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Mumbai based Baron Aviation launches air charter marketplace BookMyCharters

18Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Mumbai based Baron Aviation launches air charter marketplace BookMyCharters

A Mumbai-based air charter service, Baron Aviation, launched BookMyCharters, an online platform for booking private jets. The platform’s launch comes after a year of a startup JetSetGo that aggregates jet flights, Helicopters, and Air Ambulance, launched operations in March 2014. The platform has 12 private jet operators with a combined fleet of 40 aircraft, which can be booked online. The service acts as an air charter marketplace, where the consumer can receive quotes in real time, much like Ola does with taxis. “We are not just a lead generation platform but an end-to-end service fulfillment platform, which is backend integrated with charter operators,” said Rajeev Wadhwa, chairman and CEO, Baron Aviation. The air charter space is dominated by offline operators and agents and the mo...

Not following Judge’s Order, Whatsapp has been Blocked in Brazil

17Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Not following Judge’s Order, Whatsapp has been Blocked in Brazil

A Brazillian Judge Sandra Regina Nostre Marques ordered the suspension of the Facebook Inc.’s Whatsapp service for 48 hours after WhatsApp declined twice to turn over data requested by the courts as part of a criminal case, the Sao Paulo Justice Court said in a statement. WhatsApp is the most-used app in Brazil. The recent survey showed 93 percent of the 2,000 people said they use the messenger. The second most used app is Facebook, with 79 percent. According to Local TV News, the criminal case involves a drug trafficker linked to one of Sao Paulo's most dangerous criminal gangs, the PCC, or First Command of the Capital. The trafficker allegedly used WhatsApp services while committing crimes. Sao Paulo (Brazil) Court Order - The 1st Criminal Court of São Bernardo Court ordered the tel...

Now Delhi Office Goers Can Also become Uber Driver

16Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Now Delhi Office Goers Can Also become Uber Driver

People in Delhi spend 90 minutes on average commuting to and from work each day. That’s eight hours a week getting to and from work–and a whopping 17 days a year! It’s a chronic waste of people’s time, and a drain on productivity. What’s more, the resulting traffic and pollution undermine everyone’s quality of life. Looking that Uber launched its carpool service in Delhi on Wednesday, 16 December. People going to the same place at the same time–including commuters driving themselves to work–will now be able to share their journey for the first time. Getting more butts into fewer cars is an important step towards reducing congestion and pollution in the capital over time. For passengers it works as follows: Select the uberGO option in the app and enter your destination. Choose w...

Sab Kuch Aasaan Hai For People Living in Andheri Region of Mumbai

16Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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Sab Kuch Aasaan Hai For People Living in Andheri Region of Mumbai

AASAAN, is a mobile-based chat platform, where the user sends in their enquiry about anything they may require in the form of a chat message. He then receives a response within 90 seconds about the possible delivery options, and the price quote of the service and product they desire. Once the user confirms the order, the team places the order with their affiliated vendor’s and use their logistic team to collect the order and deliver the product at the user’s doorstep. The company acts like the middle men between the user and the vendor. What makes it different from its competitor is the fact that it does not impose any delivery charges on any order (even if the order is just for a éclair). This is because the company’s desire is just to serve its customer and target the masses. Another ...

Hiring firm TeamLease Services Ltd gets Sebi nod for IPO

14Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Hiring firm TeamLease Services Ltd gets Sebi nod for IPO

Hiring firm TeamLease Services Ltd on Monday secured approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for its initial public offering (IPO). The firm had filed its draft initial public offering (IPO) papers with the capital markets regulator in September. The company, backed by private equity funds Gaja Capital and ICICI Venture’s India Advantage Fund (IAF), is looking to raise around Rs450-500 crore through the offer. TeamLease’s core business is providing staffing solutions. The majority of its business involves providing employees engaged in sales, logistics and customer service functions. TeamLease has an estimated market share of 5-6%. The business is supported by strong processes and technology, internal processes and a professional management team with long e...

How Slack Technologies developed from an idea for easier office chat to software juggernaut in two years, entirely by word of mouth

14Dec By NitishNo Comments

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How Slack Technologies developed from an idea for easier office chat to software juggernaut in two years, entirely by word of mouth

It's late morning on a Thursday in September, and Slack Technologies CEO Stewart Butterfield has convened a meeting with his design and product heads in the company's low-key San Francisco headquarters. On the agenda is the question that's been most on Butterfield's mind lately: how his $US2.8 billion ($3.9 billion) start-up, which makes business-collaboration software, can be as good with 250, 500, or a thousand people as it was when he founded it with a team of eight. For today's meeting, Butterfield, sporting camouflage suede wingtips and argyle socks, has prepared a list of "teachable principles" he wants his people to internalise. Butterfield is off and running when something distracts him: Brandon Velestuk, Slack's design director, is video-conferencing from Vancouver, and his...

This startup will fund your wedding, but if you divorce you have to pay them back

12Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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This startup will fund your wedding, but if you divorce you have to pay them back

Do you think your love is forever? Well this startup is willing to put up the funds for your wedding if you think it is. SwanLuv is currently accepting applications from soon-to-be-wed couples who think they've found everlasting love, Geekwire reports. After you've filled out the form, the company will make its own assessment of your bound and give out a loans of up to $10,000 to fund your dream nuptials. The catch? If you get a divorce, you have to pay the loan back - with interest. The couples that do stay together will never have to pay a cent. But in a depressing twist, it's the couples that part that end up funding the blissful couple's wedding day. (This sounds like it has potential for a reality show spin-off.) The Seattle-based company mines online data and uses algorithm so...

9 Billionaires Entrepreneur Who Didn’t Graduate High School

10Dec By AnkitaNo Comments

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9 Billionaires Entrepreneur Who Didn’t Graduate High School

Did you know that “more than 1.3 million students drop out of high school every year in the US?” Considering that this makes a high-school dropout ineligible for 90% of jobs in the country, is there any reason to think that they’ll find success? Actually, there is. Though I don't recommend that anyone drops out of high school and I'm a big believer in school, there is hope if you've not been able to complete high school. In the 21st Century, successful people like Tumblr founder David Karp have left high school and entered the business work and have found some serious success. But, being a millionaire wasn’t good enough for these 9 billionaires who shunned higher education. 1. John D. Rockefeller Arguably the richest American of all-time, the founder of the Standard O...

The Top 10 Companies to Work for in 2016

9Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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The Top 10 Companies to Work for in 2016

If you are a business owner, providing perks for your employees is a great way to boost morale and increase productivity. Perks like health insurance (visit this website for more information) and paid sick days are vital to keep your employees happy. If you are a small business then you obviously can't provide massive perks like multi-billion dollar businesses are about to. Every year jobs and career site Glassdoor publishes the 10 best large companies to work for, as ranked by employees. Typically, it's not hard to predict who will make the list. Benefit-happy tech companies like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are safe bets. Case in point: Last year, Google nabbed the top spot. This year, however, Google's place on the throne has been usurped by a dark horse candidate. In fact, in t...

War of Words : OLA (Taxi Aggregator) vs JUGNOO (Auto Aggregator)

8Dec By AdityaNo Comments

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War of Words : OLA (Taxi Aggregator) vs JUGNOO (Auto Aggregator)

As Startup movement soaring up in India, so there is some war of words would be exchanged as well. To sustain their model and to be in positive cash model, startups are trying to implement every kind of opportunity (By Hook or Crook). In its blog India's leading Auto aggregator Jugnoo, accused Ola of poaching employees and taking its employee and driver database to disrupt business in its hometown Chandigarh, ahead of Ola's plan to launch its auto rickshaw hailing service in the city. Dear Ola, You got us all confused now. First you ignore us, then you laugh at us, then you fight us and finally, I am guessing here, we win! (Fist punch) If this is what you are trying to do, then we accept the compliment and I promise, will keep running this marathon just like we always have been. ...

Meet The Richest Man in Asia, Also An Investor in Facebook

5Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Meet The Richest Man in Asia, Also An Investor in Facebook

Li Ka-shing the richest man in Asia was born in 1928, Chaozhou in China's Guangdong Province to a school-principal father. In 1940 With the Japanese invading, his father packs up the family and flees to Hong Kong. Dad died from tuberculosis two years later; at 12 Li starts working in a plastic-watch-strap company to support his family. "The great tug of war and the taste of poverty—they are hardly memories one can forget," Li says. In 1950, Li quits and starts his own business, making plastic toys, later switching to plastic flowers. More than a decade later, riots in Hong Kong depress property values, giving him the opportunity to buy up commercial real estate on the cheap. In 1972 - Li lists his holding company, Cheung Kong Ltd., in Hong Kong. Investors can't get enough. Really....

Video: If today were the last day of my life-Inspirational speech by Steve Jobs

5Dec By No Comments

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Video: If today were the last day of my life-Inspirational speech by Steve Jobs

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a...