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HyperVerge raises $1 million from venture capital firms

Investors include NEA, Milliways Ventures and Naya Ventures

VentureXplore eyes partners for simulation games in entrepreneurship

AskMe invests $20 mn in MebelKart

AskMe aims to make significant strides into rapidly growing online furniture and designer furniture marketplace

Venture funds need to go beyond e-commerce startups: Sinha

Says foreign funds are required in sectors like manufacturing, biotech and solar which can solve India's problems

Vista Rooms plans to expand to Tier-II, Tier-III cities

It has partnered Burgeon Hotels and Resorts which will help the online hospitality startup in auditing, training and ensuring standardised quality

Zoojoo.be raises $1 mn from US-based RoundGlass Partners

Company to use funds for product enhancements

Ratan Tata reads YourStory, and writes a cheque for it

Vani Kola, Karthee Madasamy, T V Mohandas Pai also invest in the media startup

Shadowfax raises $300,000 from Snapdeal deal founders, others

Launched in May, Shadowfax has an average delivery volume processing of 3,000 orders a day

From quantity to quality: Building an education revolution

Siddharth Tata from Acumen global venture writes that his firm is keen to find and support innovative solutions to improve the quality of education for children

Tech blog YourStory secures undisclosed amount in Series A funding

With fresh funding, YourStory aims to launch a platform to allow users to publish stories in Hindi, Telugu, Bangla, Kannada, Tamil and Marathi, reports Tech in Asia

InMobi expects d-commerce to drive business in India

Its Miip platform is expected to help firms such as Amazon to reach out to more than 120 mn users and create over five billion discovery sessions every month

Ozonetel launches speech recognition technology

By using the technology, businesses can market their services to rural population without having to worry about the education level of such target audiences

Housing acquires HomeBuy360 for $2 million

The acquisition will enable developers, agents and buyers to interact on a single platform

Mobikon acquires analytics start-up Trii.be for an undisclosed amount

Now, Mobikon can add a customer feedback management tool to its offerings by using Trii.be's analytics dashboard, reports Tech in Asia

The Chinese tech companies affected by the Tianjin blast

Tencent, Liepin, 58.com, Tianhe-1A, HP and Sohu are some of the firms that were affected by the blast, reports Tech in Asia

Indian developer platforms: Where art thou?

While many Indian companies, especially in ecommerce space, have built businesses around transacting parties -- buyers and sellers -- developer platforms have been largely absent

Dream decor for dream homes

Bengaluru-based e-commerce start-up Livspace is addressing the home design and decor market through innovation

Amazon backs fashion site

Who What Wear, a Los Angeles-based shoppable fashion site with 3.8 million users, has closed an $8 million Series-B round of funding, with participation from Amazon and Bertelsmann Digital Media Inves

Why Ola and Amazon are hiring ex-soldiers

While Ola will mostly involve these former soldiers as drivers, Amazon plans to engage them in logistics, reports Tech in Asia

Rahul Yadav to launch his new venture soon

"I'll be back, 30 days to go. Is the world ready?," said the former Housing.com CEO on Facebook