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Daily archive Mar 31, 2010

Yahoo to shut down Publisher Network Programme

Yahoo is shutting down its Publisher Network Programme, i.e. YPN by April 30th. Extract from an email I received from YPN team: ‘After conducting an extensive review of the Yahoo! Publisher Network beta program, we have decided to close the program effective Read More →

Indian Minister Predicts that all telecom calls will be free [Mayhem!]

Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology, has predicted that telephone calls and related charges in India could soon be free.

the call rates are so cheap that a lot of telecom companies Read More →

Quikr Raises USD 6 Million Series C Funding Led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)

Quikr, India’s leading horizontal classifieds player, announced today the completion of a USD 6 million third round of funding in Quikr Mauritius (a holding company of Quikr India) led by new investor, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), and returning investors, Omidyar Read More →

Indian Cellphone Towers to Go Solar [Green Towers]!

The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy along with the Union Ministry of Telecommunications has announced plans to get all the telecom operators to use solar power to operate their towers. India has more than 250,000 cellphone towers which consume Read More →

Supplemental Education Industry : Educomp enters the business

A decade or two back the word coaching or tuition was an option for the weak students, but now it is as much a norm for any student (esp. the aspirants of exams like IIT, AIEEE, PMT etc.), Read More →

2 Updates : Fortnightly Themes and Remainder News

Quick update from PluGGd.in team. Fortnightly Themes – We used to cover interesting topics as part of our fortnightly themes [right from free software to rural India etc] Now we are restarting the fortnightly theme and the topic for this Read More →