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Phillips India launches on the go MP3 players
MUMBAI: Phillips Electronics India has launched the GoGear Portable Digital Audio MP3 Players range.
Phillips says that its GoGear jukeboxes provide the easiest way to access and enjoy infotainment by giving the user ‘ultimate control‘ over playback and browsing. Your Music, Your Data on the go – everyday
Philips has launched the GoGear Portable Audio MP3 Players range in an effort to deliver on its recently launched Brand Promise of “Sense and Simplicity”. The Philips GoGear MP3 Players range offers great benefits such as providing convenient wire-free USB transfer, adequate memory storage in the range of 512 Mega Byte -1Giga Byte, voice recording facility, a battery life of 8 hrs, audio playability of MP3, WMA and WAV.
Phillips India dierctor entertainment solutions Gunjan Srivastava said, “Through the launch of the Phillips Go Gear Portable Digital Audio MP3 Players, Phillips aims to make this segment affordable to a broader base of Indian consumers, who are young at heart and enjoy the music experience. Phillips has always worked towards bringing cutting edge technologies and providing ‘value for money’ to the consumers.
“Phillips GoGear jukeboxes provide the easiest way to access and enjoy infotainment by giving you “ultimate control” over playback and browsing.”
The Phillips GoGear Portable Digital Audio MP3 Players range is available at select multi-brand Consumer Electronics outlets and Mobile phones counters in addition to the Arenas- network of exclusive Phillips Brand shops, in key cities, spread across the country.
In conjunction with the Go Gear MP3 Players launch, Phillips in partnership with Radio City has sannounced a contest for Bangalore consumers called The Phillips GoGear Contest, that allowed music enthusiasts to create a play list of their favourite songs and send it to Radio City. The contest attracted a large number of participants and many of them got a chance to win Philips GoGears, invites to the special launch party and one mega prize of being a ‘DJ for a night‘.
At a press conference, Neema Shariff, the participant with the best play list, was declared as the winner of the contest. Followed by the Press Conference, the winner got a chance to be the DJ for a Night and play her song list along with the famous DJ Chico at a party specially organised by Philips to celebrate the launch at Club Noir, Le Meridien – one of the most happening pubs of Bangalore.
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Canva acquires animation and AI startups Cavalry and MangoAI
The deals strengthen Canva’s push into enterprise and AI-led design workflows
AUSTRALIA: Global visual communication platform Canva has stepped up its acquisition drive, buying UK-based 2D animation platform Cavalry and US-based AI startup MangoAI to deepen its AI-powered creative stack.
Cavalry, whose tools are used by brands including Amazon, Meta, Google and Netflix, will strengthen Canva’s motion design capabilities. The deal builds on Canva’s 2024 acquisition of Affinity, which has crossed four million downloads since launch. With Cavalry, Canva now counts seven Europe-based acquisitions, underscoring its global expansion strategy.
MangoAI, an early-stage startup focused on video advertising optimisation, will integrate its reinforcement learning systems into Canva AI. The move aims to enable brands to generate personalised marketing content in real time, cutting production cycles while improving campaign performance. MangoAI co-founder Vinith Misra will join Canva as reinforcement learning lead in its research lab.
Canva co-founder and chief operating officer Cliff Obrecht said the acquisitions reflect the company’s ambition to make professional-grade creative tools more accessible without sidelining human creativity. The goal, he said, is to bring everything from vector to motion design into a single, integrated suite.
The company now reports 265 million active users, including 31 million paid subscribers, and $4 billion in annualised revenue, up 36 per cent year on year. The latest buys further position Canva against rivals such as Adobe and Apple’s Creator Studio as it pushes deeper into enterprise workflows.
Canva head of pro design marketing Liam Fisher, said AI is intended to act as a creative assistant rather than a replacement, reinforcing the primacy of craft and individual design judgement.
