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COUPONS 
April 11, 2016 Millennials are increasingly using mobile coupons: eMarketer
Dive Brief: According to research from Valassis reported byeMarketer, 45% more millennials used mobile coupons in Q3 2015 compared to the previous year. Millennials also used more paper coupons, and coupons received in the mail than other demographics. Meanwhile, only 27% of both Gen X and Baby Boomers increased use of paperless coupons over the […]
ELECTRONICS 
April 10, 2016 Tablets Are Finding New Life Among Professionals
Tablets may never again be the consumer sensation they once were, but they are finding new life among professionals. Apple took aim at that market in announcing a second iPad Pro model this week. Samsung started selling the Windows-based Galaxy TabPro S last week, while Microsoft doubled down on its Surface tablet business last fall […]
NEWS April 10, 2016 Why Apple and Google Are Struggling to Design Simple Software
Right now, millions of consumers are facing a simple problem. Or rather, they’re facing a problem with simplicity, as both the number of smart products and the functions of those products multiply. I was recently reminded of this when I tried to quickly snap a picture at Apple’s launch event. I tried to double-click the […]
ALL DEALS 
March 15, 2016 Why Angel Backed Companies are Raising Less Money
The average angel-backed company receives much less capital today than it did in the early 2000s, data from the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research (CVR) reveals. The CVR’s numbers — which come from surveys of individual angels and angel groups — show that the dollars that the average angel-backed company received dropped […]
ALL DEALS March 13, 2016 Are You Doing Yoga Nidra?
It is interesting to see how yoga nidra, where we literally do ‘nothing’, can do wonders for the body and mind. I find yoga nidra as restorative as sleep, or even much more than sleep. It offers benefits that go deep down to the subtler levels of our personality. Let’s see how. Yoga nidra can […]
NEWS 
March 11, 2016 Will online pharmacies work in India, and are they even legal?
Zigy co-founder Hemant Bhardwaj hired three law firms just to ascertain if the business of online pharmacies was legal. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint New Delhi: It’s a $18 billion market set to grow to $55 billion by 2020 and it’s finally beginning to get the kind of attention from investors and entrepreneurs those numbers warrant—despite uncertainty […]
ALL DEALS March 9, 2016 Uber could double India investment if returns are good: Travis Kalanick
A file photo of Uber co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick. Photo: AFP Mumbai: 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 on Tuesday. “If we see five times the return on our spending, we […]
NEWS 
March 4, 2016 Unicorns are a myth. But you do believe in them!
Photo: Bloomberg The enterprise value of Google pre-IPO (initial public offer) was estimated to be between $33 billion and $40 billion (based on a S&P’s pre-IPO Google report). Google listed on Nasdaq on 19 August 2004 at $85, the low end of its revised price expectation of $85-95. Its market capitalization was valued at $23 […]
ALL DEALS March 3, 2016 Why investors are interested in CarDekho
CarDekho.com boasts of investors such as Ratan Tata, Times Internet, Sequoia, Hillhouse Capital, Tybourne Capital and HDFC Bank, and is valued at $300 million. Clearly, it has no dearth of investors or money. New Delhi: The presence of CarDekho.com, promoted by Jaipur-based IT firm Girnar Soft, at the recently-concluded Delhi Auto Expo was intimidating. The […]
ALL DEALS 
March 2, 2016 Businesses are built on burning ambition. But don’t burn at both ends
I am 28. I have just raised the first round of venture capital for my e-commerce company. It is a heady feeling. But as the high-fives are settling down, please tell us the things we should keep in mind, what must be done to take the company to the next round of funding and 20x […]
ALL DEALS February 24, 2016 These Are the World’s Top 10 Young Billionaires
Life isn’t fair. Some earn their billions; others are born into them. Most of the world’s youngest billionaires fall in the latter category, but not Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. The 31-year-old hoodie clad programming prodigy is without a doubt a standout self-made billionaire, striking it beyond rich with a social media game-changer that forever transformed how humans […]
NEWS 
February 18, 2016 Indians think Africans are ‘frauds and prostitutes’ ‒ so why do they still come to India to study?
Photo Credit: Noah Seelam/AFP 21.8K Total Views On the morning of February 6, a few hundred African students gathered on the steps of Bengaluru’s Town Hall, a striking, colonnaded building at the heart of the sprawling metropolis best known as India’s Silicon Valley. Holding posters, some printed and most handwritten, and shouting slogans, they were […]
