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Don't hunt for VCs, let them find you': Shomiron Das Gupta
How DNIF, a home-grown, bootstrapped open analytics platform, is holding its own in a segment dominated by heavyweights like IBM and HP
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How many animals have died in Australia's wildfires?
A professor estimated this week that a billion animals had died in Australia's wildfires. But where are these numbers coming from?
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Donald Trump, shifting arguments, urges swift dismissal of impeachment charges
An unexpected statement, arriving amid a flurry of tweets, not only appeared to put the president at odds with Republican Senate leaders moving toward a full trial but also contradicted Trump's own words from just hours earlier
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Skills (Expertise is falling out of favour), Lifestyle (Wealthy Indians count the cost as they say 'I do'), Business ($1 billion solar plant was obsolete before it went online; How chicken became the world's most popular meat), and Book Review (Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow)
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Boeing employees mocked FAA and 'clowns' who designed 737 Max
"Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft? I wouldn't," one employee said to a colleague in an internal exchange
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How Rupert Murdoch is influencing Australia's bushfire debate
Murdoch's standard-bearing national newspaper, The Australian, has repeatedly argued that this year's fires are no worse than those of the past
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Indian tech startups raise $14.5 billion in 2019, up 25x from 2010
Technology startups in India had raised a mere $550 million in 2010
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Infosys CEO Salil Parikh exonerated from whistleblower allegations
Anonymous whistleblowers in October 2019, had alleged that Infosys CEO Salil Parekh had flouted accounting norms to land large contracts from multiple customers, and that CFO Nilanjan Roy was complicit too
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Great opportunity in organising the chaotic unorganised milk sector: Samarth Setia of Mr Milkman
B2B dairy tech startup Mr Milkman doubled its revenue last year, and is milking most of the opportunities that the unorganised dairy sector provides
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Still bullish on India growth story: Rajiv Bhalla of Barco India
The display technology firm reckons that India's under-penetrated market for cinema screens and under-served market in healthcare provides huge opportunities for growth of the company