Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Abhay Lodha

Abhay Lodha promoted logistics start-up Avicore Aviation Pvt. Ltd and plans to invest $100 million, or about Rs400 crore, to launch a new cargo airline mid-2008 from the country’s first dedicated cargo airport at Nagpur. The start-up is backed by Indian and some US-based non-resident Indian businessmen through Avicore Llc.

Abhay Lodha has interest in steel and power plants, along with Avicore Aviation chief executive Shankar Devarajan. Abhay Lodha Avicore is the third firm that has applied to the government for a licence to launch a cargo airline. Interest in the country’s air cargo business comes after a three-year boom in passenger services among airlines in India.

Leading businesses in the sector, including Jet Airways (India) Ltd, for instance, are planning dedicated cargo airlines. Of the 250 planes flying domestic routes, just a dozen are freighter planes, the rest being passenger jets. The demand for air cargo services is expected to grow in India as investment increasingly flows into manufacturing businesses in the country.

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Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Engineer.ai Partners With DigitalOcean

Engineer.ai partners with DigitalOcean's award-winning Developer Cloud to let SMBs build affordable custom software

Engineer.ai, the human-assisted AI that empowers everyone to build and operate bespoke software, announced today at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, that it has entered a strategic partnership with DigitalOcean, the cloud of choice for developers creating modern applications, globally.

The partnership provides small & medium businesses and developers a completely scalable way to create bespoke / made-to-order software products.  Engineer.ai's Builder platform is an AI-powered Software Assembly line that breaks projects into small building blocks of re-usable features customized by elastic human capacity (professional software engineers) from across the world. The result is high-quality custom software at a fraction of the price and time of traditional development. DigitalOcean's Developer Cloud provides a simplified app setup and deployment experience allowing developers to spend more time on innovation vs. managing complex server infrastructures.

"Our mission is to allow anyone with an idea to build bespoke software, regardless of technical expertise, and we're big believers in DigitalOcean's commitment to bringing their award-winning Developer Cloud to our CloudOps marketplace, giving our customers an affordable and easy cloud alternative," said Sachin Dev Duggal, Founder & CEO at Engineer.ai.

"At DigitalOcean, our focus is on making the lives of developers easier by abstracting away the complexity of infrastructure, so users of all skill levels can build powerful applications," said Mark Templeton, CEO of DigitalOcean. "Engineer.ai's Builder is a natural extension of our mission.  We believe this partnership will further bridge the technical gap for customers, so they can bring their ideas into reality."

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