SMSGupshup recently announced the formal launch of its Appstore, Appshup and since we have been receiving a few queries from our readers, we just passed on the questions to SMSGupshup team. Here is a short QnA with the team on Appshup: Qn: What is the revenue share percentage between SMSGupshup and Developers? 70-30 (70% for the developers,...
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Ladies and Gentlemen The UnPluGGd event is pretty much sold out and we have very few seats left.
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Nurture Talent Nurture Talent is a training institute that provides 360 degree training and mentoring on legal, IPR, capital raising and marketing planning, in Mumbai. The startup has announced its 1 month NTP – Nurture Talent Program, a structured training program for budding entrepreneurs. The objective of the program is to provide relevant skills to...
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Paypal has resumed withdrawal to Indian banks for settlements for exports of goods and services (and not personal payand one would need Export Code to enable the same. Here is how to get Export Code.
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UnPluggd is happening on March 6th and if you want to win a free entry to the event, you have got to tweet about the event. Here is the format: You have to tweet the following sentence: Am Attending #UnPluGGd (http://unpluggd.org) because “  ” Fill in the blanks – tell the world, why you look forward to the...
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Our payment partner is facing issues with the payment gateways (as well as their own website upgrade) and hence we request you to fill up this registration form, so that we can send you the payment details via email. We apologize for the inconvenience. Register Now Loading… Those who can...
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The much delayed MNP has landed in a security issue, owing to ownership of JV, MNP Interconnection Solutions, one of the two companies selected by the Department of Telecom (DoT) to implement MNP. Security concerns raised by the ministry of home affairs (MHA) have forced the FIPB to defer its own approval in February 2009...
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Last call for those who want to reach out to the smartest and serious breed called Indian Entrepreneurs. We have couple of sponsorship slots available and we are freezing the entire story by next week – so if you are a business in the business of startups/SME, do get in touch asap. Unlike all the events,...
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UnPluggd preparation is in full-swing and we have received amazing number of inquiries and a ‘This is what I need’ mentions from entrepreneurial community. Today, we are announcing a contest to challenge your creative juice and in return, we are giving away a free ticket. The contest rules are pretty simple and straightforward: - Give us a...
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A survey by Accenture reveals interesting findings about the Indian youth (as well as millennials* worldwide) Youths in India and the Netherlands constitute the most active downloaders of open source technologies, at 61 percent and 77 percent, respectively. Social profiling is most common in China and India, where more than three in four Millennials use social...
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We have earlier covered great ad fail examples (classic fail was when Yahoo India started advertising on ‘Rediff’ Keyword) and here is the latest one that comes from TimesJobs.
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We have covered quite a few online book stores in the past and while Flipkart leads the race (among the new entrants), there is of course space for new companies to come up with attractive positioning. SimplyBooks is a Gurgaon based startup that boasts of 10,000+ books across 600 categories. For the sake of comparison, I...
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Delhi based Advantage Organic, in partnership with IIT D has launched Organic Undies that contains extracts of neem, basil leaves and flecks of silver - keep the wearer safe from bacterial infections.
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CtrlS, a tier IV Datacenter startup (based out of Hyd) has announced raising Rs. 2.5 Billion from a consortium of Indian Banks. CtrlS Data Centers Ltd. is promoted by the Rs. 750 Crore Pioneer Group along with IDBI and Och-Ziff – a global institutional asset management firm. CtrlS received funding from Allahabad Bank, Indian Overseas...
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Opera has published its State of Mobile Internet report for the month of December 2009 (link) and the top visited sites from India are: google.com orkut.com facebook.com wikipedia.org yahoo.com  youtube.com songs.pk zedge.net cricinfo.com (new) wap.in And interestingly, all the top handsets belong to Nokia, topped by Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, followed by Nokia 2700c and N70. Moreover, it’s important...
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SMSGupshup has closed funding for a $12 million (Series D) round led by Globespan Capital Partners and additional financing from existing investors Charles River Ventures and Helion Venture Partners. SMS GupShup now serves 26 million users in over 2 million sms communities and claims to grow userbase by 100% just in the last 6 months...
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Update: We have opened the Registration. Hop to our ticketing partner site and avail 10% discount (limited seats only) We announced the UnPluggd event earlier (the teaser post) and here are more details of the event First of all, Why UnPluggd? You must have heard of these statements (from startups/VCs/media/bloggers etc) Consumer Internet is...
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Akamai has released it’s ‘State of Internet’ report and here are a few interesting data points worth mentioning The top 10 countries accounted for just over 71% of the total global unique IP addresses seen by Akamai, down less than half a percent from the second quarter, and just over two percent less than the same...
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Mobile Advertising company, Vdopia has launched Talk2Me ad platform that enables interactivity in the advertising. With Talk2Me, users can engage with brands on their iPhone as they take advantage of iVdopia’s Share Respond Interact (SRI) interface, which is completely customizable and has an extensible architecture that gives marketers numerous ways to: Share – Users...
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Lets end the year with a technology puzzle. To get started,click on a word and the moment you do that, timer starts. You are a chicken if you keep clicking on ‘Solve’ button – so feel free to use the search box.
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