Richard Branson plans heading Stephen Hawking into Space

Richard Branson's spaceflight company, Virgin Galactic, hopes soon to carry people into space on commercial missions. Mr Branson had suggested that he might be able to complete a flight in 2009, but the plan has been thrown off by a range of problems and disasters.

In a wide-ranging interview, he said that his "three children have brought me great joy - and I can tell you what will make me happy, to travel in space".

Professor Hawking also discussed Donald Trump, who he said was a "demagogue" and made him fear that he might never be welcome in the US. ""His priority will be to satisfy his electorate who are neither liberal, nor that well-informed," he said.

He also criticised Jeremy Corbyn, who he said had allowed himself to be portrayed "a left-wing extremist, which he’s not". Because of the media portrayals, he said there was not much chance that Mr Corbyn would ever win an election, but that he would continue to support the Labour party.

And he said that if Brexit must happen, it can't happen in the "isolated and inward-looking" way that "the right wing of the Conservative Party want". He warned politicians that they should ensure that Britain keeps as many links as possible with Europe and the rest of the world, and said that leaving Europe "threatens Britain’s status as a world-leader in science and innovation".

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Reliance Jio’s ‘Prime’ membership begins

Reliance Jio will give its Prime membership from next month and if it becomes popular among consumers, it will have unfavourable impact on Airtel ,Vodafone and Idea . 

Jio’s Rs 303 per month membership can affect 16-17% fall in telecom industry revenues in FY18, if it finds maximum traction. 

Brokerage Kotak Institutional Equities told ET that it would be "foolhardy for incumbents to assume they can command material pricing premium in the marketplace versus Jio". 

Kotak estimates "a potential ceteris paribus negative impact of around 16-17 per cent on industry revenue in FY2018" if Jio's Rs.303/month offer appeals to customers with total monthly wireless spends of Rs. 200 or more. But it noted that the estimated dip in industry revenue could be restricted to 8-10 per cent if there is "ARPU sanity in the sub-Rs.200 segment of the market". 

On the flip side, brokerage Credit Suisse, however, feels market leader Bharti Airtel will match Jio's paid offers, going forward.
"While it didn't make sense to match Jio's free offer, we believe Bharti has decided that it will not hesitate from matching Jio's paid offers," the Swiss brokerage said. 

"Some of the largest corporate customers of holder have not seen rates go down or data allowance go up since Jio's launch, even as customers intending to port out and new users have seen a significant improvement in the price-value equation.

Source :- http://www.businessinsider.in/reliance-jios-prime-membership-begins-next-month-heres-how-it-is-impact-airtel-vodafone-and-idea/articleshow/57443493.cms

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ISRO launches 104 satellites

India's trusty PSLV C37 satellite launch vehicle had just lifted off from its launchpad moments before and blasted into orbit.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C37 was about to perform carefully sending 104 satellites. The highest number ever attempted in one mission. One Indian space analyst on television likened the complicated work to dropping children at different bus stops.
Around 10 a.m., the announcement came - all the satellites had been successfully launched. 

The total number of satellites far outstripped the previous record - 37 simultaneously sent into space by Russia in 2014.

The project's manager, B. Jayakumar said - "This is a great moment for each and every one of us. Today we have created history,"

Wednesday's launch was another success for the Indian Space Research Organization, which is rapidly gaining a reputation globally for its effective yet low-cost missions.
India has already sent up dozens of satellites, including 20 at once last year.
In 2014, India became the first Asian nation to successfully send a Mars probe into orbit of the red planet, at cost of $74 million effort that, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted at the time, cost less than what it took to make the Hollywood space movie "Gravity."

The extremely national pride that resulted after that success sent the Mars probe rocketing on to the face of the country's new 2,000 rupee currency note in November.

Now, India is showcasing its competitiveness in the $300 billion global space market, said Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, head of the Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi.

The 104 satellites on board - from India, the United States, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates - are considered small, micro and nano-sized spacecraft, much easier to load onto a rocket in greater numbers.

India's commercial arm, Antrix Corporation, has charged about $3 million to send a satellite into space in recent years, far less than private companies. The ability to reuse components and some government subsidies contribute to these savings, Rajagopalan said.

The complex, 90-minute mission "shows that India's space program has come a long way, and gained a lot more sophistication in terms of launch capabilities," he said.

India increased the budget of its space program by more than 20 percent this year in an effort to mount a second Mars mission in the coming years, as well as an orbiter mission to Venus that may done in collaboration with scientists from the U.S.'s National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

As the scientists in India watching on Wednesday, a group of environmentally-focused techies gathered around big screens at their San Francisco headquarters with equal excitement, filming the lift-off on their smartphones.

The American earth-imaging company now known as Planet owns 88 of the satellites sent into orbit Wednesday, and their flock of tiny craft called "Doves" will join another 12 satellites already in rotation in an ambitious project to "image all of Earth's landmass every day," the company noted in a post-launch report.

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Story of Walt Disney and How Big is Disney?

Early Life

Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 1249 Tripp Avenue, in Chicago-Hermosa neighborhood.He was the fourth son of Elias Disney born in the Province of Canada, to Irish parents ‌and Flora, an American of German and English descent.

In Marceline, Disney developed his interest in drawing when he was paid to draw the horse of a retired neighborhood doctor. 

Elias was a subscriber to the Appeal to Reason newspaper, and Disney practiced drawing by copying the front-page cartoons of Ryan Walker. Disney also began to develop an ability to work with watercolors and crayons.

Disney enrolled at McKinley High School and became the cartoonist for the school newspaper, drawing patriotic pictures about World War I he also took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. 

Disney returned to Kansas City in October 1919, where he worked as an apprentice artist at the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio. There, he drew commercial illustrations for advertising, theater programs, and catalogs. He also befriended fellow artist Ub Iwerks.

Early career

In May 1921, the success of the "Laugh-O-Grams" led to the establishment of Laugh-O-Gram Studio, for which he hired more animators, including Fred Harman's brother Hugh, Rudolf Ising and Iwerks.The Laugh-O-Grams cartoons did not provide enough income to keep the company solvent, so Disney started production of Alice's Wonderland‍ ‌based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland‍ ‌which combined live action with animation he cast Virginia Davis in the title role. The result, a 12 and a half minute, one reel film, was completed too late to save Laugh-O-Gram Studio, which went into bankruptcy in 1923.

He wanted to be an artist so he sold his camera and went to Hollywood in July 1923. Disney and his brother Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studio ‌which later became The Walt Disney Company‍ ‌to produce the films they persuaded Davis and her family to relocate to Hollywood to continue production, with Davis on contract at $100 a month. In July 1924 Disney also hired Iwerks, persuading him to relocate to Hollywood from Kansas City.

Disney and Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character Disney wanted to be "peppy, alert, saucy and venturesome, keeping him also neat and trim".

In February 1928, Disney hoped to negotiate a larger fee for producing the Oswald series but found Mintz wanting to reduce the payments. Disney also found out that Universal owned the intellectual property rights to Oswald. Mintz threatened to start his own studio and produce the series himself if Disney refused to accept the reductions. Disney declined Mintz's ultimatum and lost most of his animation staff, except Iwerks, who chose to remain with him.

Mickey mouse

A pet mouse that Disney had adopted while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio, although the origins of the character are unclear.Disney's original choice of name was Mortimer Mouse, but Lillian (his wife) thought it too pompous and suggested Mickey. Iwerks revised Disney's provisional sketches to make the character easier to animate, and Disney provided Mickey's voice until 1947. In the words of one Disney employee, "Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."

To improve the quality of the music, Disney hired the professional composer and arranger Carl Stalling, on whose suggestion the Silly Symphony series was developed, providing stories through the use of music the first in the series, The Skeleton Dance (1929), was drawn and animated entirely by Iwerks. Also hired at this time were several local artists, some of whom stayed with the company as core animators the group later became known as the Nine Old Men.

The Golden age of animation

By 1934, Disney had become dissatisfied with producing formulaic cartoon shorts and began a four-year production of a feature-length cartoon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the fairy tale. When news leaked out about the project, many in the film industry predicted it would bankrupt the company industry insiders nicknamed it "Disney's Folly".The film, which was the first animated feature made in full color and sound, cost $1.5 million to produce‍ ‌three times over budget. To ensure the animation was as realistic as possible, Disney sent his animators on courses at the Chouinard Art Institute he brought animals into the studio and hired actors so that the animators could study realistic movement. To portray the changing perspective of the background as a camera moved through a scene, Disney's animators developed a multiplane camera which allowed drawings on pieces of glass to be set at various distances from the camera, creating an illusion of depth. The glass could be moved to create the impression of a camera passing through the scene. The first work created on the camera‍ ‌a Silly Symphony called The Old Mill (1937)‍ ‌won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film because of its impressive visual power. Although Snow White had been largely finished by the time the multiplane camera had been completed, Disney ordered some scenes be re-drawn to use the new effects.

Snow White premiered in December 1937 to high praise from critics and audiences. The film became the most successful motion picture of 1938 and by May 1939 its total gross of $6.5 million made it the most successful sound film made to that date. Disney won another Honorary Academy Award, which consisted of one full-sized and seven miniature Oscar statuettes.

Theme Park

Disney had been considering building a theme park. he wanted to be in a clean, unspoiled park, where both children and their parents could have fun.Construction work started in July 1954, and Disneyland opened in July 1955; the opening ceremony was broadcast on ABC, which reached 70 million viewers. The connected themed areas were Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. The park also contained the narrow gauge Disneyland Railroad that linked the lands around the outside of the park was a high berm to separate the park from the outside world. 

HOW BIG IS DISNEY

• In china they have Theme park biggest investment in another country by Disney.
• Lucasfilm bought in 4.06 billion
• Pixer bought by Disney in 2006
• Marvel Studios bought by Disney in 2009 for 4 billion
• They also have Hollywood Records, abc News, Espn, A&E, Life time, The History Channel, And youtube multi-channel Network Maker Studio, The also partially own VICE media.
• Last year Disney made 52.46 billion in revenue and currently own 88 Billion in assets
• And 8.38 Billion USD Net income

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How to make a Good Startup Presantation

1. Elevator Pitch

Elevator pitch it's basically the short summary that you are giving to the investors. That is the most needed thing to your startup presentation. That summary will decide that you are getting the investment or not. So keep it simple and captivating.

2. The Problem

There are many startups that are not much problem solvers, but they focus on the temporary market. Your startup should be different from others.

Your best asset is to the problem your startup is going to solve. Show the investor in the presentation about the problem, and the best way to do that is to tell a story. So how you can tell that? Show them the experience of the people. Make your presentation visually more deep. But don't give them a lot more information than they needed. Address the problem in an effective manner

3. Solution

The most important thing is that how your product is going to solve that problem that world is facing. And how can you implement it? what would be the effect? the best way to tell this thing is to make a demo. But the most common mistake the entrepreneurs do is that there Demo doesn't work well as it was expected. So check your demo and make the changes if there is any error. Because if your demo is not good enough you will lose you, investors. The only thing you can do is convince you to demo that how they can solve the problem.

4. Market Size

Keep one thing in mind that investors are not Dumb people. They do some research on their own before investing in your product. They have been in this market for a long time from when you have never thought about startup. So you can not say any false thing, They will not take you seriously and you will lose you investment. You just only need to show them that why this market is interesting and will make money.

5. Business model

One thing you have to keep in mind that investors are the people who will only invest in your product if your product will make good money. So you need to show them that how will your product make money. You can so them 1-2 different way to to make the profit. But don't show them 60 different ways.Just focus on the only 1-2 ways to make the profit.

6. Competiton

The one thing you should keep in mind that you are not only one solving that problem. There are many people trying to do that So you will have to convince them that how your product is going to get profit and how your product is different that you competitors. The best way to do this is to compare your product with your competitor's product.

7. Market Planning

The market planning is the important thing you should prepare about.That how you are going to sell your product how will you advertise it? What will be your market strategy? You should convince them that how you will stand in that crucial market.

8. Team

The team is the only thing that will get your startup the funding. Don't be shy because you don't have experience in the Industry job. Because there are many big companies now their founders have never done any job in there Life. Fresh minds can only provide the brilliant ideas.

9. Projections

The thing you will have to show is what your startup have achieved up to now and how the funding will improve your startup. You should have to do some industry research about this kind of stuff.My personal opinion find a mentor.

10. Needs

You will have to define your investors that how their funding will make your product better. You should have to define that for what you are looking for. You will have to convince them that how X amount of money can fulfill your needs.

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Now its BSNL vs Jio

BSNL is now offering data at the rate of Rs 36 per GB which is one of the lowest

BSNL issued a statement which said,

"Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limite (BSNL) has decided to offer up to four times extra data on"

Existing data STVs (special tariff vouchers) available in the market."

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Now the government-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has also reduced their 3G mobile internet rates by three-fourth!

Yes, you read it right! Now it is offering one GB data for just Rs. 36 under a special scheme.

BSNL will offer four times data under Rs. 291 plan and for the same price, users will get 8GB (3G) instead of 2G for a period of 28 days. The company has doubled the data in Rs. 78 plan and that too, in 2G and not in 1G as earlier. BSNL said,

With these BSNL is now offering data a the rate of Rs. 35 per GB is lowest in the Industry

This is not the first time when the government-owned telecom operator has cut down its rates. Last month also, it launched a Rs. 144 monthly prepaid plan which gave its customers unlimited local and STD calls for a period of 28 days. The offer is still working for both types of consumers and it also comes with 300 MB free data.

In the words of RK Mittal, BSNL Board Director for Consumer Mobility,

"We are committed to providing affordable mobile services for all segment of the prepaid mobile customers. These offers will be valid from February 6, 2017, on Pan India Basis

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Top 10 Wall Street Movies Must Watch!

1. Inside Job

IMDB:- 8.3

A detailed analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008. Through candid interviews and extensive research, the film traces the rise of corrupt factors that led to the meltdown.

2. The Big Short

IMDB:- 7.8

In 2008, Wall Street guru Michael Burry realizes that a number of subprime home loans are in danger of defaulting. Burry bets against the housing market by throwing more than $1 billion of his investors' money into credit default swaps. His actions attract the attention of banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling), hedge-fund specialist Mark Baum (Steve Carell) and other greedy opportunists. Together, these men make a fortune by taking full advantage of the impending economic collapse in America.

3. American Psycho

IMDB:- 7.6

Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker, hides his psychopathic ego from his friends. Later, his illogical fantasies escalate and he submits to an uncontrollable bloodlust.

4. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

IMDB:- 7.7

This documentary explores the fall of the Enron Corporation, arguably the most shocking example of modern corporate corruption. The company is linked with several illegal schemes, including instigating the California energy crisis as a way to drive up utility prices at the expense of the average American. In a hyper-competitive environment, Enron traders resort to all kinds of underhanded dealings in order to make money at any cost and keep their high-paying jobs.

5. Trading Places

IMDB:- 7.5

Two callous millionaire brothers conspire to switch the fortunes of a snobbish investor and a wily street con artist, owing to a bet.

6. Wall Street

IMDB:- 7.4

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.

7. The Wolf of Wall Street

IMDB:- 8.2

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

8. Working Girl

IMDB:- 6.7

Savvy New York City receptionist Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) gives her conniving boss, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), an excellent business tip, but Katharine simply steals the idea without giving due credit to her secretary. After Katharine winds up in the hospital with an injured leg, Tess decides to exact revenge. Pretending to be her boss, Tess initiates a major deal with an investment broker (Harrison Ford) -- but things turn ugly after Katharine finds out what Tess has been up to.

9. Margin Call

IMDB:- 7.1

A financial company's management division head working on a major analysis is fired. His protege attempts to complete the analysis and finds out the true reason behind their financial downfall.

10. The Family Man

IMDB:- 6.7

Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate (Tea Leoni), his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.

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Top 10 Biggest Companies in the World

1. Walmart 

Annual revenue: $482 Billion

The US retail giant owns Asda in the UK. It has claimed the top spot on the Fortune Global 500 eleven times since 1995.

2. State Grid

Annual revenue: $330 Billion

The world's biggest power company is state-owned and has responsibility for China's national grid.

3. China National Petroleum 

Annual revenue: $299 Billion

CNPC, also owned by the Chinese state, is a global oil giant, which owns publicly listed PetroChina. It has operations across the Middle East and Russia.

4. Sinopec Group

Annual revenue: $249 Billion

Yet another Chinese oil giant, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or Sinopec, is listed in Hong Kong. 

5. Royal Dutch Shell 

Annual revenue: $272 Billion

The Anglo Dutch giant is a staple of the FTSE 100. It recently absorbed Reading-based BG Group in a controversial $40bn merger.

6. Exxon Mobil 

Annual revenue: $246 Billion

The Texas-based oil giant formed in 1998 from the merger of Exxon and Mobil. It also operates as Esso in the UK.

7. Volkswagen 

Annual revenue: $237 Billion

The German car maker has enjoyed a torrid year after admitting it had installed software in 11m diesel cars that allowed them to cheat emissions tests. It said today the hit to its profits may not be as bad as first thought.

8. Toyota

Annual revenue: $237 Billion

Tied with Volkswagen in terms of revenue, Toyota actually produces slightly more cars than its German rival - turning out 10.3 million vehicles in 2014, compared to VW's 10.1 million.

9. Apple

Annual revenue: $234 Billion

Apple, with a market cap of $550bn, is often called the world's most valuable company. In 2016 it has had to contend with falling sales of the iPhone.

10. BP

Annual revenue: $226 Billion

The British oil company is still recovering from the aftermath of the fatal explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in 2010. Earlier this month it said the total bill for the disaster - which resulted in a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico - would be $61.6bn.

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