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  • Assiduus expands into South America

    Assiduus expands into South America

    Mumbai: Assiduus, a renowned innovator and leader in multi-market ecommerce distribution, has announced its expansion into South America.

    With the expansion, Assiduus expects to capitalize on the region’s booming e-commerce market and empower non-LatAm brands to reach millions of potential customers across South America.

    Despite being a rapidly growing market, South America remains under-penetrated for non-regional brands. However, Assiduus believes there is a huge appetite for international brands, particularly those of US origin.

    Market data suggests that ecommerce sales in Latin America are expected to rise to $160 billion by 2025. With the current growth rate, others are even more bullish, forecasting the surge to be up to $200 billion by the end of 2025. Hence, Assiduus does not just look forward to entering another market but also to opening up a unique opportunity for brands globally.

    Assiduus’ founder and CEO Somdutta Singh is confident that this expansion will be a game-changer for brands in the region and play a pivotal role in Assiduus’ growth trajectory. By establishing a presence in South America, the company looks forward to expanding its client offerings and base and solidifying its position as the leading global ecommerce accelerator: “South America represents a vibrant landscape for ecommerce. We’re excited to empower brands and entrepreneurs with the opportunity to grow their business with Assiduus and deliver great value and a convenient shopping experience for customers across South America. We’re providing our industry-leading expertise to brands, enabling them to navigate complexities like global logistics and fulfilment, access to buyer data and analytics, marketplace and inventory optimization across global platforms. This empowers brands to focus on what they do best – creating exceptional products for global audiences.”

    Assiduus also looks forward to benefiting South American consumers by facilitating access to a wider variety of quality products. Their commitment to facilitating a smooth shopping experience ensures a convenient journey for customers across the region, making it easier than ever to discover and purchase their desired brands.

  • Evergent expands internationally and opens sales offices in india and south america

    Evergent expands internationally and opens sales offices in india and south america

    MUMBAI: Evergent Technologies, Inc. (http://www.evergent.com), a leading provider of cloud-based, user lifecycle management solutions for video service providers, today announced the opening of two new sales offices in Mumbai, India and Sao Paulo, Brazil that will service the India, South Asian and South American markets supporting customers and partners – both regions a key area of customer growth for Evergent.

    In India, Manoj Padmanabhan joins Evergent as the Regional Director, Sales, for India, SAARC and Middle East. Manoj has more than 20 years of experience and has worked with large consumer brands including Videocon, Sansui, Toshiba, Tata Indicom, Zee, DittoTV, and Eureka Mobile.  Manoj holds an MBA and a BE in Industrial Electronics.

    In South America, Renato Cotrim joins Evergent as the Regional Director, Sales for South and Central America.  Renato has more than 20 years of experience working at Microsoft, Ericsson, AT&T and IBM supporting telecom and video service providers in the South American region. Renato holds an MBA and BS in Electrical Engineering. Both executives join a team at Evergent that has doubled in the last 18 months as the company has pushed hard to meet the demands of its exponential growth in OTT and cloud video user management services around the globe.

    According to CEO, Evergent Founder of Vijay Sajja, “Adding these two veterans to our team is a big win for Evergent – they’re both highly regarded in the industry. It also gives us the talent and leadership to focus 100 percent on the exponential growth taking place in these two key locations. We understand the issues that video service providers face in global markets, and work hard to provide solutions that benefit our customer’s global reach – taking into account local diversification, cultural differences, and much more.”

    The two new regional directors will serve customers and partner sales in their respective regions and provide direct support when and where it’s needed.

  • Oneworlds latest fare makes middle east easier and better valu

    Oneworlds latest fare makes middle east easier and better valu

    MUMBAI: Visiting the Middle East is to be made easier and better value for international travellers with the launch by the oneworld alliance of its new Visit Middle East fare – offering attractive flexible fares on flights within one of the world’s fastest growing regions for air travel demand.

    The latest offering in oneworld market-leading range of alliance fares will be available for sale from Friday (1 November 2013), following the addition tonight of Qatar Airways to oneworld , as the first of the major Gulf carriers to join one of the global airline alliances.
    With Royal Jordanian the first airline from the Arab world to become part of any global airline alliance when it joined oneworld in 2007, the addition of Qatar Airways makes oneworld the leading alliance in the Middle East.

    The oneworld Visit Middle East pass features all their flights within the Gulf, Levant and Egypt – and also those of the otheroneworld partners operating within this region, British Airways and Cathay Pacific – giving unrivalled coverage of the area.

    It offers flights to 30 destinations in 12 countries – providing just the ticket to take in the wonders of Petra, the riches of Luxor, cosmopolitan Doha or the sandy beaches of Muscat.
    The oneworld Visit Middle East pass must be purchased in conjunction with an international flight to the region with any oneworld member airline.  It can include from three to ten sectors in the region.  Prices are based on the cabin selected – Business or Economy – and the length of each sector, with prices of each flight from US$ 75, excluding taxes and fees.

    oneworld offers an extensive ranges of alliance fares, enabling customers to fly on multiple airlines with attractive savings on regular published fares, whether they want to fly right around the world, or explore one or more continents or regions.  These include Visit passes for Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Japan and Malaysia

  • Doug Liman plans Captain Phillips in a sub with Ridley Scott

    Doug Liman plans Captain Phillips in a sub with Ridley Scott

    MUMBAI: Doug Liman is in talks with Fox and producers Ridley Scott and Simon Kinberg to direct Narco Sub, the script by David Guggenheim. The plot: After a captain’s son is kidnapped by a drug cartel, he is blackmailed into piloting a broken down rebuilt sub from South America to the US, carrying 20 tons of cocaine.

     

    It sounds a bit like Captain Phillips. Scott and Michael Schaeffer will produce with Kinberg. Resolution is working on Liman’s deal.

  • Keane announce Berlin show to be broadcast live into cinemas across the world on 6th november

    Keane announce Berlin show to be broadcast live into cinemas across the world on 6th november

    Keane are excited to announce they will be performing at the iconic Goya in Berlin on 6th November 2013, whichwill be the first in a series of music events, presented by Music Screen, to be broadcast live into over a thousand cinemas across Europe, North and South America.

     

    Only 300 tickets will be available for this exclusive show on 23rd September, 10am UK, 11am Euro time at http://keane.seetickets.com

     

    Screening information will be available atwww.keanemusic.comfrom 23rdSeptember.

     

    Over the past ten years Keane have become one of the world’s most successful and admired British bands.  They have sold over 11 million albums worldwide and had many hits including ‘Somewhere Only We Know’, ‘Everybody’s Changing’, ‘Is It Any Wonder?’, ‘Crystal Ball’, ‘Silenced By The Night’ and ‘Spiralling’. They have performed 700 shows in over 40 countries including an acoustic performance on the Great Wall of China.

     

    Throughout their career, Keane have continually embraced technology becoming the first band to release a single on USB stick and the first to stream a live performance in 3D. They have always been passionate about giving fans a unique live experience and this show brings the two together in a city that has been such an inspiration to them over the last ten years.

     

    Bernie Spratt Music Screen’s Chairman says, “We’re delighted to have Keane as our inaugural artist. This concert, produced exclusively for a worldwide cinema audience will deliver a unique experience.”

     

    ‘The Best Of Keane’ features 18 fan favourites, plucked from the band’s five consecutive UK Number One albums, alongside two powerful new songs, ‘Higher Than The Sun’ and ‘Won’t Be Broken’. The Deluxe version of the album will also include a collection of the band’s exceptionally strong B-sides.  The super deluxe edition contains the two discs from the deluxe edition (The Best Of and B-sides) and an exclusive DVD of a special acoustic set, for which the set list has been chosen by Keane fans.

     

    Track listing:

     

    1. Everybody’s Changing

     

    2. Somewhere Only We Know

     

    3. Bend and Break

     

    4. Bedshaped

     

    5. This Is The Last Time

     

    6. Atlantic

     

    7. Is It Any Wonder?

     

    8. Nothing In My Way

     

    9. Hamburg Song

     

    10. Crystal Ball

     

    11. A Bad Dream

     

    12. Try Again

     

    13. Spiralling

     

    14. Perfect Symmetry

     

    15. My Shadow

     

    16. Silenced By The Night

     

    17. Disconnected

     

    18. Sovereign Light Cafe

     

    19. Higher Than the Sun

     

    20. Won’t Be Broken

  • Next IIFA awards, not at Vancouver

    Next IIFA awards, not at Vancouver

    MUMBAI: The 14th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards will not be held in Vancouver.

    The bid for the same by the British Columbia government on behalf of Vancouver was rejected for 2013, according to a statement by Wizcraft International, the organizers of IIFA.

    The bidding process for the awards is currently on with a number of countries from the Middle East, South America, Europe and Africa.

    “The decision is subject to many contributing factors that are required of a host destination in terms of support-initiatives for Hindi cinema production, funding and distribution; event-funding, support, facilitation, and infrastructure,” said IIFA and Wizcraft International director Sabbas Joseph. “We are committed to the film Industry and hosting an IIFA in any destination must meet the larger interests of Indian cinema and a spectacular-staging of the annual celebration,” he added.

    The dates and venue for the 2013 edition of the IIFA Weekend and Awards will be formally announced soon.

    Over the years, IIFA has been to destinations like London, Yorkshire, Johannesburg, Dubai, Amsterdam, Singapore, Bangkok, Colombo and Macau among other.