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What is Embedded Finance?

Embedded Finance a New Paradigm for a New Normal world and how it is Revolutionizing Financial Services. The implanting or embedding of financial services onto non-financial platforms, technologies, or product mechanisms intends to provide financial products to customers right at the source. More and more non-banking companies offer financial services, such as wallets or bank accounts, payments, and lending. The companies' embrace of embedded finance—banking-like services offered by nonbanks—aims to retain customers and increase their lifetime value. Venture capitalists, like Angela Strange at Andreessen Horowitz and Matt Harris at Bain Capital Ventures, for years have encouraged their companies to consider 'embedded finance' as a critical monetization lever, "making every company a fintech company." Embedded finance uses financial tools or services [...]

By |2024-03-31T15:58:28+05:30September 29, 2021|Blogs, Technology News|Comments Off on What is Embedded Finance?
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CES-ar salad 2019

The New Year begins with an influx of technophiles at the most prominent Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is the global stage for introducing the next-generation, cutting-edge technologies and innovations to the marketplace. This year's highlight of the event is the trends in Emerging key technologies which will provide you with the insights and to make sense of the incredible, mesmerising chaos of the CES-ar Salad 2019: 1. Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI will be running the world. AI was the omnipresent trend at CES 2019. The AI-focussed chips and processors was a game-changer. Organisations used kits to embed AI in their products to enhance the user experience. TVs are using AI to change the picture settings based on the lights and [...]

By |2019-01-16T15:30:15+05:30January 16, 2019|Blogs, Technology News|Comments Off on CES-ar salad 2019
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Tracking Our Children’s Future

The Chinese schools enforce 'Smart Uniforms' through tech embedded GPS tracking chips for Children Surveillance. Ten schools in Guizhou and Guangxi have introduced 'Intelligent Uniforms' that will track and monitor the students' whereabouts embedded with GPS tracker to ensure the students don't skip their class and assure parents of their children's attendance, behaviour in real-time and safety. When a child enters the school, classroom, or dormitory, a short video confirms a GPS recording of the data and time stamp, which the parents can view on a connected mobile app. The chip developers Guizhou Guanyu Technology said that Facial recognition technology has been designed to prevent the children from improperly swapping their uniforms. For the truants, skipping classes triggers an alarm [...]

By |2019-01-11T15:30:52+05:30January 11, 2019|Technology News|Comments Off on Tracking Our Children’s Future
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Top Ten Technological Disruptions of 2018 Contd – Part II

Ten most disruptive technological breakthroughs of 2018 - A Year in Review 6. Internet of Things (IoT) become Intelligent: IoT in 2018 saw several key developments such as the intensification of the data revolution, the mass adoption of IoT platforms across businesses and the recognition of significant security challenges in IoT solutions. Connected devices or things numbers doubled in 2018 to 20 billion IoT devices across the globe. Hundreds of IoT start-ups received billions of dollars in funding. World organisations and Government adopt the disruptive IoT innovations in Smart Manufacturing in the context of Industry 4.0 revolution. According to Forrester Wave, more than 60 per cent of businesses and decision makers are already using or planning to use IoT-enabled software [...]

By |2024-03-31T15:57:27+05:30January 8, 2019|Blogs, Featured, Technology, Technology News|Comments Off on Top Ten Technological Disruptions of 2018 Contd – Part II
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Top Ten Technological Disruptions of 2018 – Part I

Ten most disruptive technological breakthroughs of 2018 - A Year in Review  1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML):  The ability to automate business practices or reinvention of business models and ecosystems, definitive decision making, and redefining the customer experience, are the few things that can be compared to the potential of AI.  More than eight per cent of the businesses opines that AI is a strategic priority for the future of their organisation's growth and is driving the greatest business transformation in the industry. According to Gartner, 59% of the organisations are hard at work to build their AI strategy while many others are adopting AI programs or piloting. Google demonstrated that it could teach the bot (AlphaZero) to learn [...]

By |2018-12-31T15:30:28+05:30December 31, 2018|Blogs, Featured, Technology, Technology News|Comments Off on Top Ten Technological Disruptions of 2018 – Part I
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Difficult Times for Apple

Will Apple be able to retain its Market Leadership in 2019? 1. Apple Inc says China iPhone Ban would force a settlement with Qualcomm: The Fuzhou Intermediate People's court has granted Qualcomm's request for two preliminary injunctions against four Chinese subsidiaries of Apple Inc. Ordering them to immediately cease infringing upon the two Qualcomm patents through the unlicensed sale, import, offers for sale of various Apple iPhone models in China. Apple and Qualcomm have been locked in a bitter legal dispute since early 2017 over licensing fees. The row was sparked when the world's most profitable smartphone company asked its iPhone assemblers Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron to stop paying royalties owed to Qualcomm on its behalf. Apple accused Qualcomm of [...]

By |2023-09-14T10:32:11+05:30December 18, 2018|Technology News|Comments Off on Difficult Times for Apple
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What is Rich Communication Service (RCS) Messaging?

Universal Rich Communication Services (RCS) is poised to disrupt the old SMS (Short Messaging Service) standard. We have entered an era where SMS is a rare method of communication. We seldom use SMS since the advent of services such as Apple iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Google Chat as they allow us to add GIFs, emojis, videos, and photos to the messages. However, these chat services are not the universal solution due to its limitation - For, eg, We cannot send a Facebook Message to your WhatsApp correspondent or if they are using a Google chat. To address this challenge, Google made many attempts to launch the RCS, but since Android lacked a messaging competitor to Apple iMessage it was [...]

By |2024-03-31T15:58:22+05:30December 17, 2018|Blogs, Technology News|Comments Off on What is Rich Communication Service (RCS) Messaging?
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YouTube has Shrunked The World

Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawad Karim wouldn't have ever imagined that their brainchild 'YouTube' could change and make the world smaller when they founded it in 2005. YouTube has revolutionised and transformed everything and has given the power to travel the world and be anywhere at any time with a single click. It has helped the talents to be discovered across the globe. YouTube provides a platform for people around the world to spread to incite real-time situations about what is happening in their countries. YouTube has changed the face of the entertainment world. Today, we spend hours on YouTube watching movies, shows, web-series, etc. all for free right within the comfort of your cosy home. YouTube has disrupted [...]

By |2018-12-14T15:30:08+05:30December 14, 2018|Technology, Technology News|Comments Off on YouTube has Shrunked The World
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AWS re:Invent 2018 – A Game Changer

Last week, Amazon made the most significant announcements at its flagship event re: Invent 2018 and making itself an unstoppable juggernaut. With the announcements highlighted here, Amazon is taking a multi-front battle with the biggest names in the IT equipment industry. Given its technical and financial resources, aggressiveness and cloud market dominance, AWS represents an acute threat to each of them. For the IT vendors/leaders, and cloud users, Amazon re: Invent was an annual firehose of new announcements, product releases, feature updates and cross spectrum of developer platforms, applications, and infrastructure. A conference with a portfolio, so vast several key areas stand out: Hybrid on-premise cloud infrastructure and services. Enterprise IT management and governance services - making the cloud safe [...]

By |2018-12-07T15:30:05+05:30December 7, 2018|Featured, Technology, Technology News|Comments Off on AWS re:Invent 2018 – A Game Changer
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Chip on the New Block – TSMC

TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited) headquartered in Hsinchu is about to Dethrone Intel Corp who has dominated the chipmaking for more than 30 years. Producing the most critical component in bulk for the world's computers is now under threat of competition from a company which many in the Global IT Industry haven't heard before. TSMC was founded by Morris Chang in 1987 to build chips for companies that could not afford to develop their facilities. TSMC is the world's most massive dedicated Semiconductor Foundry, providing the industry's leading process technology and foundry's most extensive portfolio of process-proven IPs, libraries, reference flows, and design tools. TSMC has risen to challenge Intel at the zenith of the $400 billion industry. TSMC's [...]

By |2018-12-04T20:00:39+05:30December 4, 2018|Technology, Technology News|Comments Off on Chip on the New Block – TSMC
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