July 10, 2018

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Organisations should monetise their IoT and automation projects: Expertedit

The Week

By Abhinav Singh

Though automation and Internet of Things (IoT) are much talked about technologies in India and abroad, it has been found that despite embracing these technologies, organisations and enterprises are not successful in extracting maximum profits from their IoT and automation projects. “India is emerging as one of the global markets at the forefront of connected services, that is being contributed by smart cities and other projects of the Indian government.

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Mobile technology transforms village into a SmartGaon edit

Deccan Chronicle

Yogesh Sahu, a young entrepreneur from Mumbai, delivering IT solutions to small and medium businesses, along with his friend Rajnish Bajpai, who is a software professional working abroad, together envisaged creating a transformation in rural India, knowing that Mobile Technology and IoT (Internet of Things) are the future of growth and development.

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Funding IP/product-led start-ups edit

The Hindu Business Line  

By N Ramakrishnan

This augurs well for the Indian start-up ecosystem, which has seen quite a few Deep Tech, IP and product-led ventures solving problems that are typical to the country. pi Ventures, of which Manish is the Founding Partner, is an early-stage venture capital firm that focusses on start-ups in the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Internet of Things space.

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Cyber warfare is grave threat, but India is not yet prepared for it: General Hoodaedit

ET CIO 

“We have been alive to the (cyber) threat for some time, but the nature of the threat is expanding quite rapidly. With Internet of Things (IoT) and everything around our life getting interconnected, we suddenly realise the potential of the threat to be enormous. In preparation we are still lacking a bit as the organisational structures that are needed to counter this are not in place,” Lt. General (retd) D.S. Hooda told IANS in an interview.

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Cloud-Based loT solutions by GCR edit

The Asian Age 

IoT solutions are helping businesses to understand their customers/markets by providing intelligent inputs. Global Channel Resources offers vertical focused, comprehensive IoT solutions by validating and integrating such solutions available through multiple vendors. The role of the MSPs is paramount in implementing such solutions.

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Blockcloud -Blockchain-based Advanced TCP/IP to Power up IoT edit

BW CIO World 

The future of the Internet of Things (IoT) is in peril. “IoT applications are hitting roadblocks due to the obsolete architecture of today’s Internet,” they said. “TCP/IP cannot cope any more with the sheer number of devices and the mobile nature of today’s connectivity.” “If you look at blockchain, you’ll see the same concern: the underlying protocol,” said Zhongxing Ming.

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5G service providers can boost revenue by offering new digital services: CSGedit

ET Telecom

By Muntazir Abbas

5G service providers can boost revenue by offering new digital services: CSG CSG, a business support solutions (BSS) provider said that telecom carriers are increasingly leveraging the cloud to bring down the recurring operational costs, and with India’s top service provider Bharti Airtel as one of the telcos to deploy revenue management platform, the US-based company feels that Asian markets are rapidly growing. Chris Burton, Head of Global Service Delivery at CSG in a conversation with ETTelecom’s Muntazir Abbas talks on telco cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G-enabled digital services.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

More Electric buses coming soon in India: NITI Aayog to set EV Target for states! edit

The Financial Express 

By Dipayan Dutta

NITI Aayog may not yet be ready with their policy recommendations for electric vehicles but they are considering other ways through which they can make legislatures to reduce the carbon footprints of their respective states. One of the emerging thoughts from NITI is to ask state governments to achieve certain carbon footprint targets, with instructions on how to achieve this target through an electrification of their public transport force

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Lohia Auto to focus on electric, cruiser bikes to carve out a nicheedit

The Economic Times

On the three-wheeler front, Lohia Auto sells between 25,000 and 30,000 auto-rickshaws a year and expects to leverage early-mover advantage in electric mobility to generate revenue of RS 500 crore by 2020, which is a five-fold increase from the current level. Apart from plans of growing the existing business organically, Lohia said he is open to partnerships in localisation of EV components, including battery making.

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India sees slower shift to electric vehicles edit

The Times of India 

India needs to push for EVs in a consistent manner over a long period of time and ensure that automobile jobs stay unaffected as the country moves toward battery-driven vehicles, Amitabh Kant, NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said in New Delhi on Friday. Cheaper EVs, whose costs are likely to be at par with internal combustion vehicles by 2026, will push their adoption even without subsidies.

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Fortum launches charging stations for electric vehicles in Hyderabadedit

ET Energy World

Finnish state-owned company Fortum set up two electric vehicle charging stations at Indian Oil outlets for the general public here. Finland Ambassador to India, Nina Vasukunlahti, launched the facility by virtually charging an electric vehicle in real time located at Goldstrike Fuel and Services located at Raj Bhavan Road here.

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Electric Vehicles Are The Future Rajiv Kumar VC Niti Aayogedit

Business World  

By Suman K Jha

Do you think electric vehicles are the future? Absolutely. But it is not just electric vehicles that one should be talking about. One should be talking about a new model of mobility, which is shared mobility, connected mobility and mobility which is driven by intermodal mobility which makes maximum use of digital communications, GSP and so on and so forth.

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A Chinese electric car startup is trying to take on Tesla by making its cars more like an iPhoneedit

Business Insider 

When automakers promote electric cars, they tend to highlight two performance metrics range and acceleration in an effort to disprove the stereotype that electric vehicles are less powerful and more inconvenient to own than their gas-powered counterparts

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Industry News: Education

Engg placement: Firms offer 35% more pay this yredit

The Times of India  

By Ranjani Ayyar

At VIT, 16 candidates received super dream offers with pay ranging from “21 lakh to “39 lakh from companies including Microsoft, PayPal and DE Shaw. “We are quite happy with the way the season has kicked off. We are not dependant on IT services. Last year, captives like Dell and Bank of America took in students in large numbers and we hope they will do the same this year,” said Samuel Rajkumar, director of placement, VIT.(Zoho, TCS)

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6 ways to tackle current technical education system problemsedit

India Today 

The measure reason for this failure was the un-thoughtful and casual approach to tackle the problem. If we want to really improve the engineering education in India and make our engineers really contributing to the growth and prosperity of the nation, the whole domain needs complete rethinking. Actually the engineering education system needs complete re-engineering.

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India’s solar power generation capacity to double by this fiscal : Goyal edit

United News of India 

Minister for Coal, Railways, Finance and Corporate Affairs Piyush Goyal on Monday said India’s solar power generation capacity would nearly double by the end of current fiscal and more wind power auctions are expected in the coming months.

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Green energy will change world: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in Singapore edit

The New Indian Express 

Speaking on the APSingapore collaboration, Minister Desmond Lee said, “Both Amaravati and AP provide a great scope for the Singapore industries and particularly the housing industries, which also deal with material manufacturing.” “There is a great scope for greenfield construction in not just Amaravati but the rest of AP as well. Facility management is another area which offers great business opportunities in AP,” he added

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Global solar power investments set to fall in 2018; down 19 per cent in first half.edit

ET Energy World

The slippage in solar reflects two main developments – significantly lower capital costs for photovoltaic projects, and therefore fewer dollars spent per megawatt installed; and a cooling-off in China’s solar boom. These trends are set to gather pace in the second half,” BNEF said in a statement.

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