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Saturday, September 22, 2012

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If you are a startup, what are the different ways of setting up the company. One way is to setup a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP). In this episode of eLagaan Whiteboard Friday, the eLagaan (http://elagaan.com ) team explains all about this new way of doing business.
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Users can enter their queries in one of the five languages after that Sandhan retrieves a set of relevant documents in the chosen language, from data crawled related to tourism domain.
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Has mobile payment solutions company mChek shut shop? From various sources Pi spoke to, its key people have moved on and last we checked, its website was not reachable directly or through Google (if you type in main.mChek.com, you might get in). Technical support numbers listed on their site don't work. Customers are complaining on their Facebook page. What gives?
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Google has now updated the list of countries where developers can sell paid apps and India has been included in the list
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Bharti Airtel's 'my airtel' app that was launched a fortnight back has clocked over 200,000 downloads across Android, iOS, Blackberry and other platforms.
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Through the day (and sometimes late at night!) we follow the going-ons in the world of technology, products, internet and bring the most relevant, impactful and useful to you with not just the information but useful insights as well. There’s obviously a lot more that goes on in the world. Both big and small, not ...
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Retail chain Landmark to launch e-book reader application [Aims at bigger e-commerce play]
Gamooga Platform enables realtime backend for games and apps
Framebench brings real time collaboration for digital agencies and design firms
Twitter API v1.1: What Does it Mean For Developers?
Why aren't there more enterprise startups?
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Friday, September 21, 2012

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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[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 ...
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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).
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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.
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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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More to read:

iPhone users in India angry with Apple: new maps nearly "useless" [Do not upgrade yet: iScrewedup]
Info Edge invests $2.3 million in restaurant guide Zomato [Owns 48.5% of the company]
Government plans inter-ministerial panel to handle Internet focused issues
7 Things I learnt from Barfi! [The biggest risk in life is NOT taking any risks]
The Truth: India is not producing enough
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

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Those who upgraded soon discovered that new maps were seriously lacking. There weren't many points of interests, landmarks or directions on it. The map in India only had standard and satellite view and no directions, rendering it practically useless to many.
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Info Edge, which runs the recruitment site Naukri.com has announced an investment of 12.86 crore in online food guide and restaurant directory website Zomato. As per BSE filing, the fresh investment has been made through optionally convertible cumulative redeemable preference shares of Zomato Media.
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The panel is likely to be headed by the Department of Electronics & Information Technology and will have representation of multiple ministries such as the Department of Telecommunication, Home, Commerce and External affairs. The motive is to improve coordination among the various arms of the government and arrive at a consensus on Internet related issues.
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Once you take a decision, live with it. There's not much to gain from living with regrets. Living with regrets is a constant reminder of some error in judgement or blunder, you have committed in life.
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India has to create a generation of Indians who aspire to build beautiful things. It has to inculcate a spirit of celebrating excellence instead of wallowing in mediocrity. It has to produce engineers who dream to become engineers instead of just aspiring to become the bean counters. India has to build and construct.
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Service providers can provide a paperless KYC experience by using e-KYC and avoid the cost of repeated KYC,the cost of paper handling and storage, and the risk of forged documents.
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More to read:

Samwer brothers' Rocket Internet backed startup launches Coupon site in India
Micromax launches Messaging App, HookUp
News Roundup: BJP website hacked by Anonymous, India approves national IT policy, Call rates may fall
The God of Startups! [Happy Ganesh Chaturthi]
ASUS launches 3-in1 Padfone ( smartphone, tablet and netbook) in India for Rs 64,999
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

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Service providers can provide a paperless KYC experience by using e-KYC and avoid the cost of repeated KYC,the cost of paper handling and storage, and the risk of forged documents.
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Hookup features include doodle pad, Walkie-Talkie, file sharing, voice notes and location sharing. Micromax also claims that HookUp consumes less memory, minimum battery and Data Usage consumption; has faster push speed and uses less bandwidth
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The Bharatiya Janata Party's website has been hacked by the "Anonymous" hacking group on Tuesday night. The Government has approved the National Policy on Information Technology, that aims to make at least one individual in every household e-literate. Telecom tariffs expected to come down as TRAI is reducing inter-operator charge which is paid between two operators.
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He is also the Lord of Beginnings - and pretty much every ceremony, every new business, every housewarming, every journey, starts with an invocation to Ganesha.
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The PadFone is a regular smartphone with a 4.3-inch 960x540 display that runs Android 4.0.3. However, after Combining with a PadFone Station it transforms into a 10.1-inch 1280x800 Android tablet with up to 63 hours of talk time.
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The service now lets you search through pretty much all the possible consumer data services and as far as traction is concerned, the team shares that they have 100K users.
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Twitter is fast developing as a media company and apart from consistent UX, the company is figuring out more advertising opportunities to brand$.
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A big majority of people are not interested in switching to iPhone 5 in India but still, this is claimed to be the best launch ever. After its launch last week, Apple pre-booked 2 million iPhone within the 24 hours.
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More to read:

Welcome to 2054, Minority report like Iris scanners to become an Indian reality soon? [UID IRIS Scan Report]
Yahoo : Will the free phones help?
Simplilearn announces expansion plans [All about the big e-learning opportunity in India]
Why organizations should consciously segregate Reporting and Analytics
Nivaata's Verayu Helps You Locate Without GPS [Location as a Service]
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

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This post might sound a bit alarmist, but the future is almost here and very little is being talked about it. A crude avatar of the slick iris based authentication system from the sci-fi movie Minority Report set in a 2054 is taking shape in India- circa 2012. "For such a Big Brother-esque system, why would any law-abiding resident ever volunteer to scan their irises into a public database, and sacrifice their privacy," Carr questions. But in India, we are past the questioning stage.
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Yahoos, overall, would currently have a more diverse range of handsets (including S40 and S60s) than those in the above list, and represent the real word better.
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Besides e-learning, the digitized school products segment with companies like Educomp, Everonn and NIIT dominating the scene is also growing. The market for digitized learning products in private schools is likely to grow 20 % cagr to reach $ 2 bn by 2020
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Does the Analytics team fall under the CTO? That is because Analytics is often synonymous with Reports. This is great, because the natural progression for analytics maturity in organizations is to first put in place systems to start collecting data, and then move on to creating Business Intelligence frameworks to help structure this data and report ahead
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The system provides an on-demand, non-intrusive, permissions-based location tracking and sharing platform that has no impact on battery life. It is focused specifically on the "where-are-you" problem, as opposed to the "where-am-i" problem solved by most other location-based services.
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Agents with the most fresh points for each achievement in a month also get to collect trophies like "Sharpshooter", "Speed Racer" and "Customer Wow Champ".
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"Internationally, as we are in the early stages of establishing our footprint, we are targeting a mix of both large and small markets. We have not yet made any substantive effort to monetize our international markets and have not generated significant revenue from these markets to date."
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" However, from Pearl-Kacharu episode, we have learnt an important lesson not to hire husband-wife combination in our group as it poses unique operational challenges."
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More to read:

Indian Government now mulls over Cyber Surveillance Agency to monitor web
Find Sarkari naukri (government jobs) online on Sarkari Exam, a Varanasi based startup
Come December, the Internet will no longer be the Internet we grew up with [International Telecommunication Union]
"Ethical hacker", Ankit Fadia's website gets hacked. Again.
Nokia launches Lumia 900 in India, Priced at Rs 32,999
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