Dell Invests In Indian Startups To boost Growth

Dell would be supporting Indian startups through investments.

Dell aims to invest in the startups of India. As per reports of Economic Times, the computer maker’s $300 million venture fund division intends to make an investment in the ecosystem of Indian startups, as it seems to grow in the South Asian market. The official announcement is anticipated in few months.

Recently after privatizing, the Texas-based organization announced a fund known as Strategic Innovation fund two years ago. Dell news affirmed the organization would be supporting startups, which are developing disruptive solutions using futuristic technologies. In addition, it is also finding startups that have grown from an initial stage.

The company is known for investing with other strategic investors and venture capitalists. It is able to act as a resource and board advisor for the enterprises. Those resources may be technological, market strategy assistance, or business counsel. Dell drivers informed that the company’s president of Asia Pacific and Japan, Amit Midha, stated, "We're investing to innovate in India, to innovate in Asia, to create an outreaching ecosystem in Asia which is different. We announced Dell Ventures in China, we announced a $125-million investment in China, and we've also announced a continued expansion in India, from a 27,000-people perspective. What we are interested in is furthering our strategy in India.”

Amit also stated that the fund division would not be ready for making essential fiscal investments with its startups in Asia but open as far as strategic collaborations are concerned, referring to an example of the company’s recent collaboration with the Indian mobile advertisement startup InMobi in September, when Michael Dell flew to India to have a meeting with local startups for a short period of time.

Dell financial service reported that it has disclosed its plans to finance the industry of India at a time when Microsoft Corporation has eliminated self-reinstalling.dll and user-pwning root certificate with its antivirus tool, Defender.

The certificate has proved to be huge blunder as it provides universal means to attackers on public platforms to house the company’s new laptops. This is because excellent minds planted a private key and a self-endorsed root CA certificate on new laptops, which permits invaders on public Wi-Fi to steal others’ passwords, encrypted names and other sensitive information.

Dell has not only taken an initiative to meet the financial requirements of the business world but has also made efforts to improve its capacity. It has proclaimed new range of servers aiming at corporations that do not need a server volume of hyperscale datacenter. 

Google Can Help Authorities In Acquiring Data From Encrypted Devices

Google could provide access to the authorities to the data in encrypted devices.

Google is equipped with the capacity to reset passcodes of Android systems. The one sided debate regarding encrypted technology undergoes. Now it is being utilized as an instrument to spread what is normally identified as "fear, uncertainty, and doubt." If one has recently gone through Reddit, he or she might have read the claim made by the District Attorney’s office in Manhattan, who recently released a public safety and smartphone encryption’s report.

It states, "Google can reset the passcodes when served with a search warrant and an order instructing them to assist law enforcement to extract data from the device. This process can be done by Google remotely and allows forensic examiners to view the contents of a device.”

According to Google news, the organization, which has developed Android, stated in its "Lollipop" 5.0 upgrade two years ago that it would activate gadget encryption by default, which compels federal agents, intelligence agencies and law enforcement to reach the owner of the gadget themselves rather than search engine developer.

This so-called "zero knowledge" encrypted technology — because the phone manufacturers have encryption keys’ knowledge — also played a role in leading Apple to carry out a similar action with iOS 8 and later. Google analytics informed that the smartphone maker currently has 91% of its gadgets utilizing device encryption.

Google news today exclaimed nevertheless, there was some flip-flopping on the search engine developer’s part as it was reported that the device was not performing well. Finally, the company stated that it would bring device encryption by default to its Nexus brand.

It took one year but the company finally reached there. The government of USA, its prosecutors, and law enforcers were worried. They have claimed that they require access to device information, but in the current scenario, they need to reach the very person(s) they are prosecuting or investigating.

Nevertheless, only a small number of Android gadgets are shielded. Google Breaking news affirmed that according to the most recent figures, only 0.3% of all the Android gadgets are using "Marshmallow" 6.0, which is offered with gadget encryption by default.

Whereas “Lollipop” 5.0 is used on more than 25% of all android gadgets, a huge majority of the ones who have by default enabled gadget encryption are owners of Nexus.

This issue was at least faced by Google. Despite desiring to clean its hands of any complications in sharing information with the government – something that it has taken seriously in the later months – it yet needs to be in most of the situations.

Qualcomm Promotes Amon As The President Of Chip Division

Qualcomm's chip design unit is now head by Cristiano Amon.

Qualcomm has promoted one of its executives. The chipmaker stated on Thursday that it has promoted Cristiano Amon to the post of the president of chip design division, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. Earlier, he was working as its co-president. He previously shared the position with Marthy Renduchintala for the past 36 months. Murthy would no longer work for the organization.

Cristiano, 45, has worked in the chip-manufacturing organization from 1995. He supervised the wireless chip policy and business growth in the People’s Republic of China. He has also played his role in the formulation of the enterprise’s chip roadmap, which is normally planned up for two years in advance. It is known for outlining chips that the company would offer to gadget manufacturers for anything from branded, expensive phones to inexpensive phones for least developed regions.

Qualcomm news revealed that the organization’s CEO, Steve Mollenkopf stated, “Cristiano has been managing QCT’s product roadmap since 2008, a period of unprecedented growth and innovation for Qualcomm and the industry. He is the right person to lead QCT for a new era of expansion in our semiconductor business.” 

The company hired Cristiano as an engineer. In the past three years, he was the enterprise’s executive committee’s member. He has also worked as a wireless operator’s chief technical officer in the South American country Brazil and also served at Ericsson and NEC.

Mr. Mollenkopf has a BS degree in the field of electrical engineering from a Brazilian University. 50 years old Murthy was hired by the chip-manufacturer 11 years ago. Before that, he had worked with the Dutch organization, Phillip Electronics and Skyworks. Murthy has attained a doctorate in digital communications from a British university.

Qualcomm news today affirmed that the corporation is passing through a major cost reduction phase. It has witnessed significant levels of pressure on its chip manufacturing business. It is under pressure at a time when the authorizing side of its business has battled with enterprises in the Peoples’ Republic of China.

In July, the company proclaimed its plans to cut down its staff by 15% in an attempt to reduce $1.4bn in yearly expenditures. Qualcomm Breaking news further reported that South Korean authorities have declared that its licensing policy is illegal. In addition to that, the regulators have proposed that it should mend its ways and pay the fine. The potential fine’s amount has not been disclosed, but in such cases, it has been up to 10% of yearly sales revenue.

Facebook New BreakUp Tool Is A Stress Relief

Facebook introduces a feature to address the concerns of ex-lovers on social media platform.

When an intimate relations end up, it is normally easy to get rid of unwanted or uncomfortable one-to-one interactions with the ex–lover. This is not the matter with Facebook. If one’s recent ex-lover is in his/her social group, the user could continue to see his/her comments, posts, shares, and pictures in News Feed. It could prove to be enough to make one think that he or she should set the router on fire and run towards the hills, but this is no longer the case.

Facebook is launching new tools that makes breakup little less heartbreaking. Product manager, Kelly Winters, stated, “Starting today, we are testing tools to help people manage how they interact with their former partners on Facebook after a relationship has ended, When people change their relationship status to indicate they are no longer in a relationship, they will be prompted to try these tools.”

Facebook news affirmed that the social media company is only testing the new tools currently in United States only on mobile platform. The new features ask if one likes to witness less of anyone’s profile pictures, name, and other details in his or her News Feed.

You could request the company to stop recommending the person’s name when tagging people or pictures in updates as well. A user could also choose to untag him or herself in posted content that also includes the ex-lover or cut down the levels of those posts’ visibility and hide all following updates from that person.

Facebook news today exclaimed that Kelly stated, “This work is part of our ongoing effort to develop resources for people who may be going through difficult moments in their lives.”

When the social platform was initially introduced in college campuses, it was a relationship statuses’ database. A kind of digitized traffic light party that saved everybody a huge amount of time, but in recent times, users have become very reluctant to declare relations and love on the network.

One rarely finds users choosing to enable the “it's complicated" feature, and instead users are currently prompted to share details about more tangible life events like marriages and parties.

Facebook Breaking news reported that the new feature would soon be launched across the globe but at a time when the company has explained its information collection practices to the Belgian regulatory bodies, as it has been alleged of taking nonmembers and users' personal details without requesting them for an approval.

A Belgian court had previously discovered that Facebook's safety claim to be “not credible and insufficient”, while stating offenders could circumvent  the cookie with relevant application.

Facebook Activates Safety Check After Bombings In Nigeria

Facebook activates its safety check feature to help people find out details of their friends' safety.

Facebook has activated its safety check tool for users in Nigeria, following a bomb blast in Yola on October 17, 2015. The safety tool provides an opportunity to every user of the platform who resides in a region affected by an attack or calamity to mark their safety. It is the second time that the tool had been activated in the aftermath of terrorism. The first was during the shootings that took place in Paris on Friday.

Users appreciated the feature on the social media, but they also questioned that why it had not been switched on in other situations, such as suicidal bombings in Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Thursday.

Facebook news exclaimed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced it was switched again after the attack in the country this evening. He said, “After the Paris attacks last week, we made the decision to use Safety Check for more tragic events like this going forward.”

Facebook news today affirmed that the social network platform had been subjected to criticism, nevertheless, for making a decision to employ the tool to terrorist attacks following killings in Paris. Previously atrocities in least developed states, often with a greater number of deaths, had not made Facebook change its policy in the same manner.

The company justified that it switched on the tool in the French capital because it had witnessed many actions on its platforms as the events unfolded. “We talked with our employees on the ground, who felt that there was still a need that we could fill”, Facebook’s official Alex Schultz posted in a blog.

He stated that the tool would be less valuable in other situations. “During an ongoing crisis, like war or epidemic, Safety Check in its current form is not that useful for people: because there isn’t a clear start or end point and, unfortunately, it’s impossible to know when someone is truly ‘safe”, Mr. Alex wrote.

Others fear that enabling the feature after terrorism could have a different impact to utilizing the facility for natural calamities. Atlantic magazine's associate editor Robinson Meyer was worried about the service's usage, as he believes that it could help terrorists attain their objective of scaring the masses.

Facebook Breaking News informed that when the organization activates the feature, it shares a message with users who it detects could be harmed in any manner questioning if they are secure. The users could then utilize the feature to signify their safety. Users could also employ the feature for marking others as secure. The details could only be accessed within a user’s Facebook network. 

Facebook Uses Humans To Power Artificial Intelligence Devices

Human beings are being employed by Facebook to help it's A.l. devices to perform every task.

Facebook is taken an initiative to move ahead in the field of artificial intelligence. It is employing humans to support its AI gadgets, utilizing its 1.5 billion monthly users to impart skills, which could be employed by machines to perform almost every task. The biggest social platform has increased its investment in Al and recruited the field’s academic experts, reconsidering the Al manual followed by Apple and Google.

Facebook News exclaimed that its artificial intelligence platform wit.ai’s head, Alexander Lebrun, stated the organization was facing a “unique situation” because it had collected massive amount of social information that it gathered from users. Instead of formulating instructions for equipment as done by tech giants Google, Microsoft Corporation, and Apple, the enterprise has established a group of “AI trainers”. 

These human beings are known for working with equipment that powers the company’s Messenger service virtual assistant ‘M’ to let users perform every task from the cancellation of a cable subscription to the placement of flower orders.

Mr. Lebrun stated, “Everything is a matter of data. No one has the data set in the world of conversations about buying flowers — the only way to get it, is to create it.” Facebook news today affirmed that the organization has boosted its funding on R&D in the past 12 months, to about 30% of sales revenue or almost $1.3 billion later this year alone. The organization does not revealed precisely how it distributes its research & development budget, but it is utilized to finance its long-term bets including the establishment of Al and virtual reality.

Now, the organization’s CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has assembled two teams of artificial intelligence teams: one of them is focusing on devices such as M, while the other is held responsible for conducting academic research inside the organization, headed by computer scientist Yann LeCun, who is known for founding the Center for Data Science in the New York University.

Facebook Breaking News reported that Mr. Lebrun stated, “We really think it will change the way we interact with software and devices and play a very important role in your life in the future.” 

The company purchased Mr. Lebrun’s start up, Wit.Ai, a system that recognizes speech for a variety of connected gadgets, such as wearables and in-car technology, this year. It is still serving those other gadgets and devices, integrating what it learns from individuals communicating with them with its knowledge of the means through which people utilize M.

Tesla Gigafactory Details Disclosed By CTO J.F Straubel

Tesla's Gigafactory is described by its CTO J.F Straubel in terms of size, production, consumption, and scalability.

The details of Tesla’s Gigafactory have been revealed. Previous month, the company and official, J.B Straubel, discussed upon manufacturing facility on a stage of an auditorium in University of Nevada. J.B stated, "It won't be some kind of satellite facility remotely controlled by some headquarters far away. It needs to feel like a startup in its own right.” Tesla’s gigafactory is worth $5bn.

The new factory is a 10 million square foot manufacturing facility under-construction located in the eastern part of Reno. It is known as the world’s biggest investment in the mass manufacturing of electric storage systems and powered car batteries pioneered to smooth the means of generating more solar energy. Tesla news revealed that in collaboration with the Japanese company, Panasonic, it intends to manufacture a larger number of lithium-ion batteries annually by 2020 than manufactured across the globe in two years. The aim is to cut down costs by at least 30%.

According to Tesla’s plan, 500,000 powered cars each year would hit the roads by the end of the decade. In addition, large scale renewable energy production facilities and rooftop solar panels would be also provided along with power storage gadgets. "If we're able to find ways to drop the price of storage much faster than anyone expected", J.B addressed the crowded room, "then we'll have the opportunity to do something that we've long felt has been a missing piece."

However, spending $5bn of corporate funds on a modernized battery facility is itself a risk. The disadvantages of manufacturing a huge assembly facility for the current era’s expertise are still not known and the numbers of risks are greater than that of the successes amongst high-tech labs and automakers trying to extend the lithium-ion batteries’ limits and crack new storage codes.

The facility is ahead of schedule in the high desert located in the Storey County, Nevada. One mile down a street known as Electric Avenue that crosses throughout the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, it is sitting on a lengthy, flat area closed for outsiders by nearby hills, which are Tesla’s properties. The nearby Wal-Mart and PetSmart stores are minute in comparison.

Tesla news today affirmed that the company’s narrative about the huge facility assumed as a "startup" is a far cry from the growing 3000 acre area. Tesla’s Chief executive officer Elon Musk’s view of an environment-friendly technology production center is being fully displayed. It is physically huge and it intends to deal with the financial constraints of delivering more home batteries and powered cars, and upgrading the electric grid.

Tesla Motors news reported that the automaker’s factory would generate as much renewable power than it would consume. This would benefit the society and the organization itself.

Alibaba Fails To Boost The Chinese Retail Market

Alibaba's Singles Day results have not been able to boost China's retail market for the second largest economy.

Alibaba has failed to boost the Chinese retail market. It performed much more than expected with its record 91 billion Yuan in online sales on the shopping festival Singles’ Day at a time when the second largest economy is bleak. Experts warned that the organization’s success doesn’t necessarily indicate about the growth of the country’s retail market, and its economic slump continues to act as biggest concern for the industry in the long term.

Alibaba news exclaimed that it recorded transactions worth 91.2 billion Yuan on November 11, growing by 60% from the same time in 2014, but venture capitalists could not wait to dispose the shares, as the stock retreated for three consecutive days in New York by up to 7%, as compared to a 3% decline in the Dow Industrial Average same time. Even the company’s competitors in the online trading sector were also troubled.

The Chinese e-commerce giant closed at $78.65 in New York on Friday previous week. In 2015, its shares tumbled by 27%. Rival JD.com also declined by more than 5% in the 3-day period till Friday. Online discount retailing service provider, Vipshop Holdings, declined by 27% on Friday to its least degree in 18 months, as it decreased its sales revenue guidance for the third quarter.

Alibabawholesale informed that the American hedge fund, Appaloosa Management LP, led by billionaire venture capitalist, David Tapper, has sold its 1.36 million shares in the Chinese trading giant, since June, an American regulatory filing stated on Friday. Experts stated that the shopping event’s sales might stimulate Alibaba in a short term for the enterprise and other electronic trading enterprises, but it did not address the concerns of investors worried about its future.

Alibaba news today affirmed that Partners Capital International’s CEO Ronald Wan stated, “The Singles’ Day sales numbers are very robust, and Chinese consumers’ shopping power seems crazy. But we need to carefully study whether consumers are just pulling from prior and future months to spend on that day, and if brick-and-mortar stores are suffering from more sluggish sales, with the consumer spending on the whole remaining relatively weak.”

Actually, country’s departmental stores have reported that they have suffered from a terrible decrease in sales revenue in the third quarter. Amongst the 26 registered Chinese departmental stores that have recorded third quarter results as of October, about 60% posted a yearly retreat in profit, with several suffering from net losses whereas citing “weakening macro conditions”, statistical records from Winds revealed.

Alibaba Breaking news reported that Sinolink Securities’ Shanghai-based expert Zhao Haichun stated, “The department store operators experienced a significant slowdown in sales, due to slowing consumer spending and economic growth and intensified competition from e-commerce players.”

Facebook Introduces VR-Style 360 Videos Adverts

Facebook believes virtual reality is the future and plans to incorporate VR-style advertisements to add to its income.

Facebook is about to introduce new types of advertisements. Mark Zuckerberg confirms virtual reality future and the company is not wasting time to incorporate it to the News Feed and start earning money from it. By accepting the format, the social media platform could keep itself fresh for customers by providing a vivid method to link with areas one could not go. In the meantime, attracting organic virtual reality videos would cover so it could include VmaRketing in the feed.

Facebook news affirmed that the company introduced 360-video viewing support to Android and web in September, and a user could now be watching these VR-style video on iOS. The company is also introducing the format for advertisers, the first “immersive stories” offered by organizations including Walt Disney World, Nescafe, AT&T, Samsung, Ritz Crackers, and Corona. 

Facebook app informed that these videos could be viewed by tap-and-drag around the screen, or for immersive VR experience, offered from today on the Samsung Gear virtual reality. Meanwhile, to attract more users towards the sharing of 360 content to their News feed, 360 camera manufacturers, such as IC Real Tech, Theta, and Giroptic are helping Facebook to make an addition of “publish to Facebook” buttons to their applications.

Thus, a user is not required to fiddle with the posting of the 360 video to his/her computer first. Ultimately, to boost 360 content development, the social network introduced a microsite specifically for the purpose of offering film developers best frequently asked questions, upload instructions, and best practices.

Tech crunch reported that leading VR developers Vrse’s Aaron Koplin and Chris Malik have pitched to demonstrate the best means to video-makers through which immersive video could be made.

Facebook news today exclaimed that the process is similar to what the company did in pictures and later in videos. Essentially, it attempts to adopt the most vivid disseminating format to ensure that the platform becomes exciting. Then once there are sufficient levels of un-promoted or user-generated brand content developed in newly introduced format, pushing similar style ads would look less interruptive for the experience.

For pictures, that means letting social network users make an addition of multiple profile photos and then albums so they could connect with their friends. That made visual advertisements look natural. Facebook Breaking news reported that currently, the network giant is trying to push explosion of traditional video content. It has succeeded in doubling its daily video views from 4 billion to 8 billion since April.

Ford Invests $900 Million in Sharonville Plant

Ford Motors Company plans to invest a huge amount in Sharonville plant for its operations.

Ford Motors Company might invest $900 million in its Sharonville plant’s future operations. This would happen only if United Auto Workers chapters nationally and locally poll to approve the national division’s provisional contract with the automobile manufacturer, delineating a $9bn pledge to its American plants. The pledge encompasses the retention or creation of 8500 job opportunities over four years with new automobiles, transmissions, and engines planned.

Ford news exclaimed that the total amount could mean more than $1.5bn investment in Ohio. According to the Ford UAW agreement posted on the company’s webpage, if the contract is approved, the Sharonville facility, which is currently having 1626 union workers, would witness the inclusion of a "new transmission family and gear machining for two new transmissions" and service of its presently installed producing capacities.

The facility is known for currently making the 6R140 and 5R110 transmissions, which are used to manufacture Ford trucks, including its famous F-150 pickups. Ford news today affirmed that University of Cincinnati’s economics professor, Mike Jones, stated that the largest benefits of the deal are the signing bonuses, as a short-term advantage for workers, and the route to bring entry-level workers to full wage standard within eight years.

"This shows Ford is putting their money where their mouth is, which is much greater than any signing bonus- Ford is going to support the growth of that plant", Mike stated regarding the invested funds in Sharonville.

Ford usa informed that The Sharonville facility was established in 1958. The 2.4 million square foot plant is known for sitting on 182 acres of Sharon Road in the city’s northern region, not too far away from Interstate 275.

Five years ago, the automaker ended up a 3-year $320m worth investment at the facility, to play its role in making the 6R14 heavy duty truck transmission. The invested amount provided employment opportunities to 100 employees. Ford Breaking news informed that the company’s spokesperson refused to reveal how many jobs could be generated in the city from the $900 million worth investment.

According to reports from Cincinnati, the leaders of the Detroit-based UAW endorsed a provisional contract with the carmaker previously this week that would also be offering $10,000 in endorsing bonuses to each worker. UAW’s VP Jimmy Settles stated, “This tentative agreement delivers substantial wins for members. It’s a hard-earned victory for our members, their families, and our union.”

It could be assumed that the investment would improve Ford’s image in the U.S.