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Dollar Shave Club's $1 Billion Deal: A Victory for Simplicity Over Technology
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Unilever UL -0.09 % PLC's decision to pay $1 billion for the trendy-but-unprofitable Dollar Shave Club Inc. is evidence that simple, low-price razors have upended a global business long-built on adding blades and raising prices. “To say we didn't come ...and more »

Facebook said today the number of users of its Messenger application had topped one billion, a key milestone as it seeks to expand the platform to new services.
The growth in Messenger gives greater reach to Facebook, which is moving to create a “family” of applications beyond the social network.
“As part of this journey to one billion, we focused on creating the best possible experiences in modern day communications,” said Facebook vice president David Marcus in a statem

Chinese mobile phone maker Zopo plans to set up its manufacturing plant in India by the end of this year with an initial investment of about Rs 100 crore as it is aiming to produce 2 lakh handsets per month.
“Zopo has identified place in Noida for setting up its manufacturing unit with production capacity of 2 lakh units per month. The company has plans to invest Rs 100 crore to start this plant by end of this year,” Advantage

An inexpensive lens could turn a smartphone into a microscope and help men analyse semen samples in the privacy of their home, say scientists.
Yoshitomo Kobori, a visiting scholar at University of Illinois at Chicago, discovered a USD 7 lens, that could help address the problem of infertility in men.
He is using the lens to create an iPhone microscope to analyse sperm samples at home, with help from an app that is in development.
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The Twitter blue check mark is open to all now. Starting Tuesday, the company allowed users to request for a verified account on its website by filling out a form.
You can request verification for a personal account. Before filling out the form, Twitter requires an account has the following:A verified phone number
A confirmed email address
A bio
A profile photo
A birthday (for accounts that are not company, brand or organization accounts)
A website
Tweets set as public in Tweet privacy sett

The leading OTT player in South Asian content YuppTV has made its comeback on the Roku® platform in the USA and Canada, introducing its extensively updated video content, packaged in a superior and advanced user interface.
In 2010, YuppTV has been the first Live TV channel on the Roku platform, which includes the Roku Streaming Stick®, Roku Streaming players and Roku TV™, providing Indian expat community, easy access to high quality South Asian entertainment content.
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Chinese smartphone major Lenovo on Wednesday launched ideapad 110 — its latest consumer laptop from the ideapad family targeted at the first-time personal computer (PC) buyers in India.
Equipped with Intel’s latest Celeron Dual Core and Pentium Quad Core processors, ideapad 110 will be available at a starting price of Rs 20,490, the company said in a statement.
“Ideapad 110 is a value laptop with features users need but without a high-price tag,” said Bhaskar Choudhuri, D