#Jharkhand Govt. signs MoU with #CISCO

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Government of Jharkhand has signed an MoU with Cisco to impart networking training to the students of engineering colleges, polytechnics and degree level Institutions in Jharkhand through the Cisco Networking Academy Program to increase the availability of skilled networking resources from within the state.The MoU was signed today during Jharkhand investment road-show in Bengaluru.

Zenify tied-up with Thyrocare

Zenify a Bengaluru-based online home rental platform that helps potential tenants find suitable homes, announces its partnership with Thyrocare – India’s largest Diagnostic Centre & Pathology Lab, to facilitate an exclusive wellness package for the former’s esteemed customers.

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Commenting on this partnership, Sudarshan Purohit, Co-Founder & CEO, Zenify said, “At Zenify, we always aim to equip our customers with only the best services which go beyond house hunting. Our responsibilities towards our patrons allow us to extend our help via such partnerships which can make their lives easier and enable better living. This association not only allows us to give first-rate health care services to our customers, but also enables Thyrocare to tap the massive home rental market in Bengaluru.”

Origo Commodities signs MoU with #SBI to finance farmers against warehouse receipts

eading post-harvest solutions and warehouse management services company Origo Commodities India Pvt. Ltd has tied up with State Bank of India to offer post-harvest credit facility to farmers all across India. Aimed at empowering farmers to avail of fair price discovery of their produce through affordable finance, scientific storage facilities, Origo is set to reach out to over 1 lakh farmers across the country.
On the occasion of signing the MoU, Mr. Krishna Mohan Trivedi Chief General Manager (Rural Business) State Bank of India, Corporate Office, Mumbai said,
“Our Bank is focusing on financing farmers by way of pledge of their stocks of Agri commodities under its Produce Marketing Loan Scheme. To encourage the farmers to avail these loans with the objective to avoid distress sale of their produce at the time of harvest, Bank is offering Competitive Interest Rates, Waiver of Processing Fee, Relaxations in Margin and NIL Collateral Security for loans upto Rs.50 Lac. Bank is arranging Meets of Farmers, Godown Owners, Collateral Managers and its field staff to create awareness about Warehouse Receipt Financing”.
 

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Speaking about the tie up, Sunoor Kaul, Director, Origo Commodities, said,“ We are pleased to tie up with State Bank of India to reach out to farmers to ensure they understand and avail short-term finance against the warehouse receipts. Through the years and our work, we have seen farmers earn close to 15-20% more on their produce by avoiding distress sale, and having a say in terms of when is the right time for them to sell their produce.”

Warehouse receipt financing is an essential financial tool for farmers to avail loans by storing crops in warehouses. According to Origo Commodities statistics, this segment is expected to grow up to Rs. 1 lakh crore in the next five years, given the growing awareness amongst farmers in this regard. Today it is a Rs. 35,000 crore business, from a Rs. 5,000 crore a decade ago. The average ticket size of financing that farmers take has been between Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 3 lakh

QNET is Manchester City Football Club’s Official Direct Selling Partner

Prominent Asian direct selling company QNET has become the official direct selling partner of Manchester City Football Club (MCFC) with the sponsorship set to kick-off several branding benefits and CSR partnerships. The three year partnership with the 2013/2014 Barclays Premier League champions was announced by QNET at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester alongside Jesus Navas, Edin Dzeko and Stevan Jovetic.

Among the benefits QNET stands to gain include strong brand presence at the Etihad Stadium and on digital platforms, together with the launch of several fan engagement opportunities targeting City supporters around the world. The partnership goes beyond branding benefits, as QNET works closely together in many initiatives, including CSR activities through its RYTHM Foundation and lifting football standards in Asia through coaching clinics and training opportunities.In addition to this, the company endeavorsto engage and interact with the various communities it comes into contact witharound the world, particularly with its initiatives to ‘Touch A Billion Hearts’.

Embraer Executive Jets signs MoU with Air Works

Embraer Executive Jets has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Air Works Pvt Ltd to provide full maintenance support to the Legacy 500 and Legacy 450 customers in India. This agreement comes ahead of the Legacy 500 midsize jet’s entry into service in the first half of 2014. The Legacy 450 mid-light jet’s certification is expected a year later. This is the second MoU signed to support the Legacy 500 in India.

“This MoU with Air Works is yet another step in our preparation to fully support Legacy 500 and Legacy 450 customers upon delivery of their aircraft,” said Edson Carlos Mallaco, Vice president Customer Support and Services, Embraer Executive Jets. “India is one of the countries with a fleet of the complete portfolio of Embraer Executive Jets in Operation, which we support with a network of Embraer authorized Service Centers strategically located across the nation, and field support representatives to swiftly respond to our customers needs.”

“We have a long standing relationship with Embraer Executive jets and have been providing support to their customers since 2010,” said Vivek N. Gour, Managing Director & CEO of air Works Pvt Ltd. “We are proud to be able to provide support for their latest Legacy 500 and Legacy 450 aircrafts. This is in addition to the support we currently provide for owners and operators of the Phenom 100, Phenom 300, and the line maintenance support for the Legacy 600 and Legacy 650 in India.”

The multiple Embraer Authorized Service Centers in India are also supported by the Company’s Customer Support team in Singapore, with access to spare parts inventory in Bangalore, Singapore, and Australia. A 24-hour customer Contact Center at the Company’s headquarters in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, complements the global service center network of Embraer Executive jets, which comprises about 70 Owned and Authorized Service centers.

L&T Technology Services and Proximetry collaborate to enable Smart Grid Applications for the Internet of Things (IoT)

 L&T Technology Services has partnered with Proximetry, a device management and configuration platform provider for the Internet of Things (IoT), to bring modular device management to a variety of smart metering and substation monitoring solutions. This combined solution from Proximetry and L&T Technology Services will benefit a growing market of communicating devices critical for operation of electrical sub-stations and large industrial facilities. The companies announced their new collaboration and will showcase it at DistribuTECH where Proximetry is exhibiting (booth 2968).

L&T Technology Services will provide integration and other services using Proximetry’s AirSync5TM technology for mission-critical substation monitoring solutions, large scale AMI deployments and wide area sensor networks including IoT.

“We are quite excited to partner with a market leader such as L&T,” said Tracy Trent, Proximetry CEO. “The breadth of this relationship will enable crucial new smart utility solutions, but also allow both of us to speed these solutions into new markets and geographies. It’s great having a company like L&T with significant depth and skillsets to help us drive the AirSync vision forward.”

“Many exciting innovations are being developed in the Intelligent Electronic Devices field. This partnership with Proximetry will allow us to provide our global customers in the utilities and smart energy space, a comprehensive and end-to-end solution for the internet of things,” said Dr Keshab Panda, Chief Executive, L&T Technology Services. “Because of AirSync5’s modularity, we have the opportunity to extend it into our full suite of smart utility solutions”, he added.

AirSync5 is the leading integrated device management platform for the deployment of machine-to-machine connectivity for the IoT. Robust, built to scale and modular, AirSync 5, in its most current release, was designed to cater to the needs of IoT by securely managing tens of millions of devices required for smart utility, industry and process control, and intelligent applications. AirSync5 is also designed to complement a customer’s current network management solution (NMS) with customized modular plug-ins.

Proximetry and L&T Technology Services will broaden their relationship with an AirSync IoT Center of Excellence in Mumbai, India, which will offer AirSync implementation and integration services to both companies’ set of ecosystem partners.


About Proximetry
Proximetry is a comprehensive network and device management software platform provider that manages the most crucial applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). Proximetry’s AirSync™ family of applications features the robust, built to scale, and modular AirSync 5 integrated device and configuration management platform. Developed for the smart utility, industrial process control, intelligent transportation and other industries; AirSync 5 securely manages and can enable tens of millions of performance-critical devices in the IoT, is compatible and can compliment almost any Network Management System. Founded in 2005, Proximetry is a privately held company and is headquartered in San Diego, California and backed by Munich Venture Partners, Aeris Capital, Investec and Rembrandt Venture Partners. For more information, please visit www.proximetry.com.



About L&T Technology Services

L&T  Technology  Services  is  a  strategic  business  unit  of  Larsen  &  Toubro with focus in the engineering services space, partnering with many of the Fortune 500 companies globally.  It offers design and development solutions throughout the entire product development chain across various industries such as industrial & consumer products, medical devices, telecommunications, Automotive, aerospace, trucks & off-highway vehicles, and process engineering.  As a Global Partner helping clients achieve a sustainable competitive advantage through value-creating Products, Processes, and Services L&T Technology Services constantly finds flexible ways of working tailored to our assignments and customer needs. For more information, please visit www.lnttechserv.com

Lukup Media & Warner Bros. Partner to Create India's First On Demand TV Channel

Lukup Media today announces a new partnership with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, through which the Studio’s newly released movies such as Gravity and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and a selection of many new releases, catalogue titles and popular TV series, will be offered to viewers via an on-demand TV channel powered by a new product called the Lukup Player. The Lukup Player delivers a combination of live and on-demand content on Televisions and other devices people use to consume content.

The deal will see titles made available through the on-demand service from February 2014, as well as future new releases. Users will have access to more than 200 films and TV series from the Warner Bros. library.

Kallol Borah, Chief Executive Officer, Lukup Media said: “We are very happy to partner Warner Bros. and bring a wide selection of popular and new movies and TV shows which will be available through India’s first on-demand TV channel. The channel will allow people to choose titles from their TV program guide, pay for them and view them at a time of their choice.”

Chris Dyde, Senior Vice President, International Licensee Markets, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group said: “Providing consumers with more choices and improving the movie experience at home is at the heart of Warner Bros.' Digital strategy and we’re delighted to be working with Lukup Media, which will see a fantastic selection of both new and library movies offered to viewers in India”.

Lukup Media plans to launch the Lukup Player in February 2014 and it will carry multiple on-demand channels that it will deliver on TV in addition to the live TV channels carried by satellite and cable platforms.

About Lukup Media:

LUKUP MEDIA operates a multi-screen content platform for delivering a combination of live TV, video on demand, and interactive content on TV, home entertainment and mobile devices. The platform is based on the Lukup Player, a consumer product that people can use to search content from multiple sources, and select a screen to view it on or a device to stream content to.

Lukup Media partners content owners and aggregators and cable and satellite TV platforms to operate its hybrid TV and multi-screen content platform. For further information, please visit – www.lukup.com

About Warner Bros. Digital Distribution:

WARNER BROS. DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION, part of the WBHEG, manages the worldwide electronic distribution streams of the Studio’s product over existing, new and emerging digital platforms, including pay-per-view, electronic sell-through, video-on-demand, subscription-video-on-demand, wireless and more. WBDD also oversees the Studio’s worldwide digital strategy, partnerships in digital services and emerging new clients and business activities in the digital space.

WBDD is further charged with managing the Studio's retail and consumer transition of product produced by Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment from a purely packaged distribution scheme to one that supports both packaged and digital distribution, as well as both standard and high definition formats.