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India’s overall retail market to reach Rs 47 lakh crore by 2016-17

Bank of India (BOI) is raising Rs 2,500 crore via perpetual bonds

Indian insurers to spend Rs 13,000 crore on ICT in 2015 - Gartner

Government to Infuse Rs 2,375 Crore in 23 District Cooperative Banks

Stress assets of Indian banks may go upto Rs.10 lakh crore: Assocham

What was once the inspiration of a few enthusiastic young farmers many years ago has grown into a global competition.

India’s coronavirus disease contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu became the world’s fastest growing mobile app on Tuesday night with 50 million users in 13 days. It is to be highlighted that 11 million of these downloads were registered in a single day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to download the application in his third televised […]

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Vesper, the maker of piezoelectric sensors used in microphone production and winner of CES Innovation Award 2018 raised a $23M Series B round. American Family Ventures led the investment with participation from Accomplice, Amazon Alexa Fund, Baidu, Bose Ventures, Hyperplane, Sands Capital, Shure, Synaptics, ZZ Capital and some undisclosed investors.

Vesper’s innovative sensors can be used in consumer electronics like TV remote controls, smart speakers, smartphones, intelligent sensor nodes, and hearables. The company will use the funding proceeds to scale-up its functions like mass production of its microphones and support expanded research and development, hiring, and establishing international sales offices.

The main product of Vesper is VM1000, a low noise, high range,single-ended analog output piezoelectric MEMS microphone. It consists of a piezoelectric sensor and circuitry to buffer and amplify the output.

The hot-selling product of Vesper is VM1010 with ZeroPower Listening which is the first MEMS microphone that enables voice activation to battery-powered consumer devices.

The unique selling point of Vesper’s products is they are built to operate in rugged environments that have dust and moisture.

"Vesper's ZeroPower Listening capabilities coupled with its ability to withstand water, dust, oil, and particulate contaminants enables users that have never before been possible," said Katelyn Johnson, principal of American Family Ventures. "We are excited about Vesper's quest to transform our connected world, including IoT devices."

Other recent funding news include $24 raised by sensor-based baby sock maker Owlet, IFTTT banks $24M from Salesforce to scale its IoT Enterprise offering, and Intel sells its Wind River Software to TPG.

Microsoft announced it has acquired Semantic Machines, a conversational AI startup providing chatbots and AI chat apps founded in 2014 having $20.9 million in funding from investors. The acquisition will help Microsoft catch up with Amazon Alexa, though the latter is more focused on enabling consumer applications of conversational AI.

Microsoft will use Semantic Machine’s acquisition to establish a conversational AI center of excellence in Berkeley to help it innovate in natural language interfaces.

Microsoft has been stepping up its products in conversational AI. It launched the digital assistant Cortana in 2015, as well as social chatbots like XiaoIce. The latest acquisition can help Microsoft beef up its ‘enterprise AI’ offerings.

As the use of NLP (natural language processing) increases in IoT products and services, more startups are getting traction from investors and established players. In June last year, Josh.ai, avoice-controlled home automation software has raised $8M.

Followed by it was SparkCognition that raised $32.5M Series B for its NLP-based threat intelligence platform.

It appears Microsoft’s acquisition of Semantic Machines was motivated by the latter’s strong AI team. The team includes technology entrepreneur Daniel Roth who sold his previous startups Voice Signal Technologies and Shaser BioScience for $300M and $100M respectively. Other team members include Stanford AI Professor Percy Liang, developer of Google Assistant Core AI technology and former Apple chief speech scientist Larry Gillick.

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‘Special corona fee’ levied to deter gatherings after police called in to break up crowds

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Officials in India’s capital have imposed a special tax of 70% on retail alcohol purchases to deter large gatherings at stores as authorities ease a six-week lockdown imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Taxes on alcohol are a key contributor to the revenue of many of India’s 36 states and federal territories, most of which are running short of funds because of the lengthy disruption in economic activity caused by the virus.

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Haskell Cross Country season opener starts at Riim Rock Farm.  

Thomas Zunie, a junior from Zunie, New Mexico placed first in the 2011 Ottawa Invite.

Fayetteville, Arkansas - The Haskel men's cross country team compete in the 28th Annual Chile Pepper Festival. 

Lawrence, Kansas - The Haskell Men's team competed in the Haskell Invitational this past Saturday morning. 

Lawrence, Kansas - The Haskell Men's team competed in the Johnson County Community College Fall Classic on Friday night.

Baldwin City, Kansas - The Haskell Men's team competed in the Baker Maple Leaf Invite Saturday morning. 

Emporia, Kansas – The Haskell men's cross country team finished in 18th place with 421 points at the Papa John's Invitational in Emporia at Municipal Golf Course on Friday afternoon.

Fayetteville, Arkansas – The Haskell men's cross country team finished in 37th place with 1130 points at the 29th annual Chile Pepper Festival at Washington County Fairgrounds on Saturday.

Lawrence, Kansas – The Haskell men's cross country team finished in 8th place with 228 points at the Haskell Invitational at Billy Mills Trail Course on Saturday.

Winfield, Kansas – The Haskell men's cross country team finished in 17th place with 463 points at the NAIA Mid-States Classic on Saturday, October 21st.

Bettendorf, Iowa – The Haskell men's cross country team finished in 4th place with 102 points at the Association of Independent Institutions Cross Country Championships on Saturday.

Please join us at Wednesday, November 14, 8:30 am in Navarre Hall Regents room as we send our men's and qualifying women's cross country teams as they head to the National Championship in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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