Apple iPhone 6 Review

Apple iPhone 6 Review Introduction Two years ago, Apple’s venerable iPhone received one of the biggest design changes in its history. Previous to the unveiling of the iPhone 5, all other iPhones before it featured 3.5-inch screens – a large screen size for a phone back in 2007, but hardly the stuff that contended with the more spacious screen sizes of other modern, top-tiered smartphones. Still, for...

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[UPDATED] How big was the Big Billion Day?

[UPDATED] How big was the Big Billion Day? [UPDATE] If you’re a Flipkart customer, you must have gone through some amount of agony while making purchases during the Big Billion Day. Keeping true to its reputation and philosophy of great customer service, Flipkart went ahead and apologized to everyone. When was the last time you saw an organisation saying sorry to their customers for not living up to the promises? Dear Customer, Yesterday...

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Hangoutt – get instant local rewards by playing games

Hangoutt – get instant local rewards by playing games Hangoutt is a product of 135 Tech Labs Private Limited, which was started in November 2012. It is headed by Apoorva Kakkeri and Sameer Mehta, both MBA graduates from ISB, along with Vineet Kulkarni, a PhD from North Carolina State University. Hangoutt is a unique mobile application that lets users earn hyperlocal personalized rewards by playing mobile games, chatting etc. It is a...

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GSF joins DreamPlus alliance with 10 other Asian Accelerators, helps Whatfix raise $300k

GSF joins DreamPlus alliance with 10 other Asian Accelerators, helps Whatfix raise $300k Founded by Rajesh Sawhney, GSF is an Indian Accelerator that has invested in more than 35 startups through its 3 batches till now. The Accelerator has just announced that it has joined the DreamPlus Alliance which is a group of 11 Accelerators from across the countries in Asia. Dreamplus Alliance will help these Accelerators exchange ideas and learn...

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Insider View: a perspective on returns

Insider View: a perspective on returns Cisco. WhatsApp. Alibaba. What’s the common underlying thread in their stories? These companies are all icons of the Venture Capital industry. Let’s take a quick look at the rough estimated returns generated for the industry: Cisco went public in 1990 with a market cap of $224 million and their estimated market cap as of 2010 was $115 billion. WhatsApp had a total investment of $58 million– rumored...

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7 mobile innovations from the land of Samsung and LG

7 mobile innovations from the land of Samsung and LG This is the second part of the list of the most promising mobile innovations of South Korea. You can check the first part here. Here are seven most promising Korean innovation in mobile technology which we saw at Global Mobile Vision 2014 in Seoul last week. Most of the companies are at a mature stage having being founded before 2010, with an experienced team and already profitable. What...

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[Techie Tuesdays] Ahimanikya Satapathy – Entrepreneur, Geek, Technology veteran, Ecosystem enabler

[Techie Tuesdays] Ahimanikya Satapathy – Entrepreneur, Geek, Technology veteran, Ecosystem enabler When it comes to Startup ecosystem in Bangalore, Ahimanikya Satapathy needs no introduction. He has been running the Bangalore Alpha Labs for quite some time, and has also been organising ‘Bootstrap At Breakfast’ event for over two years, both of which have grown into great platforms for entrepreneurs. Ahimanikya has been in the limelight...

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