| | Hushbabies acquires kid's apparel e-tailer Mangostreet, plans to foray into private labels We have been looking for investment and acquisition both for quite some time and ultimately we have found compatible synergy with Hushbabies's team. | | | Book Review: The start-up of you [You are a Born Entrepreneur] How did Sheryl Sandberg who began her career in India where she worked on public health projects for the World Bank, goes on to become one of the top executives at Google and then Facebook? | | | RockeTalk launches Profile Ring Back Tone, Partners with Youtube's Olympic theme song Users simply had to click on an invite banner or an invite message in their inbox and the inspirational tone was automatically set as their profile tone on their social profile page. The moment anyone visited the profile, the YouTube track played on its own as the Profile Tone. | | | Shekhar Kapur and A R Rahman's Qyuki to launch by November: CEO Qyuki, the new social network co-founded by film maker Shekhar Kapur and music legend A R Rehman will be launched nationwide by November this year, a top official of the startup told Pluggd.in on Thursday. The social network is for people with a creative bent to showcase their talent, get noticed and earn from their creativity. For a country which draws millions of viewers and hundreds of participants to television programs the Indian Idol and Dance India Dance, the platform is likely to draw a lot of attention from hundreds of artists looking for recognition as well as brands looking to promote their products and services. | | | IRCTC Transaction Data: 29 % Failure in Net Banking/Debit Card Transactions [July 2012] Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), reports 17.22 million attempted transactions via credit and debit card for the month of July. Out of which 12.91 million (75 %) transactions were successfully processed. | | | India Innovation Fund invests in personalized analytics startup, iKen Solutions Mooga uses machine-learning techniques along with business rules, hence it can adapt to any situation where personalization is the key. Applications of the framework includes recommendations & personalizations for Operators/Mobile VAS services, prepaid life cycle management etc. | | | Google's 'Student on web study': India ranks #2 for education related queries This marks significant jump as India has outnumbered 6 other countries to become number 2 in time frame of four years, earlier in 2008 India was ranked # 8. | | | Government wants telecom operators to track your location : 95% accuracy for 300m distance That is, 95% accuracy for 300m distance over 2 years and overall, a minimum of 70% accuracy across the country. The purpose is to track down the location from where the call had originated with an accuracy of 30-90 per cent in an area of 50-300 meters depending on the population and area. | | | | More to read:
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