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Google Acquires Katango, Will Power Google+

by Paul Joseph November 11, 2011 Featured

Google has acquired a small start up called Katango, as we had predicted sometime back. Katango, founded over a year ago, automatically organizes people’s social contacts. It will power the Circles feature of Google’s social networking product Google+

Tagged as: acquisitions, facebook, katango, news, smart lists, startups, technology, web

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Groupon Raises The Biggest IPO Since Google

by Paul Joseph November 4, 2011 Featured

We recently blogged about how Groupon is perched very dangerously when you consider its business model. Their valuation got halved to $13 billion dollars , their growth rate is slowing and the profit making capacity is being seriously questioned. This has been a tough time for Groupon to sort all these things out.

Tagged as: events, facebook, groupon, international, ipo, news, offers, startups, technology

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Microsoft Bing + Facebook Likes to arrive today.

by Paul Joseph May 17, 2011 Featured

Microsoft and Facebook announced their partnership October last year and their partnership’s offering to include Facebook Likes to make search more social will roll out today.

Tagged as: browser, city, facebook, facebook-likes, friends, like-the-search, microsoft, number, partnership, roll-out-today, search, search-engine, show-the-number, technology, yahoo

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How social media is changing the game for start-ups

by Paul Joseph May 17, 2011 Featured

[Editorial Notes: This post has been written by Achintya Gupta , who works as a brand manager at Kuliza, a social technology firm.] Having sold and marketed social media for the past 2 years, I have realized the immense potential in this concept, especially for start-ups, SMEs and fast growing companies. And when I say ‘potential’ I don’t just mean potential as a business model but potential to market better, gain valuable PR, hire smart people and build a great network

Tagged as: book, editorial-notes, entrepreneurship, facebook, google-ventures, markets, open-source, space

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Facebook spam on the rise : Is it headed the Orkut way?

by Paul Joseph May 16, 2011 Featured

Facebook is no doubt a great platform to keep in touch with your friends but privacy on Facebook has been hotly debated. Last year there was a major overhaul in Facebook’s privacy features after it drew a lot of criticism from the internet community. Privacy fears may have been put to rest on Facebook, for now it seems, but there’s another factor that’s adding to discontent amongst the users of the world’s most popular social network, spam.

Tagged as: after-it-drew, difference, facebook, facebook spam, friends, notification, orkut spam, rounds, spam, technology, updates-on-spam

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Did You Know About Amazon’s Hidden Empire [Interesting Facts]

by Paul Joseph May 14, 2011 Featured

Although, all the latest buzz on the web is mostly around Google, Facebook, Groupon and the new age apps that have gained quick popularity but one of the oldest players of the web, Amazon is a giant that not many would have noticed. Amazon’s businesses are spread across retailing, devices, content, analytics, hosting and many more. Here’s an interesting slide deck on Amazon’s Hidden Empire.

Tagged as: amazon, facebook, hidden-empire, interestingness, latest, latest-buzz, new-age, slide-deck

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A Look At Unique Characteristics Of Group Buying Sites [Why Is It Different?]

by Paul Joseph May 14, 2011 Featured

What makes Group Buying Business a unique business? Deals or discount coupons have been in existence for quite some time but the concept got phenomenal success when companies like Groupon married social with deals. The combination of social and deals is relatively new and has many unique qualities.

Tagged as: additional, business, business-model, even-if-someone, facebook, facebook-even, friends, fundamentals, group, group buying, india, sales, social networking, switching-cost, thoughts

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Best of the Week–ccavenue Hacked, Nokia’s 500 Million Phones in India

by Paul Joseph May 9, 2011 Featured

Best of the Week Payment Gateway CCAvenue Hacked [Updated/Open Questions] Report: State of Internet Connectivity in India [Decline in Average Connection Speed] 25% Failure Rate For IRCTC Transactions [March 2011 Report] Mobile Banking: Transaction Limit For Mobile Wallet Card Increased to INR 50K Available: $100,000 Worth of Funding For Indian Startups in Mobile and Cloud Computing Space Micromax Bling 2 Details Unveiled – Runs on Froyo Startups/Entrepreneurship Insights on the Youth Consumer and Mobile Advertising in India Deal Aggregator, dealmandi Hits Your Mobile With An Android App What Pasta can teach Entrepreneurs [Be your own Chef] Startups: 16 Super Practical Tips To Crack Tradeshows Analyze Your Paypal Transactions With Putler Startups: Good Looks Are More Than Just Eye Candy [Is Usability Overhyped?] Can I Get The Menu Please? – Of Product Communication And Lost Customers Big Fish, Small Fish : Daily Deal Startups Deserve A Pat In the Back For Creating A Category Matrix Partners India Closes $300 Million Fund II Latest from Internet/ Mobile Industry 4Cs of mobile marketing: currency (value), conversation, community and content [Mobile Insights] Nokia Will Soon Sell Its 500 Millionth Phone in India, up for bidding [Current Price More Than Rs. 2L] And Now, You Can Also Kill Osama [Internet Game]! Report on Mobile app Stores: Number of Paid Apps on Android is 1/3rd of iPhone App Store Fear of Location Based Services & Tracking [Mobile User Privacy] Samsung Apps gets Operator Billing in India And Now, Times Internet Also Does the Obvious – Launches A Deal Site Gadgets Micromax Bling 2 Details Unveiled – Runs on Froyo Micromax Launches 3G Wireless MiFi Router Priced at Rs.

Tagged as: banking, facebook, gadgets, india, industry, mobile, operator, recap, space, tracking, usability

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1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

by Paul Joseph May 6, 2011 Featured

On April 16, I was in Mumbai doing a live 1M/1M event with TiE Mumbai and Indian Angel Network (IAN). While in Mumbai, I also finalized a deeper partnership with IAN, which I will discuss later in this post.

Tagged as: audience, data, facebook, ideas, india, indian, indian-angel, network, sameer, shipping, social

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Insights on the Youth Consumer and Mobile Advertising in India

by Paul Joseph May 5, 2011 Featured

[This is a guest post contributed by Aniketh dsouza, who curated the conversation that happened at the recently concluded Mobile Marketing Association/MMAF2011 event in Singapore] The post is a result of talk by Antti Ohrling ( @Ohrling ), Co-founder, BLYK who has a tie up with Aircel in India. 1.6 billion youth worldwide use a mobile phone and from next year 1 of 5 mobile phone users in the, will be in India

Tagged as: advice, facebook, india, malaysia, singapore, sms, study, the-youth, youth

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