Weekly Recap of Interesting articles
Recap of few interesting articles published week ending Nov 16th.
[+] indicates articles that had good discussions/insights.
Highly Recommended Articles
- How Should Startups conduct Usability Testing? [+++]
- Demystifying Online Advertising Network Business – Strategy, Indian Opportunity [+++]
- Indian Railways API for Ticket Booking [++]
Startups Profiled
- LatLong- Will Get you There (Where Streets have no Names) [+]
- Uniphore, mGlitz, Sonhoz
- SMSGyan – SMS Based Knowledge Machine [++]
- Create Rich Mobile Promos Using Tunespray
- NCRHunt – Local search player for NCR Region [+]
- CompareSasta – Meta Search Engine That gets you Sasta Products/Services [+]
TriedPool
Funding
- Rediff Invests in Eterno Infotech
- Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund secures 75 crore for Investment in IT sector
- Novatium partners with BSNL (bundles netPC with Broadband)
- Accel India closes $60mn Fund
- KPCB, Sherpalo Invests $8million in Kotak Urja
- Cisco India’s Investment Arm Bullish on Video and Virtualization Sector
Recession & Impact on Startups
India Business (Misc)
- Sify starts redirecting Broadband users to WiYi, iGoogle Partner Site
- NTT DoCoMo acquires 26% stake in Tata Tele Services
- 8 million GSM Subscribers Added in October
- BigAdda claims 3 million users, 50% from Tier-II Cities [+]
- AskLaila to power local search on Airtel – Mobile, Airtel Live and DTH
- Only 4,000 3G iPhone Sold in India?
- Egencia, Expedia’s Corporate Travel Arm Launches it’s Service in India
- Fortune 100: World’s Most Accountable Companies – None from India
Misc
About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in.
He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]
