According to the American Psychological Association (2006), “even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% of someone’s productive time.” Bots by piggybacking on the rise on messaging have a great potential to bring this number down. Considering such opportunity in HR, BASH introduces an Artificial Intelligence driven Human Resource…
Texas Instruments India host’s “DIY with TI” Worldwide Program in Bangalore
Texas Instruments (TI) India, today, hosted the “DIY with TI” event designed to recognize and encourage TI hobbyists who innovate in their spare time using TI devices, and showcase their creativity with innovations that help solve real-life problems. More than 40 engineers got together in teams at TI in India and showcased their passion…
Million Sparks Foundation raises $ 1.2 million funds from Google.org
Million Sparks Foundation is one of nine nonprofits focused on closing learning gaps that received support from google.org New Delhi based, Million Sparks Foundation (MSF) a mobile-centric not-for-profit focused on teacher capacity building, seed funded by Central Square Foundation, has raised $1.2 million from Google.org. MSF has developed ChalkLit – a mobile centred platform focused on…
How To Use Flickr’s Newly Launched ‘Similarity Search’ To Discover Photos?
Yahoo today announced a new feature on Flickr – ‘Similarity Search’ to make finding photos easier. With billions of photos on Flickr, finding the ones users want by searching based on tags and descriptions only gets them so far. The new search uses advanced technology to allow users to discover visually similar photos without much…
International Women’s Day Special: Powerful Quotes For The Women and By The Women
eBusiness India wishes a very Happy Women’s Day to all the awesome ladies out there. As rightly said by Margaret Thatcher “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman”. Today’s woman owns ambitions, dreams and high spirits. Despite her hard juggle between personal and professional life, she…
ActorsApply.com is Connecting Actors & Filmmakers Online, The First of Its Kind Platform in India
ActorsApply.com has been connecting actors with filmmakers and casting directors since its inception in 2015. ActorsApply.com is the first of its kind platform, which has helped Bollywood and television’s leading directors and casting directors find talented actors for their projects through its online and app interface. From helping to find for actors for Ajay Devgn’s…
EduStart: An Entrepreneur-in-residence Programme to Catalyse a Community of budding Social Entrepreneurs and Innovators
In order to fundamentally shift the status quo in education, there is a need for innovative and enterprising organisations to create scalable and sustainable solutions. Unfortunately, there are high barriers for startups in this space. In an effort to inspire, hone and support education leaders, CSF has launched EduStart. The programme envisions to catalyse a…
Unlocking the power of Artificial Intelligence: Join the Insightful AI Event on March 5th in Bengaluru
“Make no mistake: the machines are coming” – Nouriel Roubini “Worrying about AI evil superintelligence today is like worrying about overpopulation on the planet Mars. We haven’t even landed on the planet yet! – Andrew NG (Baidu) About The Event The brightest minds in artificial intelligence will gather in Bangalore to discuss about their interesting…
World’s First Facebook Live Pitch by Salt Brand Solutions
Salt Brand Solutions responded to Nearbuy’s call for a creative pitch by presenting also on Facebook Live in the process making it the world’s first Facebook Live Pitch. The reason Salt chose to do so was because it believes the current processes are rational and flawed. Commenting on this, Mahesh Chauhan, founder, Salt Brand Solutions, says, “It’s…
Helping Social Entrepreneurs to Succeed : SEE-2 to be held on 4th March in Bengaluru, an AA IIT Kanpur Initiative
The second edition of Social Entrepreneurs and Enterprises (SEE), which focuses on Education & Healthcare, will be held on 4th March, 2017. The event is an initiative of AA IIT Kanpur, organized along with AA IIT Kharagpur and is supported by PAN IIT, AA IIM Ahmedabad, PAN IIM and Alumni Center Bangalore. SEE aims to create the awareness on the impact of Social Entrepreneurship. SEE connects emerging Social Enterprises to the Investors…
Yahoo Open-sources TensorFlowOnSpark, New Distributed Deep Learning Framework
Yahoo has announced TensorFlowOnSpark, its latest open source framework for distributed deep learning on big-data clusters. Deep learning (DL) has evolved significantly in recent years. At Yahoo, we’ve found that in order to gain insight from massive amounts of data, we need to deploy distributed deep learning. Existing DL frameworks often require us to set up separate…
Abhishek, A Drop Out by Choice to an Entrepreneur, Improving Rural Businesses via IT Solutions
The Starting Point Abhishek Dhawan, a college drop out (while pursuing Bachelor in Computer Engineering) by choice to went becoming an entrepreneur. While he was in Baramati-Pune, found a gap that there is a lack of affordable software / applications to support rural businesses & lack of employability IT skills of rural youth, as a result…
