DiGiSPICE: Industry Monitoring 27 to 29 April 2019
- Priyanka Kanodia
- Apr 30, 2019
- 5 min read
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Shift to digitisation and e-commerce will fuel growth: Mjunction CEO
Publication- Business Standard
Edition- Online
Date- 27 April, 2019
Mjunction, a 50:50 joint venture between SAIL and Tata Steel, has moved beyond its traditional strengths in commodities trade to embark on new businesses like real estate and sports solutions. It is also keen to partner Railways and its subsidiary companies to offer a platform for selling their scrap and idle assets. In this interview with Jayajit Dash, mjunction services limited's MD & CEO Vinaya Varma tells that the company eyes 40 per cent CAGR topline growth through 2023, betting on India’s e-commerce boom.
How does mjunction intend to expand its sports solutions vertical? Beyond cricket, how do you aim to engage other popular sports?
There is a large opportunity for sports federations to bring in transparency and efficiency in several areas. We have a tie up with Sporty Solutionz to create digital solutions for cricket as well as other sports.
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Marketers congregate to strengthen brand safety in mobile advertising
Publication- Indian Television
Edition- Online
Date- 27 April, 2019
Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) India’s Ad Fraud roadshow series culminated in Mumbai today. After Delhi and Bangalore, the roadshow came to Mumbai gathering a congregation of leading marketers and subject matter experts to spread awareness and highlight several key challenges related to brand safety, accountability in mobile advertising and solutions for incremental increase of ad fraud. With the primary role of educating the marketer community about ad fraud through ‘ACT’ – Assess, Combat and Track, the roadshow addressed the growing concerns in the mobile marketing industry and agreed that building standards, guidelines and best practices is the need of the hour to deter adfraud
MMA’s roadshows were partnered by Affle, inMobi, Mobvista and mFilterIt. The Mumbai edition featured speakers from brands such as GroupM, HDFC Bank, Jio, Edelweiss, Sony Pictures, Deloitte and many others. Speakers in the Delhi & Bangalore roadshows represented companies such as Cleartrip, BARC India, Flipkart, Google, Myntra, OYO and many others.
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Ericsson partners with Russia's MOTIV to test, deploy 5G-ready products
Publication- Devdiscourse
Edition- Online
Date- 27 April, 2019
Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company Ericsson has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Russian telecom group MOTIV to conduct joint testing and deployment of 5G-ready products.
As part of the agreement, Ericsson will help the Russian service provider to provide services based on 5G technologies by holding a number of joint activities, including testing and implementation of advanced MIMO4x4, LAA and Massive-MIMO technologies for the transition to LTE-Advanced Pro technology and a joint lab testing of 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) and Packet Core based on Ericsson technical solutions, the companies said in a press release.
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IAMAI hosts GATO 2.0 conference and awards; MPL bags Emerging Indian Gaming Company award
Publication- Glaws
Edition- Online
Date- 27 April, 2019
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) hosted a day long Gaming for Tomorrow (GATO 2.0) conference and awards ceremony at the Leela Ambience hotel in Gurugram on 24th April, 2019. The daylong conference had discussions around various facets of digital gaming in India. Industry experts brainstormed on the potential of various online games and will chart a roadmap for its future growth. The conference also hosted special workshops for developers by AISPL (Amazon Internet Services Private Limited) and Amazon Alexa.
The awards were selected based on nominations received by an IAMAI appointed jury comprising of Manish Agarwal, CEO, Nazara Technologies; Prithvi Raj, Associate Director – Smartphone Solutions, Nielsen India; Shrikant Rajemahadik, Global Head Publisher Business – POKKT; Laxmi Desai Khanolkar, Co-Founder and CEO, Apar Games; Akash Gupta, Director, ConversionX and Shilpa Bhatt, VP – Games, 99games
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How will IoT drive the connected economy?
Publication- Devdiscourse
Edition- Online
Date- 27 April, 2019
The Internet of Things (IoT), a giant network of connected things and people, is transforming many industries across the globe and creating value for both businesses and their customers. Telenor Connexion, a fully-owned subsidiary of Telenor and a dedicated and specialized IoT unit, has released a new report highlighting five major trends and challenges related to IoT and digital transformation in 2019.
The report titled 'Five Predictions for IoT' was prepared in collaboration with analysts from Stockholm-based consulting firm Northstream. The five predictions of the report are analysed below:
Innovative collaborations between businesses will uncover the hidden value of IoT data - aggregated, non-personal data coming from "things" in the IoT will be the "hotbed" of the emerging data trading industry.
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This Indian blockchain startup is helping UNICEF transport millions of vaccines across the world
Publication- The Economic Times
Edition- Online
Date- 29 April, 2019
For the world's largest procurer and distributor of vaccines, UNICEF always faced the challenge of transporting it to different countries across the world. UNICEF procured 2.5 billion doses of vaccines to children in nearly 100 countries in 2016, reaching almost half of the world’s children under the age of five. The figures make UNICEF the largest buyer of vaccines for children in the world. However, UNICEF had a problem. Despite working in the advanced technology-laden era, getting vaccines to the children in need and in time is still a difficult task.
Quality and safety of the vaccines were the primary concern for UNICEF. The reason for this is the inefficiency of the temperature-controlled supply chains, known as cold chains, which is responsible for storing and distributing the resources. Nearly 50-60% vaccines lose their efficacy owing to cold chain failures. In addition to this, 80% of the vaccines lose their efficacy due to supply chain mismanagement.
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Airtel may monetise its data analytics division
Publication- DNA India
Edition- Online
Date- 29 April, 2019
Airtel is planning to monetise its data analytics and innovation division, where other telecom players can leverage the intelligence and solutions created by the company. "We study customer preferences, their device pattern, consumption, interest, applications downloaded along with usage to make the right offer. All this data is being collected without compromising on the privacy of users," a senior company executive told DNA Money on the condition of anonymity.
Currently, data analytics is being used for internal use, but it might be hived off as a service which could be used by other players. Airtel's X Labs – the data analytics and innovation division – was set up in Bengaluru to drive innovation in the areas of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality and Internet of Things. The division is constantly engaged in building a pipeline of solutions and use cases, which could be replicated by other telecom firms as well, the executive said.
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SiLabs Rolls Out New IoT Modules
Publication- EET India
Edition- Online
Date- 29 April, 2019
Seeking ease of use, designers are increasingly turning to modules rather than SoCs to build out the Internet of Things, said a Silicon Labs executive overseeing the sector as he launched a new generation of IoT chips. “We sell both chips and multiple flavors of modules including ones with antennas, and we see more customers adopting modules. It removes [wireless] certification complexity — people can save six months in time-to-market,” said Matt Johnson, who joined Silicon Labs last year as general manager of IoT products.
Modules still represent a minority of the company’s IoT sales, but they are growing faster than the 20% rate of its overall IoT products. “All of our ZWave and a lot of our Zigbee and Bluetooth sales are modules,” Johnson said. Overall, the IoT market continues to fragment and is not growing as fast as once expected, but it will continue to expand for many years. “We see a multi-decade opportunity. IoT already is 50-60% of our revenue and more than two-thirds of our spending — so it’s a big commitment,” he said.
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