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March 4, 2016 Why Morgan Stanley’s action on Flipkart is bad news for Indian unicorns
Given that Flipkart is expected to list its shares in the US at some point over the next few years, the valuation estimates of the mutual funds will be an important indicator of how stock market investors will value the company. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Bengaluru/New Delhi: Late last month, Flipkart India Pvt. Ltd, the country’s […]
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March 3, 2016 For whom is the Nasscom’s India Leadership Forum 2016?
The fee for attending the event starts from Rs31,000 and goes up to Rs41,000 for its members. For non-members, it ranges from Rs31,000 to Rs49,000. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint It is the age of start-ups. If you are living in a metro city, more often than not, you will have some one in your circle doing […]
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February 28, 2016 The iota Lite by Cube26 Is an Affordable Smart Bulb
Thanks to cartoons like The Jetsons on Cartoon Network, we’ve grown up with the idea of a future home where all gadgets are connected and smarter than anything we’re used to right now. Whether it’s food at the press of a button, lights that know your schedule and switch on and off on their own, […]
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February 28, 2016 Homido Mini Is a Cheap VR Headset That’s Even Simpler Than the Google Cardboard
The Homido Mini is a small, easy to use, and extremely portable virtual reality ‘headset’ for mobile devices that works with apps that support Google Cardboard. It’s reasonably cheap, and you can use it to very easily showcase VR experiences without having to carry around a large boxy cardboard headset, which makes it a great […]
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February 28, 2016 Deadpool Is the Ultimate Date Movie for Your Bromance
Of late, you’ll find Deadpool just about everywhere, and he’s become one of those characters that even non-comic book fans will recognise. Deadpool also has an excellent video game to his name that manages to mix together humour and mayhem with elan. As a movie character though, he’s had a less successful past – we […]
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February 26, 2016 Apple’s Growth Machine Is Finally Starting to Sputter
Apple has been corporate America’s most ridiculously unbelievable growth story. And now it’s over. Take a deep breath. Exhale. Get used to it. Yes, the Apple we have come to know was a gravity-defying growth machine. Apple is the most valuable company in the world, yet it increased its revenue in the last 12 months […]
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February 23, 2016 Looking for Signs That Apple’s Runaway Growth Is Waning
Investors have long relied on Apple to deliver one crucial attribute: growth. Now they are beginning to wonder whether Apple’s days as a growth stock are coming to an end. With sales increases of Apple’s prime product, the iPhone, projected to decelerate, and no clear new blockbuster device on the horizon, the era of the […]
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February 23, 2016 arry Page, Google Founder, Is Still Innovator in Chief
Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin’s nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google’s Solve for X conference when a man he had never met knelt down to talk to him. They spent 20 minutes discussing how much time, money and technology separated humanity from a […]
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February 23, 2016 This Is the Biggest Threat to Apple’s Business Around the World
When is selling an iPhone not the same as selling an iPhone? Easy: when you’re selling it in a country whose currency is declining in value. So how many is that? Well, in the last 18 months, it’s been pretty much all of them other than the United States. Indeed, the dollar has shot up […]
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February 18, 2016 Third India-Sri Lanka Twenty20: Just how good is Ravichandran Ashwin?
Photo Credit: Indranil Mukherjee / AFP 10.7K Total Views The way it looks right now, it would seem that Ravichandran Ashwin would be able turn the ball on even the moon. The 29-year old lanky off-spinner from Chennai is in the form of his life. Toss him a ball and he’ll get you a wicket. […]
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February 15, 2016 Followers of Ashutosh Maharaj insist he is in a deep state of meditation, in conditions that approximate a Himalayan cave.
Photo Credit: Courtesy: Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan 22.6K Total Views Last month, Ashutosh Maharaj, the head of the Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan, completed two years in a freezer. Doctors declared Maharaj clinically dead after he collapsed following complaints of severe chest pains on January 28, 2014. But Maharaj’s followers insist that he is actually in […]
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February 15, 2016 As the city’s young move out for studies or jobs, an industry is taking their place to take care of the senior citizens left behind.
Photo Credit: Rana Chakraborty 31.4K Total Views A drive down Kolkata’s spine, the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass that connects the north and south, will tell you what the city is really worried about. Between signboards advertising new-age condominiums, five-star hotels and schools with “world class” facilities are a number of ads by hospitals and pharma companies […]
