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U.S. venture capital firm Accel Partners has closed a $155 million fund, Accel India III, that will make seed and early stage investments in Indian startups. This is Accel’s third India fund. Accel, which has previously invested in 34 Indian companies, said the latest fund had attracted top tier institutional investors from North America, Europe [...]
It’s one of the depressing aspects of movies that a disproportionate number of them focus on insignificant piffle. Like romance, for instance. Try as we might, we can’t get a handle on how generations of moviegoers can watch the same boy-girl love story on the screen for decades just because they bear different titles. Well, [...]
For the next couple of days, y’all are going to be bombarded with articles on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet. The 7-inch Android-based tablet is already in the hands of consumers and early reviews are kind of mixed with some not impressed with its Silk browser. The below chart from Indian market researcher Social Nuggets [...]
The U.S. box office numbers for Ranbir Kapoor’s new movie Rockstar are out. And, hey, the numbers look pretty decent. For the November 11-13, 2011 opening weekend in the U.S., Rockstar pulled in $612,235 from 112-screens giving it a respectable average gross of $5,466. Rockstar was Ranbir’s 10th movie. The 29-year-old actor, who hails from [...]
The best we can say about Rockstar is that we didn’t throw up and sully the movie hall as we usually do after watching a Bollywood film (like Bodyguard or Dum Maro Dum, for instance). As is to be expected of 99.9% of Indian films, Rockstar too is a romance. But this one comes covered [...]
India is a nation with two deeply hostile neighbors, a nation with people dying of starvation, a nation wracked by internal rebellion, a nation without toilets for over 600-million, a nation where hundreds of million struggle for survival every day, a nation where people are ‘encountered’ to death every day….. And yet, what is the [...]
The below video makes us proud, so proud to be an American. Now you know how your tax dollars are put to productive use. After all, art imitates life. Doesn’t it?
By Naveen Sukhadia’s is a landmark on Devon St. for Chicago desis prematurely ejaculating over nostalgic reveries of the motherland, Incredible India. Besides the cornucopia of Indian Sweets and Snacks to which they owe their fame, Sukhadia’s also serves fast food. For most desis in the Chicago area, a visit to Devon is incomplete without [...]
Harshul Sanghi, recently appointed Managing Partner of American Express‘ Enterprise Growth Group, will spearhead a $100 million initiative that will invest in early stage digital commerce startups. American Express’ aggressive moves in this space are aimed at developing innovative technologies to accelerate its digital transformation and strengthen connections to customers around the world. American Express’ [...]
It seems like not a day passes in the digital media universe without a big-brand jumping on the tablet train with a huge announcement, launch event or upgrade. This morning it was the turn of the struggling U.S. bookstore chain Barnes & Noble to make a song and dance about its new Nook Tablet. Nook [...]
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