Xiaomi India Launches New Mi Dual Driver In-Ear Earphones

Xiaomi, India’s number one smartphone and smart TV brand, today, extended it’s line up of audio products with the launch of Mi Dual-Driver In-Ear Earphones. These earphones come equipped with 10mm and 8mm dynamic drivers delivering rich bass and crisp treble. Designed for an immersive sound experience, it ensures minimal sound distortion while offering extra bass, sparkling trebles and clear mids.

The earphones, conferred with the prestigious iF DESIGN AWARD 2020 look elegant and are also built to last. The outer shell of the earphone features an elegant carbon look for effortless style. The anodized aluminium cavity perfected with a zircon sandblasting procedure makes the earphones lightweight, scratch proof and fingerprint resistant. The earphones also feature soft anti-slip earplugs that perfectly fit the contour of your ears offering exceptional comfort.

Mi Dual Driver In-Ear Earphones come with the convenience of a 3 button operation and supports voice assistants. The magnetic earbuds ensure that storing the earphones is simpler, and the tangle-free braided cable enhances the tensile resistance and durability of the wire, thus increasing the lifespan of the product.

Raghu Reddy, Chief Business Officer, Xiaomi India said, “Majority of Indians today lead a fast-paced life and consume most of their content on the go. While most earphones come with Single Dynamic Driver, Mi Dual Driver In-Ear Earphones segregate the range of different frequencies and deliver much fuller sound through the dual diaphragm drivers. This product has been designed to meet the exacting audio requirements of the new age consumer by providing a distinct sound signature with a focus on bass, treble and mids. It also features braided wires for additional durability and passive noise cancellation to make it an incredible value product in this category.”

Hiringplug, India’s First AI Enabled Recruitment Aggregator Witnesses 500% Growth Over Last Quarter

Hiringplug, India’s first AI enabled curated Marketplace of Recruiters that enables Employers to acquire Quality talent, faster has completed two years operational milestone in the industry, has witnessed an average growth of 500% over the last quarter. Established in 2016 and launching operations in February 2018, the AI enabled recruitment platform, foresees to revolutionize and fast track hiring process for organizations across sectors. 500 Recruitment firms on the Hiringplug’s platform have enabled this vision, by working on over 1000 job mandates from 150+ employers in India, across industries including Information Technology, Consulting, Real Estate, Retail, Pharmaceutical, BFSI and many more. Recognized as the “Best Resourcing Software” - 2019 by HR Association of India, Hiringplug foresees to have 5-7 fold growth over the last year

The platform allows Employers and specialist Recruitment firms to seamlessly discover and engage with each other to acquire quality talent. Hiringplug is free to join and has several integrated tools such as intelligent matching, Resume Parsing, Applicant Tracking system (ATS), Interview scheduler, Vendor Management System (VMS), Candidate Ratings and communication modules, etc. to boost recruitment efficiency. The platform uses Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning to calibrate better matching suppliers and candidates to help employers #hire5Xfaster.

Hiringplug helps organizations of all sizes to efficiently consolidate their permanent hiring and engage with multiple suppliers over a single platform. "Being a large firm, our talent acquisition requirements are diverse & targeting best of the talent in industry. hiringplug comes across as a reliable aggregator platform that easily aligns to our depth & scale of hiring with quick turnaround time. It is clearly simplicity at its best!" said Apurva Pundir, Associate Director at KPMG

Vikramjit Singh Sahaye, founder and CEO, HiringPlug said, “At Hiringplug, we are helping cutting down the 'Time to hire' substantially to 14 days by using technology to identify Top candidates, sourced on its recruiters' marketplace. Our unique, "RaaS 'Recruitment as a Service' Marketplace" democratizes the sector by empowering over 500 specialist recruitment agencies to seamlessly engage & fill a variety of job vacancies from a variety of employers, without any administrative or contractual hurdles. Employers get screened, highly relevant profiles with AI based matching, saving hours of productive time and reducing 'Time to fill' by nearly 70%. The estimated 65,000 recruitment service providers in India are pegged to grow by 15%, in line with the future of work and the expected global talent shortage”.

Sukhdeep Aurora, Chief People Officer at ANAROCK said that "hiringplug is a great agency aggregator that's helped us ramp-up our hiring requirements. They align well with our contingent hiring needs and the single point coordination system makes it very easy to manage vendor performance."

Internet has reduced the gap for innovation and providing scores of professionals to offer their services without boundaries. Hiringplug gives wings to such brilliance in the recruitment sector and connects them to highly qualified job vacancies, so they’re not dominated by large competitors.

“With hiringplug, it was almost effortless to become a recruitment entrepreneur after 20 years of corporate HR experience and quickly doubled our business. It required no initial investment and gave ample opportunity to work on job vacancies from diverse sectors” said Anjali, Founder of Careerways Executive search firm in Gurgaon.

Hiringplug also encourages entrepreneurship in Talent Acquisition by empowering Recruitment firms, Executive search consultants, independent recruiters and the fast growing “Gig recruiters” community,  to seamless work on jobs of their choice and expand business by focusing on their core strengths. An ideal platform for Niche hiring, head hunting, turnkey mandates, Diversity hiring, confidential leadership mandates and works across all sectors.

Signify Provides Indian Cricket Fans a Pitch Perfect View at World’s Largest Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad

Signify, the world leader in lighting, is providing cricket fans in India with a perfect view on the nation’s favorite sport as it illuminates the Sardar Patel Stadium (commonly known as Motera Stadium), the world’s largest cricket stadium located in Ahmedabad, in association with Larsen & Toubro. The newly constructed stadium was the venue for the public gathering addressed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump and Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi during the former’s visit to India.

Signify has equipped the Motera Stadium, which can host 110,000 spectators and is one of India’s premier cricket stadiums, with 580 luminaries of Philips ArenaVision LED Floodlighting system for day-and-night games. This installation complies with the ICC (International Cricket Council) Broadcasting standards for sports illumination. The stadium, owned by Gujarat Cricket Association, is a regular venue for Test cricket and One Day Internationals (ODI) matches. It features two cricket grounds, a cricket academy, an Olympic size swimming pool, a gymnasium and 75 corporate boxes.

The lighting system has been designed exclusively for sports and multi-purpose venues, offering outstanding light quality, higher energy efficiency, effective thermal management and a long lifetime.

“We are very proud to illuminate the world’s largest cricket stadium using our Philips Arenavision LED Floodlighting system. It is also India’s first LED floodlit cricket stadium that meets the ICC Broadcasting standards. This system will offer an unparalleled sporting experience for cricket fans in the country,” said Sumit Padmakar Joshi, Market Leader of Signify’s operations in India. “At the same time, it will help the stadium in achieving its responsible and environmental goals enabling durability through longevity and significantly reduce maintenance costs.”

TECNO CAMON Series is Back in a New Indian Avatar to Transform Smartphone Photography

Highlights

* Priced at INR 14,999, CAMON 15 pro sports a segment first 48 MP AI Quad rear cam & 32MP Pop-Up Selfie camera with Ultra Night lens
* Priced at INR 9,999, CAMON 15 becomes the first and only smartphone to feature 16MP 'Dot In-Selfie’camera along with 48MP rear AI Quad-cam under 10K

TECNO Mobile, the global premium smartphone brand, reaffirm its  ‘segment-first’ reputation by announcing the launch of CAMON 15 and CAMON 15Pro – 2020’s first dual offering from the company from its popular camera-cetric CAMON series. The two smartphones will reshape daytime, low-light and nighttime photography for India’s mid-budget consumers. The TECNO CAMON smartphones earmark the era of higher camera pixels, premium AI-enabled Ultra Night lens (powered by DSP technology) and pop-up selfie camera. And the incredibly affordable price points will set new standards for the competition and the industry at large.

After cementing its position in the top 5 rank in the entry-level segment,  TECNO is expected to consolidate its position in the mid-range smartphone segment (9-15K) as a leading camera-centric player in India. The new smartphones will go on sale on February 25 and will be available across 35,000+ offline retail stores.

Both smartphones flaunt many segment-first innovations: TECNO CAMON 15 Pro is the first in  the sub-15K segment to offer 48MP quad-cam, 32MP pop-up selfie & 6GB+128GB storage; while CAMON 15 becomes the first in under-10K segment to offer 48MP Quad rear camera, 16MP dot-in selfie camera, 5000mAh battery and a big 6.55” dot-in display. Morever both smartphones resolve a critical issue of clicking pictures in low light conditions with its Super Night Lens powered by DSP AI chip.

Commenting on the launch, Mr. Arijeet Talapatra, CEO, TRANSSION India said: “At TECNO, we are continuously pushing boundaries to provide a first-in-class smartphone experience with our products, in keeping with our ‘ahead of the curve’ approach. With the new product offerings under the CAMON series portfolio, we are looking to transform the way photography has been experienced by the category consumers till now.  The fact that these smartphones are being launched in India first before other markets affirm our “For India” approach that seeks to disrupt the mid-budget segment with products customized to cater to Indian sensibilities in a better way.  With the launch of CAMON 15 and CAMON 15Pro, customers can enjoy superior photography and style in different price segments.”

Key Features of TECNO CAMON

I. See More See Clear with 48MP AI Quad Rear camera

The TECNO CAMON Series Duo comprising CAMON 15 & CAMON 15Pro comes with a multipurpose Quad Camera setup to provide the consumers with infinite creative possibilities.

* Ultra Clarity: Click outstandingly clear HDR pictures with 48MP AI Quad-cam setup  (48MP+2+5+QVGA). The 48MP primary lens improves image clarity with higher resolution, which helps to capture more detail and take clearer pictures. The 5MP 115° ultra-wide-angle lens brings more diversity in terms of picture composition and expression, making it easier to capture even a 2cm extreme close up shots. While the Portrait Lens allow users to click professional portraits.
* Super Night Shot: With the Ultra Night Lens supported by DSP chip, f1.79 large apertures, AI image synthesis, ½” Sensor and 4-in-1 technology, TECNO CAMON ensures efficient noise reduction, pixels correction, light optimization and provides users with night photography that highlights more details than the human eye can perceive. So enjoy all of your hangout places with dark light and click beautiful pictures without any worry.
* AI ASD (Auto Scene Detection) optimizer: Can automatically detect many common life scenarios like food, pet, flower, street, portraits, mall, night portraits etc.  So now you just focus on capturing memories and leave rest of the work to ASD feature.  There are no boundaries to fun. The CAMON 15 Pro lets you to be creative with its customized Indian style Stickers as well as DIY AR emoji that mimic your facial expression.

II. Incredible design and smart Selfie Camera:

* CAMON 15Pro features a 32 MP AI Pop-Up Selfie camera- making the screen  compeletely bezel-less. The camera on the CAMON 15 Pro pops out from the top edge with beautiful sound and light effect every time you wanted to take a selfie or start a video call. Also, with Ultra Night Clear Selfies, your night selfies will be the talk of your circle.
* CAMON 15 comes with 16MP Dot-in Selfie camera that seemly integrates the front camera, & light sensor that boasts a 90% screen-to-body ratio, super wide view, and a much more efficient display of information. the feature that is currently available in only higher priced flagship smartphones.
* AI Beauty 3.0 and Body Shaping Feature: comes with enhanced capabilities in addition to face it also optimizes the body parts with AI Body shaping feature for perfect body shape & customised beauty effects such as enlarge eye, slim face etc. to name a few.
* Short video for Face beauty in video mode, Quick sharing - CAMON 15 Pro allows you to shoot  15s/60s short videos with AI beauty with quick sharing button.

III. An Immersive Viewing Experience with no notch & no dot in CAMON 15 Pro:

* Gigantic FHD+ Real Full View - Give yourself the perfect visual experience with CAMON 15Pro that features FHD+ Real Full View with 2340 x 1080 FHD+ resolution, 91.2% screen body ratio.
* The new age display comes with 480 Nits peak brightness to give flagship level experience.
* Comes with futuristic look with an edge-to-edge display and fluidic corners to catch every eye.

IV.  Super-Fast Performance, Bigger Battery & Security:

●  CAMON 15Pro comes with a 2.35 GHz Octa-Core P35 Processor strengthens the multitasking without lagging and hanging. Enjoy fast and seamless processing experience.
●  Both the devices comes with Fingerprint sensor,  Face unlock & 3-in-1 multi card slot.
●  CAMON 15Pro comes with a 4000 mAh high-density large capacity battery, with AI power saving and Safe Charge mode. Once fully charged, it will run for the whole day. While the CAMON 15 is available with 5000mAh battery.

V.  An Evolving Operating System HiOS 6.0.1 based on Android 10

Camon 15Pro and Camon 15 are based on HiOS v6.0.1 which offers some localized innovative features such as Social Turbo to enhance WhatsApp experience with options like call recorder, status saver etc., a hassle free WiFi sharing option without password, Dial sound generator to add more fun. As well as many gaming related features like Game data analytics, Anti-addiction mode, Off-screen gaming, Game magic button etc.

Qlik Expands Partnership With Databricks by Joining its Data Ingestion Network

Qlik has announced it has expanded its partnership with Databricks, joining Databricks’ Data Ingestion Network. Qlik Data Integration simplifies loading data into Delta Lake, an open source project that provides reliable data lakes at scale, accelerating the creation of lakehouses for analytics and machine learning (ML). Lakehouse, a new data management paradigm, combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses, enabling business intelligence (BI) and ML on all of a business’s data.

“We’re excited to be one of the inaugural partners for the launch of Databricks’ Data Ingestion Network. This is the latest development in our growing relationship focused on helping enterprises accelerate time to value with data in the cloud,” said Itamar Ankorion, SVP of Technology Alliances at Qlik. “Our deeper integration provides Databricks’ customers with a more seamless on-ramp of data from any enterprise data source to their Delta Lake, with the best-fit modern data integration strategy to fuel future targets as their data platforms evolve.”

Qlik and Databricks have been jointly delivering integrated solutions and tremendous value to customers looking to accelerate their journey to the cloud. Deploying Qlik Data Integration with Delta Lake allows unparalleled ability to automate and stream data from any source, including mainframes, SAP, databases and data warehouses, into the cloud, in real time. Customers can quickly unlock the value of all their data for analysis and ML with analytics-ready data sets to maximize the efficiency, scalability and cost-savings in the cloud.

“Databricks is excited to have Qlik as a key partner in the launch of our Data Ingestion Network. The Qlik Data Integration platform will bring organizations a market leading data integration solution to move all their data into a lakehouse,” said Michael Hoff, SVP of Business Development and Partners at Databricks. “Customers will see benefit in easily bringing real-time and analytics-ready data directly into Delta Lake for their BI and ML use cases.”

Convert Co-Opportunity to Co-Creation to Give and Get More

The Business Roundtable and Davos both have stated the purpose of a company is to create value, not just shareholder wealth creation. Perhaps we should expand this to co-creation of value which makes more sense than just consume and dispose. Co-creation of value is implied in the Business Round Table and Davos’ New Purpose of a Company. The world has changed and sustainability is important and so we have to co-create more with our stakeholders such as employees, customers, and even competition, who in a skewed way is a stakeholder. They have an interest in our business just as we have in them.

Customer centric customer value creation is important and requires a relationship. Hence we should promote relationship through co-creation.

How many times have you missed an opportunity because you did not have the resources to take advantage of it? Resources could mean money, it could mean skills, it could mean reach etc. Thus when a friend wanted to buy a farm property in Delhi, he could barely afford the minimum 2 acres required by law. He came across an 11 acre parcel at a great price. He went to 3 other friends, and made them partners in buying the whole parcel. This was a co-opportunity which became a value co-creation opportunity when the friends actually divided the parcel into 4 pieces.

Co-creation of babies is a natural example where two different people are needed. Shared resources are becoming common, like cloud storage, using rail tracks belonging to another company to run your trains. Or sharing a teacher in a class room to co-create learning. Or sharing knowledge.

Sharing, community thinking, co-creation are natural activities. Yet, in most corporate situations where winning, driving market share and profits become the goal, we forget these natural activities, and tend to go alone, go solo.

Competition is viewed as the enemy. Build defensive and offensive strategies to beat them.

Customers are often viewed as the adversary, (message often seems to be take advantage of them).

Remember, co-opportunity should lead to co-creation and conversely, co-creation should lead to co-opportunity.

In this new thinking competition are friends, they are enablers, and they are helpers.

Customers are friends, they need us, and we need them.

To do this, a mind-set change to Value creation is necessary for the CXOs, the employees, and must be communicated to customers. In a sense we need to build a co-creation community, and we need to do everything to build or better still co-create a community. What are our needs, what are the needs of the community and our competitors? What are the shared and emotional connects we have and what are the end results we seek? Can we share a joint passion, such as sustainability? Such as uniting for charitable purposes (in India on CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility).

Internally our strategy should be very clear on co-creation and co-opportunity creation. This should translate into a purpose we want to portray to our people, our customers, our partners and our competitors, and if need be the government. We should keep our focus on the members of the community, reminding them on the purpose and the need to co-create, the co- opportunities and the end results.

Then we look at this as a project with a start (the members and the purpose) and an end, which is co-creation improving the well-being of the members (which is value creation) and ourselves. Our decisions are to be driven deliberately by the strategy, the purpose and achieving the greater good of all through co-creation.

We must empower and involve members and the community with tools, with a culture of co-creation and partnership. We must find shared interests.

What improves a co-opportunity and co-creation program is a sense of belonging and fulfilment. Am I getting something worthwhile out of this? Can I connect to my customers and my competitors without making them antagonists, but by making them partners, working towards a common and shared good (or value). Examples include App Developers for Apple or Microsoft, people who go on a co-driving experience, people who build an association with members of typically competing companies, and customers and companies. Companies often buy raw materials from their competitors. Today, many companies share R&D programs. There are many examples. Apple, MS, Amazon all creates competitive advantage through co-creation.

But we forget these in the heat of our wanting to win and not think of win-win. If you are not doing this, maybe you will think differently after this.

ExxonMobil, IndianOil and Chart Industries to Pioneer Virtual Pipeline Initiative

Highlights

* Leading companies innovating with virtual pipelines to accelerate gas access in India
* Focus on designing rapidly scalable mobile infrastructure for deployment
* Strong potential to stimulate localized manufacturing of essential equipment

ExxonMobil India LNG Limited has signed a Letter of Cooperation with Indian Oil Corporation Limited and Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc., to establish a system of transportation infrastructure to expand gas access in India. Virtual pipeline systems deliver liquefied natural gas by road, rail and waterways to areas not connected by physical pipelines.

This Letter of Cooperation brings together ExxonMobil, IndianOil, India’s largest state-owned oil refining and marketing company, and Chart, a leading global manufacturer of LNG equipment for use throughout the liquid gas supply chain. The parties will implement a gas infrastructure initiative that leverages LNG ISO intermodal containers to move gas as a reliable, cleaner and cost-effective fuel.

The initiative seeks to develop a pilot project and create a roadmap for mobile gas infrastructure expansion at scale, improving access to an abundant and cleaner fuel source.

“India is ready for the benefits of natural gas now,” said Alex Volkov, Chairman, ExxonMobil LNG Market Development Inc. “By linking our global expertise with other leading players, we can create strong and reliable pathways for gas to move quickly and efficiently to where it is needed.”

As a major LNG supplier, ExxonMobil has been working closely with IndianOil to explore innovative supply-chain solutions for enhancing India’s gas access. Chart’s collaboration will accelerate this progress and create new opportunities for localized manufacturing of essential equipment, leveraging Chart’s main India facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh.

“We believe this collaboration with ExxonMobil and IndianOil will accelerate India’s ability to offer cleaner energy within its growing cities,” said Jillian Evanko, Chief Executive Officer, Chart Industries, Inc. “We are excited to combine our international experience and local presence in Sri City to design the winning formula alongside two great collaborators.”