\"\"NEW DELHI: Alan Mamedi<\/a><\/strong> founded Truecaller<\/a> with Nami Zarringhalam<\/a> in 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden. The app, which has its biggest base in India with 29 million users, identifies phone numbers that aren’t saved in users’ phonebooks. They have over 45 million users worldwide. Truecaller received its second round of funding for $18.8 million, led by Sequoia Capital’s Indian arm.<\/em>
\n
\nHow did the idea for Truecaller come about?<\/strong>
\n
\nBack in 2009, my co-founder Nami and I used to receive a lot of phone calls, from friends and for work. For us the big challenge was to know who is calling. If I’m in a meeting, how do I know this call is important? We thought, let’s do something crazy. Let’s build the world’s largest phone directory. The idea came from our own need. We actually built the app ourselves, the coding and everything.
\n
\nThere have been several privacy concerns with Truecaller harvesting users’ phonebooks to build its directory…<\/strong>
\n
\nWe always say that as default, everything is disabled or we put the permission levels at the highest. Also...for example if you search for Alan by entering my name, you won’t get my number. But, if you enter my number, you will get the information that we have. On the other hand, you can just call me because you have my number. To add, if you download Truecaller from Google Play or iPhone app store, we do not crowdsource phone numbers. However any user can tag information.
\n
\nCrowdsourcing happens on other platforms like Windows phone or Blackberry. But, the sourcing is always disabled by default. You have to set it to “enhanced” for the app to access your phonebook. Any user can disable it and take all the information out. For users whose information might be displayed as nicknames, I urge them to unlist their numbers. If you set up your profile, you can decide how your name should appear.
\n
\nThe Syrian Electronic Army attacked your website last year. How have you secured your data?<\/strong>
\n
\nWe were using Wordpress as our website architecture, and unfortunately it wasn’t good enough. We learned a big lesson. It is important to understand that it’s a public website but the data is completely isolated. It’s on private IPs. We host our servers ourselves in Sweden, it’s not in some cloud-based service where you don’t know where your data is. We have a big server hall that is locked down. There are only a few people at Truecaller office who can access those machines.
\n
\nYou have “directory partners” in certain countries. Who are your directory partners in India?<\/strong>
\n
\nIn India we don’t have any partners yet. There are some great companies in India which we’re looking into and see how it works. I can’t go into details.
\n
\nHow big is the Indian market for you? How does it compare with the others?<\/strong>
\n
\nIndia is our biggest market with 29 million users. Half of our user base is here. We see India as a very important market in terms of product development. Spam calls are a huge issue here. Today we block more than 2 million spam calls a day in India only.
\n
\nIn Sweden we have one million users. But the population is nine million. That’s what makes the Indian market so exciting. You can go to any subscriber and they will have more than 100 million subscribers. Not many places have the kind of population as India.
\n
\nWhat about staff from India?<\/strong>
\n
\nWe have a team of 40 full time people and 30 part-time. Most of them are in Sweden. We have one person in Delhi working on business development with Indian mobile phone manufacturers. We have three people from India working in Stockholm, Sweden — Tanu and Anita, who are in the testing team and Anju on the backend development side.\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":33749471,"title":"General Elections 2014: TCS, Twitter launch social insight app","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/mvas-apps\/general-elections-2014-tcs-twitter-launch-social-insight-app\/33749471","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"mvas-apps"}],"related_content":[],"msid":33763744,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"India is our biggest market with 29 million users: Truecaller founder Alan Mamedi","synopsis":"Alan Mamedi founded Truecaller with Nami Zarringhalam in 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden.","titleseo":"mvas-apps\/india-is-our-biggest-market-with-29-million-users-truecaller-founder-alan-mamedi","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[{"author_name":"Kim Arora","author_link":"\/author\/479213115\/kim-arora","author_image":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/authorthumb\/479213115.cms?width=100&height=100","author_additional":{"thumbsize":false,"msid":479213115,"author_name":"Kim Arora","author_seo_name":"Kim-Arora","designation":"Editor","agency":false}}],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"TNN","artdate":"2014-04-15 08:19:32","lastupd":"2014-04-15 08:23:04","breadcrumbTags":["TrueCaller","Nami Zarringhalam","Alan Mamedi","Alan Mamedi Alan","MVAS\/Apps"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"mvas-apps\/india-is-our-biggest-market-with-29-million-users-truecaller-founder-alan-mamedi"}}" data-authors="[" kim arora"]" data-category-name="MVAS/Apps" data-category_id="16" data-date="2014-04-15" data-index="article_1">

印度是我们最大的市场,2900万用户:Truecaller创始人艾伦Mamedi

艾伦Mamedi成立与2009年Nami Zarringhalam Truecaller在斯德哥尔摩,瑞典。

金正日Arora
  • 更新于2014年4月15日08:23点坚持
新德里消息:艾伦Mamedi成立TruecallerNami Zarringhalam2009年在斯德哥尔摩,瑞典。应用,其最大的基地在印度拥有2900万用户,确定不保存在用户的电话号码:只要还不是电话簿就好了。他们在全球有超过4500万用户。Truecaller获得第二轮融资1880万美元,红杉资本为首的印度的手臂。

Truecaller的想法是怎么来的?

早在2009年,我和我的合伙人Nami用于接收电话,从朋友和工作。对我们来说最大的挑战是知道是谁打来的。如果我在一个会议上,我怎么知道这个调用是重要的?我们认为,让我们做一些疯狂的事情。让我们构建世界上最大的手机目录。这个想法来自我们自己的需要。我们建立了应用自己,编码和一切。

有几个与Truecaller收集用户隐私问题的建立自己的目录:只要还不是电话簿就好了…

我们总是说违约,一切都是残疾人或者我们把许可在最高水平。也……例如,如果你搜索艾伦通过输入我的名字,你不会得到我的电话号码。但是,如果你输入我的电话号码,你会得到我们的信息。另一方面,你可以打电话给我,因为你有我的电话号码。添加,如果你从谷歌播放或下载Truecaller iPhone应用程序商店,我们不了解电话号码。然而任何用户可以标记信息。

众包会发生在其他平台上像Windows手机或黑莓手机。但是,采购总是默认禁用。你必须设置为“增强”的应用程序来访问你的电话簿。任何用户都可以禁用它,把所有的信息。用户的信息可能显示为昵称,我敦促他们unlist数字。如果你设置你的资料,你可以决定如何应该会出现你的名字。

去年叙利亚电子军队攻击你的网站。你如何保护你的数据吗?

我们使用Wordpress的网站架构,不幸的是它不够好。我们获得了很大的教训。重要的是要理解,这是一个公共网站,但数据是完全孤立。在私人ip。我们举办我们的服务器在瑞典,这不是在一些基于云的服务,你不知道你的数据。我们有一个很大的大厅服务器锁定。只有少数人在办公室Truecaller可以访问这些机器。

在某些国家你有“目录伙伴”。谁是你的合作伙伴在印度目录?

在印度我们没有任何合作伙伴。在印度有一些伟大的公司,我们正在调查,看看它是如何工作的。我不能进入细节。

印度市场有多大吗?它是如何与别人比较?

印度是我们最大的市场拥有2900万用户。我们的用户群的一半。我们认为印度是一个非常重要的市场的产品开发。垃圾邮件的调用是一个巨大的问题。今天我们块超过200万垃圾邮件电话一天只在印度。

在瑞典,我们有一百万用户。但是人口是九百万。这是印度市场最令人兴奋的。你可以去任何用户,他们将有超过1亿用户。并不是很多地方有像印度的人口。

来自印度的员工呢?

我们有一个全职40人的团队,和30兼职。他们中的大多数都是在瑞典。我们有一个人在德里工作业务发展与印度手机制造商。我们有三个人来自印度在斯德哥尔摩,瑞典- Tanu和安妮塔,是谁在测试团队和安居后端开发方面。
  • 发布于2014年4月15日08:19点坚持
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\"\"NEW DELHI: Alan Mamedi<\/a><\/strong> founded Truecaller<\/a> with Nami Zarringhalam<\/a> in 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden. The app, which has its biggest base in India with 29 million users, identifies phone numbers that aren’t saved in users’ phonebooks. They have over 45 million users worldwide. Truecaller received its second round of funding for $18.8 million, led by Sequoia Capital’s Indian arm.<\/em>
\n
\nHow did the idea for Truecaller come about?<\/strong>
\n
\nBack in 2009, my co-founder Nami and I used to receive a lot of phone calls, from friends and for work. For us the big challenge was to know who is calling. If I’m in a meeting, how do I know this call is important? We thought, let’s do something crazy. Let’s build the world’s largest phone directory. The idea came from our own need. We actually built the app ourselves, the coding and everything.
\n
\nThere have been several privacy concerns with Truecaller harvesting users’ phonebooks to build its directory…<\/strong>
\n
\nWe always say that as default, everything is disabled or we put the permission levels at the highest. Also...for example if you search for Alan by entering my name, you won’t get my number. But, if you enter my number, you will get the information that we have. On the other hand, you can just call me because you have my number. To add, if you download Truecaller from Google Play or iPhone app store, we do not crowdsource phone numbers. However any user can tag information.
\n
\nCrowdsourcing happens on other platforms like Windows phone or Blackberry. But, the sourcing is always disabled by default. You have to set it to “enhanced” for the app to access your phonebook. Any user can disable it and take all the information out. For users whose information might be displayed as nicknames, I urge them to unlist their numbers. If you set up your profile, you can decide how your name should appear.
\n
\nThe Syrian Electronic Army attacked your website last year. How have you secured your data?<\/strong>
\n
\nWe were using Wordpress as our website architecture, and unfortunately it wasn’t good enough. We learned a big lesson. It is important to understand that it’s a public website but the data is completely isolated. It’s on private IPs. We host our servers ourselves in Sweden, it’s not in some cloud-based service where you don’t know where your data is. We have a big server hall that is locked down. There are only a few people at Truecaller office who can access those machines.
\n
\nYou have “directory partners” in certain countries. Who are your directory partners in India?<\/strong>
\n
\nIn India we don’t have any partners yet. There are some great companies in India which we’re looking into and see how it works. I can’t go into details.
\n
\nHow big is the Indian market for you? How does it compare with the others?<\/strong>
\n
\nIndia is our biggest market with 29 million users. Half of our user base is here. We see India as a very important market in terms of product development. Spam calls are a huge issue here. Today we block more than 2 million spam calls a day in India only.
\n
\nIn Sweden we have one million users. But the population is nine million. That’s what makes the Indian market so exciting. You can go to any subscriber and they will have more than 100 million subscribers. Not many places have the kind of population as India.
\n
\nWhat about staff from India?<\/strong>
\n
\nWe have a team of 40 full time people and 30 part-time. Most of them are in Sweden. We have one person in Delhi working on business development with Indian mobile phone manufacturers. We have three people from India working in Stockholm, Sweden — Tanu and Anita, who are in the testing team and Anju on the backend development side.\n\n<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":33749471,"title":"General Elections 2014: TCS, Twitter launch social insight app","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/mvas-apps\/general-elections-2014-tcs-twitter-launch-social-insight-app\/33749471","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"mvas-apps"}],"related_content":[],"msid":33763744,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"India is our biggest market with 29 million users: Truecaller founder Alan Mamedi","synopsis":"Alan Mamedi founded Truecaller with Nami Zarringhalam in 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden.","titleseo":"mvas-apps\/india-is-our-biggest-market-with-29-million-users-truecaller-founder-alan-mamedi","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[{"author_name":"Kim Arora","author_link":"\/author\/479213115\/kim-arora","author_image":"https:\/\/etimg.etb2bimg.com\/authorthumb\/479213115.cms?width=100&height=100","author_additional":{"thumbsize":false,"msid":479213115,"author_name":"Kim Arora","author_seo_name":"Kim-Arora","designation":"Editor","agency":false}}],"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"TNN","artdate":"2014-04-15 08:19:32","lastupd":"2014-04-15 08:23:04","breadcrumbTags":["TrueCaller","Nami Zarringhalam","Alan Mamedi","Alan Mamedi Alan","MVAS\/Apps"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"mvas-apps\/india-is-our-biggest-market-with-29-million-users-truecaller-founder-alan-mamedi"}}" data-news_link="//www.iser-br.com/news/mvas-apps/india-is-our-biggest-market-with-29-million-users-truecaller-founder-alan-mamedi/33763744">