Adobe Photoshop Arrives on Android

Today, the Adobe Photoshop (beta) app is available for download for free on Google Play on Android devices. Photoshop mobile is designed to be intuitive and accessible for creators who prefer to work on their phones.

The all-new Android app includes Photoshop’s iconic image editing and design capabilities, including tools such as layering, masking and the popular, Firefly-powered Generative Fill. Photoshop mobile makes it easy to create wherever inspiration strikes, from designing cover art, to a video thumbnail, a vision board, or capturing an idea on the go.

The mobile app makes it fast and easy for the next generation of creators to get started with Photoshop. The app provides flexibility for experienced professionals, empowering desktop creators to access work, make quick edits or capture creative ideas anywhere.

Photoshop mobile features and capabilities

Android users can access all the app’s features for free during the initial beta period, with additional capabilities coming soon. Available now:

• Combine and blend images using core Photoshop tools like selections, layers, and masks
• Quickly remove or replace parts of an image with the intuitive Tap Select tool
• Brush away distractions in seconds using tools like the Spot Healing Brush
• Use Firefly-powered generative AI features like Generative Fill to effortlessly add or transform elements in visual designs
• Enhance creative work with a growing library of free Adobe Stock assets
• Make accurate selections with Object Select and Magic Wand
• Refine images with advanced tools like Remove and Clone Stamp
• Control layers and effects with advanced blend modes and adjustment layers

Whether you’re trying Photoshop for the first time or exploring new ideas, we want to help you dive in with confidence:

• Explore the Photoshop mobile tutorials directly in the app to learn how to work with layers, selections, and generative AI tools like Generative Fill.
• Connect with the Photoshop community through the Adobe Community Forums to share work and connect with others for feedback, support and inspiration. As we continue to develop the Android experience, community feedback will help shape what comes next.
• Visit the Adobe Inspiration Hub to explore new creative ideas, read real creator stories and try thought-starters to help guide projects.

Adobe Photoshop (beta) app on Google Play is now available for devices running Android 11 or later, with a minimum of 6GB of RAM (8GB or more recommended for optimal performance).

Photoshop on iPhone is also generally available worldwide in the Apple App Store.

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Free Android app allows Connectivity Boost by Bandwidth Sharing

Smartiply today announced the worldwide availability of its DataNinja app for Android devices on Google Play. DataNinja allows mobile phone and tablet users to combine bandwidth from trusted nearby mobile devices or Wi-Fi networks to harness reliable, speedy and secure Internet connections even in environments with weak and unreliable connectivity. The app is available in India for subscribers of all major mobile telecom operators including Jio, Vodafone-Idea, Airtel and BSNL Mobile.

The explosion of mobile data usage has put tremendous strain on network and cloud resources. In addition, many areas outside (and even within) cities and towns are plagued by poor network and other constraints that impact the end-user experience, especially with bandwidth hungry applications such as video streaming. However, family, friends and colleagues often spend time together and have multiple devices among them that are idle much of the time. DataNinja combines the capabilities of nearby devices through Smartiply’s patented Fog Computing technology, dramatically enhancing mobile users’ experience of video and data intensive applications even in places with weak connectivity.

DataNinja offers the following benefits to users:

1. Speedy & reliable connectivity by combining networks- Merge Wi-Fi and cellular networks on their own phone to get a significantly faster experience.


2. Sharing Internet bandwidth with friends & family- Link bandwidth of multiple trusted devices to create a fog network to get higher-speed uploading and downloading. Users don't need to share passwords to share bandwidth.


3. Seamless self-healing connections- The failover technology ensures uninterrupted and seamless performance even when one of the connections drops.


4. Security, privacy and control- All data is encrypted and routed over multiple links within Smartiply’s VPN network to ensure security and privacy. Data metering provides usage tracking and allows users to set limits on sharing.\

Details about the features and a product video can be found at smartiply.com/DataNinja

"We want to inspire people to share with each other, rely on our technology to provide a delightful experience, and count on us for bandwidth rescue while on-the-go” said Smartiply Co-Founder and CEO, Kaushik Pillalamarri.

Smartiply, Inc. is a mobile technology start-up headquartered in New Jersey, USA. By creating a fusion between Fog Computing and Internet of Things (IoT), Smartiply is the first platform that enables resource sharing and collaboration among connected devices. Co-founded by Dr. Junshan Zhang and Dr. Mung Chiang, who have been credited with pioneering Transactional Networks and Fog Computing, the startup sprouted out of Arizona State University and Princeton University in 2015. The company is backed by Wistron Corporation, a strategic partner and world leader in original design manufacturing. Smartiply has deployed its technology commercially, delivering value and ROI, and continues to build innovative products based on its platform. The platform software development kit (SDK) can be incorporated by system integrators, operators, device manufacturers, video streaming companies and third-party developers to provide differentiated experience to their end users. Smartiply is actively driving SDK partnership opportunities globally.

SBI To Launch All-in-One Comprehensive Mobile App Called YONO

State Bank of India (SBI) is all set to launch India’s first comprehensive digital service platform, YONO, which stands for ‘You Only Need One’.

An integrated omni-channel digital platform that offers just about everything related to financial services and lifestyle products, YONO will be launched by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi on November 24.

Offering the millennials banking and financial services, YONO will allow its customers to meet their lifestyle needs across 14 categories including booking and renting cabs, entertainment, dining experience, travel and stay, medical needs and so on.

For the digital platform, SBI has partnered with over 60 e-commerce players to provide customized offers and discounts to its users.

Some of the key e-commerce partners include Amazon, Uber, Ola, Myntra, Jabong, Shoppers Stop, Cox & Kings, Thomas Cook, Yatra, Airbnb, Swiggy and Byjus, among others.

“Customers will be able to seamlessly access lifestyle offerings and financial services with a single user id and password. The portal has been designed to offer maximum customer convenience where each journey has been designed with minimum possible clicks with easy to understand descriptions,” said chairman SBI, Rajnish Kumar.

“We believe this app will help us increase engagement with our customers and enhance their banking,” added Kumar.
YONO is a path breaking comprehensive digital product from SBI developed using the world’s latest digital technologies such as AI, predictive analytics and machine learning.

With YONO, customers can open a bank account with SBI digitally in less than five minutes, transfer funds in just a few clicks, avail pre-approved personal loan sans any paperwork, get overdraft facility against fixed deposit, have one view of their banking and financial portfolio of SBI Group companies, benefit from intelligent spend analyser, and utilise conversational banking guide through ‘Chat bot’.

The service platform can be accessed through mobile phones, both android and iOS, and on the web through a browser. It allows a seamless omni-channel customer experience

18-Year-Old Launches India’s First Print Newspaper Aggregator 'Paperboy'

Bangalore based Jonna Venkata Karthik Raja the 18 year old Founder of Paperboy is ecstatic as his 15 months of toil has finally come to fruition. Paperboy is a mobile app that features the widest range of Indian newspapers and magazines that is uploaded on real time on to its platform. Paperboy is a language agnostic platform and will hence feature vernacular publications which is a crucial part of Indian news consumption habits. Paperboy aims to appeal to the global readership base of newspapers and envisions to becoming the ultimate platform to browse, buy and read each one’s local news on the go.

Paperboy is an online news discovery and distribution application that aggregates newspapers and magazines accessible on any platform. It is a marketplace for consumers who prefer print media over digital media. Paperboy was launched with vision to provide readers with first-hand information on the current happenings in their city/town, on their favourite local daily, in any part of the world. The idea was born from a simple idea of the importance of newspapers in all our lives.

Paperboy currently lists over 400 newspapers and magazines nationally and is live on the Google Playstore.
Karthik Raja conceptualized this idea as he was finishing school, when he found that he was missing his daily routine newspaper whenever he was travelling. It wasn’t too late before his entrepreneurial instincts kicked in and he went about developing a blue print for the platform. He then went about enlisting the support of his parents who were very encouraging and supportive of his venture.

Originally launched with just two team members, Paperboy has now grown into a team of 50 young, energetic and enterprising individuals. With their primary focus on Tier 2 and 3 cities, which represents almost 31.16 % of India’s population, Paperboy has already aggregated the widest variety of regional newspapers on their platform.
Adds young Jonna Venkata Karthik Raja - Founder, Paperboy "I conceptualized Paperboy as I found a distinctive correlation between newspaper reading and digital devices. When I found that I was missing my everyday newspaper while travelling, it prompted me to find a solution for this, albeit digitally. Research and discussions with my friends led me to developing the online platform that can present news each day on a screen of your choice. In the long run I am hoping to take this solution to other markets oversees as the platform can easily be scaled to accommodate any language."

With a clean and simple interface, the app contains no pop up ads or interferences, and lets one access their news both in online and offline mode; thus, making it easy to for people to read their favourite newspapers at their convenience. Inspired by the increased adoption of digital content all over the world, Paperboy now brings the daily newspaper tailored to your device, be it Android, iOS or the web. It provides the same experience of reading one’s favourite newspaper but on a screen which is the in-vogue format of choice today.

The platform will provide publishing houses the ability to upload and distribute their publications throughout the country. Uniting newspapers into one application, Paperboy aims to broaden the global readership base of newspapers.

Niki.ai, BookMyShow Partnership Provides Smart Movie Booking Experience To Its Users

AI startup, Niki.ai has partnered with online entertainment ticketing platform BookMyShow. Fulfilled by BookMyShow, Niki users can now search and book movie tickets across the country at their preferred cinema venues, while simply chatting with Niki. The Artificial Intelligence powered chat experience provides easy discovery and a host of options to the customers.

Commenting on the development, Parikshit Dar, Director, BookMyShow said, “BookMyShow has always been keen to partner on initiatives that promote new technologies and we are now excited to take lead in exploring the potential of chatbots in movie ticket bookings in India. With 75% of transactions coming through mobile on BookMyShow, we understand the importance of a ‘mobile first strategy’ and believe that our association with Niki.ai is a step forward in this direction.”

How does it work?
Want to watch a movie today with your office colleagues? But you can only watch after work and for the convenience of everyone, you want to watch it in a theatre near your office. For this you just need to type ‘Show English action movies near MG Road after 8 PM for today’ on Niki app and by applying multiple filters, such as movie name, genre, show timings, theatre location and more, easily in a single text message to Niki to can get your movie ticket booked.

Niki, while using emerging technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, makes the whole movie booking process as simple as talking to a human booking agent since chatbot ‘Niki’ has the capability to understand complex queries.

It understands that users have multiple preferences while booking movie tickets and makes it extremely simple to work around these by presenting the users with options and recommendations that best suits their needs.

“With our vision to provide consumers with the most natural, simple and intelligent mode of transacting online, we have leveraged our technology of artificial intelligence combined with tackling consumer problems to build a one of a kind conversational theatre discovery and ticket booking experience,” said Sachin Jaiswal, CEO, Niki.ai.

Founded in 2015, and funded by Ratan Tata and Unilazer Ventures, Niki.ai envisions to provide one shop for everything commerce. Niki is an AI bot who converses to help its users shop for products and services and makes the whole journey from discovery to transaction fast, convenient and extremely simple. The company provides a simple and easy to use chat interface to shop for products and services. To the businesses, it provides a plug and play technology that can be easily integrated everywhere including operating systems, on messaging platforms messenger, and on the brand’s applications (app and web).

With a 35% month-on-month revenue growth, the company has 50+ partners on board, with much more in the pipeline. On the customer front, the company claims to have more than 400,000 customers using Niki.

The company plans to integrate many more services on its platform. It also plans on being on a lot more platforms like iOS and messaging platforms like Slack.

Read 65 Lakhs of Books for Free with This App Developed by IIT Kharagpur

With everything going digital nowadays, it was high time that someone did the same for our libraries. And, thankfully, one of India's premier institute, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has developed an app for the same.

The institute has given bibliophiles around the world the gift of accessing 65 lakh books, research papers, theses, journals and periodicals absolutely free of cost with the help of just one app. Called the National Digital Library of India (NDL), the exhaustive knowledge repository can be accessed by anybody owning a smartphone or desktop.

In a statement given to TOI, P P Chakraborty, director of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur says, “With the exponential growth in mobile usage, the NDL app will enable access to rich digital content of libraries across the country and even foreign repositories to users even in the remotest of areas, which is unique not just in the Indian, but also in the global context. The world has never seen a digital repository like NDL, which is focused on education.”

The app, which comes with features to search, browse, filter, tag, comment and view metadata, has already recorded 9 lakh users. It also comes with an 'Advanced Search' feature which will help bibliophiles find the exact book/information they're looking for.

The project, which was started by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development, now houses NCERT textbooks, textbooks from eight state education boards, previous years exam papers of UPSC, JEE and GATE, NPTEL and spoken tutorials, papers and theses from IISc, ISI, nine IITs, two IIMs and three IISERs, publications from eight laboratories of CSIR, publications from two laboratories of ICAR and Krishikosh, IEEE, PubMed, LibriVox (audio books), South Asia Archive, World e-Book Library, Satyajit Ray Society, OECD, INFLIBNET and more.

The National Digital Library of India has also joined hands with Europeana, which is the umbrella library of Europe for Culture & Museum. There was an initiative called the Digital Library of India, which was started more than decade back with a charter to digitise one million rights-free books and make them available. This has also now been integrated in National Digital Library.

The app, which was launched a month ago and is currently available only for Android users, has been downloaded more than 1,00,000 times from Google's Play Store. An iOS version of the app is also in the making.

Reliance Jio To Mimmick Apple's HealthKit Features In India

Mukesh Ambani's Jio has been creating headlines since its launch. Whether it was the introductory free offer or the New Year offer, Jio has awaken the telecom sector like never. It's bouquet of apps that come at no charge to its subscribers, is the telecom newbie's strategy to lure people away from Apple Music, Netflix and a range of various other services. And now, Jio has gone ahead and unveiled a new app called the Jio Health Hub, which is being considered as a rival of Apple's HomeKit, and Google's Health services.

Apple's HomeKit, and Google's Health services have acquired a unique status in the Health-tech sector. For the unversed, the two famous services retrieve medical and fitness information from other similar apps and act as a central dashboard. Apple's HomeKit has also entered into partnerships with various hospitals so as to directly feed patient information via its HealthKit.



According to Jio's app description, all of its data is stored in the cloud which is accessible from anywhere and on any device but with only with a user's secure credentials, meaning one can carry their medical records with them everywhere without having to go through the trouble of carrying physical files, papers, test reports etc.

The app's Health Charts gives its users an option to track their health parameters and easily view trends. It also allows users to view X-Rays, MRI, CT scans right on their phones and thus makes taking second opinion remotely on medical scans easier than ever before.

Just like Apple, Jio has also joined hands with with a number of hospitals and labs, which will be automatically pushing medical records to the Jio Health Hub app. However, the app hasn't yet given a list of the hospitals it has entered into a partnership with.

Currently only available on Google Play Store, the app also allows its users to store all their medical records in the app from the non-partner hospitals, too. According to description given of the app in the Play Store, a user is just required to take a picture of the record using their phone's camera and then simply save the image taken in the Jio Health Hub app.

With the pace at which Jio is growing day by day, it is surely going to become a numero uno player in the Indian telecom sector in sometime soon.

[Images: Google Play Store]

BHIM App will be Available on iOS in 10 Days

BHIM, the unified app for UPI-based payments launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 30th last year, has been generating a lot of buzz since its launch. According to a recent tweet put up by Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog, the BHIM app has been successful in crossing 3 million downloads in just five days since its launch with over 500,000 transactions done. But, unfortunately, iOS users have been missing out on all the action since the app was only available for Android users. Well, not anymore.

The BHIM app, which has been developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), is expected to make its iOS debut in about 10 days from now. Along with the iOS version, the app, which is currently only available in Hindi and English, will also come out with several more multilingual versions.

BHIM in the BHIM app stands for Bharat Interface for Money. The app, which is topping the Google Play Store charts in India just a few days after its launch, has been named BHIM after Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.

The app allows payments via the United Payments Interface (UPI), which makes sure that money is debited or credited directly to a user’s bank account. For those users who don't have UPI on their bank accounts yet, BHIM also supports transfers via MMID and IFSC code. UPI payments is preferred as against any other method as it only requires a Virtual Payee Address and a user doesn’t have to remember and share his/her bank details, thus reducing the risks of any fraud or theft. BHIM is also expected to support Aadhaar-based payments in the future.



The BHIM app binds together with the user’s device and mobile number. The users are required to set up a pin to login into the BHIM app each time they want to use it. There's another pin called the UPI Pin, which is required to carry out the transactions on the app.

For those sceptical about using the app due to the recent fraud and theft cases regarding mobile payments, the BHIM app developers have a three factors of authentication at place. There's one that binds the app with the device and mobile number, the second one that requires a login pin, and finally, the third one in which a separate authentication pin is required. To make the security tighter, even for regenerating their UPI Pin, a user is required to have access to their debit card details.

The government has also decided to provide UPI payments integration to USSD platform where a user can just simply dial *99# from their feature phones or even smartphones and carry out UPI based transactions without having to depend on the internet. Since India has an internet penetration of just 34.8 %, this move was well-needed.

What's interesting to note is that Paytm, one of the most famous and used mobile wallets in India after the demonetisation phase is also supporting UPI to let users load their wallets. As previously stated, UPI is a direct bank-to-bank payment method, but for now the BHIM app has put a daily limit of Rs. 20,000.

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This App Lets You Earn Free Recharge Every Time Your Phone Rings

A majority of us often get irritated when our phone rings and keep it on silent most of the times, but what if I told you that you now have an opportunity to earn free recharge every time your phone rings. Sound too good to be true, right? But, Rappio, an app by a Mumbai based startup is actually making this almost unbelievable scenario possible.

Rappio is basically a mobile audio advertising platform in which a user earns money on every incoming call where the ringtone is replaced by an ad jingle.

One can even earn a free mobile recharge by inviting friends to download Rappio, the Free Recharge App. If you're thinking the app is only gold for people with postpaid connections, then you're wrong. You can even let Rappio pay your postpaid bills by letting it customise your phone’s ringtone. Once you sing up for an account on the app, you will get greeted with a cool ringtone every time along with a free recharge. What's the icing on the cake is that the app also provides its users opportunity to win more prizes by participating in their weekly contests.

How to use Rappio

1. Install the Android app and register for an account.

2. Once registration is done, you will be asked to select the ringtones of your choice to get free recharge.

3. Set the priority of ringtones to get the free mobile recharge.

4. On every incoming call, you will hear a ringtone and you will earn free recharge.

5. Once you have accumulated some significant amount, you can redeem for free recharges or pay your phone’s bill on the Redeem page.

The app has almost all popular operators like Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance, Tata Docomo, Tata Indicom, Idea, Aircel, BSNL, MTNL, Uninor etc. on board, so you need not to worry if your operator is going to participate in the app's service.

Rappio's team of four founders, Nirav Shah, Ishan Doshi, Sahil Mehta, and Anuj Shah, is an interesting mix of experience, entrepreneurs mindset and young minds. Out of the 4 friends, 3 are hardcore techies, while Nirav Shah is the business brain behind the startup.

Launched in April this year, the startup's mobile app has been able to garner Over 40K downloads and more than 100K daily ringtone plays. The unfunded startup plans to increase these numbers to upto 1 million downloads in next 6 months with a daily gross revenue of 3 lakhs.

Zoro.im- An App Like Skype, Viber and WhatsApp; Only Better

Communication is an art which can break or make a product/service and in today's age of technology, communication has acquired even more importance. Releasing the space that communication technologies have acquired and will be acquiring in the coming years, Jimmy Padia founded Bhavnagar-based startup zoro.im.

An all-in-one app for businesses as well individuals, zoro.im promises to deliver the best unified communication and collaboration experience. All this in addition to the calling and international roaming features that the app provides.

As mentioned above, zoro.im is available in two variants:

Zoro.im for individuals

• Free Sign-up from web or mobile device


• Chat or video call with your friends, family


• Call any where in world and pay as you go


• Roam free with zoro.im

Zoro.im for businesses

• Setup enterprise pbx in less than minutes


• Free sign-up for upto 10 users


• Complete unified communication and enterprise collaboration platform


• Works behind firewall or blockages

In order to make the app standout from its competitors like Skype For Business, Dialpad etc., the founder of zoro.im has consciously focused on architecting an app for mobile first users. Developed with next generation communication technologies, zoro.im for businesses is extremely easy to setup and use when compared to Skype for business. Further, the international calling feature offered by the app is also significantly cheaper when compared to its Skype counterpart. In addition to this, zoro.im also offers its users with integration with document management system feature, something which is yet not available in Skype. Zoro.im also offers it users with a low bandwidth option for audio and video calling.

While like zoro.im, other companies are also offering cloud based communication platform (pbx), but their mobile apps are very basic in design and interface and only offer calling features. On the other hand, zoro.im offers feature-rich apps, chat, app to app calling, RCS and collaboration.

One can Login or sign-up to zoro.im from multiple devices at the same time. It offers a truly all-platform support and works in Web browser, Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac.



In order to make sure that the app doesn't end up taking a lot of space in its user's phones, Jimmy has kept the app feather-light. The app takes only 15 MB of a user's mobile memory as compared to 100+ MB of skype. Further, while the technical architecture of Skype ends up gobbling a lot of CPU and network resources, zoro.im consumes less battery and CPU.

The app, which was launched in September this year, has managed to attract more than 400 downloads till date, a number which is quite decent.

The startup, which hasn't received any funding as of now, is currently doing beta testing of the app. It is interacting with 5 partners with combined capacity of 100,000+ enterprise users.

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According to Jimmy, who has a versatile experience of over a decade spanning more than 20 countries and 5 continents, having made a significant impact in fortune 100 companies, the startup aims to have a global presence as their solution caters to an international/global market. Jimmy is quite hopeful that being a part of Barclays Techstar accelerator program will help them build their reach, reputation, and better their services to a global quality level.

Jimmy is an engineering graduate from one of the oldest Engineering colleges of Asia and ranked amongst top 10 colleges in India, V.J.T.I. Ex-General Electric IT Project leader with experience in delivering complex IT projects involving multiple Technologies and cross-location team. Being part of GE's elite IT leadership program, Jimmy has got opportunities to work across several top technology platforms. He is also a trained black belt in Lean and a Six Sigma and certified Green Belt in Six Sigma. He is also the CEO and Founder of JPC Technologies.

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Top 15 best business apps for Android Devices

Our mobile apps have the power of acting as our true friends when dealing with the day-to-day workload of office. With the corporate world progressing at an accelerating rate, humans do require help from time to time in order to surf through the hectic schedules and physically drowning times. Here's our pick of the top 15 Android apps that every working professional must have on their smartphones.

1) Docs To Go Free Office Suite

If making power-point presentations, excel sheets, word documents is an important part of your job, then this particular app is a must download. The app allows its users to view the native Microsoft documents which are of type: power-point presentations, excel and word etc. In order to have an access to all the features of the app, one will have to pay a small amount.

2) CamCard Free - Business Card R

The app not only acts as a business card scanner but also as a reader. It helps its users to search LinkedIn, make notes, and group the contacts etc. All that the user is required to do is to use the Smartphone to click a picture of the business card and it will automatically have the information in the address book. Currently, the app, which is capable of recognising 16 different languages, occupies 15 MB memory on the phone and requires an Android version 2.0 to function properly.

3) Advanced Task Manager

A business app which not only helps a user in listing and running all their tasks on time, but also makes sure that it doesn't drain out their phone's battery while in the process. In order to kill a particular task using the app, all that the user has to do is long press on that task and just click the button “force stop.”

4) Business Calendar

Being on time is considered as a good quality, especially in the professional world. While there are a number of calendar business apps available, this particular business calendar application comes with both graphical and textual presentation. The app provides its users a choice to view events based on a specific day, month or week. The app requires an Android version of 2.1 or higher to run and will occupy 1.6 MB memory in the device.

5) Box

The app allows its users to not only edit and share Microsoft documents but also stay connected with their team from anywhere, at anytime. It also allows users to save important documents in external memory and view them whenever they want without an internet connection.

6) File Manager

If you have an android version of 1.6 or above, then this particular app is a must download. The File Manager App is supportive of 19 different languages, allows the user to search as well as share different files, supports remote as well as local file systems, file shortcuts and many more. Further, it would just acquire 2.3 MB space in the phone's memory.

7) Google Drive
Everyone is acquainted with the Google Drive, but did you know that it also comes as an app? Probably the best business Android app in the free category, the Google Drive business app allows its users to store as well as access all their important files from any place, at anytime. The app, which requires 7.2 MB memory space and an android version of 2.1 or higher to function, allows its users to even share their music files, video files, pictures and various other documents as well.

8) Skype

Since nowadays businesses are no longer limited to one particular place/location, the Skype app allows people to be in touch with colleagues, vendors and customers from all around the globe. By using Skype, one can save a hefty amount of money as the app allows one to make free video calls and voice calls anywhere around the world. Not only this, one can also send send pictures, files and videos using the Skype app. The app would acquire just 15 MB of your phone's memory space.

9) Dropbox

Yes, your favourite Dropbox also comes in the form of an Android app. It allows it users to store and share hefty documents with one or more than one person anywhere, at anytime.

10) Splashtop 2 Remote Desktop

The app is considered as the fastest remote desktop app to allow access to Windows, Mac and Ubuntu from either an android phone or tablet. It acquires just 12 MB space and is compatible with all the desktop applications and PDF documents. In fact, it allows a user to use 5 computers together with one splashtop account.

11) Astro File Manager

The free business app allows its users to manage as well as organise all their files and other stuff like: music, videos, pictures, videos, and documents on one's Android phone as well as tablet.

12) Google Maps

One of the most important business apps which makes sure that you're always on time for all your important meetings. It does so by suggesting routes which are the shortest and have the least traffic.

13) Facebook Pages Manager
If you're a social media manager with the responsibility to handle multiple Facebook pages, then this particular app will sort your life forever. The app allows one to add multiple Facebook pages under one umbrella. Using the app, one can post, schedule pictures, statuses, videos and events etc. Not only this, one can even change a page's profile picture and cover picture right from the app.

14) WPS Office + PDF

If you have an android version of 2.1 or higher, then this particular app is a must have. The app, which will occupy just 13 MB memory space, is supportive of 23 different file formats. It even supports cloud-storage, mail integration and has many more such features on offer. The app comes with an excellent user-interface and can function on both Android phones and tablets.

15) SMS Backup & Restore

The app,which requires an android OS of 1.6 or higher, allows its users to restore and delete all the messages. It also comes with the ability of exporting data to HTML or web page format. Using the app, one can even merge multiple conversations of the people who have more than one phone number.

StarClinch.com is India’s largest online portal for talent and celebrity booking

A one-year old Delhi-based startup has managed to become the largest Indian online booking platform for artists of all ilks. Whether you're looking for singers, comedians, magicians or photographers, StarClinch.com promises to help you land the perfect talent for your needs.

Launched in March 2015, the online artist-booking website boosts of artists nationwide across 14 categories – namely singers, LIVE bands, instrumentalists, photographers, comedians, magicians, anchors, speakers, dancers, variety artists, models, makeup artists, celebrity appearances, and DJs.

Varun Agrawal, a former investment banker and Founder & CEO of StarClinch.com, started the startup when he recognised the demand for more diversity in the entertainment business, especially in the recent times and the spiralling growth of the industry. StarClinch is aiming to exploit these previously untapped opportunities in the industry in order to reach out to new audiences across the country. Agrawal's graduation in Engineering (Comp. Sci.) and post-graduation in Business Administration from FORE School of Management helped him in his startup journey.

As of today, the organization has over 30 employees working across five departments – Product Development, Networking, Business, Content, and Digital Marketing. Together they have reached the benchmark of 9000+ artist registrations, and have engaged with over 1100 artists for B2C transactions.

StarClinch is currently facing close competition from Yahavi.com, Gigstart.com and Artistivity.com, who are also engaged in the same artist-registering (B2B) and artist-booking (B2C) business. The startup's website with its user-friendly interface, which includes dedicated tabs for information on content, booking information, social-media links of the artists, has helped the startup have its own standing in the market. The website currently has three subscription plans for artists, which come with certain deliverables. In addition to this, the startup, which had managed to make bookings worth 2 cr just in a span of 11 months from the establishment of business, also boosts of having dedicated teams for B2B and B2C dealings.

Up and running successfully for the last one-and-a-half years without any sort of investor-funding, StarClinch has also been able to build a strong presence on the smartphone operating system Android. An iOS release is also in the pipeline.

Drawing in an impressive 30000 visitors per month, and generating a monthly revenue of 15–20 lacs, the startup has a market-estimate of $10 Bn as on 30 September 2016. And, StarClinch doesn't want to stop here. The startup now aims to touch the 50,000 artist-registrations mark by the end of next year.

Bag A Chat- A Unique App For WhatsApp Users To Manage Chat Professionally

With many people practically living their whole lives on WhatsApp and Hike messenger nowadays, this Pune based App was a need of the hour. Introducing Bag A Chat- a unique app crafted especially for WhatsApp and Hike users that will help them manage their chats professionally.

The patent pending app helps one to safely and smartly save and organise their WhatsApp/Hike Messages. The chats and media are saved on the cloud, meaning they can be easily accessed from anywhere in the world.

Started in November last year, the app is a unique concept that doesn't have any other competitor in the market right now. Apart from the saving feature, the app comes loaded with loads of other features like setting message reminder, label messages for logical grouping and an easy & quick search option. The app also provides its users with cool analytics that includes interesting Graphs based on Conversations.

For people concerned about the security angle, be rest assured, the app is completely secure app because no data transfer takes over the net as the app provides its users with 100% offline access.

Bag A Chat can serve as a big asset to businesses as they can opt for business integration through API. The app's business feature can look after customer support, project tracking and manage customer care verticle.





Founded by Anand Desai, a Senior Project Manager at Sungard for 11 years, the unique app making company hasn't received any funding as of yet. According to Desai, the company's immediate plan is to make more and more people aware about the app and drive in new customers.

Unfortunately, the App is currently only available for Android users. But, iOS don't get disheartened, the iOS app is under construction and can be expected to hit the markets very soon.

Bag A Chat- A Unique App For WhatsApp Users To Manage Chat Professionally

With many people practically living their whole lives on WhatsApp and Hike messenger nowadays, this Pune based App was a need of the hour. Introducing Bag A Chat- a unique app crafted especially for WhatsApp and Hike users that will help them manage their chats professionally.

The patent pending app helps one to safely and smartly save and organise their WhatsApp/Hike Messages. The chats and media are saved on the cloud, meaning they can be easily accessed from anywhere in the world.

Started in November last year, the app is a unique concept that doesn't have any other competitor in the market right now. Apart from the saving feature, the app comes loaded with loads of other features like setting message reminder, label messages for logical grouping and an easy & quick search option. The app also provides its users with cool analytics that includes interesting Graphs based on Conversations.

For people concerned about the security angle, be rest assured, the app is completely secure app because no data transfer takes over the net as the app provides its users with 100% offline access.

Bag A Chat can serve as a big asset to businesses as they can opt for business integration through API. The app's business feature can look after customer support, project tracking and manage customer care verticle.





Founded by Anand Desai, a Senior Project Manager at Sungard for 11 years, the unique app making company hasn't received any funding as of yet. According to Desai, the company's immediate plan is to make more and more people aware about the app and drive in new customers.

Unfortunately, the App is currently only available for Android users. But, iOS don't get disheartened, the iOS app is under construction and can be expected to hit the markets very soon.

Bangalore-Based Shroodo Is An Answer To Scaterred Online Reviews For Quick Buying Decision

Even before going to a movie we check the reviews in the newspaper or online on some website. These days it is not just the case with movies, be it a vacation or a simple lunch, we all don't go out before checking the reviews. The only problem is that these reviews are less in number and at the same time are scattered as well. Shroodo is here to solve that problem for its users with a unified platform where they can find an ample number of genuine reviews and write one themselves.

THE IDEA

Shroodo is a fun and entertaining mobile app through which people can rate, review, discuss and connect. The main incentive for starting up of Shroodo was to cater to the requirements of the people so that they could access genuine reviews and ratings of movies, restaurants, diners, travelling getaways and many more necessary items. With Shroodo, you can also recommend all these things to another friend so that less time, money and energy is spent. Your valuable reviews will surely be very helpful for other friends and acquaintances.

Shroodo App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codezonetech.shroodo

MEET THE MAKERS

[caption id="attachment_104108" align="alignleft" width="242"] Supritha Papanna[/caption]Max and Supritha Papanna, the two people behind Shroodo are very dedicated towards their work and work constantly to make things better.

Max: He is a very talented and distinguished Interaction Designer (IX) and is equally good at User Experience (UX). Max created the visual effects. Usability Lead in varied projects ranging from Application Designs, Websites, Animations, Corporate Identity Designs to top-notch Corporate Designs. Max has had an extensive experience in the IT industry for more than 10 years.

Supritha Papanna: She possesses a Bachelor of Engineering degree. She is passionate about solving problems to make this world a better place for everyone. She is the only member working because the product development at Shroodo. She believes the best gift any woman can give to herself is an identity for herself.

What's Unique

Reviews are a great way to judge a place or a movie. But the problem is that these reviews are scattered all around the web. There are very few people who write reviews and on the contrary, many people look up to reviews. Shroodo is  an organised platform for all your reviews is it a hotel or a restaurant or a movie. They have overcome all these shortcomings,

1. They are all scattered
   2. Users don't find any motivation to add reviews
   3. Anonymous / Fake / Paid reviews misleading user experience

In Shroodo users add reviews for friends and look up to reviews from friends with which decision-making like selecting a carpenter, a restaurant to visit, a book to read or any day to day activity becomes easy. Furthermore, a user can also "Recommend" to friends. Using this they wish to build a network that people can use. Their USP is "Review of friends and Reviews from friends"
TARGET MARKET

People depend a lot on reviews. Before going to a new place we always check the reviews and then make the plan. There are various online portals which have used fake or paid reviews to get recognition, and that’s what is different with Shroodo. Their database is 100% authentic with valuable ratings and reviews from original consumers and buyers.

Their end users are
1. Online users looking for reviews or users who write reviews.
2. Businesses looking for maintaining online reputation.

FUNDING

Shroodo is bootstrapped by co-founders and aims to create self-sustainable business via stable revenue model before approaching investors.

PLAN OF ACTION

Shroodo is currently run by just two team members, they are looking to expand their team soon. On the other front, they aim to be at least 1L users with minimum 5L(0.5M) per month by the year end.
Some of their plans are,
1. Make Shroodo a standard review platform.
2. Best experience to users via our product.
3. More innovation into user solutions

Bangalore-Based Shroodo Is An Answer To Scaterred Online Reviews For Quick Buying Decision

Even before going to a movie we check the reviews in the newspaper or online on some website. These days it is not just the case with movies, be it a vacation or a simple lunch, we all don't go out before checking the reviews. The only problem is that these reviews are less in number and at the same time are scattered as well. Shroodo is here to solve that problem for its users with a unified platform where they can find an ample number of genuine reviews and write one themselves.

THE IDEA

Shroodo is a fun and entertaining mobile app through which people can rate, review, discuss and connect. The main incentive for starting up of Shroodo was to cater to the requirements of the people so that they could access genuine reviews and ratings of movies, restaurants, diners, travelling getaways and many more necessary items. With Shroodo, you can also recommend all these things to another friend so that less time, money and energy is spent. Your valuable reviews will surely be very helpful for other friends and acquaintances.

Shroodo App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codezonetech.shroodo

MEET THE MAKERS

[caption id="attachment_104108" align="alignleft" width="242"] Supritha Papanna[/caption]Max and Supritha Papanna, the two people behind Shroodo are very dedicated towards their work and work constantly to make things better.

Max: He is a very talented and distinguished Interaction Designer (IX) and is equally good at User Experience (UX). Max created the visual effects. Usability Lead in varied projects ranging from Application Designs, Websites, Animations, Corporate Identity Designs to top-notch Corporate Designs. Max has had an extensive experience in the IT industry for more than 10 years.

Supritha Papanna: She possesses a Bachelor of Engineering degree. She is passionate about solving problems to make this world a better place for everyone. She is the only member working because the product development at Shroodo. She believes the best gift any woman can give to herself is an identity for herself.

What's Unique

Reviews are a great way to judge a place or a movie. But the problem is that these reviews are scattered all around the web. There are very few people who write reviews and on the contrary, many people look up to reviews. Shroodo is  an organised platform for all your reviews is it a hotel or a restaurant or a movie. They have overcome all these shortcomings,

1. They are all scattered
   2. Users don't find any motivation to add reviews
   3. Anonymous / Fake / Paid reviews misleading user experience

In Shroodo users add reviews for friends and look up to reviews from friends with which decision-making like selecting a carpenter, a restaurant to visit, a book to read or any day to day activity becomes easy. Furthermore, a user can also "Recommend" to friends. Using this they wish to build a network that people can use. Their USP is "Review of friends and Reviews from friends"
TARGET MARKET

People depend a lot on reviews. Before going to a new place we always check the reviews and then make the plan. There are various online portals which have used fake or paid reviews to get recognition, and that’s what is different with Shroodo. Their database is 100% authentic with valuable ratings and reviews from original consumers and buyers.

Their end users are
1. Online users looking for reviews or users who write reviews.
2. Businesses looking for maintaining online reputation.

FUNDING

Shroodo is bootstrapped by co-founders and aims to create self-sustainable business via stable revenue model before approaching investors.

PLAN OF ACTION

Shroodo is currently run by just two team members, they are looking to expand their team soon. On the other front, they aim to be at least 1L users with minimum 5L(0.5M) per month by the year end.
Some of their plans are,
1. Make Shroodo a standard review platform.
2. Best experience to users via our product.
3. More innovation into user solutions

Smartly.me Recommends Phones & Apps Based On Your Personas

Buying a phone these days is such a hassle, with so much variety at hand. You ask for one and they will show you 20 models with slight differences. Phones these days boast of features, some of which we don't even understand. A phone is one gadget that you carry around with you all day, so it is important to get the right one. Bengaluru-based startup Mobiorbit Labs created Smartly.Me app along the same lines. Dig in for more.

THE IDEA

This is an app that helps you make informed decisions regarding which android smartphones to buy and then later on helps you personalize it with the best available apps and features as well. It will help you by suggesting tips & tricks to make your smartphone smarter through personalized recommendations. They intend to be the solution for all your smart phone related need for now, and later on move to smart gadgets.

App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiorbitlabs.smartknit

MEET THE MAKERS

There are three co-founders for this startup - Muralidhar Rajan, Palash Patil and Santosh Prabhu

The founders have been working together for more than a decade and have handled varied roles from engineering, roadmap planning, QA, project management to post sales support in the Indian mobile industry. The team has already filed 5 patents with the Indian PTO related to the Smartly.Me product.

TARGET MARKET

Confused on which Android smartphone to buy?
Not sure how to discover the right apps for you?
Not sure how to get the best out of your smartphone?

If you've ever asked yourself the above questions, you are a part of their target market. They target any and every person with a smart phone of thinking about buying one.

USP

The last couple of years have seen a lot of new entrants into the phone market and to compete with them the already existing companies also came up with a variety of phones. The market now is flooded with phones of different prices, features and design. This makes it harder for an individual to decide which phone is better for him/her. For example, there are more than 80 phones in the INR 15,000 to 20,000 price range, with similar specifications, making it extremely difficult to make the right choice. It is different from other websites offering the same information as it provides extensive information about various products. It is this clutter that Smartly.Me tries to clear, by ensuring that every user finds the right phone which matches the user’s requirements.

Smartly.Me when installed on an Android phone, can within seconds, analyze the usage of the phone and through intelligent algorithms, predict the kind of persona that user is. This is then followed by a set of personalized smartphone recommendations, with relevant justification. All this happens in less than a minute.

FUNDING

They are currently self bootstrapped and trying to raise their first round of funding.

PLAN OF ACTION

In the first three months after they launched they received about 10k downloads itself. The vision of the app is to be a one stop solution for all aspects related to smartphones keeping personalization as the key focus. They are currently focusing just on smart phones and later will move on to smart gadgets as well. The next feature that they want to add is a chat forum so that the users can interact with each other and have discussions and recommend things to each other as well.

Also they plan to associate with various smart phone brands in an attempt to get them on board to communicate the right product information to the users and ensure that they are providing information that people can rely on.

Talking about the apps front, they want to connect users to the best apps and games on a personal. They want to recommend games and apps to a user based on his/her interest, so that it  is not just what has been trending but what is actually useful to the user.

Smartly.me Recommends Phones & Apps Based On Your Personas

Buying a phone these days is such a hassle, with so much variety at hand. You ask for one and they will show you 20 models with slight differences. Phones these days boast of features, some of which we don't even understand. A phone is one gadget that you carry around with you all day, so it is important to get the right one. Bengaluru-based startup Mobiorbit Labs created Smartly.Me app along the same lines. Dig in for more.

THE IDEA

This is an app that helps you make informed decisions regarding which android smartphones to buy and then later on helps you personalize it with the best available apps and features as well. It will help you by suggesting tips & tricks to make your smartphone smarter through personalized recommendations. They intend to be the solution for all your smart phone related need for now, and later on move to smart gadgets.

App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiorbitlabs.smartknit

MEET THE MAKERS

There are three co-founders for this startup - Muralidhar Rajan, Palash Patil and Santosh Prabhu

The founders have been working together for more than a decade and have handled varied roles from engineering, roadmap planning, QA, project management to post sales support in the Indian mobile industry. The team has already filed 5 patents with the Indian PTO related to the Smartly.Me product.

TARGET MARKET

Confused on which Android smartphone to buy?
Not sure how to discover the right apps for you?
Not sure how to get the best out of your smartphone?

If you've ever asked yourself the above questions, you are a part of their target market. They target any and every person with a smart phone of thinking about buying one.

USP

The last couple of years have seen a lot of new entrants into the phone market and to compete with them the already existing companies also came up with a variety of phones. The market now is flooded with phones of different prices, features and design. This makes it harder for an individual to decide which phone is better for him/her. For example, there are more than 80 phones in the INR 15,000 to 20,000 price range, with similar specifications, making it extremely difficult to make the right choice. It is different from other websites offering the same information as it provides extensive information about various products. It is this clutter that Smartly.Me tries to clear, by ensuring that every user finds the right phone which matches the user’s requirements.

Smartly.Me when installed on an Android phone, can within seconds, analyze the usage of the phone and through intelligent algorithms, predict the kind of persona that user is. This is then followed by a set of personalized smartphone recommendations, with relevant justification. All this happens in less than a minute.

FUNDING

They are currently self bootstrapped and trying to raise their first round of funding.

PLAN OF ACTION

In the first three months after they launched they received about 10k downloads itself. The vision of the app is to be a one stop solution for all aspects related to smartphones keeping personalization as the key focus. They are currently focusing just on smart phones and later will move on to smart gadgets as well. The next feature that they want to add is a chat forum so that the users can interact with each other and have discussions and recommend things to each other as well.

Also they plan to associate with various smart phone brands in an attempt to get them on board to communicate the right product information to the users and ensure that they are providing information that people can rely on.

Talking about the apps front, they want to connect users to the best apps and games on a personal. They want to recommend games and apps to a user based on his/her interest, so that it  is not just what has been trending but what is actually useful to the user.

GoGo Becomes First Indian App To Fully Leverage Twitter Fabric For User Engagement

GoGo, a recently launched app that delivers personalized content on Android user’s lockscreen, today said that it has become the first app in India to fully leverage all major Twitter’s Fabric software development kits (SDKs) for enhanced user experience. GoGo is the first app in India to fully leverage all the major Twitter Fabric SDKs, including Crashlytics, Twitter Kit, Digits and MoPub.

GoGo is using Twitter’s technology for identity verification, app improvement, analytics, content and monetization. Besides leveraging Twitter’s expertise in building scalability, GoGo will be at the forefront of content aggregation leveraging Twitter’s content stream.

Daman Soni, GoGo’s co-foundersaid, “We are delighted to leverage the best technology kits from a globally scaled company to build a world class scalable service for Gogo. Twitter has a strong commitment to working with startups and we will continue to learn from the best and ensure our service is further strengthened and we are able to deliver most relevant content efficiently.”

Twitter has a suite of tech products that enable app developers to understand their users better, deliver relevant content and enhance monetization. GoGo has also been working closely with Twitter teams to address specific problems for the Indian market.

Daman also added that Twitter Fabric is the ideal suite of SDKs in addressing unique problems that Indian developers face due to lack of infrastructure. Specifically, pertinent issues like Authentication, Content Delivery and Monetisation are key areas which homegrown Indian apps have faced issues while scaling up.

Launched in November 2015, GoGo has rapidly scaled its user base. The startup recently raised seed investment from HT Media(through their subsidiary HT Digital Media Holdings Limited) and North Base Media (NBM). North Base Mediais founded by a team of media executives from the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Reuters, is an investment firm that focusses on media and media technology.

GoGo Becomes First Indian App To Fully Leverage Twitter Fabric For User Engagement

GoGo, a recently launched app that delivers personalized content on Android user’s lockscreen, today said that it has become the first app in India to fully leverage all major Twitter’s Fabric software development kits (SDKs) for enhanced user experience. GoGo is the first app in India to fully leverage all the major Twitter Fabric SDKs, including Crashlytics, Twitter Kit, Digits and MoPub.

GoGo is using Twitter’s technology for identity verification, app improvement, analytics, content and monetization. Besides leveraging Twitter’s expertise in building scalability, GoGo will be at the forefront of content aggregation leveraging Twitter’s content stream.

Daman Soni, GoGo’s co-foundersaid, “We are delighted to leverage the best technology kits from a globally scaled company to build a world class scalable service for Gogo. Twitter has a strong commitment to working with startups and we will continue to learn from the best and ensure our service is further strengthened and we are able to deliver most relevant content efficiently.”

Twitter has a suite of tech products that enable app developers to understand their users better, deliver relevant content and enhance monetization. GoGo has also been working closely with Twitter teams to address specific problems for the Indian market.

Daman also added that Twitter Fabric is the ideal suite of SDKs in addressing unique problems that Indian developers face due to lack of infrastructure. Specifically, pertinent issues like Authentication, Content Delivery and Monetisation are key areas which homegrown Indian apps have faced issues while scaling up.

Launched in November 2015, GoGo has rapidly scaled its user base. The startup recently raised seed investment from HT Media(through their subsidiary HT Digital Media Holdings Limited) and North Base Media (NBM). North Base Mediais founded by a team of media executives from the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Reuters, is an investment firm that focusses on media and media technology.