Archives
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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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COMPUTERS 
March 3, 2016 HP Says to Accelerate Job Cuts by 2016
HP Inc said it was accelerating its restructuring programme and now expects about 3,000 people will exit by the end of fiscal 2016 instead of over three years as it announced in September. Then, Hewlett-Packard Co had said it expected to cut about 33,300 jobs over three years, of which up to 3,300 were to […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 3, 2016 Apple to Bring Siri to Desktop, Laptop With OS X 10.12: Report
Siri could soon arrive on OS X. Apple is currently readying a new update for its desktop operating system that features the digital voice assistant, according to a media report. Siri is currently available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. For OS X 10.12, the next major update to Apple’s desktop […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 3, 2016 Apple Bricks Ethernet Port on Some Macs With OS X Update, Here’s How to Fix It
If your Mac isn’t connecting to the Internet, you can blame Apple for that. The Cupertino-based company has admitted that a recent update to the operating system rendered the Ethernet port on the machine useless for at least some people. The company has explained on the support website about how one can fix the glitch. […]
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NEWS 
March 3, 2016 Bringing tech to tutors—Vidyanext
Vidyanext is unique in that it consciously stayed away from an online-only model or self-paced courses—two models that most start-ups in this sector adopt. Bengaluru: You are a parent. You want to find a good tutor for your school-going child. You want the best of technology-enabled solutions for them. What do you do? You either […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 3, 2016 Start-ups, venture capital backers turn to investment banks for deals
Investors pumped in more than $9 billion into start-ups over the past two years. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint Bengaluru/New Delhi: Weak business models and a funding slowdown are forcing many Indian consumer Internet start-ups and their venture capital (VC) backers to seek help from investment bankers in order to secure fresh funds from new investors or […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 3, 2016 Mukesh Bansal to leave Flipkart; Ankit Nagori to also quit
Mukesh Bansal, the head of Flipkart’s commerce platform, will leave by April. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint Bengaluru: Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagori, who are among the most powerful executives at Flipkart Ltd, have resigned to start their own ventures, leaving co-founder Binny Bansal firmly in control of the country’s largest e-commerce company. Mukesh, the head of […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 3, 2016 T-Hub to set up a health tech accelerator
Photo: Mint Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s start-up incubator T-Hub is looking to set up a health tech accelerator, to mentor and fund 10-15 innovations, in May this year. In fact, over the next one year, it would also open three other accelerators, for Internet of Things, agritech and B2B companies. “The healthtech accelerator will be the first […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 3, 2016 Ather Energy to set up new manufacturing unit in Bengaluru
A file photo of founder Tarun Mehta. Photo: Mint Bengaluru: Ather Energy Pvt. Ltd, an electric two-wheeler maker and technology start-up, will invest Rs.23 crore to set up a manufacturing unit in Whitefield, Bengaluru, to produce its first electric scooter. Founded by Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain at the IIT Madras research park, Ather’s new […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 2, 2016 Hardware start-ups warm up to Make in India
Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint When Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted entrepreneurs to make in India in his 2014 Independence Day speech, it was touted as a watershed moment for the manufacturing sector, which accounted for 17.3% of the country’s gross domestic product in 2013-14. The corresponding number for China stood at 36%, according to the World […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 2, 2016 Amazon to buy Emvantage Payments
The announcement comes shortly after Amazon infused an additional Rs.1,696 crore into its India unit in December 2015 to take on local rivals Flipkart and Snapdeal. Photo: Reuters Bengaluru: Online marketplace Amazon Tuesday said it will buy online payments firm Emvantage Payments Pvt. Ltd to develop India-specific payments solutions. The announcement comes shortly after Amazon […]
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ALL DEALS 
March 2, 2016 Tracxn unveils platform to help angels exit start-ups
Abhishek Goyal, co-founder, Tracxn. Photo: Hemant Mishra. Bengaluru: Start-up data analytics provider Tracxn Technologies Pvt. Ltd has launched an Internet platform aimed at helping early investors in mature start-ups sell their shares by connecting them to venture capital (VC) firms and other institutional investors. If the platform, called TracxnSecondary, gains scale, it will increase liquidity […]
