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Xiaomi Mi Credit app debuts with Rs 1 lakh lending limit on personal loans

Being an online marketplace for lenders, the Mi Credit app debuts with support from Aditya Birla Finance Limited, Money View, EarlySalary, Zestmoney and CreditVidya

Expanding its financial services portfolio, Chinese electronics maker Xiaomi on Tuesday announced the Mi Credit – an app-based credit lending service with a limit of up to Rs 1 lakh on personal loans. Being an online marketplace for lenders, the app debuts with support from five non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and fintech firms — Aditya Birla Finance Limited, Money View, EarlySalary, Zestmoney and CreditVidya. Apart from lending services, the company also partnered with Experian to provide credit score report free of cost on the Mi Credit app.

According to Xiaomi, the Mi Credit service is currently available in more than 10 states, covering around 1,500 pin codes, and the company aims to roll our services across all pin codes by the end of this financial year (March 2020). The Mi Credit app is now available on Google Play Store, Xiaomi app store and GetApps platform for Android smartphones. Besides, it will come preloaded on the company’s MIUI operating system-powered smartphones.

“Today, we have over 300 million Mi Fans in our global community and having understood their consumption behaviour – it is one of the strengths we aim to leverage to build a stronger Mi Finance business globally. We see a huge…read more

Best of 2019: Spectre Camera wins Apple’s list of top apps of the year

Digital notebook app Flow by Moleskine was the top iPad app, while Serif Labs’ Affinity Publisher publishing and design app took top honours for Mac

Tech news: Apple has uncovered its “Best of 2019” applications and games crosswise over stages, for example, iOS, macOS and tvOS.

“Engineers far and wide move all of us with imaginative applications that have the ability to impact culture and completely change us, and this year that is as valid as ever. The 2019 App Store Best Apps and Games victors mirror our worldwide want for association, imagination and fun,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior VP of Worldwide Marketing said in an announcement on Monday.

The iPhone application of the year went to Lux Optics’ Specter Camera, an AI-controlled photography application.

Computerized note pad application Flow by Moleskine was the top iPad application, while Serif Labs’ Affinity Publisher distributing and plan application…read more

Facebook builds new AI chatbot to keep workers’ prying relatives at bay

The new ‘Liam Bot’ chatbot teaches Facebook workers official company answers for dealing with thorny questions like, “Is Facebook destroying democracy?”, The New York Times reports.

The Christmas season is here, which means prying family members posing ungainly inquiries. To monitor such circumstances for its representatives, Facebook has assembled an exceptional chatbot.

The new ‘Liam Bot’ chatbot instructs Facebook laborers official organization answers for managing prickly addresses like, “Is Facebook pulverizing majority rule government?”, The New York Times reports.

Utilizing man-made consciousness, the chatbot educates the worker to reply with focuses incorporating Facebook counsels with specialists on the issue, It has employed more arbitrators, It is taking a shot at AI to spot despise discourse, etc. It likewise gives a bit by bit manual for help those posing simpler inquiries identified with account recuperation.

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Nine of 10 Indian users consume content in local languages: Google India

Nearly 40 million users of Internet who were added from 2015-18 and nine out of ten such new user is Indian language user, Nidhi Gupta, senior product manager, Google India said

Technology news: The vast majority of new Internet clients in India at present expend content in Indian dialects, a Google official said.

Almost 40 million clients of Internet who were included from 2015-18 and the vast majority of such new client is Indian language client, Nidhi Gupta, senior item director, Google India, said here.

She additionally educated that Hindi web utilization has become more than 90 percent during 2015-16 while the English substance development was 19 percent.

Gupta said in a question and answer session here on Tuesday that after English, Hindi was the second most utilized language over all…read more

Apple making iPhone XR in India, expanding operations: Ravi Shankar Prasad

India’s overall mobile as well as components exports are expected to cross $1.6 billion each in 2019-20,

Tech titan Apple has begun creation of iPhone XR in India for household market and fares, basic the administration’s endeavors to reinforce portable assembling in the nation, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Monday.

The clergyman additionally said that Salcomp, the world’s biggest producer and a significant provider of chargers to Apple for iPhone, has agreed to take over shut office of Nokia in a SEZ close to Chennai.

Salcomp will resuscitate the unit, which was shut for about 10 years, and the office will get operational from March 2020. The unit will deliver charger and other gear, and will flaunt an enhanced portfolio. This will involve a speculation of…read more

Coolpad Cool 5 review: Decent budget smartphone with not-so-good imaging

Business Standard took the Coolpad Cool 5 out for a spin to test how it fares on key parameters.

Technology news: Chinese cell phone producer Coolpad as of late propelled the Coolpad Cool 5 cell phone in India at a cost of Rs 7,999. The telephone comes in slope blue and 12 PM blue hues. Business Standard took the telephone out for a turn to test how it passages on key parameters. Here are the discoveries:

Design and display

With its slight bezel and dewdrop screen, Coolpad Cool 5 shakes the standard plan of spending plan cell phone these days. It has a polished back with dark shade converging into the violet, which looks great however is powerless to unique finger impression marks. You get a plastic case inside the case, on the off chance that you settle on it. Aside from that, the telephone has a unique mark scanner and a 13 megapixel (MP)+2 MP double camera, alongside a LED glimmer opened on the upper left back.

Forthright is a 6.22-inches HD+ screen with 1520 x 720 pixels goals and a perspective proportion of 19:9 with great review edges. The presentation is energetic and splendid enough even…read more

Vivo U20 with 5000mAh battery, triple camera set-up launched: Price, specs

The Vivo U20 will go on sale from November 28 on Amazon India and Vivo e-Store

Vivo U20: Chinese smartphone brand Vivo on Friday launched in India the Vivo U20. Second in the company’s budget U-series smartphones, the Vivo U20 boasts waterdrop-shaped notch screen, big capacity battery with fast charge support, triple rear cameras and capacitive fingerprint sensor on the back. The phone comes in 4GB RAM + 64GB storage and 6GB RAM + 64GB storage configurations, priced at Rs 10,990 and Rs 11,990, respectively. Both the variants will go on sale from November 28 on Amazon India and Vivo e-Store.

Vivo U20 specifications

The Vivo U20 has a 6.53 waterdrop-shaped notch screen of fullHD+ resolution. The screen is covered under Panda Panda MN228, which is a protective glass just like the Corning Gorilla Glass. The phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 system-on-chip, paired with up to 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. The dualSIM phone has a storage expansion slot, which supports up to 512GB microSD card. The phone boots Android Pie operating system, covered under Vivo FunTouch OS user…read more

Samsung Galaxy Watch 4G: Make calls as you jog, drive; costs Rs 28,490

It terms of design, Galaxy Watch 4G is more conventional and appealing owing to its traditional round face along with rotating bezel

Samsung Galaxy Watch 4G: As the market for wearable devices gain momentum in India — which reaching an all-time high of 3 million shipments in the second quarter this year — Samsung which is one of the formidable players in this segment has become aggressive in launching new smart watches in the country.

Globally, Samsung shipped 1.9 million smartwatches worldwide in Q3 2019, almost doubling from 1.1 million a year ago, according to Strategy Analytics.

To make further inroads, the company has launched the 4G version of its successful Galaxy Watch, a year later after launching it globally.

The Galaxy Watch 4G has come to…read more

Tesla’s cybertruck launch takes hit as ‘shatterproof’ windows crack

With a starting price of $39,900, the Cybertruck’s futuristic, angular body in gun-metal grapy resembles an armoured vehicle and takes aim at the heart of Detroit automakers’ profits

Tesla Inc’s highly anticipated unveiling of its futuristic pickup truck suffered a setback after its “armoured glass” windows shattered during a demonstration.

During the tightly choreographed unveiling of the Cybertruck to cheering fans on Thursday, Tesla boss Elon Musk had taken a stab at the design, power and durability of mainstream trucks, only to be shaken when his boast about his new truck’s windows backfired.

With a starting price of $39,900, the Cybertruck’s futuristic, angular body in gun-metal grapy resembles an armoured vehicle and takes aim at the heart of Detroit automakers’ profits.

Musk singled out the Ford F-150, the top-selling vehicle in the…read more

Saudi chemical giant SABIC bets big on India to create future tech products

In March this year Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, agreed to buy a 70 per cent stake in SABIC

Technology news: Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC), the world’s third-biggest compound organization, is wagering enthusiastic about India for innovative work and future innovation items. Exceptional lightweight thermoplastic materials which are harder than metal and used to secure electric vehicle batteries, supplant overwhelming metallic structures in autos and make ophthalmic focal points and phones, are a portion of the advancements created by the researchers and specialists at the SABIC Technology Center in Bengaluru (STC-B).

“SABIC in India is for India and for the world. SABIC Technology Center in Bengaluru is furnished with probably the most progressive mechanical frameworks to drive start to finish look into over a total life cycle of an item,” said Janardhanan Ramanujalu, VP and provincial head, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, SABIC.

In March this year Saudi Aramco, the world’s greatest oil organization, consented to purchase a 70 percent stake in SABIC. Saudi Aramco could be esteemed at up to $1.7 trillion for its up and coming first sale of stock this December. “We accept we are the core of…read more