India’s Pronto formalizes house help as its valuation jumps 8x in under a year

Bengaluru-based Pronto is helping to bring India’s largely informal domestic help market online. As daily bookings climb and its city footprint expands, investors are opening their wallets. The startup said Tuesday that it raised a $25 million Series B round led by Epiq Capital, valuing the nine-month-old company at $100 million. That’s more than double…

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Jon Stewart Decries ‘Arrogant’ U.S.-Israeli Missile Attack On Iran

Jon Stewart has begrudgingly brought back The Daily Show‘s over “20-year recurring segment” titled “Mess O’Potamia,” also known as “America’s Next Top Muddle,” to comment on the over-the-weekend U.S.-Israeli-coordinated missile strikes against Iran, which killed its supreme leader Ali Khamenei. “America, apparently, had to start an entire war to kill an 86-year-old man in ill…

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bitchy | Prince William banned Princess Beatrice & Eugenie from this year’s Ascot

This weekend, there were several tedious stories about the Prince and Princess of Wales’s icy relationships with Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. There’s obviously a lot of keen hand-wringing and a big effort to make Prince William sound like he’s a big, tough man for hysterically screeching that his cousins shouldn’t be allowed to attend…

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