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Tencent Holdings Ltd agrees to acquire 15pct stake in retailer JD.com for $214.7M

Tencent Holdings will be acquiring a 15% stake in JD.com in a $214.7 million deal to provide a stronger platform that will rival Alibaba Group Holdings in the space, Bloomberg reported.


Morgan Stanley veteran investment banker Cecile Houlot-Hillary urges mentoring for women coming from maternity leave

Veteran investment banker Cecile Houlot-Hillary of Morgan Stanley said women coming from their maternity leaves should be given mentoring when they return to the workforce, Reuters reported.

#RIPSpeakerKnockerz trends Twitter, young rapper found dead in South Carolina home

#RIPSpeakerKnockerz went viral on Twitter after the body of young rapper Speaker Knockerz, Derek McAllister in real life, was found dead in his garage in South Carolina last Thursday, reported Billboard.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing today, 239 passengers on board

Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing earlier today, two hours after it left the Kuala Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing, said the airline management in a statement.


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Los Angeles, California-based concert and ticketing digital unit LiveNation Labs added San Francisco-based social search startup for an undisclosed amount to deliver improved concert experience for music fans.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said Google was very worried about the growing inequality in democracies, particularly San Francisco, and proposed three solutions to address the issue, TechCrunch reported.
New York, US-based online educational provider Knowledge Delivery Systems bagged $6 million in its fourth funding round from Edison Ventures to implement programs that will help improve urban school districts in the country.
Google Ventures took out the $100,000 backing it gave to Bustle, a woman-focused publication, after the investor found that they did not anymore share the same values with its founder, TechCrunch reported citing sources.
San Francisco, US-based startup Spellgun launched today to bring Western mobile games to China's mobile market under a partnership with video game art outsourcing firm Concept Art House and Chinese firm Talkweb.
Newsweek has given their full backing for reporter Leah McGrath Goodman and the story she did on Bitcoin's secretive creator Satoshi Nakamoto, The Verge reported.
The Federal Aviation Administration has filed an appeal to the decision of NTSB Adminstrative Law Judge Patrick Geraghty who ruled that the use of commercial drones was legal, TechCrunch reported.
San Francisco, US-based secret-sharing mobile app Secret is set to raise $10 million in venture capital in a funding round led by Google Ventures that will give the startup a $40-million valuation.
San Francisco, US-based application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions provider Polarion Software Inc nabbed $10 million in a Series A funding round from Munich, Germany-based investment firm Siemens Venture Capital.
California, US-based venture capital firm Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) took a controlling stake in Brighton, New York-based medical device firm iCardiac Technologies for an undisclosed sum.