Astroglia Pharma has announced the launch of NeuroClub to provide affordable, natural remedies for lack of focus, poor memory, mental stress, and improve brain health. Phillip Mertz - Founder & CEO, NeuroClub - Astroglia Pharma Pvt. Ltd. India delivered the keynote, along with Dr. Sriraman Damodaran, Chief Scientific Officer (Washington D.C) and Aditya Shrivastava, Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Mertz highlighted the need for brain health awareness in India and how NeuroClub can help students and corporate perform mental activities more efficiently, to be happier and more successful.
Improving brain health is the need of the hour as more people recognize the widespread nature of cognitive deficiencies like attention deficit, learning disorders, and memory loss. According to 2018 Cigna 360 Well-Being Survey, nearly 9 out of 10 Indians suffer from stress and WHO claims 36 million Indians suffer from anxiety. Most of them don’t want to seek professional help due to social stigmas and high cost. Dr. Sriraman Damodaran, CSO, NeuroClub - AstroGlia Pharma Ltd said “Most people don’t think about their minds, ironically. It’s the most important organ. For problems with any other part of the body, remedial means are understood. When people have trouble focusing or feel unnecessarily stressed, they don’t really think that it might be a health issue.”
Phillip Mertz, CEO, NeuroClub - AstroGlia Pharma Ltd noted, “Stressful work culture and demanding academic pressure makes NeuroClub products a necessity for the young population. Furthermore, NeuroClub's all-natural products can be consumed anytime, and their effects can be felt in the short term.”
NeuroClub is the over-the-counter brain health brand under AstroGlia. The products they are launching today are:
* Metanine makes neurons more sensitive to sensory inputs. This helps sustain concentration for longer.
* Seraxil relieves stress by stopping the panic response from being triggered during stressful situations.
* Xance produces the protein required to maintain memories for longer.
* Enkodin increases the inputs centers of neurons to improve comprehension and learning.
* Myeliv protects the insulation of the wiring between neurons from alcohol and junk food consumption.
* Agilin protects against age-related deterioration of enzymes in brain’s memory center.
These products are available online www.theneuroclub.com
Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced that it has been ranked second in ‘India’s Great Mid-Size Workplaces 2018’ List. This is the first time the company has participated in the study and demonstrates proof of the positive impact Nutanix is having on its expanding workforce in the country.
Nutanix has had a presence in India since 2013, and has continued to invest and innovate in expanding its operations to develop a modern, digital workplace where every employee feels empowered to contribute. Over the past year, headcount has grown over 70 percent and the company has recently opened a second office in Pune.
“This is a fantastic achievement for all of us here at Nutanix. We have a history of taking on established global companies and winning – and here we are doing it again,” said Sankalp Saxena, Nutanix SVP and MD of Operations for India. “Nutanix is developing a modern workforce that embraces diversity and respect while providing global opportunities for all. As we continue to invest in India’s future we know that our success will be built around our employees. This award shows we are getting it right.”
Prajeetha Prasad, Nutanix Senior Human Resources Lead for India added, “Nutanix lives by our core values – honest, hungry and humble with heart. In the battle for talent, it’s vital we provide today’s workforce with a true sense of value and belonging. Nutanix embraces global best practices and technologies to provide a modern, digital and respectful environment for all our staff to learn and grow.”
Nutanix has rapidly increased and evolved its operations in India over the past 5 years and continues to increase its activities in India as the company further disrupts the traditional enterprise market and develops a truly global centre of excellence that drives innovation from India.
Following the Note 5 global debut in Dubai, Infinix, the online focused smartphone brand of TRANSSION, today announced yet another game changing offering by launching an Android One device in the sub 10K smartphone segment. The all-new Infinix Note 5 is part of Android One program, designed to deliver the top notch Android OS experience that combines Google’s smartly designed software with built-in AI powered innovations like Google Lens & Google Assistant as well as highest grade of security.
Infinix NOTE 5 is a "beyond intelligent" device that empowers users to enjoy an intelligent lifestyle through the fusion of technology and style. Flaunting a 5.99” FHD+ screen with 18:9 aspect ratio, 16MP AI Selfie camera, 3-day battery life with massive 4500mAh battery, 18W fast charging, a streamlined Google designed UI with the latest Android operating system as well as Dual SIM Dual VoLTE solution, makes Infinix NOTE 5 a perfect choice ahead of competition offering high-quality hardware with intuitive software and premium design all at an attractive price point of INR 9999
Following the brand’s debut in India last year in 2017, Infinix’s momentum has continued to grow in the region due to its strong product portfolio. Commenting on this success, Benjamin Jiang, managing director of Infinix Mobile said, “We are committed to continuing pushing the boundaries and each offering from Infinix portfolio is a game-changer in the segment to scale new heights of product innovation and customer centricity in the products. We have always focused on bringing future-ready devices at affordable price points."
Announcing the new partnership, he further added, "We are taking another giant leap in our journey towards becoming a Top e-commerce smartphone brand in India. With the launch of NOTE 5, an Android One powered smartphone we are confident that this will set new benchmarks.”
Munish Seth, Android country director for India said, “Through the Android One program we aim to combine high quality hardware designed by our partners with smartly designed software by Google. We believe that products should be intuitive and secure. They should improve over time, and adapt to you to make your life easier – not the other way around. We want to accelerate how we scale this phone experience through the Android One program, where hardware innovations from partners like Infinix combine with the best of Google innovation at scale."
TL Lee, General Manager, MediaTek's Wireless Communication Business Unit said "Infinix is fast becoming a strong smartphone brand in India. Combined with MediaTek’s chipset technology – including the NOTE 5 powered by Helio P23 – Infinix brings consumers high-end features at an affordable price. MediaTek’s Helio P series delivers as per the consumer demand for the New Premium, mid-range devices that have powerful performance, incredible efficiency, longer battery life, and enhanced features such as dual camera photography, dual 4G VoLTE capability -- in other words, the best smartphone experience to connect, share and do more.”
Features that make NOTE 5 a desirable Smarterphone:
Android One: Smart, Secure and Simply Amazing Android experience
Infinix’ NOTE 5 Android One phone runs with latest Android Oreo 8.1 OS combining Google’s smartly designed software, from the latest AI powered innovations such as Google Lens and Google Assistance to the highest grade of security, with beautifully designed hardware. Google’s smartly designed software will function smoothly with no bloatware or UI customisations to deliver an uncluttered Android experience. It also improves battery life by prioritizing background activity with the most important apps and helps solve storage stress on your device. Furthermore, security protections with Google Play Protect are built into every layer of your smartphone experience, so your device stays safe, fast and performs at its best.
Google Photos lets you store an unlimited amount of photos and videos at high quality for free, and access them anywhere. Automatically organized and searchable by the people, places, and things in them, your photos and memories are always easy to find and share.
Google Lens, lets you point your camera to learn more, take action, and interact with the world around you. With Google Lens, you can copy and paste text, find products online, learn about landmarks, add events to your calendar, look up movie posters, identify popular plants and animals, and more.
Always-on Battery
Clocking in at a massive 4500mAh, the Infinix NOTE 5 battery allows you to enjoy a 3-day battery life on a single charge. It also comes with 18W fast charger which give one-day battery in half an hour of charge. Moreover, the battery comes with AI power management which tracks the consumer usage pattern of the smartphone and optimises the battery life according to the usage.
Expand your horizons with Full view display
Infinix NOTE 5 flaunts 5.99’’ Full HD+ screen with 18:9 display empower you to multi-task and enjoy a more dynamic seamless visual experience. Its 80% NTSC colour gamut helps in vising the natural colour reproduction and 500 nits ensure better viewing in bright lighting condition. It comes with 85% screen-to-body ratio, so bigger the screen, better the experience. The smartphone is built with 10-layer coating of reflective nano-chrome particles for a smooth & premium glass finish along with 2.5D curved glass edges design provides stunning look to NOTE 5 helping to stand out from the crowd.
AI powered camera
Making the photography more intuitive, Infinix NOTE 5 is endowed with 12MP rear camera with large 1.25-micron big pixel, f/2.0 aperture with dual LED flash for capturing brighter and sharper photographs in low light conditions. The smartphone boasts of AI based Auto Scene Detection (ASD) feature to enhance overall photography experience in outdoor scenario. When taking pictures, the smartphone automatically detects the scene details like lighting condition, brightness etc. and with the help of its deep learning algorithm, it intelligently matches the best camera parameters to the current scene, producing a perfect photo. The smartphone comes with AI based portrait mode, which identifies Object/Humans and put them in foreground and blurs everything else. It comes loaded with 7 shooting modes namely Normal, Beauty, Portrait, Professional, Panorama, Night and Time Lapse modes.
Moving onto the Selfie camera of the smartphone, it is enabled with 16MP f/2.0, with AI beauty mode that produces the best suitable beauty plan for each user by automatically detecting 255 facial points of subject with the help of its deep learning algorithm. Additionally, AI Bokeh measures pixel by pixel as it focuses on the main focal point and blurs everything in the background to make you stand out in the pictures. Infinix NOTE 5 comes with a 4in1 pixel technology for low light conditions in which 4 pixels merges into one pixel and helps in capturing more light for better quality pictures. It also comes with Softlight flash which further enhances selfies even in low light conditions.
Advanced Performance
Infinix NOTE 5 is powered by MediaTek Helio P23 MT 6763 2.0 Ghz Octa-Core processor based on 16 nanometer process which makes your device faster and power efficient and hence an ideal gaming and entertainment oriented smartphone. The device also brings Dual SIM, Dual VoLTE solution wherein consumer can enjoy 4G VoLTE services on both SIM simultaneously. The device comes with superfast Fingerprint sensor which unlocks the device in half a second. NOTE 5 comes with 3-in-1 card slot wherein you can put Dual Nano SIMs along with a dedicated SD card which is expandable up to 128GB.
The new smartphone will be available exclusively via Flipkart India starting from 31st August, 2018 in three beautiful colours of Ice Blue, Milan Black and Berlin Grey. NOTE 5 is available in two variants – 3GB RAM + 32 GB storage for INR 9999 and 4GB RAM +64GB storage for INR 11999.
Cybage, a leader in the outsourced product engineering space, today announced that it was included in the August 2018 Now Tech: Digital Decisioning Platforms, by Forrester Research authored by Mike Gualtieri and John Rymer. The report names 28 Digital Decisioning Platform Providers, including Cybage DecisionMines.
“Digital business promises customers immediate, informed offers, services, or help tailored for their individual situations and needs. Serving each customer right now requires digital decisioning applications to: 1) decide what to do and then 2) act." The report continues, “Digital decisioning applications are vital to the success of digital business.” (Forrester Research Now Tech: Digital Decisioning Platforms, Q3 2018 Forrester's Overview Of 28 Digital Decisioning Platform Providers, August 2, 2018)
Cybage DecisionMines is a digital decisioning application which helps companies capitalize on their data and insights, as it applies the science of data with the art and intuition of human judgment. DecisionMines uses both predictive and prescriptive analytics to anticipate and diagnose weaknesses and opportunities. It analyzes data (such as people, places, dates, and values) and then implements a system of multi-dimensional scoring to prescribe possible and prioritized recommendations, based on known goals.
“Data and insight driven businesses offer immediate, informed solutions that best meet and exceed individual needs,” said Arun Nathani, CEO & MD, Cybage. “Automated decision-making platforms are undoubtedly emerging as a top method for companies to lead and succeed through digital disruption.”
ThoughtWorks, a software and digital transformation consultancy has been recognized as a leading service provider, earning Winner’s Circle designation in HFS Research’s 2018 Blueprint Report: Software Product Engineering Services. The report issued by HFS Research, the Services Research Company provides a market overview and evaluation of leading service providers across the software product engineering services value chain: new product development, product sustenance, product testing, product deployment, product support, and product management services. ThoughtWorks is positioned amongst the top five vendors on the innovation and execution axis in the report.
"ThoughtWorks is in the Winner's Circle of our Software Product Engineering Services Blueprint because of its strong execution and innovation capabilities," said Pareekh Jain, Senior Vice President, HFS Research. "ThoughtWorks' consulting-led delivery approach, highly educated workforce, excellent customer relationships and strong software product engineering thought leadership has provided an edge over the other companies."
“ThoughtWorks collaborates with digital-first companies, software providers and large enterprises to help them become truly digital”, said Sudhir Tiwari, Managing Director, ThoughtWorks India. “We bring together the best in design thinking, software development, agile practices, continuous engineering, and highly skilled technologists to embed technology at the core of our clients’ business. The recognition is important and validates our ‘technology at core’ mindset to solving our clients’ business challenges and helping create new opportunities for growth.”
ThoughtWorks is in the ‘HFS Winner’s Circle’ because of these strengths -
* The company adopts a consulting-led delivery approach when working with digital transformation clients on product visions, roadmaps, management and engineering
* ThoughtWorks, the early adopter of agile has built expertise across practices like continuous integration, DevOps and test automation
* Long-lasting relationships and high referenceability is key to ThoughtWorks’ growth. Majority of the company’s high value clients enjoy a 5+ year relationship with the service provider
* Highly skilled workforce; It has the highest percentages of postgraduates and PhDs call ThoughtWorks, home - a key capability indicator in the marketplace
* ThoughtWorks’ highly evolved distributed delivery model holds one of the highest percentages of resources in onshore and nearshore locations
* ThoughtWorkers have published several articles, 85+ books on software product engineering trends and emerging area, and have contributed to 50+ open source projects
Avanturaa Choppers – India’s first brand of Street-Legal Choppers has recently received ARAI certification for its maiden models and announced the opening of its first showroom in Bengaluru., with Dealer Partner The Driven Café. The distribution network is now slated to expand to Delhi NCR & Hyderabad.
After a well-received mega launch, complimented by nominations in some of the most prestigious Automobile Awards shows, Rudra and Pravega – the Masterpieces, Curated for Connoisseurs by Avanturaa Choppers, are now available for customers to test and purchase. Starting 22nd August 2018, customers all across India can contact the first Avanturaa Choppers showroom at The Driven Café, Residency Road, Bengaluru with enquiries.
India’s first Dealer Principal of Avanturaa Choppers is Ashwin Jain, Founder of Driven By You Mobility LLP, who conceptualized and manages India’s biggest super-car and premium motorcycle self-drive rental company, through the widely acclaimed Driven Cafés in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The cafés are pioneers in enabling enthusiasts, experience top-of-the-line motorcycles and super cars. “Automobiles have been at the core of our family’s business for the last 38 years and with our valuable customer base who are passionate about premium experiences in the space, Avanturaa Choppers was a natural extension of our business philosophy. We are very excited & proud that this is an Indian brand, and are confident will make an indelible mark on the World map.”
Speaking about the development, Gaurav A. Aggarwal, CEO of Avanturaa Choppers said, “With the launch of our showroom in Bangalore, soon to be followed by other key markets, the realization of our ambition to create a Global impact from India, has begun. The growing culture of leisure-riding in India and the number of connoisseurs pioneering it, give us confidence that the market is ready for Avanturaa Choppers.”
With the critical ARAI certification, strategic distribution network appointments, fully operational manufacturing setup and firm commitment to the company’s vision, Avanturaa Choppers is all geared to deliver motorcycling experiences that compel customers, to redefine their benchmarks of satisfaction.
A group of Indian and international partners today announced the formation of the ‘Global Alliance Mass Entrepreneurship’ (GAME), a new coalition that aims to catalyze a ‘Mass Entrepreneurship’ movement in India that will aim to create 10 million new entrepreneurs, at least half of whom will be women, and 50 million new jobs by 2030. GAME has received initial funding commitment of INR 100 crore over three years from several Indian and global donors.
The announcement was made at a day-long workshop, a first step in identifying a collective vision, driving commitment from interested organizations and defining concrete action plan for the proposed alliance. The workshop organized by The Rockefeller Foundation with support from Dalberg Advisors, had participants from nearly 50 organizations including the Ministry of Skills Development and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), State Governments of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Meghalaya, Tata Trusts, UNICEF, World Bank, Omidyar Network, Facebook India, Wadhwani Foundation, Social Alpha, Aptech, BYST, Pratham and Going to School amongst others.
Like many countries, India has a major challenge when it comes to creating enough jobs; with nearly one million young people entering the working age population every month, India needs new engines of job creation. Entrepreneurship is a critical lever of such job creation but has so far been eclipsed by an nordinate focus on education and skilling.
“Mass entrepreneurship” refers to the millions of ordinary local businesses that typically hire five or more people, use local inputs and serve local needs in every community. These range from a beauty salon or food caterer, to a motorbike repair shop or artisan collective. In most thriving economies, such businesses form the backbone of the economy and employment.
Based on the research of Dalberg Advisors, GAME has identified three pathways of intervention
A) Nurture entrepreneurial mindsets early to help students consider entrepreneurship a viable career option and receive relevant exposure and experience,
B) Converting job seekers to entrepreneurs by creating entrepreneurial opportunities & reducing the risks associated with becoming an entrepreneur, and
C) Finally, help single and micro-entrepreneurs to grow and aspire for more than basic survival by providing services like training, advisory/mentoring as well as access to finance.
While several promising initiatives already exist to promote mass entrepreneurship, there is a need to achieve co-ordination of efforts and drive massive scale. Ravi Venkatesan, former Chairman of Bank of Baroda and Microsoft India and founder of GAME said, “Job creation is a classic “wicked” problem; it is systemic, involves lots of stakeholders, and is interconnected with many other issues, ranging from infrastructure and access to finance to ease of doing business. It defies simple solutions and silver bullets.”
Announcing the formal launch of the initiative, Venkatesan said, “With GAME, we aim to create a focused autonomous organization, bringing together a consortium of public, private and civil society organizations. With a shared mission, the right leadership, and governance model, it can become a platform that allows everyone with an interest in mass entrepreneurship to plug in and play.”
Endorsement and support for the Alliance has come from many organizations.
“The Rockefeller Foundation has been working in and learning from India for more than a century,” said Christine Heenan, Vice President for Policy, Partnerships and Communications at The Foundation. “Helping more Indian families rise out of poverty remains a challenge we’re committed to tackling; creating thousands of new companies and millions of new jobs is key to that. This Alliance can make that goal a reality.”
Dr. K.P. Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India said, “One of the foundational ideas in the creation of a Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship was the notion that skilling should lead to livelihoods generation. The missing link is the ecosystem for creation of mass entrepreneurship. GAME, with potential solutions to this problem, is most timely. My Ministry fully welcomes and supports this initiative and hopes to benefit by these ideas.”
R. Venkataramanan, Managing Trustee, Tata Trusts and a key supporter of GAME, “At Tata Trusts we have made significant progress on promoting rural livelihoods especially amongst women. We believe that this grassroots action must be enhanced by promoting mass entrepreneurship. Initiatives like GAMEare much needed and we are pleased to participate in and support this initiative as it requires platform thinking and multi-stakeholder collaboration.”
“Grassroots creativity and widespread entrepreneurship are the recipe for mass flourishing. India and the world will benefit profoundly from embracing this initiative”, said Professor Edmund S. Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Director, Center on Capitalism & Society.
