TestFreaks, a US based startup has launched it’s India site – TestFreaks.co.in. TestFreaks basically aggregates product information/reviews from different sources – user reviews, professional reviews, prices, blog posts, forum threads, news, rumors, manufacturers descriptions/specifications, videos etc.; and for the India site, is sourcing reviews from Tech2, TechTree, PC World etc. TestFreaks raised $3mn in October 2008...
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Times Group, on the lines of NDTV and Network18 is building up it’s media convergence plan by launching it’s TV channel (ET TV) in the month of March, 2009.  – source The English news channel is largely dominated by CNBC and NDTV Profit – and there is surely enough space to innovate in terms of...
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Rediff has launched it’s content portal in Pakistan – and is probably trying out the new interface as well (which Ajit talked about earlier). The Pakistani site runs on Joomla (can easily make out from the URL structure), interface is a lot cleaner (has a slightly NYT appeal) and is currently ad free (almost! though...
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TimesofMoney has launched payment gateway service, DirecPay that enables merchants to enable ecommerce transaction on their site. DirecPay has partnered with banks for netbanking facility (withdrawal). TimesofMoney also has wallet365 , a consumer facing service,  but not sure how much traction it received as the service was essentially trying to build the entire ecosystem around...
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Burrp has been an interesting community play for lifestyle category business – but the sad
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Komli, the online ad network has launched Vizisense, an audience measurement tool that will help advertisers and media planners in understanding (and planning spend) visitor pattern across various Indian websites. In order to gauge the traffic, Komli has setup
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Rediff has launched a new service called webinmail that enables one to receive webpages in their inbox. All you need to do is send a command in the subject (e.g. website url, google:<query>) to browse@webinmail.com The received email will convert
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Reliance Money has launched an ecommerce portal , reliancemoneymall. The product is basically an umbrella portal for Reliance’s financial products, i.e. Reliance General Insurance, Mutual Fund & Reliance Capital. One can buy insurance, mutual funds as well as non-financial products like apparel, accessories, books/ magazines, gold coins, music CDs and DVDs from the portal. RelianceMoneyMall also hosts...
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Network18 owned IBN7 has launched ibnkhabar, a regular news website in Hindi. IBNKhabar has the regular ingredients of
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Ubona, the voice recognition startup has partnered with Tata Sky to power their call centers in Chandigarh, Pune and Hyderabad (English language support only). Once the subscriber dials in at the Tata Sky helpline, the subscriber now has an option of the Ubona IVR service which guides
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BSNL has soft-launched ‘Mandi on Mobile’ service in UP – the service enables farmers to call up the BSNL number and ask for the rate of any vegetable, grain, pulse or fruit in any mandi across the state. The farmer is required to simply name the product and
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Cinnamonteal (review), the print-on-demand startup has launched a DIY platform for individuals/institutions/publishers to publish books on their own. Using a 6-step process, users of the platform can upload their manuscripts, format their books and covers and visualise every aspect of their book before they order prints
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Wondering what’s the most shared article on Google reader?  SocialReader brings you some perspective by reading the public stream of shared items/stories from Google Reader at friendfeed.com, there after processing,
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Job search engine, SimplyHired has launched it’s India site. The site is currently indexing job listings from Monster, Naukri, JobsAhead, JobStreet, FirstSalary and several other sites. SImplyHired has couple of interesting features – facebook app, iGoogle
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Rediff opened it’s developer platform few months back and today went live with third party applications on its video and music platform, Rediff iShare. iShare APIs supports any app that is compatible with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) and has been launched with 3 apps: Dedicate a Song - an app
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After ISRO’s successful Chandrayaan launch, here is announcing the launch of ‘that’ thing, ‘the much needed entity in Indian startup world. The Story In general, we have been connecting startups with VCs/other startups/service providers (like design companies, development folks etc)- and now is the time to take this entire story to the next level, to be...
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Chandrayaan, the unmanned lunar exploration mission spacecraft’s launch is scheduled for tomorrow (Oct 22nd, 6 AM) and we are also announcing something very interesting the same day!. On 56th independence day, August 15 2003, India’s Prime Minister
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Radiocity has launched RadioRocks – a knowledge bank of FM radio in India. The site is specifically targeted at advertisers/media and provides good amount of research on radio sector. The site is rich in content (for e.g. list of
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MyToday has launched NayaNaya.mobi and whole lot of ‘Naya”’ portals like (NayaNews.mobi, NayaBiz.mobi, NayaCricket.mobi, NayaTech.mobi, NayaMovies.mobi) – mobile portals dedicated to breaking news. While MyToday is a deep and wide portal, the NayaNaya family of portals is all about the theme of “breaking news,
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TringMe has launched flash based VoiceXML platform that makes life easy for web/Flash developers to harness the power of VoiceXML. The platform tightly integrates voice and telephony without having to know the intricate details of call-signalling, routing, billing etc. Developers now get virtually the same out-of-the-box experience since using the TringMe platform. They do not require...
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