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Citizen Evidence Lab: Amnesty International’s site to help verify Youtube videos
In the era of citizen journalism and technology boom, there is a thin line between ‘what is’ and ‘what I thought is’. Unfortunately, the line often gets blurred unknowingly or willingly. Amidst these...
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Gozoop makes its second acquisition in India- iThink InfoTech
Mumbai based digital services and products company, Gozoop, has announced its acquisition of iThink InfoTech, a technology and IT based agency.. iThink InfoTech specialises in custom software...
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BRCK raises $1.2M funding round led by Investment Development
BRCK.com, the hardware startup which YourStory covered yesterday has closed $1.2M funding led by ID (Investment Development) along with other participating investors, including Omvestments, Urban.us,...
View ArticleOlacabs raises Rs.250 crore Series C funding from Steadview Capital, Sequoia...
Olacabs has secured INR 250 crore Series C investment from Hong Kong based hedge fund Steadview Capital and Sequoia Capital. The round was also participated by existing investors Tiger Global and...
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DEMO Africa reveals Africa’s 40 best tech startups
Demo Africa has received about 400 applications out of which only 242 of them met the threshold for the adjudication. As per the report from DEMO Africa organizers, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana recorded...
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The Silicon Valley Spirit: Top 30 quotes for entrepreneurs, innovators and...
Much has been written about the success of Silicon Valley as the hub responsible for ‘the largest creation of wealth in history.’ From the days of gold mining and railways to defense and ICTs, Silicon...
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Understand cultural context, chase cash collections & more quick tips for...
India’s potential as a consumer Internet and mobile startup market has been recounted time and again. Last year, the maximum amount of venture capital was invested in consumer web startups. With...
View ArticleSri Lankan newspaper shows the power of ink; takes sting off mosquitoes
This year, the clouds have been frail and diseased. Like a broken shower head, rain has come in short spurts and bursts, never substantial enough to bathe the city clean. But monsoon is here, and...
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[App Fridays] ‘Discount Me’ could act as a good online shopping companion
Online shoppers are always on the lookout for a great deal, but sometimes finding relevant coupons or promo codes is really frustrating and time consuming. Searching for relevant and valid coupon...
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Why entrepreneurs need to look at the multi-crore opportunity in upcoming...
Asia’s third largest economy India’s urban population grew from 290 million in 2001 to 340 million in 2008 and 377 million in 2011. Analysts project that it will touch 590 million by 2030, and more...
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Top Startup Jobs of the Day – BYOF Studios, GrabOn, Reduce Data have openings...
Top Startup Jobs of the Day : BYOF Studios build social, casual games for various mobile device platforms. They are building on social and casual mobile games that users, around the world can play....
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Naspers and Kinnevik funded Nigeria’s e-commerce platform Konga.com turns two
Since the last time YourStory reported about Konga’s $25 million series B, quite a few things have changed in the West African country. The No.2 economy has gone on to becoming the No.1 economy in...
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San Francisco-based Upside Partnership will give a piece of ‘carry’ to the...
The Venture Capital industry is in very exciting times and the whole model is being questions by many- like the Kauffman report which argues that venture capital is broken or this HBR post. The power...
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[Awesome Employee] Mahesh Rangappa speed dials his way to top at ZipDial
Our Awesome Startup Employee from ZipDial is Mahesh Rangappa. Valerie Rozycki Wagoner, the Founder of ZipDial nominated him. Hearing the excitement and joy in Mahesh’s voice one would peg him as a...
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The close friends who brewed the most happening place in Bangalore – The Toit...
“Milk is for babies. When you grow up, you have to drink beer” - Arnold Schwarenegger What does it take to quit comfortable jobs in Singapore to pursue a childhood dream and build one of the most...
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Elon Musk is donating $1 million to the Nikola Tesla Museum
He has money, but more importantly he has brains matched to almost none other person on this planet. Google might have forgot to celebrate the birthday of the greatest inventor yesterday, but not Elon...
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Satya Nadella’s long letter to his employees at Microsoft
Mailing employees through public forum seems to be the way Satya Nadella works at Microsoft. 6 months after taking up the role as Microsoft’s CEO, Satya has mailed his employees a long letter about his...
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Why the 100 Cr budget allocation on Virtual Classroom and Online Courses...
Recently, the Modi Government committed Rs. 100 Crores (~ $17 million) for Virtual Classroom and MOOCs. Having worked as an Analyst with an Education-focused PE fund, the move was not a surprise to me...
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Yahoo acquires Israeli startup RayV to accelerate its video strategy
Israel-based video streaming startup RayV has today announced that they have been acquired by Yahoo. Confirming the news on their website, the RayV team mentioned that they will be joining Yahoo’s...
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Ex-redBus employee starts Adloc, an advertising platform for buses
When you work for a startup where things are very vibrant and there is continuous learning, it is not surprising for you to think of starting up yourself. And that is exactly what happened with Abey...
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