Achieving Wefly’s dream to fly is closer to reality! Hong Kong-based investment firm Swastika Company has acquired a 20% stake in the Mumbai-based startup, Wefly. As part of the contract, Vaibhav Jain, director at Swastika, will also be coming on board as a partner for the company. The deal amount

Historical Moment for Online & Offline Industry! A Partnership with Bright Future Big Bazaar and Paytm have joined hands to start a trend of offline-online retail in the industry. This partnership is about to set an example for both online and offline e-commerce portals to have a different vision for

Now hear audio in your native language! What about Hear2Read? Technology is developing day-by-day. It not only helping common people but also physically-challenged people thus, making their life a lot easier. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) joined hands with Hear2Read project and developed text-to-speech software which will help visually challenged people

A Wave of On-Demand Food Startups! Raising Funds and Competing Neck-to-Neck An on-demand food delivery restaurant startup, Deliveroo, in Europe, received another $275 million in funding. As per news, a Series E investment values the startup at around $1 billion and Bridge point, the new investor; DST Global, the previous

Low-priced VR Headset! Ever wanted a cool VR set like Oculus Rift or HTC Vive but don’t have hundreds of dollars to buy it? Well, now everyone can afford VR headset, all thanks to Xiaomi.Inc. It has introduced its first entry-level virtual reality headset, Mi VR Play. The main idea

One less problem for the manager! About Homebase Homebase is a startup providing schedule and time-tracking tools, primarily for local businesses. This San-Francisco based company has raised $6M in series A funding. Khosla Ventures led the seed funding. The contribution also came from Baseline Ventures and Cowboy Ventures. Keith Rabois

Google experiments again! About Verne: the Himalayas: Google’s new app, Verne: The Himalayas is an app that gives you the ability to explore the world in an entirely new way. The app is built using Google’s 3D imagery. Google Maps has already brought 3D imagery to other places such as

A Step Towards Humanity! An Effort for Charity An earthquake of 9.0 magnitudes bashed northeastern shore of Japan in 2011 and results in assassination and dislocation of the thousands of Japanese. Keeping that disaster into the consideration, Line, a messaging app, launched the latest set of Pikachu-themed stickers on Tuesday,

Will Dropbox Paper survive? Dropbox Paper is a document editing app built to facilitate ease of sharing and faster collaboration. Originally launched to a limited number of teams in private beta, the app is now available on Android and iOS. The Paper app is built to help speedy squads effortlessly

Can predictions be so accurate! A Startup That Defy USDA Mark Johnson brings a revolution in the agriculture sector by envisaging America’s crop yield more accurately. Instead of setting out numerous workers to analyze thousands of ranches a month forth October corn harvest, America’s biggest crop, Johnson’s Descartes Labs, a startup,