Housing partners Uber to offer cab booking option

Realty portal Housing.Com today said it has tied up with taxi aggregator Uber to provide home buyers option to book cab for site visits.
"Uber will be integrated into the Housing.Com app, allowing consumers to directly book a ride after identifying a property of interest. This will save consumers the hassle of finding locations of different sites," realty portal said in a statement.
While the feature is available for new projects only, Uber will subsequently integrate with resale property listings on Housing.Com's app. The service will be available across all cities common to Housing.Com and Uber's services.
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Payal Tuli joins as Partner at BMR & Associates LLP * BMR & Associates LLP today announced the induction of Payal Tuli as Partner based out of the law firm's office here.

"Payal has over 13 years of experience in the area of customs and indirect taxation. Her experience in the domain of customs laws, indirect taxes and transfer pricing will add tremendous value to the firm and particularly, strengthen the firm's indirect tax practice," BMR said in a statement here.

Prior to joining BMR, Payal worked with Fortune 500 MNCs with diversified portfolio of products and automobile giant BMW India, E.I. Dupont among others.
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SKF offers work integrated learning programmes to employees * SKF India has joined hands with Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, to offer WILP (Work integrated learning programmes) to their employees.

WILP offers a unique opportunity to develop employees and build capability as an organisation as it helps to enhance employees' academic and technical qualification in various Engineering domains.
"Programs like WILP empower our employees to equip themselves to operate at their best potential. Growth (both of the business and individual) is but a natural outcome," Anjali Byce, Director-Human Resources said.
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Seshu Bhagavathula joins Ashok Leyland as CTO * Hinduja Group's flagship company Ashok Leyland today said Seshu Bhagavathula has joined the firm as Chief Technology Officer.
Lenskart to provide free eye check-up to Ola driver-partners
* Online retailer of prescription eye-wear Lenskart has partnered Ola to provide eye check-up camps for the latter's driver partners across Delhi-NCR to promote road safety.

"With our increasing dependency on cabs for safe and easy commute, it is imperative that cab drivers have spot on vision. With this, we aim to bring special emphasis on road safety and hope to have a successful association with Ola," Lenskart CEO and founder Peyush Bansal said.
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Hungama partners MTNL
* Digital entertainment firm Hungama today said it has partnered state-run MTNL to enable the latter's broadband consumers in Delhi and Mumbai access to music, movies, videos and games.
"We look forward to sharing the Hungama experience with over one million MTNL subscribers and offering them premium entertainment at their convenience," Hungama.Com CEO Siddhartha Roy said.

Hungama has similar partnerships with BSNL, ACT Fibernet, Hathway, Videocon, Tata Photon and Sri Lanka Telecom.
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Orange Business Services deploys green data center in HP * Orange Business Services (OBS), the B2B division of the Orange Group, has commissioned a data centre for Himachal Pradesh government.
This is the first state data centre in the country which has been designed using 'green' data center concepts that minimise power requirements and increase power utilisation efficiency, it said in a statement.
The centre, to be managed by OBS for 5 years, will host about 200 e-governance applications ranging from land records, health management system to safe city applications, it added.

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Genpact sets up shared services centre in Kuala Lumpur * BPM major Genpact today said it has established operations in Malaysia's capital city of Kuala Lumpur to further strengthen its footprint in Asia.
The company plans to provide finance and accounting (F&A), sourcing, and procurement services for a growing number of clients at this site, Genpact said in a statement.
Crayon Software to be Microsoft's cloud distribution partner
* Microsoft today announced the appointment of Crayon Software Experts India Pvt Ltd (Crayon) as a Cloud Distribution Partner under its Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program in India.
As part of the program, Crayon will help its customers (both - SMBs and Enterprise) in India to adopt Microsoft's cloud-based technology solutions like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Windows Intune and Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) subscriptions.

Crayon will also work with Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecommunications Providers (Telcos) and Web Hosting firms to deliver these solutions to customers in India, a release by the two companies said.
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Infogain appoints Sunil Bhatia as Chief Executive Officer * IT company Infogain today named Sunil Bhatia as Chief Executive Officer effective July 1.
He held the position of CEO Designate at Infogain since the completion of Infogain's acquisition of the IT assets of Blue Star Infotech in January 2016.
Founder and former CEO Kapil Nanda will be full-time Executive Chairman of Infogain's board of directors.
BankBazaar.Com launches e-KYC platform for loan approvals

* Financial marketplace BankBazaar.Com today said it has launched a multi-brand paperless e-KYC platform for instant loan approvals.
This eliminates the need for physical document submission for loan approvals through the company's online platform, BankBazaar.Com said in a statement.
This would be available for personal and car loans.
"We, along with our partners, have been working towards this moment where we take the loan application process completely online and paperless," BankBazaar.Com CEO Adhil Shetty said.
This step promises to increase customer satisfaction and decrease operational costs for the banks, he added.
This would also reduce the loan sanction time to as little as one business day, it said.

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MobiKwik adds deals to platform
* Fintech startup MobiKwik today said it has launched deals on its platform.
This will allow its users to buy exclusive deals from brands like Big Bazaar, Barista, Relaxo, Smaaash, Aapno Ghar, Central, Himalaya and Burger King and redeem them at merchant locations.
"Our users earlier had to search for deals on different platforms and then use their MobiKwik account to redeem these. With this launch, we have become a one-stop solution for all deal seekers in India," MobiKwik GM Marketing Akash Gupta said.
Deals at MobiKwik have been launched in NCR and over the next week, will be available for MobiKwik's over 32 million users, pan-India, it added.

MobiKwik has a network of over one lakh merchants and targets achieving 150 million users in the next 18 months.