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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 QuizUp Gets $7.5 Million in Investment From Glu Mobile
Glu Mobile, publisher of games such as Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Frontline Commando, has announced that it is investing $7.5 million (approximately Rs. 50.7 crores) in the parent company of mobile trivia game QuizUp, Iceland-based Plain Vanilla Games. This comes in part due to last year’s deal between Plain Vanilla and Universal Television (NBC) to […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 Amazon Steps Up Recruitment as It Expands in Europe
Online retailer Amazon plans to create several thousand jobs in Europe in 2016, more than 2,500 of which will be in Britain, stepping up its expansion in the region, it said on Friday. The jobs form part of an investment by the US-based company to expand its warehouses and delivery network in Europe, its research […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 6, 2016 India Funding Roundup: Silvan, SnapBizz, ShabdaNagari, LocalCircles, Little, Housing, Fisdom, Just Buy Live, Easypolicy
The week following the Startup India event has seen the largest investments going to startups specialised in online insurance, B2B distribution, and e-commerce enablement solutions. Silvan Silvan Innovation Labs, a Bengaluru-based company providing home security and automation products, has reportedly raised Rs 3.5 crores from Chennai Angels. The company will focus on offering its services […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 6, 2016 Skype’s Latest Update Hides IP Addresses by Default
Skype is rolling out an update for all of its apps on desktops and mobiles, adding the ability to hide a user’s IP address. The company says that from now on all Skype users’ IP address will be hidden as a default status in the latest versions of Skype. “Starting with this update to Skype […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 Ola Launches Ride Sharing Service in Kolkata
Cab aggregator Ola on Friday announced the launch of Ola Share, a social ride-sharing platform, in Kolkata. Ola Share will allow users who travel on the same routes to share their cab rides with users from social groups they are part of starting today, the company said in a statement. A ride can now be […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 6, 2016 Google Chrome 48 With Multiple Security Fixes Released for Desktop
Google has released the version 48.0.2564.82 of its Chrome browser for Linux, Windows, and OS X. The updated version brings several fixes and improvements on both desktop and mobile devices. The Chrome v48 brings a number of bug fixes most of which were detected using AddressSanitizer, Controle Flow Integrity, and MemorySanitizer codes, says the blog […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 6, 2016 BitTorrent Sync Update Brings Encrypted Folders and More
BitTorrent has released an update for its file synchronisation app called BitTorrent Sync to bump the version up to 2.3 and add a number of features for its users. One of the major additions is the ability to add encryption to a folder. BitTorrent Sync allows users to move files from one device to another […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 OnePlus One Gets OxygenOS 2.1.4 Update
OnePlus has announced an OxygenOS update for its 2014 flagship smartphone – the OnePlus One. Over the weekend, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer announced the availability of a community-sourced build of OxygenOS 2.1.4 for the One – as with previous updates, the update is not available over the air (OTA) and users will have to manually […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 Congress workers rate the new Rahul Gandhi as good, but not good enough
Photo Credit: IANS 19.1K Total Views Months after he returned from his mysterious sabbatical in a new and aggressive avatar, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi appears to be slipping on the popularity charts. Although the Congress-led opposition has reason to congratulate itself after it forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to do a U-turn on the contentious […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 Full text: Affirmative action for Muslims is key to development, says Vice President Hamid Ansari
Photo Credit: Press Information Bureau 16.6K Total Views It is a privilege to be invited to address the 50th anniversary session of the All India Majlis-e-Mushawarat. Needless to say, and like many other compatriots, I have over the years followed in some measure the work of this consultative body. The Mushawarat was formed in response […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 How Saudi Arabia’s grip on oil prices could bring Russia to its knees
Photo Credit: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters 27.3K Total Views When Saudi Arabia led an OPEC decision to end a restraint put on oil production in November 2014, it marked the beginning of a new era in oil economics. It has given us a tumbling oil price, prompted huge losses and job cuts at oil firms like BP […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 A rebuttal to Rajiv Malhotra, by an ‘elite leftist goon activist’
31.1K Total Views Wherever Rajiv Malhotra goes, controversy unfailingly follows. The self-taught social scientist who is an important ideologue for the political right delivered a talk at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai on January 29, and it quickly devolved into a hail of accusations at his audience. Since then, US-based Malhotra and […]
