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Facebook has appointed <keyword id="941091" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Umang-Bedi">Umang Bedi</keyword> as the Managing Director for its India business, and in his new role, he would be responsible for building and maintaining strategic relationships with top clients and regional agencies in the country. 

	<keyword id="1158117" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kirthiga-Reddy">Kirthiga Reddy</keyword>, the present MD, will be moving back to the States to take on her new role in the Global Accounts team at the company’s Menlo Park, California headquarters. 
	 
	Umang brings to Facebook almost two decades of his leadership experience in a variety of fields, including sales, marketing and partnerships. In the past, he has successfully built teams and grown businesses for several multinational companies. 

	He was the MD of the South Asia region at Adobe before joining Facebook, responsible for growing their India business and helping India feature amongst the leading markets for Adobe in the APAC and global regions. 

	“India is known for its great talent pool and we are really pleased to have Umang Bedi, a proven business executive to lead our business in India. I also want to wish Kirthiga the very best in her new global role. Kirthiga has played a huge and key role in building our India business from scratch, and I know she will continue to deliver the same impact in the US.” said Dan Neary, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Facebook. 

	He further added, “Facebook is where people and businesses connect on mobile and with close to 150 million monthly active people in India, we see significant opportunities to help Indian business - large and small - deliver against their business objectives in the mobile world.” 

	Umang was quoted saying, “I am thrilled to join Facebook and am looking forward to working with the talented teams in India, to help brands and agencies grow their business on our platform. For me it’s a promising opportunity to participate in India's digital growth, and I can’t think of a better place to be at.” 

	Umang, who did his engineering from University of Pune, is also an alumni of Harvard Business School and has received the prestigious ‘40 Under Forty: India's Hottest Business Leaders Award 2014’ given by The Economic Times and Spencer Stuart in 2014. 

	“After six years in India building our operations and business, it’s hard to leave a team I now call family. The good news is that we will continue to work together. As I look ahead, I am excited about how well positioned our business is, to grow from strength to strength with Umang’s leadership, and with my next opportunity to shape and drive our emerging markets strategy across some of the world’s biggest brands,” said Reddy. 
	 
	<a href="http://www.ypo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Umang-Bedi-YPO-Bangalore-1024x768.jpeg">Image source</a>

Umang Bedi is the new Managing Director of Facebook India

<keyword id="5569898" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="facebook-india-ceo-umang-bedi">Facebook India CEO Umang Bedi</keyword> has put in his papers after working at the social media giant for 15 months, ET reported. <keyword id="736869" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Facebook-India">Facebook India</keyword> confirmed the development, “We confirm that <keyword id="941091" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Umang-Bedi">Umang Bedi</keyword> will be leaving his role at Facebook at the end of this year. He’s built a really strong team and business during his time with us, and we wish him all the best,” a company spokesperson said. <keyword id="2799363" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sandeep-Bhushan">Sandeep Bhushan</keyword> has been appointed as the interim managing director. Bhushan, who is a former Samsung IT and mobile business director, handled the new revenue streams from FMCG advertisers for Facebook across the region. Prior to Samsung, Bhushan was vice president, digital for HT Media. Facebook had appointed the former Adobe South Asia region MD Umang Bedi in June last year to build and maintain strategic relationships with top clients and regional agencies in the country. At Adobe, Bedi was responsible for growing their business in India and helping India grow to amongst the leading markets for Adobe. He succeeded <keyword id="1158117" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kirthiga-Reddy">Kirthiga Reddy</keyword> at Facebook, who returned to the US to take on a new role at the company’s headquarters at Menlo Park. At the time of appointment Bedi had termed the new role as a promising opportunity, "I am thrilled to join Facebook and am looking forward to working with the talented teams in India, to help brands and agencies grow their business on our platform. For me it's a promising opportunity to participate in India's digital growth, and I can't think of a better place to be at.", he had said after being appointed. Facebook users in India have crossed 240-million mark becoming the largest audience country for the social media giant, according a recent media report stated. As of 13 July, Facebook reported a total “potential audience” of 241 million active users in India, compared with 240 million in the US. Active users in India are up 27% in the past six months alone (+50 million), compared to growth of 12% (+26 million) in the US over the same period. Despite these strong gains, social media penetration in India remains relatively low, with just 19% of the country’s total population using Facebook in June. That compares to 73% penetration in the US, and a global average of around 42%, the report said.

Facebook India CEO Umang Bedi quits after 15 months of joining the social media giant

The <keyword id="26362" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Government">government</keyword> on Friday invited bids to develop a chat bot or voice assistance application like Amazon's Alexa or Google Assistant to deliver e-governance services to the public. The artificial intelligence-based <keyword id="10530502" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="conversational-platform">conversational platform</keyword> is expected to interact with the public in multiple languages, analyse sentiments and intent, collect and analyse data to give personalised experience to users. The National E-Governance Division of Ministry of Electronics and IT has invited proposals to build the conversational platform that can be deployed on the <keyword id="10529292" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="umang-platform">UMANG platform</keyword>, which hosts various apps that provide <keyword id="329513" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Government-Services">government services</keyword> to citizens. "The platform should be able to provide assistance with general tasks, including but not limited to availing services of government and available on the <keyword id="173550" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Umang">UMANG</keyword> platform such as registration, login, <keyword id="3370730" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="reset-password">reset password</keyword>, department service relation information, event, (and) new launch...etc," the request for <keyword id="10532145" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="proposal-document">proposal document</keyword> said. The chatbot should be able to turn speech into a textual input and turn text into speech. "Platforms should also have other deep learning capabilities, which can be used by platforms for discovery and recommendation of eligible schemes and services to the users of bots/applications. "Users should be recommended best-fit schemes and services available in government domain based on his/her profile," the document said. The term of the project will be four years from the date it goes live. NeGD has fixed January 12 for pre-bid conference and January 25 for the last date of bid submission. Bids will open on January 27, evaluation will be done by February 5 and work order is scheduled for the second week of February, according to the document. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/kia-motors-11-electric-vehicles-in-2021-but-india-may-have-to-wait-longer-to-buy/articleshow/80056447.cms">INTERVIEW: Kia Motors’ 2021 plan includes 11 electric vehicle launches ⁠— but India may have to wait longer</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/ten-of-the-most-outrageous-predictions-for-2021-according-to-saxo-bank/slidelist/80040045.cms">From Amazon buying Cyprus to Germany bailing out France — here are ten of the most ‘outrageous’ predictions for 2021</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/india-edtech-in-charts-how-the-shi[%E2%80%A6]es-of-byjus-unacademy-and-others/articleshow/80040270.cms">India’s edtech in charts – How the shift to online learning meant money, valuation and users for the likes of BYJU’S, Unacademy, and others</a>

Government plans chat bot like Alexa, Google Voice to deliver public services

<ul><li>The CoWIN, UMANG and Aarogya Setu mobile apps have crashed as India opens up the vaccine registrations for everyone above the age of 18.</li><li>The <keyword id="10849396" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="cowin-website">CoWIN website</keyword> is still sending out OTPs.</li><li>Even if you manage to register on the CoWIN website, finding a slot may prove to be difficult.</li></ul>If you’re above the age of 18 years and trying to register for the COVID-19 vaccine in India today, on April 28, you may be fresh out of luck. The CoWIN mobile app along with alternative methods to register — the UMANG and Aarogya Setu mobile apps — crashed the moment registrations opened up at 4 p.m. The CoWIN website wasn’t sending out one-time-passwords (OTPs) initially either, but was back up in action within minutes. However, that’s about all the good news that there is. In order to get your OTP, you need to go to the main CoWIN portal, click on the registration button, enter your phone number. The OTP that you get on your phone will be valid for three minutes. <div type="image" title="IMG-20210428-WA0010" msid="82291617" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;OTP generated from the CoWIN website&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Beyond that, it’s anyone’s guess if you’ll able to get a slot or even complete your registration. Some users are reporting that they are not available to select photo ID type or gender after putting in the OTP. And, entering the information in these slots is compulsory in order to complete the process. <div type="image" title="cowin" msid="82299370" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;BI India was unable to select the drop down menus for &amp;#39;Photo ID Proof&amp;#39; and &amp;#39;Gender&amp;#39;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Even then, registering yourself only gets you in through the door. Finding a slot is a whole other matter. And they seem to be in short supply. While you may see a couple of slots with appointments available, those appointments are only for those individuals between the ages of 45 and above. No appointment slots seem to be available to those between 18 to 44 years old. <div type="image" title="cowin slots" msid="82291747" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Availability of slots after registration is complete&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> People above the age of 18 looking to register for the COVID-19 vaccine in India have been trying since midnight. Even though the CoWIN channels on social media did not send out any alerts, there was one sent out over Telegram app that the vaccine registration would not be opening up at midnight, but at four in the afternoon instead. <div type="image" title="Screenshot_20210428-083126_edited" msid="82292135" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Message sent over Telegram specifying that registration will open up at 4:00 pm instead of at midnight&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> There is no clarity around the supply of vaccines and the government has been quiet on how it plans to expand its vaccination drive while also addressing the bottlenecks that may occur.

CoWIN website is back up after an early crash⁠ — finding a vaccination slot may still be difficult

<ul><li>Bengaluru-based startup <keyword id="467634" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="verse" source="Orion">Verse</keyword> Innovation has decided to lay off 5% of its workforce or 150 employees to cut costs and streamline operations. </li><li>It also announced pay cuts for 11% of its employees, who are earning ₹10 lakh per annum or more. </li><li>This has happened months after the startup raised $800 million as fresh funding in April this year.</li></ul>VerSe Innovation, the parent company of short video platform Josh and news aggregator Dailyhunt, has become the latest unicorn that has resorted to retrenchments this year, after Byju’s, Udaan and Zomato. The co-founders of the Bengaluru-based startup, Virendra Gupta and Umang Bedi, announced in a town hall meeting that it has decided to lay off 150 employees or 5% of its workforce, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/verse-innovation-layoff-salary-cut/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKe8ojKWqU0ImCcT4s4MwaVYq5ygyPzZhY3aM6nNl-DwFl9s2r0Wagyd6fNEoNL6uXnBiWRFKTSceuX2G_AUKLr7Ny6r8JprFJX9lg5l5mjMGX4l1bWEmEF2pOC0-ZtsbTCCFGWMds38OjymS1_XaoY2qGgAhJ73igSRtCLaYA4B">according to Techcrunch</a>. They also announced an 11% pay cut for the remaining employees who are earning ₹10 lakh per annum or more. “Given the current economic climate, like other businesses, we’ve evaluated our strategic priorities. Considering the long-term viability of the business and our people, we have taken steps to implement our regular bi-annual performance management cycle and made performance and business considerations to streamline our costs and our teams, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/28/verse-innovation-layoff-salary-cut/">said</a> Umang Bedi, co-founder of VerSe Innovation, in a prepared statement. This move comes months after the startup raised $800 million as fresh funding in April this year, led by CPP Investments. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, Sumeru Ventures and Luxor Capital, Sofina Group and Baillie Gifford also participated in the funding round. Bedi further said that the next year will be tough and the measures taken will help the company to sustain in the market. “We have exercised fiscal and employee prudence, and implemented an 11% salary cut for individuals with annual salaries of ₹10 lakh or more,” Bedi added. According to media <a href="https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/dailyhunt-and-josh-parent-verse-lays-off-150-staff-announces-company-wide-pay-cuts-9615571.html">reports</a>, the startup’s losses widened to ₹2,563 crore in FY22, even as its operating revenue grew by 46% to ₹965 crore. Backed by <keyword id="6355629" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="google" source="Orion">Google</keyword> and <keyword id="10387" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="microsoft" source="Orion">Microsoft</keyword>, the company became a unicorn after it raised $227 million from Microsoft, Sequoia, Matrix Partners India, Qatar Investment Authority and others in November 2020. Tech majors like Amazon, Meta, Twitter and Salesforce have been cutting jobs leaving thousands of techies jobless, globally. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/icici-bank-launches-digital-lending-solution-ilens-powered-by-tcs/articleshow/95849140.cms" style="">ICICI Bank launches digital lending solution iLens, powered by TCS</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/telecom/news/reliance-jio-users-are-reportedly-unable-to-call-and-send-messages/articleshow/95846445.cms" style="">Reliance Jio users tweet about network issues, unable to call and send messages</a>

Google, Microsoft backed VerSe Innovation sacks 150 employees, cuts pay for employees earning ₹10 lakh or more

The third season of the hit <keyword id="7745246" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="amazon-series" source="Orion">Amazon series</keyword> "<keyword id="7686959" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="four-more-shots-please" source="Orion">Four More Shots Please</keyword>!" will premiere on October 21, streamer Prime Video announced Friday. Created by Rangita Pritish Nandy and produced by Pritish Nandy Communications, the series is headlined by actors Sayani Gupta, Kirti Kulhari, Bani J and Maanvi Gagroo. According to a press release issued by the streamer, the new season will bring back to screens the lives of four unapologetically flawed women -- Damini (Gupta), Umang (Bani J), Anjana (Kulhari) and Sidhi (Gagroo) who live, love, blunder, and discover what continues to make them tick through their forever friendship in the city of Mumbai. Actors Jim Sarbh, Rohan Mehra, Shilpa Shukla and Sushant Singh join the cast for the third season, which also includes Prateik Babbar, Lisa Ray, Neil Bhooplam, Rajeev Siddharth, Amrita Puri, Simone Singh and Samir Kochhar. Rangita Pritish Nandy called the upcoming chapter of the show as the "most personal season". "Season one, you met Anjana, Damini, Umang and Siddhi, season two, you saw them stumble through life-lessons and blunders, season three, watch our girls own themselves; drama, failures, errors in judgment, losses and warts, all included. "In that sense, season 3 is our most personal season. There is no way that you will not want to be a part of this friendship," the creator said in a statement. Buoyed by the success of the first two instalments, producer Pritish Nandy said the show's team has worked harder to produce a power-packed season three. "'Four More Shots Please!' travels to Italy and Punjab this season, apart from South Mumbai; the drama is bigger, the scale is larger, and the friendship is stronger. The show's nomination at the international Emmys in 2021 is a testament to the fact that 'Four More Shots Please!' has hit a personal note with audiences in India and internationally. "There is really no other show that celebrates female friendships like 'Four More Shots Please!' and I'm hopeful that our fandom will grow substantially with this new season," he added. Aparna Purohit, Head of India Originals at Prime Video India, said "Four More Shots Please!" has been a true labour of love for the streaming service. "It's a celebration of sisterhood. This show reaffirms our commitment to promoting diverse and new cinematic voices and making Prime Video a home for talent. "Seventy per cent of the creators who we work with on a project, work with us again and that exemplifies true collaboration! We've had a long-standing collaboration with Pritish Nandy Communications and can't wait to unveil the new season of the show on October 21," Purohit said. "Four More Shots Please!" is directed by Joyeeta Patpatia and written by Devika Bhagat with dialogues by Ishita Moitra. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/swabhimaan-actor-arun-bali-passes-away-at-79-in-mumbai/articleshow/94695606.cms">Swabhimaan actor Arun Bali passes away at 79 in Mumbai</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/metas-metaverse-app-has-several-quality-issues-admits-head/articleshow/94696811.cms">Meta's metaverse app has several quality issues, admits head</a>

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