Unstructured industries pose variety of opportunities and Bangalore’s auto rickshaw segment is one which needs some serious structuring.. EasyAuto, a service launched in 2007 (and was later shelved) has now restarted it’s services in Bangalore (Govt. of Karnataka has issued  a temporary license valid for 6 months to prove their validity) Easy Auto Services is...
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Vidteq is a Bangalore based startup that has launched video maps based driving direction for Bangalore. For instance, you can get the driving directions from forum mall to indira nagar – in text format as well as via video. There are subtle features implemented in the product – for instance, you can click on the...
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MyBangalore is a city centric portal that focuses on news/events/lifestyle businesses in the city. The content heavy site lets you browse through several categories like arts/culture, lifestyle, education,news,classified etc. MyBangalore, though
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10 seater office space is available for Bangalore startups. Specification are: Plug and Play: You just need
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People: There are ~8 bomb blasts reported so far. Since telco networks are jammed, please use this twitter id to share your status (so that your near and dear ones can know your well being).Or else, use spy to track the bangalore news across social media. Word of advice: if you are in your office, stay...
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Bangalore traffic is the talk of the country and is now captured live. BTIS (read the earlier coverage and this inspiring interview with Ashwin, Founder of BTIS) has partnered with Bangalore traffic police to setup live camera across the city. MapUnity is an interesting startup for several reasons – their projects are funded by companies like...
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After Silicon Valley, it’s Bangalore! As per Silicon.com’s hot techspot report, Bangalore is the number 2 techspot worldwide, i.e. among the top 20 tech destinations that are making the biggest contribution to the technology landscape. Of the top 20 hotspots, India has the highest number of hot techspots
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Just returned from the Smarttechie startupcity event and was reflecting on the day that was. I have only one comment .. wow ! The whole day Nimhans Convention center(where the event was held) was buzzing with entrepreneurs, wannabe...
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Come over guys (and girls!) Here are the details of startup disco: When: Friday, May 23rd Where: Taika pub, Bangalore How much? Thanks to Yusuf, stags entry is allowed (he did the negotiation), and the entry fee is Rs. 300/ (which otherwise is 500/) Timing? 6:30 PM onwards Contact Details: Ashish (98452 06443), Yusuf (9901 172890), Dimaiyah (he is the...
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No more “sar-dard-e-disco”! Welcome to Startup Disco – an idea that popped while having lunch with Yusuf and Rajiv. Enough of “Meet the VC”, “Demo your Startup” bullshit. Say F.O to all these events and celebrate your own hardwork – @ Startup Disco. What’s Startup Disco? As the name says, startups + disco - i.e. lets meet in...
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Bangalore Barcamp is scheduled for April 19th and 20th, and if you are a tech enthusiast, do make sure that you attend the BCB6. Attend, even if you aren’t a tech enthusiast. It’s always fun to be at BCBs! This time, the focus is on increasing participation -so, for e.g. in order to...
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KickStart organizers have initiated Saturday Startups, a fortnightly event geared towards serving the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Bangalore. ‘The objective of Startup Saturday is to ‘provide a forum for entrepreneurs to discuss, present, network and learn from peers, prospective customers, adopters and investors’. This week’s event (March 8th, 10aam – 1pm @ IIM B)...
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Surely a bad news for startups (not that they aren’t aware of the reality!) – Bangalore engineers,  working in product development companies collect the highest paycheck compared to their counterparts from other cities (Pune/NCR etc). Management consulting firm, Zinnov shared it’s annual study on “Compensation and Benefits” and it seems Pune witnessed...
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Isn’t it surprising that Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley(supposedly) doesn’t have any credible Bangalore-based info service to it’s credit? There are local search sites, there are city info sites and a few review sites, but none of them under the same roof. Yulop is attempting to change all that with it’s launch of Bangalore.Yulop.com,...
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I introduced mVies.in to readers of this site and I am glad to announce that mVies.in has launched it’s Bangalore edition (you hear it here first!). “mobiSolv, the company behind http://mvies.in mobile application today announced the availability of their application for Bangalore. mVies.in is a mobile solution that provides the most accurate movie...
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Bangalore traffic is a mess. We all know it. But how many of us are willing to do something about it? While CommuteEasy is doing a great job of driving people to car pool (and decongest traffic), mapunity has gone steps ahead and has built an innovative GIS solution. The solution (called BTIS - i.e. Bangalore...
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Bangalore’s rising salary levels gets it’s first victim – Riya, an image search engine If you have been a regular reader of pluGGd.in, you might have noticed that one of the standard question that I ask Indian startups in the interview is “Is Indian tech community...
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