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| Backup your email with DropmyEmail : 650K Users in 2 months, 20% from India The company has seen tremendous growth since launch – 650,000 users since March 2012 and apparently, 20% of users are from India! Maybe, the referral scheme (you get 256MB free when your referral signs up for the service) has done the trick? | | | PayTM deal on TimesDeal grabs 70,000 mobile recharge orders in a day The deal was not valid for existing PayTM accounts – which means, PayTM got atleast 70,000 new registrations (?). Assuming a loss of Rs. 60/deal (including the money PayTM paid to TimesDeal and Operators), what's your take on the average customer transaction* acquisition cost? | | | Airtel Money and Axis Bank announce partnership for financial inclusion With the partnership, no-frills savings account of Axis Bank will be opened for customers on the Airtel Money platform called 'airtel money Super Account powered by Axis Bank' offering customers banking transactions including cash deposit, money transfer and withdrawal. These accounts will provide convenient, safe and secure savings avenue to Financial Inclusion customers' paying them savings account interest and also enabling them to make remittances. | | | Watch out Craigslist, OLX, 99acres, Burrp – here comes Facebook (Groups)! Why does Facebook work so much better - after all Yahoo/Google Groups for suchlike did exist in the past as well? The answer may lie in the network effect - read visibility - that Facebook brings to every update, every share. A much wider sharing, and the chance discovery of something that might catch a user's attention is more "life-like" than the act of pursuing a clear, identified intent on a search engine or a website dedicated for buying/selling used goods, or with restaurant advice. | | | Site restored Over the last few days, we have been facing a few issues with the site and while some of it is attributed to Wordpress version (and few plugin incompatibility), major reason is that our backend hasn't been able to cope up with the strong uptick in traffic. | | | The Great Indian e-Commerce Bazaar [Total Recap] Differentiation is the new motto in Indian ecommerce. The way some are doing it is simply picking a Niche. In our research, we ran into about 90 niche stores that sold nothing but one thing. Some deserve a special mention. | | | Book Review: "The Good Fail" Richard Keith Latman started Microworkz, one of the hottest Silicon Valley startup that rose to fame owing to the unique business model it had. The company went through its own roller-coaster ride – from running one of the hottest startup to going downhill, for not living up to customer's expectation. | | | Samsung Galaxy Advance Available for pre-order in India, Priced at 26790 Samsung Galaxy Advance is available for pre-order at a price point of RS. 26,790 in India. The Galaxy Advance is shipped with 10.16 cm (4″) curved glass screen, WVGA Super AMOLED Display, 5 MP Camera and 1 GHz Dual Core Processor. The phone runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and has an in-built memory of 16GB (microSB up to 32 GB). The price of Galaxy Advance in India is Rs. 26,790/ which is surely on the higher side (we'd recommend you to try XOLO before you decide on Galaxy Advance). Also see: Samsung Galaxy S3 to launch in India in June, Priced at INR 38,000 | | | YipeeClubs: The 'different' social network platform, from Indiaparenting Indiaparenting.com, The Indian parenting website since 1999, has launched an interest and issue based social network – YippeeClubs for parents or would-be parents. Apart from standard social networking features of photo sharing, videos and making friends, the site allows users to join 'clubs' based on their particular interests or issues. YippeeClubs.com offers more than 600 clubs spanning 5 main categories: Lifestyles, Love and Relationships, Parenting, Health & Sports, Interests and Hobbies. While there are blogs and other web properties that allow people to connect based on their interests and likings, it is the first parenting website to have done so. Well, they already have one common interest parenting; bringing others on to a social network is a value-add. However, one thing YippeeClubs has done differently is to engineer its systems in a way that no personal details, comments posted, etc. are exposed to search engines. YippeeClubs.com also offers parents an opportunity to record and share their children's milestones, achievements, funny stories, photos, videos and even their growth, height and weight charts. Apart from keeping abreast with friends' updates, users will also get updates about children in their friends' network. According to Sue Ann Vaz, Product Head, YippeeClubs a significant amount ... | | | Doro PhoneEasy 740: The Smartphone for Grandparents The latest addition to Doro is the PhoneEasy 740, an Android-based Easy Phone showcased in this year's Barcelona-hosted Mobile World Congress. The first smartphone for elderly bears a 3.2 inch touchscreen, and also a slide-out keypad to provide that tactile feedback some grandmas may find more convenient. The phone has both 3G and Wifi, in addition to GPS connectivity. | | | Freshdesk Brings Private Customer Support for Businesses on Facebook Up until now, the only way for an individual user to talk to a business on Facebook was "in public", by posting directly on the timeline. Now users can talk to the business both in public, and go "off the air", through messages on the same social platform. There's no longer a need for the customer to change support channels. Freshdesk automatically converts these Facebook messages into support tickets that agents can respond to. Also, this Freshdesk integration allows businesses get all the details they need without compromising the identities of their customers. | | | Aurality brings the radio to your mobile web Aurality, a Mumbai based startup has launched its iPhone app that pretty much starts off from where Podcast business died. Podcasting, as we all know was a rage phenomena in early days of web2.0 phenomena, but eventually died owing to several reasons (including lack of monetization etc). Aurality is a mobile platform that delivers an audio stream of your favorite news and blogs to your phone so you can listen instead of reading. The beta is available for free in the Apple AppStore and you can take any of the blog/news site RSS feed and have Aurality read the new for you. Unlike Podcasts that had a control on source, Aurality democratizes the entire offering (you can listen to blogs, news, articles or any website of your choice) and one of the smart features they have implemented is the concept of listening modes – i.e. you can choose between - 5 sec headlines - 20 sec clips - Full length articles You can switch dynamically between all 3 modes – i.e. if a headline catches your fancy, switch to quick scan or full article mode to get the entire article. The startup has raised angel money from Rajan Anandan and ... | | | Offerbean: The Small Town, Big Dreams Tale E-commerce is the big thing these days. And come to think of it there are hoards of companies, big and small, joining the bandwagon every tenth day. Opportunities are immense, challenges stiff and the market unpredictable but the craze is growing. It's actually painting the town red. While most of these start-ups are from tier 1 cities of Mumbai, Delhi or Bangalore, the latest one to enter the rat race is Offerbean, from a tier 2 city. The online shopping portal offers discounts, offers and daily or limited period deals. While it has pretty much what other e-commerce companies have in offer, the interesting feed is that the start up is from Jaipur, a city where most of its traders are offline retailers. The founders Abhishek Sharma and Ritesh Khandelwal belong to a small town in Dausa, Rajasthan. It also gives credibility to the fact that smaller towns are not far behind. They are actively participating in the e-commerce growth in India. With the growth in internet penetration and rising purchasing power it is hardly surprising that tier 2 and 3 cities are becoming online shopping hubs but serving them well is a major concern. While major online brands are ... | | | Mirraw Brings Designers and Buyers Under One Social Roof Social shopping is on the rise with startups like Koolkart and Klouzly gaining traction, where you can create lists of items across various e-tailers and compare and share your wanted lists with friends, compare prices across sites, and make an informed and consulted decision. Mirraw.com, a Mumbai-based startup, not only brings the social shopping experience for designer products, but also ports the 'social' experience to designers from whom the designs are crowdsourced. Mirraw is a marketplace where social media aware fashion designers set up boutiques and showcase their fresh new designs to a wide audience on the web. Consumers get easy reach to designer jewellery, bags and sarees, which is the current line of products, expansion to men's apparel and other categories for women being worked upon. Consumers can browse through designs, mark the ones they like as their favorites, and 'follow' their favourite designs. These activities from all users basically curates the most popular designs. You can of course, buy any products that you like. Using Mirraw's social platform, designers can deliver the same experience as brick and mortar boutiques, at the same time build their brand online. They have an admin-controlled boutique on Mirraw where they can upload ... | | | Zovi launches Live, a real-time view of site activity Ecommerce portal Zovi has launched 'Live' feature that showcases real-time view of activity on the website – specifically, what items are being viewed, added to wishlist/checkout page etc. An interesting way to surface content and "live" also gives a sense of ecommerce reach when you see places like Koriya, Vapi etc. buying fashion products online (inline with earlier data we shared from Snapdeal:A Snapshot Of Snapdeal's Product Business -40% Driven by Tier-II Cities ). In terms of feature implementation, do you think a separate section/page is an ideal implementation? Or maybe, a collated view of viewers on a single product (i.e. '28 people are viewing this') is more exciting? Also see: What deals do Indians buy [Crazeal Data] | | | News Roundup: TRAI retains high spectrum price, Govt to set up electronic development fund for IT sector Rahul Khullar to be new TRAI Chairman Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar has been appointed as the new chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for a three-year term. Khullar, a 1975 batch IAS officer of Delhi cadre, will succeed J S Sarma, whose tenure ended today. The tenure of Khullar, who was due to retire in April next year, will be till May, 2015. [source] TRAI retains high spectrum price, single auction for all In its response to Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Spectrum auction proposals, TRAI said that its analysis shows that recommendations do not adversely impact the profitability of the wireless industry or the entry of new operators nor do they adversely affect the affordability of the consumer. "The results indicate that mostly, the impact on tariff is less than 4 paise per minute and often much lower. This can be either absorbed by the service providers from the additional minutes that are generated or recovered through charges for different retail and wholesale service," TRAI said. [source: 1/2] CCI asks Motion Pictures to dispense with anti-competitive rules The Competition Commission of India has upheld UTV Software Communications' claim that the Motion Pictures Association, Delhi, has abused ... | | | Kobian launches sub 4k Android Tab in India The sub 4k ultra thin tab comes loaded with Android 2.3, weighs 341gm and has a resistive touch screen. Additionally, the slate is equipped with a core processor that clocks at 1GHz and packs 512MB of RAM and 4GB internal storage that can be expanded to 32GB through MicroSD. Other features include a 0.3 megapixel camera, built-in Wi-Fi. | | | Startups: Grab your chance to demo @UnPluggd [Nomination Form is Live now] Any product company that is launching a new product can apply for the nomination slot. Earlier it was only startups, but now given that a lot of startups are going great guns, we realized that we need to give them a visibility platform as well. | | | | More to read:
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