
Yahoo Inc’s board of directors has approved the acquisition of social media blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, according to sources.
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Are negative search results hurting your business? Does your company lack any presence in the search results at all?
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Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (India) has announced multi-city coffee meet-ups with entrepreneurs, starting May 27, 2013. The Accelerator program team will travel to four key startup hubs of India – Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai to meet entrepreneurs and answer their queries related to the startup ecosystem of India as well as the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (India) program. A similar meet-up will be conducted in Bangalore as well.
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Online restaurant guide Zomato has reported revenues of Rs 11.38 crore ($2 million) at an EBITDA loss of Rs 10.03 crore ($1.8 million) for financial year ended March 31, 2013 (FY13). Operating revenues of the company were 0.33 Crore in FY 10-11 and 2.4 Crore in FY 11-12
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National Association of Software and Services Companies or more commonly known as NASSCOM has just commissioned an Independent Unit to give impetus to Indian Software Products. An ambitious target of exceeding US$ 10 Billion in revenues by the year 2020 has been set . The Chairman of this new Product Council will be Ravi Gururaj, a seasoned entrepreneur who is the co-founder of a seed-stage angel fund; Frictionless Ventures.
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Remember Notion Ink and the Adam? After their debut at CES 2011 the company was in the spotlight for quite sometime after which it went completely dark. The developer versions of Adam being shipped across the world fell short of expectations.
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Rammohan Sundaram of PlatformPlay has announced that his company will be bringing TechCrunch’s events to the country by the end of this year. These events are 2 day conferences which will feature entrepreneurs, VCs and other tech speakers in addition to hackathons. It is not immediately clear if these events will be branded as TechCrunch Disrupt or will carry on as separate properties
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Everyone likes social networking inherently. However, when a single social network starts bigger and more connected, some users may not like it. Facebook has grown really big and every other day you realize that you know a lot of people across colleges, countries and friend circles
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Helical IT Solutions has announced that it has raised a seed funding of Rs.
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Bangalore-based mobile advertising network claims it now provides ads to more than 691 million customers on their mobile phones across a massive country user base of 165 million. That, according to the mobile ad giant, covers about 40% of the world’s total smartphones
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