Whole lot of businesses rely on Paypal for their survival and its quite imperative that one needs a better understanding of sales/performance and a simpler CRM tool to unleash the business behind one’s paypal transactions. AnalyzePal, a product from Produle Systems [we...
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We all know about the ‘matured market’ of the west; they’d say  – do your startup here – this is where all the action is – this where money is – scaling is an issue in Asia and bla bla bla. No doubt, all this is very true but then its kind of hard...
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We have covered whole lot of push email services for your mobile in the past and the latest to join the run is a Bangalore based startup, BlacMail. BlacMail lets you connect to the popular email clients – Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail as well as your company account.
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IPL 2010 has begun and here is your chance to participate in the polls (unofficial polls) by giving a missed calls. The website, IndiPolls will throw a question, possible options and each option will have a phone number associated with it.
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While earlier seasons of IPL have been hot favorite of traditional media (primarily television) but this time, it definitely seems to be attracting mega bucks for digital medium too.  Google has announced the list of sponsors now for its first main sports event which will be streamed live on YouTube.  Royal Challengers IPL Team,...
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ClipWeave.com is a Noida based video analytics startup that helps extract information from videos so that it can be used for better targeting and monetization. Clipweave claims to use proprietary technology to extract text (credits, ticker, subtitles etc), convert speech-to-text, detect a change of scene etc. from videos. Such information can be used for...
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Good hiring is always a tough task for any startup. And receding recession could mean even more challenge in the situation, when talent within starts looking at options outside. For greener pastures or simply for the sake of change. Operationally speaking, the cash pay-out of hiring goes way too higher than the recession days...
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Dunnitt is a micro collaboration tool. It lets you create threads with a micro message (140 chars) and share it with a collaboration group. Each thread could be Text Only, YesNo, Question, Sign Up Sheet, Multiple Choice or Meet Up. And with proper input fields for each of them. Dunnit is aimed to be...
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Okhey, this post is a little off-beat. Women’s Reservation Bill giving 33 percent representation to women in parliament and state assemblies has been passed in the Rajya Sabha with 186 ayes & 1 noes about an hour ago! Yet another historic & welcome development in the Indian politics as women really need empowerment in...
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Next time when you decide on a Bollywood flick, do not refer to just one or two reviews here and there. Drop in at ReviewGang and see all major reviews by all the stakeholders of Bollywood. Better still, contribute with your own reviews on movies as well for the general benefit of population. Both...
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Around 4 years now, Pluggd.in has been constantly and consistently building a community around Technology startups. This encompasses everyone who wants to make a difference in the digital landscape in Asia – developers, entrepreneurs, investors and even users of internet products. We’ve been contributing in all national or local events on a continuous basis...
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Opera Software – Oslo, Norway – has struck out a native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile 5- and 6-based handsets. In their official statement the Opera confirms that “by integrating Opera Mini with the Windows Mobile platform, Opera is able to deliver an optimized version of the popular Opera Mini browser...
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We covered the launch of SMSGupshup’s developer platform earlier and the company has now formally announced the launch of AppShup, the SMS App platform. Appshup developer platform allows developers to develop sms-based applications and services quickly and easily; and requires developers to have only a basic knowledge of any programming language, understanding of web applications...
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UID has been the flavor of the season for some time at Pluggd now. We have talked about UID opening up to 3rd party developers, UID for school children, UID as a micro-finance platform and also some UID related leaks. The project has an ambitious punchline associated with it too: “India is slated to become the...
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Paypal earlier reported that merchants would need Export code to resume withdrawal, but the latest blog mentions the need to fill ‘Purpose Code’ for the withdrawal.
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Group bargain sites are all over the place and every event i go to i hear about 1 more launching soon. Group buying or Crowd Bargain sites as they are called are eCommerce sites that leverage social networking to find enough other buyers to become eligible for group discounts. In the past month i...
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Design Chords is an online Marketplace for all your design needs ranging from Logo to Twitter background and packaging etc. For SMEs who cannot afford to go for agency work this a boon. Also for freelancers this is another place to hunt for work. The process is simple as any other market place. 1. Post your...
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We are probably at a point of time where one would see plenty of interesting software products/businesses coming out from India lately. I am saying this because at Pi we are looking at somewhat mass behavior among the Technology Services startups. Many are slowly moving into product business lately; a natural step expected from...
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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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Unique IDentification Authority of India (UIDAI) has embraced collaboration in its latest message for client-side Software development. Here is the message: “We believe that a National project of this magnitude and importance cannot be implemented without the active support and involvement of people at various levels and in varying degrees – communicating the message of...
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