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E-commerce firm Flipkart raised $1 billion yesterday in what is by far the largest funding deal for an Indian startup to date. How can you top that? How about $2 billion? That’s exactly what Amazon — one rival that has motivated Flipkart to raise more capital — is doing. The US company chose today to cheekily announce plans to invest $2 billion into its one-year old operations in India, as first spotted by Next Big What. Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos explained the “huge potential” that he sees in the country: After our first year in business, the response from customers…
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Twitter is increasing its focus on images after it quietly acquired deep-learning startup Madbits. GigaOm first reported the deal, which appears to have closed on Monday according to the Madbits website — although there has been no announcement from Twitter at this point. Deep-learning has developed into quite the buzzword as startups sprout up promising to pore through the mountains of information on the internet — both public and private — to help us better understand trends, information, people and more. Madbits comes with quite a pedigree — founders Clément Farabet and Louis-Alexandre Etezad-Heydari were students of New York University professor Yann LeCun,…
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