If the key to startup success is solving problems that have mass relevance, then the news industry offers tons of opportunities for entrepreneurs. Many in India are taking advantage, exploring innovations in publishing formats, reader experience, newsroom tech, native advertising networks, and more. Hacks/Hackers Delhi decided to showcase some of the most interesting and relevant work.
The first half will be 10-minute product presentations — why, how, demo and plans. So far, we have:
• Ducktile Labs, founded by University of Newcastle alumni and based in Mumbai. They use NLP and machine learning to help publishers with content personalisation and "actionable" advertising.
• Parallel Dots, founded by IIT/BIT alumni and backed by Times Internet. They use NLP and machine learning to present a publisher's content archive around any event/topic as an embeddable, interactive timeline.
• New in Shorts, founded by IIT alumni. They curate news for mobile audiences by distilling posts from mainstream media to just the facts in 60 words.
The second half will be an open Q&A session to help the attending journalists, technologists, investors, etc better understand how they might leverage these products/platforms.
We are still lining up more startups, so if you know anyone with a great product/platform in the news/media space, let us know and we'll invite them.
Do RSVP on this event's Facebook page too + invite others you think might be interested.
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Hacks/Hackers is a global collective of people interested in the intersection between news and technology — journalists, developers, designers, product managers, entrepreneurs, students, and many more. In New Delhi, we regularly host expert presentations, skills workshops or group discussions focused on the latest trends/challenges in digital journalism. If you'd like to suggest an event theme, do write to us at [masked]
June 15, 2014
looks like this Saturday is going to be all of news , media and data , just came across one more event in NCR https://fifthelephant.in/2014/data-journalism
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Very informative. I really liked the business models that different startups are using.