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ZipDial, The Missed-Call Leader In India, Adds Jungle Ventures To Seed Round And Launches In Sri Lanka

April 15, 2013 By
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ZipDial, the company based in India that has turned missed calls into a business, has raised new funds from Jungle Ventures and launched its service in Sri Lanka. The company has clients like P&G and Disney, who have realized that the common social interaction of missed calls in India, are turning to ZipDial instead of focusing on driving likes to Facebook pages or chasing followers on Twitter. Basically, in a trend seen by ZipDial and others, people would communicate by calling one … [Read more...]

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Thermo Fisher to buy Life Tech for $13.6 billion

April 15, 2013 By
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(Reuters) - Genetic testing equipment maker Life Technologies Corp has accepted a $13.6 billion cash buyout proposal from scientific and laboratory instruments company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc in one of the year's biggest corporate takeovers. The deal, announced on Monday, values Life Tech at $76 per share and would catapult Thermo Fisher into the hot field of genetic sequencing, where researchers, drugmakers and doctors are uncovering the hereditary factors underpinning diseases … [Read more...]

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Startup Founder Ramona Pierson Has Survived Worse Things Than Most People Can Imagine

April 15, 2013 By
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Everybody has a story but few are as painful and triumphant as Ramona Pierson's. Pierson is the CEO of a stealth startup, Pierson Labs. She is also, quite possibly, the most inspiring tech founder in the Valley today. And that's saying something. Business Insider recently met with her and her cofounder Nelson González at the startup's Palo Alto headquarters. Pierson is lucky to be alive. She's also lucky to be walking, talking and thinking, much less be leading her second … [Read more...]

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Here’s Russia’s Badass Next-Generation Stealth Strategic Bomber

April 15, 2013 By
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This last week has been pretty hectic in terms of next generation concepts: Boeing unveiled the updated version of the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter concept, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works released a new UCLASS Concept video and, after some years of evaluation and study, Russia’s PAK-DA conceptual design was given the official approval. In a meeting with Russian lawmakers, Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said that all the relevant documents were signed allowing the … [Read more...]

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Kermit Gosnell’s Nightmare Abortion Clinic Was A Multimillion-Dollar Business

April 15, 2013 By
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Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell is accused of killing newborn babies at his filthy clinic, and it was apparently very lucrative work. Gosnell allegedly "snipped" the spinal cords of seven newborns after performing illegal late-term abortions. Prosecutors believe he killed many other fetuses in their third-trimester and destroyed related records. Gosnell is also accused of running an absolutely filthy clinic — known as the Women's Medical Society — that had untrained staff give … [Read more...]

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Victoria’s Secret Manager: ‘Our Customers Are Getting Younger And Younger’

April 14, 2013 By
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A Victoria's Secret store manager recently revealed that she gets frequent complaints that merchandise isn't small enough to fit young girls. "Our customers are getting younger and younger every year," the woman said in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. "It's crazy to see 13-year-olds buying lacy underwear." [NOTE: While the woman's identity was verified by moderators on Reddit, Business Insider can't independently confirm her identity.] The manager said that customers frequently complain … [Read more...]

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‘PIPPI LONGSTOCKING’ BUSTED FOR ASSAULT

April 14, 2013 By
'PIPPI LONGSTOCKING' BUSTED FOR ASSAULT

Tami Erin -- who played the title role in the 1988 movie "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" and is now pretty smokin' hot -- was arrested for assault on Thursday for allegedly roughing up her roommate ... TMZ has learned. According to Walnut Creek PD in northern California, Erin was placed under citizen's arrest by a neighbor who heard Erin and her male roommate arguing. Police say at some point, the roommate called out for help and that's when the neighbor came rushing to the scene … [Read more...]

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SLY STALLONE Settles Legal Beef With ‘Celeb’ Contractor

April 14, 2013 By
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Sly Stallone has settled a nuclear battle he was having on the homefront ... TMZ has learned. Sly put an end to his $1.4 million lawsuit against contractor Mohamed Hadid, who allegedly had charged top-of-the-line prices for a job that would have been unbecoming in a double wide. We don't know how much money changed hands, but sources connected with the case tell TMZ, "Sly was smiling." The actor claimed Hadid -- who has appeared on "Shahs of Sunset" -- charged him a fortune for … [Read more...]

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Report: Collins supports Manchin-Toomey background checks plan

April 14, 2013 By
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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she will support a proposal to expand background checks for commercial gun sales, according to a report Saturday. The Manchin-Toomey proposal is “a responsible breakthrough from two people who have far better NRA rankings than I have,” Collins told NBC News. Collins joins Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois in supporting the measure, which would require background checks for online and gun-show gun sales. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) reached a deal with … [Read more...]

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Drought risk alive this year in U.S. crop belt – meteorologist

April 13, 2013 By
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(Reuters) - Winter snow and early spring rains have helped ease the drought in the United States crop belt, but there is still a lack of moisture in lower levels of soils, leaving crop yields vulnerable, an agricultural meteorologist said on Thursday. Kyle Tapley, senior agricultural meteorologist for MDA Weather Services told a weather conference in Chicago that the U.S. Plains and the western Midwest are still in the worst drought in more than 50 years. "Subsoil moisture is still … [Read more...]

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