This week, India’s delay story continued (Mobile Number Portability Delayed [Again]) and Bharti Telesoft launched Virtual Phone numbers enabling one to have 10 numbers in 1 phone paving way for rural penetration (though they are still talking to operators for implementation).
Music stores witnessed interesting launches – A R Rahman launched his own online music store and BIG Music partnered with T Series and Hungama for exclusive partnership. Sad news of the week goes to Bajaj scooters for deciding to kill their scooter product line.
Most Popular Stories of the week
- Social Networking in India – Milestone @2009 [Traffic Numbers]
- Indian Media Still Doesn’t get Twitter [One Way Communication]
- VC 101: The process of early stage VC valuation
- Five Technology Vaporware from Indian Government in 2009 [2009 Recap]
- Delhi Buses gets smart with smart cards validators and auto fare collection system [Tech]
Startups/Entrepreneurship Stories
- MyDala – The Power of Group Buying (Review)
- VC 101: The process of early stage VC valuation
- Boomi – Real Estate Search Aggregator for Indian Properties
- Rocket Singh Salesman – Can Startups Really Hire Him?
- Visual Website Optimizer for A/B Testing that helps you increase sales/conversion [Free Invites]
Technology
- WordPress Themes for Microblogging – Build Twitter like Collaboration using WordPress
- How to setup an E-Commerce site with WordPress? [Wordpress Weekend]
- Google Goggles: Use Pictures to Search the Web
- Tech News: Google Adds Real Time Search, Mozilla ThunderBird and JooJoo the new CrunchPad Avatar.
- Indiatimes shopping enters Prepaid Recharge Business [Tie-Up]
- @Nimbuzz Loves @Twitter!
Opinions Expressed
- Indian Media vs. New Media – A Perspective
- News Roundup: Reliance : mGovernance, 3G Auction Update, Sistema [and more]
- The Geeks will Draw the Last Blood [Google Vs. Newspapers]
- Are Crumbling Companies (Yahoo) Dangerous too?
Friday Fun – Geek’s day out
