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| VentureFund – the new kid in the block connecting startups and angel investors VentureFund has over $100m already committed by angel investors around the world who are keen to invest in breakthrough start-ups. | | | Doing Business As (DBA) when incorporating in USA for Indians [Whiteboard Friday] Sometime businesses need to operate under a different name then they have registered themselves. Learn how this can be achieved using DBA (Doing Business As) when conducting business in USA. | | | Q1 2012: India PC Market Sales Surge by 7.7% Lenovo occupies the top slot And for the first time ever, Lenovo India has become the No. 1 PC vendor in the country, in terms of unit shipment, as per IDC Asia/Pacific Quarterly PC Tracker, Q1 2012 with an overall market share of 15.8% (backed by the biggest deals in India i.e. ELCOT) | | | Airtel slashes 3G Tariff by 70% 3G hasn't yet picked up in India and while operators are to be blamed for the steep pricing, Airtel has taken a lead in bringing down the 3G pricing and making it more affordable. The ideal plan to start is 300MB for Rs. 100/month and we certainly hope other players too join the pricing war. At 3 paise per 10 KB of data download (70% reduction), do you think 3G will get the much needed subscriber base in India (Airtel has only 2.25 million active 3G subscribers)? | | | Freshdesk Announces Future Fund, Will Provide $10M in Online Helpdesk Support to 501 Startups Worldwide Freshdesk is on a roll. After raising $5mn fund from Accel and Tiger, the company launched a few innovative social features (Private Customer Support for Businesses on Facebook, integration with Google Analytics, Gadgets and Contacts [Irresistible for Google Users) and has now announced Freshdesk Future Fund, that will provide 501 startups and incubations with $10M worth of Freshdesk's cloud based support solution for one year. With the Freshdesk Future Fund, startups (with under $1M in revenues) can get up to three full-time customer support agents on Freshdesk's Garden plan free for an entire year. The plan includes multi-channel support capabilities with which startups can support their customers through email, phone, their website, Facebook and Twitter, all from one place. The plan even includes community management capabilities through which startups can engage customers in discussion forums and allow their early adopters to suggest and vote on ideas. Entrepreneurs with multiple brands or product lines can support all brands from a single Freshdesk account. Freshdesk has also teamed up with leading technology incubators and angel funds including: YCombinator, YouWeb, Tandem Entrepreneurs, Internet India Fund, 500 Startups and Proudly Made in DC. Catching them young? Building its own ecosystem? | | | Anonymous Takes Down Congress and Supreme Court Website, Gets it all Wrong. Anonymous group has taken down Congress government (aicc.org.in) and Supreme Court (supremecourtofindia.nic.in) website, owing to harakiri Indian government is causing on the censorship issues. | | | A Look at Meteor JavaScript Framework [Tech Treat] MeteorJS is a Javascript web framework which allows you to build web applications completely in Javascript. It removes the context switching between front-end and backend code and allows your code to run any where in browser or on the server. It is very well suited for building running realtime web apps. | | | | More to read:
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