2009 was a milestone year for Indian VC community – most of them decided to stay away from investing in Internet market and did a lip service to investing in ‘pure technology’ firms. Majority of investments happened in areas that matter, i.e. healthcare and offline businesses, while mobile did get a boost with investment in VAS as well as rich media platform startups.
Here are a few significant investment that happened in key industries in 2009:
We covered WTF tech moments in detail and now is the time to cover the most important and inspiring technology milestones for Indian in 2009.
![Indian Content Portals in 2009 – Flat Traffic growth [Approaching Dead End?]](http://www.pluggd.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/content-portals-traffic-in-2009.jpg)
If 2009 was the year of recession (to the moon and back) and subsequently the fall in internet advertising, content business too doesn’t seem to crack any big chasm.
Infact, it’s sad that nothing seems to have changed for content portals in India.
Traffic for in.com, indiatimes, sify, rediff etc have remained at the pretty much the same level as starting of this year.
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Appnomy – The Economy Of Apps![IE market share falls in India, Chrome picks up [2009 Recap]](http://www.pluggd.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/India-Browser-Market-Share.jpg)
