
NEDFi Launched $15 Mn Fund For North East Startup
Good News for North East Startup Recently, North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd. has launched $15 Mn fund for the startups. The venture capital intends to boost up the entrepreneurship network in the NE region. Eight states are included in the North East province such as Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland,

Apple Rebrands Its Retail Outlets
Is it a name game for Apple? The Rebranding Story Recently, the renowned tech giant, Apple has played a name game for its retail outlets. Now, ‘Apple Store’ simply rebrands to ‘Apple’. The rebranding of Apple Store was confirmed with an email to its retail outlets notifying the same. Some

Symbiosis Hyderabad launches Incubation Zone
Startup India, Standup India! Located in Kothur Mandal, Hyderabad, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM-H) has announced the launch of an Incubation Zone for startups. To give you a brief idea, Symbiosis is a family of 44 academic institutions, imparting quality education for over 40 years. It is host to

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.