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BharatPe, India’s largest merchant payment, and lending network company, has strengthened its leadership team by appointing Mr. Ankur Jain as Chief Product Officer. Ankur will be responsible for the complete product lifecycle and innovation at BharatPe. Ankur is the fifth CXO at BharatPe and joins Vijay Agarwal (CTO), Nishit Sharma (Chief Revenue Officer), Puneet Agarwal (Chief Risk Officer), and Nishant Jain (Chief Business Officer) in the core team. Heading product management and user experience across customer touch points, Ankur will contribute to BharatPe’s aggressive plans to scale up its footprint to 10 million merchants this year. Ankur, an alumnus of Stanford University has a rich experience of working in deep technology startups like Kosmix and Instalocate and the world’s largest company Walmart. He has developed large scale products which have been used by millions of people across the globe driving huge revenues for the organizations. He was part of ...

Sambit Bal, Editor-in-chief, ESPNcricinfo, Rahul Dravid, Former Indian Captain and Head coach Under-19, Sanjay Manjrekar, ESPNcricinfo expert and Professor Raghunathan Rengaswamy, IIT Madras Partners with IIT Madras to co-develop an Artificial Intelligence engine that leverages rich data collected from  over a decade old ESPNcricinfo’s ball-by-ball updates Superstats constitutes of three metrics: Luck Index, Forecaster, and Smart Stats Rahul Dravid and Sanjay Manjrekar lead the conversation to discuss the future of statistics in cricket  In the era of multiple formats and leagues, game of cricket needs to move beyond conventional measurement system such as economy rate, average and strike rate. Keeping this in mind, ESPNcricinfo in partnership with Indian Institute of Technology Madras launches Superstats, next level metrics to analyze the game of cricket. Superstats is a combination of stats metrics - Luck Index, Forecaster and Smart Stats that uses Data Scie...

                                                                          ' IRA  ke saath selfie milega kya ?' my cab-driver requested while on the way to HDFC 's Interactive Humanoid launch. IRA ? Selfie ? HDFC ? Humanoid ? What's the connection ?. All of you, my dear friends must be wondering.  Hold on to your curiosity , and have a look at this selfie with #IRA  ( Does not she resemble Kira from 'We The People' ? ) Being a no-nonsense ( nosy according to my sister ) true blue journalist , I always chat with the cab-driver , instead of pouting for #OnTheWay selfie.  Why ?  cause, these are the people, who matter, to whom we cater our news.  Yesterday was no different. I asked him many questions regarding his job and told him that I was going for...