2014年11月30日 星期日

2014-12-01 India Spotlight


Amazon inching closer to Jabong acquisition; deal could be worth $1.2B  VC Circle
E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. has completed its first level of talks to acquire Rocket Internet-backed lifestyle e-tailer Jabong.com in a deal worth $1.1-1.2 billion, in the biggest acquisition in the history of the Indian e-commerce space, two sources privy ...


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  The Hindu   
Currency and some questions  The Hindu
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing man he didn't exist.” Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the code and created Bitcoins, the digital currency that works without any bank. But who or what is Nakamoto? We still don't know whether it is a pseudonym, ...


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  Deccan Chronicle   
The strange death of cricket  Deccan Chronicle
Childhood is eventually a composite of dreams, values, fables, norms that one fashions for oneself. It is full of stories of heroism, of exemplars who create a normative world because it is as a child that one learns the difference between good and bad, right and ...


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Inside Salman Khan's sister Arpita, Aayush Sharma's grand wedding reception  Indian Express
Salman Khan along with his family hosted a grand wedding reception for sister Arpita and her husband Aayush Sharma on Friday (November 21) in Mumbai. Seen here, the Khan family including Malaika Arora Khan, Seema Khan, Atul Agnihotri, Alvira Khan, ...


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  The Hindu (blog)   
Bhutan diary  The Hindu (blog)
Everest. Seeing Mt. Everest is about good karma really, explained the lady next to me years ago when I was flying from Lhasa to Kathmandu. I had clearly collected some brownie points on my trip to Paro this time, as the sun shone brightly as we reached ...


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Google Mobile Ranking Signals Still Use Many Desktop Signals  Search Engine Roundtable
Google Mobile In a Google hangout video, at 18 minutes and 50 seconds in, Google's John Mueller answered a question around which desktop signals are used for mobile ranking as well. John said that many are, including the page speed of your desktop ...


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  InfoWorld   
Fire Phone, Galaxy S5, iPad Mini 3, and more: 15 major mobile flops of 2014  InfoWorld
It may be cliché to highlight turkeys at Thanksgiving, but it's a good time of year to look back at what to give thanks for — and what to learn from as a new year approaches. With that in mind, it's been an extraordinary year for failed mobile products, ...


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Chaiti Bai's story and modern India  The Hindu
A sudden death always has great pedagogical value. The death of Chaiti Bai, a Baiga tribal woman, following a botched tubectomy at a mass sterilisation camp in Chhattisgarh recently, can improve our perspective on India's history as a modern nation.

   


Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being hit by ball during match  The Guardian
Cricketer Phillip Hughes has died in hospital after he was struck on the head by a short delivery during a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday. The 25-year-old from Macksville, on the north coast of New South Wales, was playing ...


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  Search Engine Land   
Report: Google-Apple Safari Search Deal Expiring, Yahoo & Bing Want In  Search Engine Land
According to The Information Google's default Safari search deal with Apple is up in 2015. Microsoft and Yahoo are reportedly separately competing for the Safari business across devices. The Information says that both companies are pitching to Apple's ...


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