Author Archives: manish

About manish

Manish is an engineering student and is currently working on his startup idea.

Cafe Coffee Day to Introduce Interactive Touchscreen Tables in their Cafes

Café Coffee Day is introducing interactive touchscreen tablets in 500 cafes across the country. Called WINT, the interactive touch table is aimed at bringing more engagement among the youth community (after all, CCD calls itself “India’s largest youth aggregator”). Watch … Read More »

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 »

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 »

Find if your crush has a crush on you with Hitherto Crush [Student Startup]

She loves me/she loves me not? Oh well, find it out with Hitherto Crush developed by Piyush Bengani, a student at IIT Guwahati. Read More »

 

New Delhi & Boston based Shareaholic Raises $2mn from General Catalyst, Dave McClure

Shareaholic, the New Delhi and Boston based company that makes content-sharing on the web faster and easier has announced that it has eclipsed 250 million visitors to its services and landed $2 million in fresh funding from an all-star lineup … Read More »

TradersCockpit–Define A Trading Strategy. Back Test With Historical Data

The number of products being launched for stock trading marked has grown over the last few years with each product claiming to provide a better ‘recommendation engine’ and provide data analytical tools. The market, so to say is over saturated … Read More »

Bangalore Metro To Have WiFi Connectivity (?)

Bangalore is known for its traffic situation and Bangalore Metro is the most audacious step in solving the infrastructure issue the city has been going through. Inspired by Delhi Metro which has set standards for others to follow, Bangalore Metro … Read More »

Indian MPs Officially Sanctioned iPads, But Why?

The Parliament Secretariat has decided to sanction (maximum of) Rs 50,000 to buy an Apple iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Tab for Members of Parliament (IBN). This comes at a time when government should be eating its own dog food, … Read More »

A Phone Concept: No Keypad, No Dialing [For Blue Collar Jobs]

No keypad phone isn’t a reference to N9, but a concept phone which is developed by Bangalore based Nan Rajan. The phone has no keypad and requires no knowledge of numbers, symbols or alphabets and requires no dialing/no knowledge of … Read More »