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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Piers Morgan Tried Correcting Sehwag’s Grammar In His Tweet! Got Badly Trolled Instead!

vThe Twitter war between English Journalist Piers Morgan and Virender Sehwag is not new! The duo had a war of words during Rio Olympics when the journalist tweeted Sehwag that in-spite of a population of 1,200,000,000, India just had 1 Gold medal, on which the cricketer embarrassed him by saying that even England doesn’t have a single World Cup!

Once again Piers Morgan has taken a dig at Sehwag and this time, it is related to his grammar. Well, England was thrashed in the 2016 World Cup and nothing could stop Viru Paaji from taking a dig at that country. Yes, in the match played on 18th of October, India defeated England with 69-18 and so, Sehwag couldn’t resist taking to his Twitter handle and leaving a post about the same…

This is what he tweeted…

On this, Piers got a chance to troll him; he corrected Sehwag’s grammar and said that it was ‘Lose’ and not ‘Loose’! Here’s Piers’ tweet…

Sehwag is yet to reply; but all his fans supported him and trolled Piers instead! Have a look at their hilarious tweets…

Spell checker?

English players were LOOSE!

Piers knows the spelling of LOSE better!

You won the spelling not the World Cup!

This is hilarious!

When you can’t win an argument!

He was using Tamil word!

We are indeed waiting for Sehwag’s reply on this now! How do you think would he respond? Do share in our comments section below!

You Think IPhone 7 Is An Expensive Phone? Then What Will You Call This Phone?

Apart from all the high-end specifications and software compatibilization of iPhone 7 along with its hardware, the reason why an iPhone is considered as the iPHONE is because of its whopping high price. Buying a phone worth for 70-80 thousand rupees in India is indeed a big thing. At such price, one can afford a good BIKE.

However, today we bring to you a phone whose worth is almost 10 times the price of iPhone 7 Plus or in short almost equivalent to a luxury car in India. The phone’s name is ‘Solarin’. A phone which is now setting a new benchmark in terms of so called ‘SOCIAL STATUS’, because in India, it is sadly the price of a phone which makes it worth noticing for, instead of its specifications.

The price of this Solarin phone is set at insane $14,000 which is roughly around 9.3 Lakhs rupees. And the fun fact is that it’s an ANDROID PHONE. Many people defend the high pricing of iPhone due to the quality and experience provided by its IOS which is to some extent quite legit, but owning a 9.3 Lakhs rupees phone powered by a mere Android version is not the kind of thing I would ever like to defend. And yes, these prices are exclusive of TAXES, if you were wondering about that !

However, the explanation given by this Israeli firm, Sirin Labs for the high pricing of its Solarin phone is due to the provision of “military grade” security powered by chip-to-chip 2560bit encryption system. Apart from these high-end technical specifications which none of us would be understanding, let me come down to the easy thing.

It is 5.5 inch Android runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 processor with X10 LTE (it’s fast but not the latest) with a 23.8-megapixel back camera. The phone also boasts of an IPS LED 2K screen, three “bass boosted” speakers and can transfer data at lightning speeds of 4.6 GB per second. It powers a 4,000mAh battery will make sure your phone lasts as long as you want it to. 4GB of RAM makes it fast and 128 GB provides for enough space. However, it is non-expandable and does not have a second SIM slot. To make it all classy, there’s a large sapphire glass cover for the camera lens and flash and a fingerprint sensor.

Pros- The data file transfer speed is indeed pretty sublime, along with the 2K resolution. The back camera does look great. The new military grade security is something innovative. The 4GB RAM should make this phone work in a better way.

Cons – The battery provided is just 4000mah, which in a general way might be good for other phones. But since this phone has a 5.5 inch big 2K display resolution, it will easily juice out the battery life by throwing out the best pixels. Along with that, the high processing speed (transfer of big files) will also make a big impact on its battery life, thus making it choke for more power.

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

HOW TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENHANCE YOUR BUSINESS

Are you a small owner longing for the best ways that to grow your business? Are you planning to draw in some more leads in your business, or you want to implement Social Media promotions ?

As a small scale business owner you face several challenges – restricted capital, minimal support employees and having more thing to do list in no time. So, however does one grow your little business while not significant investment in promoting and advertising? Answer – through the employment of technology, Web 2.0 provides you with numerous tools and techniques that assist you to get leads and increase the exposure of your home-based business. Social media is one such tool. Here’s all you wish to know the details on how to increase revenues mistreatment social media.

What is Social Media?

Social Media could be a class of on-line media wherever individuals are talking, taking part, sharing, networking, and bookmarking on-line. Examples embody Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, GooglePlus, and MySpace.

What is Social Media Marketing?

Social media promoting is using deliberately the mentioned platforms to achieve a set of new audience of shoppers and build product brand awareness. By spreading word of a product from user to user, Social Media promoting strives to achieve larger legitimacy for a message as a result of it’s shared between trusty “friends.”

Which Social Media Channels are most popular?

Studies show that Facebook & Twitter are most well-liked social media channels followed closely by YouTube and LinkedIn, Google Plus.

Here are some prime reasons why you need to think about employing Social Media for your business.
Exposure: As low business owner you trust mostly on network promoting to channel results in your business – that, successively depends on your interaction with individuals. This is often the core notion of what Social Media is!

However at Pixelsolutionz we employ the trend of Social Media that offers just about unlimited opportunities to move with individuals – uncountable them! With this fascinating sort of promoting, your business isn’t any longer restricted to native leads; you’ll realize leads returning in from a distributed geographic market!

Zero-cost: whereas different promoting media would be valuable, this kind of selling is comparatively free, or needs negligible financial investment. We help you to get a nice low-priced service in addition with a brilliant web promotion.

Improved web presence: Being on widespread social media platforms we can strengthen your net presence. The additional mentioning on Facebook or Twitter, the larger are the probabilities of your business being found on relevant net searches like Google, Yahoo!, or Bing.

Just go through the details on the related things and take your plunge into this recent trend of marketing that will definitely prove to be the best service for your empowering business.

Source: http://blog.pixelsolutionz.com

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Saturday, August 6, 2016

This Indian tech company has one of the most fun hiring processes ever

Directi is a Mumbai -based tech company that was founded by Bhavin Turakhia back in 1998. Over the years, the group has come to consist of multiple business units which are run independently by their respective management teams.

The Directi portfolio includes numerous companies such as Media.net, Skenzo, Radix, Ringo, Flock, Zeta and Codechef to name a few. One unique feature of all of Directi businesses are the fact that they are all bootstrapped and extremely profitable. None of their 11 businesses have any external debt or investments.

Thus, the company employs over 1500 people across 8 offices around the world catering to over 9 million customers and raking in revenues of over $300 million every year.

At first glance, Directi may seem like any other entity in the burgeoning list of companies that exist in the Indian landscape. But, as you delve deeper, you find that there's more to what meets the eye.

Being a company that focuses primarily on technology comes with its own set of challenges- the chief being finding the right set of people who can help the organisation reach its targets and grow. But, as the company soon found out, that was easier said than done.

The founders soon realised that the root of this problem was the generichiring process which comprised aspirants coming in with their resumes and giving a half-hearted interview.

Culture-fit was an important part of the organisation from the beginning itself and the company soon realised that it was impossible to gauge the know-how or creativity of candidates just by holding a generic hiring process like every other company.

It was time to be different. And, thus STAR was born. To understand candidates better, Directi started using an approach called STAR - Situation, Task, Action and Result.

It started assigning case studies to candidates across all functions and positions as part of the hiring process. Since these case studies are quite extensive, candidates are given enough time to come up with a solution. This, the company believes is an excellent tool to evaluate an individual's competency to think on their feet in a stressful situation and was anyday better than them answering a question on the same.

As time passed, the company started introducing more and more task-oriented hiring processes. For instances, candidates applying for tech roles are often asked to develop web applications using a bunch of technologies or they are asked to make an existing app using a different language. Bonus points are awarded to candidates who come up with additional features like integration with Facebook.

The most unique interview has definitely been when the company asked candidates to solve a Rubik's cube to test their problem solving ability.

Directi also goes a step ahead and keeps asking unusual questions to test the ability of a candidate to think out of the box, from time to time.

For example, candidates who applied for sales and design positions in the company had to answer questions like- "How many flights are in the air over Mumbai right now?", "How many diapers are sold in Mumbai every day?" and even "How will you design a spice rack for blind people?".

This is how much superstar Rajinikanth was paid for Kabali

As was predicted by almost everyone, Kabali was a blockbuster hit and saw people lining up to the theatres from every part of the country- and in some cases even from abroad to catch not only the first day first show of the movie, but also numerous shows after.

As a result, the movie not only earned Rs 200 crore even before its release , but also managed to break multiple records after it hit the big screen.

But this also gets us wondering- how much did the Thalaiva earn fromkabali, the biggest movie of his career?

We won't keep you wondering for long and give you the lowdown.

For Kabali, Rajinikanth reportedly picked up what could probably be the highest remuneration for an actor in the country.

The superstar was paid Rs 35 crore as remuneration, out of the budget of Rs 110 crore that Kabali was made on.

Granted that's a lot of money, but it's definitely not the end of it.

Additionally, the actor also gets a share from the profits his movies make at the box office- which means in this case, Rajinikanth would also be getting an additional Rs 45 crore as his share of the movie's profits.

And, thus the total remuneration Rajinikanth earned from Kabali stands at a whopping Rs 80 crore.

Yep, definitely the most any actor had been paid for a movie.

Image credit: Indiatimes

Satya Nadella explains in a sentence the real reason he bought LinkedIn ... and Salesforce should be worried

Jeff Weiner, Satya Nadella, Reid Hoffman

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shocked and baffled the tech world Monday morning by announcing Microsoft was buying LinkedIn for a massive $26.2 billion or $196 per share, cash.

And if there's one company that should be sitting up and taking notice, it's Microsoft's newfound buddy, Salesforce.

Oracle, SAP, and Workforce might want to pay attention too.

While most of the world is focusing on how LinkedIn data could integrate with Outlook, Office 365 and other Microsoft apps, the truth is, Nadella didn't need to buy LinkedIn for that.

The two could have simply partnered to share data. In fact, the ability to get LinkedIn data into Outlook has been around for years.

This move is really about Salesforce and human resources cloud software. Nadella sees LinkedIn data as a way to reinvent these massive markets.

He's going to marry LinkedIn with Microsoft's Dynamics and Office 365. Dynamics is Microsoft's customer relationship management (CRM), HR, and accounting apps.

These are the apps that compete with Salesforce. They also competes with similar software from Oracle and SAP, and Workday.

What Nadella is imagining is a LinkedIn that's so tightly bound with Office 365 and Dynamics that companies will naturally want to buy new cloud services that makes use of all three of them.

Nadella explained it in a sentence to Business Insider's Matt Rosoff Monday morning.

He said that buy buying LinkedIn's professional network:

"It helps us differentiate our CRM product with social selling. It helps us take Dynamics into new spaces like human capital management with recruiting, and learning, and talent management."

He later told analysts that connecting LinkedIn data with Dynamics is "where the magic starts to happen."

Nadella tried to buy Salesforce

Remember, Nadella famously attempted to buy Salesforce last year but the deal fell through when the two couldn't agree on a price. It surprised no one that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ultimately didn't sell.

After the talks fell through, the CEOs have remained friendly and the two companies, once bitter rivals, are now partners, integrating Salesforce's CRM and HR apps with Office 365.

But insiders say that Microsoft has since ramped up its competition against Salesforce and that it stopped being "overly cooperative" with Salesforce after talks fell through, one Wall Street analyst reported some time ago.

If spending a rumored $40 billion to $50 billion on Salesforce made sense in 2015, spending half that much on LinkedIn to go after the same market in a different, and more creative way, makes equal sense.

Microsoft believes that the total addressable market of its LinkedIn purchase is $315 billion.

Salesforce declined comment.