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VeriSign, a global leader in domain names and internet security, have announced that approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2017, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 331.9 million across all Top-Level Domains [TLDs] as of June 30, 2017.

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The increase of approximately 1.3 million domain name registrations globally equates to a growth rate of 0.4 percent over the first quarter of 2017. Domain name registrations have grown by 6.7 million, or 2.1 percent, year over year.

The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 144.3 million domain name registrations in the domain name base in the second quarter of 2017. This represents a 0.8 percent increase year over year. As of June 30, 2017, the .com domain name base totaled 129.2 million domain name registrations, while the .net domain name base totaled 15.1 million domain name registrations.

New .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 9.2 million during the second quarter of 2017. In the second quarter of 2016, new .com and .net domain name registrations totaled 8.6 million.

Verisign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide internet users throughout the world with statistical and analytical research and data on the domain name industry. The second quarter 2017 Domain Name Industry Brief, as well as previous reports, can be obtained from here

 

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Nowadays, air fresheners have become an integral part of our daily lifestyle, be it home, cars, or bathrooms. Everyone wants his/her home and car to smell good and fresh. Here is a permanent solution to your problems – Godrej Aer. There is a constant push to make the environment more eco-friendly. Godrej Aer brings you a wide range of eco-friendly air fresheners for your home, cars and bathrooms.

Your car might be a heaven for speed, but the most important factor in car is the interior environment & the smell, which ultimately decides the comfort of your journey, more than the speed. There are various brands of car perfumes online with different and amazing fragrances.

Also, with the advent of e-commerce, customers can now enjoy buying amazing stuff from the comfort of their homes! Nowadays, people are more specific of how their rooms or bathrooms smell when guests visit them. Home fragrance sprays or toilet freshener sprays are the perfect solution in such a situation. Many branded companies come up with air fresheners and best car fresheners; the choice is difficult but one can decide on the basis of price, variety of fragrances, durability, etc.

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Freshworks, the leading provider of cloud-based business software launched Freshchat, a next-gen messaging product that helps businesses better communicate with their customers. Freshchat provides a suite of website and in-product engagement capabilities which help businesses capture more leads and drive sales.

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As per the 2016-17 Gartner CMO Spending Survey, nearly two-thirds of marketing leaders plan to increase digital ad-spend in 2017. Marketers are spending more on digital marketing to attract customers to their websites and apps, but end up converting only 2 to 3 percent of these visitors into customers.

To solve for this, Freshchat enables businesses to target visitors with highly contextual messages to increase engagement and thereby conversions. Once the end user responds, an intelligent bot screens and qualifies leads effortlessly before bringing in a sales rep. This information is auto-synced into the CRM, providing context for sales reps and enabling intelligent conversations.

Freshchat breaks from legacy live chat tools to deliver a modern messaging experience that customers expect, similar to personal messaging apps like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. Leveraging technology from recent acquisitions, Freshchat enables smarter conversations without the burden of traditional live chat on either party – no missed chats or sessions timing out for the customer, and no staffing up during peaks for the business.

Freshchat can integrate into websites, web-apps, native mobile apps, and other messaging products like Facebook Messenger. Freshchat offers in-product campaigns for on-boarding and engagement, a unique integrated FAQ experience to encourage self-service, and advanced features to route and manage conversations for customer support.

Girish Mathrubootham, CEO and Founder of Freshworks, said

Businesses today want to provide their consumers with contextual, intelligent and personalized chat experiences. We believe there is a huge gap that live chat products don’t address compared to consumer messaging apps, which are creating high benchmarks for user experience.

Sales and support agents need to be empowered with a single platform that provides the flexibility to engage with prospects and customers who are always multi-tasking. We are excited to offer a game-changing chat offering with unique sales and support capabilities that push the boundaries of an already well-established business communication channel.

Rajesh Magow, Co-Founder and CEO-India, MakeMyTrip, said

At MakeMyTrip, we are always looking to use innovative technology to make travel seamless and hassle-free for our customers. We are using Freshchat to solve for our customers’ needs with precision, in real time. Not only has it ensured that our customers receive prompt personalized experiences, it has also brought in operational efficiencies that make assisted buying extremely scalable.

In addition to the standalone chat offering, Freshchat will integrate into Freshsales and Freshdesk, making it easy for sales and support teams to adopt the product into their workflow. Freshchat is available to businesses of all sizes, with a free plan for companies with less than ten team members in sales and support. For more information, please visit FreshChat

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Truecaller has announced the addition of a new spam filtering feature for its iOS app, which will seamlessly filter out SMS and MMS spam from iMessage and send them directly to a junk tab.

Similar to junk email, which is filtered into a designated spam folder, you will no longer have to waste time deleting unwanted messages manually from your device, allowing you to communicate safely and more efficiently with those that matter.

Truecaller blocks more than 100 million spam SMS and text messages each week globally, and with its ever-growing community, iOS users will now be able to filter out junk SMS with the most powerful spam blocking app.

On a weekly basis approximately 82 million spam texts or SMS are received by Indian users, out of which 24 million are automatically blocked.

Rishit Jhunjhunwala, VP of Product, Truecaller, said

We are always looking for ways to increase safety while communicating. Now, iPhone users will have a powerful tool to automatically filter junk and spam SMS, which has been highly requested by our users.

Along with recent releases such as Flash Messaging and Google Duo powered video calling, this is another in a long list of new features within the popular Truecaller app, which makes it a one-stop communications platform with a smart dialer, caller ID, and spam blocking service that is already used by more than 250 million users globally.

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If there is one reliable thing NRIs have always vouched for and continue to invest in, it is property back home in India. Bengaluru, Kochi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Delhi have been investment hotspots. However, the lucrative investment comes with strings attached – how does one know their tenant is good, that their house is not damaged in their absence, or what if the tenant calls them from across the seas to get a plumbing problem fixed ?

Being so far off, and rarely visiting their hometowns, NRIs now are turning to property management companies to take care of the nitty gritty of their treasured properties.

Rentprop4u, a Bengaluru-based realty startup, says it has seen an almost 60 per cent increase in the number of inquiries over the past one year from NRIs in Australia, US, Canada, New Zealand and the Gulf. The company helps NRIs realize the full potential of their real estate investments.

Nagaraju M, CEO, Rentprop4u, said

Usually NRI home owners are worried about things like finding the right tenant quickly, showing the property, tenant vacation hassles and legal implications, rent variation, lack of tenant screening and house maintenance, dependency on brokers and inability to inspect the property during tenant stay.

Nagaraju lays out the current details, very specific to NRIs – nearly 25 per cent of apartments in Bengaluru are bought by NRIs. In Kochi it is about 40 per cent. Investment by NRIs in other cities such as MMR, NCR, Ahmedabad, Chennai and Dehradun varies between 5 to 10 per cent of the overall market sales.

According to the census of India 2011, out of the 90 million residential census units, 11 million units were vacant; that is about 12 per cent of the total urban housing stock. And a lot of home owners prefer to let their investments lie idle rather than face the trouble of letting them out.

Nagaraju speaks of how companies like his have now become popular with NRIs, because they offer 100 per cent property assistance – including rent assistance, rental agreements and payments, maintenance, quarterly inspection of properties with photographs taken and sent to owners. They also offer niche on-demand services such as furnishing and payment of property taxes.

Rentprop4u takes care of one other worry for NRIs – safety – through tenant screening and background verification as well. They do a police verification of the tenant through their legal team. Established in 2016, Rentprop4u currently has 200 plus registered properties and more than 400 users. Be it a single property or a large portfolio, the company is so confident of its tenant placement services that it guarantees to let out the property in less than 30 days or start paying the rent to the owner within a month.

Nagaraju M, CEO, Rentprop4u, added

We give them 15-20 per cent higher returns compared to brokers, so NRIs find our deals attractive. We can assure uninterrupted rent payments to property owners even when some of the properties are vacant for short periods.

About Rentprop4u

Rentprop4u is a Bengaluru-based realty start-up offering property management and rental solutions to owners and tenants. Established in 2016, Rentprop4u currently has 200 plus registered properties and more than 400 users.

The company offers an end-to-end online rental solution for tenants to find suitable properties at zero brokerage with minimal paperwork, while owners can make use of Rentprop4u’s services to manage their properties and maximize their rental income.

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Payjo has launched SBI Intelligent Assistant or SIA, an AI-powered chat assistant that addresses customer enquiries instantly and helps them with everyday banking tasks just like a bank representative. With SIA, SBI will reduce significant operational expenditure over time.

Since launch, SIA has responded to millions of queries from thousands of customers. SIA is setup to handle nearly 10,000 enquiries per second or 864 Million in a day. That is nearly 25% of the queries processed by Google every day.

Setting up the AI platform for State Bank of India, the world’s largest bank with 420 Million customers is nothing short of an engineering marvel. Payjo’s architecture was diligently calibrated to seamlessly scale up to such magnitude. Deployment of this size is a ?rst of its kind in India and even across the world, such instances are few and far between. Payjo’s over 20 years of expertise in large enterprise ?nancial systems has made it possible for a successful launch.

SIA continuously learns with each interaction and gets better over time. Currently, it can address enquiries on banking products and services. It is trained with a large set of knowledge and is adept at answering frequently asked questions as well.

Commenting on SIA, Srinivas Njay, Founder and CEO of Payjo added

India’s banking infrastructure is light years ahead compared to the western world. The largest public sector bank of the country adopting Artificial Intelligence in a matter of few months is not an easy task. The credit goes to the progressive team at SBI and the continued Digital India push from our honourable PM Narendra Modi. SIA is a revolution in the banking industry. It is set to disrupt the way banks and customers interact.

Shiv Kumar Bhasin, CTO of SBI added

SIA is a perfect example of ground-breaking banking application in Arti?cial Intelligence and Conversational Banking. It will enhance customer service several notches above and Payjo’s expertise in the conversational banking domain helped us build SIA as a superior chatbot in the global banking space. We look forward to taking SIA and simplifying customer’s lives on multiple customer interaction platforms in partnership with Payjo.

SIA can be accessed through SBI’s portal. Payjo is working towards making SIA available across multiple customer touch-points like mobile, IVR, SMS and Social Media platforms. SIA will also be equipped to interact in most regional languages of India.

About Payjo

Payjo’s AI Banking platform powers top banks worldwide and facilitates 24*7 real-time automated assistance. It enables every conversation to be highly personalized, intelligent and secure. Payjo is CERT-In certi?ed for security and compliance and also adheres to RBI regulations as well as the Information Technology Amendment Act of India. For more information, please visit Payjo

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How many times it has occurred that you plan to complete a certain activity in a couple of hours but end up spending much more than time what is expected. If you are leading a team, the same might also apply to your team members.

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The delay could be because of unwanted meetings, resolution of blocker issues, unproductive use of project time, delay of dependent deliverables, etc. In some cases, the delay might enter into an infinite loop thereby adversely affecting the project deadlines and hampering motivation of team members!

It is estimated that 25% of the average worker’s day is wasted on inefficient work, which means that If you work an 8-hour day, that’s 2 hours wasted every day i.e. 520 hours/year. Hence, it becomes important to use right as well as efficient scheduling tools for project management.

Wrike, a company that specializes in the development of project management tools] has come up with a very informative infographic that highlights the challenges faced by leaders and team managers to ensure efficient Work Management.

Why Every Team Needs Work Management ToolsInfographic brought to you by Wrike scheduling tools for project management

Do leave a comment on the Work Management tools that you use for better management!

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There has been a rapid transformation in each and every sector due to technology, much of which can be attributed to the advent of the internet. Though every device is becoming much more ‘smart’er; be it the phone, refrigerator, washing machine, etc., there are still some devices/tools that are still very 90’ish and had to make the technological shift. One such tool is the Screwdriver and it was about time that the screwdriver also went smart along with a major design overhaul!

Today, consumers expect a smart device for an enhanced performance, longer lifetime, and faster charging cycles as well as compact designs. A couple of days back, Bosch Power Tools India, leading manufacturer and marketer of power tools for construction, woodworking, and metalworking industry, announced the launch of a smart screwdriver ‘Bosch GO‘. This new smart screwdriver combines all these features and is bound to boost engineering standards.

Bosch GO Smart Screwdriver

‘Bosch GO’ smart screwdriver is a perfect tool for screwing tasks, it is not only cordless but also has a very compact design that makes it very easy to use. ‘Bosch GO’ is the smart screwdriver where a simple push gets the work done and it’s intelligent E-clutch system knows when to stop on reaching the target torque. The strong spindle lock closes the gap between manual and automatic operation helping users to stop impending work on demand.

Bosch GO is powered by a lithium-ion battery and is compact & easy to carry around anytime, anywhere. The tool is designed to be as close to the shape and size of a manual screwdriver in order to help the Indian user leapfrog from manual effort to effortless working with minimal discomfort. With the smart screwdriver, you no longer need to worry about the misaligned screws since it has excellent precision. ‘A simple push, A perfect finish’ perfectly suits the Bosch GO.

Advantages of the Bosch GO Smart Screwdriver

Compared to the normal screwdriver, this tool has the following advantages:

  • Powerful – Four times more powerful than the existing screwdriver
  • Intuitive – Intuitive operation style, just push to drive screws [Push & Go]
  • Precise – Intelligent E-clutch system stops when you want to stop
  • Lightweight – It is just 0.28 kg making it easy to carry and enabling hassle-free working for a long time.
  • Torque setting – The torque setting has six levels, 1 is for small screws into soft surfaces, e.g. Softwood. 2~4 is for standard screws & 5~6 is for big screws on hard surfaces, such as metal, teak wood, etc.

Features and Technical information of Bosch GO Smart Screwdriver

Developed with an extended UX approach and with a user-friendly design, it adds an aesthetic value to repair tasks. From tightening to loosening screws, this smart screwdriver comes with adjustable 5/2.5 Nm torque and the speed goes up to 360 rpm. The user can even use the product manually as it has a spindle lock that allows him to carry on the screwdriving operation without any hassle.

‘Bosch GO’ is powered by the 3.6V 1.5Ah in-built battery for longer run time and 90 mins of charging attains a full charge. ‘Bosch GO’ features new innovations that deliver unprecedented run-time and efficiency for any kind of application. It has a Micro-USB charging point and a 3-LED charging indicator. The screwdriving functions can be carried on with absolute ease due to the rotary brush plate that assists with the forward and reverse rotation.

To summarize, below are the major features and in-depth technical information of Bosch GO

Features of Bosch GO
Technical Details of Bosch GO

What’s in the Box – Bosch GO Smart Screwdriver

The Bosch GO kit comes with the following:

  • Bosch Go smart screwdriver in a plastic case
  • 33 pieces screwdriver bits
  • USB Adaptor and USB cable

Be it tightening door hinges, fixing electrical switchboards, repairing cycles, furniture installation, etc., with the smartness of Bosch GO you can now enjoy effortless & high-precision screwdriving 🙂

Bosch GO Smart Screwdriver – Pricing and Availability

Bosch GO is available on Amazon India and Flipkart at a price of Rs. 2,199 & Rs. 2,399 respectively. The retail price is Rs. 4,450 and the product will be available at dealer stores across India from October onwards. Customers can reach at 18004258665 & bpt@in.bosch.com