Shine.com Adds IT Service Firm Fujitsu Consulting India to its Portfolio

Shine.com, India’s 2nd largest job search portal has been making significant waves in the country’s recruitment space. Adding another feather to its cap, the fastest-growing job portal has brought onboard the world’s 7th largest IT services company, Fujitsu Consulting India, to its client base. With this, Fujitsu will leverage Shine.com’s active candidate database of over 80 lakh job seekers, approximately 30% of which are unique to the cutting-edge job search platform.

Since Fujitsu was formed in 1935, it has been working with people and organizations around the world to shape the future of society. People join Fujitsu because they share Fujitsu’s passion about Human Centric Innovation and Digital Co-creation. Fujitsu aims to harness the talent of all our current and prospective employees to be able to make a difference and create an exciting future for all.

While Fujitsu has already been working to strengthen its workforce, the company is now looking to move beyond –portal model to cast a wider net and hire from a more diverse candidate pool. Commenting on the development, Zairus Master, CEO, Shine.com, said, “Post augmenting our tech stack to deliver better hiring outcomes for organizations, we have been eyeing robust expansion in our client base. This is why we are thrilled to bring on board an industry-leading organization such as Fujitsu Consulting India. Together with Fujitsu’s highly qualified HR team, we will scope out the most suitable talent to accelerate the company’s progression on its growth trajectory.”

Sumit Sabharwal, Director HR – Fujitsu Consulting India, added, “At Fujitsu, we have been looking to recruit from a wider candidate pool to create a truly diverse team with multifaceted skillsets. To that end, we are aiming to attract and hire more individuals with 3-5 years of experience. Shine.com makes the right fit for Fujitsu Consulting India. The social media voice of the platform is more in sync with today’s need, which will definitely help us gain access to this fresh and driven group of individuals.”

Shine.com leverages technology to deliver seamless hiring experiences for recruiters and candidates. As the second-largest job search platform in the country, Shine.com possesses a unique, granular understanding of niche jobs in every industry. With enhanced job-candidate matching capabilities, it allows candidates to match with the most relevant recruiters and vice versa.

Mindtree Launches Blockchain-Powered Merchant On-Boarding Solution for Banks

Mindtree, a global technology services and digital transformation company, has announced the release of its Merchant On-Boarding solution for acquirer banks and payment service providers. It uses Hyperledger fabric Blockchain technology to enable these financial institutions that facilitate credit card or debit payments to more quickly, seamlessly and securely onboard merchants as customers. Mindtree will debut its Merchant On-Boarding solution at PayThink 2019 on September 18-21, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA.

Acquirer banks and payment service providers need to quickly onboard new merchants as customers so that they can increase the volume of transactions they process and grow their business. However, on-boarding questionable merchants that authorize fraudulent transactions results in charges and losses that impact the bottom line. These institutions urgently need technologies that can mitigate risk and help them comply with regulations such as anti-money laundering, Know Your Customer and Know Your Customer’s Customer.

On-boarding merchants is a complex and risk-prone process, involving significant due diligence checks and third party verification to ensure merchants aren’t involved in fraud. Mindtree’s solution is architected to simplify and streamline this process using Blockchain technology. The automated process also helps reduce operational costs and improves quality control using standardized global best practices.

Mindtree’s Merchant On-boarding solution is developed on a Hyperledger fabric channel – which is a private distributed ledger framework for communication between members for all merchants that ensures secure and private sharing of document approval and information between all dependent stakeholders. Blockchain offers capabilities to enable transactions to be authenticated and authorized, securely and transparently. This ensures that data is transmitted within a secure network and accelerates information sharing across all parties, ensuring data is protected.

“Financial institutions that process merchant transactions need to strike a balance between growing their customer base and preventing fraudulent transactions,” said Manas Chakraborty, global head of Banking, Financial Services and Insurance for Mindtree. “Both acquirer banks and merchants are frustrated with the on-boarding process and want more transparency, more speed, and less time and effort. Blockchain offers an exciting opportunity to eliminate complexity. Mindtree’s Merchant On-Boarding solution eliminates the need for third-party verification each time a merchant is onboarded and provides merchants with more insight into the process than ever before.”

Pune’s First ‘Mind Mastery For Traders’ Workshop Receives Encouraging Response

Mind Mastery for Traders workshop organized by Aarya Consulting has received a tremendous response from a packed audience of stock traders across the Pune City.

The potential audience gathered to hear from a prominent stock trader and founder of Aarya Consulting, Mr Shailesh Mamidwar, followed by a guest speaker – Mr. Anand Kulkarni, Psychologist and Corporate trainer, about the importance of positive thinking and a disciplined trading mindset at The E Square Hotel at University Road.

What is the optimal trading mindset? How do traders train the mind to reach a zen-like state when committing to trading in a volatile market – and inadvertently walk away with returns that forward their goals? These are just some of the questions that were covered at the one-day Mind Mastery For Traders workshop organized by Aarya Consulting as a part of the A Trader Within program, covering the psychological aspects of stock trading.

Not every stock trader is able to reach their full inner potential when trading. The A Trader Within workshop covered extensively, the decision making, the psychology of trading and adapting mindsets to the market so that financial goals can be identified, targeted and achieved.

“I got a lot of insights on trading and the mindset related to it, which are not provided by any other trading institutes that I have come across so far.” Says Amol Fadtare, an active stock trader from Pune.

Lack of discipline, impatience, controlling fear on entry, greed and knowing when to stop losses were just a few of the topics that the program’s eminent and proven traders spoke extensively about. Mr. Shailesh also shared one simple trading strategy - Torbit, which works very well if a trader has patience and discipline. The goal of the program was to expand the knowledge of the traders who profited through simple mind exercises, analytics, control techniques, and introspective thinking that helps uncover the secrets that the world’s most experienced stock traders have closely guarded. If you feel you’ve missed out on this grand opportunity you can still catch a glimpse of the workshop on Aarya Consulting’s official Facebook handle.

The program received extensive media coverage from national publishers for its holistic approach and was enthusiastically attended by a select crowd of progressive stock traders from Pune.

Vineet, A professiobal NSE Stock trader says, the workshop not only talks about how you can have effective trading skills but it also talks about your mindset

Mind Mastery For Traders is an extensive program by Aarya Consulting’s founder and mainstay, Mr. Shailesh Mamidwar and Mr. Anand Kulkarni – who are a proponent of deciphering and propagating the skills and mindset necessary for massive trading success.

#AdvantageGaming – ACT Fibernet Launches New Gaming Pack Subscription for Gaming Customers

ACT Fibernet, India’s largest fiber-focused wired broadband ISP (Internet Service Provider), today announced the launch of special ‘Gaming Packs’ for customers. As part of the company’s brand philosophy “Feel the Advantage”, ACT Fibernet with the new offering aims to delight gaming enthusiasts with superior gaming experience through incredibly fast internet speed, optimized routing that delivers low pings and superior network infrastructure that reduces packet losses and jitters.

The Gaming pack is a subscription service for gamers that will be made available in two variants – A-Game Basic(monthly) and A Game Ultra (6 month variant) and is built with many first-to-India features.

Speed on Demand – Launching for the first time in India –gaming pack subscribers can improve their plan speed on demand through their “SpeedBoost” feature. This feature when activated by the customer through the ACT Application or Website, will boost his speeds to 300 Mbps in instantly that will enable downloading large gaming updates or multiplayer gaming with friends among others.

Data Boost – To ensure that gamers and streamers always have sufficient data when downloading gaming updates or live streaming, gaming pack subscribers will get additional data of 200 GB/ month on A-Game Basic pack and 1800 GB added one-time with a validity of 6 months for A-Game Ultra pack

Partner Benefits – To enable the best gaming experience for its subscribers, ACT is bringing attractive offers across gaming eco system via gaming partners - Zotac Gaming for Gaming GPUs, Western Digital for gaming Storage devices, Games the shop for discounts on FIFA 20, Marvels Avengers, Cyber Punk 2077 etc, Western Digital among others. (Details below)

In-game rewards – Another first in India, ACT Fibernet is tying up with gaming publishers to offer special in-game benefits such as faster level ups, performance boosts, access to higher skill levels, discounted purchases from publishers upon signing up via the gaming pack. (Details below)

The Gaming Pack will be available beginning 18 September 2019 across all the cities ACT Fibernet has presence in. A- Game Basic will be available to users at Rs.500 + GST and A-Game Ultra comes at price of Rs.2000+GST.

ACT Fibernet – World of Warship Partnership

In conjunction to the company’s new offering, ACT Fibernet has partnered with Wargaming, a Cyprus-based gaming powerhouse to launch the World of Warship title for the first time in India.

Wargaming has over 200 million registered users and is a pioneer in Free-To-Play industry with over 50 industry awards. Wargaming is now bringing World of Warships to India with ACT Fibernet.

ACT Fibernet has worked closely with Wargaming to bring exclusive in-game rewards, skills and level-ups, that will delight gamers as part of its World of Warships launch in India. ACT Fibernet has also worked closely with World of Warships to optimize routing to World of Warship servers to provide best gaming experience on ACT Fibernet network. Additionally, for the first time, World of Warships has designed and incorporated exclusive ACT Fibernet branded camouflages that will be available for gamers to use in their gameplay. Other gaming pack benefits within the World of Warships game includes exclusive ACT Fibernet branded containers, flags, patches and customizations, in-game credits, doubloons and other discounts.

Speaking on the partnership, Ravi Karthik, Head of Marketing, Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd said, “ACT Fibernet is known to provide the best gaming experience with high speeds, low latency and negligible packet losses. With the gaming industry in India now beginning to grow we believe our proposition of a gaming pack puts together in one place what the customer wants – speeds, data, low pings, in game benefits and offers will meet the needs of gamers and enable a delightful gaming experience”.

We are extremely excited to partner with World of Warships for their India launch. The rich multi-player experience with strategies and quasi real battles provide for great gaming experience which can be enjoyed by diverse age groups. Together we will work to build gaming in India and World of warships to a huge success” he further added.”

Commenting on the association, Victor Bardovsky, Global Publishing Director for World of Warships, Wargaming said, “We are very pleased that from now on Indian gamers will get to enjoy even better and richer World of Warships experience. As one of the leading free-to-play games, we knew the potential and challenges of the local market, therefore we recognized ACT Fibernet as a reliable partner who understands the growing needs of Indian gaming audience. By working together and sharing our experiences, we hope to spread the passion for naval history among players in India, one of the leading naval powers of the modern age.”

Toyota Flags Off the Five Continents Car Drive in India

With a Promise to make Ever-better Cars Together – for Today and Tomorrow, the 5 Continents Drive embarks on its journey in India

* With a quest to discover real India & in-line with Toyota Kirloskar Motor’s commitment to create ever-better cars, the 5 Continent Drive promises to provide valuable insights pertaining to the Indian customer’s needs
* As part of its India leg, the convoy to drive through the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and conclude in New Delhi before the team and driving goes on to other Asian legs
* In February 2019, Toyota embarked on its sixth and final leg of the project in Asia starting from Middle East

Commemorating the illustrious journey of two decades of Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) in India, the 5 Continents Drive embarked on its journey in India, with a promise to make ever-better cars together – For Today and Tomorrow. The 5 Continents Drive is a ‘Genchi Genbutsu’ project (where employees go to the source to get the facts) carried out under the umbrella of TOYOTA GAZOO Racing.

Launched in Australia in 2014, so far, the 5 Continents Drive project has covered four of the world’s continents and moved to Asia for its final stage, earlier this year. As part of the project, Toyota employees drive vehicles under various conditions of the 5 continents: Australia, America (North & Latin), Europe, Africa and Asia through 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, representing the five rings in the Olympic symbol.

The 5 Continent Drive flag-off ceremony took place at Toyota Kirloskar Motor’s plant at Bidadi in Karnataka. The drive was flagged-off by chief-guests, Mr. Yoichi Minamiyama- General Manager, GAZOO Racing Company, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Mr. Atsuhiro Okamoto- Executive Vice President, Toyota Motor Asia Pacific (TMAP), along with Mr. Masakazu Yoshimura- Managing Director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM), and Mr. N.  Raja- Deputy Managing Director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM), amidst other dignitaries.

From Bangalore, the convoy with employees from TMC & TKM along with its partners, will travel through the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan, and reach its destination - New Delhi, where the drive will culminate late September, 2019. The convoy will be driving Toyota vehicles from the company’s existing model line-up in India.

Speaking on the launch of the project in India, Mr. Yoichi Minamiyama, General Manager, GAZOO Racing Company, TMC said, “TOYOTA GAZOO Racing firmly believes that, ‘On the road we learn how to make ever-better cars.’ 5 Continents Drive Project was formulated to put this maxim to the test. Driven by the philosophy of ‘Genchi Genbutsu’, this project enables us to go behind the wheels under harsh road conditions to gain experience and knowledge of the world's roads, listen to customer feedback, encounter global cultures first-hand, and together find solutions to numerous problems and challenges. Such experiences further empower us to hone our intuition for making ever-better cars in a manner that cannot be replicated at a desk or on test courses, and thereby contribute to the development of human resources.

Since the launch of the 5 Continent Drive Project in 2014, around 520 participants have travelled across continents to take back learnings from the roads to each workplace, in each area, breaking down corporate walls, and learning from the roads. With the commencement of our journey In India, we look forward to understanding the characteristics of the Indian roads and the challenges that will come along with it,” he continued.

Also speaking at the occasion, Mr. Atsuhiro Okamoto, Executive Vice President, TMAP said, “India is a very important market for Toyota and it is with this intent that we wanted to begin the second leg of the 5 Continents Asia Drive in India. Asia is the last stage of Toyota 5 Continents Drive Project. In February 2019, the team embarked to its starting point: the Middle East. Continuing on, the teams will drive east through Asia covering countries like Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and culminating in Vietnam by November 2019.

What makes our India journey even more special is besides Toyota employees, members from Suzuki Motor Corporation/MSIL will also participate in our quest to discover the real India. Furthermore, the core of the Toyota 5 Continents Drive is reflecting and embodying Toyota’s global corporate initiative ‘Start Your Impossible’ which aims to inspire people, including our employees and stand against challenges and the impossible. We look forward to a fruitful drive in India and wish the team the very best in this journey”, he concluded.

Welcoming the 5 Continents Drive Project team to India, Mr. Masakazu Yoshimura, Managing Director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor said, “All through our journey of two decades in India, it has been our constant endeavor to achieve sustainable growth for our business,  employees and our partners. We have always challenged ourselves to create new ways to connect and serve our customers. We believe this project will play an instrumental role in the overall development of our human resources providing them with the knowledge and skill to serve our customers in a better way.

With the philosophy of ‘Roads train people & people build cars’, the 5 Continents Drive convoy will be driving across India’s diverse locations, listening to customer feedback, understanding the nature of roads, reviewing our vehicle standards,  recognizing the value of reliability,  durability & comfort, acquiring the knowledge through ‘Genchi Genbutsu’ & thereby continue making ever better cars in India”.

Further sharing his thoughts on the project and what it means to Toyota in India, Mr. N. Raja, Deputy Managing Director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor said, “Toyota Kirloskar Motor always looks at adding value and fostering customer experience to newer heights through its renowned QDR (Quality, Durability and Reliability) philosophy and this project is a step closer towards achieving our goal of delivering ever-better cars and catering to the ever-evolving needs of our customers. The learning garnered through this project will help us strengthen our current offerings and provide future-ready solutions. We are delighted to welcome the 5 Continents Drive Project to India as this project will not only enable Toyota engineers to understand our country better but will also give an opportunity to our dealers and customers in India to interact with them. We would like to thank the team for this opportunity and wish them the very best for the drive”.

In this project, Toyota aims to not only develop employees who are behind the wheel but also inspire its partners and other internal & external stakeholders. The driving teams will share their knowledge acquired with other employees through internal reports once the Asia leg of the drive is over.

Mindtree Develops New Container Acceleration Service Enabling Faster Deployment of Cloud Applications

Mindtree, a global technology services and digital transformation company, announced a new service, InnoApp for Kubernetes, enabling enterprises to deploy containerized cloud applications on Microsoft Azure, accelerating application setup and innovation. The service utilizes Kubernetes, the open source architecture for automating deployment and management of containerized applications.

Containers and container orchestration are one of the most preferred ways of designing and deploying cloud native workloads, be it application transformation based on micro services, data transformation, intelligence-based services, among others. One of the biggest challenges that architects and developers face are the governance issues around architecture, operations, policies and security.

Mindtree’s new InnoApp for Kubernetes service greatly simplifies the process for clients to launch containerized application workloads on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. The underlying platform for InnoApp for Kubernetes provides ready to use, industry proven infrastructure-as-code templates to accelerate app modernization for enterprises.

Key components of the service include:

·         Scanning of application code to access cloud readiness, giving insights into which legacy applications can be updated.
·         Provisioning and setup of Kubernetes clusters on Azure with analytics and logging features, automating these processes to add more efficiency.
·         Configuration of a DevOps pipeline that simplifies app deployment and configuration changes.
·         Setup of governance and security policy engines to monitor applications running on Azure Kubernetes Service, ensuring that organizations meet guidelines for risk mitigation and compliance obligations.

Mindtree has also joined the Azure Kubernetes Service program. Mindtree offers its enterprise customers specialized expertise and experience with large-scale client work within the open source modernization ecosystem. The Azure Kubernetes Service program is also part of the new Azure Advanced Specialization Competencies announced at Microsoft Inspire 2019.

“Many of our enterprise customers approach their digital transformation, planning and modernization for key applications in a modern, cloud-native way where containers are a foundation,” said Manoj Karanth, Global Head of Cloud at Mindtree. “They’re interested in the potential for orchestration engines like Kubernetes to help accelerate application development while handling the compliance and security aspects. As cloud platforms are evolving, InnoApp for Kubernetes provides the pathway to help clients accelerate their multi-cloud container strategy using the Azure platform.”

Gabe Monroy, partner program manager, Azure Container Compute at Microsoft Corp. said, “Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service is the next wave of application suite modernization and an important initiative for Microsoft. Customers look to Azure Kubernetes Service to help innovate current business processes, so we look for partners focused on digital transformation that are well-versed in all things Microsoft. We’re pleased to see Mindtree continue with its commitment to providing solutions on today’s latest technologies.”

Clients using InnoApp for Kubernetes can take advantage of Mindtree’s deep expertise in application modernization with its large client base. Mindtree has micro-service experience across several industries, including global travel, hospitality, insurance, manufacturing, retail and finance.

Mindtree experts will attend the Microsoft Digital Transformation Academy September 17-21 in Las Vegas, NV to discuss the service with Microsoft’s U.S. field selling and channel teams.

KITABAY & KOFFEE, Bengaluru’s Book Fair Opens at NGV Club, Koramangala, Sept 19–22

KITABAY & KOFFEE, an upcoming book & coffee event will see visitors enjoying a bulk sale of over 90,000 books along with a variety of freshly brewed South Indian coffee at NGV Club, Koramangala, Bengaluru from 19th – 22nd September 2019 from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm. It’s an opportunity for all readers & caffeine lovers to experience the remarkable amalgamation of books & coffee at one place.

This unique book fair, organized by KITABAY.COM, is the brainchild of Mr. Saurabh Sinha, a Jaipur based entrepreneur who after completing his engineering in Computer Science from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore in the year 2016 worked with an IT Multinational Company & an Insurance Company. His vision is to provide an online platform which understands the reader’s demands, expectations and provides the finest selection of books at the most affordable prices.

KITABAY & KOFFEE will display over 90,000 new & pre-loved books in over 20 genres to choose from and fit as many books as they can into a box of their choice. It’s a one - time payment of a box where the buyer has the opportunity to pack the maximum number of books into the box of their selection. The individual can choose from 3 different sized boxes at the event.

*      The small box has a min. capacity of 10-12 books at Rs. 999
*      The medium box has a min. capacity of 15-18 books at Rs. 1499
*      The large box has a min. capacity of 30-33 books at Rs. 2499

Some of the finest coffees from the coffee abodes of South India sourced from 100% organic farms will also be available.