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Social Gaming Company PlayUp Comes To India: New Avenue For Gamers?

by Paul Joseph January 5, 2012 Featured

Mobile-based Social gaming company PlayUp has just revealed it will be opening its office in India.

Tagged as: cricket, gaming, international, playup, social networking, startups, web

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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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Track Live Traffic with SatNav’s Smartphone App

by Paul Joseph April 29, 2011 Featured

SatNav Technologies has partnered with Waze Inc. of Israel which provides navigation application with map and traffic updates for Smart phones. It helps in knowing which roads are jammed and which routes to avoid.

Tagged as: based-approach, based-on-others, live-traffic, mobile, radio, routes, situation, social networking, traffic-data, update-the-map

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“Our Business Has Changed From What We Originally Thought It Will Be”–Onze

by Paul Joseph April 20, 2011 Featured

Onze is an interesting startup which figured out a niche in local/lbs space and just went ahead and cracked deals with retailers (they were PowerPlug finalists as well). Here is presenting an interview with Sudarshan/Rahul, CoFounders of Onze on the company’s journey so far. Your life prior to starting Onze

Tagged as: business, city, consumer, initial, latlong, life, marketing, medium, mobile, over-the-last, platform, power, retailer, sms, social networking

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AKAI unveils CONNECT leaf

by Paul Joseph March 29, 2011 Featured

AKAI Mobiles, a division of one of the largest Japanese Consumer Electronics brand, AKAI India, announced the launch of a full QWERTY

Tagged as: color, connect, connect-leaf, digital-video, electronics, facebook, japanese, opera, radio, social, social networking, voice, yahoo

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Of Social Media, Branding and Why Content is ‘Feed’ for Thought!

by Paul Joseph March 11, 2011 Featured

An appropriate content strategy is the critical success factor which decides the failure or success of a brand’s social media journey. The congruence of expectations between brand and community members decides the fate of a brand’s social media exposure. Some key aspects if dealt adequately can differentiate a brand’s social media campaign

Tagged as: content, family, indian, media, networking, news, opinion, social, social media in india, social networking, time, timeline, user

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58% of Smartphone Users Believe That Mobile Apps Benefit Their Lives! [Nokia Appiness Study]

by Paul Joseph February 3, 2011 Featured

Nokia conducted a App-iness study to gauge the impact of apps on a consumer’s behavior and here are some interesting results Key Facts [India] 77 per cent of people in India have up to 30 apps on their smartphone, with men more likely to download an app (93 per cent) vs.

Tagged as: china, life, social networking, usa

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Shorthand Mobile Launches SMS Based Mobile Browser in India, In Partnership with SMSGupshup

by Paul Joseph February 1, 2011 Featured

Mobile startup Shorthand Mobile announced the launch of its SMS-based mobile browser in partnership with SMSGupShup. The Shorthand SMS Browser provides a highly interactive user experience, enabling feature phone users easy access to content using only their SMS / text plans.

Tagged as: browser, india, indian, sms, social networking

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News Roundup: UID To Be Used As KYC (?), iGate to Acquire Patni Computers

by Paul Joseph December 29, 2010 Featured

Most of the telecom operators face a big hurdle with KYC process and recently, there was a news report that 60% of prepaid mobile connections in Mumbai were secured through fake documents. Combating this, DoT is considering using UID as a definitive proof for subscriber verification. “Serious consideration is being given to make UID the fundamental basis of subscriber verification.

Tagged as: country, facebook, india, india business, project, social, social networking

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160by2 Takes The Social Network Route – Will It Pay Off?

by Paul Joseph November 16, 2010 Featured

Like we hadn’t had enough of social networking, yet another Indian startup is taking the social network route to encourage user activity. 160by2 , one of the early and successful startups in the free SMS space is now trying to create a social network around SMS

Tagged as: indian, sms, social, social networking, user

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