NEWS AT A GLANCE
'Info Edge' and Others Invest in E-Commerce Platform 'ShopKirana'
'Mumbai Angels Network' Invests in Startup 'Fric Bergen'
Walmart India Shuffles Top Management, Appoints New Head
Priyanka Chopra-Backed 'Bumble' Debuts in India
Zomato signs in 'Durga Raghunath' to accelerate growth in businesses>

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Madras High Court grants bail to Stayzilla CEO

The Madras High Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to online home stay aggregator Stayzilla's co-promoter Sachit Singhi in a case lodged against him allegedly for duping an advertising firm of Rs 1.68 crore, according to PTI news. Singhi is a co-accused in the case along with with his CEO Yogendra Vasupal. Justice S Baskaran granted…
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Google’s Sergey Brin comes up with an airship!

Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder, has secretly been building a massive airship inside of Hangar 2 at the NASA Ames Research Center, according to four people with knowledge of the project, says Bloomberg news. It's unclear whether the craft, which looks like a zeppelin, is a hobby or something Brin hopes to turn into a…
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Silicon Valley takes on the flying car

On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working for a small Silicon Valley company called Kitty Hawk piloted a flying car above a scenic lake about 100 miles north of San Francisco. Kitty Hawk’s flying car, if you insisted on calling it a “car,” looked like something Luke Skywalker would have built out of spare…
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Uber’s CEO plays with fire

Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple’s headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker, according to New York Times report. It was a session that Mr. Kalanick was dreading. For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to…
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Uber further probes into its sexual harassment case

Uber Technologies Inc said it has extended its internal investigation into sexual harassment claims in its own organization, and a report is expected by the end of May, according to Reuters report. In February, Susan Fowler, a female former engineer at Uber, said in a widely read blog post that managers and human resources officers…
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