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News Roundup : Voice Video Chat in Orkut, KPCB Sells InfoEdge Stake [and more]

March 16, 2010

Orkut Brings Voice/Video Chat to Prominence In a bid to ‘connect’ more people, Orkut has announced a new placement for voice/video chat – on top of the chat window. If you already have a webcam and a microphone, you’ll just need to download a small plugin for video chat, available for free at www.google.com/chat/video ...
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Best of the Week – UID, IPL 2010 [and more]

March 14, 2010

This week, IPL has pretty much taken over the conversation and even Google India used the IPL wave to promote its IPL-YouTube partnership.
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Best of the Week – UnPluGGd, UID [and lot]

March 7, 2010

What a week! We had the first edition of UnPluGGd and as far as PI content is concerned, we covered quite a few interesting articles on UID.
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Happy Holi from #PI Team

March 1, 2010

Wishing you all a very colorful Holi, the festival of radiance. Fill up your Water Guns, Hug your enemies and enjoy the day.
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Best of the Week – Paypal Withdrawal Issue, UID, M&A, Startup Jobs [and more]

February 28, 2010

Top Articles of the Week includes Buzzgain's acquisition by MeltWater and Paypal's withdrawal issue.
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Partner Event: Sramana’s Strategy Roundtable

February 28, 2010

Sramana Mitra offers a weekly series of free online strategy roundtables for entrepreneurs looking to discuss positioning, financing, and other aspects of a startup venture. Up to 1,000 people can attend each session, but only the first five who register to pitch will be able to present their business ideas. All attendees are able...
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Day 1 Winner of the Tweet Contest [#UnPluggd]

February 26, 2010
Day 1 Winner of the Tweet Contest [#UnPluggd]

The game is still on for others.
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Jobs : Facebook PHP Programmers, Instructional Designers

February 22, 2010

It’s Monday and if you are going through ‘Manic Monday’ feeling, you probably should start looking for more challenging and interesting job. Here are a few interesting opportunities for you.
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Best of the Week – Indian SMEs,IRCTC Failure Rate [and more]

February 21, 2010

Coming back to the recap, top 5 articles of the week include Mr Entrepreneur, How Approachable are You? [Lessons from Calls I received after I shared my...
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Tech News: Google LivingStories Goes Open Source, MS-Yahoo Deal, BBC [and more]

February 19, 2010
Tech News: Google LivingStories Goes Open Source, MS-Yahoo Deal, BBC [and more]

Google has made open sourced the LivingStories experiment it conducted for two months. For the past two months, small teams of reporters and editors from the New York Times and Washington Post have been experimenting with Living Stories, a new format for covering news on the web. Using this technology platform, we can capture hundreds...
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Funding Roundup: Career Launcher Invests $1mn in 361 Degree, Actis in Integreon

February 17, 2010

Career Launcher,Delhi-based education service provider has invested 1 mn $ in 361 Degree Minds, a Chennai-based research and technology-driven company that trains company officials and college students. 361 Degree provides training to middle-level and senior-level managers and has trained nearly 3,500 professionals from companies such as Nokia Siemens, AstraZeneca, Career Launcher and SanDisk. The investment...
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Best of the Week – Airtel App Store, Paypal Issue and more

February 14, 2010

Paypal India issue is on it’s top gear and the dependency on Paypal can be gauged from 800+ comments on our earlier coverage (Paypal India Outage – No Payments To/From India). Top Articles published week ending Feb 14th Mobile Internet : Opera Mini Crosses 50 million Uniques, Facebook Clocking 100 million per month Why do we need...
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Best of the Week – Paypal India Outage, Rural India Broadband Boost [and more]

February 7, 2010

This week's highlights include outage of Paypal India (check out the comment section for dissatisfaction among userbase), and hacking of TCS website. Also, the biggest WTF moment was of Facebook beating Orkut in search trends.
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Insights Shared – Planes that Crash, Hackers [and more]

February 6, 2010
Insights Shared – Planes that Crash, Hackers [and more]

Presenting a few insights shared by our reader-writers, who comment @pluggdin. Few comments need to reach out to wider audience and this is an attempt to do the same (without undermining the significance of several other comments we receive daily). — Entrepreneurship is very personal and if you don’t have the discipline muscle already trained and...
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Tech around wwworld: Monster to Acquire Y! HotJobs, OVI Maps Download

February 4, 2010

Fresh news from technology world - Monster has announced acquisition of Y! HotJobs for $225 mn. The two companies have also entered into a three year commercial traffic agreement, to take effect upon the closing of the acquisition, in which Monster will become Yahoo!'s provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage...
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Thank you Sponsors

February 2, 2010

We’d like to thank our sponsors for supporting us. 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...
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Tech News: Google Drops Support for IE6, To Launch App Store

February 2, 2010
Tech News: Google Drops Support for IE6, To Launch App Store

Google will drop the support for IE6, Chrome 3 and Safari 2 by this year. Also, Google is planning to launch an App store for Google Apps suite, to take on rival Microsoft. Also, take a look at the brand new Google Tablet.
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Best of the Week – JustDial:AskMe Battle, Google’s Transliteration Service [and more]

January 31, 2010

We turned 3 on 29th of Jan and have been humbled by love showered by you all. We hope to live up to your expectations and do some kickass stuff this year. Coming back to weekly recap, top articles include What exactly makes Entrepreneurship so hard JustDial Sues Askme, Portal asked to shut down by...
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IDG Invests 15 Crores in iCreate, Business Intelligence Startup

January 29, 2010

IDG Ventures has announced an investment of Rs. 15 crores (Series A) in iCreate, a BI startup focused on Banking products & solutions. This funding will be used to fuel iCreate’s growth strategy which includes building a global sales platform, increasing marketing efforts, and continuing investment in product development. Founded in 2006, iCreate develops...
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