{"id":7859,"date":"2017-12-01T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2017-12-01T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:44:09","slug":"news18-com-concludes-the-coveted-tech-auto-awards-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=7859","title":{"rendered":"News18.com concludes the coveted Tech & Auto Awards for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Samsung Galaxy S8\/S8+\u00a0adjudged the Smartphone of the Year,\u00a0Hyundai Verna\u00a0announced as the Car of the Year, Vijay Shekhar Sharma\u00a0awarded the Tech Personality of the Year<\/em><\/p>\n

National, November 29, 2017:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0News18.com, one of India\u2019s top breaking news websites<\/strong>,\u00a0held its\u00a0annual marquee offering \u2013\u00a0The Tech and Auto Awards in New Delhi\u00a0<\/strong>amidst the presence of industry veterans.\u00a0The awards ceremony celebrated and honoured Technology and Automotive products and innovations that have set the bar high in the respective sectors.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the occasion,\u00a0Manish Maheshwari, CEO, Network18 Digital<\/strong>\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cAt News18. Com, it is our constant endeavour to connect with our consumers through different channels and make a difference to their lives by offering content that is most relevant to them. Tech and Auto Awards is one such platform to bring together the two most important sectors where today’s consumer spends most time on. These awards have established themselves as the benchmark for facilitating Indian consumers in choosing the best technology and automobiles by making informed choice.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Talking about the awards,\u00a0Siddhartha Sharma, Editor \u2013 Technology & Auto, News18.com<\/strong>\u00a0said,\u00a0\u201cNews18.com has been a pioneer in leading discussions in auto and technology sectors. With the conclusion of the first tech and auto awards, we are proud to celebrate the collective achievements from these prominent consumer oriented sectors.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Cabinet Minister,\u00a0Law and Justice and Ministry of Information Technology, graced the awards night as the Chief Guest<\/strong>.\u00a0The\u00a0highlight of the evening included a Key Note speech by Mr. Larry Paulson, Vice President and President, Qualcomm India and a special video address by Shri. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping.<\/p>\n

Selected by a Jury that included veterans from auto and tech industry, the awards night witnessed brands like Maruti, Toyota, Volkswagen, Volvo, Audi, Mercedes and others go head-to-head for coveted awards like Car of the Year, Sedan of the Year and Hatchback of the Year and more. While Tech brands like Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Xiaomi, LG and others were seen fighting it out for awards in the Smartphone of the Year, Design of the Year and other categories, tech savvy personalities like Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm, Amitabh Kant of Niti Aayog and others were vying for the Tech Personality of the Year award.<\/p>\n

The Tech & Auto Awards 2017 brought the best of Technology and Automobile industry on the same platform and were trending on #TechAndAutoAwards17<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samsung Galaxy S8\/S8+\u00a0adjudged the Smartphone of the Year,\u00a0Hyundai Verna\u00a0announced as the Car of the Year, Vijay Shekhar Sharma\u00a0awarded the Tech Personality of the Year National, November 29, 2017:\u00a0News18.com, one of India\u2019s top breaking news websites,\u00a0held its\u00a0annual marquee offering \u2013\u00a0The Tech and Auto Awards in New Delhi\u00a0amidst the presence of industry veterans.\u00a0The awards ceremony celebrated and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7861,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions\/7861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}