MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: Spice Digital, Antfarm, India.com and E2E for their support. Data - May 2014: India Added Over 6.18 Million GSM Connections Investment & M&A - Housing raises Rs 115 Cr from Helion, Qualcomm Ventures & Nexus VP - SEBI proposes Rs 10 Cr limit for equity-based crowdfunding; only accredited investors - BookMyShow secures Rs 150 Cr from SAIF Partners & existing investors - Careers360 raises funds from 5 angel investors to launch a education marketplace - HackerRank secures $9.2M from Khosla Ventures, Battery Ventures & others Other Updates: - InMobi reshuffles its top management - Here’s how the NSA snoops on India - Mahindra First Choice sold over 55,000 used cars online in FY14; Autoinspekt.com - Voddler’s Bollywood VOD JV with Zee Group starts US rollout - DoT wants to make Broadband Internet a basic right in new National Broadband Policy - 54% of BlackBerry’s Q1-FY15 revenues was from services; $151M APAC revenues - The Lowdown: Amazon announces Fire phone with some interesting software features - Content removal on Facebook – a case of privatised censorship: CIS India - Driving long distances? Find out how much you’ll end up spending on toll charges - Rockstand partners Wiley Publication India for academic e-books - Telenor ties up with Opera for Opera Max & other products - Flipkart ties-up with SME associations to offer products from 50,000 SMEs - Explara expands to US, UK & South East Asia through local partnerships - First Global Data forms a mobile payment JV with RP Telebuy Skyshop - Reliance Jio to launch in phased manner in 2015; Expanded trials next month…
