India’s new tech unicorn! About the funding Hike, known as the competing messenger app of WhatsApp has raised $175 million in Series D round of funding, which was led by Tencent and Foxconn. These funds made the company’s valuation to $1.4 billion. The existing investors are Softbank Bharti ($7 million)

OYO Rooms getting bigger and better! Founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal, OYO Rooms raised a whopping $62mn from its existing investor- Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. with no participation from other existing investors including Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Gurugram-based budget hotel aggregator OYO Rooms is India’s

Get your featured geo filters on Snapchat! The Collaboration In order to make everyone aware of coding, nowadays many organizations like Code.org and companies are coming with code challenges and contest. The latest company to join this bandwagon is Snapchat. The company partnered up with California startup known as Vidcode

A real eye-opening move! Finnish company HMD plans to relaunch the Nokia brand for phones. HMD has more to offer with its plans, providing the company with naming and patent rights, in exchange for royalty payments. Though there is no direct investment in HMD, Nokia is providing some oversight via

Lately, a few promising startups have been in the news, but for the wrong reasons. HSBC, recently, valued Zomato – the Indian food discovery and delivery app at $500 million, which is approximately 50% lower than its valuation in its last funding round in September 2015. Similarly, T Rowe Price

A Dream Come True! Complex Hardware Projects, not Really Complex with Omega2 Onion, a US-based IoT startup has built a tiny computer worth $5 to develop the intricate hardware projects with an ease. The Onion has named it Omega2 that is Arduino-compatible but the most exciting thing about Omega2 is

Now, anybody  can become a rock star! Triller, a music video mobile app for both android as well as iOS platforms to make music videos easily has now introduced new features that help users to follow up other users and explore their videos just like any other social networking site/app.

Another Snap Story! The Acquisition Story Snapchat seems to be buying a search startup, Vurb for over $100 Million in a 75% stock and 25% cash deal, as per the reports by The Information. Till now, this is the second biggest acquisition by Snapchat in the year 2016. About Vurb

Great Going, Xiaomi! Wowstick – Another Surprise by Xiaomi Xiaomi started its journey with smart phones and has been expanding its product range gradually till now. Previously, it launched air-purifiers and now it has marked its presence in tools. Recently, the company has launched an electric screwdriver and named it

So what, if the Books are used? The Used Book Store Yes, it is definitely not necessary to buy a fresh book every time for reading. However, whenever you order books online, they are always new. But, even used books don’t make a difference when your only purpose is to