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HCL Technologies partners with Bobble AI to offer Customer Engagement Solutions for Banking and Insurance Sectors
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HCL Technologies partners with Bobble AI to offer Customer Engagement Solutions for Banking and Insurance Sectors

Jan 14, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Ankit Prasad, #Bobble AI, #CEO & Founder

India, New Delhi: Bobble AI an Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation company has partnered with leading global technology company HCL Technologies (HCL) to offer customer engagement solutions in the open banking space through a plug-n-play White-label Keyboard SDK (Software Development Kit).

The keyboard-based solution, an innovation by Bobble AI, creates a unique advantage and strengthens HCL’s relationships with its Banking and Insurance Clients, building a competitive advantage by offering clear benefits including increased revenue and reduced customer acquisition cost.

The solution, which will be deployed remotely, will help HCL’s Banking Clients develop a 360-degree understanding of their consumers based on smartphone behavior across 24×7 usage. With this knowledge, HCL’s Banking Clients will be equipped with a far better communication and acquisition strategy for cross-selling its wide-range of products and services.

The Bobble AI Keyboard SDK offers core typing functionalities like auto-correct, word predictions, swipe-to-type, speech-to-text, clipboard, and more. In addition to English, these features work efficiently in 36 Indic languages and over 100 International languages.

The solution seamlessly integrates with a bank’s mobile app, giving consumers access to services while creating an opportunity for banks to extend their features and offerings to their consumers based on real-time intent. It serves as both a strategic driver for promoting mobile banking services and helps banks regain P2P (peer-to-peer) transactions that may be lost to digital wallets and other dedicated solutions.

Ankit Prasad, CEO & Founder, Bobble AI said, “Keyboard is essentially the first customer engagement tool for any connected device in today’s world and a relevant and focused integration in the mobile app helps in building quick revenue growth, helps to reduce customer acquisition cost, significantly boosts engagement with the users and more importantly gives a competitive edge. Together with HCL, we aim to engineer an innovative infrastructure of white-label solutions that will help banks and their FinTech partner ecosystem create differentiated Open Banking strategies and implement them.”

“Our partnership with Lemon Advisors UK Ltd., a global tech advisory firm, is helping us strengthening our activities in the UK and other emerging markets across EU and APAC adding value to our prospective customers’ businesses,” Ankit added.

Global expansion has been a part of Bobble AI’s growth strategy for a while now. London based tech advisory company, Lemon Advisors UK Ltd. (www.lemonadvisors.co.uk) enabled this strategic partnership between Bobble AI and Hutch Sri Lanka. Earlier in January 2020, Bobble AI announced its partnership with Lemon Advisors, to assist and strengthen the former’s business growth activities in the EU, APAC, and MENA Region. Lemon Advisors UK offers its services in over 38 countries, with a specific focus on FinTech, SpaceTech & Aviation, Health, telecoms & Media.

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Bobble AI launches New Year campaign My Bobble Keyboard 2020

Dec 31, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #and CEO, #Ankit Prasad, #Bobble AI, #Founder

New Delhi: Bobble AI, the world’s first Conversation Media Platform that offers highly engaging smartphone keyboard solutions, personalized content for users today announced the launch of its New Year campaign, ‘My Bobble Keyboard 2020.  The campaign aims to give a quick glimpse of the year 2020– to all individual users of Bobble Keyboard through an interesting analysis of conversations-led trends.

The data-backed      personalized insights include     :

Ø  Time spent on texting      throughout 2020

Ø  Favourite or Most used Emojis, stickers and GIFs in 2020

Ø  Fun analysis of mood swings      in 2020

Ø  The cutest or the favourite Bobblehead of 2020

Story 7Story 1Users will be able to share personalised cards with their friends and across their own social media pages to flaunt and compare their scores with each other.     Known for its personalised content, Bobble AI uses sophisticated new age technologies such as AI and machine learning to find out users’ favourite Emojis, GIFs, Stickers, and much more, to describe their mood swings throughout the year.

According to the data report by Bobble AI in the month of April this year, applications such as Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp, and Twitter have seen a 46.28% hike in time spent indicating that people spending more time      texting each other this year than ever before.

Talking about the insight and the creative vision behind this campaign, Ankit Prasad, Founder, and CEO, Bobble AI said, “     The user engagement trends that we witnessed on our platform are a clear reflection of the overall sentiment of millennials and GenZies – the pervasive, instantaneous, and tech-savvy, India’s younger, digital-first audience. It was a year when their conversations were filled with expressing gratitude, compassion, and being thankful for      the small things that made all of them happy.      This in essence was the spirit of the year and the campaign aims to celebrate these struggles and victories, joys and miseries that 2020 brought into our lives.”

Ankit Prasad, Founder, and CEO, Bobble AI added, “The latest ‘My Bobble Keyboard Stats’  feature won’t be limited for a short campaign period rather we have decided to make it permanent in our keyboards letting users view and compare their conversation stats against friends in a gamified manner. At Bobble AI, we are additionally releasing a host of new and exciting features in the upcoming year such as a typing meter which will reflect the number of words typed in the day, typing speed, and accuracy to name a few.

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Affle to acquire strategic stake in Bobble AI, the Conversation Media Platform offering indigenous social keyboard

Aug 13, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Affle, #Ankit Prasad, #Anuj Khanna Sohum, #Bobble AI, #MD and CEO at Affle, #the Chairman, #the founder and CEO of Bobble AI

Chennai (India), 13 August 2020: Affle (India) Limited (“Affle” or the “Company”), today announced the signing of definitive agreements to acquire 8.0% ownership in Talent Unlimited Online Services Private Limited (“Bobble AI”), India. The Company also has an option to acquire incremental ownership on the attainment of certain key performance targets within the next 3 years. Affle has secured exclusive global ad monetization rights of tech products of Bobble AI for 5 years. Bobble AI is the Conversation Media Platform offering indigenous social keyboard with 10+ patents filed and significant investments from Xiaomi and SAIF Partners.

Bobble AI’s flagship offering – “Bobble Indic Keyboard” includes speech-to-text capabilities and is accessible in approximately 100 international languages including 23 Indian languages. It lets users personalise their communication while offering AI-based contextual recommendations and expressive endorsements with branded stickers and emojis. Bobble AI has partnered with Xiaomi to pre-embed its custom made “Mint Keyboard” as a default keyboard across multiple Xiaomi devices in India. Bobble AI has leveraged its strengths in both Indian and International languages and is partnering with multiple Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and financial services companies as distribution partners adding significantly to their customer engagement.

Commenting on this development, Anuj Khanna Sohum, the Chairman, MD and CEO at Affle said “We are excited to announce our strategic investment in Bobble AI. A keyboard is the core of a user’s smart device experience and is one of the most used apps daily. We believe Bobble AI complements our vernacular strategy and significantly strengthens our partnership with OEMs where this keyboard is a default/pre-installed app. We remain committed to Affle2.0 growth strategy leveraging upon strategic consolidation opportunities to augment our market leadership position globally. We also continue to be a strong enabling platform for the indigenous apps ecosystem in India.”

Talking about it, Ankit Prasad, the founder and CEO of Bobble AI commented “We are elated to have found partners in Affle as we enter into the next phase of growth and monetization. Affle’s investment reinforces our vision to build the world’s largest Conversation Media Platform. Affle’s strong market position, differentiated business model and our deep AI-driven tech is setting us together on a long-term growth trajectory. As a founding team, I and Rahul would like to thank our team, users and partners for their continued support, and looking forward to exciting days ahead.”

Existing investor of Bobble AI, SAIF Partners noted “Bobble AI has grown rapidly in the past couple of years driven by Ankit and Rahul’s leadership and focus on execution. We welcome Affle’s strategic investment into the company, which will further strengthen Bobble’s market position and create a leading and unique engagement model for both users and partners. We look forward to a strong growth path for Bobble AI.”