The Hitachi Money Spot UPI ATM promises customers a unified and secure user experience while providing the convenience of card-less cash withdrawals. Furthermore, it aims to drive financial inclusion by facilitating easy access to banking services, particularly in regions where traditional banking infrastructure and card usage are limited.

Leveraging cutting-edge technology, the Hitachi Money Spot UPI ATM offers a seamless digital experience for customers. Hitachi Payment Services has consistently been at the forefront of introducing innovative payment solutions and currently stands as the sole White Label ATM operator to offer Cash Deposit facilities, available at over 3,000 ATM locations.

Sumil Vikamsey, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer – Cash Business, Hitachi Payment Services, said, “As India’s leading end-to-end payments and commerce solutions provider, we are happy to launch an industry-first offering in the White Label ATM space with Hitachi Money Spot UPI ATM. This novel offering empowers any bank customer to experience the convenience of QR-based UPI cash withdrawals. UPI has been the fastest growing payment mode in the country and accounts for more than 50% of digital transaction volumes. The Hitachi Money Spot UPI ATM is a testament to Hitachi Payment Services’ technological capabilities and commitment towards making innovative banking services accessible to citizens across the country.”

Mahesh Patel, Director – Products and Digital Transformation, Hitachi Payment Services, said “We are excited to launch the country’s first-ever UPI ATM on Android platform for our White Label ATM network in association with NPCI. The Hitachi Money Spot UPI ATM is built on Android OS and brings in significant possibilities of transitioning from legacy architecture of transaction processing and ATM management to offering solutions in line with evolving technology. We believe the UPI ATM is a major milestone in the banking landscape.”

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), said, “We are delighted to empower customers with this innovative and customer-friendly enhancement for ATM transactions. The launch of the ‘UPI ATM,’ will mark a significant milestone in banking services by seamlessly integrating the convenience and security of UPI into traditional ATMs. This innovative concept is designed to provide quick access to cash even in the remote areas of India without the need for a physical card. “

Hitachi Payment Services has been a pioneer in the Indian payment industry, offering a comprehensive range of payment solutions, including ATM Services, Cash Recycling Machines, White Label ATMs, POS Solutions, Toll & Transit Solutions, Payment Gateway Solutions, and innovative offerings like SoftPOS, POS Value Added Services, and next-gen mobile-based merchant platforms that enable end-to-end services. The company remains dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experiences and promoting financial inclusion throughout India.

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Virtusa:

Virtusa specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions tailored for ecommerce businesses. Their expertise includes threat intelligence, fraud detection, and secure data management. Virtusa collaborates closely with ecommerce businesses to create customized defense strategies, ensuring that your unique security needs are met.

FireEye:

FireEye’s cybersecurity solutions are powered by advanced AI and machine learning algorithms. They excel in detecting and mitigating threats in real-time, safeguarding your ecommerce platform from evolving cyberattacks. FireEye’s AI analyzes user behavior to spot anomalies, helping you identify potential fraud or security breaches. This proactive approach minimizes risks associated with fraudulent transactions.

Noventiq:

Noventiq’s expertise lies in facilitating and enabling digital transformation processes, empowering their customers to adapt to the evolving digital landscape. It provides cloud protection services and AI algorithms, ensuring that customer data and applications hosted in the cloud are secure and protected from unauthorized access. They can also develop and deploy an AI power assistance to ease the shopping experience.

Sophos:

Sophos employs AI to enhance threat detection and response. Its AI-powered solutions can identify and block threats at various entry points, from email to web traffic. As more ecommerce businesses migrate to the cloud, Sophos offers cloud-specific AI solutions that protect your data and applications in cloud environments.

NortonLifeLock:

NortonLifeLock’s AI-powered endpoint security solutions provide robust protection against a wide range of threats, from phishing attacks to malware. With ecommerce relying heavily on customer identities, NortonLifeLock offers AI-driven identity protection services to ensure customer data remains secure.

In the world of ecommerce, cybersecurity should never be an afterthought. These five cybersecurity brands, armed with AI technology, can help you secure your digital shopping experience. By investing in advanced threat detection, behavioral analytics, and proactive threat hunting, you can fortify your online store’s defenses and build trust with your customers. Don’t compromise on security; embrace AI-powered cybersecurity to safeguard your ecommerce business in the face of evolving cyber threats.

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Keeping true to what it stands for, BGR.in or Broad Guidance & Ratings has been providing

best-in-class ‘guidance’ to its users for all tech-related queries and keep its users updated with article, videos and reviews about the latest gadgets, gaming, apps, telecom and everything else that fall under the “technology” category. It helps its users resolve all tech related problems including finding the best deals, telecom plans and much more.

The platform now plans to re-define the future of the consumer tech ecosystem in India through a transparent and quantitative ratings system which shall change the way consumers make their buying decisions.BGR.in shall be the first platform to bring transparency to product evaluations and reviews at scale in India. Further, the platfrom is also expanding its product search and listings to include other tech categories like laptops, TVs and wearables making it one stop shopfor all of its users’ needs. 

As per, Rohit Chadda, CEO, Zee Group, Digital Publishing, ‘True to our name, Broad Guidance and Ratings, we are launchinga new product rating mechanism where all the tech gadgets will be rated based on standardised quantitative metrics. This will not only make the user experience better by enabling easier comparison among products but also minimise subjectivity to ensure accurate ratings, something which has been missing from the Indian Tech market as of now.The platform currently allows product search and listings of mobile phones which is where the new rating mechanism will first be deployed. This shall be further expanded to other product categories as they are introduced on the platform.” 

Keeping some old rules into play, BGR.in will still maintain itself to be the friendly neighbourhood tech website, providing detailed reviews and ratings for these categories which in turn will help its users to make the final buying decision by finding the best deals. 

“Over the years BGR has createdmany benchmarks and industry best practices that have been followed by competitors in the mobile phone category. With our expansion into other product categories, we wantto create similar benchmarks in those categories as well. ”, Chadda Added. 

Recently, ZEE Digital did the largest PWA launch for 13 of its national and regional news brands covering 9 languages to offer seamless news consumption experience to its users.Earlier this year, India.com launched its new mobile site to provide a more immersive experience to users which resulted intremendous growth for the brand in terms of monthly active users.

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The most successful companies are adopting new technologies at light speed. This accelerated timeline of adopting innovative solutions and technology – known as the “digital tipping point”. In fact, among tech decision makers in India, 93% of them say COVID-19 sped up digital adoption. More than half say that digital transformation has been sped up by 1-3 years. At the same time, 72% of customers in India say that customer experience (CX) is more important to them now than a year ago.

“CX isn’t just a sideline part in a company’s digital transformation, it is the driving force behind it. The past year has shown us that the most successful companies are infusing great customer experiences in everything they do, and this will remain true in 2021 and beyond. Case in point, 41% of tech decision makers in APAC saw increased investment in CX in 2020, with 53% seeing continued increase in 2021. We believe there will be a continued focus on customer centricity and ongoing digital transformation as we adapt to our next normal,” said KT Prasad, MD & RVP SAARC, Zendesk.

The pressure on delivering great CX has never been higher. Across APAC, two in five customers use multiple channels for the same issue – meaning support teams need to be prepared to serve customers across multiple channels. Not only that, customers increasingly expect personalisation from brands throughout their CX journey – 89% of customers in India agree.

In response to the increased spotlight on CX and digital adoption, businesses in India are recognising the need to up their CX game and are investing in their customers and employees. 90% of Indian companies say CX is now a priority in their digital business transformation efforts. In APAC, 55% of tech decision makers say their budgets for tech purchases will increase in 2021, helping them to better manage more distributed workforces, adapt to the next normal and add new ways to offer support. 

Navigating across the digital tipping point

Zendesk has outlined five main areas of investment for every company to consider a great customer experience:

1. Messaging has evolved from being how people communicate in their personal lives to becoming a business essential, and has grown faster than any other customer service channel. It will remain the dominant channel for both simple self-service as well as more complex conversations.
2. Artificial intelligence will become table stakes for customers who want to be in control of their conversations. Companies need to leverage self-service and automation to deliver friction-free customer experiences. 61% of APAC customers say chatbots are helpful with simple issues.
3. Build agility into the business from Day 1 to have the infrastructure needed to adapt immediately to unexpected volatility, new customer needs and changing business demands.
4. Remote work tools will keep maturing to enable better collaboration, establish deeper trust, and build meaningful connections.
5. Being able to make data-driven decisions that address emerging CX challenges will be a major differentiator.

For more insights into the Digital Tipping Point, click here.

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Agdhi has introduced AI-based technology to check quality of seeds. The traditional method of detecting seed defects typically relies on manual inspection, which monopolizes resources and is subjective. AI vision technology — along with photometry, radiometry and computer vision — offers efficient methods for seed classification and seed quality analysis.

NVIDIA Inception will allow Agdhi to grow its business with go-to-market support, training and technology assistance. The program will offer an opportunity to collaborate with industry-leading experts and other AI-driven organizations.

Commenting on joining NVIDIA Inception, Nikhil Das – Founder, Agdhi said, “We are excited to be part of NVIDIA Inception and share the same belief that AI will play a key role in modernizing agricultural activities. NVIDIA’s support, expertise, and technology will further accelerate our business, and we hope to realize the goal of doubling the farmer’s income by 2022.”

NVIDIA Inception is a program that helps startups during critical stages of product development, prototyping and deployment. Every NVIDIA Inception member gets a custom set of ongoing benefits, such as NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute credits, marketing support, and technology assistance, which provides startups with the fundamental tools to help them grow.

About Agdhi

Agdhi is an agritech startup based in Bengaluru which aims to create the next revolution in agriculture.  The startup is revolutionizing agriculture by introducing digital technology and building alternative solutions to facilitate sustainable methods in agriculture.  Agdhi is the dream venture of Nikhil Das (Former CTO Havells Group, Founder of Promptec LED Lights) and Anshad Ameenza (President Innovation Incubator Advisory, Advisor for multiple start up). Under the leadership of Nikhil and Anshad, Agdhi is a group of young potential headed by Abhijith K as GM, Anup G Prasad in Projects, and Bhartendu Thakur in AI.

Agdhi has won National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition #NBEC2020 for best Agri Tech start up and secured 4 lakh dollar investment opportunity from  venture capitalist.

Thus, today Agdhi is building new age products & solutions catering to the seed & farmers community.

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Already one of India’s biggest Boom Barrier providers with the RFID technology, offering smart and safe parking solutions to over 600+ societies and corporates in the Delhi NCR region, the new digital solution has gone live across all of Supertech’s societies in Noida. Customers no longer need to avail multiple RFID tags and can use the same in both office parking spaces as well as residential ones, making it highly convenient and seamless.

Equipped with cutting-edge technology such as IoT, the RFID Home Barrier Tags will allow Park+ to remotely identify and fix any glitches. Furthermore, the company also provides a Tag Locking feature where residents can lock the tag on their cars through the Park+ app, thereby preventing car theft as the barrier simply will not open if someone other than the owner is driving the car.

Speaking on the new development, Mr. Amit Lakhotia, Founder of Park+ said, “In a residential society, approximately only 7% of the vehicles belong to visitors. A large chunk of vendors often lacks the required infrastructure and technical know-how to support the servicing aspect. Park+ has a dedicated maintenance team to ensure that there is a frictionless operation of the system for residents to enter and exit the society without a time-consuming process.  We are thrilled to partner with Supertech, one of the most distinguished residential developers in the Delhi NCR region, and look forward to a fruitful relationship.”

Mr. Mohit Arora, MD, Supertech, said, “As a Supertech family it is our pride that in most of our sites, we keep evolving our security systems to level up safety parameters of our valuable residents/occupants. Main Gate management is one of the sensitive parameter of Security System which triggers many challenges from security point of view and hence needed a professional approach to manage the entry and exit of the vehicles.”

“To cater these services, we have recently tied up with Park+ Solution for our all residential societies in NCR. Park+ Home Barrier Security Tags provide seamless entry and Exit of resident vehicles, saving substantial time as well as less idling of vehicles. The most exciting feature is an “Anti-theft feature” which user can manage from the APP only. This feature deactivates the RFID Tag remotely so that vehicle does not trigger the opening of the Boom Barrier at the exit gates of society, enhancing the security measure.”  

The new solution is currently available in 25,000-30,000 homes and will be going live in more areas by the end of March’21. Park+ has also joined hands with prominent real estate developer Vatika Group in a strategic partnership. On the back of this partnership, Park+ is live with its tech-driven suite of parking services through its mobile app in all the 11 commercial properties owned by Vatika.

About Park+

Park+ is a smart parking solutions start-up on a mission to connect commuters with safe, secure, and digitized parking spaces across the country. The technologically advanced company allows its 500,000+ users to discover and book parking spaces online through the Park+ app. It also enables online payment for parking tickets for a truly digital and cashless experience. Additionally, it provides RFID based security solutions to apartments and corporate setups. Through its unique offering, Park+ helps users save time and fuel spent on looking for parking while helping them find safe and secure spaces to park. The brand’s key clients include frontrunning companies including RBS, Brookfield, Vatika, Raheja, Hiranandani and more.

About SuperTech

Supertech Limited, India’s leading real estate developer was founded 32 years back in National Capital Region and since then has been scaling new heights by each passing day. The company has set new trends of architectural finesse in the contemporary global scenario touching the horizons of excellence. Established under the dynamic leadership of Mr. R. K. Arora, Supertech has led to creation of various landmark projects. The leaders and skilled professionals of the company have worked towards launching out of the league projects and take the real estate sector to the next level. Supertech is the pioneer to launch the concept of mixed-use development in India and to come up with high rise constructions in North India.

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Zooppy provides a glimpse of the recent news and developments in the movie industry conjoined with a critical bird’s eye view of new releases in theatres and other streaming platforms. The core of the business is to leverage the patented technology to offer online Movie based skill competitions

Launching this movie based game, Yuva Pushpakar CEO  commented, “The increasing popularity of Marvel and star wars has led to the emergence of fantasy movie leagues in India. This is a new way of  film experience that combines elements of films, game and fantasy sport. It is also an entirely new way to connect with both your friends and favourite films.”  He further added that Moreover, during the pandemic, the mobile gaming industry has gained mainstream recognition and is also a way for people to keep in touch with their families, relatives and friends. With this increasing trend, we aim to provide unique experiences where we are providing customers to participate or interact with movie business proactively.

This YouTube based online fantasy game where users can create a playlist of 8 videos and join many contests. A zone for ‘Movie nerds’ is created to showcase their knowledge and interest in cinema through Quizzes, Puzzles, etc. The users can win cash contests of their choice and compete for real cash. The audience can also create multiple playlists and join multiple contests to increase your chances of winning. The users who join more contest will have a more chance of winning.  The users also can check the progress & results of the contest in Mycontest section.

About Quarous Technologies

Quarous Technologies Pvt Ltd is a technology company offers unique apps for businesses which are cloud powered, high quality and serves both offline and dynamic data, with a secure connection to back-end infrastructure on cloud or in the enterprise. The company is led by Kerala based tech enthusiasts Yuva Pushpakar, Athul P. Raj, Mefin Thomas, Renjith Robert and Deepak Uthaman.

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Keeping in tune with the times, LingerTech, a cloud based integrated hospitality management technology start-up has launched a one-shop-solution to optimize entire property management processes. Their package will help small and medium hotels  to adopt technology eaily and seamlessly. This will enable budget hospitality groups to offer contactless hotel experience to their customers at an affordabe cost. LingerTech aims  to equip the Indian Hospitality Industry with technology to enable them to meet the “travelling in the COVID era” challenge head-on.

The company is the following digital facilites: self-check-in, check-out, contact-less food menu, contact-less lift operation within the hotel. This Property Management System (PMS) offers digital communication and touch-less support to the hotel staff as well.

The other services included in the technology includes real time inventory & rates management thus increasing the opportunity of maximizing bookings without overbooking errors. With market dynamics changing, the ‘dynamic’ pricing tool helps the hotel to automate the pricing based on availability and seasonality. The hotels can also pre-fix their pricing and this system will do the job as automated.

Moreover, hotel owners can boost their  business by using data analytics as a tool and generating comprehensive reports like Lead time, Nationality Breakdown, Room Type Reports, ADR, LOS etc…

According to Sandeep Kumar, Founder, LingerTech, “All reports indicate that Hotels opting to use cloud-based technology PMS will grow by leaps and bounds in India. Technology will be key to the revival of the travel segment, enabling hotels who use it properly to better manage demand generation in an online world and reconnect with their customers.

“With rapid changes happening across the industry, our tech solution can be a gamechanger. The industry will have to make quick changes to adapt to this very volatile situation, and keep themselves relevant. Technology is the key to most things now.”

Using Cloud technology, LingerTech offers seamless services in managing all hotel departments like the front office, housekeeping, restaurant, accounts, health clubs, banquets, etc. It also empowers businesses to manage all hotel departments on a single window.

Going by the concept of ‘One software, one POC,’ integrated Channel Manager connects with over 400 OTAs, B2B partners, GDS, and more.

About The Founders

SANDEEP KUMAR & RAHUL NIGAM

LingerTech is the vision of two tech-driven minds, obsessed with finding cutting edge technology solutions to solve problems. Hospitality is a passion with the co-founders who come with the legacy of a long & successful career in Travel & Tourism space with leading brands in the business. They are recognized for scaling up revenue streams along with accelerating growth and profitability, and, they are committed to take the Hotel Industry out of COVID chaos and make it fit and healthy for the 21st Century.

Sandeep has worked with leading hospitality brands for 18 years including senior management roles with Yatra.com, Shiv Vilas Resorts, fastbooking.com

Rahul has International Business experience of over 18 years in handling operation of hotels, in-bound tours, B2B and B2C in hospitability industry. He has worked with leading brands like Taj Mahal Hotel, Thomas Cook, Hotelbeds, Agoda etc.

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In the words of Rajat Singhania, Founder – SocioRAC, “With approx 1.5 billion people now working remotely, working remotely has become the “new normal” at least for the foreseeable future. The security and data protection needs are compromised at home which increases the risk of exposure and inadvertent leaking of corporate and customer data.”

He further added that in view of the present situation, we developed this app ‘HyLyt app’ that helps enterprises with data security & important content at a single place. This avoids critical & sensitive data exchange through multiple insecure channels & tools”

This app provides a reliable & secure solution to enterprises as it acts as a single source for storing entire data in a highly protected way. This app is a mobile first environment to manage data for personal & business needs. HyLyt app is available in Mobile & Desktop version. The personal version is free & the business version is charged at an affordable cost of Rs.4000/- per user.

Features

Unified Information Management

• 360 view of all information that matters in one place, one view – from all sources
• Interconnect all information on multiple parameters to make information 10x more powerful and build the Google of one’s  data
• Find any information instantly, even if your search query is very complicated
• Chat experience of tomorrow – hidden chats & password protection, invisible users, structured/ organized chats using threads to help to work better
• Better user engagement – broadcast information to users, white label options, schedule reminder/ calendar for others
• Data leakage control – information not viewable outside HyLyt, restrict people from sharing/ forwarding what one  send them, Screenshot/ copy-paste controls
• Enhanced Security – Multi level pin/ password, IP protection – business can pull back data when an user leaves,
• Knowledge transfer – all data from start can be transferred from old user to new user in minutes
• Video Conference – This is a newly added feature introduced recently that helps in using amongst up to 100 users.
• Dashboard features – HyLyt has a dashboard feature on its backend. It allows users to make different departmental groups where each team member can converse and submit its work.
• Watchdog feature – Watchdog” feature from HyLyt allows top-level management to keep an eye on select departments and the work is done and take necessary actions to increase productivity and improve work efficiency.
• Content management and messaging integration – Whiteboard option for collaborative working Control

About SocioRAC

Established in 2017, SocioRAC (Brand) is a technology startup working in the area of Information Management. SocioRAC aims to generate 2.5 billion man-hours of additional productive time by 2025 thus leveraging digital technology to help enterprises to manage their digital data overload. Based in Vadodara, SocioRAC is building tech products & solutions catering to enterprises that plan to increase productivity, manage businesses, increase collaboration, save money & time.

The company is the brainchild of Rajat Singhania who is an alumnus of St. Columba’s School, Delhi and Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) with more than 30 years of working in the areas of technology.

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E-commerce major Flipkart announced the launch of ‘Flipkart Leap’, in a view to helping new and upcoming startups. This is the Walmart-owned company’s first startup accelerator program. The 16-week program will open opportunities for startups to prepare their innovative solutions to be market-ready and allow them to win an equity-free grant of $25,000.

The call-for-entries began on Monday and Flipkart Leap will identify B2C and B2B startups and help them scale through an intensive 16-week virtual program. Throughout the program, Flipkart’s leadership from Business, Operations, Product, and Technology will mentor the selected startups and share best practices, in addition to master class sessions hosted by industry experts.

Flipkart Group CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy said with innovations and disruptions in the field of technology coming about each day, the company wants to be at the forefront of driving scalability and helping these startups bring value to the industry as well as Indian consumers.

“Flipkart Leap is aimed at unlocking this potential and nurturing new ideas that bring innovation, curiosity and unconventionality to the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, while boosting the government’s ‘Start-Up India’ initiative,” Kalyan Krishnamurthy said.

Flipkart’s Chief Product and Technology Officer Jey Venugopal said “As a company that has undergone that phase and built its own success playbook, we wanted to utilize our network to build a program that helps startups in these early stages to evolve and become successful brands in future.”

Flipkart Leap has identified five themes to shortlist relevant high-potential startups; Design & Make for India, Innovation in Digital Commerce, Technologies to Empower the Retail Ecosystem, Supply Chain Management & Logistics and Enabling Relevant Deep Tech applications.

Flipkart said in a statement that these themes have been identified to tap into the most innovative solutions in the Technology and Consumer Internet space, uniquely built for Indian consumers.

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