Engineers Set To Shape A New Era of Frontier Technologies Including AI And Web3: CoinSwitch CEO

Indian engineers and product builders have a rich history of simplifying complex technologies for common users. This is the Indian school of product building.

We can see this theme in multiple industries: The ISRO engineers have built a homegrown space industry of great utility to the common person cost-efficiently; builders of Aadhaar leveraged complex technologies like biometric authentication to simplify pain problems like identity verification. UPI made peer-to-peer and peer-to-merchant payments so easy and seamless.

Today, a new generation of cutting-edge technologies such as AI and Web3 is upon us. While these frontier technologies are evolving rapidly in the West, I firmly believe that technologies such as Web3 can truly reach its potential if they go through the Indian rigour of simplifying the complexities.

India’s unmatched talent density, internet adoption, and public digital infrastructure place us in a sweet spot to lead this technology revolution.

Over the next decade, I see Indian engineers and product builders simplifying Web3 and shaping it to solve unique user problems. As its real-world utility rises, so are the solutions to many problem statements solved by developers with an engineering background. What we do today will be foundational to the new internet. Hopefully, tomorrow’s Amazon and Google will be built in India.

Emirates And United Expand Market Presence Through New Agreement

* Emirates customers to connect on United to nearly 200 new cities in the Americas, through Chicago, San Francisco and Houston

* United to launch new nonstop flights between New York/Newark and Dubai in March 2023; connecting customers through Dubai to more than 100 new destinations on Emirates and flydubai

Emirates and United announced a historic commercial agreement today that will enhance each airline’s network and give their customers easier access to hundreds of new destinations* within the United States and around the world.

From November, Emirates customers flying into Chicago, San Francisco, and Houston - three of the biggest business hubs in the U.S – will be able to easily connect onto United flights to and from nearly 200 cities across the Americas on a single ticket.

At the eight other U.S. airports served by Emirates – Boston, Dallas, LA, Miami, JFK, Orlando, Seattle and Washington DC – both airlines will have an interline arrangement in place.

United will launch a new direct flight between Newark and Dubai starting in March 2023 – from there, customers will be able to travel on Emirates or its sister airline flydubai to more than 100 cities. Tickets for United’s new Dubai flight are now on sale.

Emirates and United announced their agreement today at a ceremonial event at Dulles International Airport, hosted by United CEO Scott Kirby and Emirates President Sir Tim Clark, featuring United and Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and flight crews from each carrier.

Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline said: “Two of the biggest, and best-known airlines in the world are joining hands to fly people better to more places, at a time when travel demand is rebounding with a vengeance. It’s a significant partnership that will unlock tremendous consumer benefit and bring the United Arab Emirates and the United States even closer. We welcome United’s return to Dubai next year, where our hub Dubai essentially becomes a gateway for United to reach Asia, Africa and the Middle East via the combined network of Emirates and flydubai. We look forward to developing our partnership with United for the long term.”

Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines said: “This agreement unites two iconic, flag carrier airlines who share a common commitment to creating the best customer experience in the skies. United’s new flight to Dubai and our complementary networks will make global travel easier for millions of our customers, helping boost local economies and strengthen cultural ties. This is a proud moment for both United and Emirates employees, and I look forward to our journey together.”

Customers of both airlines can soon book these connecting flights on a single ticket – making check-in and luggage transfer faster and easier. For example – travelers will be able to visit United.com or use the United app to book a flight from New York/Newark to Karachi, Pakistan or go to Emirates.com to book a flight from Dubai to Atlanta or Honolulu.

This agreement will also give the loyalty program members of both airlines more opportunities for more rewards: Emirates Skywards members can soon earn miles when they travel on United operated flights, and United Mileage Plus members flying on United’s New York/Newark to Dubai flight will be able to earn and redeem miles when connecting beyond on Emirates and flydubai.

Eligible customers travelling on codeshare flights will also soon enjoy access to Emirates and United lounges. More details on frequent flyer awards and lounge sharing benefits will be communicated in the coming weeks.

Both airlines have recently announced significant investments in the customer experience. Emirates will retrofit more than 120 aircraft as part of a $2 billion effort that includes elevated meal choices, a brand-new vegan menu, a ‘cinema in the sky’ experience, cabin interior upgrades, and sustainable choices. At United, the airline will add 500 new Boeing and Airbus aircraft to its fleet with a focus on a new signature interior that includes seat-back screens in every seat, larger overhead bins, Bluetooth connectivity throughout, and the industry’s fastest available in-flight WiFi.

* Codeshare activities and United’s new flight to Dubai are subject to government approvals.

Soroco Scout Now Available In Microsoft Azure Marketplace Globally

Soroco, the world’s first work graph company, today announced the availability of Soroco ScoutTM, the flagship product powered by work graph in Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Soroco’s global customers can take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform with streamlined deployment and management.

Munjal Jhala, Global Head of Channels and Alliances, Soroco, said, “Enterprises today seek deeper granular insights to accelerate their change programs. With Soroco ScoutTM, enterprises can unlock complex and unstructured enterprise datasets, a powerful source for driving digital transformation with multiple levers. With Scout now available in Azure Marketplace, customers can accelerate the transformations they need.”

Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp. said, “We’re pleased to welcome Soroco to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, which gives our partners great exposure to cloud customers around the globe. Azure Marketplace offers world-class quality experiences from global trusted partners with solutions tested to work seamlessly with Azure.”

The Scout work graph platform is focused on enterprise-scale needs and serves 1000s of users within each organization. It needs zero IT integration, protects end-user privacy, and is GDPR compliant. Scout discovers work patterns specific to each team and provides AI-driven recommendations on ROI and optimization levers. It is built cloud-native to scale and is available in both PaaS and SaaS. Soroco’s availability on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace will bring added value to the global ecosystem by helping enterprises drive structured insights from unstructured and undocumented data generated from teams’ digital experiences throughout the workday, which is critical for gaining granular visibility into how work happens on the ground.

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use. To get started with Soroco on the Azure Marketplace, go to the Soroco listing in the Azure Marketplace, review our plans and pricing, click “Get it now,” and subscribe today.

About Soroco:

Soroco is building the world’s first work graph platform — a database of shared digital experiences emanating from our daily work. Today, teams spend over 60% of the workday on unstructured interactions across emails, documents, and custom applications – outside of ERP, CRM, and other systems of record. This massive enterprise data is untapped and undocumented. Our flagship product Scout, powered by the work graph, provides near real-time, structured insights into this last mile of work and helps enterprises accelerate their transformation journey. Unlike traditional solutions, the “work graph” provides a single source of truth. We have operations across the USA, Europe, UK, Singapore & India with a roster of Fortune 500 customers across 30 countries. 

Visit www.soroco.com to learn how we help teams discover their work graph.

Celebrate The Joy of Gifting With Fabindia This Festive Season

Fabindia is ready for the festivities this season with an exclusive gifting edition curating a one-stop shopping experience for all gift giving. This edit includes fabgift cards, fabHome giftables, fabessentials skincare gift boxes and mould and fold customizable flat-pack gift boxes. This festive season, Fabindia wants to make shopping fun with Gifts That Give Joy, Gifts That Do Good, Gifts That Inspire, and innovative services that help make the festive season completely stress-free in-store and online.

FabGIFT Cards: New launch of our beautiful fab gift cards this season, just add the amount and gift it to your friends and family. How Fab is that! CELEBRATE LOVE AND LIGHT,AND SEND LOVE THIS FESTIVE SEASON

FabHOME Giftables: Whether it is for your home or a gift for the host, explore hand-crafted gift boxes with a choice of candles, votives, mugs, glasses, serve-ware and many more home accents this season at fabindia CELEBRATE CRAFT, CELEBRATE HERITAGE, CELEBRATE THE JOY OF GIFTING THIS FESTIVE SEASON

Fabessential Gift Boxes: For yourself or for your friends, these fabessential gift boxes are not only pretty on the outside but the natural products of skincare designed specially to rejuvenate your beautiful skin this festive season are something you will certainly be talking about this season! CELEBRATE BEAUTY, CELEBRATE KINDNESS BECAUSE KINDNESS IS ESSENTIAL THIS FESTIVE SEASON.

For a more personalised touch;  choose a gift or curate a collection of gifts, select an appropriately sized goft box available in 3 sizes and Fabindia will wrap it up beautifully with that special touch of goodness and style creating a personalized experience for you and your loved one who will receive this gift from you.

Dipali Patwa, the Group Head of Brand, Community and Digital at Fabindia Limited says, “Giving the perfect gift is a personal and thoughtful consideration. Fabindia’s gifting solutions are specially created by our designers, skillfully crafted by artisans, curated just for you; our community this festive season.”.

And did you know that our Fab Ambassadors are on the shop floor to help you. Having trouble identifying the perfect gift? Fab Ambassadors will be at your service to provide expert gift shopping recommendations.

Zaggle Launches Zoyer To Modernise Business Payments For Enterprises And SMEs

* Data-driven business spend platform tightly coupled with Zaggle credit cards

Zaggle, India’s leading B2B2C SaaS FinTech providing integrated card products bundled with SaaS-based business spend offerings, today, announced the launch of Zoyer to simplify and automate business to business payments for Enterprises and SMEs.  Zoyer unites accounts payable and credit card payments onto a single platform to enable enterprises streamline business to business payables for effectively managing operating cash flows and maximizing business performance.

The latest innovation is another step in actualising Zaggle’s vision to becoming a global digital bank that addresses the complete financial management, payments and credit flow needs of enterprises and SMEs. Currently, Zaggle’s multi-product suite is deployed by some of the largest corporates and SMEs in India to manage employee expenses and channel incentives tightly integrated with prepaid cards from leading banks in the country.

Business-to-business (B2B) payables is estimated to be a US$2 trillion opportunity in India. Today a significant proportion of spend is entrenched in paper-laden, manual and complex processes, which hamstrings ability of finance, procurement, technology teams to effectively manage operating cash flows. A cloud-native platform, Zoyer improves efficiencies by automating the complete accounts payable lifecycle including supplier on-boarding, PO issuance, invoice capture, three-way reconciliation, payments and advanced reporting.

The platform supports multi-payment rails real-time account to account and card rails enabling businesses to make payments from within the same platform. Zoyer uniquely embeds Zaggle branded card products such as Founders Card and corporate credit cards directly into accounts payable workflows for seamless payments. The integrated credit card offering enables corporates to securely and efficiently manage a range of transactions including vendor payments, utility and tax (GST) payments. Corporates benefit from optimised processing costs via earned rebates and cashbacks with the added benefit of access to immediate credit to improve working capital and better manage liquidity positions.

Speaking on the launch Raj N, Founder, Zaggle, stated; “We are excited to launch Zoyer to drive the next stage of development in our digital banking journey and deliver real value to our customers. B2B enablement to track, monitor, issue and manage credit and access to credit for the enterprise and SME segments represent a trillion-dollar market opportunity and is ripe for disruption. At Zaggle, we are continually striving to deliver best-in-class digital solutions to become the preferred one-stop B2B payments and credit provider for enterprise and SMEs. Zoyer reinforces our ongoing commitment to empower businesses with solutions engineered to optimise core financial management processes and strengthen organizational resilience.”

Speaking on the launch, Avinash Godkhindi, CEO, Zaggle, said; “Enterprises and SMEs have a significant need to digitalise B2B payment processes so they can rapidly adapt to changing market dynamics. But the segment remains vastly underserved by incumbent solutions and limited self-manageable credit cards or corporate cards. We are proud to bring a functionally rich, business spend management platform with credit/corporate cards capabilities that makes capital-efficient growth a reality. Beyond digitalising core invoicing and payment flows, with Zoyer, we are laying a strong growth foundation by enabling businesses to manage liquidity through better allocation of working capital and providing an immediate credit line tied to credit cards.”

Speaking on the launch Sathish N, CPO, Zaggle, said; “Zoyer is part of a rapidly growing portfolio of innovative financial management SaaS solutions that Zaggle is launching for the enterprise and the SME segment. Zoyer is a natural adjacency for us, which makes our spend management offering more complete and just perfect for Zaggle to get into corporate spend cards and credit cards. Zaggle positioning with Zoyer as the single source of truth on everything “Expense” for businesses that we serve. Additionally, a platform-centric approach allows us to layer on allied Zaggle branded and third-party products to meet evolving financial needs of businesses, minimising the need for investments in multiple systems, he added.”

Zoyer offers a mobile-first, data-driven decisioning, API-first technology platform that tightly integrated with CMS platforms to enables continual and efficient credit management within the business workforce. In the initial launch, five critical personas and their pain points will be addressed. These will be further enhanced, basis a robust research based 12-month roadmap in place. Built over the Amazon cloud, Zoyer’s customers can deploy the full-stack platform with minimal upfront investment and a competitive ‘pay as you use’ commercial model.  The unique features built into the platform include:

o   AI and ML-based touchless invoice processing workflows eliminate manual tasks and improve straight through processing

o   Support for multiple payment modes, including corporate credit cards, real-time payments, and bank transfers in line with business needs

o   Embedded credit card and virtual card offering provides opportunities to earn cash back and rebates on spend

o   Integrated analytics offers insights to power continuous process improvement and optimise spends

o   Assured compliance with in-country invoicing, data archival, and taxation regulations

o   API-first architecture for seamless integration with existing ERP and accounting systems as well as payment processors, banks and third party added value service providers

For more details please see- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-gwltnH5w

About Zaggle 

Zaggle is a profitable SaaS FinTech company that is digitizing business spends to drive growth and unlock value through innovative and automated workflows. Zaggle was founded by Raj. N, a serial entrepreneur and an active angel investor with a vision to become a global digital bank. The company began its journey in 2011 with the vision of developing a digital ecosystem that would connect corporations and their users with partner merchants through its innovative FinTech solutions. Since its inception, Zaggle has been working on evolving technologies that have helped the company to develop relevant solutions and platforms that are in raging demand in the contemporary times. Our specialty lies in arraying cutting edge technologies viz., AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning) and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which are conducive in facilitating a seamless experience to our users. At present, Zaggle is closely working with IndusInd, RBL, NSDL Payments Bank and YES Bank and RuPay, VISA and MasterCard.?  

Currently, Zaggle has 4,500+ clients, 12000+ merchants and over 4.5 million users. The company has offices across 9 cities with 350+ employees and is committed to bringing the best in class user experience to its users. 

Zaggle’s Solutions: 

•Save: Save is a spend management, employee reimbursements and benefits platform that enables companies and their employees to save by digitising, organising and aggregating their spends. The entire process is digital which facilitates complete transparency in terms of the spend being on the correct category and making the process entirely seamless and enabling users to effortlessly manage their spends. The platform is powered by AI and ML which can easily identify and duplicate bills and helps companies save more annually. 

•Propel: Propel is an employee rewards & recognition and channel incentivization solution that enables companies to communicate, engage, motivate and reward its employees and channel partners to drive growth. It helps in solving the intricate issues that involve the management of the complete lifecycle of sales incentives right from the development of schemes until the end-users receive it including analytics and reconciliation. This platform manages all your reward programs from a single integrated platform to increase productivity, greater profitability and reduced attrition. 

This Festive Season De Beers Forevermark Unveils The Bold New Additions From The Forevermark Avaanti Collection

This festive season, sees three exciting new additions to the Forevermark Avaanti collection. Adding a fresh, contemporary chapter to the evolution of the modern collection, the latest designs embody a spirit of possibility, inspiring the wearer to realise their power and make a lasting statement every day. 

Driven by a single belief that what the future holds can unfold from a single ripple, the Forevermark Avaanti collection is a reminder of the remarkable things that follow from life’s first leaps. The new distinctive wrap design is an evocative symbol of the path already forged and the future that can still be influenced. Like an unstoppable current, the curves of the new distinctive wrap design swirl around with unyielding momentum.

“Diamonds hold a deep emotional value for our clients in India and with the success of the Avaanti Collection last year, we saw the rising demand for everyday wear, classic jewellery so this season we are introducing a bold new addition of the Forevermark Avaanti Collection in three contemporary new designs. Each diamond in the collection comes with a De Beers Forevermark’s unique inscription number that bears the assurance of each diamond being beautiful, rare, and responsibly sourced.” said, Mr. Sachin Jain, Managing Director, De Beers India.

The new rings, pendants and earrings all feature a genuine and natural diamond, set in 18K yellow, white or rose gold. The clean, dynamic designs are also available with the added radiance of pavé-set diamonds. Worn together or alone, these earrings, pendants, and rings make a bold statement of confidence, adding to the ever-evolving story of those seeking their next adventure.

The Forevermark Avaanti Collection is available at authorized De Beers Forevermark jewellers or to discover the collection online please visit the Forevermark Avaanti Collection online.

Kohli Recalls Childhood Memories With Cool Street Cricket Slangs

Street cricket has been an integral part of almost everyone’s childhood, especially if you are born in a cricket-crazy nation like India.

On Thursday, star India cricketer Virat Kohli walked down memory lane and recalled funny street cricket slangs used during his childhood in a video uploaded by him and sportswear brand PUMA on its social media platforms.

A video, titled Do You Know Your Cricket Slang put the spotlight on Kohli as the batting icon explained the meanings of popular local slangs used in Indian street cricket such as ‘Batta’ and ‘Baby Over’.

Kohli couldn’t hold back the laughter as he narrated the instances in response to local cricket terms. “Batta is a desi and rugged word for chucking,” Kohli said as part of his funny response to the term as he spent some light moments off-the-field in a short fun video clip.

Batta is a commonly used word in Indian street cricket where a bowler might chuck the ball.

The 33-year-old batting legend is also known for his fun and jovial side. The amusing video clip, organised by PUMA, witnessed the passionate cricketer’s off-the-field personality. Cricket is full of offbeat terms and expressions and a successful player ought to know his game-glossary well.

Kohli has, undoubtedly, performed exceedingly well over the last few weeks, slamming his much-awaited 71st century as well as two half-centuries to conclude tournament as the second highest run-getter.

PUMA shares a close association with Kohli since 2017 and collaborates with him on brand one8. The German sportswear brand is also the official kit partner of IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore with Kohli as a key player in the team.