Housing.co.in buys Housing.com domain as first step towards international expansion; eBay's PayPal acquires payment gateway firm Braintree for $800M in all-cash deal

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Housing.co.in buys Housing.com domain as first step towards international expansion

Anand Rai

The company raised $2.5 million in pre-Series A funding from Nexus Venture Partners in June this year.

eBay's PayPal acquires payment gateway firm Braintree for $800M in all-cash deal

Sainul K Abudheen

Post-acquisition, Braintree will continue to operate as a separate service within PayPal.

CoinJoos founder's new startup AirGol looking to raise $1M by early 2014

Sainul K Abudheen

The startup enables users to broadcast and share videos in real time.

Apple's iPhone 5s & 5c available for purchase unofficially in India, priced over Rs 1 lakh

Anand Rai

The company claims to have already sold 9 million iPhones in the first three days post their launch.

Quick look at how lifestyle content portal MensXP has been faring after acquisition by Times Internet

Sonam Gulati

MensXP.com was the maiden acquisition by TIL under its new chief Satyan Gajwani who went ahead with another acquisition by buying location-based restaurant recommendation app Gawbl last month.

Cadbury India's Bhaskar Choudhuri joins Lenovo as marketing head for India

Anand Rai

Last week, Lenovo joined a long list of offline players which have opened own e-commerce stores in India.

Google enables hashtag-based search queries, but only for Google+ content

Sainul K Abudheen

As of now, the feature is available only for its US and Canada sites.

Twitter introduces an alert system for emergencies, disasters

Reuters

Earlier this month, Twitter filed with regulators for an initial public offering.

Prem Watsa confident Fairfax's BlackBerry bid will succeed

Reuters

The Hyderabad-born chief of Canadian financial services group said he did not expect Fairfax would need to contribute more than its existing stake of about 10 per cent to the buyout bid.

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