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Trailblazing Women Leaders Win Top Awards at First MAKERS Conference in Indiaedit
ANI News – Online Web
Country Head, Intel India & VP, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation was honored with the Tech in innovation Award, for being a trailblazer in her field, and champion for womens inclusion at the workplace. Divya Gokulnath, Co-Founder BYJU’S was awarded the Women Entrepreneur of the Year for her progressive leadership at the World’s most valued edtech company.
Industry
From Amazon To Zoom: A Year Of Tech In The Pandemic, By The Numbers!edit
Mashable India – Online Web
In the past year, we’ve spent a lot of time online. On March 13, 2020, the White House declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency. Since then it’s been all video conference calls, FaceTime happy hours, virtual family gatherings, VR concerts, and endless screen time. It’s impossible to fully quantify how the pandemic has affected Americans’ relationship with tech, but we know we’ve downloaded tons of news apps, streamed obscene hours of Netflix, and attempted to de-stress with YouTube yoga. 81.1 million: Average number of monthly visits to online learning sites like Coursera and Khan Academy from March 2020 through the end of 2020 —a 43 percent increase from 2019, according to SimilarWeb data.
Building For Billions: Five Insightful Stories On Inclusive Product Design From #TMS2021edit
Inc 42 – Online Web
The new frontiers for growth are the next billions, diverse in ethnicity,language and behaviours. The prevalent UX methods need to be recontextualised for them, says Abhinav Chhikara, the founder of 10k designers. You can’t just take a tier 1 property to tier 3 without redesigning from the other side of the spectrum, notes Sourav Sarkar, head of design, Airtel while emphasising on why T-shirt sizing users doesn’t always work. Recounting his experiences during Covid lockdowns, Rohan Varma, design director at Urban Company observes that If you follow the basics of research,and do right moderation and stay neutral, you can manage to do UX research all by yourself if you are hungry enough
British Council begins language course at DNGCedit
The Arunachal Times – Online Web
Kolkata-based British Council in collaboration with the state’s higher education department launched a communicative English course at Dera Natung Government College (DNGC) here on Monday. Fifty students have been selected to participate in the 12-day course, which aims at improving English language proficiency, thereby increasing their employability and communication skills.
Boom in internet use prepares Indian startups to go publicedit
Telangana Today – Online Web
The e-tailing, online grocery, food tech, edtech, and e-health sectors are expected to witness a definite increase in consumer spending this year. With Covid19 expediting digital trends, the adoption of these online services has grown significantly.
Ankur Capital hits intermediate close of second fundedit
VC Circle – Online Web
Fund II will continue with Ankur Capitals’ core strategy. Sectors that it will invest in include health-technology, fintech, edtech, local language technologies, and deeptech. The fund will seek to make investments in 1618 companies and has already bet on four.
Start-ups see 37% more first-time global backersedit
The Times of India – Online Web
The success demonstrated by Indian startups in turning into unicorns (valued at $1 billion or more) and the massive global private equity investment drive in 2020 by Reliance Industries brought record global investor interest to the country’s startup ecosystem in the pandemic year. Other instances of global firms tapping India included Luxor Capital Groups investment in Zomato, Alkeon Capitals backing of Byju’s, and South Koreas NXC Corporation investing in DMI Finance International investment came in from over 15 countries.
Credit card payments platform CRED raising $200Mn at $2Bn valuation, second fastest Indian upstart to become unicorn: Reportedit
The Tech Portal – Online Web
The Indian startup culture has given birth to some of the biggest companies in the world, with digital payments company Paytm (India’s biggest startup) and online learning platform Byju’s (world’s most valuable edtech startup) serving as prime examples of the promise in the country’s growing market.