• Amazon India Goes Live with Junglee
• Why Junglee is a Brilliant Move by Amazon
• This is why Amazon’s Junglee is gonna SMASH the B**ls of Indian e-Commerce players
• Of Product discovery, Smaller Retailers and Junglee
• Nokia Leads Multi-SIM Device Market with 19% Market Share
• Flipkart Raises $150mn at a Valuation of $850mn
• India Number 2 Nation for Facebook – 46 million active users per month

Startups Profiled

• Startup Flo Launches In-Taxi Digital OOH Advertising Network in Mumbai
• Exchange4Artist Lets You Source Artists On Demand
• Search for Deals on SearchDeals [Student Startup]
• SAAS Startup Grexit Skips Freemium Model [SAAS Pricing]
• This Indian app startup witnessed more app downloads than Rovio
• Search for Deals on SearchDeals [Student Startup]

• Rockfeller Foundation’s Top 11 mHealth Innovation Challenge : 3 Projects from India that made it to the list
• Harnessing energy from Cavitation to expedite chemical & biological processes: Hyca Technologies [Interview with Founder]

• Kookoo Integrated with Twilio’s OpenVBX – Now Create your own Phone System on the Cloud
• Retail Chain GKB Opticals Goes Online, Integrates With Offline Store for Delivery

Digital Economy: Internet/Telecom Business

• Telecom Operators Seek Govt. Subsidy to Deploy LBS Infra in India
• Bharatmatrimony Moves Competition Commission of India Against Google India
• Seventymm to close down rental business, will focus on ecommerce
• News Roundup: Govt to take away Aakash deal from IIT-Rajasthan
• Of Mr Raja, 2G licences and Honorable Supreme Court
• Google’s First Implementation of Country Specific Censorship : Blogspot Redirected to Blogspot.in in India
• News Roundup: AOL’s Coolage Partners with IITs/IIMs, Dell Readies $1Bn Warchest for India buyout
• Will regional languages attract a sizeable chunk of (online) users soon?
• Telecom Subscription Data: Urban Down, Rural Up. Wireless Teledensity reaches 74.15%
• Rediff’s Homepage Looks Ugly [Again]
• News Roundup: Micromax develops cold feet over IPO

Resources

• Explained: Do You Need to Pay Service tax on Adsense Income in India?
• Is it a good idea to ping an investor via LinkedIn?
• Explained: How to Design Terms of Service for Your Website?
• “What Keeps You Going?” [Pluggd.in TV]
• LinkedIn More Effective for Lead Generation Than Facebook & Twitter [Less Noise Does the Trick]
• What is your development philosophy?
• Explained: Amazon RDS for MySQL in Amazon Cloud-A DBaas

Quick Links:

- Follow us on Twitter, Facebook http://facebook.com/pluggdin.

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“Our first board meeting took place inside our hostel room.” – TechBuddy Consulting:

7 Reasons why you MUST know SALES! [Sales Teaches you Business Models of the World]

How to get into YCombinator [Interview with Interviewstreet]

Is That You? [Which is Which and Who is Who]

5 Reasons Why There Is No E-commerce Bubble in India [Hint:Women Have Yet To Begin Shopping Online]

Reward versus Punishment : Carrot has more Power than a Stick?

A Day in Life of a Sales Manager Working for a Group Buying/Deals Startup

Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding Archive

• MunchWithus Provides Social Dining Network [Never Eat Alone]
• Notion Ink partners with Texas Instruments for Adam II
• MySuperBrain: An Online Platform Enabling Overall Development of Children
• Ecolibrium Energy Aspires to be India’s Largest Virtual Power House
• What if things go south? How to shutdown Pvt Limited or a LLP Business in India
• Hide it Pro: Hide the Pictures/Videos you don’t want anyone to see [Appnomy App of the Day]
• Freecharge Secures INR 20 Cr Series A Funding from Sequoia Capital
• Mobstac Kills Freemium Model, Says Advertisement Revenues Not Enough
• Online Jewellery Store, BlueStone Secures $5mn Funding from Accel Partners and Meena Ganesh
• Indian Angel Network invests in Peel-Works: Salesforce talent transformation & BPO firm

India Online/Telecom

• Smartphone App Usage in India: Google Products Lead the App Race
• TRAI exempts machine to machine and person to machine messages from the limit of 200 SMS per day per SIM
• Indian Government Asks Army to get off Facebook
• Oracle Launches Big Data Appliance in India
• Japan Based NTT Com to Acquire 74% Stake in Netmagic Solutions
• Indian Enterprise IT Spending Will Grow 10.3 % in 2012, Retail to Drive the Growth
• Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Joins Twitter
• SMS Spam: TRAI to Block Bulk International SMS Beginning with Alphanumeric Combination

From Pluggd.in forum (http://www.pluggd.in/forum)

• The “we are a startup” Excuses
• Customer Loyalty – don’t place your bets on it …
• DateIITians- A New World of Social Dating
• Campus Placement OR Entrepreneurship?
• JEE, AIEEE to merge [IIT Entrance]
• Command and Conquer [HTML 5 Game]
• ebay India selling 100% Placement Guaranteed Program in Software Industry
• Online VS Offline prices

Quick Links:

- Follow us on Twitter, Facebook http://facebook.com/pluggdin.

- Submit your startup (http://www.pluggd.in/s).

• The difference between visible and invisible elements of a startup ecosystem
• Indian Government Announces Mobile Governance Framework [App Store, Mobile Friendly Sites, Payment Gateway and more]
• Student Startup, Bluegape sells Customized Posters Online, Sells 5,000 Posters in 5 months
• 2 Missed Calls & Farmers Can Operate their Irrigation System Remotely [Realtech System’s Mobile Starter Controller]
• DataWind Announces App Contest for Students
• And India’s First Startup Village Launched at Kochi

Startups

• Enlyte : Free Note-taking App on iPad [Appnomy App of the Day]
• Corporate Gifting Service eYantra Acquires Privilege Corner, a startup by ex Via Cofounder
• Take Your VPN to Cloud with CipherGraph
• The Hatch Launches Start-Up Accelerator Programme, Incubates 7 Startups
• Quillpad Launches Indic Input Touch Interface with Handwritten Gestures for iPad [App of the day]
• Sequoia Capital Invests INR 35 Crores in Knowlarity, Cloud Telephony Startup
• eTechies Secures $2 mn Series A funding from Inventus Capital Partners
• Neha Dhupia Launches HerStyle, an Online Store Selling Lingerie, Nightwear and Thermals.
• moneysights launches Facebook app–Now Plan Tax Saving on Facebook
• iXiGo Brings Flight Search to Twitter and Facebook [And It’s Awesome]
• Fetise Partners with Gharpay to Launch Cash Before Delivery (CBD)
• Moneno: Set to Democratize Opinion Polls
• Eco capitalism in India – Time to Light the Thinking Bulb?
• Problem of Plenty– Choosing How to Startup [PART 2]

Student Startups

• 7 Ultra Cool Student Projects on Lenovo’s DoNetwork [Student Startups]
• Student Startup, WhatNextPlus Helps You Decide Which College to Attend
• Student Startup, Bluegape sells Customized Posters Online, Sells 5,000 Posters in 5 months

Student Startups: Please share more details here.

Telecom/Mobile/India Online

• Vodafone Wins $2.5Bn Tax Case, Also Planning an IPO
• Aakash Tablet Preordering Crosses 2 million
• Of SOPA, Sibal, SMS and Email SPAM
• Dos and Don’ts of Web Design [It pays to be simple because it pays to be understood.]
• OpenStreetMap Accuses Google of Vandalizing Open Source Maps, IP Originate from Google India
• Appnomy App of the Day: KooKoo Voice App Directory
• LLP vs. Private Limited: How to Choose Company Incorporation
• A Look at How Celebrities Are Using Social Media
• News Roundup: MLAs want iPad3
• Yahoo India Launches Stars to help you follow celebrity updates and Tweets

Quick Links:

- Follow us on Twitter, Fahttp://facebook.com/pluggdincebook.

- Submit your startup (http://www.pluggd.in/s).

• Indian Government to Kill Aakash Tablet? To Dump Tablets to Rural India
• “Like China, we will block all such websites”– Indian Government to Google and Facebook
• Indian Government Wants Skype/Google and others to setup Local servers
• Free Internet Access for Google+ Users in India [+Carrot]
• 100% FDI in Single Brand Retail Approved
• IRCTC: Payment Gateway Data [Dec 2011]: 31% Failure in Netbanking Transactions
• Spotted: ebay India selling Buffalo [Indian Ecommerce Market Reaches Milestone]
• Google, Facebook, Yahoo to face prosecution in India

Holy Cow! ebay India Selling Buffalo

Startups Covered

• Mettl is an Online Assessment Platform That Checks Your Mettle
• Buy Posters & Canvas Prints Online on OyeBazaar, Bangalore based startup
• EliteSystems: Online store for buying embedded systems and controls products
• Cloudmagic Introduces Instant Gmail & Twitter search on iPhone & Android.
• Document Management Service, Kleeto Integrates with Gmail–Now Import Attachments and Store them (Securely)
• Make your home wireless and access your household electronics from anywhere via cell phone / web [Evolutech Networks]
• Students from IIT Delhi launch online comparison shopping tool, Smartprix
• So What’s Next With Bharti Softbank JV, BSB? First Venture goes Live
• Ideacts launches erupee– conduct online transactions without credit cards/bank details
• “We can only become big if we connect more dots” – Story of 2 Young Entrepreneurs [Multidots]
• MangoStreet: Online Apparel Store for Kids [365 days Return Policy]
• Spectrum Casuals – A Student Startup that could be the underdog of bulk apparel business

India Online/Telecom Industry

• Rediff Launching Realtime News Service
• India added only 2.74 mn mobile subscribers in November 2011
• News Roundup: IRCTC Launches Mobile Site, Pan India Secure Network from DoT
• Micromax gets new CEO, also hires HTC’s Ex Country Head for its Smartphone division
• 7 of the largest SMS aggregators and marketers put a self imposed ban on overseas origination route

Resources for startups

• The Cruel Irony of Tax Exemption
• Social Media in Action: A Look at How Indian Deal Sites Are Using Facebook
• Explained: Amazon EC2 Instance Status Monitoring and Managing Scheduled Events
• FICCI Dons VC Hat, Floats $15mn Fund
• Canaan Partners Closes $600 Million Fund
• Ostrich time for E-Commerce Companies in India?
• Templatic: Building WordPress based Business from a Tier-2 City [Interview]
• Way2SMS Launches Social Ad Exchange, Eyeing IPO [Founder's Interview]
• Explained: How is advertising expense taxed?
• An Entrepreneur’s Promise
• That Reality Distortion Field You Have – Run With it.

Tech

• Kinect on Windows–The Next Big Thing?
• Social CRM- Love It, Hate It, But You Cannot Ignore It
• Samsung Y Price in India Slashed to 7,199
• Samsung Galaxy Tab P1010 Price Slashed to INR 19,900

• 150 million Indians are e-Commerce Ready [Report]
• What I learnt from my fundraising experience? [The Freshdesk Story]
• Mumbaikars, Autorickshaw is now just a call away, courtesy Rickshawale
• Zendesk CEO Calls Freshdesk a “FREAKING-RIP-OFF”
• India to Provide Broadband Connectivity to All Panchayats [National Optical Fibre Network]
• An Investor’s Promise
• India leads the spam sending list globally
• Plussing Tweets? [Google’s Biggest +Failure]

Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding

• Kookoo and Gharpay Partner for Offline IVR payments
• Online Grocery Startup Zopnow Launches in (South) Bangalore
• Fashos – Online Footwear Store Attempting A Personal Touch But…
• Karishma Kapoor Invests in Babyoye..or Adwords?
• The Bubble Burst Begins – Million Dollar Funded Taggle Shuts Shop [Tells The Harsh Truth]
• Wishonphone–Send Voice Greeting to any phone in the world
• How valid is your online contract?
• How novel does my invention have to be?

Tech/Social Media/Gadgets

• How to Organize a Hackathon
• 2011 Recap: Kolaveri Di Downloaded 2,10,000 Times [airtel Mobitude 2011 Report]
• News Roundup: Google India gets Income-Tax Dept Notice, UID to be trashed?
• Gujarat SMBs to logon to Cloud Services
• E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2010: What’s in for Indian Entrepreneurs
• Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Should Screen Content (Manually), believes Indian Government
• What is the “Best” Hyperlocal Strategy for India?
• Facebook Replies to Government on the new Draconian Rule
• What happens when you give Rs.100 for Rs.50? Impact Of TimesDeal on PayTM
• Nokia starts taking pre-orders for Lumia 800 in India
• Blackberry Curve 9380 launched in India, Priced at Rs. 20,499/

• Entrepreneurs : Define What’s Non-Negotiable. Define a Soul.
• Most Popular Browser in India? Chrome Beats Firefox
• airtel Brings Free Twitter Access to Subscribers, Idea Biggest Gainer from MNP
• Resources: Two Ultra Cool Online Task Management Services For Startups and Small Teams
• The Sourcebits Story – How a Radiologist Built an App Business
• Dear Payment Gateways, This Startup Needs Approval [And Explanation]

Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding

• Aurusnet Brings Cloud based HD Video Conferencing Solution To Educational Institutions
• Does Proximity Affects Team Dynamics? Should cofounders co-locate?
• Eco Wise – Organizing Solid Waste Management [Cleantech Startup]
• Kaamyaabi – Connecting Students and Employers
• Why this Kolaveri di now on your Android Device(u)
• Freshdesk Secures $1mn Funding from Accel Partners
• How to Snuggle Softly With your Product Error Messages
• Not All is Well With BigAdda – 80% Inventory Cleared, Call Center Has Been Shutdown
• Pune based InnovizeTech Secures 1mn$ Funding
• The Sourcebits Story – How a Radiologist Built an App Business
• Finding a customer – Where do you start?
• Freemium Vs. Premium? EasySign Goes Freemium on Android [+ Discount for Pi Readers]
• Nurturing Green: Gift a Plant Instead of Flowers [Cleantech]
• Startups & Hiring Dilemma [The Checklist]
• Blueseed Incubator–A Pirate’s Ticket to Silicon Valley
• Bangalore based BookMyTrainings Launches Marketplace for Training Programs
• Enterprise Mobility Startup, Deltecs Raises Funding from Kutchi Angel Network
• Dear Payment Gateways, This Startup Needs Approval [And Explanation]
• Kick for Change turns Mumbai into a football ground
• Don’t Have A Good or Great Idea? Crowdsource One

Gadgets

• News Roundup: MapMyIndia Launches Portable Gadget Charger
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus Available in India (Unofficially) for INR 43,500+
• Nokia Launches Asha 300 Touch and 200 Dual SIM Phone in India, at Affordable Price

Most Popular

• “Startup is like starting a new religion.” – The Gluster Story [Told UnPluggd]
• India’s Hottest Startup…is an IT Services Company [$45mn of Funding Within 3 Months of Launch]
• India Has 2nd Largest Opera Mini Userbase in the World
• Cool Hacks: Why This Kolaveri Di is Now a Call Away
• Flipkart Acquires Bollywood Content From Chakpak – What Next?

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• Metrics That Matter–What’s Your Company Currency?
• The Holy Trinity of MoU, NDA and Employment Agreement Explained [Legal Resources for Startups]
• Panache Greentech Provides Eco-friendly Envelope for Buildings [Cleantech Startup]
• Villcart – The Online Handicraft Store
• Sabeer Bhatia Launches JaxtrSMS App [Review]
• Ahmedabad Based NetCanine Launches Cloud Based Website Security Service
• SAIF Partners Invest $5mn in iStream, Online Video Streaming Platform
• Justdial Launches Android app [Appnomy Review]
• Managing Phonebook Contact is History. Try InTouchId [Invites]
• A New Incubator on the Block: The Hatch

India Online/Telecom

• After Playing Dictatorial Role, IRDA Launches Mobile App to Compare Insurance Products
• Government Approves 51% FDI in Multi-Brand Retail, 100% in Single Brand Retail
• Political Party BJP Launches Blackberry App, Time They Focus on “The Main Thing?”
• IRDA Dons Dictator’s Hat–Regulates Online Insurance Aggregators
• Did Facebook delete the “India Against Corruption” page?
• News Roundup: Only 2% Telecom Subscribers Opted For Mobile Number Portability

Technology

• Google–A company going through mid-life crisis? [Like Yahoo of late 90s?]
• Jobs: Sales Manager, Animator, Engineer, Java Lead Developer [and more]
• iTwin Connects Two Computers Wirelessly [File Sharing Redefined]
• DealsForStartups: 45% Discount in Company Incorporation (+ Related Formalities)
• What’s The Deal With Crawling? [101]
• What is the Big Fuss about Big Data?
• Samsung Galaxy Note Price in India
• Samsung Galaxy TAB 730 Launched In India, Price: Rs. 32,445

Most Popular:

• Work-Life Balance For An Entrepreneur? Here is How to!
• Microsoft Goes After Android App Developers In India–Port Two Apps And Get A WP Device.
• The InMobi Story [Told UnPluggd]
• Hottest Skills and Cities for Indian Startup Jobs [Infographic]
• IPaidABribe Goes Mobile. Now SMS When You Pay Bribe
• IITians Can Do A Startup And Apply For Campus Placement After 2 Years[Burn The Bridges, Will You?]

Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding

• Cricketer Zaheer Khan Invests in Exclusively’s New Fashion Label –Sher Singh
• A Nifty Product Management Lesson From Google Chrome
• BundleBaazi Gets You Discounts When You Buy A Bundle Of Products
• The InMobi Story [Told UnPluggd]
• The Story of Milaap, A Micro-lending Platform [MyWay Series]
• Aspiring Minds Raises Series A Funding From Omidyar Network
• DealsAndYou Secures $17mn Funding
• Local Search Player, Getit Launches Deal Coupon Service
• A Look at AngelPrime’s CTO-in-residence Program
• Guruji’s Adiquity launches Real Time Bidding (RTB) Exchange for Mobile Ads
• TradersCockpit–Define A Trading Strategy. Back Test With Historical Data
• OfferGrid Secures Seed Funding From MyFirstCheque

Technology

• PAAS–All You Need To Know About [101]
• UCWeb Launches UC 8.0 Browser in India

Market Reports

• India PC Market Grew 13 Percent In Q3, 2011 – Is It Seasonal Or Will It Continue?
• Half of Indian Consumers Do Not Want To Be Bothered in Social Networks [Report]
• Report: 100 Million Internet Users In India, Cybercafe Usage on Decline

Digital World

• News Roundup: Neha Dhupia To Foray Into E-Commerce, Airtel To Disconnect 20 million Numbers
• Find Pluggd.in on Google+ Pages: Is + a Poor Social Network or a Great Collaboration Tool?
• India’s Internet User Growth Touches 100 Million – Where Will The Next Wave Come From?
• MapmyIndia launches ShowNearby, a free location-based places app for Blackberry, Android and iPhone
• Google Translate for iPhone App Adds Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu
• Microsoft India appoints Chakrapani GK as Head of Consumer Channels Group, India
• Location Labs Expands Presence In India

Gadgets

• Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S Now Available In India For INR 27,000
• The Water Proof/Dust Proof Motorola Defy+ launched in India, Priced At 17,900.
• HTC Rhyme now available in India For Rs. 24,799

More on Gadgets.

Most Popular Articles [Week ending Oct 30th]

• Business & Culture–When In India, Do As The Indians Do [F1]
• Is Flipkart Deleting Negative Reviews, Pumping Fake Positive Reviews?
• Interactive Group Buying Meets Touch At Touche Diner, India’s First Touch Table Restaurant
• Here is How To Catch Formula1 Live On Your Phone Without GPRS
• Will Galaxy Nexus Hit The Indian Shores The Day It Launches Globally?

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Hackathon Highlights:

• Introducing Zomato, Our Hackathon Partner [+ Your Chance to Win An iPad]
• Tweet What You Want To Solve And Win Free Passes To #PiHackathon
• FAQ: Hackathon ["I do not have an Idea. Can I Participate?"]

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Startups/Entrepreneurship

• IIT Kharagpur Based iKure Brings (Wireless) Health Incident Monitoring System to Rural India
• Mojostreet Makes Its App Available on All App Stores, Zomato Tells Us to Focus on Blackberry
• Flipkart Raising $200Mn From Carlyle And General Atlantic?
• AngelPrime–An Incubator From Sanjay Swamy (ex-mChek) and Snapfish Cofounders, Bala and Shripati
• Interactive Group Buying Meets Touch At Touche Diner, India’s First Touch Table Restaurant

Tech

• Report: Features Phone Users Visit Socionets, Android: Education, Windows Phone: Communication/Email Sites
• Google+ Now Available To Apps Users–A Differentiator That Facebook Doesn’t Have
• TRAI SMS Regulation – 5p Termination Charge For Promotional SMS; eCommerce Exempted
• The Best 4 Tools For Creating a Mobile App
• You TRAI We Double TRAI [Double Cross]

Popular Articles

• Of Google+ Rant (By Google Engineer) And Premature Scaling Of Products [Lessons]
• Pluggd.in’s Hackathon: The What, When And Why Of It!
• PhoneCurry : Journey of 1+ Years of a First Time Entrepreneur
• Paypal India Increases Receiving Limits to $3000 Per Transaction
• Blackberry–RIP.
• Apple Charged Me For An International SMS. And Why That’s NOT Cool
• Opinion: Who Pays For Government’s Aakash Tablet? [Answer: You]

Startups/Resources

• Code Online Using Programr, Pune Based Startup
• Corporate Gifting Service Capricorn Receives Seed Funding from Seeders
• Need A Free 1-Click BackUp Of Your Site? Try SnatchCode
• Cloud Based Publishing Platform Genwi Raises $4Mn From Nexus Venture Partners, Launching In India Soon
• Flipkart Acquires Mumbai Based Mime360
• Startup Roundup: BillBaba, Flabbi, Tozoy, Craftila
• For Entrepreneurs: How to Balance the Productivity rush (Adrenalin) Vs the Fun Rush (Endorphins)
• Training Your Users To Ignore You – The Blind Eye Syndrome
• IDG Ventures Invests $3mn in eShakti, Online Apparel Firm
• EasySign Launches Android App–Brings Different Pricing For Android Vs. iOS Appstore
• Something Is NOT Always Better Than Nothing–Lessons From Half Baked Features
• SAP Ventures Invests $10mn in One97

India Online/Telecom

• Yahoo India offloads Bharatmatrimony Stake For $20mn
• Right To Broadband, Recognition For M2M Communication [Draft National Telecom Policy- 2011]
• Bangaloreans–Be Prepared For Disconnected Life [70% of OFC Network To Be Disconnected]
• TRAI Regulation And Impact On Daily Deal Sites [30% Traffic Fall]

Tech/Gadgets

• Microsoft launches Windows Phone in India
• Lenovo Launches IdeaPad Tablet In India–Starting Price Rs. 29500
• Microsoft launches Touch Mouse in India [Priced At 3999]
• BenQ becomes the No. 1 Projector brand in India with 20% market share
• HTC PICO Available In India For Rs. 11,599
• Kindle Fire Available In India (For Pre-Order)
• App Download Trends For India: 103Mn iPhone Apps Downloaded, 13.37 Mn iPad Apps 
• SMS : A Technology That Has 5X the Facebook Userbase [Infographic]

Active Deals

• 41% off Dedicated Server 16GB RAM 6 core processor
• Manage your cloud servers at just Rs.6000 per month.

• TRAI TRAI….. and FAIL [The New Spam SMS Regulation]?
• Indian Government’s $35 Tablet Is Launching On October 5th [Finally]
• Why Google+ may be miles away from being a great Social Product!
• The Amazon Secret: Work Backwards from the Customer
• Social Shopping & the Changing Agenda Of Commerce
• Indian Government Approves UIDAI (Aadhar) To be Used For KYC Norms

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• Mobile Apps Developer? Ad Monetization? Really?
• Mojostreet releases Android App – iPhone in the works as well
• eCommerce Startups – Stop, Look and Proceed [Insights from eBay India Census Guide]
• Matrix Partners Invest In Singapore Based U2opia Mobile
• Helion Venture Partners Invests $3.5mn in Vienova, Education Startup
• Vaultize – A cloud based backup service targeted at enterprises
• Godparents–A Unique Way To Connect Underprivileged Children And Donors
• CloudPact Connects Your Mobile Workforce With Cross Platform Solution

India Online/Telecom

• TRAI Wants You to Innovate [Think Beyond SMS]
• Airtel Baba ki jai ho
• TRAI, SMS and India- Dilemma, Confusion and Struggle
• 12 Hrs On And First Amendment To TRAI Regulation Comes In [FB, Orkut, JD etc. exempted]
• Report: Mobile Phone Shipments Fall 3%, Smartphone Market Grows at 96% Y-o-Y
• News Roundup: Railways’ ‘Baby Simran’ to Help People Track Trains
• News Roundup: Most Trusted Brands List (Nokia slips), 1 Million To Enroll/Day for Aadhar (UIDAI)

Gadgets

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 750 : Can this Replace Your Laptop?
• Cisco Launches Cius Android Tablet In India [Offers Telepresence, Virtual Experience Infra]

Cloud Computing

• Private Cloud Market In India–Total Cloud Spend Expected To Reach 8.2%
• Orkut Launches New Feature–Conversation [For those who are Still Active on the site]

• As a Startup, You Can Still Say ‘No’ to Your Customer, If..
• (Vinod) Khosla Ventures To Invest In Interviewstreet [?]
• Give Confidence: The Best Thing An Advisor Can Do To Help An Entrepreneur
• Smartphone Users In India Now Spend More Time On Content Than Voice OR SMS
• IITs To Get A New Fee Structure–You Pay 8L If You Get A Job [Mindlessness]
• InMobi Raises $200 Million From Softbank, Japan
• From 2012 Onwards, CBSE To Conduct Examination Online
• Tablet Market in India: A Quick Recap [Price, Range,Features]

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• TaskTrek Helps You Manage Task And Collaborate Better
• CSC Acquires Hyderabad Based IT testing firm AppLabs
• Qualcomm Could Lose India Mobile Licence [BWA]?
• Company Incorporation in 24 Hours? Forget that, Says Indian Government
• Portal For Buying/Selling Cars, CarSingh Raises Seed Fund From Seeders Venture Capital
• Vembu Acquires CloudNucleus, Virtualization Based Data Protection Firm
• “Being An Entrepreneur Isn’t Sexy. It’s Awful”

India Online/Telecom

• Review Of Mobile Prepaid Recharge Websites [The Smiles And Straight Faces]
• Deals @Pluggd.in: Manage Your Cloud Servers At Just Rs.6000/Month
• News Roundup: Huawei, ibibo to provide free calls, SMS on Huawei mobile phones
• Chrome Web Store Launches In India
• #Fail: Twitter Finally Launches In Hindi And It’s A Namesake Feature
• Google Brings Youtube Partner Program to India
• Piggybacking on competitors’ ad spends [Marketing vs Sales]
• Parents Buy & Kids’ Play [Freemium Apps]
• Twitter To Support Hindi

Startups Profiled/Funding

• “Hiring Was Easy After We Open-sourced Our Code” [ERPNext, Open Source ERP Solution]
• Buy Sports & Fitness Products Online From eSportsBuy,Delhi Based Startup
• Group Buying’s First Casualty–Taggle [Updated]
• Pivoting: From EyesAndFeet to UnMetric [Interview]
• DeskAway Launches Social Tasks- Get Your Friends To Do Your Work
• HomeBuy360 Wants To Smoothen The Real Estate Buying/Selling Process
• Analyzing asklaila–Is It Time They Get Acquired?
• Mumbai Based grtDeal Brings Group Buying To Real Estate Business
• Kolkata Based Prepgenie Offers Preparation Courses For Australian, British And US Based Tests
• InfoEdge To Invest $4.5mn in MeritNation
• Benchmark Your Social Media Efforts With UnMetric
• InfoEdge To Invest $3 Million in Zomato
• Why Steve Jobs’s Exit Is The Best Thing For Apple!

India Online/Telecom

• News Roundup: PC sales in India to cross 12.6 m units
• Navteq Launches 3D Maps For India
• Gaming Market In India To Grow At CAGR Of 53% [Report]
• India Online Report: Peak Emailing Happens Between 12-1, Social Networking:2-3 PM
• News Roundup: Fibre Glass LPG Cylinders In India, Vodafone Launches FB Phone
• News Roundup: No More Pesky Calls, SMS From Sep 27th

Gadgets/Apps

• Enjoy 3D Projection With Your 2D Projection
• Dell Latitude XT3 Launched In India [Price Starting From INR 1L]
• D-Link Launches Boxee Box in India, Priced At Rs. 13,999/
• Dell launches Vostro V131 in India
• Save The Tiger From Poachers (Mobile App)
• Adobe Launches Carousel Photography App for Mac OS and iOS Devices
• ScribeAir – share your doodles in real time

Coming back to the weekly recap, here are the most popular articles:

India Online

• Exclusive: Via Launches Deals Service–Snapdeal Gets A Serious Competition
• Taggle CEO John Kuruvilla Resigns
• News: Aircel Launches Cloud Based Application Acceleration Service, Micromax Launches In Brazil
• What does an eCommerce company’s org chart look like?
• A framework to unravel opportunities on/for the web [Concept]

Startups

•  Zivame – One Stop For Your Lingerie Shopping Needs
• YourCabs – Yet Another Cab Booking Service Or Does It Stand Out?
• Mobile TV Startup Jigsee Launched In India [Streaming Media For The Feature Phones]
• AfDay Brings Traditional And New Age Indian Art Products Online [Art For Everyday]
• DiscountPandit Wants To Be The Hyperlocal Deal Search Engine [With Social Angle]
• Nexus Venture Partners Leads $12 Million Funding in Druva, Pune Based Startup

Technology News

• Analyzed: Yahoo’s Patenting Trends [Indians Among The Top Inventors]
• Morning News: NRN Calls It A Day, Educomp under I-T dept Lens
• Automatically Change Your Android Mobile Profile Based On Your Location [Appnomy]
• Wasting Too Much Time On Twitter/Facebook? Try StayFocusd
• Bharti Beetel Launches Android Tablet For Rs. 9999

Startups/Funding

• YourNextLeap.com Raises Series A Funding From Nirvana Venture Advisors
• JustDial Finally Files For An IPO – Raising Rs.360Cr

Digital Media

• News Roundup: Vodafone Launches Bubbly Messaging Service
• Yahoo India Launches MoviePlex, Watch Bollywood Movies For Free
• Why I’m Still Optimistic About Facebook
• Pluggd.in Is Hiring –Content Writers, Sales Position [Apply Now]
• Anna Hazare: Being Fool And Hope Of India At The Same Time

• An Investor’s Open Letter to Indian Entrepreneurs [Please Do Your Homework]
• Of Investors’ Seven Deadly Sins And “Crazy” Ecommerce Investments In India
• Stop Blowing Our [Ecommerce] Bubbles
• Of Roles & Titles In Startups [First Deserve, Then Desire]
• App Market Report: Android Is The Most Closed Open Source, Selling Price of Games Have Fallen
• Fedena, An Opensource (And Free) School Management System From Indian Startup

Channel: Indian Startups

• GetMeCab – An Online Aggregator Of Cab Rental Services
• Personalize Your Gifts With Engrave [Niche Startup]
• No FarmVille! Farm2Kitchen Sells Real Farm Produce Online
• SkillRack Makes Campus Hiring Ultra Fast With Automation Of Paper Pencil Screening Tests
• Fedena, An Opensource (And Free) School Management System From Indian Startup
• Lost Your Mobile (And It’s In Silent Mode)? Try RemoteRinger [Appnomy Review]
• InMobi Acquires US Based Sprout, HTML5 Ad Builder
• Surewaves Raises INR 10 Cr From Indian Innovation Fund and Accel Partners
• CoinJoos.com Acquired By HomeShop18 To Strengthen Books Vertical
• AdBag Wants To Create New Advertising Medium With Ads On Your Bags

Channel: Entrepreneurship

• An Investor’s Open Letter to Indian Entrepreneurs [Please Do Your Homework]
• Of Investors’ Seven Deadly Sins And “Crazy” Ecommerce Investments In India
• Stop Blowing Our [Ecommerce] Bubbles
• Of Roles & Titles In Startups [First Deserve, Then Desire]

Channel: Mobile/Apps

• App Market Report: Android Is The Most Closed Open Source, Selling Price of Games Have Fallen
• Mobile Phones to Improve Vaccination Rate In India

Channel: Technology

• Research Reveals 56 Percent Rise in Cost of Cybercrime [Opportunity For Ethical Hackers]
• News Roundup: Lenovo Launches PC With Rupee Symbol On Keyboard
• Explained: Why should You Use Amazon ELB As A Load Balancer
• News: Makemytrip Launches MMT Deals, 117 Government Website Defaced

Channel: Gadgets

• Launched: Sony Ericson Xperia Mini Pro 2 @Price of Rs. 15,399
• Western Digital Launches Industry’s Largest Capacity 3 TB SATA Hard Drives for AV Platforms
• Sony Ericson Xperia Mini Available In India [Under INR 15,000]

• The Flipkart Story – All You Need To Know [Unofficially]
• Why You Need A Bad Guy In Your Startup [Sales]
• Got Humor? Learn From Govind Tiwari
• Planet M To Sell Mobile Apps On Its Store [App Developers Rejoice].
• Kerala CM Makes The Perfect Use of Technology–Installs Webcam In His Office
• By Fall 2011, Indian App Developers Will Be Able To Publish Apps On WP7 Marketplace
• The Indian Rupee Symbol Encoded in Unicode Standard, Keyboards To Be Available By 2012

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Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding

• Entrepreneurship Lessons From The Boeing Factory [When an Entrepreneur WANTS something BADLY - He GETS IT]
• IDG Ventures Invest $3mn In Mobile Ad Network, Vserv
• One97 Communications Invests S1M$ in Singapore Based The Mobile Gamer (TMG)
• Komli Media Acquires Mobile Ad Platform ZestAdz
• IAN Invests $1mn in Vayavya Labs
• 39Shops–A DIY Ecommerce Platform That Offers Powerful Tools To Build Your Own Store
• Yebhi Raises INR 40 Crores From Catmaran Fund and Nexus Venture Partners
• News Roundup: Zenrin In Talks To Buy 24% Stake In MapMyIndia
• Of Different Categories of Startup Employees, Bollywood And A Call For Leadership
• eFile Your Tax Return For Free With ClearTax

Gadgets

• Maxx Launches Super MX424–Budget phone with a Mega Battery
• Bharti (Beetel) To Unveil Android Tablet In India, Vodafone To Launch Webbox
• HTC and TATA DOCOMO Partner To Bring ChaCha To India, Priced at Rs 15,990/-

Digital (Internet/Telecom)

• News Roundup: BSNL Launches Voice and Video Telephony Over IP, EdServ Partners With CaClubIndia
• News Roundup: BSNL Launches Voice and Video Telephony Over IP, EdServ Partners With CaClubIndia
• Google’s got Asia on its mind – Google Goggles To Get Support For 4 Indian languages.

Appnomy

• Android market gets support for multiple APKs [What It Means For Developers]
• The Tablet War: Android Snatching Away Market Share From iPad
• Insights into consumer mobile OS preferences [ Appnomy ]

Technology

• Google’s data liberation plans : Adds +1 to Google Takeout
• The Rise Of Facebook Commerce [Research]
• Deals For Startups: Save Rs 40,000 on Accounting, Compliance and Payroll + Free CFO level consultation

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• Now Use SMS Acknowledgement As Railway Ticket [Indian Railways]
• Calling Entrepreneurs –From Goan Feni To Scotch Whiskey Lovers
• Did MakeMyTrip Just ‘Got Inspired’ By redBus’ Seating Design?
• Android Apps For Health Freaks [Appnomy Collection]
• Is Google Plus Overhyped?
• Google updates to new Android Market for phones [Appnomy] [Download link]
• Google Plus Usage Statistics–Indians Ruling The Chart (#2 Worldwide)

Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding

• Guruji’s Ad Optimization Platform, AdIQuity Crosses 2.5 Billion Impressions per month
• Indian Startup EAFT Technologies Launches Android Based Magictile Marathon Tablet [Priced at 29K]
• Shopo – A Marketplace for Everything With An Indian Heart [Handicraft eCommerce]
• A Phone Concept: No Keypad, No Dialing [For Blue Collar Jobs]
• Cazbak – Get Paid To Shop At Your Favorite Online Stores
• VisualWebsiteOptimizer Crosses 10,000 Signups, Is Handling 2.2 Billion Pageviews/Month
• IAN Invests in Groffr, Group Buying Site For Real Estate Industry
• Indiaplaza Raises $5mn From NEA-IUV [Funding]
• Calling Entrepreneurs –From Goan Feni To Scotch Whiskey Lovers

Mobile/Telecom

• Mobile Banking In India–$350 Billion Worth Of Transaction Expected By 2015
• Bharti adds 2.12 million subscribers in June. Vodafone close second with 2.09 million additions in June.
• Google Transit Comes to Hyderabad and Chennai [Local Bus Service Information]
• iPhone, Android Freelance Developer Demand Continues To Rise, Blackberry Show Signs Of Slowing Down [Appnomy]

Tech

• Review: Infibeam Pi2 [Good Product, Wrongly Priced]
• PC shipments up 2.3 percent from last year. Tablets making retailers rethink on choosing between PCs and tablets.
• Citrix Acquires Cloud.com–Nexus Ventures Makes Stellar Exit
• VMware Unveils VMware vSphere® 5 and Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite
• Hold Tele Conferences On The Cloud With SuperConference
• How to Make the Most Out of Google Plus

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• Qn: Why Has Groupon Taken Off Its Logo From SoSasta Site? [Post DB Hack]
• Indian VCs are Dumb – Really? Look Within
• Last Weekend, Groupon India Was Hacked [Raises An Important Question]
• Qn:Could Facebook Have Survived Had It Started In India?
• India’s mobile market grew by 15% last year: Samsung, Micromax, HTC Winners, Nokia losing the fight
• 2.4% Of Indian Population on Facebook – MTV India and Docomo Most Popular Fanpages [Interesting Stats]

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• Angels–Where Are You? Come Down For UnPluggd
• European Early Stage Investor Mangrove Capital Partners To Invest In BeStylish, Smile Interactive Venture
• PriceBurp – Get The Latest Discounts And Coupons Of Your Favorite eCommerce Portal
• 9 Entrepreneurial Lessons [Money solves only a single problem..and that’s Money!]
• Principles of Failure And A Recipe For Entrepreneurship [Manage Rejections]
• Access Offline Matrimonial Ads (From Newspapers) Online on findMyMatch

India Online/Mobile

• Mobile Internet in India– Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore Rule [Kolkata Stands At Number 4].
• Bigadda To Shutdown Social Networking – Converts to eCommerce
• Bubble Motion’s BubbleBlog Crosses 1 Million Users (just on Reliance Network)
• Non PC Devices Internet Usage Statistics: Feature Phones Rule Mobile Internet Traffic in India
• News Roundup: IRCTC Blocks 4.6 Lakh User IDs [e-ticket fraud], Facebook To Expand in India

Technology/Product Management

• How to Make the Most Out of Google Plus
• Of Google+, English and an iCloud Ad [Product Messaging]
• Code of Conduct for SaaS Companies [The Oath]
• How to build a winning social networking product? Few Thoughts
• Understanding The Social Commerce Bubble [Tulips in Netherlands]

Cloud Computing

• Dropbox Updates Terms & Conditions [D-Evolution of Cloud]
• AWS Slashes Price–No Inbound Data Transfer Fees
• Microsoft Office 365 Available In India
• Infosys calls for policy framework on cloud computing in India
• VMware Launches vFabric 5, an Integrated Application Platform for Virtual and Cloud Environments
• Microsoft Rolls Out Office 365 – A Wolf Wears Sheep’s Cloth?
• Top Cloud Providers In India

The breaking news (and you read it first on Pluggd.in) was the entry of Amazon in India [read the post for more details].

Other popular stories of week ending June 26th

• Apple Declares War–Slashes iPhone 3GS Price by 15K [Dumping Ground?]
• Globally, Indians Top The Hunt For ‘Venture Capital’ [Online]
• Tablet Usage Stats: Consumers Want Bundled Content And Payment Options [Appnomy]
• Can Indian Women Handle Startups ?
• MP3 Player Is The Top Decision Parameter When Deciding A Mobile To Buy [Report]
• Apple’s Business Model In trouble In India? [Under Competition Commission of India Scanner]
• Appnomy: Users spend more time on mobile apps than on the desktop
• Appnomy: 67% App Developers Currently Developing For Android and 59% For Apple’s iOS

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• Can Indian Women Handle Startups ?
• The Co-Founder & Start-up Hiring [Hire From Your Network]
• Globally, Indians Top The Hunt For ‘Venture Capital’ [Online]
• 101: How To Accurately Measure The Success Of Your Email Marketing Campaigns? [Part 2]
• 101: How To Accurately Measure The Success Of Your Email Campaigns? [Part 1]
• LBS Startup, Mojostreet Launches in Private Beta [Invites For Pluggd.in Readers]
• Warrantify Helps You Manage Paperless Warranties And Receipts
• The Need For Co-creating User Experience
• Village Laundry Service, Chamak Raises Series A Round
• NextDrop: A Simple Idea That’s So Damn Powerful [Piped Water Delivery Alerts Over SMS]

India Online/Telecom/Mobile

• HP India Launches “Personalized Video” application [Leanback Experience]
• Nokia E6 : Smart, Small, Powerful
• Micromax Launches Push Email service (ezmail) Powered Device, Q80
• Motorola Xoom Available in India For Pre Order [Price: INR 33,000]
• [Report] Mobile Recharge Transactions – Number of Transactions Dip As Weekend Approaches
• ICANN Approves more Top Level Domains : Huge Opportunity for Trademark Promotion
• News: Google StreetView Project Hits A Roadblock, Airtel Defines Broadband Speed As 1 MBPS

Popular Articles (week ending June 19th)

• Remember Government’s $35 Tablet? Launches This June [Will Cost Rs. 2,200/]
• Are Mobile Apps The New Web And Appstores The New Browsers?
• Alright, There Is A Village in UP That Decided to Rename Itself To..Snapdeal.com Nagar
• Bad News for IT Guys–80% Girls Do Not Want to Marry YOU
• Compared: Traffic of Ecommerce Websites In India
• Is LivingSocial Testing Indian Waters?

Startups/Funding

• Why Demo @UnPluggd Event?
• News Roundup: Yahoo India to tie up with schools for internet education
• Flipkart Raises $20mn From Tiger Global [Guess The Valuation]
• Insta7 – The Super Efficient Homepage For Your Mobile Browser
• Demystifying Share Holders Agreements For Entrepreneurs
• Vidteq Raises Funding From KITVEN
• How To Select A Good Brand Name [From Trademark Perspective]?
• Synthesized Communication–Even Startups Need To Get This Right
• Daily Deal Site, Koovs Raises Funding From benefitsPLUS
• moneysights Raises $270K From Blume Ventures & Naveen Tewari
• Vaatsalya Healthcare Raises $10mn From Aquarius Capital and Seedfund
• Seed Fund MyFirstCheque Invests In mKay Technologies

Technology/India Online

• 5 Powerful Twitter Research Tools [List]
• Manage your online identity with Google’s “Me on the Web”
• Paypal Now Officially Blocks Purchasing Goods From Your Indian Paypal Account
• Google Wants To Mix Your Business With Social Network [Orkut Badge]
• 10 Social Technology News You Should Not Have Missed!
• Why Foursquare is Better for Local Businesses than Groupon

Gadgets

• Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK beta Released
• HTC Flyer Tablet Launched in India For INR 37,499
• The Multimedia Superphone, HTC Sensation Launched in India – Priced At Rs. 32.7K
• HTC Salsa (The Phone With A Facebook Button) Launched in India For Rs. 20K
• Wynncom OGO Phones Pack SmartPhone Features, Though Priced At INR 5K

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Coming back to the weekly recap, following are the most popular articles of the week:

• Work From Home Or Take Up An Office Space? Answer These Questions First
• Youtube India To Show Block Buster Movie Every Month [For Free]
• A Look At How Top Brands Use Social Media
• 5+ Basic Tips To Improve Your Site Speed [Performance]
• Who Wants A Free Incorporation Service in India? [DealsForStartups]
• The UnPluggd Communication Channel For Pre-Event Networking, Chatter

Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding

• What kind of Advisor Does A Startup Really Need?
• Adepto Raises $300K USD From Blume Ventures And Rajiv Dadlani Group
• Comparison of Compensation Structure For Startup Employees [An Employee's Perspective]
• “Don’t Settle”–An Inspirational Video For Entrepreneurs
• Why it makes sense for entrepreneurs and VC’s to be ethical
• ZaakPay Launches P2P Money Transfer – Needs Only Email Address
• Justdial Raises $10 Million From SAP Ventures and Sequoia Capital

Mobile/Internet

• A 101 On Understanding Your Online Video Competency
• State of Online Video Industry in India [Video Ad Inventory Is Sold As Display Ad Inventory]
• Of Group Buying, Value Erosion, Prisoner’s Dilemma & Defections
• The UnPluggd Communication Channel For Pre-Event Networking, Chatter
• Groupon and Gang : Why Hyperlocal Still Needs Solving [Perspective From A SMB Owner]
• Tiger Text, An iPhone App For Messaging Is Indian Govt’s Next Target [iControversy]

- Here are the popular articles (week ending June 5th)

• Vodafone Sues A Customer For His Facebook Status
• Airtel Money Goes Live in Delhi NCR, Brings 2,200 Merchants Onboard
• India Accounts For 15.5% of Global Phishing Emails [Report]
• Of Travelocity’s Lawsuit On Cleartrip And Trade Secret Vs. Knowledge Debate
• Internet Contributes 3.2% to India’s GDP [Report]
• Who Leads The Internet Search Queries for Smartphones in India? Answer: Blackberry
• What’s the Average Bounce Rate of Email Campaigns in India?

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• TringMe Launches Agilte, A Company in LTE Space
• redBus crosses 4 million seats mark
• MoneySights Brings Insights Into Your Money [Personal Finance]
• Want To See What Your Food Looks Like Before Ordering? Try Foodlets.in
• QnA With Foodlets Team On User Incentives and Premium Services
• Ojas Ventures Invests in Social Gaming Startup, Play140
• Re-search Your Web History – Hooeey Webprint Launches A New Avatar
• Komli Media Acquires Aktiv Digital, Singapore Based Digital Media Company
• Explained: Why & How to Conduct a Trademark Search?

Internet/Mobile

• Tata DOCOMO Launches 3G Wi-Fi Hub, Works Across GSM and CDMA Network
• News Roundup: Intelligence Bureau Wants Telcos To Store Call Records For 5 Years
• Launch @ UnPluggd–Apply Now! [The Application Form is Live]
• Group(on) Value, Where Art Thou? Is Group Buying A Proven Model Yet?
• Tata DOCOMO Launches Route Finder, Driving Directions Delivered Via SMS
• Airtel Launches On-demand Movies, Powered by BigFlix
• Boom! Announcing UnPluggd3–July 9th, Bangalore! [+ Launchpad and Inspirational Talks]
• Why I Believe “Apply with LinkedIn” Will Be Well Received By Employers

Gadgets

• Windows 8 demoed: One OS for all devices
• Transcend Launches Super Speed 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive in India
• ASUS PadFone : Cool, Crazy, Awesome, Eccentric?
• Creative Launches ZiiSound Dx Series of Wireless Modular Bluetooth Speakers

• AOL Shuts down AOL.in
• Google Announces Streetview For India [Bangalore First].
• Now Aircel announces its iPhone plans : Telcos warming up to contracts for smartphones?
• Internet Voting in India? Gujarat Is The Early Adopter
• App Stores report for April 2011 : Android market growing but failing to monetize apps
• Explained: Why We Have Migrated To Facebook Commenting System?
• CC is Evil, So Is Its First Cousin [Inbox Clutter]

Best of Entrepreneurship/Startup Focused Articles.

• Of Bakra, Bakri And The 3 Deadly Weapons (In Term Sheets) That Kill Entrepreneurs
• Krya – A Sustainable Consumer Product Startup [Interview]
• Sick Of Job Spam? Join ThePlatinumCircle – Job Portal For Rs.12 Lakhs+ Jobs
• A 101 On Kickstarting A New Age Startup [Lean Model]
• Now You Can Also Have An Ecommerce Store – Infibeam Launches BuildaBazaar [DIY ECommerce Store]
• Raising Seed Funding? Use This Convertible Note Template [Thanks Mobstac Team]
• Slimads Are Classifieds on Steroids. Well, Almost!
• Foreign Direct Investment is Permitted in LLPs [A Look At Restrictions And Conditions]
• Creation of ESOP Trust – Why complicate?
• Want to be the next Sanjeev Bikhchandani ? Stop building Naukri. Build Payment Gateway Solution
• Funding Roundup: Vuclip Secures $8M, ThePrivateSales Grabs $5mn
• Manage Your Hiring Process Smooooothly With RecruiterBox
• Exclusively.in Raises $16 Million

Best of Gadgets

• Galaxy S 2 – Official price and release in India confirmed
• Revealed: iPhone 4 price in India – 50% Discount If Your Bill Exceeds INR 2K
• Coming Soon: Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface in India
• Nokia X7 coming to India in June
• Micromax launches Android Based Bling-2, Packs Its Own App Store

Best of the Week (ending May 22nd, 2011)

• Of Product Pricing and WiFi Meets Coffee?
• Review : HCL Me Android Tablet [Skip This Device, If You Can]
• Report: PC sales up 6.1 % from last year, Dell beats HP
• T-series Launches A Devotional Mobile Phone, Bhakti Sagar Phone [Is This The Future of Apps?]
• How social media is changing the game for start-ups

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• Two Startups, 3pundits and Teacherji Merge to Form ThinkVidya, An Education and Learning space Venture
• What’s-On-India launches EPG-On-The-CLOUD
• Play “Book Cricket” Mobile Game Based on Missed Calls [Zipdial and Kingfisher Partnership]
• The Morpheus Closes Third Fund (INR 3.5 Cr)
• Intel Capital Invests $18 mn in Indian Companies (2 New, 3 Follow-on)
• IndyaRocks Closing The Loop of Local-Social-Mobile With DealYantra. Groupon Now?
• redBus Raises $6.5 million Series C Funding [Round To Last Till 2015]

Bring Your Own Insights

A series where guest authors contribute on a regular basis.

• An operational guide to CoD for eCommerce companies in India
• How Writing Makes A Stronger You [And Why Entrepreneur Should Write]
• Demystifying Enterprise 2.0 Failure : Forget the jargon and get to the fundamentals!
• Founders: How Can You Make Your Company Human?
• Is Cash on Delivery THE catalyst for E-tailing in India?

Telecom/Mobile/Digital Industry News

• News Roundup: MTNL BSNL Merger?
• News Roundup: 9 million 3G users in India, Payment Gateway from RIL?
• Nokia Kills Ovi Brand, Ovi To Be Rebranded As Nokia
• News Roundup: iPhone4 Coming to India Very Soon, airtel Launches USSD based Facebook access services

Technology/Gadgets

• Microsoft Bing Integrates With Facebook Likes
• Facebook spam on the rise : Is it headed the Orkut way?
• Nokia X7 coming to India in June
• Creative Launches ZiiSound Dx Series of Wireless Modular Bluetooth Speakers
• Samsung announces Gingerbread update for Galaxy Tab / S/ Ace/ Fit/ mini / Gio
• Whatsapp Messenger – Cross platform messenger for mobile phones [Drop the Pin!]

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Best of the Week (ending May 15th, 2011)

• Online Movie Ticketing Banned in Andhra Pradesh – Only For BookMyShow? [Updated]
• Andhra Pradesh Government Monopolizing Online Movie Ticketing? KyaZoonga Unmoved [Updated]
• Things to Know Before You Hire A “Rock Star” Employee [Will Always Have A Side Project]
• News Roundup: Airtel Money Launched in Chennai, Sify Launches Internet Radio
• What tennis has taught me about startups, and why you should play a sport if you are an entrepreneur
• Paypal India Mandates Indian Accounts to Add Purpose Code, PAN Number

Startups

• Startup TaxiGuide Wants To Be The RedBus Of Car Rental Booking Service
• Interview With Olacabs Team “Our Value Proposition is Not in Creating Marketplace, But Is In Creating Great Experience”
• InMobi Launches SmartPay, Global Mobile Payment Service
• Bring Interactive Charts to PowerPoint Presentations With oomfo
• Participate in Brand Engagement Quizzes And Win Goodies – BrandAndMe
• Things to Know Before You Hire A “Rock Star” Employee [Will Always Have A Side Project]

Funding

• InfoEdge Invests $3.5 million In 99Labels
• App Development Company SourceBits Raises $10 million From Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures
• Waste Water Treatment Company, Greywater Technologies Raises INR 9 Crore from Nexus Venture Partners
• Classifieds Portal Quikr Raises $8 Million, Funding Round Led by Nokia Growth Partners

Technology

• Did You Know About Amazon’s Hidden Empire [Interesting Facts]
• Malicious Mobile Threats Report [ 85% of smartphone users do not have any antivirus solution ]
• IBM Launches Virtual Desktop in India Targeted Towards SMBs [Cloud Computing]

Insights/Analysis (From Guest Authors)

Gadgets

• Samsung Galaxy Ace : Hands on review
• Key Android Market Insights [April 2011]
• Coming Soon: Official Angry Birds’ Tees and Board Games in India
• Whatsapp Messenger – Cross platform messenger for mobile phones [Drop the Pin!]
• Micromax Bling 2 Details Unveiled – Runs on Froyo

• Payment Gateway CCAvenue Hacked [Updated/Open Questions]
• Report: State of Internet Connectivity in India [Decline in Average Connection Speed]
• 25% Failure Rate For IRCTC Transactions [March 2011 Report]
• Mobile Banking: Transaction Limit For Mobile Wallet Card Increased to INR 50K
• Available: $100,000 Worth of Funding For Indian Startups in Mobile and Cloud Computing Space
• Micromax Bling 2 Details Unveiled – Runs on Froyo

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• Insights on the Youth Consumer and Mobile Advertising in India
• Deal Aggregator, dealmandi Hits Your Mobile With An Android App
• What Pasta can teach Entrepreneurs [Be your own Chef]
• Startups: 16 Super Practical Tips To Crack Tradeshows
• Analyze Your Paypal Transactions With Putler
• Startups: Good Looks Are More Than Just Eye Candy [Is Usability Overhyped?]
• Can I Get The Menu Please? – Of Product Communication And Lost Customers
• Big Fish, Small Fish : Daily Deal Startups Deserve A Pat In the Back For Creating A Category
• Matrix Partners India Closes $300 Million Fund II

Latest from Internet/Mobile Industry

• 4Cs of mobile marketing: currency (value), conversation, community and content [Mobile Insights]
• Nokia Will Soon Sell Its 500 Millionth Phone in India, up for bidding [Current Price More Than Rs. 2L]
• And Now, You Can Also Kill Osama [Internet Game]!
• Report on Mobile app Stores: Number of Paid Apps on Android is 1/3rd of iPhone App Store
• Fear of Location Based Services & Tracking [Mobile User Privacy]
• Samsung Apps gets Operator Billing in India
• And Now, Times Internet Also Does the Obvious – Launches A Deal Site

Gadgets

• Micromax Bling 2 Details Unveiled – Runs on Froyo
• Micromax Launches 3G Wireless MiFi Router Priced at Rs. 4999
• Acer Launches Honeycomb and Windows 7 Powered Tablets in India
• Hands on with the iPad 2: Yes its here! [Review]
• Olive Mobile Launches Fluid V-W1 Android Phone for Rs. 10,000
• Sony Announces S1 and S2 Tablets
• Intel porting Android Honeycomb to x86 processors

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