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Google challenges US surveillance court on 1st Amendment grounds

Google Inc asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal requests, on First Amendment grounds. In its filing, Google requested the court to allow it to publish the aggregat...

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Facebook reaches 1M active advertisers

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are small business owners who have flocked to the world’s No. ...

Anand Rai

Excl: Online baby record book Little1 raises under $100K in angel funding

Oneup Ventures Pvt Ltd, the company that owns and operates Little1.in, an online platform that enables parents to record and preserve memories of their children (both online and offline), has raised under $100,000 from Ravi Malik, co-founder of Malik Radix Healthcare, a Delhi-based private nursing f...

Anand Rai

Groupon promotes Ankur Warikoo to APAC emerging markets head, elevates India team

Daily deals site Groupon has expanded the role of the team at Groupon India who will be now entrusted with additional responsibilities dealing with growth in the key emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific region including India, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. As part of the reshuffle, Ankur ...

Sonam Gulati

CloudByte raises $4M Series B round led by Fidelity Growth Partners; Nexus, Kae also participate

Bangalore and California-based cloud storage firm CloudByte Inc. has raised Series B round of funding worth $4 million, led by Fidelity Growth Partners India, the private equity arm of Fidelity Worldwide Investment. Existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Kae Capital also participated in the r...

Anand Rai

Huawei launches 6.1 inch phablet Ascend Mate in India for Rs 24,900

After unveiling it at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 earlier this year, Huawei has now launched its phablet in the Indian market. The device, called Ascend Mate, has a 6.1 inch screen, runs on the Android Jelly Bean operating system and costs Rs 24,900. Here is a quick look at the specific...

Sainul K Abudheen

Accel Partners raises $100M for second Big Data fund

Venture capital firm Accel Partners has raised an additional $100 million fund for investment in Big Data companies. This follows a previous fund with a similar corpus. Accel has also added Anthony Deighton, CTO of QlikTech Inc., and Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, to the Big Data Fund Advisory Counc...

Rashi Varshney

Mobile publishing platform MobStac partners with video advertising network Vdopia

Bangalore-based Mobile Motion Technologies which offers a mobile publishing platform MobStac, has partnered with California-headquartered Vdopia Inc, a video advertising network founded by India-born entrepreneurs. The partnership will enable businesses and publishers to mobilise digital properties ...

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Samsung to launch faster Galaxy S4 smartphone

Samsung Electronics Co plans to sell a variation of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed, the head of its mobile business said on Monday. J.K. Shin, also co-chief executive of the world’s biggest technology firm by revenue, said the phone w...

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Batteries hold key to wearable device revolution

Longer-lasting batteries are crucial for a new crop of wearable computers whose rise may upend Apple and Google’s dominance of mobile devices, two of the field’s pioneers say. Wearable devices – from bracelets that monitor physical activity and sleeping patterns to clothing with bu...

Sonam Gulati

redBus’ founders to move out as Naspers set to acquire ticketing site for around $140M

South African Internet and media giant Naspers is set to acquire Pilani Soft Labs Pvt Ltd which runs the country’s top bus ticketing site redBus, giving one of the rare multi-bagger exits to its venture capital investors. The news was first reported by The Times of India which said the seven-year-...

Anand Rai

Bangalore-based Amagi Media Labs raises over $5M from Mayfield Fund, others

Amagi Media Labs Pvt Ltd, a Bangalore-based technology and media startup that facilitates geographic targeting of television advertisements, has raised Rs 31.25 crore ($5.3 million) in funding from Mayfield Fund, a global venture capital firm with $2.7 billion under management. Existing investor Na...

Rashi Varshney

Google India introduces product listing ads; will it help Indian businesses?

Google India has introduced a new ad format called product listing ads to enhance one’s shopping experience and highlight merchants’ offerings even more. These ads will appear when one generates shopping-related queries on Google.co.in and display such features as product images, pricing and so ...

Sonam Gulati

Radiowalla launches ‘Radio as a Service’ for FM players

Bangalore-based Radiowalla Network Pvt Ltd that runs Internet radio service Radiowalla, has launched what it claims to be ‘Radio as a Service’ (RaaS). This service will be offered to private FM stations and network groups to help them foray into the digital space. The platform will allow...

Sonam Gulati

Pearl Uppal & Gaurav Kachru’s 5ideas launches Founders in Heels – a platform for women entrepreneurs

5ideas, the seed fund-cum-accelerator floated by the husband-wife duo of Gaurav Kachru and Pearl Uppal who earlier headed the e-commerce ventures of the Delhi-based Smile Group, has announced the launch of its second concept – Founders in Heels. This is a platform for startups set up by women entr...