This week, blogosphere went abuzz with the news of Facebook starting its support office in Hyderabad, which we believe is just another BPO story. For us, Xerox’s Research Facility in India (The First in Asia) was a much bigger news.
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A quick post sharing my from now-onwards changing lat/long. I will be spending a lot of my time in Delhi from this week onwards and will ‘oscillate’ between Bangalore and Delhi alternate months. If you are an entrepreneur/VC in Delhi , I’d like to meet you and understand how can we...
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TAAZ is brought to you by an IIT Kharagpur graduate Satya Mallick based out of California. He is my college senior, so please bear with the bias . I recently chatted with him on GTalk about his strategy for TAAZ and how it all started for him. Here is some curated transcript. AN: How...
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Motorola is launching Motorola Milestone, the GSM version of Droid in India by March 22nd. Motorola Milestone – Worldwide Sales As per Flurry, 1.05 million Droid handsets were sold during the first 74 days of launch, as compared to 1 million iPhones sold over the same 74 day launch period. Essentially, Motorola has carved a niche with...
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iPhone 3GS was supposed to be launched in India by August of 2009 and as expected, Airtel has confirmed that it will sell iPhone 3GS in India.
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So the question is, does an MBA help in tech entrepreneurship? Let’s consider the following three broad categories where any wannabe entrepreneur with some industry experience would fit in. Entrepreneur is an Engineer and an MBA Entrepreneur is an Engineer alone Entrepreneur is none of the above – drop outs/oblique entrepreneurs Who has the...
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Rentoys is a Bangalore based startup which supplies Toys on Rent for kids in age group of new-born to 6 years. The website is very neatly done and great emphasis has been placed on step-by-step process of renting and handling of toys along with safety, hygiene and value.  The moment we got request to...
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BuyThePrice is an e-commerce startup by Hyderabad based myZingo. The site wants to leverage on the social media reach of its buyers to enable bulk buy discounts. The site uses a differential pricing slab based on the quantity of product sold within a given time window. Like any shopping site the buyer pays the...
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Will it kill the Industry? Even with increase in population and growth in students taking up higher education, the medical industry is seeing lack of interest. The number of MBBS aspirants are seriously declining and situation will soon be alarming. And guess what, better paid engineers are to be blamed for this! Quick overview on...
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Orkut has launched its app on Android, that is well integrated with one’s contact book. The app syncs your phonebook with Orkut friends’ phone numbers as well as status messages.
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