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Monday, June 11, 2012

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Why Ecommerce acquisitions makes no sense in early / nascent stage

Hey, we guys are growing inorganically, new category, new vertical and so on – we will require more investment capital in next rounds, care to participate?'

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BitRhymes Co-founder on building the top grossing game, Bingo Bash

The Odisha-Bangalore and San Francisco based startup BitRhymes is riding high on the glory of their recent game Bingo Bash. The game is one of the most popular titles on Facebook with more than 2 million monthly users in about three months of its launch.

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Exclusive: eBay India launches PowerShip, a shipping (meta) service for sellers

With PowerShip, all a seller needs to do is sign-up for the program, package the item in eBay packing material and hand over the package to the assigned Logistic Service Provider during item pick-up.

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News Roundup: Expedia to open retail outlets in India

Online travel agent, Expedia is planning to open retail outlets for the Indian market. Though first for the company globally, OTAs in India have taken a hybrid model to sell tickets/packages - MakeMyTrip has 54 stores across India. Yatra.com has 23 outlets, including one in Kathmandu, which it refers to as 'Yatra holiday lounges'.

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The Multi-SIM market in India: Nokia leads the pack with 30% market share

As per a report by Neilsen, there are 71 million unique subscribers that use multi-SIMs in India, driven by youth segment. As far as reasons for buying multi-SIMs handsets are concerned, the desire to optimize tariff (avail better deals from operators) tops the chart, followed by 'staying connected at all times/emergency, avail CUG scheme etc (note that privacy constitutes only 8% of the reasons to buy a multi-SIM handset).

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Notable comments this week [Site Engagement Roundup]

Pluggd.in is read by India's most amazing community of entrepreneurs/founders/investors and here are some of the notable comments/insights that were shared by the extended team, i.e. readers.

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More to read:

"Thinking Scale": Why is it important for startups?
Here is how you can access Hulu, Pandora, Turntable and others from India (actually from any non-US geography)
How to 'find' a Co-Founder and divide equity [Whiteboard Friday]
AaramShop launches AaramTV to help FMCG brands narrowcast their brand messages at the neighborhood grocer
What is the right UX Job Description? [And difference between UI and UX professionals]

Announcing UnPluggd

We're excited to announce the next edition of UnPluggd, India's biggest startup event.
Date: July 7, 2012 [in Bangalore].
More here.

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