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<ul><li>WhatsApp and the Indian government’s Invest India program announced the winners of the ‘Startup India - WhatsApp Grand Challenge’.</li><li>The contest received over 1,700 entries from across the country but only five startups ultimately won. </li><li>Each of the five startups have been awarded a grant of $50,000 each to continue developing their ideas.</li></ul>WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service, collaborated with Indian government’s investment promotion agency, Invest India, to invite startups from all over the country for a contest involving prize money of $250,000.<br /><br />Five startups — Medcords, Melzo, Javis, Gramophone and MinionLabs — outshined the rest winning a grant of $50,000 each. <br /><br />The ‘Startup India – WhatsApp Grand Challenge’ was launched earlier this year to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. <br /><br />The contest received more than 1,700 entries from all over the country, which were then judged on the basis of innovative thinking, scale of impact and the ability to solve real problems faced by Indians.<br /><br />Around 70% of the applications received were from startups that were less than 3 months old and in prototype stage. According to WhatsApp, this is an encouraging indicator of the vibrancy of startups in India.<br /><br /><strong>Meet the final five that made it to the finish line in the ‘Startup India – WhatsApp Grand Challenge’:</strong><br />

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>REUTERS/Jason Lee</span></p><p class="caption">Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun introduces the Mi4.</p></div><p></p></div></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Xiaomi, the buzzy Chinese startup that makes high-quality smartphones and sells them for half the cost of the iPhone or Samsung Galaxy, unveiled its new flagship phone, the Mi4, in China last week. </span></p>
<p>The Mi4 dominated the news cycle for much of the morning: A smartphone with a sharp 5-inch screen and powerful specs that you can buy for just $320. That's quite a deal.</p>
<p>But the glow didn't last long. By the time the Western press got ahold of Xiaomi's announcement, the inevitable cries that yet another Apple copycat had emerged began to overshadow the news that the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/xiaomi-phone-sales-2014-7">fastest-growing smartphone maker in the world</a> had a new flagship phone that was all but guaranteed to sell like hotcakes.</p>
<p>Hugo Barra, the ex-Google executive who's been working for Xiaomi since last fall, denied the accusations. He <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/5925753/hugo-barra-xiaomi-china-interview">told The Verge</a> shortly after the Mi4 announcement that all the howling about Xiaomi copying Apple were just "sweeping sensationalist statements" from folks who hadn't spent enough time with Xiaomi products to realize they're actually very different.</p>
<p>This set off <a href="http://daringfireball.net/">John Gruber of Daring Fireball</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> who has been curating evidence that Xiaomi isn't just influenced by Apple, it appears to literally copy and paste Apple's work and pass it off as its own.</span></p>
<p>During the Mi4 event, Xiaomi's CEO Lei Jun (who, by the way, is known for dressing in black shirts, jeans, and sneakers just like Steve Jobs did), introduced a new fitness band that was teased with a "One more thing..." slide, a tactic Apple made famous back in the day when it had a surprise announcement.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>No they didnt? Yes, they did! The iconic "one more thing" slide. Priceless - Xiaomi Mi4 <a href="http://t.co/bD9UamXVBl">pic.twitter.com/bD9UamXVBl</a></p>
- Sascha Pallenberg (@sascha_p) <a href="https://twitter.com/sascha_p/statuses/491499901390319616">July 22, 2014</a></blockquote>

<p>Finally, it's tough to deny that the Mi4 looks very similar to the iPhone 5S:</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Xiaomi</span></p></div><p></p></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Or that Xiaomi's tablet, the Mi Pad, looks nearly identical to the iPad Mini. It even has the same screen size and resolution:</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span>Xiaomi</span></p></div><p></p></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Things get even more amusing if you dig through more of Xiaomi's marketing materials. </span><a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/07/25/xiaomi-flower">As Gruber pointed out</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the website that shows off the Mi3's camera uses photos from sources like National Geographic and copyrighted photos from professional photographers on Flickr and passes them off as images taken with the phone. </span></span></p>
<p>For example, here's an original, copyrighted photo <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51074875@N06/7005166745/in/gallery-claudio_ar-72157629830598295/">from a professional on Flickr</a>:</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51074875@N06/7005166745/in/gallery-claudio_ar-72157629830598295/">Javi Inchusta Gonzalez/Flickr</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></p>
<p>And here are Xiaomi's marketing images:</p>
<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container"><div class="image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://daringfireball.net/misc/2014/07/mi-gallery-rip.jpg">Xiaomi via Daring Fireball</a></span></p></div><p></p></div><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We reached out to Barra again and presented much of the evidence above. Given that Xiaomi was busted for ripping pages right out of Apple's playbook, we thought it was worth giving Barra another shot to explain.</span></p>
<p>But Barra remained firm in his original statement that Xiaomi doesn't copy Apple. We communicated via email, so it was tough to tell if Barra winked before he dug his heels in and replied: "I always mean what I say." </p>
<p>Still, Xiaomi is an incredible success story. Its phones are only available in a handful of countries right now, but it has plans to expand to more emerging markets like Brazil and India later this year. Plus, Xiaomi already sells more phones in China than Apple does and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-versus-xiaomi-2014-7">poses a very real threat to Samsung</a>, the largest smartphone maker in the world, because its Android phones do pretty much the same thing, but cost half as much.</p>
<p>Xiaomi doesn't have any immediate plans to expand to the U.S. or Europe, but <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/30/xiaomis-one-more-thing/">as TechCrunch's Matt Burns pointed out</a>, it's going to have to rethink its marketing strategy and eliminate anything that even smells like copying Apple or other competitors if it wants to stand a chance.</p>

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