Future search engine will enhance your thought process: Google's Amit Singhal

Google search guru Amit Singhal believes the search-engine of the future will be "a perfect personal assistant" — knowing what you want, when you want it.

NEW DELHI: Google search guru Amit Singhal believes the search engine of the future will be "a perfect personal assistant" — knowing what you want, when you want it.

Although people can travel to the moon's surface without leaving their armchairs, search engine developments so far are just "baby steps" to "the holy grail of search", Singhal told AFP in a rare interview.

Singhal, 44, has already brought transformational change to the internet since he took over development of Google's search engine in 2000, when the web was still relatively limited and access achingly slow.

The "Google fellow" — the title the California company bestows on its top thinkers — sees a world of "knowledge on demand" before people even know they want it, as speech recognition, language understanding, touch technology and computer advances combine.

The search engine of the future will be the "perfect personal assistant giving you benefit of all technical knowledge, enhancing your thought processes", he said.

Singhal dismisses criticism by some scientists that having all the information at people's fingertips could create lazy minds, shortening attention spans and reducing capacity to remember information.

"People always worry about change," he said. "We have to teach people to swim with the flow of technology, not swim against it," he said.

"There were worries about the Gutenberg printing press — that it would destroy the beauty of the spoken word, but we're far better off with the knowledge it's brought," he said.

"People worried TV would stop people reading books but that hasn't happened," he noted.

"The internet has made people more productive — removing barriers to getting information," he said.

Search is at the core of Google, which fields millions of questions a day in more than 110 languages.

Singhal's vision has helped make it the most visited search engine globally, as well as one of the planet's most profitable companies.

"These are immensely exciting times" with search technology "going through an exponential period" of change, he said.

"Ultimately I believe this will give mankind healthier, happier lives, not just through wearable technology, but the sum total of information that will be within our reach to improve lives."

When Singhal talks about his technological inspiration and the future of search engines, he smiles and says: "Star Trek."

Singhal watched the popular science-fiction show obsessively growing up in India's Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

The series — Singhal viewed repeats so often he knew the dialogue by heart — gave him a dream about a future where a computer like the one on the starship Enterprise could provide any information immediately.

And life has given Singhal, a graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and Cornell University, the chance to help develop just that kind of technology.

"I imagined a future where a starship computer would be able to answer any question I might ask, instantly."

"We're closer to that dream than I ever thought possible during my working life," said Singhal, adding that he was "blessed to do something I love".

Singhal is in charge of what Google calls its "search algorithms", which decide how best to retrieve information and answer questions.

His team tests thousands of search algorithms every year, adjusting, tweaking and inventing. The key is ranking information, giving the most pertinent answer first.

The more Google keeps users happy, the better it is able to beat competition from Yahoo and other sites, and also draw lucrative advertisement to its pages.

Just as USS Enterprise Captain James Kirk never had to type a question into the spaceship's computer, asking it questions aloud instead, Singhal sees searches heading in the same way with better voice recognition.

Singhal was in New Delhi to announce launch of Google's new Hindi-language content website.

Nearly all of India's 198-million English speakers are already online and Google hopes the local-language website will add 300-million more Internet users.

Singhal said the website in Hindi, India's most widely spoken language, would make the internet "more accessible for people like my mom" who's more comfortable in Hindi than in English.

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WhatsApp voice calls round the corner

Set of voice calling icons discovered in WhatsApp APK version 2.11.426.

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NEW DELHI: It has long been known that WhatsApp will introduce voice calling feature in its app soon, but there is no word on when it will be rolled out. However, it seems that the launch of this feature may be imminent.

Now, tech website PhoneArena has reported that one of its readers has discovered a set of voice calling icons in the app. The icons were discovered in WhatsApp APK version 2.11.426 in a folder named 'drawable-hdpi-v11 & v4'.

The delay in rolling out voice calling feature is due to technical hurdles that WhatsApp developers are facing.

The voice calling feature, which was recently confirmed by CEO Jan Koum, will bring Whatsapp in direct clash with apps like WeChat, Viber and Line that already allow users to make calls and send messages. Whatsapp is the biggest instant messaging app in the world, with 600 million active users in August 2014. In India, it has 70 million active users, according to business head Neeraj Arora.

However, Koum has said WhatsApp's voice calling function will not clash with Facebook Messenger's voice calling feature, as it will be strictly a mobile-only service. On the other hand, Facebook Messenger lets users make calls on iPads and other tablets over Wi-Fi also, not just mobile phones.

Facebook has acquired WhatsApp for $21.8 billion.

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13-year-old Indian-origin boy gets Intel funding for low-cost Braille printer

At the age of 12, Shubham Banerjee, closed an early-stage funding round with Intel Capital for his prototype for a low-cost Braille printer.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA: If Shubham Banerjee cannot lay claim to being the world's youngest venture capital-backed entrepreneur, he comes very close.

Banerjee was 12 years old when he closed an early-stage funding round with Intel Capital, the company's venture capital arm, last month for his prototype for a low-cost Braille printer. Since then, the San Jose, California middle-schooler has turned 13.

That's young, even by the standards of Silicon Valley, where many venture capitalists unapologetically prefer to fund youth over experience.

Young entrepreneurs usually have reached at least their mid-teens when they hit it big. Nick D'Aloisio, founder of online news aggregator Summly, was 17 when Yahoo bought his company last year for $30 million.

Brothers John and Patrick Collison, behind payments service Stripe, were 16 and 19 when they sold an earlier business to a Canadian company for $5 million.



After reading a fundraising flyer about the blind, Banerjee felt inspired to turn a high-tech version of Legos, the toy building blocks, into a device that could print in Braille. One day, he wants to mass-produce the printers and sell them for about $350, far less than Braille printers cost now.

This past summer, he worked on incorporating an Intel Edison chip, a processor aimed at hobbyists, into the printer. In September, Intel invited him to a conference in India to highlight uses for Edison. There, he got a big surprise.

Intel executive Mike Bell announced from the conference stage that the giant chipmaker would invest in his company, Braigo Labs. Until then, his funding consisted of the $35,000 his parents gave him.

"I turned back to my dad, and said, 'What did he just say?'" Banerjee recalled. "I was all over the place."

Banerjee and a spokesman for Intel Capital declined to disclose the size of the investment. A person familiar with the matter said it was a few hundred thousand dollars. He plans to use it to build a better prototype of the printer and test it with more groups for the blind.


After the announcement, Banerjee had to bone up on unfamiliar terms such as "venture capital."

He also needed to convince adults to co-sign his funding and patent documents. Among the company officials he turned to: Braigo's president, his mom, Malini.

Banerjee says he gets mostly As and Bs as a student at the Champion School in San Jose, California. Teachers have given him time off to attend events like the conference in India and the Intel Global Capital summit this week in Huntington Beach, California. He catches up on school work on weekends, he says.

This is the second Intel investment connected to the Banerjee family. His dad, Neil, works for Kno, an education start-up that Intel bought last year.

While many young entrepreneurs who win venture-capital cash end up ditching their education to focus on their businesses full time, Banerjee says he won't take that path.

"It's an after-school thing," he says.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 specifications leaked online

Samsung has been working on the Galaxy S6 under the codename ‘Project Zero’ as it aims to start from scratch in order to make it ‘the best Galaxy S flagship yet’.

NEW DELHI: Samsung usually unveils its flagship Galaxy S device early in the year. With 2014 almost coming to an end, rumours related to the company's next flagship have already surfaced.

According to SamMobile, the South Korean tech giant has been working on the Galaxy S6 under the codename 'Project Zero' as it aims to start from scratch in order to make it 'the best Galaxy S flagship yet'.

Although the screen size was not mentioned among the rumoured specs, the device is expected to feature a Quad HD (2560x1440p) display, just as Note 4. Another similarity between the two devices will be the camera sensor, IMX240, which could be either a 16MP or 20MP lens. The front camera will be upgraded to 5MP in alignment with the recently launched Galaxy A series.

In terms of storage, Samsung Galaxy S6 will come in three variants — 32, 64 and 128GB, doing away with the 16GB model. The report did not mention the amount of RAM that the model will have.

The device is expected to be powered by Exynos 7420 octacore processor, which will include four Cortex A53 and Cortex A57 cores, each. The device is also said to come in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor variant. Both models will feature 64-bit chipset architecture.

The report also says that Samsung Galaxy S5 will be more battery efficient than other smartphones in the market as it will use a Broadcom chip that puts the GPS as well as other sensors on the same chip, letting the phone process data faster.

Samsung Galaxy S6 is still in the early stages of development and there have been no leaked images of the device yet. The smartphone is likely to be unveiled globally late February or early March next year.

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Google Nexus 5 battery woes trouble users

Google Nexus 5 users who are facing battery problems say that their work suffers on a regular basis due to the smartphone’s battery woes, and this erratic battery defeats the purpose of having a smartphone.

NEW DELHI: Though it is nearly a year old, LG-manufactured Google Nexus 5 is still ranked among the best value-for-money smartphones in India. However, a number of those 1.72 lakh in India who have purchased the smartphone since its launch in November 2013 are bitter about Nexus 5 developing serious battery problems within a few months.

One of our colleagues has been using Google's Nexus 5 for over five months now. She often charges her phone by connecting it to her laptop when at work. Over time, the battery life of her smartphone has rapidly degraded. She has to plug in the charger at least thrice in 24 hours.

A few days ago, when she connected her Nexus 5 smartphone to her laptop in order to charge the battery, her phone's charging duct heated up. "When I tried to remove and re-plug my smartphone, I noticed that the USB and charging duct of the phone had become really hot and a strong burning smell was coming out of the charging port," she told us.



"I immediately switched off my smartphone and waited a while for it to cool down. Approximately 30 minutes later, I tried to connect it to a colleague's MacBook Air and the same thing happened — the charging duck heated up again and the burning smell continued."

In order to save her phone from any further damage, she switched it off. When she took it to a nearby LG service center, the person in-charge inspected the phone and told her that there was has been a 'short-circuit' in the charging duct that caused the heating up and the burning smell.

"Since the warranty doesn't cover such 'incidents', I had to pay to get the part replaced," she told us.

Emails sent to LG and its PR agency for their clarification on Nexus 5 battery woes did not even elicit a response.

Her's is just one among the many battery problems faced by Nexus 5 users we spoke to. Though not all complained of a similar issue, some Nexus 5 buyers complained that within a few months, the battery stopped charging beyond 50-60% even while the phone is plugged in overnight. Yet others said that the battery charge goes down from 100% to 35-40% within a couple of hours.

Mukti Lamba, an actuarial analyst, told us, "My Nexus 5 takes a lot of time to get fully charged... what's worse is that it gets discharged within a couple of hours of being fully charged. Charging via USB is very slow... In short, it has to remain on charger for around 16 hours a day."



Bhavna Sharma, Gurgaon-based manager in a content firm, too has been facing similar problems with her Nexus 5. She told us, "I am facing quite a lot of battery issues. The battery discharges very quickly. I have to charge my phone at least 3-4 times a day."

Jai Virk, marketing professional at a Mercedes dealership, said that his Nexus 5 also needs to be recharged at least thrice a day. He also said that apps crash 4-5 times a day on his phone and the phone restarts automatically 10-12 times a day. Since the phone is a gift from his mother, he is reluctant to change it, but said that unless the upcoming Android L update fixes things, he will be compelled to buy a new phone.

Daksh Bahuguna, a Goa-based industrial designer, told us, "My Nexus 5's battery lasts only about 5-6 hours on regular usage. I have even faced the problem of battery draining out completely overnight and me waking up to a switched-off phone. The charging time varies between 45 minutes to 4 hours sometimes. I have to charge my phone at least twice a day, if not three, before hitting the sack."

Google Nexus 5 users who are facing these battery problems say that their work suffers on a regular basis due to the smartphone's battery woes, and this erratic battery defeats the purpose of having a smartphone.

However LG India claims that the number of people coming to service centres regarding Nexus 5 battery issues is "very small".

Google India, on its part, claimed in an emailed comment that the company has "not heard of anyone facing issues with the Nexus 5 battery life".

Notwithstanding the ignorance feigned by Google and LG, the problem does not seem to be limited to the Nexus 5 model sold in India alone. There are many Nexus 5 users who have complained about battery issues on various internet forums.

A Reddit user going by the screen name Wesssy wrote: "I can't figure out why my battery life is so bad, even with using BetterBatteryStats, GSam Battery Monitor, and Wakelock Detector. Today's battery has 46% remaining, with only 56 minutes of screen on time."

On an Android Central forum, another user named PBC said, "Over the past few nights, I've noticed my Nexus 5 has been draining its battery like a sieve. Literally upwards of 30-50% overnight, with the screen off. Last night, I turned off WiFi before I went to bed at around 10 pm and shut down any apps in the multi-task window that were open (not sure if that does anything), battery was at 59%. Woke up around 5, checked the battery, and it was at 17%."

A large-scale Nexus 5 battery problem first cropped up in March this year with the release of Android 4.4.2 update for the phone. After the release, "mm-qcamera-daemon" process drained the battery life by keeping the phone's camera turned on even when it was not in use, thus consuming resources via CPU cycles.

Android 4.4.3 patch for Nexus 5 was meant to fix this issue, but it was reported that some units still suffer from short battery lives. It is now said that Google is readying a final fix for this issue with the Android 5.0 (Lollipop) build that is likely to be released next month.

Google has started the rollout of Android 5.0, Lollipop to select devices. The new OS brings with it a number of visual changes and adds new features. Here’s a look at 10 new features of Android Lollipop.

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Microsoft and Dropbox announce surprise partnership for Office integration

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's move to join hands with Dropbox shows he is willing to partner with companies instead of compete with them.

Microsoft has cozied up to Dropbox with a new partnership.

Soon you'll be able to easily access, save, share and collaborate on your Office 365 documents stored on Dropbox without leaving Office.

Office 365 is Microsoft's paid cloud version of Microsoft Office.

But wait, there's more. Dropbox will also be available as an option for Microsoft's freebie version of Office in its cloud, known as Office Online.

And this isn't a Windows-only deal. You'll be able to use your Dropbox account inside of Office on your iPhone, iPad or Android tablet.

It's yet another symbol of the kinder, gentler Microsoft under new CEO Satya Nadella. He's willing to partner with companies instead of compete with them, and customers win.

Office 365 comes with its own cloud storage, called OneDrive — and now OneDrive offers an unbeatable deal: the paid version comes with unlimited storage.

But Dropbox is a major go-to cloud storage option for Office documents, particularly those using older, not-cloud versions. Dropbox users have currently stashed away more than 35 billion Office files, which allows them to collaborate on documents with co-workers without buying into Microsoft's cloud version of Office.

So this partnership is super smart on Microsoft's part. It's another on ramp to encourage people to ditch their old version of Office and sign up for the fancy new cloud version, and they can still use Dropbox with their existing files and and work with colleagues just like they are used to doing. And of course, there's now an extra incentive to switch over to OneDrive.

Microsoft will make more money on its cloud app over time, since users must pay annually for it. But it's not a bad deal for users, because you get more features for the extra money, such as the ability to install the software on multiple devices.

Dropbox support will be available to Office 365 users in 2015, Microsoft says.

This partnership isn't unique, by the way. Dropbox competitor, Box, has been working with Office 365 since last month.

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LG, Google ink 10-year patent deal

LG Electronics said that it had signed a long-term cross-licence deal with Google as the South Korean firm tries to expand its smartphone business.

SEOUL: LG Electronics said that it had signed a long-term cross-licence deal with Google as the South Korean firm tries to expand its smartphone business.

The deal covers patents on a "broad range of products and technologies" that already exist and will be filed in the next 10 years, the two firms said in a joint statement.

Samsung — LG's home rival and the world's top smartphone maker — earlier struck a similar deal with Google in January.

"LG values its relationship with Google, and this agreement underscores both companies' commitment to developing new products and technologies that enhance consumers' lives," said JH Lee, executive vice president and head of the LG's intellectual property centre.

Almost all of LG's popular smartphones, tablet computers and smartwatches are powered by Android software made by the US tech giant.

LG — currently the world's fourth-largest smartphone maker — struggled for years with sluggish sales after making a late entry into the market.

But it recently showed signs of revival with its flagship G3 smartphones, while its bigger rival Samsung saw profits sag.

LG earlier reported an 87% jump in third-quarter net profit as the previously loss-making handset unit saw profits surge in a big turnaround.

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13-year-old Indian-origin boy gets Intel funding for low-cost Braille printer

At the age of 12, Shubham Banerjee, closed an early-stage funding round with Intel Capital for his prototype for a low-cost Braille printer.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA: If Shubham Banerjee cannot lay claim to being the world's youngest venture capital-backed entrepreneur, he comes very close.

Banerjee was 12 years old when he closed an early-stage funding round with Intel Capital, the company's venture capital arm, last month for his prototype for a low-cost Braille printer. Since then, the San Jose, California middle-schooler has turned 13.

That's young, even by the standards of Silicon Valley, where many venture capitalists unapologetically prefer to fund youth over experience.

Young entrepreneurs usually have reached at least their mid-teens when they hit it big. Nick D'Aloisio, founder of online news aggregator Summly, was 17 when Yahoo bought his company last year for $30 million.

Brothers John and Patrick Collison, behind payments service Stripe, were 16 and 19 when they sold an earlier business to a Canadian company for $5 million.



After reading a fundraising flyer about the blind, Banerjee felt inspired to turn a high-tech version of Legos, the toy building blocks, into a device that could print in Braille. One day, he wants to mass-produce the printers and sell them for about $350, far less than Braille printers cost now.

This past summer, he worked on incorporating an Intel Edison chip, a processor aimed at hobbyists, into the printer. In September, Intel invited him to a conference in India to highlight uses for Edison. There, he got a big surprise.

Intel executive Mike Bell announced from the conference stage that the giant chipmaker would invest in his company, Braigo Labs. Until then, his funding consisted of the $35,000 his parents gave him.

"I turned back to my dad, and said, 'What did he just say?'" Banerjee recalled. "I was all over the place."

Banerjee and a spokesman for Intel Capital declined to disclose the size of the investment. A person familiar with the matter said it was a few hundred thousand dollars. He plans to use it to build a better prototype of the printer and test it with more groups for the blind.



After the announcement, Banerjee had to bone up on unfamiliar terms such as "venture capital."

He also needed to convince adults to co-sign his funding and patent documents. Among the company officials he turned to: Braigo's president, his mom, Malini.

Banerjee says he gets mostly As and Bs as a student at the Champion School in San Jose, California. Teachers have given him time off to attend events like the conference in India and the Intel Global Capital summit this week in Huntington Beach, California. He catches up on school work on weekends, he says.

This is the second Intel investment connected to the Banerjee family. His dad, Neil, works for Kno, an education start-up that Intel bought last year.

While many young entrepreneurs who win venture-capital cash end up ditching their education to focus on their businesses full time, Banerjee says he won't take that path.

"It's an after-school thing," he says.

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With 55,000 registered users, test prep startup Testbook raises an INR 1.5 crore round

Started in January 2014, Testbook provides a variety of mock tests to give student’s preparation a final shape for most of the competitive exams being conducted Online in India like GATE, CAT, SBI PO, SBI CLERK, IBPS PO, etc. The company has announced a fund raise of INR 1.5 crores through LetsVentures and Ah! ventures along with few angel investors from outside. This round was led by a Delhi based investor, Utsav Somani and MD of Carlyle Group, Shankar Narayanan along with other investment bankers, educational professionals, mobile experts and entrepreneurs.

Testbook has been founded by 6 IIT Mumbai and Delhi alumni who have been behind the product’s steady growth over the year. We covered them earlier in March when they had around 13,000 registered users primarily for GATE preparation. The company currently claims 55,000 registered users who have solved over 30 lakh questions which suggests that a user on average has solved around 55 questions. The content on Testbook is designed and created by respective exam toppers and faculties with teaching experience in the respective domain.
The service is also completely free at the moment and the team is planning to launch some premium features soon. The current focus and the new funds will mainly be used to improve the product and increase the user base. The product has been spreading via the networks till now and new efforts will now be made to market the product effectively.
Online test preparation is one of the hottest sectors within education right now in India because of a huge addressable market that’ll be willing to pay if a product helps a student clear a test. We had earlier carried this list of online test preparation startups being built from India and the space is heating up. Toppr has raised $2.2 million from SAIF Partners and Helion Ventures, Embibe has raised $4 million from Kalaari and there are a bunch of others players in the fray fighting it out. Metrics like time spent on site, engagement with the questions, and success rates will be important for these startups. It is early days for Testbook and this funding fuel will help them focus more on growth and try to grab a bigger piece of the pie.
Website: Testbook

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Online gadget research and review platform 91mobiles secures $1 million funding from India Quotient & others

Online research and reviews platform for mobile phones and gadgets, 91mobiles has secured around $1 million in its pre-Series A round from a clutch of investors led by India Quotient. The round was also participated by Krishna Motukuri,former CEO of ibibo owned – Tradus.com and Umang Kumar, founder & CEO of Gaadi.
The current round of funding will be used in expanding the team, developing better research tools and content for mobiles & tablets categories. The company also plans to build a similar research experience for other gadget categories like wearables, laptops, cameras, and accessories.

At present, 91mobiles drives gadget sales worth $100 million to retailers listed on the site, and earns affiliate revenue from online gadget retailers like Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, etc. Additionally it also works with most of the leading gadget and telecom brands including Samsung, Micromax, Asus, Dell, Airtel among others to provide advertising and branding solutions to promote their range of products.
“We provide information on the latest happenings and launches in the gadgets space, along with expert reviews on interesting new devices, done by our in-house developed tool – Phone Finder which powers over 100,000 searches every day, and provides an exhaustive listing of all available devices and their key specs. The funding will also used to upgrade the existing mobile site and launch an Android application ,” said Nitin Mathur, Cofounder, 91mobiles
Brainchild of Bharanidharan Viswanathan and Nitin Mathur, 91mobiles was launched in mid 2010.With the initial team of 4-5 member, the platform was reaching to 30,000 users per day, in its first year of launch. Its user-base has doubled every year since then, to reach over 250,000 users currently on a daily basis. 91mobiles has an annual revenue run rate of over $1 million, and is aspiring for 300% to 400% growth in the next two years.
An ISB alumnus, Bharani was earlier the Co-founder & CTO of Accentium Web which was acquired by iBibo. Nitin is a graduate from IIM-Calcutta, and had earlier founded an online loyalty & reward venture, PrivilegeCorner, which was later acquired by corporate gifting company – eYantra.

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Artist entrepreneur Raghava KK launches Flipsicle to rethink the role of creativity in technology

Raghava KK is a very different kind of entrepreneur. He does not have a background in technology and that’s what makes him even more interesting.
Raghava is a household name in the field of art and he is using his talent to create a new kind of startup. Flipsicle was born when Raghava was invited by billionaire-visionary Jeff Bezos to share his vision at a private brain-trust/think-tank event last year. He and his wife Netra, an educator and the brain behind his business success in the art-world, decided to have their fourth baby – Flipsicle.
Flipsicle is a lab that creates products with one vision in mind – to use creativity to engender empathy and to see the world through many eyes. They just launched Flittr at Life is Beautiful. Now he’s in India to launch Flipsicle, backed by prominent investors such as Vishal Gondal, former CEO, Indiagames; Gautam Godhwani, founder of Simply Hired; John Maeda, Design Partner at KPCB; and Neeraj Arora, who manages all things business at WhatsApp.
Raghav was named by CNN as one of the 10 most remarkable people in the world.  As an artist, he has collaborated with the greatest artistic minds of our century, including Paul Simon.  National Geographic inducted him into the Society as an Emerging Explorer for his contribution to bringing together art and technology. He is the Chair of the INK Fellows Program and a mentor-advisor at NuVu Studio, SingularityUniversity.  He was one of the first Indians to speak at TED in Long Beach, CA and is a four-time TED speaker. After bringing tech and science into the art world, he is now taking art to the tech world through Flipsicle
One year into the setup, Raghava has raised a seed round of funding, acquired another startup, pivoted multiple times and gone through the entire cycle. He has acquired an e-commerce company and will be launching Flipsicle in India. YourStory caught up with Raghava as he was getting ready for his trip home:
When you were growing up, what was your view of the world? How has that changed over time?
Growing up in India really exposed me to multiple perspectives. India is an impossible democracy. There are so many worlds that co-exist in India. I was a Hindu boy growing up in a Muslim neighborhood and attending a ChristianJesuitSchool. My world was always made up of multiple realities and multiple perspectives. I was used to growing up in a world where many realities existed side-by-side.
When I started traveling and cartooning as a teenager, I realized that there were even more realities than what I had been exposed to in India. I learned that dads can be moms and moms can have tattoos. I’ve always learned from the world and seen the world as my classroom.

An example of Raghava’s artwork

Coming to Flipsicle, what is the back story there?
When the iPad first came out, I was the guest of Vinod Khosla and spoke at his conference along with Bill Gates. Ironically, I got an iPad as a gift.
I didn’t know what to do with it, so I gifted it to my son, who was one at the time. He loved it! So my wife Netra and I created an iPad art book for him called Pop-it. Pop-it is about the things children do with their parents. It shakes up the concept of the ideal family and is meant to expose children to multiple perspectives at the earliest stage. The book starts out with a gay couple raising a child. If you shake the iPad, you get a lesbian couple. Shake it again, and you get a heterosexual couple.
This is an effort to bring the concept of perspectives to children at the earliest stage. I launched the project at TED Global in 2011. It won several book awards, including a Kirkus Award for best children’s book of the year and started a bit of a movement. The Shaken Media Collective was started in Toronto around the vision of shaking everything up using perspectives through “shaken storytelling.”
This is where the idea of Flipsicle really started – to shake up everything through perspectives.
What were your first few steps of converting your idea to a reality?
Flipsicle started in a very unique place. It was a private and creative brain-trust/think-tank event organized by Jeff Bezos, where I presented my vision for a new knowledge system that was visual and for seeing the world through perspectives. With the tremendous encouragement from some of the smartest minds in the world, I took a plane straight from that meeting to the Valley and went on a road trip to meet anyone who was willing to meet me. I knocked on the doors of the smartest angel investors I could possibly think of, slept literally in my friend Madhavi’s car, and raised my capital within 10 days.
I came back to India for the birth of my third child, my daughter Jaya, and within 20 days, opened Flipsicle in Times Square, New York. I put my tech team together in a very unique way. After interviewing over 40 potential candidates, I made the decision to only employ founding–level minds and engineers. The only way to make that happen was to make an acquisition. We bought a three-year old company, MerchiiAB, from Sweden.
You mentioned that you moved back from US to Bangalore and then you moved back to NY. Why is that? Doesn’t doing that with your family make it so hard?
For the last decade, both Netra and I have spent a significant amount of time in India and the US. It’s always been important to us that our family is comfortable in both places. We were willing to do anything to make our vision come true. I don’t separate work from life. This is what we believe in and we were willing to do anything to make it happen. Also, I knew for sure that I wanted India to be an important part of the story, but it was difficult to find the specific talent I was looking for. Given my connections in the US through the TED world, I chose to kick-start it here. But I’m back to launch it in India and that’s what matters most to me.
What is your mission and vision for Flipsicle?
We are all naturally visual beings. We respond to images. We need a social network that lets us talk in images. Instagram is about beauty. Facebook is about events that happen in our lives. Flipsicle allows you to talk in pictures.
Our mission and vision are the guideposts by which we run our company. We debated whether we should operate as a non-profit organization. But we believe that businesses can and should be sustainable, responsible and value-adding, while being able to take innovative leaps for ambitious growth.  This means we’re committed to the environment, we safeguard the privacy of our users, and we work hard to be transparent and honest. We also give credit where it is due.
Vision: Our vision is to connect humanity’s photos, to help us become more creative, curious and empathetic.
Mission: Flipsicle empowers us to know one another better by helping us to see the world through each other’s eyes.
What kind of culture are you building for your company?
At Flipsicle, we treat each other like family, which isn’t always easy. Don’t expect political correctness and military protocol here. We have brutal and intense debates on decision and strategies – every disagreement is an opportunity to learn another perspective – but we always try to be kind, respectful and fair to one another, and trust in each other’s good intentions.
That’s why we’re picky about who comes in. We make sure that anyone who joins us has gained the trust of the tribe. We have zero tolerance for gossip and online flaming. We trust that everyone on our team will hold himself or herself accountable and directly resolve any issues of concerns with those involved with integrity and grace.
“Every disagreement is an opportunity to learn another perspective.”
Our health, our hobbies and our personal and family lives enrich us as individuals and help us see the world every day with a renewed energy and freshness. We recognize that every individual comes from a community outside of work and we value and encourage deep roots in the eco-systems that support us. Not only do we encourage learning from each other, we bring in experts and friends from the culture around us.
Magic happens when we chart a course and do whatever it takes to get to our goal – always moving forward, learning from our mistakes, working around constraints and fighting for what we believe in. As a group, we will never do things perfectly – we should be shameless about asking for advice and being accountable to one another, pulling together for decisions we make even when we might individually differ. We take risks and leaps of faith, and are not afraid to admit mistakes or failure – we support one another and move on, stronger.

Flipsicle team posing for a group picture

How did you choose your co-founders? Having your wife as a co-founder, was it hard to convince your investors about the founding team?
Everyone knew very clearly that the vision was both articulated by Netra and me. The company is not about Netra or me but about the vision. We both work for the vision. Our dedication and obsession with the vision is quite apparent to all who work with us and engage with us. Also, Netra and I have complimentary skills. She has a very good business sense and a sense of grounding and I am more the product visionary. We need both of these to make the company work. I have never achieved anything in my life without Netra’s support. I am honored to have a woman co-founder. She brings a different energy to our company.
How did you convince your team and investors for acquiring companies even before you had a product?
As I mentioned earlier, I wanted to work only with founding level people to build this company – self-driven individuals who know how to build things.
Also, Merchii, the company I acquired, I believe, is extremely valuable. Its job was to rethink the future of e-commerce. In today’s world, online commerce still mimics the real world, like a marketplace. But the Internet is really a market-space. Why do we have to go to the amazon.com to shop? Things should come to you. Merchii’s vision was to build a decentralized e-commerce engine. We thought this would be a perfect fit for us and we also loved the team. We invited them for a hackathon in NYC and we all felt we had to work together. It was not an easy thing to acquire a company. We went through a lot. I am very grateful to my investors and to the founders and investors of Merchii for believing in what we are capable of together.
How was Flittr born? 
Flittr is one of the apps from the Flipsicle family of apps. It focuses on public quests. You get to ask people quest in a public forum and they answer through photos.
Tell us more about your new app, Flipsicle, which you are launching in India next week.
We are launching Flipsicle at the INK Conference. It’s very important for us to be launching at the INK Conference, because my first ever talk about my iPad book happened at INK and it is because of that talk that this startup has really happened. I want to show the power of India in making my vision come true. Lakshmi Pratury, the creator of INK is also very passionate about the vision and is thrilled to launch this at INK for us.

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Twitter and IBM announce landmark partnership to help companies make smarter decisions

Twitter and IBM today announced a landmark partnership that will help transform how businesses and institutions understand their customers, markets and trends – and inform every business decision. This alliance will let enterprises incorporate Twitter data into their decision-making through an established set of IBM tools, solutions and consulting services.

The collaboration will focus on three areas:
1.       Integration of Twitter data with IBM analytics services on the cloud: IBM plans to offer Twitter data as part of select cloud-based services, including IBM Watson Analytics, a new cognitive service in the palm of your hand that brings intuitive visualization and predictive capabilities to business users; and a cloud-based data refinery service that enables application developers to embed data services in applications. Entrepreneurs and software developers will also be able to integrate Twitter data into new cloud services they are building with IBM’s Watson Developer Cloud or IBM Bluemix platform-as-a-service.
2.       New data-intensive capabilities for the enterprise: IBM and Twitter will deliver a set of enterprise applications to help improve business decisions across industries and professions. The first joint solution will integrate Twitter data with IBM ExperienceOne customer engagement solutions, allowing sales, marketing, and customer service professionals to map sentiment and behavior to better engage and support their customers.
3.       Specialized enterprise consulting: IBM Global Business Services professionals will have access to Twitter data to enrich consulting services for clients across business. Additionally, IBM and Twitter will collaborate to develop unique solutions for specific industries such as banking, consumer products, retail, and travel and transportation. The partnership will draw upon the skills of tens of thousands of IBM Global Business Services consultants and application professionals including consultants from the industry’s only integrated Strategy and Analytics practice, and IBM Interactive Experience, the world’s largest digital agency.
Ginni Rometty, IBM Chairman, President and CEO said,

Twitter provides a powerful new lens through which to look at the world – as both a platform for hundreds of millions of consumers and business professionals, and as a synthesizer of trends. This partnership, drawing on IBM’s leading cloud-based analytics platform, will help clients enrich business decisions with an entirely new class of data. This is the latest example of how IBM is reimagining work.

With the development of new solutions to improve business decisions across industries and professions, IBM and Twitter will be able to enrich existing enterprise data streams to improve business decisions. For example, the integration of social data with enterprise data can help accelerate product development by predicting long-term trends or drive real-time demand forecasting based on real-time situations like weather patterns.
Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO  said,

When it comes to enterprise transformation, IBM is an undisputed global leader in enabling companies to take advantage of emerging technologies and platforms. This important partnership with IBM will change the way business decisions are made – from identifying emerging market opportunities to better engaging clients, partners and employees.

This announcement has been years in the making. Twitter’s data efforts started when they first made their public data available for analysis. Since then, the social networking giant has made great progress in getting social data into the hands of decision makers. Their acquisition of Gnip earlier this year was an important milestone because it gave them an enterprise-grade platform that delivers more than 15 billion social activities per day to a vibrant ecosystem of customers and partners who are innovating using this data.
Chris Moody, Vice President of Twitter Data Strategy commented,

IBM brings a unique combination of cloud-based analytics solutions and a global services team that can help companies utilize this truly unique data. Companies have had successes with Twitter data – from manufacturers more effectively managing inventory to consumer electronic companies doing rapid product development. This partnership with IBM will allow faster innovation across a broader range of use cases at scale.

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How SmartPocket is looking to make the future a wallet-less affair

“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity,” said Roman philosopher Seneca. For 28 year old Mayank Shah that opportunity came knocking when he realized that his boss at Goldman Sachs harboured dreams of starting up, just like him. “Coffee breaks invariably turned into conversations on how technology was turning the world on its head, and the itch to play a bigger part in the tech revolution grew stronger.” Together they embarked on the adventure of a lifetime when they left the corporate world and started up with SmartPocket- a virtual wallet app that ‘disrupts wallets by making them faster and lighter.’ Mayank believes that in five years, thanks to SmartPocket, no one will need to carry wallets or ‘the zillion plastic cards.’
SmartPocket – A Loyalty Wallet
In a candid chat rife with timeless advice for entrepreneurs, Mayank tells YourStory why SmartPocket is both his wife and his extra-marital affair, the dark side of starting up, how his ‘overnight success story’ is a very long night and what is making the government of Karnataka take young start ups seriously.
You once said that while starting up, “The idea was the easy part.” What was the hardest?
There are two things that are extremely hard. Getting a product market fit, and to keeping the faith when things are going south.
We spent 6 months beta testing. Even before we launched the product, we kept going out with iterations which kept invalidating some of our assumptions. But after constant feedback and 6-8 iterations of product cycles, we have managed to get a good product market fit and our user base is growing at over 200% month on month. This is a constant cycle of building a business, frustrating at times but very rewarding.
We currently have 4 large Indian retailers including Puma and brands from Aditya Birla group and are currently on boarding a very large multi-retail brand. But this was not easy. I have spent hours waiting outside offices, people ignoring my calls, people deferring decisions (I once had a client who met me weekly for 6 months and didn’t convert) and getting quite a few rejections. This can take a pound of pound flesh and hurts emotionally. At these times, one questions one’s path, life and everything; the answer is not 42, but it’s just keeping the faith and keep going. It helps to have great co-founder and team behind you.
Was there a particular incident or event that sparked the idea for SmartPocket?
So my co-founder Kiran Shastri was my boss in my previous life at Goldman Sachs. We were working on personal finance idea last year which we figured could only be a niche play. At that point we decided to shut it down as we wanted to play in much larger and scalable market.

During this time Kiran went to get a photo copy of his PAN card, and struggled with paying change. This got us thinking, with smart phones becoming ubiquitous in India why couldn’t phones function as a wallet. On delving further we discovered people are discarding loyalty cards, don’t know how to optimize spends on their credit cards and are carrying photocopies rather original DL, pan card, Aadhar cards because they are afraid of pain it takes to get them re-issued if one loses them.
This is when we built out SmartPocket. Now just by registering your phone number not only do you get digital version of your loyalty cards but also can track points accumulated on them. It tells you about offers running on your credit card and helps you save money; SmartPocket also lets you carry scanned digital versions of your ID card. Now no more running to photocopier’s for a PAN card copy. When you need Id proof just email or print from SmartPocket.
In a news profile NDTV wrote that your success was the inspiration for the Karnataka government to launch the Hackcelerator. Being at the helm of a multi-million dollar company at 28, yours is the kind of ‘overnight’ success that mainstream media likes to fetishize. What is the real experience like? How different is it from the glossy version that is usually propagated?
Firstly I wouldn’t necessarily call ourselves successful yet. While we have had some great early wins, but in Frost’s words we have “Miles to go before we sleep”.
Popular media tends to make starting up look very sexy, starting up is far from being a joy ride. The ‘overnight’ success you talk about took us 16 months and in that sense it was a very long night.
Starting-up can mean 70 hour work weeks, no social life, lots of stress and uncertainty, fear of failure, lot of rejections and a frugal life. (I used cycle 100km a week to save on fuel. Nothing like my previous life where I had weekends off to take my sports bike to race track for a spin). In a start-up zone life gets real and fast.

Kiran Shastri, Mayank Shah

But it’s not as bad as I make it sound. Start ups give you satisfaction of creating of something that doesn’t yet exist, this gives a sense of true power and control.  Starting up is a high, but contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t come from large valuations but from mass acceptance of one’s ideas and execution. No entrepreneur goes to sleep feeling happy that my company can be valued at millions, but if a user walks up to him and says your product is awesome, you will see him beaming for the rest of the week.
Also I doubt if GOK is building out a Hackcelerator after seeing us. They have seen multiple start-ups do really well and are seeing them bring in lot of revenue and create jobs, and success of Silicon Valley has reached government offices. I think this has inspired them to help the start-up eco-system.
Right now are you solely focused on taking SmartPocket to the next level or are there different ideas for other ventures you are exploring?
SmartPocket is both my wife and the extra-marital affair on the side. I am completely focussed on it, but within SmartPocket we are looking to expand our footprint to newer segments. We are looking at making customer engagement work for local businesses and are working with some players to prove our model.
How did you secure funding for SmartPocket? What was the initial capital required?
Thanks to our decently long corporate careers, we are comfortably bootstrapped. While we have seen investor interest, we made a conscious decision of not raising capital. We were focused on refining our product and building out a team. We have literally started to raise an angel round this week and are now talking to investors.
From starting up in your student days to now, what were some of the hardest challenges and failures you’ve had to deal with?
I have been programming since I was 12, so the computer science degree from RVCE was a breeze. I went to work straight out of college to Goldman Sachs, and while it was very hard work, I had great bosses, colleagues and awesome work culture which made life very smooth. The hardest challenges I have faced have been at SmartPocket.
I started selling our product to clients even before we had written a single line of code. Selling a dream which is just on paper was hard. One would hear people eloquently list out why SmartPocket wouldn’t work. Thankfully one of them now is a happy customer.
The other challenge was building a team. When we started hiring we heard from a lot of people, everyone wants to associate with the sexiness of start-ups but they still wanted us to match their corporate salaries. At early stages that isn’t feasible, one needs to understand start-ups are high risk-high reward game. You need to buy to the larger vision of what the company is building and make sacrifices now for deferred gratification. This culture doesn’t exist yet. Again we got lucky and managed to hire some very smart people.
Looking back, is there anything you wish you had done differently?
Well so many things. I am sure that given we’re just starting, that list is going to grow further.
We should have run our product-market fit iterations more rapidly. Our initial feedback net wasn’t wide enough. While I started selling even before the product was in place, the product development took place in a bit of isolation. We should have taken different approaches to prototype testing. There are many learnings with respect to building the team.
Let’s talk next year and “Mayank and Kiran’s book of mistakes” will certainly have more entries, but we’ll be wiser, having learnt from those.
What do you want your life to look like in five years’ time?
In five years’ time, I’d hope to be basking in SmartPocket success story glow! So to that extent, it will be SmartPocket’s five years that I’ll want to talk about.
In five years, we’d want our user base to hit nine digit figures and more, be operating in all major markets globally and have most large businesses using SmartPocket to front their loyalty programs. More importantly we want to be the preferred platform for local businesses to digitally engage and provide services to their customers. That we think is a massive market to make millions of such businesses mobile.
What does the future look like for SmartPocket?
We are focused on getting more customers right now, along with building the full product suite. Being a customer facing platform, we hope to have millions of users on SmartPocket talking to their favourite brands and local businesses, using the app to save money, hold cards and basically replace their wallets with SmartPocket for most of the needs.
We also believe that this is a global opportunity, not just Indian. So we do hope to take SmartPocket to other geographies.
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Lean patenting strategy Part 2 – Where to file a patent to have an upper hand?

Patents provide geographical rights to the owner, i.e., a patent is valid only in the country it is applied for. But what if your aspiration is to be a global player? Would you end up filing in each and every country to meet your aspirations? Do all the biggies follow the same path? To answer these questions, we are furthering our series of lean strategies to suggest the optimal strategies involved in narrowing down the countries in which you may aim to seek protection.
The basic factors on which the patent filing strategies depends on are:

1. Your locations for head office, sales office, manufacturing, servicing, associates and partners, etc.
2. Your competitor’s location for head office, sales office, manufacturing, servicing, associates and partners, etc.
3. Where your client base is located? How is the payment capacity of the client base? Does your client base have volumes?
4. Is it a base technology or an incremental technology for which you are looking out for a patent filing strategy?
5. Is the subject matter of your technology a patentable subject matter in the country of target?
6. How is the Political or Economic dynamics in a particular country and how it may change over the next 5-10 years? The current political system may not even allow establishing your business in a particular country, which may be due to various legal regulations.  For example, Facebook is still waiting to make its social platform functional in China. Also, future changes in political or economic dynamics may change your client base, your competitors locations and possibly even your locations
7. Do you think Facebook is the most popular social network in Japan or Korea?  OR is Google a popular search engine in Russia? Well, thing again!. Another barrier which comes into picture here are the language and social barriers. In Japan, Korea and Russia, the first preferable language of communication is the mother tongue, so global players such as Facebook and Google have a real challenge in entering these markets. So, if your business also has few language and social constraints, you may want to keep these aspects in mind
8. If your business deals with web based technologies, are you targeting the right countries which have reasonable internet coverage? In which countries are your servers based?

This list of strategies is certainly not an exhaustive list, but this list covers most of the possible aspects that needs to be considered when choosing where to file a patent. It also depends on the kind of business/product, the growth strategies, the target countries, etc., to decide as to which one of these factors would have more weightage than the others. The importance of these factors may change based on each case, and therefore these factors can be used to matrix out your own personalized strategy keeping in mind your company goals.
Here is a hypothetical scenario which highlights the importance of some of these strategies. Let us say a company has an IT hardware manufacturing unit in china but supplies these products worldwide. Keeping in mind that China is a manufacturing hub for IT hardware products; the best bet for the company would be to file for a patent in china. This helps them stop their competition at the origin itself. There may be a chance that the competitors may relocate their manufacturing units but this will cause them to lose cost benefits in comparison to the costs in china.
With respect to client base, a major thing to prioritize is whether the volume of the client is of more importance, or if the payment capacity of the client is more important. Based on this the right countries may be targeted. If volume is of more priority, then countries such as India and china can be targeted. If paying capacity is more essential then countries such as USA, Europe and Japan may be targeted.
Another example which would fit the present world scenario is if a company works on a cure for the Ebola virus. Hypothetically speaking, if a US Research & Development company decides to work on a cure for the Ebola virus, what strategies would they use to protect their technology? It is known that the virus is quarantined and is restricted to Africa only, hence, the main client base, or demand for the cure lies in Africa. Even though the manufacturing of the cure can be done in USA itself using a US manufacturing partner, however an African manufacturing partner may be a better option.  This is due to cost reasons as the manufacturing cost from a US manufacturer will be substantially higher to match up to the payment the capacity of an African buyer. At the same time, another more important aspect would be that of transporting this technology to Africa. Therefore it may make sense to file for a patent in USA to protect the invention at your location, but may be more viable to file in Africa, or other third world countries which may have an outburst of the Ebola virus, or where more cost-effective manufacturing partners are available.
The list of most targeted countries to apply for a patent is generated only after a through analysis based on some of the above mentioned strategies. These strategies not only help you in your business growth, but will also help you ensure that your scope of protection is well thought-out. The right strategy  for one of your main products may not be the right strategy for another product. So keep in mind this is a fundamental base of strategies using which you can base your own strategies.
About the authors:
This post is co-authored by Gaurav Singhal and Ananya Dhuddu. Gaurav is the Director and Principal IP Attorney at Patracode Services Pvt Ltd. A B. Tech in Computer Science, LLB from IIT-Kharagpur and Masters in Business Laws from National Laws School of India University, Gaurav has been working in the IPR field since many years.  Ananya Dhuddu is an Intellectual Property Analyst at Patracode Services Pvt. Ltd. She is a Life Sciences graduate from Pennsylvania State University, USA. She holds a PG Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and a PG Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Management from GIIP, Bangalore.

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What’s up at Blume Ventures and what does their portfolio have to say about them?

Blume is an angel and seed venture fund that backs startups with both funding as well as active mentoring and support. Blume typically funds startups through multiple rounds, leading up to larger institutional rounds like Series A and B from Venture Capital firms. Founded by Karthik Reddy and Sanjay Nath, Blume has invested in more than 100 companies and is of the most active early stage funds in terms investing quickly and disseminating information useful for the ecosystem (blog). Blume regularly comes out with quarterly reports with views and trends from the startup space. It has now come out with a video wherein the Blume’s portfolio founders are talking about Blume. This is a healthy way for  fund to stay in context and also gives out the message of accessibility. Scroll down to watch the video and we also got in touch with Blume for a few quick Q&A’s:
YS: How is the startup ecosystem looking at the moment? Are startups being able to raise their next rounds?
Blume: The investment landscape has certainly started looking up over last few months. Having a new proactive government has certainly helped in lifting the sentiments. This year has been particularly good for our companies with many of their either having closed their Series A/B funding or in process.
YS: What is Blume’s focus at the moment?
Blume: At this point of time, we are focusing on helping our companies go to the next level both in terms of scale of operations and next rounds of funding. We are also in process of raising a Fund II and are not making any new investments. (read an indepth article about the same)
YS: What stage is Blume in in the fund cycle?
Blume: The Fund 1 has been fully deployed. The raise for Fund 2 has begun. So, we are devoting all our energies in taking our companies to the next level. The Fund 1 still has about 5 years of its life left. We are hopeful with time we will see many successful exits.
YS: Some advice to entrepreneurs approaching Blume.
Blume: As I wrote earlier, we are not making any new investments. Still if you want to get in touch, the best way to get access to Blume is by asking one of our 125 founders to refer. Having worked with us for 1-3 years, they know our preferences very well.

Website: Blume Ventures

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