Tata group owned retail chain Landmark is launching an e-book reader application for Android users in less than two weeks from now. The company is also gearing up for big e-commerce play, adding categories and selling existing offline merchandise on their website. --------------------------- Building realtime apps (MMOGs, group chat, online meetings etc) require you develop communication servers, setup infrastructure to deploy those servers, manage them, scale them etc. All this workflow is highly different from development of non-realtime applications and not many developers are adept at developing such applications. --------------------------- Drawing analogy from how Google Docs function, Framebench acts as a central workplace where creative assets can be stored and shared . Remote teams and clients can review or mark changes required on the content and even host discussions in real time. --------------------------- Earlier this month, Twitter released v1.1 of its public API, the first upgrade to the API since launch. The initial version still works, and all developers and consumers of the API have six months to migrate to the new API before the 1.0 version is sunset on March 5, 2013. We've tried to look at ... --------------------------- [Editorial notes: Are Enterprise startups boring? Why is media all gaga over consumer facing startups? Guest author, Jitender Sharan (founder and CEO of CipherGraph Networks) shares his perspective on Enterprise startups space.] I read an article about this in Business Insider (here) and then again saw a similar question asked on Quora. It is a ... --------------------------- Our initial fund size for startups is designed on the lines of Y Combinator and 500 startups. We would be investing around $ 25,000 to $ 30,000 in each of the 12 startups for equity in single digit (5-8 % range). --------------------------- The Indian government which allowed foreign direct investment up to 51 % in multi brand retail trading last week has said that multi brand e-commerce companies with FDI is will not be permitted to operate. This will negate companies like Amazon from entering India's $ 450 bn retail industry. --------------------------- This partnership with PayPal aims to help small exporters and existing merchants on EBS platform to start accepting overseas online payments from day one as compared to the 30-day period offered by other payment systems and up to 90 days as per traditional export models.
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