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  • Facebook pumps Rs 27 lakh in fashion start-up CoutLoot

    Facebook pumps Rs 27 lakh in fashion start-up CoutLoot

    MUMBAI: CoutLoot, one of the India’s first end-to-end fashion re-commerce platforms has been selected for Facebook’s developer-focused FbStart programme, which is designed to help early-stage mobile-focused startups on building and growing their apps. The curated marketplace that focuses on pre-loved fashion space has received access to US$ 40,000 (Rs 27 lakh) worth of credits and services from Facebook and various other platforms.

    Incepted in November 2015, CoutLoot is an end to end Fashion re-selling service where you can buy and sell your preowned fashion.

    Launched last year, FbStart is a programme that helps thousands of developers grow their startups by leveraging valuable tools & services, worldwide events, and opportunities to engage with the Facebook team. Under the programme, CoutLoot would also receive mentoring from Menlo Park-headquartered Facebook’s engineering teams and services from its partners like AWS, Annie, Dropbox, Adobe and MailChim. It will also get a chance to get access to the exclusive community of its developers and worldwide events. The program provides free access to more than 25 services including open source tools like React Native, FB Login and Account Kit and App Analytics. According to the independent newswire agency IANS, India is the largest market for FbStart outside the US. According to the product partnerships team at Facebook, over 75% of top-grossing apps in India get integrated with Facebook.

    CoutLoot co-founder Jasmeet Thind said, “We at CoutLoot are constantly striving to make pre-loved and pre-owned fashion reselling a first-of-its-kind experience in India. Although our primary objective is to tackle the problems of scale and quality service in this space, we are presently focusing on enhancing user engagement and growing the user base. FbStart programme will be an immense boost to us at this phase of our evolution. Receiving mentorship from the pioneer of social networking will bring a huge opportunity for us to lead the fashion re-commerce revolution in India within the next couple of years.”

    Founded by Mahima Kaul, Sahil Khimavat, Vinit Jain & Thind, CoutLoot is a one-stop solution to de-clutter one’s closet for cash. While sellers get paid for selling off unused branded and boutique fashion items from their closet, buyers get to avail products from the best brands in a nearly-mint new condition at up to 80% off.

    Based out of Mumbai, CoutLoot delivers all over India, however, selling is restricted to 14 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore, Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Surat, Kolkata, and Jaipur. While selling and buying happen via CoutLoot’s Android and iOS apps, its website can be accessed for buying across all regions of the country. So far, the online platform has sold close to 1000 ethnic outfits. Although a relatively new concept at present catering to special occasions, CoutLoot is also preparing to start its customised tailoring services to ensure perfect fitting of the outfits to the buyers. Meanwhile, considering that over one crore weddings take place annually in metro cities, CoutLoot is also planning to start a wedding section for buying and selling wedding and bridal fashion.

  • Lowe Lintas bolsters Veedol’s ‘Modern rehne ki ek Parampara’

    Lowe Lintas bolsters Veedol’s ‘Modern rehne ki ek Parampara’

    MUMBAI: Veedol tractor oils has unveiled its latest campaign that celebrates this evolution through a powerful thought – the tradition of staying modern. The objective is to reinforce Veedol’s unique position in the tractor lube market – a heritage brand that has continually kept in step with changing technologies.

    The campaign that has been conceptualized by Lowe Lintas Kolkata, comprises a video film and other traditional assets like outdoor and print. It has been launched in the Southern markets of India initially and will be rolled out across other states soon.

    Tide Water Oil Co (India) executive director J Ramesh said, “This campaign leverages Veedol’s heritage while reinforcing its core value of continual reinvention to keep in step with changing technologies. ‘Modern rehne ki ek Parampara’ – the campaign tagline captures this essence though endearing slices of life from the Indian heartland.”

    Lowe Lintas Kolkata executive director DK Guha said, “The challenge for the agency was to leverage Veedol’s heritage in the tractor oil segment on the one hand while highlighting its modernity on the other. This evolved into an interesting idea that finally became the core of the campaign.”

    In the video film, the slice of life frames capture a little boy, in idyllic rural surroundings, enjoying those simple pleasures of childhood that haven’t changed over time. From the joy of swinging on a tree on the way back from school to clever ways of prying open a walnut. Sequences that on the one hand evoke strong memories and on the other are equally endearing because they have remained unchanged till this day. Almost ritualistic. Just like the ritual of helping Dadaji pour Veedol engine oil in a tractor.

    Explaining the creative thought process behind the campaign, Lowe Lintas executive director Vasudha Narayanan said, “Firstly, to work on Veedol tractor engine oil – a hardcore rural brand was what excited us the most. A look at the Indian agricultural landscape and the lifestyle of the people who live there revealed that advances in technology hadn’t diluted their values and traditions one bit. The people who ploughed their fields with the latest, most advanced tractors still live the same simple lives that the generations before them did. Especially the kids. From this very dichotomy was born the idea. Veedol, over the decades, have been so consistently improving their products in stride with the development of modern-day tractors – it’s almost become a ‘tradition’. And hence ‘Modern rehne ki ek Parampara’.”

    The film has been launched across popular channels in the Southern markets and will be rolled out across other states soon.

  • Lowe Lintas bolsters Veedol’s ‘Modern rehne ki ek Parampara’

    Lowe Lintas bolsters Veedol’s ‘Modern rehne ki ek Parampara’

    MUMBAI: Veedol tractor oils has unveiled its latest campaign that celebrates this evolution through a powerful thought – the tradition of staying modern. The objective is to reinforce Veedol’s unique position in the tractor lube market – a heritage brand that has continually kept in step with changing technologies.

    The campaign that has been conceptualized by Lowe Lintas Kolkata, comprises a video film and other traditional assets like outdoor and print. It has been launched in the Southern markets of India initially and will be rolled out across other states soon.

    Tide Water Oil Co (India) executive director J Ramesh said, “This campaign leverages Veedol’s heritage while reinforcing its core value of continual reinvention to keep in step with changing technologies. ‘Modern rehne ki ek Parampara’ – the campaign tagline captures this essence though endearing slices of life from the Indian heartland.”

    Lowe Lintas Kolkata executive director DK Guha said, “The challenge for the agency was to leverage Veedol’s heritage in the tractor oil segment on the one hand while highlighting its modernity on the other. This evolved into an interesting idea that finally became the core of the campaign.”

    In the video film, the slice of life frames capture a little boy, in idyllic rural surroundings, enjoying those simple pleasures of childhood that haven’t changed over time. From the joy of swinging on a tree on the way back from school to clever ways of prying open a walnut. Sequences that on the one hand evoke strong memories and on the other are equally endearing because they have remained unchanged till this day. Almost ritualistic. Just like the ritual of helping Dadaji pour Veedol engine oil in a tractor.

    Explaining the creative thought process behind the campaign, Lowe Lintas executive director Vasudha Narayanan said, “Firstly, to work on Veedol tractor engine oil – a hardcore rural brand was what excited us the most. A look at the Indian agricultural landscape and the lifestyle of the people who live there revealed that advances in technology hadn’t diluted their values and traditions one bit. The people who ploughed their fields with the latest, most advanced tractors still live the same simple lives that the generations before them did. Especially the kids. From this very dichotomy was born the idea. Veedol, over the decades, have been so consistently improving their products in stride with the development of modern-day tractors – it’s almost become a ‘tradition’. And hence ‘Modern rehne ki ek Parampara’.”

    The film has been launched across popular channels in the Southern markets and will be rolled out across other states soon.

  • Hathway board clears GTPL IPO

    Hathway board clears GTPL IPO

    MUMBAI: Even as naysayers have been saying investor sentiment is pretty negative about the cable TV distribution sector in India, here is a company which is looking to swim against the tide. Cable TV and broadband internet services provider Hathway Cable & Datcom’s board today gave it the thumbs up to make an initial public offering for its subsidiary outfit GTPL Hathway.

    GTPL Hathway offers cable TV and broadband services in many cities in India among which figure Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.

    The board gave approval to the IPO proposal which seeks to raise funds for GTPL through a fresh issue of equity shares while giving an option to existing GTPL shareholders to sell their holdings. Hathway holds around nine million shares in GTPL, according to a filing wih the Bombay stock exchange on Wednesday.

    The Hathway board also gave a go-ahead to the proposal to set up a committee to work on the various aspects of the proposed IPO including regulatory and shareholder approvals. Of course, all these proposals would be subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.

    Hathway has 23 headends in 160 cities nationwide and its cable TV service subscriber base as on 31 March 2016 was 12.3 million with 10.6 million of them having migrated to digital cable TV. It had a broadband susbscriber base of 627,000 even as it passed 3.3 million homes. 2.4 million of the cable TV subscribers were in phase I areas; 4.2 million in phase II, while its phase III and IV universe was at 4.1 million.

  • Hathway board clears GTPL IPO

    Hathway board clears GTPL IPO

    MUMBAI: Even as naysayers have been saying investor sentiment is pretty negative about the cable TV distribution sector in India, here is a company which is looking to swim against the tide. Cable TV and broadband internet services provider Hathway Cable & Datcom’s board today gave it the thumbs up to make an initial public offering for its subsidiary outfit GTPL Hathway.

    GTPL Hathway offers cable TV and broadband services in many cities in India among which figure Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.

    The board gave approval to the IPO proposal which seeks to raise funds for GTPL through a fresh issue of equity shares while giving an option to existing GTPL shareholders to sell their holdings. Hathway holds around nine million shares in GTPL, according to a filing wih the Bombay stock exchange on Wednesday.

    The Hathway board also gave a go-ahead to the proposal to set up a committee to work on the various aspects of the proposed IPO including regulatory and shareholder approvals. Of course, all these proposals would be subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.

    Hathway has 23 headends in 160 cities nationwide and its cable TV service subscriber base as on 31 March 2016 was 12.3 million with 10.6 million of them having migrated to digital cable TV. It had a broadband susbscriber base of 627,000 even as it passed 3.3 million homes. 2.4 million of the cable TV subscribers were in phase I areas; 4.2 million in phase II, while its phase III and IV universe was at 4.1 million.

  • Oxigen Wallets Mobile App associates with HPCL, for fuel payments

    Oxigen Wallets Mobile App associates with HPCL, for fuel payments

    MUMBAI: Spearheading the digital revolution, India’s first Non-Bank Mobile Wallet app, Oxigen Wallet, has entered into a strategic association with HPCL. While until now cash and cards had been the major accepted mode of payments at these petroleum pumps, the association is set to allow users to pay for fuel refills using Oxigen Wallet app.

    Oxigen Wallet has been on a rapid expansion spree, following with the recent launch of Virtual Visa. The partnership is slated for further up the ante for Oxigen Wallet in the digital payments domain,as a benefit for the users. The recent alliance with the HPCL takes away the pain of carrying cash or paying for fuel using cards, thereby making payments swifter, and minimising credit card exposures.

    At present, 61 HPCL outlets spanned across India, including New Delhi, Noida & Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai are prepped to accept payments directly from the Oxigen Wallet mobile app. In the coming two months, Oxigen Wallet is set to strengthen its partnership further, by on boarding more than 2000 HPCL outlets to accept payments for fuel using the Oxigen Wallet Mobile app.

    Further commenting on the strategic alliance, Ankur Saxena, Director and Chief Mentor, Oxigen Wallet said, “We at Oxigen Services work passionately towards the digital revolution and it is our endeavor to provide premium services for digital payments to our users. We are excited to be partnering with HPCL and introducing mobile payments for getting the fuel. Making the payments secure and convenient, we are affirmative that our users would actively avail the service, paying for the fuel directly from their favorite Oxigen Wallet mobile app.”

    Along with adding security, the entire process is pretty simple and straightforward. Users intending to pay using the app would have to share their mobile number with the HPCL petrol pump assistant. The assistant would then feed the number in the POS machine, triggering and OTP on the registered number for the confirmation of the transaction. User would then have to share the OTP with the assistant again and upon feeding the same in the POS machine, the amount payable for the fuel will get deducted directly from Oxigen Wallet.

  • Oxigen Wallets Mobile App associates with HPCL, for fuel payments

    Oxigen Wallets Mobile App associates with HPCL, for fuel payments

    MUMBAI: Spearheading the digital revolution, India’s first Non-Bank Mobile Wallet app, Oxigen Wallet, has entered into a strategic association with HPCL. While until now cash and cards had been the major accepted mode of payments at these petroleum pumps, the association is set to allow users to pay for fuel refills using Oxigen Wallet app.

    Oxigen Wallet has been on a rapid expansion spree, following with the recent launch of Virtual Visa. The partnership is slated for further up the ante for Oxigen Wallet in the digital payments domain,as a benefit for the users. The recent alliance with the HPCL takes away the pain of carrying cash or paying for fuel using cards, thereby making payments swifter, and minimising credit card exposures.

    At present, 61 HPCL outlets spanned across India, including New Delhi, Noida & Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai are prepped to accept payments directly from the Oxigen Wallet mobile app. In the coming two months, Oxigen Wallet is set to strengthen its partnership further, by on boarding more than 2000 HPCL outlets to accept payments for fuel using the Oxigen Wallet Mobile app.

    Further commenting on the strategic alliance, Ankur Saxena, Director and Chief Mentor, Oxigen Wallet said, “We at Oxigen Services work passionately towards the digital revolution and it is our endeavor to provide premium services for digital payments to our users. We are excited to be partnering with HPCL and introducing mobile payments for getting the fuel. Making the payments secure and convenient, we are affirmative that our users would actively avail the service, paying for the fuel directly from their favorite Oxigen Wallet mobile app.”

    Along with adding security, the entire process is pretty simple and straightforward. Users intending to pay using the app would have to share their mobile number with the HPCL petrol pump assistant. The assistant would then feed the number in the POS machine, triggering and OTP on the registered number for the confirmation of the transaction. User would then have to share the OTP with the assistant again and upon feeding the same in the POS machine, the amount payable for the fuel will get deducted directly from Oxigen Wallet.

  • Jionet at six cricket IPL stadiums

    Jionet at six cricket IPL stadiums

    BENGALURU: It did during for the cricket World Cup last month and is doing it for IPL season 9. Cricket fans can look forward to Jionet’s high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity,this IPL season also.

    Jionet, brought by Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, (RJIL) has changed how cricket fans enjoy their games, by providing high-speed internet connectivity at six main stadiums across the country:  Five of stadiums during the World Cup -New Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla; Rajkot’s SCA Stadium; Kolkata‘s Eden Garden;; Mohali’s Punjab Cricket Stadium and Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium, and Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium (replacing Dharmashala’s Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association)  will have Jionet.

    RJIL has embarked on this project as a part of revolutionizing how spectators experience the games, as they are commonly faced with issues regarding connectivity. Mobile networks aren’t able to handle such large data traffic. Jionet will change this – the connectivity will not only be adequate but will actually be many times faster than experienced before says As a result of which, spectators will be able to share their story ball by ball, connect with their friends and family, surf, stay connected on social networking sites, and more.

    To make this possible, Jionet has harnessed its superior network capacity along with an excellent deployment of specially designed, state-of-the-art Wi-Fi access points (APs) that will cover the entire stadium with a seating capacity of minimum 20,000.

    Jionet High Density is designed to provide stable high-quality Wi-Fi coverage to individuals in densely packed groups, at which standard Wi-Fi deployment fails as the APs and their associated radio channels become congested with the increase in the number of Wi-Fi users. Under the standard deployment, simply adding more such conventional APs would not improve matters since the radio footprint of additional APs will overlap those of others, causing greater congestion.

  • Jionet at six cricket IPL stadiums

    Jionet at six cricket IPL stadiums

    BENGALURU: It did during for the cricket World Cup last month and is doing it for IPL season 9. Cricket fans can look forward to Jionet’s high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity,this IPL season also.

    Jionet, brought by Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, (RJIL) has changed how cricket fans enjoy their games, by providing high-speed internet connectivity at six main stadiums across the country:  Five of stadiums during the World Cup -New Delhi’s Feroz Shah Kotla; Rajkot’s SCA Stadium; Kolkata‘s Eden Garden;; Mohali’s Punjab Cricket Stadium and Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium, and Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi Cricket Stadium (replacing Dharmashala’s Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association)  will have Jionet.

    RJIL has embarked on this project as a part of revolutionizing how spectators experience the games, as they are commonly faced with issues regarding connectivity. Mobile networks aren’t able to handle such large data traffic. Jionet will change this – the connectivity will not only be adequate but will actually be many times faster than experienced before says As a result of which, spectators will be able to share their story ball by ball, connect with their friends and family, surf, stay connected on social networking sites, and more.

    To make this possible, Jionet has harnessed its superior network capacity along with an excellent deployment of specially designed, state-of-the-art Wi-Fi access points (APs) that will cover the entire stadium with a seating capacity of minimum 20,000.

    Jionet High Density is designed to provide stable high-quality Wi-Fi coverage to individuals in densely packed groups, at which standard Wi-Fi deployment fails as the APs and their associated radio channels become congested with the increase in the number of Wi-Fi users. Under the standard deployment, simply adding more such conventional APs would not improve matters since the radio footprint of additional APs will overlap those of others, causing greater congestion.

  • Doordarshan launches Mobile TV in India, needs no internet

    Doordarshan launches Mobile TV in India, needs no internet

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan has commenced digital terrestrial television (DTT) services in 16 cities, thereby providing mobile TV to the users.

    The sixteen cities being covered from 25 February are- Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Guwahati, Patna, Ranchi, Cuttack, Lucknow, Jallandhar, Raipur, Indore, Aurangabad, Bhopal, Bangalore and Ahmadabad.  

    Mobile TV can be received in and around these cities using DVB-T2 Dongles in OTG enabled smart phones and tablets, Wi-Fi dongles for moving vehicles, besides the TV sets having built in DVB-T2 Tuner which are called as integrated digital TV (iDTV).

    While Sony, LG, Panasonic, Samsung etc., are providing iDTV, the dongles are also available in online shopping sites like Flipkart, Ebay, Snapdeal etc. It requires the user to download the software and plug these dongles in the smartphones and tablets to receive DD Signals.

    There will be no charges for watching the DD Channels. No internet connection is required after installation of the software. The public and private transportation vehicles and public places are potential environments for Mobile Television.

    Currently, DD National, DD News, DD Bharati, DD Sports, DD Regional/DD Kisan are being relayed. Only one time investment of a dongle will be required by viewers and no extra expenditure unlike streaming with internet. The TV pictures are free from “ghosting” and “snowing”.

    DTT secures greater plurality in platform ownership, ensuring that no single platform owner is so powerful that it can exert undue influence on public opinion or political agendas. The digital transition offers an opportunity to increase the production of local content.

    This in turn creates job opportunity and increases creativity and entrepreneurship. A strong DTT platform is critical for healthy competition in the TV market and to the realisation of a wide range of social benefits and most essentially an all weather reliable platform. There is no risk of catastrophic failure of total network. It provides alternative distribution platform.

    DD channels can be received on smart phones, tablets and in moving vehicles. The new audience on move are the key beneficiary of this technology. Currently, mobile TV can be received using a dongle for mobile and tablets. But the day is not far when it will be embedded inside the devices. Watching TV from a phone is interested in many situations. Public and private transportation vehicle in public places are potential environment for mobile TV services. In the DTT Transmission everybody watches the same content at the same time and it guarantees everybody the same high level of service, since they are all bathed in the same signal. So tablets and smartphones and moving vehicles find new way of watching DD Channels in India in 16 cities, which are going to increase in near future.