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There are times when our mobile phones get flooded with the random messages from the usernames with prefixes like DM, LM, BT, AA and etc. Some look legit, while others-fake. However, one must understand that there’s a theory behind this  bulk messages , they are certain meanings according to their prefixes, which actually are gateways, the break down of the prefixes has a certain meaning which we will acknowledge below. ow, coming to context, if you have a Mobile number in India and more particularly if you have registered for mobile banking you must be receiving SMS Messages from Short codes like TD-KVBANK, BX-CANBAN, LM-AxisBk, DM-HDFCBK, LM-UnionB, well, it is clear with the suffixes, they’re from Banks, but, how about the prefixes? Or else, if your messages are from LM-HATHWAY, TD-Google, MM-FACEBK. It is once again clear that they are from the Service Providers, Social Networking sites, Companies, and many other recognized organizations. But all again, what the heck...

NEW DELHI: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has tasked public sector undertakings, banks and insurance companies with raising awareness against corruption in schools, colleges and gram sabhas across the country. The anti-corruption watchdog, in a recent order, has allotted cities to each PSU, bank and insurance company. “Laying stress for creation of awareness on the ill- effects of corruption amongst school and college students, the Commission desires that  special  effor may be made by each field unit/branch of every central public sector enterprise to reach out to students in at least two schools and three colleges,” the CVC said in the order. A total of 163 cities and 96 organisations have been chosen for the purpose, it said. Activities conducted in schools and colleges need to be sustained over a period of time to ensure that ethical values are ingrained permanently in the minds of young generations, it said. “All organisations may, therefore, encou...

Hyderabad:  Campaign for the Nandyal by- election  came to an end on Monday, as the polling date is two sunsets away on August 23. The EC has banned electioneering of all kinds, though print and broadcast,  bulk Short Message Service  (SMS), social media, including Facebook, WhatsApp and other online community platforms. Highlights: Electioneering on all types of media banned    40 normal, 74 critical and 141 hypersensitive polling stations identified Giving details to the media on the elaborate arrangements made to the polling, Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal said that 2, 19,108 voters would be using their franchise in 255 polling stations. “So far, 2, 03,155 voter’s slips had been distributed. 15,703 voter slips could not be distributed following death, house shifting, absent and not available at the time of enrolment and duplicate voter registration,” he said. He said that 40 normal, 74 critical and 141 hypersensitive polling sta...

What is Marketing Automation? Typically when most people think of marketing automation, they imagine a platform that automates activities such as lead scoring, customer segmentation, cross-selling and campaign management. Well that type of automation is primarily for B2B companies, who are looking to reach a mass audience at once. Plus, B2B marketing automation platforms usually only provide one channel, which is email, to reach their customers. B2C companies are looking to grow their brand and reach their customers through personalized messages. A B2C marketing automation platform helps businesses understand where each individual customer is in their journey and determine what actions need to be taken to move each customer forward. Plus they get the option of multiple channels to reach their customer, including email, text message, IM, push notifications and more. Why is Marketing Automation Important for Dispensaries? The first obvious reason why marketing automation is imp...

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples. If you have new APIs, clients, or source code examples to add to ProgrammableWeb’s directories, we offer forms (APIs, Clients, Source Code) for submitting them to our API research team. If there’s a listing in one of our directories that you’d like to claim as the owner, please contact us at editor@programmableweb.com. Twenty-seven APIs have been added to the  ProgrammableWeb  directory in categories such as Banking, Platform-as-a-Service, Marketing, and Voting. Highlights today include APIs for predicting, managing, and cutting energy costs with Smart Energy applications. Have a look at what is new for developers today on ProgrammableWeb. APIs FinFolio  provides portfolio management software for investment advisors and money managers....

With a whopping 75 percent of all customers wanting to receive offers via SMS, it really doesn’t take a genius to know what you should be doing – sending your customers a text message of course. And with more and more restaurants popping up every day, it’s more important than ever to get your restaurant at the forefront of customers minds and your name on the tip of their tongues when they are looking for places to eat. There are lots of different marketing channels that restaurants are using to promote and acquire new customers, from social media, which is great for sharing news, updates and new dishes. However unless the consumer is actually on the social media platform and following you, they won’t see it. You can use email marketing, but with people getting hundreds of emails a day, they will either go straight to junk, into the promotion tabs that Gmail have, or will be just deleted without even opening it. You can advertise on billboards, flyers, your own website and oth...