StoryBites: 20 weekly quotes of India’s entrepreneurial journey, from...
From agriculture and e-commerce to taxis and sex, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these quotes and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring the most...
View ArticleDoctor, IAS and Entrepreneur: Meet Roman Saini
He cracked his medical exams at 16 and went on to become a junior resident doctor at AIIMS. At 22, he cracked the civil services entrance exams to become a young IAS officer. And now he is giving back...
View ArticleHow Expensive Is Silicon Valley in 2014
Make no mistake about it. Silicon Valley is expensive. Actually, it’s very expensive. But if you’ve ever spend any time in the Valley than you already knew that. For those on the outside, than you can...
View ArticleOKS Education launches MarkSharks, a learning ecosystem on touch-based mobile...
Team MarkSharks The OKS Group was founded in 1987 by Vinit Khanna and since then, the company has developed into a large outsourcing company with operations across Europe, North America and Asia....
View ArticlePune-based TripHobo raises over $1 million in Series A funding
TripHobo, formerly JoGuru, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding (rumoured to be over $1 million) from Kalaari Capital. The funds would be used to scale up the platform and increase the...
View ArticleBinny Bansal and others invest $1 million in the fashion focused social...
Gurgaon-based Roposo.com, India’s first fashion focused social network, has raised bridge funding through their existing investors, India Quotient, 5 ideas Start up Fuel and Binny Bansal. The size of...
View ArticleTop Jobs of the Day – Plivo, MockBank and MeraCareerGuide have openings for you
There is no finish line. So love the journey – David Weekly, Founder and Chairman – PBWorks MeraCareerGuide.com’s suite of applications is designed to assist schools and college students. Students...
View ArticleBest Ramadan apps for you this season
The first day is the hardest. Starting today, millions of Muslims will observe their first day of Ramadan. It’s a challenge to break from the monotony of regularly gorging on munchies and convenient...
View Article[News in a Nutshell] From the most tweeted game, ISRO’s launch,Xiaomi to...
Brazil vs Chile encounter becomes the most tweeted real-time event . With about 16.4 million tweets during the match, the Brazil vs Chile match set the record for the most tweeted real-time event ever....
View ArticleOrkut to shut down on September 30, 2014
The dark past of all the Facebook users, their Orkut profile will cease to exist after 30th September 2014. In an official announcement on Orkut’s blog, Paulo Golgher, Engineering Director at Orkut...
View ArticleIndia’s Internet speed is the one of the slowest in Asia-Pacific region
It’s an irony that on one hand, we have the ecommerce and other internet businesses defining the next revolution in India while on the other hand India has one of the slowest internet connections in...
View ArticleSnapdeal unveils phone and camera developed with its innovative initiative...
While Amazon and Flipkart have launched their own mobile phone and tablet, Delhi-based Snapdeal has announced a wifi sports cam, Click Pro Oculus, and Alpha Feather, the world’s lightest smartphone,...
View ArticleAfter 2.5 years of research, healthcare hardware device Diabeto is ready for...
Diabeto is a healthcare hardware device that comes with an application to track and keep a check on diabetes. The user can sync his or her glucometer readings into the smartphone wirelessly via Diabeto...
View ArticleZomato acquires New Zealand’s restaurant discovery service, Menumania
After Flipkart, Zomato is the new poster boy for startups from India. The restaurant search and discovery service has raised more than $50 million and information for over 232,900 restaurants across...
View ArticleHow to go from 0 to 2000 customers and raise $100 million in 4 years – The...
What does it take to build an extremely easy to use video conferencing technology, raise $100 million in funding and gain blue chip customers such as Facebook and Stanford University, all in a short...
View ArticleBangalore-based Mu Sigma acquires social media analytics startup,Webfluenz
Bangalore’s one of the most popular big data analytics startup, Mu Sigma has acquired Singapore-based social media analytics firm Webfluenz for an undisclosed amount. Mu Sigma today is 3500+ member...
View Article[Techie Tuesdays] The Mozilla evangelist on the train – Story of Priyanka Nag
Priyanka Nag is not an engineer, because she likes to stand out from the crowd. And how do you do that? – By doing BCA. Strange? But true! How this rebel from the convents of Kolkata grew up to be one...
View ArticleSequoia Capital invests $5.2 million in online consumer service and feedback...
Akosha, an online platform that connects consumers and brands for customer service and feedback, has raised a total funding of $5.2 million from Sequoia Capital (including a seed round that happened...
View ArticleSimplicity, Unbundling, yo, and all that
Over the past week or so, an app called Yo has been making the news because given its “stupidity”, it has managed to raise $1.2m. All it does is allow you to send a “cx” to a friend. Its like Facebook...
View ArticleGujarat-based Rocha Fashion, a new entrant in the Indian online jewellery market
Rocha Fashion, a new entrant in the Indian e-Commerce market focused on the designer jewellery market, has been set up by Sagar Shah. Shah returned to India in search of a business opportunity after...
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