Amazon, Flipkart support small businesses get ready for post-Covid-19 world

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Amazon and Flipkart are playing a key role to support these firms revive their business. These e-commerce majors are bringing them online, handholding them to pivot and helping them find fresh opportunities in the market. Amazon and Flipkart are also supporting them through various initiatives ranging from working capital to coronavirus related health insurance. E-commerce firm Amazon is looking to help its small and midsize logistics partners, which are impacted due to the Covid-19 lockdown, financially through a new Partner Support Fund. The company will provide one-time disbursement to package…

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Dell Technologies Partners With NASSCOM to Build Robust Ecosystem to Support SMEs and Startups Across India

Dell Technologies has collaborated with the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) to help SMEs and Startups ensure smooth operations and maintain business continuity during the present challenging times. Positioned under NASSCOM SME Advantage program, this partnership intends to build a robust ecosystem to support them, by bringing together important products and services, indispensable for any business, at a competitive price. Dell association with NASSCOM is set to impact more than 2400 SMEs, and 9000+ startups that are part of NASSCOM 10,000 Startups network. They will be provided…

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Ramky Enviro Engineers launches solid waste management plant

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Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL), a city-based comprehensive environment management services provider, on Wednesday launched Chhattisgarh’s largest solid waste management plant which can manage 700 tons of waste per day in Raipur. Chief Minister of the state Bhupesh Bhagel inaugurated the plant through video-conferencing, a press release from REEL said. Under a 15-year contract between the Municipal Corporation of Raipur and Delhi MSW Solution Limited (a Ramky company), the treatment plant, spread across 67 acres, was set up in Sakri, a district, 15 km north of Raipur city. The company…

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Arm Technology Powers the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Today at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) it was announced that the Fugaku supercomputer, a system jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited, and based on Arm® technology, was awarded the number one spot of the TOP500 list. Having been crowned the world’s most efficient supercomputer on the Green500 list in November 2019, Fugaku was today also given top honors on the HPCG list, a ranking of benchmarks across real-world applications, and the HPL-AI, which rates performance on tasks used in artificial intelligence applications. “We are incredibly proud to see…

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Inspiration Healthcare to deal with ventilator provider SLE

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With products that support new-borns, to respiratory products that support adults in intensive care, Inspiration Healthcare’s solutions are used and distributed to more than 50 countries. Recently, the firm received £5 million of adult ventilator orders from the NHS and a US Patent for a product that could help more than one million babies every year. Neil Campbell, chief executive at Inspiration Healthcare, said: “We are delighted to have received such strong support for the Fundraising to drive our growth strategy and the acquisition of SLE Limited, a leading designer…

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Uber to sell software with new product, new business

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Uber Technologies Inc. is getting into software. The company is making the technology that powers its ride-hailing business available to others, starting with public transit agencies. California’s Marin County transportation providers are the first customers to buy access to Uber’s software in a deal the company announced Wednesday. The tie-up represents a potential new revenue stream for Uber at a time when the company could use it. “This is not a one-off. This is a new product and a new business,” said David Reich, head of Uber Transit, adding that…

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Facebook Acquires Crowdsourced Mapping Company Mapillary

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Facebook on Thursday acquired Swedish mapping technology company Mapillary, which collects images from tens of thousands of contributors to build immersive and up-to-date maps, the companies said. Mapillary Chief Executive Officer Jan Erik Solem, who founded the Malmö-based startup after leaving Apple in 2013, said his company’s technology would be used to power products like Facebook Marketplace and supply data to humanitarian organisations. Solem had sold a facial recognition startup, Polar Rose, to Apple in 2010. Facebook confirmed the transaction, but declined to disclose the terms. Mapillary did not immediately…

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Linksys Launches Affordable MR7350 Mesh Router With Wi-Fi 6 Support

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Linksys has expanded its vary of Wi-Fi 6 mesh routers by launching the Max-Stream AX1800 Mesh WiFi 6 Router (MR7350). The brand new Wi-Fi mesh router has been debuted as an inexpensive possibility in opposition to the prevailing Linksys MR9600 and Linksys Velop choices. The Linksys MR7350 router has a protection of as much as 1,700 sq. toes. Nonetheless, it may be used as a mesh node on an Wi-Fi 6-based mesh community. The router has backward compatibility assist, which suggests it may be related not simply with Wi-Fi 6…

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Hike introduces Hikeland, a virtual space to meet friends

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Instant messaging application Hike has revealed an interesting feature on their platform to help the users cope with social distancing across the globe. The new feature called HikeLand is claimed to be a virtual space where users can interact with one another. The feature is not limited to that. It also allows people to make new friends as well as watch videos together. The new HikeLand feature will be rolling out to users on both Android and iOS from Wednesday. The user will have to update to the most recent…

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Walmart buys tech from Carezone to help people manage their prescriptions

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Walmart is acquiring technology and intellectual property from CareZone, a start-up that makes it easier for people to manage multiple medications, Walmart confirmed to CNBC on Monday. CareZone, which got its start in 2010, develops apps to help people manage their medicines. It also built technology for users to scan insurance cards and prescription drug labels, making it easier to figure out what’s covered by their health plan or to organize a home delivery. The apps have about 3.5 million members, according to CareZone CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Walmart will now…

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