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Ashish Sinha is founder of Pluggd.in. He can be reached at: ashish (at) Pluggd.in.

Bharatmatrimony Moves Competition Commission of India Against Google India

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This isn’t the first time that Google has faced an issue by allowing companies to buy adwords on competitive keywords. ConsimInfo, owners of Bharatmatrimony  filed a case against Google India in 2009 and the company has again filed a complaint … Read More »

Seventymm to close down rental business, will focus on ecommerce

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Seventymm, the DVD rental business that raised INR 50 Crores in Series C from NEA-IUV (in 2008) and later moved to ecommerce is now shutting down its DVD rental business. The company is calling its customers and informing them of … Read More »

Why Junglee is a Brilliant Move by Amazon

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Amazon is known to be a ‘smooth killer (or criminal if you’d like it that way)’. In fact, if you look at Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet approach, Amazon is slowly building a much credible product than most of the so-called … Read More »

 

Amazon India Goes Live with Junglee

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Amazon India has gone live with the launch of portal, Junglee.com, which Amazon acquired in early 2000 from Indian entrepreneurs Rakesh Mathur and Ashish Gupta. Junglee is an online shopping service by Amazon which enables customers to find and discover … Read More »

SAAS Startup Grexit Skips Freemium Model [SAAS Pricing]

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SAAS based productivity tool, Grexit is toying with its pricing plans and while the service was earlier free for users (beta version), it will now be priced at $1 per user per month. Talking about the pricing, cofounder Niraj mentioned … Read More »

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Google’s First Implementation of Country Specific Censorship : Blogspot Redirected to Blogspot.in in India

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Its not a world wide web anymore but a country wide web now. If you visit a blog that does not correspond to your current location as determined by your IP address, the blogspot servers will redirect you to the domain associated with your country, if it’s a supported ccTLD Read More »

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

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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

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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 »

Rediff’s Homepage Looks Ugly [Again]

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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 »