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The New Era Of Digital Education Spreading Like Wildfire

by Paul Joseph January 27, 2012 Featured

Apple enters the world of books with its trailer released on iBooks last week. This created a sway and this is considered to be another disruptive move from technology trying to change the way people live. iBooks is seen as a catalyst that will finally bring in vogue the electronic textbooks into the mainstream education arena such as schools while helping them save a huge amount of money. The craze seemed to have increased by leaps and bounds with almost 350,000 e-books sold after the unveiling of iBooks 2.

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Send An SOS With A Click! SmartPhone App To Help Women In Distress

by Paul Joseph December 21, 2011 Featured

Women fearing an imminent attack can now send a distress SOS message to near & dear ones using “Fight Back” an app created by Whypoll . Whypoll , an Indian non-profit organization chose to launch the app in Delhi, which presently tops the list of India’s most unsafe cities for women, who are world-wide revered to guide the future!. The app is so designed that the women feeling an oncoming assault, or fearing their wellbeing can end an SOS message via text message, email and Facebook status update to their relatives, friends through the press of a single key

Tagged as: delhi, features, hindol sengupta, mobile, news, startups, technology, web, whypoll

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Welcoming Rachana Dharia, Business Head – Digital Rediffusion Y&R As A Speaker At WATSummit 2012

by Paul Joseph December 16, 2011 Featured

Social is the way to go! The socialization of web goes further than social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It is the new way we look at the Internet in general and it is an exciting time for us to see how it will evolve.

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Is Freshdesk A Rip- Off? Definitely Not

by Paul Joseph December 7, 2011 Featured

Sometime back we blogged that an Indian start-up, Freshdesk  had received an early stage funding from Accel Partners. Yes, this is the same firm that funded Facebook in the beginning. Clearly the company is growing and innovating as it goes along

Tagged as: accel-partners, ben kepes, cloud-computing, freshdesk, mikkel svane, startups, technology, web, zendesk

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Foursquare Soars With 15Million Users: Peaking Too Soon?

by Paul Joseph December 6, 2011 Featured

Foursquare has grown its userbase almost thrice of what it was last year. It includes users from U.S as well as other parts of the globe

Tagged as: 15million users, acquisitions, facebook places, facebook users, features, international, mobile, news, startups, technology

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Customer Service Startup Freshdesk Pumped With $1Mn Investment From Accel Partners

by Paul Joseph December 2, 2011 Featured

Indian Saas (Software as a Service) based startup, Freshdesk recently got an investment of Rs.

Tagged as: accel-partners, features, international, news, saas, startups, technology, vc fund, web

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Exclusive Interview: Tête-à-tête With Naveen Joshua, Founder Of FASHOS.com

by Paul Joseph November 29, 2011 Featured

The innovation that is happening in the e-commerce start-up scene today is phenomenal . Since people in India are slowly but surely getting bitten by the online retail bug, it is imperative for a new e-commerce startup to have a USP so that it can break through the clutter to get noticed by  people . FASHOS is one such e-commerce venture

Tagged as: 'brands’ feature, digital media, fashos, naveen joshua, news, startups, startups in india, technology, web

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Exclusive Interview: Puneet Vatsayan, Chairman and Co-Founder of The Hatch, India’s First Large Scale Incubator Program

by Paul Joseph November 23, 2011 Featured

India as a country has endless possibilities. Until now, enterprising youngsters had an uphill climb with respect to getting in touch with the right people, securing funding and starting up in general

Tagged as: funding, incubator, news, startups, technology, the hatch, tips & tools, web

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Gmail Plugin GrexIT Receives Fund Infusion: Your Mailboxes Set To Get Smarter

by Paul Joseph November 18, 2011 Featured

Delhi based startup GrexIt , a collaborative email inbox add-on has managed to secure a second round of funding from One97 Communications. Though the exact quantum is unknown, going by pattern of Citrix’s accelerator program it could be anywhere between US$ 100,000 to US$ 400,000 . Commenting on the usage of funds GrexIt’s co-founder Niraj Ranjan Rout said “We will primarily use the funding for product development.

Tagged as: citrix, cloud, filter, mobile, morpheus, niraj ranjan rout, one97, plugin, startups, technology, vijay shekhar sharma, web

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Chipmaker Intel Invests In Happiest Minds & TeliBrahma

by Paul Joseph November 16, 2011 Featured

The global investment arm of chipmaker Intel, Intel Capital, is investing in Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt Ltd.

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