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Freshersworld.com, India’s No 1 job site for freshers, announced the launch of JobForAll, a smart hiring solution for entry level positions in Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Business Development, Retail, Content Writing as well as all junior level job roles. The platform promises to be a game changer in the entry level scene with advanced features which will help recruiters hire the best candidates for job openings across industries.

Unlike traditional job portals which only offer a bulk database from which a HR person has to manually sift through hundreds and thousands of resumes to identify the most relevant profiles, JobForAll provides a multi-touch point hiring solution that eliminates unnecessary and unproductive efforts by the HR team and helps identify relevant profiles using an automated, twin mapping mechanism.

Joby Joseph, CEO of Freshersworld.com said

Hiring for entry level positions continues to be among the toughest tasks for any recruitment team, using up resources and hindering efficiencies. Getting quality candidates to actually turn up for the interview is becoming increasingly challenging. Our smart hiring solution enables a recruitment team to quickly zero in on 10 double screened profiles, with these candidates having a thorough understanding of the job requirement, the salary offered and are equipped to appear for the interview.

This contemporary solution will save time, money and resources for a recruitment team, while accelerating the hiring process and position closure time. Freshersworld.com guarantees a 4 day turnaround for all recruitment teams who choose this platform for their entry level hiring needs.

JobForAll is supported by a highly intuitive web and mobile app which will ensure that the shortlisted candidates appear for the walk-ins. USP of the app include features like double screening, SMS confirmation, Map tracking, push notifications and questionnaires. Also, the ability to chat with the candidates before the walk-in date is a much needed feature that the company has seamlessly integrated with the app.

Freshersworld.com highlights a compelling double screening process to weed out irrelevant applications from the vast pool of resumes and maps candidate profiles that fit the job role perfectly. The ability to attach a questionnaire with jobs will ensure that the virtual screening of profiles is done in a manner similar to a face to face round.

About Freshersworld

Freshersworld.com offers innovative solutions for entry-level hiring, helping 50K+ recruiters realize best-in-class services and increased efficiencies. Started with a mission to facilitate fresh graduates find their first dream job, Freshersworld.com is a genuine effort to connect a fresher and an employer together to create a marketplace for entry level hiring. Freshersworld.com is India’s No 1 fresher hiring online platform with a database of over 5 million+ resumes, 1 Lakh+ resumes added every month, 2.5 lakh+ unique visitors every day with 40 million page views a month.

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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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KeyPoint Technologies [KPT], a global linguistics innovator has announced the latest upgrade to its award winning product Adaptxt for Android and Adaptxt for iOS, its context-aware, multi-language keyboard for iPhone, iPod and iPad devices, free of cost. Adaptxt is the first iOS app to offer the largest language support with 115+ global languages which includes 26 Indic and 11 transliterated [English + Indic] languages and over 800 emojis.

Both Adaptxt for iOS and Android were recently nominated under the ‘Productivity’ category in Mobby Awards 2015. The awards celebrate the best apps for work and productivity on smartphones.


With the recent launch of Adaptxt, Apple device users in India can now communicate in 16 new Indic languages namely:

  1. Bhojpuri
  2. Bodo
  3. Dogri
  4. Kashmiri
  5. Konkani
  6. Maithali
  7. Manipuri
  8. Marwari
  9. Mewari
  10. Oriya
  11. Sinhala
  12. Rajasthani
  13. Sanskrit
  14. Sindhi
  15. Singlish
  16. Pashto

The upgrade also offers location based suggestions such as street names, landmarks, etc.

Sumit Goswami, CEO – KeyPoint Technologies said

We are thrilled to see Adaptxt for iOS and Android get short-listed under the Best Productivity app category by Mobby Awards 2015. Currently there are 4.8 million iOS users in India of which over 49 percent are less than 30 years of age. Adaptxt offers industry’s first location based suggestions and largest language support allowing young users in different parts of the country to interact in their native languages. This promotes greater digital inclusion thus making mobile technology a true enabler of change.

Key features of Adaptxt iOS App

  • Emoji Support : Supports 800+ emojis
  • Location-based suggestions : Provides suggestions based on your current or chosen location, such as street names and landmarks
  • 26 Indic Languages : Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bodo, Dogri, English (India), Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Marwari, Mewari, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu
  • 11 Transliterated Languages : Manglish, Marathinglish, Punglish, Banglish, Tenglish, Tanglish, Singlish, Neplish, Odinglish, Hinglish, Kanglish
  • Alternative Keyboard Layouts : For some languages [QWERTY, AZERTY, DVORAK, and QWERTZ for English, French, Italian, German and Spanish; Bulgarian BDS; Punjabi Phonetic; and specific layouts for Scandinavian languages]
  • Personalized predictions : Based on writing style and context
  • Shortcuts : Use gestures to insert frequently used phrases

To download and experience the latest Adaptxt version, please visit the following link

About KeyPoint Technologies
KeyPoint Technologies, the creator of Xploree and Adaptxt is an award-winning global linguistics innovator that enables intelligent communication between humans to the connected world—beyond mobile devices. KeyPoint was founded in 2004 in Glasgow Scotland, an epi-center of linguistics. For more information, please visit KeyPoint Technologies

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As a pioneer in the e-learning space, WizIQ, one of the world’s largest online education platforms, will bring together global education leaders, innovators and visionaries on one common platform with its EdTech.Now conclave. To be held on October 15 at the Le Meridian Hotel in New Delhi, the event is expecting over 300 educators, visionaries, investors, ed-tech innovators, and media personnel.

EdTech.Now is held by WizIQ in exclusive collaboration with the prestigious Cambridge University Press India and software pioneer Microsoft, thought leaders in education and innovative technology respectively.

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Meant to bring deep insights into the disruptive impact of technology on education, current trends, future developments, challenges, and opportunities through high quality content, EdTech.Now promises to be India’s premier global education conclave.

The event will see keynote speech and plenary sessions from industry leaders such as Vinod Dham [CEO and Co-founder of Acadgild & Founding MD of IndoUS Venture Partners] amongst other thought leaders discuss the future of education in the digital age.

Vinod Dham popularly known as the father of the Pentium processor and now an ed-tech entrepreneur said

Just like Smart Phones have changed the rules of Computer Industry and are making Personal Computers obsolete. On-line education, in not too distant a future, will obsolete thousands of colleges and universities as they exit today.

Ratnesh Jha, Managing Director, Cambridge University Press said

Digital adoption will play a major role in the Education space going forward and IT/digital platform will act as an enabler for publishers and content solution providers. Technology enabled pedagogical intervention will be the norm to shaping India of the 21st century.

High quality and well researched content, digital solutions, assessments, individualized and adaptive learning for the learning community and well-rounded support system/resources for teaching community are the key elements of importance, and Ed-Tech companies like WizIQ will play a major role in facilitating the reach of such solutions to millions more.

Cambridge University Press is happy to facilitate think tanks like EDTechNOW! that have the potential to make a larger impact through wider outreach for dissemination of high quality content and solutions

Speaking on the announcement, Harman Singh, Founder & CEO, WizIQ, commented

Technology today has disrupted the education industry to a great extent, metamorphosing the way education is now approached. With our EdTech.Now conclave, we look to bring together thought leaders, experts and pioneers in online education under one roof to share their deep insights and experience in order to chart the future of this field. Moreover, the involvement of industry leaders such as Cambridge University Press India and Microsoft as active partners in the conclave will make this event a benchmark in the field of online education in India.

WizIQ’s EdTech.Now will facilitate discussions and insight delivery on various matters pertaining to online education and the use of technology. With topics such as “Riding the Change – Challenges & opportunities for online education service providers”, “Workforce 2020 – Emerging trends & challenges in corporate learning” and Engaging the learner in the online world – Perspectives from educators and learners, EdTech.Now will be an apt platform and a must visit event for educators and administrators from the higher education sector, e-learning service providers, tech innovators, and content providers.

About WizIQ

Founded in 2007, WizIQ is one of the world’s largest cloud based education platforms. Over 400,000 educators have leveraged WizIQ to deliver learning services to 4 Million+ learners across 200 countries. WizIQ’s award winning Virtual Classroom solution that enables online delivery of live instructor-led learning, has received acclaim from education service providers from around the world.

The WizIQ Online Academy Builder represents an evolutionary leap in education technology by empowering education service providers to set up their own customized academies within minutes. Online Academy Builder is designed to increase learner engagement through cutting-edge features, such as mobile learning, video streaming, live online classroom, discussion boards, assessments, insights and analytics. The in-built e-commerce capability enables them to monetize their services and rapidly expand their reach to newer markets.

WizIQ is backed by Bertelsmann SE & Co., which runs Random House and Kaizen, a private equity fund focused on the education sector. For more information, please visit WizIQ

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Youwecan Ventures led by ace Cricketer Yuvraj Singh, has recently invested in SportyBeans, which is India’s largest and Premier Multi-Sport Program for children between the ages of 1.5 – 8 years. SportyBeans has developed a highly research backed sports and fitness curriculum for the program across nine popular ball sports, viz Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, Hockey, Tennis, Cricket, Rugby and Golf; which is focused on creating a skills-driven, high-energy and fun-filled environment.

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Yuvraj understands the importance of physical fitness and sports involvement from an early age and SportyBeans is the ideal platform to provide this foundation to the young children of the Country. Yuvraj would also be leveraging his own knowledge and experience to co-design the course curriculum for SportyBeans. Thus, Yuvraj’s Association with the Brand would be unique as it would extend much beyond being just an investor.

Speaking on his decision to team up with SportyBeans, Yuvraj said

Sporty Beans is a unique platform to identify and develop interest in sports at an early age of 2 years to 8 years and hopefully it will help in creating a transformational impact on building next generation of sports persons in India

Having started its First Centre in 2010 and having enrolments of over 30,000 children till date , SportyBeans has now established a strong proof of concept with a sizeable presence across the country. With over 35 centres spread across 17 cities, SportyBeans currently caters to over 15,000 children a year and boasts of a highly profitable business model with a proven track record across its Franchise network.

SportyBeans is a new economy unique platform to target the wallet share of spending around children besides traditional K-12 education, apparel, toys, health care etc. Keeping this large target audience in mind, the brand is now looking at an aggressive growth plan which would see ~200 SportyBeans centers across India over the next 2 years. Catering to student strength of about 1,40,000 children in these centres, the brand is looking at revenues of over Rs. 80 crores.

Karan Sareen, Director at SportyBeans said

We have signed our first International Franchise in Mauritius and shall soon be announcing a Country Franchise in Malaysia as well.He further stated that this would be the first step towards a strong global presence as the brand looks to be present in 10 international locations within the next year, with talks already in progress in the Asia Pacific Region.

SportyBeans is the first brand in its space to transform its business by leveraging mobile technology as a platform wherein it allow users to make bookings online for not only the regular sessions, but also for personal coaching, in-school sessions and birthday parties at centre’s nearest to them.

With applications developed for both the Android and iOS platforms, SportyBeans aims at giving Parents a seamless avenue not only to monitor the progress of their child, but to experience the growth and development of their child first hand through technology thereby helping to create an entire social community through the mobile technology platform.

SportyBeans brings to the table a program which has been carefully cultivated and nurtured over the last 5 years with a very high degree of passion and expertise. Yuvraj Singh’s coming on-board will lend a higher sense of credibility to the overall program which will propel it to the next level.

About YouWeCan Ventures

YouWeCan is a 50 CR seed fund that is created to empower young entrepreneurs on their journey to build brands and successful business ventures and improve the life standard of society. More information at their website.

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A host of startups, Telangana government officials and Microsoft experts took part in a Smart City Startups Conclave to map smart solutions for cities in Telangana. In a first-ever effort of its kind, Microsoft facilitated the workshop, in the presence of Shri. K. Taraka Rama Rao, Hon’ble Minister for Information Technology and Shri. Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Secretary for Information Technology, Government of Telangana.

The discussion focused on solutions and apps in the areas of transport, healthcare, public safety, water and energy by startups from the Microsoft Ventures’ Portfolio which included Mybustickets, Celstream, iBot and FlamencoTech.

On this occasion, Shri. K. Taraka Rama Rao, Hon’ble Minister for Information Technology, Government of Telangana, also launched Accelerate India – Technology for Growth, a concept note with solutions available for smart cities from a total of 21 startups.

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Addressing the conclave, the Hon’ble Minister said

We are committed to the welfare of our citizens by expanding the opportunities for e-governance, citizen services and economic growth in Telangana. Developing smart cities is important to drive the state’s growth. With this focus, we are pleased to partner with Microsoft India to leverage its technology offerings and expertise to help transform Telangana into a sustainable and competitive state that cares for its citizens.

According to Shri. Jayesh Ranjan, IAS, Secretary for Information Technology, Government of Telangana

We believe it is becoming increasingly important to leverage technology as an enabler of constant modernization. We are excited to partner with Microsoft to look at ways of transforming Telangana into a smart and competitive state that cares for its citizens.

Over the course of the next few months, we look forward to working with Microsoft and various start-up partners, on solutions across areas that will help us keep the citizen at the center of our development and fulfil our smart city vision.

Speaking on this occasion, Neeraj Gill, General Manager – Public Sector, Microsoft India, said

This platform offers a fresh perspective from entrepreneurs to enable sustainable development and scaling of smart cities with simple, easy to implement and low-cost solutions within the framework of our CityNext program.  Through Microsoft Ventures, CityNext now offers an opportunity to harness the enormous potential of entrepreneurs and develop citizen centric solutions using Microsoft technology.

Furthermore, with our local data centres which are now live, the Government and solution providers can use the massive computing power now available locally to accelerate e-governance, drive inclusive growth, innovation and digital transformation. We eagerly look forward to supporting the Government in its digitization efforts as well as a budding startup culture in the state.

About Microsoft CityNext

Microsoft CityNext is a people-first initiative to enable residents and city leaders to use technology to build a foundation for sustainable growth and prosperity. Microsoft has identified more than 40 solution areas across eight city domains — 1. Energy and water 2. Buildings; infrastructure and planning 3. Transportation 4. Public safety and justice 5. Tourism, recreation, and culture 6. Education 7. Health and 8. Social services and Government administration — that help address 90 percent of the challenges cities faces today.

CityNext addresses these areas through the vast and diverse Microsoft Partner Network of more than 430,000 technology experts across the globe. The CityNext initiative has been successfully implemented in cities across the world including Paris, Washington DC and Auckland.

Through its CityNext initiative, Microsoft India integrates information technology and human engagement to address infrastructural challenges and create new opportunities for economic growth and improved competitiveness overall. For more information, please refer CityNext

About Microsoft Ventures

Microsoft Ventures is a global initiative to help entrepreneurs build great companies. Working with startups at every stage of maturity, the initiative provides the tools, resources, and expertise startups need to succeed. Visit Microsoft Ventures to learn more about how Microsoft is helping the next generation of smart companies take flight.

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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.

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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.

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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

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HackerRank, the technical talent platform that ranks programmers based on their coding skills, announces the hiring of Grady Burnett as its president & Chief Operating Officer. Burnett’s experience in leading strategic operations and sales in every region of the world will be critical as HackerRank continues to streamline tech recruiting and build a meritocratic platform to unearth global talent.

Prior to HackerRank, Burnett served as Chief Operating Officer of app analytics company Flurry, which was acquired by Yahoo. In addition, Burnett served as vice president of global sales and operations at Facebook, during which time he helped Facebook set up the India operations. His association also included overseeing the majority of Facebook’s revenue, implementing the company’s advertising products in 45 countries including India and developing its Preferred Marketing Developer program, the platform that helps marketers advertise on Facebook.

A key Global Hire, Burnet will overlook Global Operations for HackerRank with special focus on India, which is an important market for the talent platform company.

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Vivek Ravisankar, CEO and cofounder of HackerRank said

As we continue to help make the world flat by ranking programmers purely based on skill, it was crucial for us to bring on Grady, an expert in global sales and operations, to work with theHackerRank team and further accelerate our growth worldwide.

Burnett follows the recent hiring of Ahmed Aly, former senior Google engineer and world-renowned competitive coding champion, who is spearheading HackerRank’s digital hackathons CodeSprints

Speaking about HackerRank, Grady Burnett said

Having built high performing teams of thousands of people at Facebook, Google, DoubleClick and Flurry, I’ve personally seen the holes in the traditional hiring process. In the past, we used blunt credentials like GPA or school, to filter through high volume of candidates. But these filters consistently leave out diamonds in the rough.

Because HackerRank ranks programmers by coding skills, we democratize hiring and create opportunities for people from all walks of life. Customers such as VMware and Zenefits that report saving more than 70 percent of hiring costs are a testament to the innovation HackerRank is bringing to tech recruiting. I’m excited to partner with Vivek and team to take this growth to the next level.

This news comes on the heels of several other company milestones. In July 2015, HackerRank raised $7.5 million in strategic funding from Recruit Holding’s HR Technology Fund and was named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 List for its gamified solution to hiring tech talent.

About HackerRank

HackerRank is a technical talent platform that ranks programmers based on their coding skills. Co-founded in 2012 by Vivek Ravisankar & Harishankaran Karunanidhi, HackerRank is a Y Combinator graduate with over one million developers and over 1,000 companies as customers. Learn more at HackerRank

[Image Credit* – Vivek Ravisankar on Facebook]