Portea Medical, one of India’s biggest platforms for home healthcare visits, has raised $26 million in Series C funding to expand its service range. The round was led by Sabre Partners and MEMG CDC, with participation from returning investors Accel (which led Portea’s Series B two years ago), the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation and Qualcomm Ventures. Read More
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Badass dude fearlessly takes care of snake on a train
A brave passenger on a train in in Jakarta, Indonesia, saved the day after a snake brought riders’ commute to a sudden stop on Tuesday.
We’ll spare you the obvious and cheesy Snakes on a Train jokes.
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Deadly smog smothers New Delhi, posing grave health risks
Pollution in India’s capital is stuck at extremely dangerous levels, at a time of year when such events are becoming all too common. At times, just breathing in the outside air is equivalent to smoking 45 cigarettes per day. Smog from stubborn l…
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Pollution in India’s capital is at obscenely dangerous levels.
Last year, smog in New Delhi covered the region similarly because of winter weather patterns, and it’s back with a vengeance. It doesn’t help that India’s energy habits, from burning trash to using coal-fired power plants, produce a lot of pollution.
The smoggy conditions are visible from space, covering the northern part of the country in a milky haze. But that’s not smoke or clouds. It’s pollution.
The U.S. Embassy in India has New Delhi’s air quality level at “hazardous” — the particulate level is so high it’s actually off the charts, beyond the index max of 500. Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Kolkata aren’t as dangerously high, but all are at unhealthy, elevated levels. Read more…
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Ride-sharing companies the world over are branching out to go beyond just handling your car trips. In recent weeks we’ve seen Uber, the pioneer of the genre, announced its own Visa card while Southeast Asia’s Grab is developing a payment wallet that lets you pay for lunch, dinner and other small items. Now India-based Ola is doubling down on connect car tecnology after it… Read More
LEGO is relaunching one of its largest sets ever, just in time for the holidays
There are some great news for LEGO lovers. The iconic plastic construction toys company is relaunching one of their biggest sets, the Taj Mahal, after nearly a decade.
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Hevo Data gets $1M in seed funding to streamline data integration
Going from food delivery to data integration might seem like an unlikely progression for a startup team, but it was a natural fit for Hevo Data’s founders. Manish Jethani and Sourabh Agarwal previously launched SpoonJoy, an on-demand restaurant delivery app in India. The challenges they encountered while analyzing data in order to improve SpoonJoy’s service inspired them to create… Read More
WhatsApp is down and people are panicking
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OK guys, time to freak out.
Whatsapp is down — again — and people are taking to Twitter and Facebook to express frustration, anger, disappointment, despair.
The messaging app, owned by Facebook, is used by some 1.2 billion people around the world.
According to Down Detector, the outage started around 7am BST on November 3 and is still ongoing in large parts of Europe and South East Asia.
Whatsapp is having issues since 3:10 AM EDThttps://t.co/45TudhG7Nb RT if it’s down for you as well #Whatsappdown
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People stood outside the Apple store to resell their brand new iPhone X within minutes
Just minutes after they got their hands on their new iPhone X devices, resellers were taking to the streets to sell them to the highest bidder.
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Paytm brings messaging features to India’s top digital wallet app
Paytm, India’s top digital wallet and payment service, has introduced a chat feature to amp up its appeal among an increasingly competitive market. The new ‘Inbox’ feature, which was first outed in August, is initially available on Android, which accounts for the bulk of Paytm’s claimed 200 million users, and not iOS. It allows users to share messages and photos like… Read More
Amazon Echo, Echo Plus and Echo Dot are now shipping in India
Earlier this month, Amazon promised it would bring its Echo line of smart speakers to the competitive e-commerce battleground of India. The devices, including the Echo, Echo Plus, and Echo Dot, were initially available through an invite-only prog…
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