Prosus terminates $4.7 bln BillDesk deal; Google names 20 women founders to India accelerator; Svante Pääbo wins Nobel for medicine

Prosus, the Dutch-listed global consumer and technology investor, has terminated its agreement to buy India's BillDesk, ending a deal worth $4.7 billion. Google yesterday announced a list of 20 startups with women founders or co-founders for the first batch of an accelerator programme in India, specifically aimed at encouraging women entrepreneurs. And Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist is this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine