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Hashtaag, a firm which builds native mobile apps and products driven through technology, today announced that it has been ranked among top app development companies in Bengaluru, by Clutch.co. Hashtaag has been listed in the niche section in The Leaders Matrix, indicating the position it has created for itself among market leaders in just one year.

Being the global leader, Clutch.co is highly regarded for its ranking and lists in various sectors. The acknowledgement of various app development companies is based on many qualitative and quantitative factors. To be in the race of the digital service industry requires enhanced category-based specifications which are evaluated in the domains of client satisfaction, reviews, market presence, experience and quality deliverance.

Jayavardhan B N, CEO & Co-founder, Hashtaag said

It is a big achievement for us to have been listed among the top app developers by Clutch.co, in just one year of starting Hashtaag. It shows the kind of efforts Hashtaag is putting towards delivering the best in the industry and ensuring maximum client satisfaction. We are constantly working to raise the bar for mobile app development in India and globally.

With a focus on quality and superfast delivery, Hashtaag primarily caters to entrepreneurs and startups looking for a cost-effective mobile app development partner, without blowing budgets. From Day 1, the company has been profitable with more than USD 1 million in revenue in less than a year. Recently, Hashtaag secured funding of USD 1 million with more investors already in the pipeline. Hashtaag is the proud mobile app development partner of apps such as Doors, Shouut, Paperboy, FaceChat, Curiocty, and Logoon-all owned by popular celebrity icons and serial entrepreneurs.

India is witnessing immense innovation in every sector and owing to the recent smartphone boom in the country, the mobile app development industry in particular is seeing huge potential and scope. According to a report by Deloitte, India is set to become the largest base of mobile app developers by 2017. Gartner has further predicted that 42% of organizations are expecting to increase spending on mobile app development by an average of 31% in 2016.

About Hashtaag

Let’s talk Apps. The fresh choice in mobile app development, Hashtaag provides premium design and development services for entrepreneurs and startups around the world. Founded in 2015 and held under KGJ Software Technologies, Hashtaag employs 50+ designers, engineers and support staff. Based in Bengaluru, Hashtaag also has offices in Chennai, Mumbai and San Francisco, California. For more information, please visit Hashtaag

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As a popular file transfer and sharing application , XENDER has announced that it has reached 50% market share in India in the crowded file transfer market. XENDER has clocked in 170 million Indian users over the last three years alone with an annual growth rate of over 100%. XENDER has long maintained a leading position in mobile sharing tool market, well known for its fast transfer, convenient using and zero cost. New slogan, new concept,new logo,Let’s XENDER it!

XENDER also announced the launch of its new logo for Indian audience on the auspicious occasion of Diwali. The new logo captures the vibrant and dynamic spirit of XENDER and incorporates hues of orange; a color deeply entrenched in the Indian culture.

Commenting on the milestone, Peter Jiang, Founder of XENDER said

India is an extremely critical market for us with file transfer volume scaling 1.7 million. With maximum user base in in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata, XENDER is extremely popular in metro cities and northern India. With over 500 million cumulative global users, we target to attain 800 million global users over the next 3 years.

Unlike other apps like Flash Transfer that is not available on Play Store and needs side-loading; transfer of data over XENDER is fast & secure. XENDER recently announced a new version of its app with comprehensive functions and better user experience. It offers seamless transmission between Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Windows PC and Apple MAC system.

Download XENDER from Google Play. Let’s XENDER it!

About XENDER

Xender is a comprehensive app for all file sharing needs. It allows users to share any type of file, at any time, without using any mobile data. Xender supports Android, IOS, Windows, PC/ Mac cross-platform transferring with over 200 times Bluetooth transfer speed. Xender currently supports over 22 languages including English, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai and Bengali. For its Indian users, XENDER has added a choice of 12 kinds of India dialect. Let’s XENDER it!

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With an aim to build for a largely sight and sound country that is India, Hike Messenger, India’s only home grown and second largest messaging platform, has launched video calling feature for its users.

Video calling, the beta of which was rolled out in September this year to a select set of less than a hundred thousand, will now begin to roll-out to the entire user-base starting with Android users this week.

Simple, Reliable and High Quality Video Calling Experience, Even In Challenging Network Conditions : Video calling on Hike is a simple and easy to use feature that works on a single tap that is integrated into chat threads with friends. The feature has been built for a reliable and high quality video experience that works even under challenging network conditions, including good quality 2G.

Live Caller Preview : Another interesting aspect of video calling on Hike is the ability for a user to see a live video preview of the caller before answering the call. It’s quite a neat feature and adds to the fun of video calling.

Available Immediately to All Android Users; iOS to Follow Soon : Hike video calling is available immediately on Android. If users updated their Hike Messenger in September this year, video calling would have automatically been enabled for them and will now be accessible!

The evolution of communication on Hike : Hike continues to be loved by its users for its chat experience with its 10,000+ hyper-localized stickers in 40+ languages. Hike also launched one-on-one and group (100 member) audio calls in September 2015. Introduction of video calls one year later, today, makes for an even better friction-free, sight and sound communication experience.

Commenting on the launch, Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder and CEO, Hike Messenger said

This was an obvious one and we’re excited to bring it to the market so quickly. We’ve been in beta for a few months and the results have been really positive. We’re now excited to roll this out across our entire user-base.  We see India as primarily a sight and sound market-and we believe video calling will have a large impact on how people communicate inside of Hike.

In January 2016, Hike had announced that it has over 100 million users. 95% of Hike users are based in India and 90% of them are young and below the age of 30. Hike users, on an average, exchange 40 billion messages per month and spend 120 minutes per user per week on the platform.

Hike has been built for these young consumers around 4 key pillars:

1. Data Constraints in India
2. Local Expressive Content
3. Deep Emphasis on Privacy
4. The Platform

To use video calling on Hike

1. Download Hike Messenger, if you don’s have it OR update Hike Messenger if you haven’t updated it since September.
2. Select the chat thread of a friend you want to connect with.
3. Just tap on the call button on the top right that prompts you to further select Voice or Video and start off your call.

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Truecaller is opening up TrueSDK to millions of app developers via a globally accessible self-service portal. TrueSDK helps end users quickly and frictionlessly utilize their Truecaller credentials with a one touch sign-up to third-party apps with their phone numbers. The TrueSDK kit can be used by any app to offer one touch sign up, update a user’s information, or verify the user’s phone number based identity in their mobile apps through the users’ consent.

Image Source - TrueSDK
Image Source – TrueSDK

Since its launch in February this year, TrueSDK has become a preferred app sign-up mechanism for a diverse set of brands and startups. It has also achieved significant traction from consumers using Truecaller to sign up or on-board third party apps. Early access partners across industries are seeing over one-third of their sign-ups on their apps coming from TrueSDK. With the one-click sign-up process, partners have increased their sign-up rates with over 25%.

Priyam Bose, Director of Worldwide Developer Relations at Truecaller said

TrueSDK is a catalyst in our journey to become the mobile identity platform of choice. The ubiquitous phone number is already the native identity for millions of users both online and who are yet to come online, especially in growth markets. For next billion connected users, the email based web identity will not even be a relevant option.  At the same time, we are seeing TrueSDK contributing to over one-third of daily signups of apps integrated with TrueSDK and significantly increasing their user growth from across geographies.

With this positive momentum, we have now launched the TrueSDK self service. We are democratizing the access to the TrueSDK to all app developers globally and can start accessing and using TrueSDK in their apps from the self service developer portal.

Quotes from early access partners

Rahul Yadav, Director Products, CarDekho

At CarDekho we work relentlessly on making our user’s experience seamless and delightful. To deliver this, we ensure that business goals like OTP verification does not come in between user’s goal of finding the right car for him/her. By integrating TrueSDK from Truecaller we have been able to realize the authentic details flawlessly without making users fill forms or enter OTP for tedious verification.

This innovative solution from Truecaller is currently contributing over 25 percent of our user on-boarding, and has significantly improved our successful sign-ups/form fills by over 30 percent while allowing us to serve users anywhere around the world.

Rajnish Kumar, Co-founder & CTO, Ixigo

By integrating Ixigo apps with TrueSDK from Truecaller, we are solving many problems at one go. With Truecaller, our users no longer need to go through tedious OTP (One Time Password) step to sign-up or fill in information manually with the autofill option available.

It is frictionless, one touch and a key enabler in enhancing our in-app user experience. Currently we see over one-third of sign ups via TrueSDK and using it has grown our successful signups by over 25 percent.

Anurag Gaggar, VP Products, Oyo Rooms

TrueSDK from Truecaller is a one touch product to offer verified phone number based sign up/login feature. For OYO Rooms, where we are mobile first and use phone number for user account creation, this really has helped us in reducing customer friction in signing up. With Truecaller’s large user base, we see this feature benefitting a large number of our users.

Mrinal Sinha, COO, MobiKwik

Our users while signing up on Mobikwik app, now have a frictionless and one step registration with their Truecaller verified phone number. We are seeing over 30% of our daily registrations coming via TrueSDK and has significantly contributed to grow our conversion rates.

The self-service portal will initially only be available for Android users. App developers who wish to sign up for TrueSDK please visit TrueCaller for developers

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Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (Jio) announced that it has created a world record by crossing 16 Million subscribers in its first month of operations (September, 2016). Jio has achieved this growth faster than any other telecom operator or start up in the world including the likes of Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype.

Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited, said

We are delighted and humbled by the overwhelming response across India to the Jio Welcome Offer. Jio is built to empower every Indian with the power of data. We are delighted that people have recognized this and are utilizing our services to the fullest. We are customer-obsessed and committed to improve every day to exceed expectations of our customers.

Jio has introduced Aadhaar-based paper-less Jio SIM activation across 3,100 cities and towns. This enables the customer to complete the SIM activation process in a matter of minutes, with only his/her Aadhaar number.

This process will be extended across the country and fully stabilized for satisfactory on-boarding experience in the next few weeks.

About Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (“Jio”), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (“RIL”), has built a world-class all-IP data strong future proof network with latest 4G LTE technology. It is the only network conceived and born as a Mobile Video Network from the ground up and supporting Voice over LTE technology. It is future ready and can be easily upgraded to support even more data, as technologies advance on to 5G, 6G and beyond.

As part of its customer offers, Jio has revolutionised the Indian telecom landscape by making voice calls for Jio customers absolutely free, across India, to any network, and always. Jio makes India the highest quality, most affordable data market in the world so that every Indian can do Datagiri.

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Kotak Mahindra Bank announced the launch of Kotak Now-India’s first truly digital account opening process on mobile. ‘Kotak Now’ is an end-to-end digital process where verification of KYC documents and signature is done via a video call with the bank. This is a complete end-to-end online account opening experience, without any need of physical interaction or bio-metric verification. The entire process is 100% paperless.

The account opening process is simple, and takes only a few minutes. Once the Kotak Now app is downloaded, the prospective customer can upload KYC documents (PAN card, and either Aadhar Card or Passport), and the image of the signature. Thereafter, on entering a few personal details, the Customer Relationship Number (CRN) and Account Number is generated. The app automatically selects a branch closest to the customer’s address for correspondence. The account is activated, after a video call with a bank executive.

‘Kotak Now’ is in sync with Honourable Prime Minister’s vision of ‘Digital India’. India is on the verge of a telecom transformation as 4G speed becomes a reality for the country’s average household. High speed data connectivity will also revolutionise banking transactions and open new vistas of innovation. While majority of banking transactions have already gone digital, ‘Kotak Now’ aims to completely digitise banking by offering paperless account opening via mobile.

Deepak Sharma, Chief Digital Officer, Kotak Mahindra Bank, said

About 50% of all transactions in the last few years have moved to digital channels like net banking and mobile banking. Additionally, most services are now being made available on-the-move to customers via these platforms. However, the account opening experience for Indian consumers was still a challenge, and has thus far required high level of manual effort from their end. ‘Kotak Now’ is in-line with our mobile first approach and is a path-breaking step in making banking truly digital.

Kotak has played a pioneer’s role in the digital banking space. ‘Kotak Now’ is yet another addition to Kotak’s long list of innovative digital initiatives. In March 2014, Kotak launched ‘Jifi’, the first-of-its-kind social bank account that combines the power of social media with conventional banking. It was also the first bank in the world to offer Hashtag Banking, whereby customers can bank via Twitter. This was followed by ‘Kaypay’ – the world’s first bank agnostic instant funds transfer platform using Facebook and Social Commerce, which integrates social media banking with e-commerce. In June 2015, Kotak launched ‘Kotak Bharat’, a multi-lingual mobile banking app which requires no internet connectivity.

‘Kotak Now’, developed with the patented technology of Germany-based WebID Solutions, reduces the time involved in opening a bank account and also ensures data security.

Currently, ‘Kotak Now’ enables customers to open a Jifi account through this process. Other savings account variants will be introduced in a phased manner. ‘Kotak Now’ can be downloaded from Google Play Store.

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Idea Cellular, India’s fastest growing telecom operator has announced the roll out of Electronic -Know Your Customer (e-KYC) based activations for both Prepaid and Postpaid customers across its service centres in 22 circles. The pan-India roll-out of e-KYC has been enabled after the successful pilot by Idea in Delhi circle, in association with UIDAI, and as per the DoT guidelines.

The e-KYC solution allows users to avail instant verification using their ‘Aadhaar’ Number, enabling quicker SIM activation. The facility for enabling bio-metric verification of customers is being rolled out across all exclusive Idea stores, and will be extended to multi-branded prepaid outlets, in a phased manner.

Speaking about the initiative, Navanit Narayan, Chief Service Delivery Officer, Idea Cellular said

The roll-out of paperless and completely digital mode of customer acquisition based on ‘Aadhaar’, is in line with Idea’s customer centric approach. It will ensure quicker customer acquisition and greater convenience for new customers. This is also a step towards achieving a greener environment through reduced paper usage and is key to enabling the vision of Digital India by facilitating many e-Governance services to be rolled out in future.

Customers can now walk in to any Idea Company Retail Store or My Idea outlet and avail a fast, paperless and secured activation service for both postpaid and prepaid, using the Aadhaar No. and bio-metric verification process. The e-KYC process is in addition to the existing format of issuance of mobile connection to subscribers and is not be applicable for bulk, outstation and foreign customers.

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Each one of us would have encountered the situation where you wanted a Movie/MP3 or any other file from a friend but wanted the easiest & fastest way out! Carrying a charging or USB OTG cable is never an ideal option. So, you are left out with Transfer using Bluetooth or WiFi Direct. Due to better throughput, data transfer over WiFi is always the best option even if your data is in GB. This is where a powerful app like Xender can come in very handy !!

Xender, a file transfer and sharing application, has announced the launch of its new version- with comprehensive functions and better user experience. Xender has maintained a leading position as the world’s fastest, most convenient mobile sharing tool at zero cost.

Features of Xender [Source – Xender on PlayStore]

  • Share any type of files in any places at any time
  • Absolutely without mobile data usage
  • 200 times Bluetooth transfer speed
  • Supports Android, IOS, Windows, PC/ Mac cross-platform transferring
  • No need for USB connection and PC software installation
  • Over 100 million files transferred daily
  • Play all music and videos
  • Wifi file transfer master

 

Xender offers seamless transmission between Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Windows PC and Apple MAC systems. Xender currently has 330 million cumulative global users, with over 110 million users from India alone. Over the next 3 years, Xender aims to achieve a global user-base of 800 million.

Installation Size Reduced
The new version of Xender has been reduced to 4.5 MB which gets further compressed in the absence of WiFi. Sharing of Xender is now more rapid and convenient.

Interactive Management Made Convenient
Xender does not need a USB connection or PC software installation. It can be used to transfer files anywhere, anytime-from documents, music, pictures, to videos and apps or any other file types of unlimited file size. It also allows users to view, move or delete files received and even to make a backup copy whenever needed to clean the phone storage.

No Replacement Trouble
You can also switch mobile data like contacts, SMS, pictures, music, videos, games and any other files from your old phone to the new one in one simple step.

Friendly Design
Xender satisfies all operating needs with functions related to transfer of files:opening, installing, uninstalling, deleting, viewing etc.

Sliding Mass Map : Connect two mobile phones and browse photos at the same time. Smoothly share photos with just a slide
Search : Use the search function and search for any file
Hidden Files : Protect your privacy and hide anything from prying eyes

Unlike other apps like Flash Transfer that is not available on Play Store and needs side-loading; transfer of data over Xender is fast & secure. There are no limitations on transfer size or restriction on transfer speed or number of devices on which transfer can simultaneously happen. Cross Platform Sharing is another important feature where Xender scores over apps like Flash Transfer.

You can download Xender from Google Play. If you have used Xender (which I am sure you would have), then please leave your experience in the comments section…

About Xender

Xender is a comprehensive app for all file sharing needs. It allows users to share any type of file, at any time, without any mobile data usage. Xender supports Android, iOS, Windows, PC/ MAC cross-platform transferring with over 200 times Bluetooth transfer speed. For more information, please visit www.xender.com