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From a student entrepreneur to building One97, Vijay Shekhar Sharma UnPluggd [Pluggd.in TV]

Coming from a small town and hindi-medium educational background, he faced numerous hurdles all through his college days. Despite the challenges, he managed to start his small internet-based business while in college and later moved on to forming Xs! Corporations in 1999. He later sold this to Lotus Interworks and continued working with them for a year. In December 2000, Sharma founded One97, a company which provides a platform for delivering mobile value-added services. Read More »

Deals for Startups: Get 50% Discount on Recruiterbox, A Super Cool job application tracking tool

Pluggd.in’s deals for startups is back and we are glad to announce the first deal exclusively for Pluggd.in readers – 50% discount on Recruiterbox, a super cool job application tracking tool. Deal Description Hiring isn’t easy. You advertise a new … Read More »

IAN Invests in Gaming Startup, Gamiana

Indian Angel Network, IAN has invested under a million US dollars in Mumbai based gaming start-up, Gamiana. Gamiana or House of Games, derived from Games and Aashiana (house), is one of the first companies in India to offer multi-player platforms … Read More »

Microsoft Advertising expands presence to Cities outside Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore – appoints Ybrant Digital Limited as the Sales House

Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. today announced their expansion plans to non-metro cities, specifically Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, and Goa; and appointment of Ybrant Digital Limited as the Sales House for the cities outside Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore. The … Read More »

From Pluggd.in Forum: The Art and Science of Negotiation, The "we are a startup" Excuses

Pluggd.in forum is a high engagement community site that serves as a platform for Indian entrepreneurs to connect with each other and benefit from communities’ insights/knowledge. Within a month of launch, forum has turned out to be a very useful … Read More »

MeraEvents brings down the payment gateway charge for event managers. Will others follow?

The COD transactions also increasing, usually COD Transaction cost is half the payment gateway cost. As the volume increases we can able to negotiate better rates with payment gateways and it would leave some margin to us. Read More »

News Roundup: Microsoft acquires stake in 24/7, LinkedIn Launches Hiring Solution for Indian Market

LinkedIn launches localized hiring solutions for Indian market Specifically for India, LinkedIn India is rolling out localized versions with India pricing for offerings like LinkedIn Recruiter, which will allow Indian recruiters to search and target profiles in India. The localised … Read More »

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News Roundup: Google, Facebook remove content on court order

Google, Facebook remove content on court order A lower court in New Delhi told 22 social networking companies on Monday to put in writing the steps they had taken to block offensive content, and submit reports to the court within … Read More »

Orkut Launches Support for Hashtags

Orkut, the web1.0 social network from Google has launched support for hashtags. “From now on, whenever you’re reading a topic, all hashtags will be automatically highlighted and will link to improved search page, where other posts with the same tag … Read More »