we will get good response for our range considering Flipkart being one of the largest e-retailers today. The brand is a youth brand and we are positive it will connect very well to Flipkart's young target audience.”
“Earlier on, for our other products of SayItLoud, we were the number one chosen brand on Flipkart in October 2016 and May 2017 during their flagship sale events Big Billion days and Big 10 summer sale respectively,” added Vishal.
Flipkart’ s company spokesperson from Men's Clothing Fashion Team said "At Flipkart Fashion, our mantra is to bring fresh, unique and trendy products to all our customers at the best prices, making us the ultimate shopping destination for millions of style savvy Indians. Keeping with the category's growth momentum, we continue to have a strong focus on strengthening our men’s fashion portfolio.

Tribesman Graphics has been one of our top partners for men's clothing business exhibiting a phenomenal growth rate annually. We are certain that Hustle will find appeal among our large and growing shopper base of fashion and fitness conscious men.”                                      

Sharing more on the company’s journey so far, Vishal said “we launched our own range of graphic tee shirts under the brand SayItLoud in 2013. From there on, we have evolved into a casual fashion brand for today's social media/digital youth.”

“Fitness Fashion Wear is the new in thing today among health and fitness conscious people. Our new collection brings the latest designs enabling maximum comfort and flexibility for all forms of exercising. Our objective is to make our collection reach customers far and wide and e-commerce platform such as Flipkart was our best choice.”

Sharing on the financial growth of the company, Vishal said “while most companies struggle to make profit in the ecommerce and fashion space, we have been lucky to make profits since our inception. Our last year's net profit after tax was around 3.5%. We are one of the fastest growing fashion brand growing at a rate of 300% YOY since last 3 financial years. The company has come this far without any external funding but going forward we are open to funding and are targeting to  become a 100 crore company by 2019-20.”

The company has a strong logistic team and process in place having delivered over 7 lac tee shirts, with more than 4.5 lac delivered in the last one year alone. Flipkart's multiple channels of fulfillment have made possible to be present in all zones of the country in a very cost effective way.

The company is also the official licensee of Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Justice League. The team conceptualized athleisure brand Hustle in 2016 and signed up Rannvijay Singh Singha and SquadRann as brand ambassadors in 2017.  It has also secured licenses of the popular series MTV Roadies in August 2017.

Talking about the advertising and marketing plans, Vishal shared “the launch campaign has been conceptualized and executed by Vitamn Private Ltd., a new age integrated communication company based out of Bangalore and Ahmedabad. We hope to roll out the campaign soon across various media platforms.”

Indus Towers Collaborates with IndianOil to Expand Mobile Tower Network Across India

Indus Towers, India’s largest telecom infrastructure company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), an integrated energy major for setting up mobile tower network across all 26,000 outlets pan-India. This is in line with its vision of ‘Putting India First’ and committed towards building a robust infrastructure for NextGen digital services network; thus, providing uninterrupted connectivity to citizens.

Indus Towers’ unique proposition of building robust infrastructure at various IOCL retail outlets will enable a greater push towards the government’s Digital India mission and move towards a digital cashless economy. Given the strong presence of IOCL, in both rural and urban India, will further help Indus Towers’ serve its customer requirements faster. 

Commenting on this partnership, Tejinder Kalra, COO, Indus Towers said, “We are very pleased to join hands with IOCL as we strongly believe this partnership will help in setting up Mobile Towers at critical locations and creating of a robust and efficient NextGen digital services network, contributing towards Digital India.”

The collaboration is a unique tower site acquisition process for the company and will boost network connectivity at all retails outlets with high traffic and footfall, enabling faster digital transactions for payments for services like fuel, transactions at convenience store etc. The first of its kind partnership will also provide capex efficiency significantly by enabling a platform which will support to host multiple technologies.

Rajiv Sharma, Chief General Manager, IOCL said, “This MoU with Indus Towers will improve the network connectivity, boost Digital economy and cashless transactions.

Indus Towers will be deploying its NextGen tower designs including camouflaged palm trees, ground-based mast, roof-top tower and poles across IOCL retail outlets unifying world class technology and innovation, location aesthetics and environmental considerations. IOCL has approx. 26,000 outlets across the country.

Five FinTech Shortlisted Over 250 Startups for PayPal Incubator Program

PayPal, the global leader in online payments, today announced a shortlist of five new Financial Technology (FinTech) startups –Finbox, Neoeyed, Paymatrix, Scalend and Tybo as new entrants into its PayPal Incubator in Chennai. The announcement was made after the final round of pitching during the 5th Incubation Challenge, where 10 shortlisted startups from 250 startups presented to an esteemed panel of judges including Guru Bhat, GM Technology & Head of Engineering – PayPal, Anupam Pahuja, MD – PayPal India and Rama Bethmangalkar, Venture Capitalist, formerly with Ventureast.

As a part of PayPal’s vision to transform and democratize financial services, the Incubator helps elevate and drive innovation across the FinTech industry with a focus on startups in financial technology as well as adjacencies like loyalty, machine learning, big data and logistics among others.  

“In its 5th year, the PayPal Incubator has received an overwhelming response with over 250 applications from early stage FinTech startups – a 150% growth from last year, reflecting both the need for an incubation program, as well as the FinTech industry’s potential. Our program is designed to help our newly incubated startups script their own success stories by facilitating access to PayPal’s expertise in cutting-edge technology and by enabling them to leverage PayPal’s market leadership around the world” said Guru Bhat, GM Technology & Head of Engineering – PayPal.

Launched in 2013 in partnership with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the incubator provides a conducive environment for early-stage startups to grow and evolve at PayPal’s Technology Center in Chennai. The program offers startups technology counsel and mentorship, infrastructure support and networking opportunities with both investors and customers. In addition to these, PayPal will also be picking up an undisclosed stake in each of the selected startups this year.

Use Hola Guide App During Your Next Holiday Now Just a Tap Away


Finding a government recognized tourist guide at places of tourist attraction in Karnataka is now just a tap away. With Hola Guide App, you can avail the services of tourist guides at your chosen place of tourist destination, well in advance. The first-of-its-kind App, which functions as a unique interface between tourists and tourist guides, allows you to select tourist guides who can enlighten you about the places you visit, in the language of your choice – both Indian and foreign.

Hola Guide App provides you information about tourist guides who have been recognized by the state government. A list of tour guide packages these guides offer, the charges for their services, their timeslot & such other specific details are also available on this App. The tourist guides can be hired for hours, half-day or full-day depending on your need, with Hola Guide. Similarly tourists can find tourist guides at popular tourist destinations they plan to visit.

Since the App allows users to rate the services of a tour guide, the tourist has the advantage of choosing the one who offers quality services. Furthermore, tourist guides can be paid either online or on cash after they render their service. And all this can be done with your mobile phone from the comfort of your house or office, much before you arrive at your tourist destination.

So, no more scrambling for tour guides at your tourist destination. Just tap on HOLA GUIDE. The app is available for download from Google Play Store and iOS.


Hola Guide is developed by MultiApps Technologies, a Bengaluru-based company of professional and technology enthusiasts with vast expertise in developing custom-made platforms.

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

ABBS Hosts 7th International Conference on Ecosystem for Growth of Business from Sept 8- 9, 2017


Acharya Bangalore B-School & Acharya Academy of Management Studies, Bengaluru will host the 7th International Conference on the Ecosystem for Growth of Business on September 8 and 9, 2017 at its campus on Magadi Road.


Over a 100 delegates from various countries will participate in the two day event. Prof G Raghuram, Director IIMB along with Tsutomu Kota, Senior VP, Toyota Kirloskar, Dr Kalpana Gopalan, Principal Secretary, Government of Karnataka among others will be the chief guests at the event.

On the second day the valedictory function will be held and Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, Chairman of Dhaka School of Economics, Bangladesh will give away the prizes.


Business does not operate in isolation. Growth of business in any region, country, state or a city depends on its ecosystem. Economic, political, quality of governance, technological, socio-cultural, geographical, geopolitical, and historical factors are important components of business ecosystem. In order to understand and leverage on ecosystem for growth of business, it is essential to study and research the ecosystem. The ecosystem is not common for all sectors.

The challenge is dynamic nature of the ecosystem. The complex inter-woven relationship among varied factors of ecosystems, works differently for different sectors, at different point of time in different locations. Ecosystem to be developed for growth of business needs to be researched. In depth understanding of ecosystem enables organizations to thrive in this rapidly changing environment. The network of vendors, labor force, ancillaries, channel partners and customers constitute the core of business ecosystem.
Today, every business in the ecosystem influences and gets influenced by others, creating a constantly evolving relationship. As business brings in employment, prosperity, growth and development, there is competition among different destinations for developing business. In this background, the study of ecosystem has become crucial for Governments, Corporate, International Organizations, Academicians, and all stakeholders of business.
Keeping this in view, this conference “Ecosystem for Growth of Business” is conceived. Ideal ecosystem should nurture technological development, balanced regional growth, healthy growth of varied sectors, protection of fragile ecosystem, growth of business with human face and benefits of growth in business reaching all sections of the society. More than any of these, ideal ecosystem should nurture a harmonious world.

Monday, September 4, 2017

New Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Anantkumar Hegde Promise to Bring Scale and Speed to India’s Skill Mission

Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Anantkumar Hegde, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship today took charge of their respective portfolios at the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

Addressing the media persons on the occasion, Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship said, “I am extremely humbled that the Prime Minister has given me this responsibility to steer India’s Skill Mission and we will ensure that we deliver on his expectations. He has a vision that we create a new environment of creating dignified job opportunity for the youth. This is a policy driven ministry and in the last three years we have been able to lay down the foundation for skill development in the country. We will now work towards bringing scale and speed to this program by bringing in convergence and coordination with our States, Departments, Private Institutions and other existing skill programs.”

“It is a great responsibility more than a challenge and we will work for filling the need gaps and work towards ensuring the youth of a brighter future. We will explore all possible grid system, information systems, technology advent that the country is witnessing, conventional jobs and new age skills to enable a more efficient outcome of our programs and schemes in skills.”

Committing himself to the Prime Minister’s vision, Anantkumar Hegde, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship said, “I consider the opportunity of being appointed as the Minister of State as greater responsibility towards serving the nation. I am certain that with the guidance of the Pradhanji, we will work as per the defined agenda and draw a proper roadmap for the work to be taken up which will bring about efficiency in the skill ecosystem.

Pradhan also added that job growth is an aspiration for any government. “This ministry has been doing good job and we will be giving it a major push to fulfil the objectives. Every month, there are more than 10 lakh youth joining the job market. Our primary objective will be to create grid across sectors, States and the aspiration of the youth and ensure all the requirements are well addressed,” he further added. 

Following the joining of respective offices, both the Ministers took an elaborate review meeting with the officials at the Ministry. 

The Best Apps for Entertainment, News, Games, Videos and More…

The rise in mobile technology is evident with the ever-increasing number of available apps for download. Mobile gadgets like phones and tablets have rapidly become the most widely used and the most essential technology in the world. Desktop computers have long taken a back seat as users demand convenience and look for something that can keep up with how they live. The rise of mobile technology naturally birthed other digital phenomena like mobile software applications or mobile apps and in the business side, mobile marketing. A lot of brands use mobile-first strategy for seamless customer journey and find a way to be with their customer every step of the way. 

Imagine being in a store with everything you like, but sadly you can’t have them all. Let us make the job easier for you with this guide in choosing the best apps.

1. For the movies - series buff in you
·  Hotstar - Hotstar is an online video streaming platform owned by Novi Digital Entertainment Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Star India Private Limited. Hotstar currently offers over 50,000 hours of TV content and movies across 8 languages, and every major sport covered live. Highly evolved video streaming technology and a high attention to quality of experience across devices and platforms, make Hotstar the most complete video destination for Over The Top (OTT) video consumers.
·  Amazone Prime - Amazon Prime is a paid subscription service offered by Amazon.com that gives users access to free one-day delivery, streaming video/music and other benefits for a monthly or yearly fee. As of April 2017, Prime has more than 80 million paying users
2. Find the gamer in you
·  RummyCircle :-  RummyCircle.com is India's Largest Online Rummy site which provides you with the best Rummy experience. The ultimate platform for playing Indian rummy card game is available on desktop as well as app based platforms. Online Rummy at RummyCircle is easy , safe and totally fun. With a high quality interface that has the latest security features, it ensures that your Rummy playing experience is entertaining to the core while also being convenient. It offer regular Rummy card games tournaments in Classic Indian Rummy, 13 Card Rummy formats where players can win big cash prizes. So, come be a part of this large community, playing Rummy card games from across India.
·  Candy Crush Saga -  Candy Crush Saga is a free-to-play match-three puzzle video game released by King on April 12, 2012, for Facebook; other versions for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Windows 10 followed. It is a variation on their browser game Candy Crush.
3. To keep a track of all the latest updates
·  Inshorts - Inshorts is India’s highest-rated news app, with more than 8 million downloads on Android and iOS. The app curates the most significant news items of the day, across categories like national, world, politics, business, sports, technology and entertainment, in just 60 words with a link to read the stories that interest them, in detail. Inshorts also continues to be India’s highest-rated news app on Android since January 2014 with a rating of 4.6, and in 2015 was included by Google India in its list of 50 best Android apps from India. By mid-2016, Inshorts garnered more than 8 million downloads on Android and iOS and is serving more than One billion page views every month since.
4. To keep yourself fit 
·  Fitpass:  This app enables you to get yourself a pass to workout anywhere, anytime across 1350+ gyms and fitness studios in Delhi NCR only for Rs.999 per month, fitpass gives its users the flexibility to workout when they want, how they want and where they want. Fitpass users have access to unparalleled variety of choices from Yoga, Zumba, Pilates, Aerobics, MMA, Cross Fit, circuit training, kickboxing, spinning, bootcamp and many many more. Fitpass is an app based service available on iOS & Android. Fitpass is successfully removing friction and creating marketplace efficiency through technology.
·  Nike + Run Club – Nike+ Run Club app is your perfect running partner. Whether you’re just getting started or getting ready for another race, the Nike+ Run Club app surrounds you with everyone and everything you need to run better. With the motivation of millions of runners behind you and expert guidance around every turn, we'll help you reach your goals—and have more fun doing it.

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