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Facebook's enterprise application is seeing high levels of engagement among early adopters, says Ramesh Gopalkrishna, Asia-Pacific Head for Workplace by Facebook On October 10, Facebook announced the global launch of Workplace by Facebook, the social media giant’s enterprise communication offering. At the time of its official launch, more than 1,000 companies were already using the service as part of the pilot programme. It’s still early days, but Workplace (formerly Facebook at Work) is already being touted as a possible ‘email-killer’.  Forbes India  spoke with the Asia-Pacific Head for Workplace by Facebook, Ramesh Gopalkrishna, about the roll-out. Edited excerpts: Q. You’ve engaged with enterprises in the beta stage. In what ways has Workplace evolved with that engagement? We got a lot of feedback about enterprises wanting the personal profile of Facebook to be separate from the work profile. That was one important piece of feedback. A lot of companies said: W

Upgraded Flagship Smartphone Offers Dash Charge, Qualcomm® SnapdragonTM 821 Processor and Longer Battery Life for a Refined Android Experience   LONDON – November 15, 2016 –  OnePlus today announced an upgraded addition to its premium flagship lineup, the OnePlus 3T. Staying true to the company’s Never Settle mantra, the OnePlus 3T builds on the success of the OnePlus 3, offering key hardware and software updates inspired by feedback from the active OnePlus community. “At OnePlus, we are constantly striving to provide a better product and user experience for our customers, who are some of the most discerning and tech-savvy users in the world,” said OnePlus Founder and CEO Pete Lau. “We developed the OnePlus 3T to bring significant improvements with new technology that is available today, so that our customers do not have to wait for the best possible user experience.” Dash Charge – A Day’s Power in Half an Hour One of the fastest charging technologies on the global marke

The demonitisation may also push more people online, make India "data rich" and facilitate a transparent credit ecosystem, according to experts India deciding to scrap existing currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 is being welcomed by the country’s fledgling fintech and online commerce startups like manna from the heavens. They’ve rushed to capitalise on the hype around the cash crunch people are facing by promoting their own cashless payments and related services. Many have claimed big jumps in the volume of transactions they now see on their platforms, as India’s smartphone-toting English-educated urban households look at digital payments more seriously. The other choice is standing in long, serpentine queues at banks to exchange their old notes for the freshly minted versions that the government has released. “OptaCredit has seen a 300 percent increase in loan applications after the government’s announcement of banning Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currenc

Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy says the new breed of entrepreneurs is smart and energetic High valuations of new businesses are a byproduct of the free market mechansism, says infosys co-founder NR Narayana murthy One of India’s most celebrated entrepreneurial minds, NR Narayana Murthy co-founded the $9.5 billion information technology (IT) giant Infosys in 1981. Since then, the self-made billionaire (his estimated net worth is $1.87 billion, putting him at No 62 on the 2016 Forbes India Rich List) has had an accomplished journey as a business leader. He led Infosys as its chief executive for over two decades, until 2002. Then, after relinquishing his executive role for almost a decade, Murthy returned as executive chairman of the Bengaluru-based IT major in 2013, only to step down a year later when he exited the board as well.   The company he co-founded has not only created lakhs of jobs, but also made several of its staffers millionaires through its employee

Microsoft   MSFT +2.61%  has just revealed arguably its biggest Windows 10 upgrade so far and the irony is it is all about making things smaller… Speaking on the  official Windows blog , Windows program manager Bill Karagounis explained that Windows 10 is going to get much smarter about how it downloads updates: “We are announcing the next generation of our delivery technologies incorporated into our latest Insider builds called the Unified Update Platform (UUP). One of the biggest community and customer benefits of UUP is the reduction you’ll see in download size on PCs.” UUP uses differential download technology meaning it will download “only the changes that have been made since the last time you updated your device, rather than a full build”. Karagounis says this should reduce the size of major Windows 10 updates by “approximately 35%”. This is a big deal. UUP will become the universal system used by all versions of Windows 10 – including on smartphones and tablets – an

Business as we know it is changing.  But some business leaders aren’t convinced that it will affect them or  their  business. But the truth is, business is changing at a fundamental level. Some of the key leadership challenges of today include the advent of big data, data becoming a major business asset, AI taking over, platform businesses challenge traditional suppliers, the sharing economy, 3 D printing, robots becoming more intelligent, and more. These eye-opening facts show the importance of all the things I continue to write about here, capturing the key tech trends and business challenges every leader should reflect on… More data  has been created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of the human race. By the year 2020, about  1.7 megabytes  of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet. Within five years there will be over  50 billion smart connected devices  in the world, all developed to collect, analyze

Applying for jobs just out of college or grad school, comfort may have seemed like the ultimate goal: to find the perfect job that was a natural fit and have a long, fulfilling career there. Forget all of that: comfort is the enemy. If things are easy, it's time to shake up your career. Remember when you were young, and you first attempted to write a bicycle? Were you scared at first? Absolutely. Was the end result worth it? I'm betting it was.  Hopping into a new job or career path is indeed a lot like that first ride on a bike: a heart-pumping, adrenaline-inducing risk-- and the payoffs can be as meaningful as the life-changing freedom of mastering two wheels.  Getting out of your comfort zone is a must if you want to achieve extraordinary success. I like to think of it as a shift into your "strength zone": identify, highlight and hone in on what makes you unique and lean into it so you stand out. The hardest part of shaking things up is taking

CELEBRATING ANDHRAPRENEURSHIP ™ The most happening startup fest of Andhra Pradesh is back in Vijayawada. The fest is run by an awesome team of entrepreneurs, freelancers, and volunteers and is the largest conference of, by, and for Andhrapreneurs. StartAP™ is a story of passion, vision & entrepreneurship and how an ecosystem for young entrepreneurs can revitalise the economy in India. StartAP is one of the largest platforms in India of, by, and for entrepreneurs, where thousands meet, share, learn, and collaborate. This is the third edition of StartAP Fest and second one in the Amaravati region.   Register here StartAP Amaravati