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February 6, 2016 Uber Could Double Investment in India if Returns Are Good, Says CEO
Uber could double its current committed investment of $1 billion in India if it sees more than five times the return, its co-founder and chief executive Travis Kalanick said today. “If we see five times the return on our spending, we would spend $2 billion (roughly Rs. 13,600 crores) instead of $1 billion (roughly Rs. […]
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February 6, 2016 Tinder Adds STD Testing Locator, Ending Feud With Non-Profit
A feud between the operator of popular “hook-up” software and a leading sexual health advocacy group was settled on Thursday after the dating site agreed to add links to sexually transmitted disease testing locations. The battle between dating site Tinder and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation stretches back to last fall when the Los Angeles based […]
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February 6, 2016 Anonymous Messaging App ‘Blindspot’ Stirs Controversy in Israel
A new Israeli app launched by a company with investors including Will.I.Am and Nicki Minaj has been accused of encouraging teen bullying and Internet trolls. The Blindspot app allows users to send anonymous messages, photos and videos to their contacts without the receiver being able to trace it. It has shot towards the top of […]
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February 6, 2016 Spanish Regulator Urges Removal of Obstacle to Uber’s Return
Taxi-hailing service Uber could see a temporary ban in Spain overturned after a regulator said on Thursday it had asked the government to remove restrictions on its service, saying they were anti-competitive. Uber, embroiled in disputes with authorities around the world after aggressive international expansion,suspended its service in Spain in 2014 when a judge imposed […]
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February 6, 2016 Microsoft Mimicker Alarm App Launched for Android
Microsoft Garage, responsible for Invite, Send, Next Lock Screen, Snip, Guardian, and Parchi apps, has launched an alarm app for Android called Mimicker Alarm. The Android app helps you wake up by forcing you to play a game. You can choose which one out of the three games you want to play. The options include […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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 […]
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February 6, 2016 Delighted, charmed and horrified: Steve McCurry’s vibrant photos of India (and Indians)
Photo Credit: Photograph by Steve McCurry (courtesy Phaidon/Roli Books) 59.6K Total Views “There’s a lot of people here.” This was Steve McCurry’s first thought when he arrived in India for the first time in 1978 with just a few clothes and a bag of film. Over the next three decades, the celebrated American photographer returned […]