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Facebook’s first female engineer says ‘move fast and break things’ doesn’t work for all startups

This female entrepreneur says that in order to succeed in business, it’s worth questioning conventional wisdom. At Y Combinator’s Female Founders Conference this weekend, Ruchi Sanghvi, former VP of operations at DropBox and Facebook’s earliest female engineer, discussed what it takes to get ahead as a founder. The best way to achieve success, she says, is to set aside your biases and come up with new solutions. “And that’s hard […]

Oscars 2015: Complete list of winners

Honoring the best cinematic talent from Hollywood, the 87th Academy Awards or the Oscars have finally wrapped up. Presented in 24 different categories, the winners for the most coveted film awards have been announced, putting an end to the suspense. While The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman faced a tie bagging four awards each, Whiplash managed to pick three trophies. Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything and Julianne Moore […]

Indian Coast Guard interdicts Russian cargo vessel trying to escape

MUMBAI: After almost 11 hours search operation, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) ship Agrim commanded by Commandant(JG) Umed Singh’s team interdicted Russian flagged Cargo vessel—MV Sevastopol—110 nautical miles (204 km) that tried to escape on Tuesday. The ship was under order of arrest by the Madras high court and was trying to flee, to circumvent judicial proceedings against the vessel, said the official.   The ICG in a sea air […]

 
 
 

The Longest Ride trailer lends romance on Valentine’s Day

Coming up as an early surprise for romantic diehards, the makers of The Fault in our Stars are out with the trailer of The Longest Ride. The Longest Ride is based on Nicholas Sparks’ novel of the same name and revolves around two intervening love stories. As a bull-rider and a student have conflicting interests which test their relationship, they find a strange connection with Ira and his love story. […]

 
 
 

5 Most Mysterious Things To Ever Happen On Earth

These are Top Five creepy and mysterious things ever happened on earth and no one knows why or how these happened.   see the video Please follow and like us:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella makes a big impression in just a year

Satya Nadella’s appointment as Microsoft CEO a year ago was surprising. A protracted search for Steve Ballmer’s successor had many expecting the nod to go to an outsider to steer Microsoft into the future, not the then-unknown 22-year Microsoft veteran. Microsoft even attempted to massage any concerns by strategically announcing Bill Gates was “substantially increasing” his time at the company. It’s still not clear whether Gates is really dedicating up […]

Plane Crashes in Taiwan River, 12 Killed

Taipei : A Taiwanese flight with 58 people aboard went sideways, clipped an elevated roadway and careened into a river Wednesday shortly after takeoff from the island’s capital of Taipei, killing at least 12 people, local media and officials said.   Rescue crews in rubber rafts clustered around an exposed area of the mostly sunken fuselage, which was on its side in the Keelung River and missing a wing a […]

Not Malala or Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie is world's most admired woman

Los Angeles: Actress-director Angelina Jolie has been named the most admired woman in the world, leaving behind Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, Hillary Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II and even India’s Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. According to a new poll of 25,000 people, the mother-of-six and United Nations special envoy was most worthy of respect internationally, reports dailymail.co.uk. However, the internet-based market research firm YouGov study found that Britons still […]

Snowmen declared anti-Islamic by prominent Saudi Arabian cleric

DUBAI: A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen, described them as anti-Islamic.   Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country’s north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: “It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play […]

 
 
 

How Michael Dell Became a Billionaire

  Michael Dell was part of the growth of personal computing in the eighties by creating the Dell computer Corporation which now goes by the name Dell Inc. Dell has progressed to be an investor, an author, a philanthropist and one of the richest people in the world. Michael Dell’s estimated net worth is $22.4 billion. Dell has always had the type of mind that likes to pick things apart […]