BIGWeek Roundup : Articles You Shouldn’t Have Missed [IRCTC Shuts Down ECommerce Portal; BigMobility]

It’s raining funding money in India. And in the midst of big ecommerce funding, IRCTC has shut down its ecommerce portal.  IRCTC had floated a tender for the Rs 1000 cr project, but its ecommerce site never really picked up.

– This month, NextBigWhat is running #BigAugust campaign. [Read : Freshdesk’s Culture Code : We Like People Who Get Shit Done Without Burning Bridges].

Upcoming NextBigWhat conference : bigMobiConf (Sep 13th/Bangalore).

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#EditorialRecommended

What’s NextBigWhat For Online Real Estate Space in India? Consolidation.
Who will lead the consolidation?

India’s BigMobility Trends : Android Is Much Bigger Than Windows 7 (Desktop)
#bigTrends

Smartphone Market Share in India : Motorola Beats Nokia [Big Shifts]

Motorola shipped 955,650 phones beating Nokia Microsoft, which shipped 633,720 devices.

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#Funding
HelpingDoc   : INR 10 Crores

Druva Series D Funding : $25mn

AntFarm Funding : from Bay Capital and Hausela Capital

MoveInSunc Funding: from Inventus Capital Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Saama Capital.

CapitalFloat Funding : $1mn led by SAIF.

WeAreHolidays Funding : led by Matrix Partners.

Goqii Funding : Adds WhatsApp’s Neeraj Arora And AWS’ Marco Argenti

BCCL picks up stake in eDabba

Rumour : Ratan Tata To Invest In Snapdeal?

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#Tech&Startups

Student Startup, Live Braille Is Rethinking Navigation For Blind People [Wearable Tech Innovation]
The founder is a Mechanical Engineering student!

Those Irritating Device Notifications? [Switch Off Notifications]
There is An App For That

Developers : Get Alerted on JS Errors; Track Uptime of Application Using Atatus
Add two lines of code and get alerted on any errors that occurs in your application in realtime.

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#MISC

BigFunny : Mentor That Never Was. Captcha That You Can Copy/Paste

Is IoT A Fad? Take A Look At Coolest IoT Gadgets

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