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TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 – A mega 95-day coding contest for women technologists concludes

Lakshmi Rajan — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:13:10 +0000

Bangalore is the silicon capital of India and as the flag bearer of the IT industry it rightfully hosted the grand finale of India’s largest coding event for women, TechGig Goddess. The event in it’s fourth edition saw massive participation of more than 68,791 women technologists. The 95-day coding contest culminated at a glitzy award ceremony held at The Den Hotel the winners were declared and cheered amidst a huge celebration. The coveted event is conceived by TimesJob and TechGig was backed by American Express, a globally integrated payments company and sponsored by the leading global investment bank- Goldman Sachs. TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 was launched in August when women technologists from the length and breadth of the country were invited to share their ideas and codes in different programming languages at the contest. The event saw participation from fresh graduates to senior leaders – women coders from all backgrounds and experience level who participated with lots of enthusiasm. The finale day celebrations also marked a Women Disruptors Conference, which saw full house participation from the finalists. This conference saw more than 25 women technology leaders from companies such as IBM, Oracle, Capgemini, Dell IT, Microsoft, Verizon, Juniper, Wipro, ThoughtWorks India, Intuit, PayPal, Accenture, American Express, Goldman Sachs and others, exchange their ideas and opinions on diversity and women representation in the IT companies. India’s first specially-abled IAS office Snehlata Mishra was crowned ‘TechGig Geek Goddess 2018’ and she took home the winner’s trophy, merit certificate and a cheque of Rs 1,50,000. There were in total eight categories and each had their own winners too.

Winners of the TechGig Goddess 2018:

Other than the title honour, eight more winners were declared in other categories. 1st Runners up – Sushmita Nikose 2nd Runners up – Karishma Aggarwal 3rd Runners up – Ayushi Agarwal 4th Runners up – Neeraja Tokekar Machine Learning Theme Winner: Nithya Machine Learning 1st Runner up: Nandana Kudeti IoT Theme Winner: Sri Harini IoT 1st Runner up: Reema M Geek Goddess is hosted by TechGig – India’s leading IT learning platform and has more than 3.2 million technologists onboard. In this season C, C++, C#, Java and Python were among the most preferred programming languages. Talking about the Geek Goddess, Ramathreya Krishnamurthi, Business Head, TechGig stated “Each year, with TechGig Geek Goddess, our focus is to bring India’s best women coders to limelight and give them the best platform to showcase their technical prowess. I am delighted to announce that this year’s TechGig Geek Goddess 2018 surpassed participation levels of all previous editions. The energy and enthusiasm of participants was infectious and I hope this competitive spirit continues throughout their careers. My congratulations to Snehlata Mishra, the winner of this edition of TechGig Geek Goddess, and all the other participants who gave their best shot at the title.” ]]>

Aircel introduces 'Five States, One Rate' for the South Indian States

Lakshmi Rajan — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 04:45:07 +0000

Aircel, one of the leading player in the South Indian telecom market today announced a plan that does away with the roaming charges for its Aircel customers within the five South Indian states. The ‘Five States, One Rate’ does not need any special pack or activation and is applicable for both its prepaid and postpaid customers. The offer covers the five states namely Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Kerala but the free roaming is applicable only on the Aircel network. When we spoke to Kanwarbir Singh, Karnataka circle head, Aircel he stated this as an experimental offering since Aircel has strong presence in these five states and possibly they will roll-out the offering on pan India level depending on the data gathered from these five states. It should be noted that Aircel has presence in 23 telecom circles across India. So if you are an Aircel customer and traveling between these states you will incur no incoming call charges. The outgoing calls will be charged at 1p/ sec for both local and STD calls and the SMS and Pocket internet packs will remain unchanged as per their existing plans. Though it has to be stated the free roaming and the call benefits will be applicable only when the users are within the Aircel network, so the company advices to shift manually to Aircel network while going out of their local network area. The offering will be activated by default from 11th June, 2015 to all the existing and new customers.]]>

Aircel offers new 'unlimited' data plans in Karnataka for this festive season

Lakshmi Rajan — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:17:59 +0000

In continuing its aggressive policy in offering affordable and attractive data plans, Aircel announced a bouquet of unlimited data plans for Karnataka circle. Starting at Rs 37 price point, the company believes it till help it consolidate and push ahead new consumer acquisition in coming months. Aircel also stated that as a festive bonanza it is offering up-to 25 percent extra value on all existing Pocket internet products above Rs 100 along with free Facebook and Whatsapp data every day. The unlimited Pocket Internet packs starts at Rs 37 with a validity of 7 days and offering 200 MB of 3G and unlimited 2G post the 3G limit with added perks of 10 MB free data for Facebook and WhatsApp usage every day. There are also data plans available for Rs 57 and Rs 72 in addition to existing plans above Rs. 100. For high data usage consumers there are plans ranging from Rs 148 to Rs 1647 with validity of 30 days and offering up to 25% extra added benefits for this season. The Rs 148 Pocket Internet plan offers 1.25GB 3G & 2G along with 10MB free WhatsApp and Facebook data usage every day for 30 days. Aircel is a pioneer in making 3G data plans affordable and take it to masses by introducing plans as low as Rs 17 for consumers to try it out. The Pocket Internet plans has been so popular with its users that the company constantly innovates and offers attractive data plans at low levels. Aircel also has partnered with Facebook, Wikipedia, Snapdeal, Micromax etc to offer custom data experience.]]>

Aircel offers new 'unlimited' data plans in Karnataka for this festive season

Lakshmi Rajan — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 04:17:59 +0000

Aircel and Micromax handshakes to forge a strategic alliance

Lakshmi Rajan — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:31:17 +0000

Micromax, the leading home-grown mobile maker and Aircel, one of India’s leading telecom operator announced today a strategic partnership to increase their footprint in data and smartphone market in India [caption id="attachment_5509" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Khaja Muzaffarullah, National Sales Head, Micromax and Kadhiravan K, Circle Business Head Aircel, Karnataka at the announcement of strategic partnership in Bangalore.[/caption] The strategic alliance which could be a ‘win-win’ deal sees both the companies sharing their channel and retail networks, sales resources and also run an integrated device sales activation program. Taking an unique approach to drive in customers, Aircel also announced a first of its kind reverse bundling handset offers for up to Rs 12,000 per month for a new Aircel subscriber on any existing Micromax mobile and tablet. As per the new Aircel’s bundled offers for Micromax devices, there is a bouquet of offers for those using smartphones, feature phones as well as dongles for 3 months upon activation of the SIM. Under this offer, the local calling price on both 3G as well as 2G users will come down to 1p/2sec or 30p/minute and STD calls will be charged at 1p/sec. Smartphone users will get 2GB data on both 2G and 3G per month for 3 months while those on feature phones will benefit with 1GB data per month for three months. Also all users get Rs 10,000 worth WAP content free over three months. Additionally, Smartphone users can enjoy Aircel’s Popcorn TV (Internet TV) application free for three months. The dongle users gets 500 MB per month free for three months. Both the companies are targeting to acquire 4 to 5 lakh Micromax device users every month with this strategic alliance.]]>

Watch live: Micromax and Aircel to announce a strategic partnership

Lakshmi Rajan — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:54:01 +0000

Home-grown leading mobile maker, Micromax and Aircel, the leading telecom operator has scheduled a press conference tomorrow, 25th of September to announce a strategic partnership. The press meet is scheduled at 12 PM tomorrow and in case you want to catch it live, drop in back here at the scheduled time to catch the action live. Of course we will be covering the meet and visit us back for partnership news tomorrow. Stay tuned.

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