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Alibaba launches System to Discard Fake Products From its Site
Alibaba’s anti-fake drive! Renowned Chinese e-commerce platform, Alibaba launches ‘IP Joint-Force System’, an online system to track and discard fake products from its website at an intellectual property conference in Hangzhou. Jack Ma, the Founder and CEO of Alibaba, who makes into the news often, stated last month that counterfeit

Mastercard Invests In Indian Fintech StartUp Razorpay
MasterCard’s only and first Indian investment Who invested in whom? One of the widest payment networks, MasterCard, has invested an unrevealed amount in Indian fintech start-up called as Razorpay. MasterCard is backing the start-up in order to promote online and mobile payment services among small businesses. How the company got

AI-Enabled Eckovation Provides Open-School Platform To Students
Eckovation’s Mobile App Aims At Bringing Students And Teachers Together Startups are contributing their fair share towards education too. A new startup from IIT graduates Ritesh Singh and Akshat Goel called Eckovation is doing just that. Eckovation is a knowledge imparting app that marries AI with its mainframe to provide

Startup Develops Technology to Prevent Food Poisoning
Health is Wealth! Funding Ancera UK-based startup, Ancera Inc. develops a unique technology that helps food producers to detect contaminants present in the food, if any. For it, recently, Ancera raises funds of $8.9 million in Series A round of funding from Glass Capital Management, a Florida-based family fund; Metabiota,

Google, HDFC Bank and TCS Want To Help Your Startup
When These Bigwigs Come Together Big news for Indian startups! Three global bigwigs Google, HDFC Bank and TCS are coming together to support Indian startups working in tech space. The trio have partnered with Zone Startups India to find such startups that can participate in Next BIG Idea contest. Next

Startup Comes Up With the Technology to Treat Vertigo and Balance Disorders
Good News for Vertigo Patients Jaipur-based startup, NeuroEquilibrium, is working towards developing technology to treat problems like vertigo and balance disorders. Founded by couple, Anita and Rajneesh Bhandari, and vertigo specialist, Anirban Biswas, from Kolkata, this startup is eyeing to help patients with such problems. Vertigo and Its Patients A

Israeli Startup Develops a Content Writing Robot
Creating a Unique Content is no more a daunting task! About Articoolo Founded in 2014 end, Israeli startup, Articoolo has developed a content writing robot that can generate a unique, plagiarism-free article on any topic. All you have to do is describe the article in two-five words; as in what

Axis Bank and Zone Startups India Aim for Next Wave of Banking Technology
Now Axis Bank Plans a Startup Accelerator Axis Bank is about to launch its innovation center called Thought Factory in Bangalore. The bank has chosen Zone Startups India, a Mumbai-based technology startup accelerator, to host an accelerator program for them. The focus is on startups developing technological solutions for bank’s

Brand Capital has invested $25 million in Meru Cabs.
Meru Eyes Further Expansion Who is investing? The investment arm of Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL), Brand Capital, which holds The Times of India and The Economic Times newspapers, has now invested $25 million in Meru Cabs. There were also reports of Flipkart selling an unrevealed portion of stakes

Conversation with Kevin Pham, Founder of NAPPIFY
On the go Power Nap! Founded by Kevin Pham in the year 2014, California- based startup Nappify unveils a movable pod for a quick nap to overcome the inadequate sleep issues. It can be used by companies and colleges, whoever is looking forward to take a powernap. What’s the Buzz?