GreenCitizen Had Recycled 2.5 M pound And Aiming For More

As tech development the consumers purchasing the phones, tablets, laptops and other electronic goods, GreenCitizen is the e-waste recycling company based in Burlingame had submit a report in which it recycled the 2.5 million pound of e-waste which previously thrown to landfills. On the earth day they had celebrated company’s none successful year and showed the report and now they have a goal to achieve. They set the target of 3.1 million pound with the opening new recycling centers in several countries metropolitan area. It now aims to build more sustainable metropolitan model that will be generating Environment friendly air and will be helpful for business to reuse and recycle their own products. Founder of the company has a idea to develop the e-waste facility to handle the e-goods all around the world and after recycling they will put them for sale. He watched a documentary on illegally discarded the electronic items into lands and decided to find a solution.

smdailyjournal  says “The company does free pickups of e-waste items if a business has at least 10 of the following items: desktops, laptops, Smartphone’s, monitors, servers and TVs. Otherwise, companies are charged $100 per pickup or other heavy item fees. Customers can drop off batteries, CDs, cell phones, cables, cords, desktops, computer accessories, fax machines, light bulbs, printers, Styrofoam, stereo equipment and other items to the company’ eco-centers and eco-stations.”

Company head quartered in Burlingame and have about 20,000 square foot facility, putting the tracking numbers into the e-goods to ensure about where they dismantle and crushed, metals are reused and the waste will be destroyed. The good items, which they think can be reuses by users, simply they took photos and posted on E-bay and Amazon for sale and customers can also sell their items to company

DoorDash Got $17.3 Million From Sequoia For On-Demand Delivery Services

The DoorDash is one of the prestigious On-demand food-delivery startups exited from past few years, company doing the business in the other filed also beyond food, recently DoorDash has announces a huge round funding from Sequoia Capital, it has great platform to go into the competition. The funding was around $17.3 million series funding led by Sequoia with other investors involved such as Khosla Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Pejman Mar Ventures and Ted Zagat from the Zagat Survey Fame. As the biggest investor Alfred Lin is joining the board of directors along side with the founder Stanley Tang, Andy Fang and Tony Xu. The funding is very useful for the firm now because firstly it was crowd funded and competitive food delivery space in the San Francisco Bay area because other companies have also raised money from investors and that makes the environment more competitive but that’s a lot of money for a company that operates only in Palo Alto, Mountain View and San Francisco.

Tech Crunch posted “For one thing, customers seem to love DoorDash — even in its limited launch area, the company has seen impressive growth. In 10 months making deliveries in the South Bay, it’s processed tens of millions of dollars in gross sales. And the company estimates that one in six households in the area has ordered from it.”

The thing that led Sequoia to invest that much money is the growth and consumer response and also they have seen a great opportunity into the company then just delivering then food. The Firms had developed some technology to proper deliver the food, It has a dispatch system that intelligently knows the different variables from the driver inventory and suggests the demand, also has a planning algorithm to make sure that the particular drivers are availed all time.

PTA Announced to Issue License to Telecom Companies

This time, news reports have revealed an exciting update associated with the telecommunication sector. This is because; PTA i.e. Pakistan Telecom Authority is now looking to issue licenses for both 3G and 4G spectrums to make the World Telecom Day 2014 as memorable. The authority will issue these licenses to large numbers of auction-winning CMOs i.e. Cellular Mobile Operators. 

Even the reports have highlighted in front of the public that authorities have requested the Secretariat of Prime Minister that Nawaz Sharif would chair the entire ceremony related to issue of license himself, which would took place at the Secretariat of Prime Minister. Until now, Telenor and Ufone, two telecommunication companies in between the four different auction-winning cell phone or mobile operators have submitted their respective dues or licensing fees on the date of announcement itself, while remaining two CMOs named as Mobilink and Zong cleared their dues before 15^th of May.

Convergence of mobile technology and internet facilities has created a big brew in the service and content to provide countless benefits to people and improve their conditions better than before. Mobile users located in different parts of Pakistan remained deprive of every type of advantage that people can get from Next Generation Mobile Service before the advent of 3G and 4G services worldwide.

According to the statement delivered by media people concerning to telecommunication industry, “A 'license issuance ceremony' is on the cards, scheduled for Saturday (World Telecom Day), to celebrate what the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) describes as the successful auction of 3G and 4G spectrums.” Read more from here.

Target Corp. Hired New CIO and Switched to Chip and PIN System

Target Corp. has recently hired a new CIO i.e. Chief Information Officer named Bob Derodes and simultaneously transferred its in-house payable cards into the highly secured chip and PIN system with the help of MasterCard Internationals. The company and its senior officials have planned for these two aforementioned new and effective steps in the attempt to avoid or check massive data breaches. 

Last year, since the broke in of cyber-criminals during the holiday season at this retail giant of Minneapolis, it has undergone significant changes in to its information security systems or information systems. Thus, since 5^th of May, DeRodes started serving his new role to oversee enhancements related to digital safety within Target Corp. Before serving his role in Target Corp., he delivered his valuable services as advisor of Defense secretary and even in departments of Justice and Homeland Security. The company officials have even said that it had switched its debit and credit RED cards into the Mastercard’s system from the earlier Visa International’s. 

New cards in this case would possess the capability to store relevant info on more security systems using embedded chips as well as PINs instead of using magnetic strips. The company has even planned to make investment of about 100 millions of dollars to increase its move in the direction of chip and PIN setup. In fact, Target Corp. has already intended to buffer its overall data security via resetting of passwords for about 445,000 employees and contractors by disabling large numbers of accounts held by vendors and reducing the access privileges for other people.

“After a massive data breach, Target has made deep changes to its information security systems and has a new CIO. Target is switching its credit and debit REDcards to MasterCard's system from Visas. The new cards will store data on a more secure system with embedded chips and personal identification numbers rather than magnetic strips.” Get a similar type of update from here.

Alianza Announced the Launch of its VoIP Solution in Canada

Alianza, which is known as the cloud voice platform company has recently announced the launch of its various wholesale and cloud-based VoIP solution for Canadian cities. By possessing vast experience of about five years in United States, the company will now assist cable companies of Canada, telecom sector and ISPs as well as resellers to reduce the overall ownership cost at the dramatic level and rapidly launch new VoIP services. Leading ISP of Canada is currently using voice solutions offered by the company. 

Alianza delivers its cloud voice platform in combination with various types of career services from leading and nationalized wholesale provider of Canada in the attempt to deliver comprehensive level and turnkey VoIP solution. In addition, many service providers will get the opportunity to leverage carrier services on their own and use cloud voice platform for replacement of the requirements related to management and building of an effective VoIP network. In order to give proper help and support to service providers of Canada, the company has added its support for local star codes, French language and emergency level of services. At the same time, the company has dealt with various interconnected agreements in different parts of Canada. 

Alianza has played significant role in hosting and management of cloud based voice over IP solution and provided every type of technology and management-based components required for delivery and monetization of different voice services. By simply leveraging of rich and customizable feature set, service providers will get the opportunity to address different requirements for hosted business, residential business, SIP trunk and mobile services. With the help of cloud voice platform, large numbers of service providers have obtained the opportunity to address different scenarios, which include green field service launch, network replacement via TDM or VoIP and market expansion. 

Brian Beutler, the co-founder and CEO of Alianza commented in front of the public, “In today's broadband-centric world, delivering voice the same old way does not make business sense for many service providers. Working with our partners, Alianza transforms the VoIP business model for our customers and enables them to deliver next-generation voice services that subscribers demand. Our solution will help Canadian service providers maximize profitability, innovate rapidly and minimize risk.” Read more from here.