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  • Poker for People: Moneycontrol introduces first online, offline tournament

    Poker for People: Moneycontrol introduces first online, offline tournament

    MUMBAI: Moneycontrol, a business and financial online platform of Network18, has joined hands with The Spartan Poker, an online gaming platform to announce ‘Poker for People’.

    A one-of-a-kind competition, Moneycontrol introduced an online and offline poker championship to its users for the very first time. The tournament, with a prize of Rs 25 lakh will offer the poker enthusiast a chance to try their luck at the table and take home a cash prize.

    With the game of poker being highly skill-based that requires utmost foresight, planning and the ability to take calculative risks, Moneycontrol draws a parallel between the card game and the stock market for their audience.

    To participate, one can register themselves on a page created on the Moneycontrol website. This will avail them a ticket to the live game to be held in Mumbai on 29 March 2020. The top 20 players from each qualifier will get guaranteed seats at the main event.

    Each of these 16 qualifiers will be a freezeout tournament, indicating a win-or-bust format, which won’t allow a contestant the option for a re-buy should they lose. These 16 rounds will see a total of 320 players qualify for Main Event.

    Moneycontrol’s business head Gautam Shelar, said, “Moneycontrol, as a brand, believes in empowering its audiences with the latest financial know-how and equip them with information and advice that will help them make smarter and better investment decisions.”

    He added, “Poker is purely a skill-based mind game where the outcomes are decided by the aptitude and analytical capability of the player, which is extremely similar to the stock market. In addition to their stellar poker skills, we are confident that with the lessons learned through their stock market dealings and investments, participants shall use these experiences as well as they look to take home the grand prize.”

  • Moneycontrol and ketto come together to celebrate joy of holi with #Colorsofhumanity campaign

    Moneycontrol and ketto come together to celebrate joy of holi with #Colorsofhumanity campaign

    MUMBAI: moneycontrol, India’s leading financial digital platform associates with the country’s most trusted donation – crowdfunding platform to launch the #ColorsOfHumanity campaign this Holi. The campaign intends to add colours to the lives of the underprivileged kids through End AIDS India that comprises the capacity of not one but five NGOs. The campaign is inviting donations through Ketto for End AIDS India. Donors can select the cause that they would like to direct their donation towards including Education, Health or better childhood for underprivileged children in India. 

    The association and campaign aim to bring the joy of the festival of colours to underprivileged children in India by creating awareness and inviting donations towards building a better future for them. Donors can select a cause that they would like to support based on their preference, for which they will also receive tax benefits. The campaign will run from February 20, 2018 onwards to March 2, 2018. 

    Commenting on the association, moneycontrol, Business Head, Gautam Shelar said, “We are proud to bring forth the #ColorsOfHumanity initiative in association with Ketto. It is an apt partnership given our shared purpose to make a positive difference in the society. With our combined strengths, we intend to reach a wider donor base, after identifying a vital need of the hour. We sincerely hope the campaign adds many colours this Holi to the lives of those who have been bereft of basic rights such as education and health.”

    Ketto, Founder & CEO, Varun Sheth shared, “Ketto is proud to partner with moneycontrol for this great initiative. At Ketto, we believe that a small contribution can turn someone’s life around completely. Holi is the festival of colours and this will add some colour in the lives of many. Our mission is to empower people and help out the less fortunate. This year, we will take a big step thanks to moneycontrol and their incredible community.”

  • Moneycontrol hosts its first ever hackathon – ‘Budget Hackabot Challenge’

    Moneycontrol hosts its first ever hackathon – ‘Budget Hackabot Challenge’

    MUMBAI: Moneycontrol, India’s business news, markets and financial content, successfully hosted its first ever hackathon – ‘Budget Hackabot Challenge’ in Mumbai on 16-17 December 2017. With the primary objective of bringing together the larger developer community to co-create useful solutions for consumers, the one-of-a-kind event specifically focused on simplifying financial queries as a run up to the upcoming Union Budget.

    The hackathon achieved this in two ways, first of which was by encouraging participants to create a bot which could answer user queries. Secondly, the hackathon challenged participants to create a tool which enables users to learn about investing options and take decisions on personal finance.

    The overwhelming participation at moneycontrol’s ‘Budget Hackabot Challenge’ brought in tremendous zeal from the sharpest technological minds across the country, contributing to the creation of a highly immersive environment. An eclectic mix of working professionals as well as students from renowned educational institutions in the country took part in the event. Going a step further in redefining how news and financial information is disseminated in the digital age, the hackathon identified unchartered areas of technology, thereby unlocking immense value for digital consumers. The winning team comprised working professionals from various firms, all of whom are graduates of IIT, Mumbai.

    Moneycontrol, business head Gautam Shelar comments, “We at moneycontrol are always looking at ways to push the envelope of innovation in order to derive useful solutions for our readers. With an aim to explore new technological spheres and develop disruptive solutions using the intensive data bank provided by us, we are proud of the way the participants worked in collaboration to come up with practical solutions. We look forward to hosting more such relevant hackathons based on definite and real-world use cases in the future, thereby providing value to every cog of our stakeholder wheel.”

    HDFC Life SVP E-commerce & Digital Marketing Analytics and Business Insights at Vishal Subharwal said, “The Hackathon provides a platform for talent to come up with innovative solutions to resolve genuine customer problems around goal based financial planning. Any financial plan typically includes elements of life insurance & health insurance as well as wealth creation at its core.”

    Customer centricity is an important value for us at HDFC Life and we are hugely committed to digitization and automation of the life insurance value chain to help deliver this. This is reflected in our investments over the years in building simple & easy to use consumer facing technology & products be it term plans, health plans or ULIPs. As more customers start buying life insurance & health insurance online, HDFC Life’s association with Moneycontrol provides us another opportunity to analyse reception of technology led customer solutions.”

    Network18 Digital chief product officer Avinash Mudaliar, “A significant focus of this event was to unlock the true potential of India’s young and astute developer community by encouraging them to create disruptive solutions based on real world problem statements. Over the course of two days, we discovered a new approach on how content, products and services can be seamlessly presented to our consumers by churning out useful solutions. moneycontrol will now work with the winning teams to put together a solution that can be deployed and showcased to their audiences for upcoming Union Budget.”

    Team Findians, with an approach focused specifically on extracting context from queries put in by users, were adjudicated winners and bagged a prize money of INR 4 lakhs. Team Hackaneurs on the other hand focused closely on user interactions and the maximum value that could be created in the process, leading to them being adjudged runners up with a prize money of INR 2 lakhs.

    As the winning team will closely be working with moneycontrol team for 45 days, they will be guided by the experts from the financial and technological domain to improvise and build up their final product which will be available across moneycontrol platforms.