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February 6, 2016 Music Streamer Deezer Raises EUR 100 Million After Abandoned IPO
France-based music streaming service Deezer says it has raised EUR 100 million (roughly Rs. 741 crores) from its two largest shareholders to fuel its expansion after abandoning plans for an initial public offering of stock last year. The funds from Access Industries and French telecoms giant Orange will help pay for marketing in key European […]
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February 6, 2016 Thomas Cook India Launches Its End-to-End Holiday App
Integrated travel and travel related financial services company Thomas Cook India has launched an appthat allows customers to search, select and buy their holidays instantly, a company statement said on Wednesday. “With India’s mobile commerce market expected to grow exponentially by 850 percent, to $19 billion (roughly Rs. 1,29,210 crores) by 2019, and with Cisco […]
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February 6, 2016 Uber CEO Says Working With Airbus on Helicopter Service
Uber Technologies Inc is working with Airbus Group SE to provide on-demand helicopter services, Uber co-founder and chief executive Travis Kalanick said on Tuesday. “The point is if you can push a button and can get a ride, then why not push a button and get a helicopter,” Kalanick said talking to students at the […]
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February 6, 2016 Trello Announces Power-Ups Platform With Support for Zendesk, Giphy, and More
Trello, a popular Web-based project management application, has just gotten more powerful. The company has announced Power-Ups Platform, a feature that enables the service to fetch information from outside sources. Some of the services that it currently supports include Zendesk, SurveyMonkey, and Giphy. Trello announced on Monday the Power-Ups Platform. The feature gleans information and […]
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February 6, 2016 This is Arun Jaitley’s most difficult decision yet as finance minister
Photo Credit: IANS 14.7K Total Views Economists are divided. Industry as always wants more money from the government. But the Reserve Bank of India governor and even the NITI Aayog chairman are clear that any such decision would be dangerous. Which leaves Finance Minister Arun Jaitley with his most difficult choice yet, ahead of his […]
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February 6, 2016 Is India really behind Nepal’s economic blockade?
Photo Credit: Diptendu Dutta/AFP 27K Total Views An economic blockade in the Terai along India’s border with Nepal has caused acute shortages and price rise in land-locked Nepal. What is the cause of this crisis, and what is India’s role? What are the demands of Madhesis protestors opposing Nepal’s new Constitution, and what is the […]
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February 6, 2016 India’s colonial hangover: Why the police still resort to lathi-charges
Photo Credit: AFP 21.4K Total Views A video recording of members of the Delhi Police, their faces screwed up with hate, brutally thrashing students demonstrating in support of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula on Saturday has caused a stir, at least in the media. This is probably because it occurred in Delhi, was captured on video […]
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February 6, 2016 Connecting everyone to the internet won’t solve the world’s development problems
Photo Credit: Noah Seelam/AFP 29.7K Total Views By 9.30am today I will have skyped Malawi, emailed Ghana, Facebooked Nepal, paid a bill online and used the satnav on my mobile phone. It feels a long time since we first got colour TV at home and, years later, when I accessed the internet using a dial-up […]
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February 6, 2016 What’s going on at Yahoo?
Photo Credit: Omar Torres/AFP 12.6K Total Views Spare a thought for the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer. Nearly four years on the job, the ailing internet giant is still struggling to deliver a credible path to growth. And following the US$4.3 billion loss the company reported for the year in its latest results, the Yahoo […]
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February 6, 2016 The death of 10 soldiers in an avalanche shows the futility of the Siachen war
Photo Credit: Aamir Qureshi/AFP 6.7K Total Views The Latest: Top stories of the day 1. Hafiz Saeed, alleged mastermind of 26/11, praises the Pathankot attack and calls for more terror strikes in India. 2. The Central Bureau of Investigation gets the go ahead from the Maharashtra governor to prosecute former chief minister Ashok Chavan, who […]