Bangalore: Pinterest, the increasingly popular online bulletin board, raised $100 million in a financing round that values the US start-up at $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. The funding is led by Japanese e-commerce site Rakuten, with Pinterest's existing venture-capital investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating, the report said. Pinterest could not immediately be reached by...
01:09 PM, May 17, 2012
Washington: The International Monetary Fund has almost doubled its "fire power" to protect the world economy against deepening debt turmoil in Europe with the Group of 20 nations, including India, pledging $430 billion in new funding. The new commitments to the global lender from the world's largest economies to guard against global risks were announced on Friday after a meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers gathered...
08:56 AM, Apr 21, 2012
HYDERABAD: The TDP's coffers are empty and Chandrababu Naidu is in a dilemma whether to field candidates in the next round of bypolls to 18 Assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat."We have been in the Opposition for eight years. It is difficult for us to contest byelections," Naidu told reporters Tuesday.At one stage Naidu toyed with the idea of sitting out the bypolls as the AIADMK did in Tamil...
11:12 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Bangalore: Mining barons Reddy brothers are generally believed to have bankrolled Bharatiya Janata Party to come to power in Karnataka. Now their loyalist has been caught on video claiming the Reddys had given around Rs 250 crore to BJP's first chief minister BS Yeddyurappa for the purpose. The video footage aired by a Kannada TV channel on Tuesday shows Reddy loyalist and former BJP minister B Sriramulu making the claim....
01:25 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: The foreign hand is back. Blaming outside interference for the stalled Kudankulam nuclear reactor in Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in an interview given to American magazine 'Science', said, "The atomic energy programme got into difficulties because these NGOs, mostly I think based in the United States, don't appreciate the need for our country to increase the energy supply." SP Udaykumar, Coordinator, People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy,...
07:17 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Chicago: A Pakistani-American, charged with sending money to the now-believed-to-be-dead al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri, has pleaded guilty before a court here for providing money for terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who became a naturalised US citizen in 1988, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, resolving charges that...
05:11 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Washington: Bipartisan support is growing to allow private companies to quickly tap thousands of small investors through a strategy called "crowdfunding." The Obama administration and Republican lawmakers have drafted legislation that would let investors take small stakes in private startups over the Internet, touting it as a way to supercharge job growth and innovation. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is also considering revamping its offering rules, but is taking...
03:21 PM, Sep 16, 2011
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06:18 PM, Sep 21, 2009
Brit newspaper reveals militant group is awash with funds. ...
05:43 PM, May 11, 2009
India is going to beat America's record in money spent on polls. ...
12:18 PM, Mar 01, 2009
The outlay for IB has been given a quantum jump. ...
01:44 PM, Feb 17, 2009
One team will look to register its first win and the other will pull out all stocks to remain unbeaten. One captain will try to lift the gloom with runs off his bat and the other will hope overconfidence doesn't find a space in his team's dug-out. The return match between Kings XI Punjab and Pune Warriors India at the PCA Stadium has a lot at stake. Both Sourav Ganguly...
02:41 AM, May 11, 2008
New Delhi: Delhi Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag says the presence of Kevin Pietersen and Mahela Jayawardene in the team gives him the freedom to go for his shots at the start of the innings. We've some international class and the team has been boosted by the return of KP and Mahela. As a result of that, I can play freely. I know that they are there in the line-up, Sehwag...
12:10 AM, May 11, 2008
CNN-IBN's panel of cricket experts talks about Kings XI Punjab match with Royal Challengers Bangalore. ...
07:01 PM, Jan 22, 2008
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