Category Archives: ShortCircuit

01 Jul

Bigadda To Shutdown Social Networking – Converts to eCommerce

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Bigadda, the social networking and blogging platform from Reliance Entertainment is now changing its avatar into an eCommerce portal. In a communication to the users Bigadda mentioned that no user data would be available after 15th July. We value and … Read More »

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30 Apr

Employer Rating/Salary Comparison site, JobeeHive ‘almost’ shuts shop

By sinha 8 Comments

Most of the other company review sites have been abandoned as well. Criticat, Talentty. Apart from the fact that most of these sites went thru’ recession blues when jobs were hardly few and far in between, there was ofcourse a basic missing factor – that of monetization/sustainability. Read More »

19 Feb

Social Media Community Pulse Service, BrandAdda to shut down

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BrandAdda, a destination site to track community pulse has decided to shutdown, citing lack of success on the business front. Founder, Tej Arora shares some of the insights/challenges they faced while running the company. ‘There were many challenges we faced … Read More »

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21 Jan

Personal Finance Startup, Zibika shuts shop

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Personal Finance Startup, Zibika shuts shop

Started by IIM alumnus, Zibika was focused on insurance space (earlier coverage) and had tie ups with Swiss-based VIG Insurance brokers, ICICI Lombard, Future Generali, Reliance Life and Bharti AXA insurance. The startup, owing to financial issues (lack of funding, … Read More »

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04 Jan

Digital Out of Home Company vJive Networks shuts shop(?)

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Digital Out of Home Company vJive Networks shuts shop(?)

Digital OOH company vJive, which was started in 2004 has shut shop, as mentioned by a reliable source.
The company raised close to $5mn from Matrix Partners and tied up with retail outlets (like Subhiksha) as well as BFSI outlets for expansion. Read More »

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27 Aug

Is there anything called ‘Art of Dying’? Techtribe goes off the web, Media sections lives on

By sinha 5 Comments
Is there anything called ‘Art of Dying’? Techtribe goes off the web, Media sections lives on

After ‘Art of Start’, is there anything called ‘Art of Dying’ in Entrepreneurial world? Read More »

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06 Apr

Sneakcast, India based Video Search Engine officially dead

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Sneakcast, India based Video Search Engine officially dead

Sneakcast, video search engine (an Indian startup) is officially dead (though we announced their march towards deadpool in

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06 Feb

Webaroo morphs into SMSGupshup..to move office to India

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Webaroo morphs into SMSGupshup..to move office to India

Webaroo has decided to morph into it’s portfolio product, SMSGupshup – the site now redirects to smsgupshup’s site. Webaroo started an application that will enable users to search and browse web pages without an Internet connection. Its use is especially … Read More »

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28 Dec

Movie ticketing site, BookEazy shuts shop – Founders to focus on Lipikaar

By sinha 6 Comments

BookEazy, Pune based online movie ticketing service has shut shop and the founders will now focus on Lipikaar, the language transliteration startup. ‘There has been a significant shift in the way Multiplexes view their customer-facing partners, starting with discomfort to … Read More »

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