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Of Product Pricing and WiFi Meets Coffee?

by Paul Joseph May 19, 2011 Featured

Tagged as: actual, business, coffee, india, internet, opinion, outlet, power, product-management, study, wifi, words

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What’s-On-India launches EPG-On-The-CLOUD

by Paul Joseph May 18, 2011 Featured

Electronic Program Guide (EPG), What’s-On-India has launched a new new offering called EPG-On-The-Cloud, is a suite of on-demand EPG services that are designed to enable new TV Guidance products and applications for connected devices and platforms launching in the country. Funded by Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners in 2008, What’s-On-India’s

Tagged as: application, country, enterprise, highly-accurate, opinion, powered-through, program-guide, startup

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Play “Book Cricket” Mobile Game Based on Missed Calls [Zipdial and Kingfisher Partnership]

by Paul Joseph May 18, 2011 Featured

Zipdial and Kingfisher have announced a mobile game based on the popular “Book Cricket” game. Book Cricket is a popular game that most Indians play as kids. The players take turns to flip pages of a book and depending on the page number you score runs, or get out

Tagged as: again-the-same, book-cricket, cricket, game, game-on-mobile, indian, kingfisher, mobile, opinion, recently-raised, time

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T-series Launches A Devotional Mobile Phone, Bhakti Sagar Phone [Is This The Future of Apps?]

by Paul Joseph May 17, 2011 Featured

Religious ringtones are a super hit phenomena in India and given the mad rush we are witnessing in the telecom industry (everybody is launching a me-too device), T-series has come up with a very unique device, Bhakti Sagar phone. This phone is loaded with religious features such as Aartis, Bhajans, Shabads in multiple languages, Tirath Yatra apps, yoga tips, unique SOS function and much more. The dual SIM mobile phone handset, Bhakti Sagar comes equipped with a 2.2” screen and bright phone display which enhances the user interest while watching video and images

Tagged as: bhajans, bhakti, bhakti-sagar, hanuman-bhajans, india, indian, mobile, mobile-tracker, opinion, phone, radio, user, video, video-recorder

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Is Cash on Delivery THE catalyst for E-tailing in India?

by Paul Joseph May 16, 2011 Featured

[Editorial Notes: This article published under series called “ Bring Your Own Insights ”, where we bring selected guests (invite-only) to share their insights with Pluggd.in audience on a regular basis.

Tagged as: article, collaborative, editorial-notes, guest-insights, india, indian, insights, internet, online, opinion, sales

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Nokia Kills Ovi Brand, Ovi To Be Rebranded As Nokia

by Paul Joseph May 16, 2011 Featured

Nokia’s OVI store had a disastrous launch and two years later, the company has announced killing the OVI brand. All the Ovi services will be rebranded as Nokia services in a transition expected to continue into 2012. Each of the services under the Ovi umbrella will simply be rebranded as Nokia, with no planned disruption to the service roadmaps

Tagged as: ecosystem-story, india, killing-the-ovi, mobile, nokia, opinion, replacement, services, statistics, stephen-elop, store, such-as-printed, year

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Things to Know Before You Hire A “Rock Star” Employee [Will Always Have A Side Project]

by Paul Joseph May 13, 2011 Featured

Everybody wants a rock star programmer in their team, but very few actually need them. There is a huge difference between need vs.

Tagged as: comfortably, employee, entrepreneurship, india, inspiration, microsoft, movie, nokia, opinion, project, rock, rock-star, smart, startup, yahoo

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Things to Know Before You Hire A “Rock Star” Employee [Will Always Have A Side Project]

by Paul Joseph May 13, 2011 Featured

Everybody wants a rock star programmer in their team, but very few actually need them. There is a huge difference between need vs. want, though many startups are in a constant cribbing mode for not being able to find rock star programmers

Tagged as: employee, entire, inspiration, microsoft, opinion, rock, smart, startup, yahoo

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Classifieds Portal Quikr Raises $8 Million, Funding Round Led by Nokia Growth Partners

by Paul Joseph May 9, 2011 Featured

Quikr, a horizontal classifieds player, announced today the completion of a USD 8 million round for Quikr Mauritius (a holding company of Quikr India) led by new investor, Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), and returning investors, Norwest Venture Partners and eBay Inc. Quikr offers a web and mobile based classifieds platform that addresses a wide variety of local needs in 40 cities across India. The company claims more than 10 million visitors continues to see rapid growth in the number of buyers and sellers on its platform.

Tagged as: broken-online, completion, create-value, funding, google-adsense, india, opinion, quikr, quikr-india, sellers-on-its, take-on-quikr

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What Makes A Great Startup Employee? [“You Are Replaceable If What You Do Is Replicable”]

by Paul Joseph May 9, 2011 Featured

“I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace .” – said Abraham Lincoln. [Editorial Notes: Guest article by Santosh Panda, founder of Ayojak. Santosh shares a very important/key ingredient to become a great ‘product engineer’].

Tagged as: ayojak-santosh, editorial-notes, engineers-think, entrepreneurship, framework, india, knowledge, opinion, over-the-time, over-the-years, santosh-panda, thought, time

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