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26 Jul

Spotify Now Supports Video, for Free and Premium Users

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Spotify now has video podcasts. The world's largest subscription-based music streaming service has rolled out support for its users — be it on the Spotify Free or Spotify Premium tier — to watch their podcasts. The new feature is supported in every Spotify market where podcasts are available on Spotify. But at launch, only a select number of podcasts are available as video podcasts on Spotify. That includes Spotify-owned The Ringer's NBA history Book of Basketball 2.0, American football tips Fantasy Footballers, The Misfits Podcast, comedians Ethan & Hila Klein's H3 Podcast, millennial morning show The Morning Toast, black culture…

25 Jul

World’s ‘most-popular’ Android smartphone gets a price cut in India.

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In a piece of good news for tech freaks across the country, world’s no. 1 bestselling android smartphone Samsung Galaxy A51 has just got cheaper in India. The smartphone was launched in India in May at a price starting at Rs 27,999. Now, as a treat to the buyers, the smartphone can be purchased at Rs. 26,999 at a price cut of Rs. 1000. However, the 6 GB RAM of Galaxy A51 has not met any price cut yet. It is still available at the same price of Rs. 25,250. In the first quarter of 2020 as per a report…

25 Jul

YouTube Plans to Cut Down Recommendations of Hindi Videos

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YouTube claims that between January and March this year, it removed over 8,20,000 videos in India alone that were violating its community guidelines. It also updated its policies last year to limit hate speech violations that could be attacking a particular caste. YouTube is planning to add Hindi support to its mechanism that reduces the recommendations and visibility of content that could spread conspiracy theories, an executive said. The change is specifically designed for the India market. It will be an extension to the company's move that allowed cutting down the video recommendations that could misinform viewers in harmful ways,…

25 Jul

WhatsApp to Partner With More Indian Banks in Financial Inclusion Push

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Facebook's WhatsApp plans to team up with more Indian lenders to expand banking services in rural areas and for lower income individuals, the messaging platform's country head said on Wednesday. WhatsApp, which counts India as its biggest market with 400 million users, has already tied up with banks including ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank, allowing them to communicate with customers via automated text messages on its business service. "We now want to open up with more banks over this coming year to help simplify and expand banking services, especially to the rural and lower-income segments," Abhijit Bose, WhatsApp's India head…

25 Jul

Cipla Gets Regulatory Nod To Sell COVID-19 Drug

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Cipla has received regulatory approval to sell anti-viral drug favipiravir to treat COVID-19, the drug maker said on Friday, as coronavirus infections in the world's third worst-hit nation show no sign of abating. The Drug Controller General of India granted Cipla accelerated approval to make and sell favipiravir in an effort to meet the "urgent and unmet" need for COVID-19 treatment options in the country, the company said. India reported over 49,000 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus with 740 new deaths on Friday, marking the biggest daily surge in cases, as officials in some states complained of shortages of…

24 Jul

Purplle to launch online Beauty Sale on August 4

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Purplle, India’s leading beauty marketplace is launching India’s largest online beauty sale from August 4 to August 8. The five-day sale festival, branded as ‘I ♥Beauty’ (I Heart Beauty) will offer more than 15,000 beauty products across 500 Indian and International brands on Purplle.com (Purplle dot com), making it India’s largest online sale of beauty products across skincare, hair care and makeup categories. The online sale festival will be offering products from Purplle’s exclusive beauty brands as well as renowned global brands. The online Sale Festival by Purplle will enable its sellers to offer up to three times deeper discounts…

24 Jul

Amway-FICCI partnership

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To host a webinar on Enabling Future Education in North East India, Amway India recently partnered with FICCI. The virtual event was graced by Mr. Jishnu Dev Varma (Deputy Chief Minister of Tripura), Mr. TH. Radheshyam Singh (Minister of Education, Government of Manipur) and Mr. Ranjit Barthakur (Chairman of FICCI Northeast Advisory Council) among others. Focused on making quality education accessible, the webinar addressed infrastructure requirements, the need for seamless integration of technology in the education system and identifying knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required to shape the future of students. One of the panellists in the webinar, Mr Rajat…

24 Jul

Phase 3 clinical trial of Favipiravir

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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited announced top-line results from a Phase 3 clinical trial in mild to moderate COVID-19 patients conducted across seven clinical sites in India. The open-label randomized, multicenter clinical trial, conducted in 150 patients, evaluated the efficacy and safety of Favipiravir plus standard supportive care (Favipiravir treatment arm), versus standard supportive care alone (control arm), in mild to moderate patients, randomized within a 48 hour window of testing RT-PCR positive for COVID-19. 69.8% of patients in the Favipiravir treatment arm achieved clinical cure by Day 4, which was statistically significant compared to 44.9% observed in the control arm. Glenmark’s…

24 Jul

VIL migrates Idea subscribers to Vodafone RED

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Vodafone Idea Limited announced the completion of its postpaid consolidation journey by bringing all Idea post-paid subscribers under Vodafone RED. All Vodafone Idea postpaid customers can now avail benefits of the Vodafone RED plan. Announcing the completion of postpaid consolidation, Vishant Vora, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone Idea said, “The consolidation of Vodafone and Idea postpaid customers is a major step towards our vision of one company, one network. One of the biggest and fastest migration in the telecom space, this has led to operational synergies and process standardisation for both our postpaid retail and enterprise customers.” The move will enable…

23 Jul

Royal Enfield Meteor 350 Revealed In Spy Shot Ahead Of Launch, to be launched in India soon.

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The upcoming Royal Enfield Meteor 350 has been spotted testing yet again. This time, the motorcycle was completely loaded with accessories. The Meteor 350 test mule featured a large windscreen that looks good enough for touring, a large engine guard as well as a frame guard at the rear. Moreover, the motorcycle also featured premium-looking footpegs that seem to have been picked from the optional accessory list. Apart from this, the motorcycle remains the same as the standard version. The Royal Enfield Meteor 350 is a replacement for the Thunderbird 350X and sports a styling similar to the latter. However,…