Naveen K. Jain, excellent business entrepreneur, executive and the founder and former CEO of InfoSpace, is also known as one of the co-founders of Moon Express, and moreover, he is the current chairman of it. He is all set to release his next audacious venture named Viome, which will prove to be The Groundbreaking Revolution in the field of Healthcare. Viome is promised to be a health care company, which aims to utilise the artificial intelligence in order to improve its customers’ health. Artificial intelligence will help to make dietary recommendations, like which nutrient rich food should a person intake as well as other…
Author: Girish Shetti
An attribution model is basically a rule or sometimes a set of rules, which actuates that how credit for sales and conversions is attributed to some touch points or clicks in conversion paths. Citing an example for it: Analytics model, Last Interaction model that assigns 100% credit to the ultimate touch points that immediately precede conversions or sales. Google’s attribution efforts started back in 2014. It acquired a start-up that specialised in measuring marketing impact. It was initially named Adometry and then they quickly reconstructed to form into Attribution 360 and rolled out an important part of Google’s Analytics 360 Suite then. It has been two years…
Jia Yueting, the founder and the chief executive officer of the company LeEco stepped down from his post at Leshi, the sister concern of LeEco, on Sunday after the deal with US giant Vizio could not be finalised due to regulatory headwinds as reported. What is more shocking is that on Tuesday, the company said it will hand pink slips to its 325 employees, or 70 percent of the workforce of its US business, due to a lack of funding. LeEco had seen this coming from the very beginning. The Chinese giant that was founded in 2004, was established as…
Chromebooks are laptops that run on Google Chrome’s Operating System instead of Windows 10 or Mac or Ubuntu. MacBook is a product of Macintosh which is manufactured by Apple Inc. It was launched in January 2006. MacBook is one the best available notebooks in the market. It has a unibody made of aluminium whereas Surface is a series of touchscreens from windows personal computers. It is a Microsoft product. It is manufactured by Pegatron. It was an initiative taken to integrate Window’s system with its own hardware. A lot of people generally get confused when buying a laptop or notebook.…
Paytm was founded in 2010 by Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder of One97 Communication Ltd. It was launched as a prepaid mobile recharge website. Paytm wallet was launched in 2013, making it India’s largest mobile payment service platform. Demonetization of 500 and 1000 rupee currency notes boosted it usage in November 2016. Paytm now plans to go big. It shall launch its first physical branch today i.e May 23, 2017. Paytm Payments Bank shall inaugurate its first branch at Noida. It has the vision to have more than 31 branches and 3000 customers across Delhi, NCR by the end of…
If you are strolling in one of the posh malls at Dubai and suddenly come across a 220 pound, 5 feet 6 inches tall REEM humanoid robot, designed by PAL Robotics, do not be taken aback. This is now going to be the future of police force across the globe. Dubai police is set to launch its first fleet of robot police on May 24, 2017. It also plans to make up 25% of its total force with such robots by 2030. This fleet of robots that are soon to be launched aren’t armed with weapons. Neither shall they arrest…
The SoftBank group of Japan along with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund announced a $100 billion fund for the IT revolution. The main areas will be artificial intelligence, robotics and semi-conductors. However, SoftBank added that their areas of focus also included internet-of-things, infrastructure, telecoms, biotech, fintech, mobile apps and more. The funds will steer capital for global startups and other firms for latest cutting-edge technologies. The SoftBank’s fund is reported to be the highest in the IT industry. It has closed its initial phase with a commitment of $93 billion and has a bevy of high-profile companies such as Apple,…
According to Hackread.com, a user “Nclay” claimed the hacking of Zomato and showed the intentions of selling data of 17 million users at a package of $1,001.43 (BTC 0.5587), here BTC stands for bitcoins. “Nclay” willingly wants to sell data at a popular dark web marketplace. He also displayed some data samples to prove its authenticity. Zomato, India’s largest online restaurant guide will now have to pay a compensation amount to the users as the data stolen consisted of personally identifiable information. Prashant Mali, a leading IT security expert claims that under section 43A of the Indian IT Act, Zomato…
After the WannaCry Ransomware affected 105 countries, this piece of information is essential. Ransom is a price demanded for the release of a captive. The term ransomware has evolved from this. Ransomware is a malicious software that blocks your access to data until a certain amount of ransom is paid. It displays a message that demands payment to unlock it. Ransomware attacks are carried out by a trojan, which is a program that makes the data vulnerable or deletes the data. Ransomware is a denial-of-access attack i.e. it blocks the user from using the computer’s data. In technical terms, it…
Every year, Google brings together the best developers around the globe to have an insight on the next generation of technology. Here is what Google announced in its 2017 conference. The number game The organization’s CEO, Sundar Pichai announced that nearly 2 billion people today use Android. According to him, 8000 million people around the globe are using Google Drive followed by 5000 million who use Google Photos. Artificial Intelligence The major theme of the conference was AI. Google announced that its next product Google lens will make your camera analyze what you are looking at. However, they also announced…
The race for bringing self-driven automobiles in the market has escalated in the Silicon valley as two of the companies have signed up a deal for collaboration. Waymo, a sub-organization of Google has signed up the deal with Lyft, a leading start-up company for collaborating together and bringing up autonomous cars for the future in the mainstream market through product development as well as pilot projects. The spokesperson of both companies claimed that the companies shared a common and better vision for the autonomous automobiles market. They have a common vision for providing the people with better transportations. However,…