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New Emergency Medical Assistance App Aims to Halve Response Time

San Francisco-based MUrgency has developed a new mobile app to ensure fast emergency medical assistance.The company has also joined the UNDP's Business to Call Action programme with the app.

The company, founded by Shaffi Mather, through the new app, aims to reach out across the globe by the end of 2015 through the MUrgency platform.

Mather said it is well known that timely medical assistance is the most critical factor in saving lives.

"Unfortunately, it is not readily available to 90 percent of world's population. At MUrgency, it is our mission to make fast emergency medical assistance

available through the mobile phone to anyone, anytime, anywhere with just one tap on your phone," said Mather on Thursday.

While the platform and app are available globally, the MUrgency Responder function on the app is being rolled out region by region, starting with Punjab in India in August 2015, following strict validation of responders' credentials.

Before launching this app, MUrgency was tested in various markets such as Dubai in UAE, Punjab in India and Israel and it was found that the app helped in reducing response time to less than half of what it takes an ambulance in an efficiently run ambulance system to reach the emergency victim.

According to WHO estimates, more people die from lack of timely care than from AIDS, TB and malaria combined.

This app leverages the power of mobile technology, cloud network and cell phone networks to create a seamless global emergency response network that aims at emergency response by connecting people who need help directly with trained responders like doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambulances.

On the supply side, the network aggregates existing emergency responder resources, validates their credentials and onboard them to the MUrgency Network.

New App 'Million Kitchen' to Deliver Home-Cooked Meals

What if your neighbour has made pasta for lunch while her neighbour has rustled up a Nizami biriyani and you had the option to order in both piping hot at your workplace?That is no more wishful thinking now with Million Kitchen, a brand new mobile-based home food discovery and ordering platform that enables home-cooked meals to be delivered at the doorstep.

"Say my mother has cooked amazing pasta today and your mother has cooked mutton curry. Anyone in a 5 to 7 kilometre radius looking for mutton curry today can just go and search and in three clicks order the pasta or the mutton. The app is available on Android only and the menu changes everyday," says Vimlendu Jha, Founder and CEO of Million Kitchen.

The mobile application which operates on the principle of "hyper-local home-made food on the cloud," is an enterprise by the Delhi-based NGO Swechha and allows women hailing from various socio-economic backgrounds to earn money using their cooking skills.

The idea for the technology enterprise began as an idea for a program called 'Lunch Box 17,' where women in a specific slum of Delhi were approached and asked to cook meals, which Swecha, a city-based NGO would then help sell.

"We were thinking on how to organise a dabba system, which offers affordable home cooked food and developed the 'Million Kitchen' app, where my mother or your mother or aunt or household help can just click a photograph of what she just cooked and post it on the app," says Jha, who also heads the NGO.

This Startup Has an App to Solve Urban India's Space Crunch

Relocating to a new country or city? Planning to just get away from it all, and live out of a backpack for a couple of months? Say you're moving out of Mumbai for two months, or remodelling your place. Where do you store your things? Thankfully, there's now an on-demand self-storage service in India that will cost you a fraction of home and office rent.

BoxMySpace, a 6-month-old startup from Mumbai was founded by Pratyush Jalan to solve the problem of space crunch in India's urban cities. The firm raised Rs. 1.92 crores earlier this week, in a funding round led by Farooq Oomerbhoy, Ritesh Veera and Singapore Angel Networks. The service will expand to Pune, Bangalore, and Delhi this year.

Jalan was exposed to the concept of self storage in the US from his time as an undergraduate student at Cornell, followed by work stints at Seattle and Mumbai. Unlike western markets, there is no concept of a garage storage for an apartment in India. The service has over 500 boxes stored in their warehouse facility, viewable on Google Maps.

According to him, the service has got a good response from both consumers and businesses, with people storing their winter clothes, Diwali decorations, documents, files, and peripherals. "We actually started out with a thousand square feet space, and now we have a 12,000 square feet facility," Jalan said.

"For businesses, hiring a space in the city becomes a big problem. To go and get a warehouse yourself, you get sort of locked in by lease, price, there are security issues, it's just a hassle." he added.

BoxMySpace has two models, by the box, and by the space. The cost of storing a box, measuring 2x1.5x1 feet ranges from Rs. 199 to Rs. 69 a month, which includes a free pickup. Larger storage items can be stored in 4x4 feet and 6x6 feet packages, ranging from Rs. 599-999 and Rs. 1,499-1,999.

he customer can use the service through the Web or mobile apps, available on Android and ioS. "You can call your items back any time you want, within 24 hours. We take an inventory of what you have stored and upload it to your account. You get a full visual catalogue of all the things you have stored, and search through them," Jalan said.

BoxMySpace is looking to invest in its technology and operational side, specifically on record management, logistics, automation, and booking process. The service leases out space from logistics warehouses to reduce capital expenditures, and works with last mile logistics providers like The Porter and Shipplr.

While BoxMySpace doesn't handle relocation, they facilitate it with other logistics providers. "Logistics players already have centres in other cities, we just need a space where the standards are set. We need 12 CCTV cameras, fireproof, ventilation... now that we know the parameters, we need facilities of this kind. Once that's put in place, it's basically replication." Jalan said.

In a bid to improve consumer trust, BoxMySpace offers a virtual tour of their facility on Google Maps, and insures every box for Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 1 lakh per space. The company sees opportunities in the second hand marketplace, where distress sales can be stored with the service until a good deal is found.

OYO Rooms - Budget Hotels

OYO Rooms offers comfortable hotel and guesthouse rooms with assured amenities that include an AC room with TV, complimentary breakfast, in-room Wi-Fi and 24X7 customer service support, at pocket friendly prices starting from Rs. 999.WHERE ALL CAN YOU BOOK AN OYO? We currently operate in 45+ major business and travel destinations in India including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Chennai, Goa, Jaipur, Gurgaon, Varanasi, Mysore, Agra, Tirupati, Ahmedabad, Noida, Dehradun, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Pushkar, Nagpur, Nashik, Indore, Bhopal, Kota, Vadodara with many more to come.

WHAT DOES THIS APP OFFER? This app lets you search and book a hotel in one of the 600+ OYO hotels available across India - Browse our list of hotels in the city or explore them on a map - Find an OYO hotel near you or nearby a specific locality or landmark - Book the room in just 3 taps. You don't need a credit card to make a booking, just verify your phone number when you sign up and pay when you reach the hotel. Hotel booking has never been faster! - Manage your bookings- Experience in-room services through your app- Explore restaurants nearby your hotel

Periscope

Periscope lets you broadcast live video to the world. Going live will instantly notify your followers, who can join, comment and send you hearts in real time. The more hearts you get, the higher they flutter on the screen.Other features

REPLAY: When your broadcast is over, you can make it available for replay so viewers can watch later. Viewers can replay your broadcast with comments and hearts to relive the full experience. Replays currently last 24 hours. You can delete your replay at any time.

PRIVATE: If you want to broadcast to specific people, press the Private option before going live and choose who you want to invite to your broadcast. 

TWITTER: You can choose to share your Periscope broadcasts on Twitter by tapping the bird icon before you start broadcasting. When you go live, you’ll tweet a link so that your Twitter followers can watch on the web (or in the app)

MANAGE NOTIFICATIONS: Periscope will suggest people for you to follow based on your Twitter network. You can always follow new people, or unfollow them if you don’t want to be notified when they go live. You can also adjust notification preferences in Periscope Settings

HEARTS: Periscope keeps track of how many hearts you get from your viewers. The more hearts, the higher you get in the “Most Loved” list.

DRUPE- Contacts. Your way.

Features

★ Contact with just one swipe - Using drupe, you can reach anyone on your contact list, using your preferred communication app, with just one swipe.

★ Always around - Drupe is within your reach whenever you need it. A tiny trigger icon, with four dots, that is with you across all apps and screens. Whenever you need to contact someone, just swipe the dots and drupe’em. It’s that easy.

★ Organizes your address book chaos - It’s about time we’ve had some help with keeping our address book up-to-date and solve the duplicate contacts issue.

★ Launch all your communication apps from one place –Once we know who we want to contact, a world full of communication apps is at our feet. There are so many of them. drupe makes it much easier to decide which app to use, and to quickly start the interaction. Dial,WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, Skype, phone… are all in, and there are more.

★ Unified recent communications feed – Finally you can track your recent communications log in one place, call log, SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and more.

DRUPE

-A new way to communicate with your contacts.- It brings your contacts and communication applications together in one place.

RATED – 4.5 starsINSTALLS- 500,000-1,000,000SIZE-9.1 M ANDROID REQUIREMENTS- 4.1 -It does not drain your battery life.

EXPENSIFY-Expense reports

Did you lose your receipt? No problem! Expensify lets you import your credit card transactions and automatically creates an IRS guaranteed eReceipt for all purchases under $75!

There are over 2.5 million users and 250,000 companies around the world using Expensify.

RATED -4.1 starsSIZE – Varies with devices 

-Expensify makes capturing receipts, tracking time or mileage, business travel and creating expense reports quick and easy. 

Expensify is great for salespeople, business travelers, and companies of all sizes! Expense reporting has never been easier. Here’s how it works:

1. Use Expensify to take a picture of your receipt.2. Select which report that expense goes on....and you’re done!

The Smart Scan technology reads the receipt and creates the expense, eliminating any manual entry and saving you precious time and energy.

HOW DOES IT WORK ??

Here’s what Expensify does for you:✔ Easy Receipt Capture: Simply take a picture of your receipt and then throw it away✔ Automatic Receipt Scanning: Our SmartScan Technology “reads” your receipt and creates an expense✔ Mobile Expense Creation: Create and edit expenses on the go - in your car, at the airport, anywhere✔ Time Entry: Enter your hourly rate and length of time worked✔ Mileage Entry: Enter distance, use your phone’s GPS, or take a picture of your odometer✔ Bank & Credit Card Import: Sync your card with Expensify and we’ll automatically pull your transactions into your account✔ Easy Report Submission: Email expense reports to your manager or convert to PDF and save

✔ Expensify Trips: We make travel easy with free flight alerts plus automatic expense report based on your itinerary✔ Worldwide Currency Support: Including automatic currency conversion✔ Company Expense Policies: Create and admin the categories, tags and rules for all users ✔ Offline Mode: Use Expensify even if your phone is out of service or in airplane mode✔ ExpenseIt with Expensify: We take receipts from anywhere! Send your receipts to receipts@expensify.com and we’ll scan them and put them in your account.✔ Tons of Integrations with Import/Export: Excel, Evernote, Dropbox, Oracle, SalesForce, FinancialForce, Xero, Quickbooks, SAP, NetSuite, ADP, Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics

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