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Digital media distribution firm opens office in Singapore to cater to Asia-Pacific markets Hyderabad based Whacked Out Media Pvt Ltd, which is into digital media distribution space, expanded its operations by opening its office in Singapore to tap growing opportunities in Asia Pacific region. This expansion follows four years of the company’s major growth in India across its services offerings that include celebrity management, film promotion and branding, strategic partnerships with YouTube as a MCN (multi channel network), Google and Facebook. It manages the social media profiles of over 200 celebrities of the South Indian film fraternity. It has distributed 4,000 films and over 5.14 lakh hours of movies, kids, news, devotional and audio content along with TV shows. Its team of social media and YouTube certified experts, communicates with an online audience of over 97 million followers on Facebook and 3.9 million subscribers on YouTube. The Asia-Pacific expansion, with a m...

Calgary - Canada: J wala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa beat Dutch duo Selena Piek-Eefje Muskens for the title on Sunday. Indian shuttlers Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa upstaged the top-seeded Dutch pair of Eefje Muskens and Selena Piek in the women's doubles final of the Canada Open on Sunday to win their first title since reuniting after the 2012 London Olympics. The third-seeded Indian pair triumphed 21-19, 21-16 in the contest which lasted 35 minutes. In a closely-contested opening game, Jwala and Ashwini broke away from 19-19 onwards and converted the lone game point opportunity to grab the initiative. The Indians dominated the second game and raced to a 5-0 lead before going from 10-6 to 15-6 up. However, Muskens and Piek fought back to win nine points straight and tie the game at 15-15. But Jwala and Ashwini did not let the advantage slip and won six of the next seven points to clinch the title.

NEW DELHI: Pullela Gayatri has badminton in her genes. Daughter of chief national coach and former All-England badminton champion Pullela Gopichand and former India champ PVV Lakshmi, Gayatri is a 'chip off the old block' in every sense.  Just 12 years of age, the shy and demure Gayatri is already leading the way in the Under-13 girls category. She won the U-13 national doubles title last year and is the No. 1 seed in her age-group in both singles and doubles and won both U-13 singles as well as the U-15 doubles categories of PNB Metlife All India sub junior ranking badminton tournament. A young girl of few words, Gayatri has been training at her father's academy in Hyderabad since the age of six. Her father Gopichand believes in pushing the boundaries. The young shuttler, who attends Glendales school in Hyderabad, begins her day before 4 in the morning.  Gopi believes that testing her skills against seniors will hold her in good stead for the future. She took par...

SINGAPORE: As many as 11 Indian companies including Avanti Feeds Ltd (Alluri Indra Kumar - Managing director) and Centum Electronics (Apparao V Mallavarapu - Chairman and MD) are ranked among top 200 Asia Pacific corporations in Forbes Asia's 'Best Under A Billion' list.  The list covers public companies with annual revenue of $5 million to $1 billion, Forbes said, adding that they should also have positive net income and should be publicly traded for at least a year.  Companies from mainland China & Hong Kong (84) as well as Taiwan (36) dominated this year's list accounting for 60 per cent of the top 200 publicly-traded companies in the Asia Pacific region.  With 11 companies, India was ranked fourth on the list after South Korea which has 17 firms in the coveted list.  The Indian companies that made it to the list include Byke Hospitality, Caplin Point Laboratories, Centum Electronics, Kaveri Seed, Kitex Garments, NGL Fine-Chem, Orbit Exports, Premco...

Yadlapalli Pranjala achieved the best-ever ranking by any girl from India in the contemporary ITF juniors’ circuit when she reached World No. 19, according to the latest rankings. “It’s a great feeling to be the best in the ITF juniors’ circuit from India. But, I know there is still a long way to go and I am grateful to my coach Ilyas Sir (Ilyas Ghouse at the GVK Tennis Academy, Jubilee Hills) for all the support,” says an excited Pranjala. Ilyas mentions that Sania Mirza was ranked No. 20, but that she played very briefly in the ITF circuit before stepping in the big league and everyone knows she belongs to a different class altogether. This young talent, who for long has been tipped as the next bet in women’s tennis from the city after Sania Mirza, achieved this ranking by virtue of her consistency in the big league. The most notable being winning the 2014 Grade IV ITF juniors title here, runner-up in Thailand ITF juniors, winner in the ITF Junior Grade I in Chandi...

జరుగుతున్న పరిణామాలు చూస్తే తెలంగాణా ఏ.సి.బి A యాంటి C చంద్ర B బాబు వలె మారిపోయిందా అనిపిస్తుంది. తెలంగాణా ఏ.సి.బి కొన్ని ప్రశ్నలకు సమాధానాలు చెప్పాలి. 1) చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు ఫోన్ కాల్స్ టాపింగ్ చేయమని ఎవరు ఆదేశించారు? అంత తీవ్రమైన నేరం ఆయన ఏమి చేసాడు?  2) ముఖ్యమంత్రి స్థాయి వ్యక్తి ఫోన్ కాల్స్ టాపింగ్ చేయటానికి కేంద్ర హోం శాఖ అనుమతి తీసుకున్నారా? ముఖ్యమంత్రి స్థాయి వ్యక్తుల వ్యక్తిగత సంభాషణల పై నిఘా నైతికమేనా?  3) చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు స్టీఫెన్ తో సంభాషణల టేపులు న్యాయస్థానానికి సమర్పించకముందే కొన్ని చానళ్ళు ( తెలంగాణా న్యూస్, సాక్షి ) ప్రసారం చేసాయి.... ఆ టేపులు మీరే వారికి అందించారా, లేక ప్రభుత్వ పెద్దల నిర్వాహకమా? ఒకవేళ ఈ రెండిటిలో ఏది నిజమైనా మీ పాత్ర అనేక సందేహాలకు తావిస్తుంది. 4) గత సంవత్సర కాలంలో ముఖ్యమంత్రి కార్యాలయం, మంత్రుల కార్యాలయాల్లో ఎన్నో అనైతిక కార్యకలాపాలు సాగుతున్నాయి... ప్రతిపక్ష ఎమ్మెల్యేలు, ఎమ్మెల్సీలు, ప్రజా ప్రతినిధులను ప్రలోభాలకు గురిచేస్తున్నపుడు, వాళ్ళని సంతలో పశువుల్లా కొనుగోలు చేసినప్పుడు మీ దృష్టికి రాలేదా! లేక వచ్చినా ఈ విష...

NEW DELHI: Kosaraju Veeraiah Chowdary , former chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has been appointed the new central vigilance commissioner. Chowdary's appointment is finalized in June 1 meeting of the selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and comprising Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Jitendra Singh as well as Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjuna Kharge. Chowdary, a 1978 batch Indian Revenue Service officer who is currently serving as advisor to the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team on black money, is the first non-IAS to head the Central Vigilance Commission. In CVC, the term of central vigilance commissioner Pradeep Kumar had ended on September 28 last year, while vigilance commissioner J M Garg completed his tenure on September 7. Rajiv, a 1975 batch IPS officer, is the only vigilance commissioner at present. The posts of another VC and the CVC have been vacant for almost a year. Sources sai...

Lipika Narisetti , 12, a seventh-grader at the Hilliard Heritage Middle School, Abhilash Yarlagadda , 13 a eighth grader from Sycamore Junior High School,  Ohio and  Aniket Nuthalapati ,  13 a eighth grader from Aptakisic Junior High School  in Blue Ash, Illinois, Chicago were among the elite 49 spellers who reached the semi-finals of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee Championship suburban Washington. Three first timers were failed to reach the finals. Better luck next time. 

In 1997, Suresh Katta left Silicon Graphics , the computer graphics company where he was an engineer for nearly nine years, and founded Saama Technologies Inc. Mr. Katta imagined that corporations would want to be able to find, aggregate and analyze large volumes of data, like the kind that SGI’s technology was able to visualize, to make business decisions. It was an unusual idea at the time, and with almost no sales or marketing and no venture capital, which he repeatedly turned down, he built a company that has been profitable every quarter and claims more than 50 large customers, including Cisco Systems Inc. and Delta Dental. Now he thinks Saama has a chance to get significantly bigger. The company, which has less than $100 million in revenue, is finally “coming out of stealth,” as Mr. Katta put it, and has raised $35 million from Carrick Capital Partners. Hundreds of startups and hundreds of millions in venture capital are now chasing Mr. Katta’s idea, which is labeled...

Some of the executives on Juniper Research's list of Top Technology Leaders, Influencers, and Visionaries for 2015 are the names you would expect, but others wield their power a little bit more quietly. Not every person who made the list holds the top job at his or her company and not every top influencer works at a top-tier, front-of-mind brand for the public. To create its list Juniper ranked leaders using eight criteria (in its words): 1. Innovation: How new, differentiated and disruptive their contributions are to the industry. 2. Scalability: How easily their contribution can be applied to multiple markets and product types. 3. Reach: How much impact does this person and their contribution have on a geographical scale? 4. Business Model: The crunch side of innovation; how new is the business proposition of the person's contribution. 5. Personal Capital: How much the person's individual connections, personality, philosophy, etc., is able to complement t...

Praneet Polineni , a senior at Stanton College Preparatory School, has been named one of the 11 Indian Americans among 141 Presidential Scholars in the United States. T he prestigious award is based on academic achievement, artistic excellence, leadership, citizenship and contributions to school and community. The scholars, who will be recognized at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., are chosen by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars, which is appointed by the president, a news release said. They also got to recognize a teacher who has greatly influenced them. Praneet chose Erika Migues, a math teacher at Stanton. Presidential Scholars are brought to Washington, D.C. the summer after they graduate from high school. During the National Recognition Program, they meet with government officials, educators, authors, musicians, scientists, businessmen, among others. They are also felicitated with a Presidential Medallion in a ceremony sponsored by the White House.

PARIS: Pranjala Yadlapalli kept the Indian hopes alive in the junior girls section of the French Open after the 16-year-old moved into the doubles quarterfinals, even as Sumit Nagal exited the boys singles draw.  Pranjala and her seventh seed Chinese partner Wushuang Zheng cruised past the unseeded pairing of Anastasia Gasanova and Maia Lumsden 7-5, 6-4.  Earlier, the 17-year-old Nagal lost 6-2, 3-6, 4-6 to eighth seed Korean Yunseong Chung in second round.  Pranjala though had exited from the girls singles after losing her first round contest.

Florida-based MunchEm is a marketing software startup that was launched in April 2013 by Prasad Vemulapalli , with an aim to empower local restaurants with technology and tools to tap the potential customers. Its business model include two verticles – MunchEm and OrderEm. MunchEm is a food ordering app & website that allows users to order their favorite food from near by restaurants, and gets delivered directly to their doorstep. They can pay online with a credit card or with the help of PayPal account or pay when they pick up. The app is available for Android, iOS and Windows phone users. OrderEm provides free software to restaurants and delivery service companies, to create their own apps and websites. It is a zero cost solution to restaurants. Restaurants pay a commission fee only when orders flow-in. Using OrderEm, restaurants have complete control of their Custom App or  Website. They can edit menus and upload photos from their phone to manage their website/app f...

THE PM-headed panel that includes Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge selected the next Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), a post that has been lying vacant since September last year when the then CVC Pradeep Kumar had retired. And a former IRS officer Kosaraju Veeraiah Chowdary , the Income-Tax sleuth who played a critical role in probes like 2G spectrum allocation and the HSBC Geneva taxpayers list, is tipped to be the next CVC, according to…  reports that are still unofficial, as the name will formally be announced after President Pranab Mukherjee returns from his foreign tour later this week and gives his assent to the recommendation. After the meeting, Kharge told reporters that the meeting was confidential but added that the panels (there were two panels, one each for CVC and CIC) sent the recommendations to President’s office. The name of Vijai Sharma, the senior-most information commissioner, was reportedly recommended as the new chief information c...

Blessed with both beauty and intelligence, this international bombshell is received a Miss World Canada 2015 TOP FITNESS award. Born in South Africa of South Asian heritage and raised in both Canada and Australia, Kamantha Naidoo is as diverse and cultured as they come. With a comprehensive academic and career background in psychology, education (teaching), and fitness, it is not surprising that she is determined to make a difference in our society. While growing up she tragically lost many relatives due to lifestyle-related illnesses and believes her purpose is to change this societal trend. As a dedicated educator and psychotherapist, she recently established her brand ‘The Health Babe’, practicing Life Coaching and Fitness Training. Kamantha challenges her clients to make life choices that lead to improved health, realizing their purpose, and achieving their dreams. A strong advocate for women’s rights, she also co-founded ‘Wild Horses’, a global platform that raises...