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March 1, 2016 NoBroker raises $10 million in Series B funding
NoBroker had raised $3 million in Series A from SAIF Partners along with Fulcrum Ventures in December 2014. Bengaluru: NoBroker Technologies Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which directly connects landlords with house hunters said it raised $10 million in a Series B funding led by Singapore-based BEENEXT venture capital firm created by Teruhide (Teru) Sato. Other investors […]
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March 1, 2016 Uber opens its first Centre of Excellence in Asia in Hyderabad
Uber operates in 26 cities in India. Photo: AP Hyderabad: Taxi aggregator Uber Technologies Inc. opened its first centre of excellence in Asia in Hyderabad as the San Francisco-based company centralizes several of India operations at a single location in its third biggest market. The facility will have staff providing round the clock specialized support […]
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March 1, 2016 Foodpanda changes India strategy in revival bid
Foodpanda, which until now has been driven by technology developed at its headquarters in Berlin, has also started to build its products locally. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint New Delhi/Mumbai: Online food ordering company Foodpanda is revisiting its India strategy by outsourcing delivery and is also looking to start its own kitchen, a comparatively higher-margin business, as […]
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March 1, 2016 Indian Angel Network invests in Roadhouse Hostels
Roadhouse Hostels currently has two hostels with a total of 80 beds in Goa and Jaipur and plans to add as many as five such properties in Kerala and Himachal Pradesh by the year end. New Delhi: Roadhouse Hostels, a chain of backpacker hostels, on Wednesday said that it has raised an undisclosed amount of […]
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March 1, 2016 Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has the best hand in India’s e-commerce game
A file photo of Jeff Bezos. Bezos is piling up his chips while counting aloud, so his opponents can watch and hear clearly. Photo: AFP There are four rounds of betting in poker—pocket, flop, turn and river. In my bookThe Golden Tap— The inside story of hyper-funded Indian startups, I write about the Indian e-commerce […]
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NEWS 
February 29, 2016 Capillary Tech invests an undisclosed amount in WebEngage
Capillary, one of India’s most valuable enterprise start-ups having raised about $80 million in venture funding so far. Bengaluru: Capillary Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which offers customer relationship management software and marketing analytics for retailers, has invested an undisclosed amount to buy a stake in business analytics start-up WebEngage. The move to pick up a stake […]
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NEWS 
February 26, 2016 Lenovo Looking to Expand Offline Sales and Support in India
Lenovo seems to be on a launching spree as the company has launched five smartphones in the last two days, namely the Lenovo A1000, the Lenovo A6000 Shot, the Lenovo K3 Note Music, the Lenovo Vibe P1, and the Vibe P1m. Considering all these devices have been launched in the price range between Rs. 4,999 […]
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February 25, 2016 Mobile Locked Unless You Pay the Ransom? Could Happen to You in 2016
Software security firm Kaspersky Lab is holding the APAC Cyber Security Summit in Malaysia, where it is talking about the current security trends and threats faced by individuals and businesses in the region and across the world. Gadgets 360 spoke to Vitaly Kamluk, Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, who discussed Kaspersky’s predictions for the […]
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February 24, 2016 ‘Worst Serial Killer In History,’ Who Fed Prostitutes To Pigs, Sparks Rage By Publishing Book
The pig farmer mainly preyed upon drug addicts and prostitutes, picking them up in Vancouver’s red light districts. (Representational Image) Robert Pickton sat in a Vancouver jail cell and lamented that his quest to kill 50 women had come up just short. “I made my own grave by being sloppy. Doesn’t that just kick you […]
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February 24, 2016 New London Railway Line Named ‘Elizabeth’ In Queen’s Honour
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth unveils the new roundel for the Crossrail line that will be known as the Elizabeth line. (AFP Photo) LONDON: A new commuter railway spanning London will be renamed the “Elizabeth Line” in honour of Queen Elizabeth II when it becomes fully operational in 2018, the London mayor said today. The queen visited […]
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NEWS 
February 24, 2016 Indian Economy to Grow at 7.4% in FY16: Industry Body
New Delhi: The Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.4 per cent in the current fiscal year, slightly lower than 7.6 per cent projected in advance estimates of the Central Statistics Office, industry body Ficci said on Tuesday. “The results of latest round of Ficci’s Economic Outlook Survey put across a median GDP growth […]
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February 24, 2016 10 Smartphones We Loved in 2015
It’s hard to whittle down the hundreds of smartphones launched this year into a list of just 10 favourites. We’ve seen some phenomenal advances, not just at the top end, but in every segment of the market. Speeds and resolutions always improve, but it seemed as though manufacturers wouldn’t let even a few weeks pass […]