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The World Franchise Council has announced that its 16th franchise exhibition is going to be held in Cairo, Egypt. The meeting is going to be organized by the Egyptian Franchise Development Association from 17-19 November. The WFC, formed in 1994, is a non-political organization consisting of more than 40 national franchise associations from around the ...

US-based quality engineering and DevOps Solutions Company Qentelli Solutions is planning to expand its centre in Hyderabad by 2019. With a current team size of 170 in the city, the software development company plans to hire more 300 people even as it aims to move into its own facility in the next one year. In ...

In an attempt to drive volumes, fruit juice maker Manpasand Beverages has planned to build 10 new manufacturing plants in the country by 2020, a top company executive said. Currently, the company has six manufacturing plants across the country, of which three are in Vadodara, and one each in Varanasi, Dehradun and Ambala. "We are ...

Private equity Gaja Capital invests $25M in edtech firm Educational Initiatives Mid-market private equity firm Gaja Capital has invested $25 million (about ?172 crore) in Ahmedabad- and Bengaluru-based educational technology company Educational Initiatives, marking its eighth investment from its third fund. Gopal Jain, managing partner of Gaja Capital, confirmed the transaction but did not share ...

Google's voice-calling "Duplex" which lets Artificial Intelligence (AI) mimic a human voice to make appointments and book tables through phone calls may soon enter call centres assisting humans with customer queries. According to a report in The Information late on Thursday, an unnamed insurance company has shown interest in "Duplex" which could "handle simple and ...