TripAdvisor acquires New York-based travel mobile app GateGuru

Online travel review and recommendation site TripAdvisor has acquired New York-based GateGuru, a mobile app that provides real-time flight and airport information, for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, the GateGuru team will continue to operate from New York City and will now report to Bry...

Anand Rai

Social media analytics startup Parakweet raises $2M in angel funding

Parakweet Inc, a startup offering social media analytics, recommendations and metadata to media firms, has raised $2 million in angel funding. The funding was led by a group of investors including Scott Banister, an early investor in PayPal; Alan Braverman, co-founder of Yammer; David Jeske, former ...

Sonam Gulati

Online movie streaming site Eros Now partners Tappp.com to offer prepaid cards as additional payment mode

Eros Now, the online movie streaming arm of the film studio Eros International Media Pvt Ltd, has partnered with Tappp.com, the digital payment platform of Swissclear Global Pte Ltd, to offer prepaid cards which enable users to purchase Bollywood movies without using their credit/debit cards. These ...

Anand Rai

Qualitia provides ‘scriptless’ test automation platform; how it benefits enterprises

Pune-based technology startup Qualitia Software Pvt Ltd has developed a ‘scriptless’ test automation platform – an enterprise-facing solution that helps make test automation fast, reliable and easy. The firm claims that it takes less time, requires fewer skills and costs about 50 per cent l...

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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. ...

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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...

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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

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...