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Meet some of the most promising new app startups

Google for Startups Accelerator: Apps 2024 program, their first app-only accelerator designed to support the most promising Android app startups across critical sectors like fintech, health tech, edu-tech, climate tech, and more has 20 innovative startups that are driving transformation across industries and leveraging technology to tackle pressing challenges in India’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Crop infestation to maternal risks: How tech helps - Times of India

Wadhwani AI, the nonprofit founded by entrepreneurs Romesh Wadhwani and Sunil Wadhwani, has developed a smartphone and AI-based early warning system for pest infestations in cotton crops.

The system uses an Android application called CottonAce, which has been trained and validated on over 18,000 images of pests obtained from farms. The AI algorithm works by analysing images from pest traps.

The algorithm identifies and counts the pests in the photo, determines the level of infestation, and gives a set of actionable advisory

Kongsberg - A small Norwegian city that’s a Tech powerhouse

The nights are long, the cold temperatures in winter can be biting, but the work-life balance is great, and demand for tech talent is growing.

Havard Fossbakken, head of strategy and development at Kongsberg Municipality says if talented techies in India have very good technology ideas and need a place to make a business out of it, Kongsberg is where they should be. He says this small Norwegian city, an under two hour drive from capital Oslo, is an innovation and technology hub of the country.

Priti Gupta’s creating a safe space for women to invest - Times of India

Priti Rathi Gupta had set up several businesses for the stock trading & financial services group Anand Rathi . During this period she noticed that women were not participating in financial markets. Even those at the top of their careers would leave financial decisions to the males in their family – father, brother, husband. Priti, an alumnus of SP Jain Institute of Management and Research and Harvard Business School (HBS), returned to India and founded LXme - a financial platform for women.

Iceland needs Indian techies, entrepreneurs

Martin Eyjolfsson , permanent secretary of state in the ministry of foreign affairs of Iceland , says his country scores very high on per capita income, safety, education, and quality of life, and lays strong emphasis on gender equality, democracy and human rights. He says fisheries and power generation are the major industries, but tourism, IT and high-tech are among the fastest emerging sectors in the country. India and Iceland, Eyjolfsson says, have good synergies

Women techpreneurs - Turning their passions into businesses

Women entrepreneurs are growing in number, but women investors are far too few, rues Aneesha Jyoti of Language Curry, a platform to learn Indian languages. Aneesha had just had a child when she started her app, and she recalls her meeting with investors, where they doubted her commitment and asked if she would be able to devote time to the startup. Today, her app has over two million downloads and is one of the most popular ones on Android to learn Indian languages in a gamified way.

How movie tech is changing - Richard Gelfond, CEO, IMAX Corporation

Fans loved Tom Cruise’s thrilling actions in Top Gun: Maverick , and Avatar’s lifelike 3D visuals. Richard Gelfond , CEO of IMAX Corporation , told us on a visit to Delhi recently that very few people realise these immersive movie watching experiences are a result of cutting-edge proprietary technology developed by them. There is a lot of science and technology, he says, that go into turning every movie viewing at IMAX theatres into an event.

Ontario’s become 2nd biggest tech cluster in North America - Times of India

Victor Fedeli , minister of economic development, job creation and trade in the government of Ontario, Canada , points out there are 25,000 IT firms in Ontario making it the number two tech cluster in North America (the first is Silicon Valley). He says Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is expanding and hiring 5,000 tech workers, and national telecom company Telus plans to invest $23 billion in network infrastructure, operations, and spectrum across Ontario over the next four years…

Amsterdam’s big in tech & startups, is expat friendly - Times of India

Pratik Pandey and Richa Bala were working in Hyderabad when they started to look for jobs abroad. Pratik, who grew up in Patna and who studied at Vellore Institute of Technology, looked at the US, Canada, Dubai, Australia. Eventually, he got a job as senior software developer in Amsterdam, Netherlands, a place that was not even in his scheme of things.Richa, from Lucknow and who studied at SRM, Chennai, too found a job as product manager at the same tech firm within a week of Pandey’s

FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar will set new standards in stadium technology

When the Football World Cup begins in Qatar four days from today, fans will witness the most technologically advanced stadiums and experiences ever at a world cup. And almost 70% of the team delivering that technology constitutes Indians.Kerala-born Niyas Abdulrahiman is the chief technology officer of Aspire Zone Foundation, the organisation tasked with developing the technology for the stadiums. The foundation had established an international sports destination called Aspire Zone in Doha, Qatar

Data & automation are transforming food delivery biz

If you thought it couldn’t get better, think again. Data analytics and automation are transforming the food delivery business. Sashi Somavarapu , VP of engineering & India head of British online food delivery company Deliveroo , said on our webinar last week that data is key to making all three participants in the marketplace – consumers, restaurants, and riders – successful.He said you can present the most appropriate menus to customers when you know their current consumption pattern

How VFS Global transformed visa processing - Times of India

Many of us would have used VFS’s visa services, not realising that it was conceptualised by Indian businessman Zubin Karkaria and that it has grown to be the world’s largest outsourcing and technology services specialist for diplomatic missions worldwide.

The company’s first visa application centre came up in Mumbai, to handle US visas. Today, it has 3,539 application centres across 144 countries, and 65 governments as clients.

It has processed over 246 million visa applications since 2001
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