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Indian eCommerce Giant Myntra Rejects M&A Talks, Raises $50M

Although you have probably never heard of it, Myntra is quietly capturing a huge segment of India's $3.1 billion eCommerce market. Myntra is, "India's largest online shopping destination for fashion and lifestyle products, with the latest catalog of original branded products for men, women and kids." Although Myntra is not as large or successful as India's largest eCommerce company, Flipkart - who raised the largest E Round of 2013 - it took a major step last week.

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“The Origins of Common UI Symbols” – Our Favorite Infographic to-date

It is no secret that we love infographics. We've featured tons of great, interesting ones. However, this one below, attributed to the 500 Startups crew,may be our favorite infographic to-date. It is both visually beautiful, and incredibly informative.

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Sony Reports 2.1 PS4 Users Are Playstation Plus Members

On Sony's most recent financial results call, Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai reported really good adoption numbers for their premium Playstation Plus subscription service. While he didn't get specific he did say that more than half of the Playstation 4's 4.2 million owners have joined the $50 per year annual subscription program. Sony requires gamers who [...]

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2013 Saw 4 PE Trends Emerge in Europe

Eurozone countries have already faced the worst of their sovereign debt crisis and high unemployment. And while most European economies haven’t fully turned things around, it appears that there has been some GDP growth and either stabilization or reduction in unemployment across most countries on the continent. Europe still has a long way to go to reach pre-financial-crisis levels of economic growth and private equity investing, but PitchBook data show some positive trends for the continent heading into 2014.

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Drones For Document Delivery In The UAE?

Move over Jeff Bezos, The United Arab Emirates is reportedly considering using un-manned drones for document delivery and they're poised to get their drone program rolling, most likely before Amazon can. Gizmag reported on Monday that the UAE is planning to deploy unmanned drones to deliver official documents to it's citizens. Drivers licenses, identification cards [...]

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Google Glass, In The Class (room)

As a follow up to our article on Google Glass in the Classroom, we thought it would be good to expound on some of the possible educational uses of Glass. Below, in a nifty infographic, 30 different ideas for how to use Glass in a classroom are touched on. While these are some great ideas, they represent a mere tip of the iceberg. As we touched on in our previous article, there are an almost infinite amount of applications for Google Glass in the classroom.

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Appsbar recognizes OCS as the appsbar.com App of the Day

Snowboard shop promotes moguls through mobile with new app released at appcatch.com   OCS has earned appsbar.com’s App of the Day award for showcasing how small businesses have been able to participate in mobile marketing initiatives by utilizing the DIY app builder at appsbar.com. The OCS app serves as the mobile platform for Orange County [...]

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Xcrool: Things that make you shake your head

Say what? So it is a remote that replaces the volume and channel buttons with a wheel? I can not tell whether the company is for real or not. In their press section on their website, Xcrool links to an article from USA Today entitled,"CES 2014: The Bogus Brief: A list of new tech from CES that made us shake our heads."

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Sony To Shut Down Reader Store, Transitioning Customers To Kobo

Sony is going through some deep changes as a company right now. Sony has already announced a sell off of their Vaio PC business and we've also heard that they plan on scaling back their tv business as well. Sony seems like they are staying the course with mobile devices including tablets and smartphones as [...]

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3D Printing Lets A Teenage Girl Walk Again

3D Printing has really taken off. It was one of the biggest parts of the 2014 International CES back in January. But just a few years ago, before the Makerbot, 3D printing was saved for companies with million dollar factories. Now, companies are trying to get the cost of 3D Printers down to a level [...]

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