Monthly Archives: January 2012

Kookoo Integrated with Twilio’s OpenVBX – Now Create your own Phone System on the Cloud

Twilio’s OpenVBX is an open source PHP/MySQL application that helps developers build rich, high quality Internet phone and SMS applications. OpenVBX extends Twilio’s API by providing a user interface and other primitives like voicemail that build upon Twilio’s core API … Read More »

Nokia Asha 300 Price in India Below 7000

Nokia ‘s S40 based device, Asha 300 is now available in India for the price of Rs. 6,835. Nokia Asha was first showcased in Nokia World 2011 and the phone boasts of 1GHz processor. The Asha series phone has a … Read More »

This Indian app startup witnessed more app downloads than Rovio

Why can’t angry Indians produce the next Angry Birds? Well, while we wait for that to happen, NCR based startup inox witnessed 9 million downloads in December 2011, as opposed to Rovio’s 4.6 million downloads (in the Android app store). … Read More »

Search for Deals on SearchDeals [Student Startup]

Ever wondered why deal sites do not have a search box? Well, we have talked at length about deal aggregation business model for India and SearchDeals, a student startup by Gurinder Pal Singh (he is currently pursuing MBA in International … Read More »

LinkedIn More Effective for Lead Generation Than Facebook & Twitter [Less Noise Does the Trick]

When it comes to lead generation, marketers often pitch Facebook and Twitter as the most go-to social media sites, but LinkedIn turns out to be the one with the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate. As per a study by Hubspot, LinkedIn … Read More »

Flipkart Raises $150mn at a Valuation of $850mn

We have been in the know that Flipkart’s talks with General Atlantic failed at the last moment owing to valuation numbers and they instead raised the next round from existing investors, i.e. Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management. Mint reports … Read More »

Will regional languages attract a sizeable chunk of (online) users soon?

When it comes to Internet users and content on the web, India can be considered an English only country. Despite many languages with a sizeable target audience, regional language content has failed to catch the fancy of the average Indian user. Read More »

Telecom Subscription Data: Urban Down, Rural Up. Wireless Teledensity reaches 74.15%

Total Wireless subscriber base has increased from 884.37 Million in November 2011 to 893.84 Million at the end of December 2011, registering a growth of 1.07%. – The share of Urban Subscriber has marginally decreased from 65.73% to 65.59% where … Read More »

Rediff’s Homepage Looks Ugly [Again]

When Rediff unveiled its ad-less homepage design in 2009, it was considered a gutsy step by the company to bring a non-intrusive experience and importantly, set standards for others to follow. The impact of removing those ads was a clear … Read More »