Bitcoin Continues to Defy Logic, Surpasses $15,000 Milestone

Bitcoin continues the upward surge. Bitcoin continues to defy all the logic as it touched a new high during the early trading sessions on Thursday morning, surpassing the level of $15,000 for the very first time. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency touched to $15,340 per unit at several indexes as of as of 10 am IST,…

ByGirish ShettiDecember 7, 20170Comments

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Paying Through Messages; The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

With the announcement of IOS 11 and its new devices this year including the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, Apple also introduced using Apple Pay to pay friends right inside your text messaging app. Now, Facebook has introduced the same thing for their Messenger app using PayPal. With apps like Square Cash and PayPal, it has…

ByTechPluto StaffNovember 6, 20170Comments

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Data Security and Pharmaceuticals: Are You Doing Enough to Ensure Your Data is Secure?

Earlier this year, a substantial cyber attack impacted the pharmaceutical giant Merck, and it’s recently been revealed that the attack cost it $135 million in revenue. It’s clear to see, therefore, that there’s a huge potential for damage to businesses who don’t have the security measures in place to prevent hacks. So, in the wake of…

ByAnkit KumarNovember 3, 20170Comments

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AI Startup Petuum Secures $93 million from SoftBank & Other Investors

AI Startup Petuum grabs $93 million funding. Pittsburgh based startup Petuum, which aims to offer companies with tools they need to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, announced today that it has raked up whopping $93 million from investment giant SoftBank. Advantech Capital and other investors also participated in what was series B round for Petuum. The company’s…

ByGirish ShettiOctober 10, 20170Comments

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Alibaba invests $27 million in Cloud Database Startup MariaDB

Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) has invested $27 million in MariaDB, an open source database server company. The e-commerce giant has agreed to lead a funding round of $27 million towards MariaDB, which is a community-developed fork of the MySQL RDBMS which will remain free under the GNU GPL license. The MariaDB foundation based out of Europe manages…

ByAnkit KumarSeptember 30, 20170Comments

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Top 5 Venture Capitalists in India – 2017

Once a startup gains traction in the market. It needs ample capital to scale its operations. This is where Venture Capitals come into play. They not only invest but also advise the budding startups in strategy and execution. Startups simply cannot function if there's isn't enough Venture Capitalists in the industry. It is highly critical…

ByTechPluto StaffSeptember 12, 20170Comments

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IBM in Collaboration with MIT will Invest $240 million in New AI Lab

IBM to invest $240 million in a new AI lab. IBM and MIT university will be collaborating together to conduct a comprehensive research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at a new state-of-the art lab. This new lab will be called The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and IBM will be investing nearly $240 million in this new lab…

ByGirish ShettiSeptember 7, 20170Comments

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What should you consider when buying a mobile phone in 2017?

There are over 2 billion worldwide and nowadays. You’ll be hard pressed to leave the house without coming across at least one person entwined into their mobile phone, yourself included in that! But with technology advancing as it is, what are they main things you should consider for 2017 when buying a new phone? Firstly, if you’re…

ByAnkit KumarAugust 22, 20170Comments

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Top 5 Cryptocurrency Wallets

Cryptocurrencies are gaining a lot of momentum in recent times with Bitcoin prices skyrocketing to more than $4000 per coin as of August 2017. Cryptocurrency is a digital asset which uses encryption and other cryptography techniques to secure the transactions and is used as a medium of exchange instead of the traditional currencies. Bitcoin was…

ByAnkit KumarAugust 18, 20170Comments

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Best Audio Recording software tools

Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is a software that helps you manipulate audio from multiple sources, record podcasts or do advanced sound production tasks. You must know that one software is not better than others for all genres of users. With various audio recording software tools ranging from lightweight applications with just essential functions to professional…

ByPrashant SharmaAugust 16, 20170Comments

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