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Bangalore-based Bookpad has become the first Indian tech startup to be bought by Yahoo, going from creation to acquisition in just one year. The deal comes some eight months after Facebook snapped up Bangalore’s Little Eye Labs. The US internet giant, which is in line to reap about $9.5 billio
Soon your smartphone will know your state of mind as, scientists have developed an app that automatically reveals students’ mental health, academic performance and behavioral trends. The StudentLife app, developed by researchers at Dartmouth, which compares students’ happiness, stress, d
Samsung’s Galaxy S-series of handsets tend to be very popular and the Samsung Galaxy S5 that was announced earlier this year isn’t any different. In fact Samsung seems to be pretty confident about the handset and has expressed their hopes at being able to ship at least 35 million Galaxy S5 handsets
It wasn’t too long ago that Motorola took the wraps off the new Moto X. Based on the initial reviews of the handset, it seems that it has been pretty well-received by consumers so far, thanks to its features, its hardware, and also its customizability. That being said, if you’re a Verizon customer l
NASA has had its fair share of robots, or rovers, sent over to the Red Planet in the past, and it does not look as though the facility is about to slow down in its efforts anytime soon. In fact, NASA’s Maven spacecraft has reportedly arrived at Mars on late Sunday after completing its 442 […]
The possibility of T-Mobile’s acquisition over the past few months has been heavily reported and while initially it was believed that Sprint will go ahead and pick it up, now it looks like T-Mobile US may come under French ownership. Recently French telco Iliad submitted a surprise bid for the carri
Without any context, that headline could seem incredibly scary, almost dystopian in nature. A city’s most vulnerable residents tracked for unknown purposes would serve as a pretty good plot for some Orwellian nightmare. Luckily, the Danish city Odense doesn’t want to harm but instead hel
Police departments around North America have gradually, if warily, come to embrace social media as a way of communicating with their communities. But things can quickly go awry on Facebook and Twitter, a lesson the New York Police Department learned in April when a photo contest designed to showcase
Former information technology employees at Home Depot claim that the retailer’s management had been warned for years that its retail systems were vulnerable to attack, according to a report by the New York Times. Resistance to advice on fixing systems reportedly led several members of Home Depot’s c
While the PlayStation 4 continues to sell like black, plastic hotcakes, not all of Sony’s business divisions are doing so well. Thus, it shouldn’t be too surprising that the company is trying to push their little slanted box’s success as much as they can. Andrew House, president an
We’d heard that the US IPO for Chinese company Alibaba could be among the biggest ever, and it did not disappoint. Closing at a stock price of $93.89, it raised $21.8 billion for the company and is the biggest IPO in US history. According to Bloomberg, it could become the biggest ever if under
San Francisco-based SchoolMint, a new company backed with $2.2 million in financing from investors like New School Ventures Fund, Runa Capital, and Crosslink Capital along with education-focused seed investors including: Kapor Capital, Imagine K12, Romulus Capital, Fresco Capital, and EdMentor VC, i
