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Inspire your child with the all new Swipe Junior, the safest, reliable and most immersive smartphone for kids with stacks of security features pre-installed for parents. Swipe Technologies, India’s leading Mobile Internet Technology Company on Children’s Day announced the launch of its long awaited product Swipe Junior, a smartphone built specifically for kids at an astounding price of Rs. 5999 only.

Swipe Junior will be a perfect companion for the kids in the age group of 5-15 years. It will not only enhance their creativity but also make learning fun without compromising their safety and security.

SwipeJunior

Swipe Junior comes loaded with 5 exclusive features that clearly differentiate it from the competition. These features include:

  1. Parents Operated Control System – This specialized feature is designed for Swipe Junior enabling the parents to keep a check of the “contact list” their kids are connected to, control/limit the time spent on internet browsing, games or any other apps. Swipe Junior grants extreme flexibility to have SOS emergency dialing facility with just one click.
  2. Equipped with powerful Geo-positioning – An amazing technology and first of its kind to control the Kid’s movement, limiting them to be within defined Geo-Fence area. Parents can monitor the phones location through GPS and can also set “safe” and “danger” zones for their child.
  3. Customize UI for kids – Parents can customize the wallpapers that their kids find attractive and set ringtone that are soothing for their children. Kids can enjoy the pre-loaded apps that are fascinating for them and can also ignite their imagination with interactive story books.
  4. Shockproof & Durable design – Considering the fact that kids drop the devices, the device has a specially designed shock & break proof body made with food grade material.
  5. On Cloud – An all-time real cloud connectivity makes Swipe Junior world’s only unique cloud connected mobile for kids.

Swipe Junior Device Specifications

Powered with 1.3 GHz Dual Core Processor, the device has 512 MB RAM and a 4GB ROM that enables the device to run at a blazing speed. The 4.5” IPS display makes watching cartoons and educational shows a real delight. Animated movies, educational films and loads of informational apps can be stored on its 4 GB memory. Swipe Junior also has a 2 MP rear camera and 0.3 MP front camera which helps the kids to capture their imagination. The long lasting 1900 mAh battery keeps the kids occupied and entertained throughout the day. The device is also enabled with a 3G dual SIM slot.

Shripal Gandhi, Founder & CEO, Swipe Technologies said

It’s no secret that kids are using technology more than ever before. We saw an opportunity to create a device just for kids that provides them with an intuitive, fun and kid-friendly user experience filled with rich, interactive content and at the same time provide the parents an upper hand in keeping a control over kid’s activities. Being the first Indian Brand to cater to this segment, we are extremely excited to launch Swipe Junior.

Swipe Junior is available in two colors – blue for boys & pink for girls. Swipe Junior can be ordered from all leading online portals like Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal, Paytm and other e-commerce platforms along with company website, it can also be booked on cash-on-delivery by calling on 8793-038-038. Free Subscription for Parental Control and Geo-Tracking Services is available for the 1st year.

This exclusive offering is for parents who are looking for perfect introduction to a smartphone for their child, with the best safety features available today, expandable parental controls and access to a vast selection of content that delivers life-changing learning and development.

Let your kids start exploring the world today !

About Swipe Technologies

Swipe is an innovation-centric company with a vision to empower India to be one of the top nations in the world in terms of availability of new Tablet technologies and innovative solutions. Swipe was started in India to bring exciting devices to market and today we are a leading consumer brand with key innovations across product, pricing and support. In November 2012, Swipe Telecom was awarded the “Most Innovation driven Company in India by World Brand Congress.” In December 2012, Swipe Telecom was also recognized in ‘CNBC Young Turks’ for its breakthrough strategies and innovation. For more details visit Swipe Telecom

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Money View, an app aimed at making users ‘financially fit’, has launched an innovative referral program titled ‘The Goodness Revolution’ to spread its financial fitness mantra this festive season. This campaign is an attempt at reinforcing the message of goodness of the app, especially during this season when one can take a myopic vision towards their shopping and entertainment expenses, and will be on till November 8th, 2015.

Money View operates on the philosophy of giving its users an overview of their financial status which can enable them to take prudent and judicious financial decisions. While more than a million Money View users have benefited from the app, The Goodness Revolution proposes to galvanize its users to cascade the message of the benefits of financial fitness to a wider audience.

In order to participate in this exciting campaign, users will need to refer their friends using a referral code through the app. If you are not a Money View user, you can still participate by downloading the app and then refer your friends. What’s more, when the friends you referred download the app, you and your friends stand to win the new LG Nexus 5X, along with other exciting prizes like Fit Bit Fitness bands, Honor Power Banks, BookMyShow tickets and Wildcraft bags.

Money View firmly believes that during this festive season when most brands are incentivizing everyone to spend, it becomes all the more important is to reinforce the need to take control of their expenses. For more information on this contest you can log on to Money View Facebook page

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Helpchat, the chat-based personal assistant app that helps users get more things done, records a phenomenal 1 million downloads in just eight months since launch. The app is rated 4.5 on the Google Play Store. The unprecedented response to the app is testimony to the company’s unrelenting effort in simplifying daily tasks and becoming the default behaviour of users for a variety of daily needs.

It has registered maximum traction in Bengaluru, followed by Delhi-NCR and then Mumbai. The services that are most popular with users include mobile recharges, laundry, food ordering, household services, shopping deals and coupons etc.

Helpchat is a personal assistant app that completes task on users behalf, has passed on $6 million worth of user requests to its partner businesses in last 3 months. Helpchat customer promise is to provide user the best available option for a particular task and get it done on user’s behalf.

Speaking on the success of Helpchat, Ankur Singla, Founder and CEO, Helpchat, said

Since inception, we, at Helpchat have had a single-minded devotion to amplifying the users’ ability to get things done. The overwhelming response is a manifestation of our committed efforts. We use these figures as impetus to push us further and propel us to achieve greater things as we go ahead.

Helpchat has recently launched an automated conversational feature to help users schedule their laundry, order food, get suggestions on the best shopping deals etc. Forward-thinking initiatives such as this have enabled Helpchat to carve a special niche for itself in the consumer mind-scape.

As Helpchat has already registered a million downloads, its current focus is going to be on delivering a superb experience to its existing users. Through word-of-mouth publicity it aims to soon reach its target of one lakh daily active users.

About Helpchat

Helpchat is the personal assistant app that helps you get more things done. Be it anything, from recharging your phone to tech support, from travel booking to holiday guidance, from ordering food to shopping assistance to finding deals & coupons, from finding gifts to suggesting the best electronic item, from doing a web check-in to getting your laundry done – Helpchat can get all of them done for you.

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InstaCab, a venture founded by IIT KGP alumni, is an InterCity cab aggregator has re-branded the product and services to new brand name: Roder.in. Roder.in aims to make over-expensive outstation cab travel affordable and accessible to everyone. Moreover, Roder.in has expanded the services to 12 more cities in North India.

The venture of the parent company, Vecto Technologies Pvt Ltd,started off as a marketplace for taxi industry, the first product was launched in Aug 2014. After generating GMV of INR 1 million in just under 4 months, the team identified serious problems in the outstation taxi industry, which had been neglected by the major players in the market.

They aim to eliminate “the return-fare” concept from the market by optimizing resources so that customer only pays for the distance travelled. With a fleet of 2500 drivers, does not own cars, its “one-way rates” operations are spread across more than 350 routes covering North India [increase from 32 routes last month], providing good connectivity with well-maintained cabs at affordable prices.

Roder.in has expanded and started accepting booking requests from the following cities: Chandigarh, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Agra, Dehradun, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Jaipur, Ajmer, Pushkar, Kanpur, including Delhi-NCR.

Roder.in will continue expansion to new markets in North India for the next quarter to create a wide network of cabs, with which customers will be able to avail one-way rates to travel between cities across North India.

It offers three types of cars: mainly hatchbacks, sedans and multi-utility vehicles. With this, the initial months of this year from January to October has seen over 1500 outstation trips with average size being to the tune of 5,000 generating a GMV of around INR 8 million.

Roder.in is a technology platform and aggregates cabs for outstation travels. They maintain and optimize fleets across cities in a particular region to provide one-way rates to the customers. They charge commission per ride provided to the operators. They focus heavily on driver verification and cab verification to ensure customer safety.

Do give Roder spin & share your feedback/comments [Download Link]

About Roder.in

Roder.in, an online marketplace of outstation cabs, founded by IIT-KGP alumni is revolutionizing travel between cities by offering cabs at half the rates than market for one-way journeys. Launched in 2014, they are growing at tremendous pace and aim to make long distance travel affordable & accessible to everyone.

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Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, a part of the US $ 16.9 billion Mahindra Group, have announced the launch of SmartShift – a technology enabled load exchange platform. To ride the digital wave, Mahindra becomes one of the first large corporate groups in the country to initiate a digital mobility platform that is completely under its aegis. It marks the next milestone in the group’s journey toward exploring new horizons and rapidly adopting technology to develop new ecosystems.

SmartShift will act as an exchange platform for cargo owners and transporters, enabling them to work with each other. Cargo owners [both businesses and individual users] can access the SmartShift service through a world class mobile app [SmartShift Android App], the website or the dedicated call centre. It is noteworthy that Mahindra is launching SmartShift, following over 2000 hours of consumer research done over a year.


Speaking at the launch of SmartShift, Dr Pawan Goenka, Executive Director, Mahindra & Mahindra said

At Mahindra, we regularly challenge conventional thinking and create disruptions with our unique product and service offerings. SmartShift is one such idea that was seeded by a young team that has now been charged with growing this service offering independent of existing Mahindra businesses. SmartShift is a digitally enabled, value added service that would benefit both cargo owners and transporters.

Dr. Anish Shah, Group President (Strategy), Mahindra & Mahindra, said

The goods transport industry in India is a fragmented market. A platform or marketplace that connects load owners and transporters can bring significant efficiencies. The resulting reduction in cost and travel time would delight the end consumer. SmartShift will be the marketplace for load transport within cities.

With SmartShift, Mahindra aims to offer transparent pricing, an efficient simple one-click booking process and the ability to track cargo after dispatch. Being one of the biggest players in the CV industry, Mahindra understands and recognizes this ecosystem and its dynamics.

SmartShift for Cargo Owners

  • Book a vehicle in less than 3 minutes
  • Be able to negotiate the best price through a unique first of its kind “BID” feature
  • Choose from a range of certified and trained SmartShifters
  • Track the selected SmartShifter to ensure that his consignment is delivered safely and securely

SmartShift for Cargo Transporters

  • Get more business through faster and easier order taking technology
  • Get the option of accepting or declining a delivery request based on pricing or the availability of vehicles
  • Get the opportunity to explore and expand to other markets
  • Look forward to a higher earning potential

The company is launching SmartShift in Mumbai, followed by other towns and cities across India.

About the Small Commercial Vehicle [SCV] industry

The SCV industry is expected to reach 1 million units by FY 2021. The key demand drivers for the industry would be:

  • The need for last mile connectivity for both goods and people transportation
  • Better operating economics combined with better financing options making SCVs more lucrative for end customers
  • New applications being developed to expand the market, prompting newer customers to buy SCVs

Do give SmartShift a spin & share your comments.

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Spini, India’s first market place mobile application has announced its official entry into Hyderabad, in line with its aggressive strategy to expand in South India before exploring other parts of the Country. Headquartered in India out of Chennai, the real time information providing app has witnessed a surge in demand for its unique proposition of earning money by selling information, with more than 10,000 downloads within 4 months of its India launch. Available for free download on Apple Store and Google Play, Spini is the only app that allows users to make money from anywhere, anytime.

Connecting people with the right information at the right time through our apps, Spini is a marketplace that opens up a new horizon of business opportunities for referrers and salespersons. Spini launched operations in June this year having raised funding of USD 1 Million from Walden International which is also an early investor in BankBazzar to fuel India expansion and continuous development of its patented platform.

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Spini offers its users the platform to make money on information they hold and the salesperson in turn gains a qualified lead where his chances of closing the sale are much higher and his productivity increases. Being a marketplace, people can post information related to a customer planning for a purchase and salesperson bid for and buy those as leads.

As opposed to popular online sites that help you just post information on Property/Real Estate, Renovation, Loans/Mortgages related queries, on Spini, one can earn money by simply referring a lead that he/she might have received from a friend, colleague or acquaintance, and earn money by bidding it among agents who have registered themselves on Spini.

While anyone, a student or a homemaker or a working professional can post the lead they possess, agents on the other hand stand to benefit from Spini’s expertise in allowing users to upload only genuine and verified leads to save time and effort.

Shankar G, Co-founder & CEO, Spini said

When you look at the app world today, you are clearly spoiled for choice with the kind of applications that are available at your disposal. While majority of them cater to the most pertinent desire for convenience, Spini has just made the experience more worthwhile while helping you earn some easy money through it. An Interior Decorator in Chennai has registered with Spini and manged to get business worth 25 lakhs under a month’s time through the verified leads he received on our platform.

Among many other referrers, a homemaker has earned 3000 and a working professional has earned 2000 by sharing their information on Spini. The referrer in this case could be you or me in possession of trivial information that we gather in our day to day conversation but can be very useful for someone else and would like to buy that from you. It has been an encouraging experience to witness traction among the southern part of the country. In fact the traction we have received in Hyderabad, only through word of mouth has helped us get record number of downloads in the least expected time. We are actively looking at spreading our wings to expand our user base in the north as well by end of 2015.

Spini offers a seamless yet streamlined customer experience that is both private and secure. Referrers have the option of observing anonymity while engaging in private chats with the bidders for their information while agents have the privilege of accessing a platform full of leads that is verified and one that provides transparency in the bidding process with an easy payment process.

Eddie Chau, Co-founder & Chairman, Spini said

The India launch seems to be taking pragmatic strides and we look forward to grow the India operations further. Given the market maturity and the increasing adoption of smart personal technologies for improved life quality, we are confident that India will emerge as one of our biggest and strongest markets in the years to come.

With a technically sound team spread across Chennai and Bangalore, we are certain that the India operations team can play a pivotal role in our expansion in other countries in South East Asia soon.

About Spini

Established in 2014, Spini was co-founded by Eddie Chau, Shankar G & Chong-Kian Soh in Singapore with India operations headquartered in Chennai. Spini is a revolutionary referral platform and an online marketplace where sales persons can source qualified sales leads and anyone can monetize information. Sales information on verticals like real estate, mortgage/loan, insurance and renovation will be available on Spini to start with. Connecting people with the right information at the right time through our apps, Spini is a marketplace that opens up a new horizon of business opportunities for referrers and salespersons. For more information, please visit Spini

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Hike messenger, one of India’s fastest growing internet companies has announced the introduction of Hike Direct,  a game-changing proposition that will revolutionize the way people communicate. A first in the world and first in the category feature—hike direct, allows users to chat, exchange stickers, transfer photos and heavy files of any type, things that users would regularly do on hike without the Internet & without incurring data charges.

Hike Direct allows mobile phones to connect with one another directly within a 100 meter radius completely by passing the telecom networks. Users can then chat and share files directly up to a speed of 40 Mbps with very low latency, which is comparable if not better than 4G speeds promised by telecom companies today. For example, exchanging 100 MB of data would take less than 10 seconds on hike direct, more importantly without incurring any data charges.

Speaking on the launch, Kavin Mittal, Founder & CEO hike messenger added

Today is the day we completely redefine messaging. Hike Direct has been built on breakthrough technology that adds a whole new dimension to messaging enabling hikers to chat and share files with their friends without the internet and without incurring any data charges. One can get speeds up to 40 Mbit/sec when chatting and sharing files through hike direct. Data or no data, hike will always work. It’s incredibly powerful.

The all – new ‘Hike Direct’ is built from the ground up with a new generation of network solutions and uses WiFi Direct technology systems that help establish peer to peer network connection between two phones.

To use hike direct, users simply need to open a chat with a friend and choose Hike Direct from the 3 dot menu on top right of the screen and hike does the rest. Hike automatically pairs up with the other phone and lets you chat and share files with your friends without the internet.

Users can get this feature by upgrading to the latest version of Hike, version 4.0.6 and above, which is available free on the Google Play Store starting today. Hike Direct on iOS, Windows to follow next year.

The company also announced that it crossed 70 million users last month with 20 billion messages being exchanged per month making it by far the 2nd largest messaging app in the country. An average user on hike spends over 140 minutes per week on the application.

The all new hike has recently been upgraded to 4.0 version with best in class features developed to deliver greater value to users such as news, hindi news bytes, localized stickers in 30 languages, automatic sticker suggestions, Group calling, Group chat upto 500 members, 100 MB file sharing and many more.

Hike’s Growth Story

  • Dec 2012 – Global launch
  • Feb 2013 – Messaging traffic grows 10X week on week
  • April 2013 – Hit the first 5M user milestone in just 4 months of its launch | Raised $7M from BSB
  • Feb 2014 – Hit the 15M user mark
  • April 2014 – Received $14M fresh funding from BSB
  • June 2014 – Crossed 20M user mark, launched first TVC
  • July 2014 – Hit #1 rank on App stores
  • August 2014 – Crossed 35M user mark, receives $65M fresh funding led by Tiger Global & BSB
  • November 2014 – Launches regional stickers on hike
  • January 2015 – Launched free Hike Calls
  • February 2015 – Launched Cricket Scores on hike
  • Aug 2015: Hike announces 20 billion messages per month and launched Hike News
  • Sep 2015: Launched Group Calling with upto 100 people

Do give Hike Direct a spin & share your experience in the comments section

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Circle of Life Healthcare Private Limited has launched an app called myCOL to simplify the hospitalization experience for patients and their caretakers in India, starting first with NCR. myCOL app will provide exhaustive information of more than 1300 hospitals across the city, irrespective of size and facilities, through an easy to use map based search.

Shortly, the Company will also incorporate it’s flagship service whereby it will provide a free personal assistant to the user, who will take care of all procedural formalities at the time of hospitalization.

With the recent outbreak of an epidemic like Dengue or Malaria, even in a city like Delhi, which has the second highest number of hospital beds in the country, there was reportedly an acute shortage of hospital beds. myCOL’s endeavour is to remove the asymmetry of information regarding hospital facilities and assist the patient in his hour of need.

Talking about the app, Vaibhav Singh, Co-founder & CEO said

Our vision is to democratize healthcare and remove the fear which patients and caretakers feel when approaching a hospital for an In-patient Procedure. myCOL combines the benefits of technology and human touch, to deliver a unique product to the services-starved patient.

Salient Features of myCOL

Map Based Exhaustive Search

myCOL works as a veritable encyclopedia offering unbiased information on all medical facilities and practitioners in your region, a user-friendly map based listing & search functionality. The myCOL team has collected this data painstakingly by personally visiting each hospital irrespective of the size and location to ensure that you have access to all the information you require to make a better decision.

Personal Assistant

Long queues and waiting time at hospitals add to the stress of hospitalization. myCOL’s revolutionary service involves instant assignment of a personal assistant to the user who will handle all the administrative tasks like admission, insurance coordination and discharge. This will allow the caretaker to focus solely on the well-being of the patient rather than getting unnecessarily bogged down by the infamous 3 hour waits at admission and 6 hour discharge processes.  Like all other features, this service is absolutely Free.

myCOL App Snapshot

Health Records

myCOL provides a cloud-based facility to store all health records including prescriptions, invoices, insurance papers etc. for self and family members. With its unique share facility, you can share records with your doctors or your loved ones with ease.  Now do away with those archaic manual files and create an indexed online medical repository.

Reminder Facility

Never miss out on any medications or appointments.  The innovative reminder service allows the guardian to keep a tab on medicine compliance by the aged through an efficient notification facility.

myCOL App Snapshot

Take care of your family members

myCOL allows you to create groups for your loved ones through the unique myCircle feature and take complete charge of their health.

myCOL app for Android & iOS can be downloaded from here. myCOL for iOS would be released soon.

If you are in NCR region, do give myCOL app a spin & share your feedback in the comments section.

About myCOL

myCOL is a product of Circle of Life Healthcare Private Limited. It is promoted by Professor (Dr.) Mudit Kapoor, PhD Economics, University of Maryland & Vaibhav Singh, Fellow Chartered Accountant and MBA. It counts among its Advisory Board experts like Dr. Shamika Ravi, Fellow, Brookings Institution India and Dr. Ambuj Roy, Dept. of Cardiology, AIIMS. myCOL has launched services recently in the NCR region and is expected to reach your city shortly. More information on myCOL can be found here and here