Students either sell their used books to scrap collectors or approach booksellers to sell their used books or other study materials. But booksellers barely pay them the actual worth and sell them to others at much higher prices. Like they generally buy these items (especially used books) at 25 to 40 percent of their actual…
Six Indian Startups Featured in the Prestigious 2019 InsurTech100
Indian technology companies are leading InsureTech innovations and 6 firms have successfully secured a spot in the InsurTech100. FinTech Global’s InsurTech100 is an annual list of tech-startups- transforming the digital insurance landscape through innovative products and solutions. These top 100 InsurTechs are recognized by a panel of analysts and industry stalwarts from an exhaustive list…
Five Ways AI Assists You In E-shopping
According to The Guardian, it was in 2016 when AI, quite rapidly, graduated to being something real than just a science fiction concept. AI has been studying incessantly, crunching data actually, to get to that level. Today AI is prevalent, to say the least. In this article, I shall discuss e-shopping, where a lot of…
Porter: An Intracity Cargo Startup
According to ASSOCHAM India spends 14.4 percent of its GDP on logistics and transportation while developed countries spend less than 8 percent. The difference is mostly due to the inefficient freight market in India. The logistics sector, however, has been emerging as a goldmine of business opportunities due to the proliferation of ecommerce sites in…
MyGate: An App To Digitalise The Security Of Gated Premises
Vijay Arisetty, a resident of a gated community in Bangalore, noticed that no amount of normal security could prevent the residential complex he lived in from petty crimes. He had an epiphany one day to develop a technology for the gated security system. He collaborated with his friends to make this abstract concept a concrete…
Inshorts: A Cool Way To Stay Informed On Latest News In 60 Words
As a student in IIT Delhi, Azhar Iqubal wanted to be up-to-date on current affairs around the world. But he wasn’t a fan of lengthy news articles in which you have to go through the rhetorics and opinions to get to the facts. Hence, he conceived the idea of presenting news crisply. Soon he dropped…
Top 10 Online Stores To Buy Cosmetics In India
Looking our best is an art and perfecting this art is fairly difficult. Once you are done making a list of the items you need to spruce up, selecting a brand for the items can be quite a task. Thanks to electronic markets, at least shopping doesn’t have to be difficult. You can shop cosily…
Sound Is The Next Content
Audio-Visual content are next obvious content formats that are going to rule the internet like textual content ruled it last 20 years If you are like me you find it easier to “Ok Google”. Sometime to search something on the map, and some time to just set a new reminder or an event. The increased…
TECI- All You Need To Know About This New Trade Body
The ever-growing e-commerce sector in the country has launched a new trade association, named TECI (The E-Commerce Council of India) on 13th March 2019. The aim of the association is to act as an official body that voices the industry’s standpoints regarding regulatory and policy frameworks for this sector. Here’s what you need to know…
Cityfurnish Joins Leading US Accelerator Y-Combinator Winter 2019 Batch
Gurgaon-based furniture, furnishings and consumer appliances rental startup Cityfurnish has recently become a part of the prestigious US based Y-Combinator. The American seed accelerator, Y-Combinator provides seed funding, consultation and connections to startups through a careful selection of promising businesses across the world. Started in March 2005, the venture capital firm has spawned a number of highly…
Pulwama Attack 2019: How To Help, Donate To Families Of Martyred CRPF Jawans?
A suicide bombing attack on a CRPF convoy in the Pulwama region of Jammu and Kashmir killed 40 CRPF paramilitary troopers on February 14, 2019. This indeed is the worst ever terror attack since militancy erupted in 1989 that shocked the entire country leaving each one of us mourned. A suicide bomber rammed his SUV…
It’s Not Too Late To Join The AI Bandwagon, YES! Even If You’re Not A Techie
According to a report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) named “The Future of Jobs 2018”, machines and algorithms are expected to create 133 million new job roles by 2022 but also displace 75 million jobs. This means that the growth of AI could possibly create 58 million net new job roles in the next…
