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Microsoft awards hardware startup ENTy the 2016 Imagine Cup

ENTy-pose The festivities have wrapped for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global competition among students and young people to create new software and devices. The winner this year was ENTy, a polished and highly practical hardware solution for tracking posture, helping with diagnosis and possibly treatment of diseases that affect balance. Read More

Lobster, the marketplace for user-generated content, integrates with DropBox

 Lobster, the platform that lets brands and publishers license user-generated content from social sites like Instagram and Youtube, has today announced integration with Dropbox. Plus, the platform has builtout tools that will make it easier for br...

Krawd turns the ad agency into a marketplace

potentiel-freelances Meet Krawd, a French startup that wants to rethink the way advertising agencies work. Like in other industries, Krawd thinks that it’s more efficient to build a marketplace than build a centralized, traditional company. Krawd is all about connecting the right freelancers with the right clients in this specific industry. Read More

This smartmeter alerts you when there’s a water leakage in your apartment and enables you to close the tap using an app

WaterOn is an IoT-based water meter that empowers users to monitor, control and optimise their water consumption in real time As neighbours in an apartment complex, Vivek Shukla and Kasturi Rangan experienced the pain of inaccurate water billing and lack of metering, which often ended up in them paying for water they did not consume....

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Biggest threat to OTT industry is not Netflix, but another video giant

There has long been a sleeping giant in the OTT industry, and it might finally be waking up Thanks to the growth of companies such as iflix, Viu and HOOQ (and competition from Netflix) the Over-The-Top (OTT) video streaming industry in Southeast Asia has become competitive and dynamic — qualities leaders in the industry have welcomed....

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Kris Gopalakrishnan backs GoCoop.com to uplift the artisan and weaving community in rural India

GoCoop is an online marketplace for co-operatives and community-based weavers and artisans to connect with domestic and international buyers Bangalore-bases social venture GoCoop Solutions and Services, which provides an online marketplace for co-operatives and community-based weavers and artisans, has closed an undisclosed sum in Series A funding from leading investors, including Infosys Co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan and Saha Fund,...

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