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15 Indian Big Data companies to watch out for in 2015
As the data we generate every micro-second grows and accelerates at a rapid velocity, the requirement for making a business decision is shifting from hindsight-based decision making to a...
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Two bankers from IIT Kanpur create a Mandii for SME financing
In the course of their research about SME financing in India, Manish Kumar and Anurag Jain, two bankers from IIT- Kanpur, learnt that there are many genuine credit-worthy borrowers in India who have...
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Jack Ma’s Alibaba enters India by buying 25% stake in Paytm
Alibaba backed Ant Financial Services Group and One97 Communications (One97), which runs mobile payment and commerce platform Paytm, announced a strategic agreement that will see Ant Financial take a...
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The 8 Is of design thinking for startups
From ‘lean’ methods and ‘agile’ innovation to design thinking and customer development; a number of useful tools are emerging for startups and innovators. Design thinking is a human-centered approach...
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Paypal incubatee, Kobster raises funding from Splice to go pan-India with its...
Chennai based Kobster has raised undisclosed amount of seed funding from Splice Advisors. Splice Advisors recently invested in Doctor C a Hyderabad based healthcare ecommerce startup, and has over 26...
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With his ‘Facebook for farmers’ startup Farmily, Karthik Natarajan hopes to...
Karthik Natarajan honed his entrepreneurial instincts in a bevy of startups and businesses before taking the plunge and launching his own venture with Farmily. He says, “I started my career in the...
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India’s new matchmaking destination – Aisle.co raises $100K seed funding
Aisle.co, the popular matchmaking site among affluent single Indians, has raised $100k in seed funding from a group of angel investors from Bay Area and India including Anand Vijay of Microsoft and...
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FreeCharge raises $80 million in series C funding
Online and mobile commerce platform FreeCharge has raised USD 80 million in a new round of funding from investors that include Hong Kong-based fund Tybourne Capital Management and SF-based fund Valiant...
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Newshunt raises Rs 250 Cr to grow its vernacular content aggregation platform
Verse Innovation Pvt. Ltd, who is a parent company of vernacular focused app Newshunt, has raised Rs. 250 crore in series C funding led by New York-based hedge fund Falcon Edge Capital. Existing...
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Going mad after concrete
There were jungles and then there were concrete jungles. This composite material made from water, aggregate and cement is an invention of the modern world which has quickly surrounded us from all...
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foodpanda acquires Just Eat India in exchange for a minority holding
Rocket Internet-backed startup, foodpanda is getting ready to increase its footprint further. The online food ordering platform has announced the acquisition of JUST EAT thereby expanding its market...
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Made in India fitness apps to keep you in the pink of health
Image credit: ShutterStock Health is not valued till sickness comes. -Thomas Fuller In our race to achieve personal or professional goals and targets, we sometimes make sacrifices which could affect...
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Love bytes hurt and how
Face it. Most men aren’t very good at this ‘relationship’ thing. Add to that our immense sense of ego and self-worth, which prevents us from enlisting help in these matters from our peers. We men seek...
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BankerBay’s Pushpendu Singh – Coder with a Zen like aura
“BankerBay is all about integrity, delivery and quality; and Pushpendu is an excellent example of all three. His DNA is inherent in our company,” says Ash Narain, founder and CEO of BankerBay, a deal...
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‘When I had no food and only Rs 50 in my pocket’ – a moving story of an...
Whenever I close my eyes and think back, there is one memory that takes me down a lane in my past. I am sitting in my room in a flat in Zirakpur and have no money for dinner. In my pocket there is a Rs...
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[Photo Sparks] Jazzy Jakarta: meet the creative hub of Indonesia!
PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation! In this photo essay, we highlight the creative hub of Jakarta. In the earlier 35...
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The ‘Aha!’ moment to woo users
Editor’s note: This article is written by Shashikant Kore, Co-founder of Karooya. It is based on Amit Somani’s talk at MobileSparks 2014. You can watch the video followed by the summary in text. One...
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“If we can picture something in our minds, we should be able to accomplish...
From analytics to e-agriculture, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes...
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8 Indian social commerce websites that prove it’s more than just a trend
In 2012, 1.4 billion people in the world were on some kind of social networking site. In 2014, 74 per cent of online adults were known to use social networking sites, and these numbers will grow higher...
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Pursuit of APPiness: Detour, Be My Eyes and Status
The app world is very noisy! There are a bunch of apps being developed everyday and we carry a weekly App Fridays column to review the best of what is coming from India but even these are pretty early...
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