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By Aashika Jain

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1. Swiggy joins the big Indian Unicorn club. The food delivery start-up has raised $210 million in Series G funding led by existing investor Naspers and new investor DST Global.

2. Indians are set to rule the world! A health firm launched by Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan will now be headed by Atul Gawande.

3. There's no stopping Instagram. After having trumped Snapchat, Instagram is all set to take on Youtube. Instagram has launched a new app for long videos giving a direct competition to YouTube. Watch out YouTube!

4. We asked this yesterday and WhatsApp has already answered us with its next move. The messaging platform has announced that it will introduce group video and voice calling on the app.

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Aashika Jain

Entrepreneur Staff

Former Associate Editor, Entrepreneur India

Journalist in the making since 2006! My fastest fingers have worked for India's business news channel CNBC-TV18, global news wire Thomson Reuters, the digital arm of India’s biggest newspaper The Economic Times and Entrepreneur India as the Digital Head. 
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