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Blinkist – Website and an app for learners and readers

Never stop learning says Blinkist which contains 1000+ best selling non-fiction books transformed into powerful blinks you can read in just 15 minutes.

What else better can you get than the essence of the entire book in just 15 minutes reading?

Not only reading, it also provides audio for the faster reading and understanding.

In addition, Sync to Kindle feature makes reading on all your devices easier.

So what’s stopping you?
Click blinkist.com and get free trial too.

Newshunt – An awesome App for news and E-books

Regional Local News & eBooks in Palm of Your Hand

NewsHunt is an awesome App for smart phones and androids for the book lovers and newsreaders. You can read News, E-books and magazines in 12 languages across India.

It also offers many free E- books as well as many at highly discounted rates.

NewsHunt works on all platforms and devices including J2ME, Symbian, Blackberry, Android & iOS.

Website – Education Marketplace – EduKart.com

EduKart is India’s leading education marketplace, offering education seekers a platform to choose and enroll from 2000+ courses in degree, diploma, certifications, entrance coaching and K12 categories.

At Edukart you can explore courses ranging from degree programs such as MBA, PGDM, MCA, MA, MCom, MSc, BBA, BCA, BA, BCom and BSc to Industry certifications in areas of Digital Marketing, IT, Big Data, Finance, Law & Health to preparatory courses for IIT JEE, AIPMT, CAT, IAS entrance exams and many more.

EduKart was started by Ishan Gupta along with a passionate founding team in 2011. The team is immensely passionate about delivering high quality education and believes that EduKart creates a difference in the lives of those who aspire to move ahead.

Open Culture.com

The best free cultural & educational media on the web

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Some of our major resource collections include:

Open Culture was founded in 2006. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.

Feel free to drop us a line at mail@openculture.com.

Visit website here: http://www.openculture.com/

The Numbeo.com – cost of living

Numbeo is the world’s largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. Numbeo provides current and timely information on world living conditions including cost of living, housing indicators, health care, traffic, crime and pollution.

Numbeo.com was launched in April 2009. The research and available data at Numbeo.com are not influenced by any governmental organization.

Numbeo.com website is maintained by Numbeo doo incorporated in Serbia with business registration number 20853514.

Numbeo is a collection of Web pages containing numerical and other itemizable data about cities and countries, designed to enable anyone to contribute or modify content. Numbeo uses the wisdom of the crowd to obtain the most reliable information possible. Numbeo then provides you with a statistical analysis of the data collected. In addition, Numbeo provides a variety of systematic research opportunities for its readers with its compilation of worldwide information.

This website was mentioned or used as a source by many international medias, newspapers and magazines including BBC, Time, The Week, Forbes, The Economist, Business Insider, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, The Telegraph, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, China Daily, The Vancouver Sun, Elmundo and dozens more.

1,493,856 prices in 4,753 cities entered by 175,208 users
(information updated 2014-11-12)

Visit the website here: Numbeo

Airbnb.com

Discover Amazing Places

Find hosts with extra rooms, entire homes, and unique accommodations like castles and igloos.

Book a Stay

Connect with hosts, confirm travel dates, and pay — all through Airbnb’s trusted services.

Travel

Feel at home, anywhere you go in the world. Learn more about how to travel on Airbnb.

Learn more about hosting on Airbnb and show your guests they’re right where they belong.

Here’s a website: Airbnb.com

Explore the World

See where people are traveling, all around the world.

Rent unique places to stay from local hosts in 190 countries.

It offers rental places to stay while you travel around the world. You do have option to rent your free space for tourist coming from all around the world. A great place to rent your free space and to find some home while you travel.

How it works

  • Discover Amazing Places

Find hosts with extra rooms, entire homes, and unique accommodations like castles and igloos.

  • Book a Stay

Connect with hosts, confirm travel dates, and pay — all through Airbnb’s trusted services.

  • Travel

Feel at home, anywhere you go in the world.

Learn more about how to travel on Airbnb here.

Learn more about hosting on Airbnb and show your guests they’re right where they belong here.

About Airbnb

Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone.

Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 34,000 cities and 190 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.

Having it’s span across 190 countries, 34000+ cities, 600+ castles, 20 million+ guests, it’s a wide online marketplace.