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March 26, 2016 Tendulkar makes his first tech start-up investment
ALSO READ Tendulkar bats for Oxigen walletGlobal mobile subscriptions growing around 5 per cent y-o-yGovt to launch Rs 10,000-cr fund for domestic electronic firmsInvestment in an Indian start-up every 8 hoursZebpay raises nearly $1 mn in series ‘A’ funding Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar made his first investment in a technology start-up, a firm that makes […]
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NEWS 
March 17, 2016 Fallout 4’s First DLC ‘Automatron’ Has a Release Date and Price
Post-apocalyptic role-playing game and one of our favourite titles of last year, Fallout 4 is getting its first piece of downloadable content (DLC) next week. It’s called Automatron and will be available on March 22. The premise has you squaring off against a horde of evil robots that torment the Commonwealth courtesy of a new […]
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March 16, 2016 10 Suggestions for Making a Good First Impression in Business
Making a good first impression on your potential customers can drastically improve your chances of making sales and creating a loyal following. And there are so many different ways you can make a good first impression on members of your target audience. Check out these suggestions from members of our small business community below. Improve […]
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ELECTRONICS 
March 14, 2016 First Known OS X Ransomware Spotted in the Transmission BitTorrent App
Apple Inc customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers using a pernicious type of software known as ransomware, researchers with Palo Alto Networks Inc told Reuters on Sunday. Ransomware, one of the fastest-growing types of cyber threats, encrypts data on infected machines, then typically asks users to […]
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NEWS 
March 12, 2016 First impression: Samsung Galaxy S7
Samsung’s annual refresh, the Galaxy S7, looks sexier than its predecessor, the S6. And that says a lot about the shift in Samsung’s design philosophy. The silver version, though, seemed a fingerprint magnet. In the limited time I spent with the S7, two things come to mind, the first being the camera. The rear 12-megapixel […]
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March 11, 2016 Engineering admissions fall for first time since 2006
Low capacity utilisation in labour-intensive manufacturing sector and fall in exports have to led to sluggish job creation in the economy. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint New Delhi: The growth of technical education in India since Independence has been phenomenal as the number of engineering seats increased from 3,200 seats in 1947 to 1.9 million in 2014-15. […]
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NEWS 
March 9, 2016 Xiaomi Mi 5’s First Flash Sale Sees 4 Million Units Sold: Reports
Xiaomi’s Mi 5 is already a hit among users, it appears. The first flash sale of the flagship smartphone in China on Wednesday saw nearly 17 million users showing interest in the device, and reportedly 4 million units were sold. The response was so overwhelming that Xiaomi has reportedly asked Foxconnto ramp up the production […]
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March 4, 2016 Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P: First Look
“It’s not just the UI. It’s the complete experience. From the fingerprint sensor to the camera, it’s Google’s take on that,” Krishna Kumar, Product Leader, Android/Nexus at Google tells us of the Mountain View-based company’s new smartphone, the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. “We feel that many users are passionate about our overall experience and […]
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March 3, 2016 YouTube Music App First Impressions
If you were going to reinvent MTV for a mobile generation, you’d probably come up with something like YouTube Music. It’s a video-first music service that also plays in the background like you’d expect a music app to do. That sets it apart from other music apps out there, many of which give you a […]
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March 3, 2016 HTC One A9 and HTC Desire 828 Dual SIM First Impressions
Ever since HTC unveiled its One A9 smartphone back in October in New York, the smartphone has been in news thanks to its similarity to the iPhone 6. Following several reports calling the One A9’s design’heavily’ inspired by the iPhone, the Taiwanese company got defensive, refuting the claims and even suggested that Apple had copied […]
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NEWS 
March 3, 2016 Absentia Tesseract VR First Impressions: A Promising Start, but Lots of Room to Improve
The competition for virtual reality headsets is heating up, and there are some clear frontrunners emerging – the Oculus Rift, whose Kickstarter project sparked the fresh wave of interest in the category is going to launch next year, while HTC just clarified that the HTC Vive will be available from April. Sony’s PlayStation VR will […]
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March 1, 2016 Meet the first Indian start-ups to adopt IBM Watson platform
A file photo of IBM’s headquarters in Armonk, New York. Kartik Mohla, a graduate in management information systems, used to work at an US investment bank before he came back to India to join his family business that helps companies boost the skills and productivity of their employees. Now, he is the CEO of InspireOne […]
