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Indian finance firm IFMR bags $29M in funding from LeapFrog

Chennai, India-based non-banking finance firm IFMR Capital bagged $29 million in funding from specialist investor LeapFrog Investment's second investment fund for its product and service expansion.


UK services marketplace Bizzby raises $10M from US hedge fund

Bizzby, a London, UK-based on-demand services marketplace for cleaners, plumbers, electricians, and other tradespeople, raised $10 million in funding from an undisclosed US-based hedge fund.

UK-based content marketplace ScreenHits pockets $1.2M in angel funding

London, UK-based content marketplace ScreenHits pocketed $1.2 million in an angel round from Rory Fleming, Lord Reay, Flemming Lund, and other high net worth individuals to build its product and audience.

Two cases of Ebola virus confirmed in Liberia

Two cases of Ebola virus were confirmed among two women in Liberia, the first woman died positive of the virus, while the other is still receiving treatment.


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Canoe Financial LP (the "Manager" or "Canoe") announced today that it has completed the second and final closing for the initial public offering (the "Offering") of limited partnership units ("Units") of Canoe 2014 Flow-Through LP (the "Partnership") in each of the provinces of Canada, except Quebec.
Twitter users, including activist Suey Park, were angered by a tweet from @ColbertReport prompting them to spread hashtag #CancelColbert to show they are against the "racist" statement.
Hollywood Life predicted that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie would simply be awesome following great action, suspense and big laughs all throughout the movie.
American e-commerce giant Amazon.com rumors that it was planning to launch a free and ad-supported TV and music streaming service, after rumors about the supposed free service spread ahead of a scheduled New York conference.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow gets backlash by number of working moms after claiming she has a harder job during an interview with E!
Ebola virus was not only identified to have spread in the southern districts of Guinea but has already reached the capital, Conakry, said a WHO data.
Berlin, Germany-based social reading app Readmill confirmed that San Francisco, US-based cloud storage giant Dropbox acqui-hired it for $8 million in combined stock and cash, with plans to shut it down later.
BlackBerry's new chief John Chen revealed that its messaging app BBM now has 85 million monthly active users and a steady growth in its user base after the app was released to the Android and iOS platform in October.
General Motors announced the halt of some Chevrolet Cruze cars without disclosing any information behind the move, reported BBC News.
Taco Bell has launched Brian Niccol, Taco Bell’s president, cracked a little joke when an Ask Me Anything was held in Reddit website. Taco Bell would start serving breakfast across the United States this week, according to a Daily Mail report.