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Panasonic India’s future plans

By : CIOL Writers

Panasonic Corporation of India, where Daizo Ito is the current Managing Executive Officer, expects to more than double the revenue from mobile phones by increasing its market share. The company with 10 smart phones already in the market, priced between

Security costs to protect Twitter’s CEO

By : CIOL Writers

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey did not make a penny in salaries, bonuses, or stock awards from the company last year. He did, however, receive more than $68,500 in security services, according to a Twitter filing with the Securities and Exchange

Library resurrected via social media

By : CIOL Writers

When social media has often been blamed for ruining the personal touch with books, the same platform has helped hundreds of people to rebuild the entire library, which was attacked and destroyed in March damaging 5,000 books. The AKG Memorial

A Mobile App for Kerala’s LDF Candidate

By : CIOL Writers

2016 will surely go down in history books as the year of high-tech elections. From Facebook live chats to viral music videos, tech mania is at its all-time high in this poll season. However one independent candidate seems to have

Venture capital funding for startups drop

By : Riddhi Sharma

While, we might see a rise in a number of startups every day. There is an equal number of them shutting down on a daily basis. We heard about Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane crashing and now Uber for kids startup

Yuvraj’s Vyomo to be rebranded

By : CIOL Writers

Vyomo, a mobile app based beauty and wellness platform funded by the famous cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s venture startup – YouWeCan – will now be a part of Country’s largest offline salon chain, Naturals. Naturals have acquired controlling stake in Vyomo

Tesla Motor S updated

By : CIOL Writers

Tesla Motors has introduced an updated Design for Tesla Model S – first major hardware update since its launch in 2012. The company has scrapped the electric sedan’s signature black plastic faux grille for a smooth, grille-free look similar to

Saket Modi: an ethical hacker assisting RBI’s initiative

By : CIOL Writers

Saket Modi, a 25 years old tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Lucideus Tech is garnering a lot of media attention these days.Of course, he deserves every bit of it. Modi and a dozen techies at his company have been spending

Don’t miss out on Sachin’s biopic teaser

By : CIOL Writers

Sachin Tendulkar, there is so much written, so much said about him, the God, that it is easy to believe, there is nothing more to be known about him. But in the midst of IPL fever, Sachin Tendulkar – the

Sean parker donates $250 mn for cancer ‘moonshot’

By : CIOL Writers

Sean Parker, the founder of music-sharing service Napster and the founding president of Facebook has announced a grant of $250 million to fund research aimed at breakthroughs in cancer treatment through immunotherapy. The tech billionaire will be setting up a

Milner and Hawking’s Breakthrough Starshot

By : CIOL Writers

The billionaire science patron, Yuri Milner has teamed up with physicist Stephen Hawking to announce another $100 million worth investment with a goal of sending spaceships from Earth to the closest star at 20 percent of the speed of light.

Microsoft updates Skype for business

By : CIOL Writers

Staying in touch with your clients or sharing content online with your business colleagues has always been easy with Microsoft’s Skype for Business. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced some helpful updates for itsSkype for the Business apps for iOS users and

Gionee + KKR = Make Smiles

By : CIOL Writers

Gionee, the Chinese mobile phone manufacturer based in Shenzhen, along with IPL team Kolkatta Knight Riders, announced the brand’s new identity – “Make Smiles” and unveiled the team’s latest jersey on Monday. With the new branding initiative, the smartphone company

Facebook’s save button now available on the Web

By : CIOL Writers

Not many of us know about the Facebook’s “save for later” button. No, it’s not a new feature. In fact, it is something that was introduced four years back, through which you can store articles, videos, and other things find

Bacteria-powered solar panel

By : CIOL Writers

Researchers at Binghamton University, US have created a bio-solar panel that can generate 5.59 microwatts of energy – a big step in the evolution of bacteria-powered energy to run small devices in remote areas where regular battery replacement is not

Accenture launches automation platform, myWizard

By : CIOL Writers

Accenture has announced the global roll-out of an intelligent automation platform, Accenture myWizard, that enables smarter, more innovative and more efficient application services consisting of systems integration and application development and management. Accenture myWizard augments human technologists with virtual agents

Apple iOS 9.3.1 has a handy bug

By : CIOL Writers

iOS 9.3.1 was released by Apple Inc. specifically to fix some serious concerns with iOS 9.3. The latest version was hurried through, but the company succeeded in what it was hoping to achieve with the latest update. However, the story

StayUncle: Renting rooms not Judgement

By : CIOL Writers

When young men and women shy away from celebrating “valentine’s day” fearing moral policing and physical attacks by the self-appointed social conscience-keepers, an entrepreneur has decided to come to the rescue of unmarried young couples in Delhi and Mumbai. StayUncle,

Fashion enveloped with technology

By : CIOL Writers

Technology is twirling not only in cars and electronics but also in fashion trends. The future of fashion is here enveloped with love for technology. Whether its Levi’s or Ralph Lauren, merchandising industry is going super hi-tech. Technology is revolutionizing

Emotion-recognition software for Autistic Children

By : CIOL Writers

We can only imagine how tough their lives can be, but a Stanford University student Catalin Voss has gone beyond a distant empathy and has developed an emotional learning aid for children with autism based on smart glasses like Google