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March 16, 2016 Right time for angel investments, say experts
Angel investors should ideally help start-ups by leveraging their own domain expertise, guide them in customer acquisition and become quasi-entrepreneurs themselves and assist in scaling the business. Bengaluru: Start-up funding may be slowing, but this is the right time to make angel investments, since companies being built now will mature when the market becomes favourable […]
ALL DEALS March 16, 2016 What’s common to Hitler and company budgets
The obsession that once a budget is set it’s sacrosanct, is akin to Hitler’s ‘withdrawal is superfluous’ doctrine. Photo: Getty Images The last quarter of every year is epochal for two reasons: one, everyone believes that the world is coming to an end on 31 March and the budgeted numbers that could not be met […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 Consolidation among consumer Internet firms remains brisk
One of the largest deals to be announced so far this year was online classifieds firm Quikr’s acquisition of real estate listings website CommonFloor. Consolidation in the consumer Internet segment, which picked up in 2015, has continued at a brisk pace in the early months of 2016. Since January, 13 consumer Internet firms have already […]
HOME & GARDEN March 16, 2016 CommonFloor lays off employees not accommodated in Quikr
CommonFloor is vacating its office space and will be moving to Quikr premises. Bengaluru: CommonFloor, the online real estate portal has laid off at least 100 of its employees who were unable to find suitable roles at Quikr India Pvt Ltd. The Bengaluru-based real estate listings portal which was acquired by Quikr in January 2016 […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 Education start-up FlipClass raises $1 million from S. Chand and Blume Ventures
The Bengaluru-based firm had in 2014 raised about $250,000 in funding from LetsVenture, an online fund-raising platform. Bangalore: FlipClass (run by Gyankosh Solutions Pvt Ltd), an education start-up that operates a marketplace for home tutors, on Monday said it has raised $1 million in funding from S. Chand and Co. Pvt. Ltd, a publisher of […]
HOME & GARDEN March 16, 2016 Urban Ladder to launch home interior solutions in April
The home interior solutions service will be launched in Bengaluru and then rolled out in Mumbai in couple of months, before being extended to other cities where the firm operates. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Bengaluru: Online furniture store Urban Ladder will roll out home interior solutions in April, a category that the company estimates will contribute […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 Airbnb to let neighbours give feedback on hosts
A file photo shows employees working in an Airbnb office in Paris. Photo: AFP Tokyo/San Francisco: Airbnb Inc. will soon give people renting out rooms and homes through its website a better way to find out how the strangers showing up at their properties are behaving. A new tool will let neighbours weigh in with […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 App Annie bets on Southeast Asia, India to capture smartphone surge
App Annie—derived from App Nanny, to imply it takes care of all things app—is mostly unknown outside of tech circles yet counts the biggest names in the industry among its customers. Singapore: A Singaporean shophouse may seem an unlikely symbol of Asia’s mobile boom. Yet one muggy evening in March, about a hundred people packed […]
NEWS March 16, 2016 PinkBlue raises Rs1.5 crore from TermSheet.io
PinkBlue was founded in 2014 by Valliappan Kumarappan and Varun Singh. Mumbai: Bengaluru-based clinical supplies provider Pink Blue Supply Solutions Pvt. Ltd has raised Rs1.5 crore in a seed (early stage) round of funding from TermSheet.io, a transaction-focused service provider for start-ups and investors. A group of angel investors also participated in the funding round, […]
ALL DEALS March 16, 2016 Regulators ahead of the curve for fintech sector, says Nandan Nilekani
Nilekani says he does not invest in fintech start-ups because he does policy-related work for the government and does not want to have a conflict of interest. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Bengaluru: Getting millions of rural Indians online, organizing sectors like pharma and logistics, and utilizing Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and mobile phones are three areas […]
ALL DEALS March 16, 2016 Contract management software company Icertis raises $15 million
Icertis has customers like Cognizant, HBO, Microsoft, and Skullcandy and claims their platform is used by more than 500,000 professionals across legal, procurement, finance and sales departments to manage 2 million contracts in about 40 languages. Bengaluru: Icertis Inc., a firm that makes software for companies to create and manage contracts, enabling them to shorten […]
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March 16, 2016 Yoga Poses for Knees – Yoga Journal
Your knees are hard-working shock absorbers. Yoga helps to keep knees healthy and strong by lengthening and strengthening the surrounding thigh and calf muscles, thus helping to ease the pressure on the knees. Injuries and knee problems are often due to mechanical issues with the kneecap, which then impacts the ligaments and the joints, but […]
