Entries Written By Ani Ray

Around the Globe: Data in DNA, The Times of Facebook and more

It’s been quite a week for the tech fraternity. Most companies released their quarterly earnings, and we had a couple of interesting conferences lined as well (eg. Collision Conf in New Orleans). We had a full plate. Let’s review some of the major updates of this week: Snapchat: User `Stories’ Fuel 10 Billion Daily Video …

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Getting into the Melbourne Mood – for Connect Expo 2016

We are going to the Connect Expo 2016! Yes, we are! It’s Australia’s most important ICT and emerging tech event, with a series of strategic business conferences (summits), FREE educational seminars, live demos and technology zones… .. And guess which city is hosting it? <let Google catch a break, we’ll tell you ourselves because we …

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Ground Zero with Rajdeep Sardesai at Capital Numbers

You couldn’t possibly guess who stopped by our office last Saturday! It was none one other than Mr Rajdeep Sardesai. The visit was for his feature “Ground Zero” which will air tonight at 8:40 PM on India Today. As many of you are well aware, Ground Zero is a report where Mr Sardesai documents and covers events …

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#AroundTheGlobe: 5 Key Takeaways from F8

Each week, in our segment “Around the Globe”, we curate a list of recent & significant tech updates that have potentially far reaching consequences. This week we are concentrating just on Facebook’s Developer Conference – F8. We do so because Facebook’s offerings (and we not just talking about the social media platform here) form a …

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Capital Numbers will be at Start-Up Expo 2016!

We are glad to let you know that we have been accepted as an exhibitor at the Start-Up Expo 2016! Hi five! Our excitement is not just about acing the questionnaire that we were asked to fill out, it’s also about the token number we received after registering, which was 800 – meaning 799 others …

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#AroundTheGlobe: Snapchat, Instagram and Windows

So the connected generation has 2 high points (or is it one high and one low) to discuss this weekend!   Snapchat has added video notes, audio notes, auto-play of stories, and awesome range of stickers … it is no more Snapchat now as rightly mentioned by Techcrunch… it is Snapphone now! Instagram (uh oh, …

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Business Beyond Boundaries and more at the CII Annual Meeting

Eastern India has been historically hailed to be very strongly ingrained with the country’s economic adventures.  In fact as mentioned by economic historian Angus Maddison in his book, The World Economy: A Millennial  Perspective, India  had  the  world’s  largest  economy  till  the  early  17th  century  and  Eastern  India contributed 15% of the world GDP. But …

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ad:tech Australia: Ad-ding more tech to our advertisements

We came across this a while back on the ad:tech Australia website You hardly can ignore such persuasive points, though there was this one lingering question on our mind; how many ad:tech (s) should we attend in a year? It’s pointless thinking about it though, because the answer is and will always be as many …

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#AroundTheGlobe: Week of Google and Couch Potatoes!

When it comes to tech, too much keeps happening around us at a ‘breakneck’ speed. #AroundTheGlobe is a space where we do a quick recap of the tech developments that caught our eye during the last 7 days. Here we go… RIP Google Chrome App Launcher Chrome is getting streamlined and simplified and that calls …

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