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Let’s Help A Young Artist Fight Cancer
Painting your city with true colors of HOPE Kartikey is a young graffiti artist living in Colaba, Mumbai. He was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymhpoma (Cancer) for the first time when he was in 12th standard. After a year long treatment, he recovered. Unfortunately, in February this year, he relapsed.

Facebook Launches New App ‘Lifestage’ Only For Teens
Now, making video profiles is quite easy! What is Lifestage all about? Recently, the renowned social networking website, Facebook launches ‘Lifestage’, an iOS app that allows users to record video clips, which displays the likes, dislikes, moods and emotions. Then the video clips are transformed to video profiles that others

Reassessment Of FoodPanda In Southeast Asia- Up For Sale At Less Than $1mn
What does the company have in mind? After multiple unsuccessful attempts at selling its India business for $10-15mn, food delivery startup FoodPanda has reportedly put its Indonesia business for sale at less than $1mn. Why the Drastic Prices drop? Although Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s largest economy, market challenges were greatly

Otto Merges With Uber To Add In Uber’s Self-Driving Car Effort
Great Going Uber! Uber and Otto Joins for the Same Purpose After a big surprise of launching self-driving rides in Pittsburgh, now Uber takes another huge step in the self-driving car space by acquiring Otto with its all-star team. Otto has been working on self-driving technology to fit into existing

Indian Startup Graviky Introduces Air Ink; Ink Made From Air Pollution
Helping makes our country a better place to live An Indian startup known as Graviky Labs, has introduced a viable solution for air pollution, Air Ink. Air Ink is a line of pens whose ink is made of recycled air pollution. Yes, you read that right. They can create pens

Ford Acquires Israeli Startup To Develop Driverless Car Technology
Self-Driving Car by 2021! Who acquired whom? Ford Moto Co., the renowned motor company has recently bought SAIPS, an Israeli machine learning startup. The motive behind this is, the company wants to develop Driverless cars by the year 2021.Although no monetary details were revealed, it is believed the acquisition is

How Pokémon Go Is Driving Sales To Small Businesses?
Did you know that Pokémon was originally an abbreviated form for Pocket Monster? The franchise started in 1995 and spawned various video game versions, a famous animated series, even movies, toys and comic books. The newest iteration is the Pokémon Go, a location-based, augmented reality video game for mobile phones.

Quikr India Pvt. Ltd Increases Upto Rs.130 Crore From Brand Capital
BCCL Invests Rs.130 crore in Quikr A huge development of Quikr reveals recently, the online classifieds firm is trying its best to get a unicorn status. It has increased up to Rs.130 crore from BCCL, as per the filed documents with the Registrar Companies, Brand Equity Treaties Ltd that owns

Social Investing Startup Instavest Elevate $1.7M In Seed Funding
Do it socially! What is Instavest All About? Investing is no more a private activity now, as a division of YC’s Winter class 2015, a social investing startup Instavest is trying to turn investing into a social activity. The main aim of the site is helping usual retail investors to learn from

Startup-Buzz Presents : The Ketto Story
Ketto : For those who want to help and be helped In our new segment, 25fps (frames per second), we met with Varun and Kunal, the two charismatic founders behind this crowd funding startup and learned how Ketto came into being. Ketto is a crowdfunding platform with categories like Health,