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Saturday, September 29, 2012

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An entrepreneur traces his journey through the ups and downs of his startup life "My expenses of living alone at Bombay were not helping. Also both professionally and personally, it was not making sense. All the friends were busy and in fact, I was now too ashamed to go and talk."
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Spend some time playing something, meditating, reading a book. Success is often a function of perseverance, and you might just conserve enough juice and create enough energy to last all the way!
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The governments earlier move to increase spectrum fee five fold to Rs 91,000 from under Rs 20,000 was vastly unpopular and proved prohibitively expensive to cash starved organisations which usually operated community radio stations in rural areas.
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The combined mean score in the study for business enablement stood at 4.08, while financial performance and environmental considerations stood at 3.50 and 2.67 respectively.
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The move, to cut wastage, duplication and leakages and enhance efficiency, is part of the governments long pending plan to implement direct cash subsidies in the country.
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While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app. [Tim Cook, Apple CEO]
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Hungama to go global, launch HTML5 site [Interview]
Advice to Moonlighting Entrepreneurs [Whiteboard Friday]
And you thought TimesDeal voucher code was an accidental leak? Here is the BIG deal (possibly)
Subex CEO Subash Menon Quits [How the mighty have fallen]
Ybrant's $ 175 mn deal to buy three Experian properties off
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Friday, September 28, 2012

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Is TimesDeal so bad at monitoring social media that they couldn't see the promo code being shared? And does it take an army of engineers to remove 1 promo code from the site? Check out staging site then.
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Once hailed as a successful and profitable Indian product company, Subex nose dived into losses after disastrous acquisitions and failed turnarounds. Shares of the company, which touched Rs 800 in its heydays a few years back, plummeted to low double digits.
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Earlier in May, the company had entered into an agreement to buy Experian's PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills, and ClassesUSA.com. The proposed buyout was aimed to add business of $283 million and an employee strength of over 300.
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Through the Unmetric platform, brand managers can access successful Pinterest strategies. Unmetric's Pinterest platform allows brands to unpack various metrics that contribute to their Unmetric Score, including: follower growth, content, frequency and sources of pins for a particular pinboard.
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News Roundup: Pearl Uppal & Gaurav Kacharu launches accelerator cum seedfund- 5ideas, Government of Meghalaya instructed cyber cafes to install CCTV camera, Thyrocare Technologies Limited Secures INR 120 Crores From Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).
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Here goes the daily Newsreel, our daily roundup on the other news we thought we should share: - Android has crossed mark of 25 billion downloads from Google Play, read complete story here. Hurry, grab your favourite apps as Google is offering some discounts over next five days to celebrate this milestone. - Apple and ...
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Similar to its predecessors, Funbook infinity comes with connectivity options such as 3G dongle and Wi-Fi connectivity. Micromax Funbook Infinity also features pre-installed Adobe Flash player.
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A report released by Freedom House, a Washington-based internet monitoring group has ranked India (39) in Internet freedom, down by two places from last year (37). The study conducted by the group covers Internet centric freedom spanning across 47 countries.
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More to read:

Galaxy Note II launched in India, priced at Rs. 39990 (for 16GB)
the Big Bang Geek: Chaitanya [Kookoo's Chief Architect]
SAAS based CRM company, Impel puts TRAI's NCPR list on the Cloud
WriterBabu: A Social Platform to Share your Creativity, Anonymously if you Like
Ozone Media launches advertisement re-targeting platform, Smarton
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

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Samsung today has officially announced the launch of its second 'Phablet' - Galaxy Note II. The launch event took place in Hyderabad with Imtiaz Ali (Film Director). The device is priced at Rs. 39,990/.
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"My mind is not mature enough to handle the complex patterns in classical music yet. Hope I will be able to decipher that before I am too old."
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Phone numbers registered on the TRAI's NCPR portal are now identified with a crossed-out red phone icon in Impel CRM. This will immediately identify to the user that this number is in the TRAI NCPR portal and therefore should not be called.
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The network provides three levels of sharing for posts: public, friends, and anonymous. Anonymous posts are public too, but without your name. Apart from this, it has a designated Diary section, and diary posts can be open, shared with friends, or private.
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To start with, the platform is being positioned as a solution which will help e-commerce companies to acquire customers in a smarter way by assembling banners in real-time and serving them to a re-targeted audience.
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So if unfortunately you are the first one amongst the users to get into the congestion, you can just report the situation back. The traffic reporters operating from the Traffic Control Room will validate the situation, check the reason behind it and let every user know about it.
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The top 10 items and office trends that are becoming rare and could even disappear in the next five years are tape recorders (79 %), fax machines (71 %), The rolodex (58 %), standard working hours (57 %), desk phones (35 %), desktop computers (34 %),
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Imagine spending a day with a dabbawala in Mumbai experiencing his life, or a day learning how to drift cars with a professional or lets take it a notch higher, imagine taking a private fencing lesson with an instructor.
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At present, banks charge a fee of Rs 5 and Rs 2.50 for online fund transfer up to Rs 1 lakh and Rs 10,000 respectively. However, charges for funds transfer (NEFT) exceeding Rs 1 lakh and upto Rs 2 lakh would remain Rs 15 and Rs 25 for transfers above Rs 2 lakh.
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Siddappa G Hullajogi, a farmer who never went to school, uses a self-designed and self-installed water mill to generate electricity that lights up his modest dwelling in Somapura village in Gadag district of Karnataka.
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Here goes the daily Newsreel, our daily roundup on the other news we thought we should share: India is expected to attract investment of $ 42 bn in engineering R&D by 2020, read complete story here. Sounds great for country with very less amount spent on Research and Development. Government restrictions on the Internet have ...
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Bangalore based in-site search startup Unbxd, which demoed at Upluggd last year, has received Series A funding from the Indian Angel Network. Post investment Manav Garg, an IAN member is joining the company as a board member, the company announced today. The funds were raised nearly six months ago to scale up operations.
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Sony India announced the launch of its latest smartphone Xperia tipo in India on Wednesday. The phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and comes with the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system with expandable storage of up to 32GB including additional 50GB free storage.
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The Indian government which recently mustered enough courage to go against its allies and introduce policy reforms in its $ 450 bn retail sector, is now trying to make tax rules easier for the $ 70 bn information technology industry.
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HCL has partnered with ibibo to bundle the iBrowser in its Android tablet range. After this partnership, ibibo's iBrowser would be pre-installed on all future tablets from HCL including the HCL ME U1 and HCL ME Y2 range, the company said.
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MapmyIndia has launched "Don't Panic," a new full-featured maps and GPS navigation app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in India. The move comes less than a week after thousands of iPhone users in India got wild with Apple when they discovered that the new map application on their devices were next to useless.
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More to read:

Tracking makers of modern India: Grassroot Innovators & their Innovations
LinkedIn Introduces Endorsements: One-Click Mini Recommendations?
Russian Startup Bitrix24 brings social intranet at affordable pricing [+Deal for Pi Readers]
WhatsApp in India: Partners with Reliance Communications, is free for college kids
Understanding Online Insurance Industry in India: Past, Present and Future [A Definitive Guide]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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If you are a regular reader of Pluggd.in, you'd have seen the on-and-off coverage of Grassroots Innovation and Innovators, primarily from rural India. Starting today, we would be streamlining our on-and-off posts on grassroots innovations. We will feature one such innovation and its innovator on Pluggd.in, every alternate Wednesday.
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LinkedIn announced Endorsements Monday, a new feature that allows you to recognize professionals for their skills and expertise. The official statement was published only this week though our own Jayadevan was endorsed for Radio (??) a week earlier, and the same day, yours truly was endorsed by an ex-colleague for CSS and XSL, skills I ...
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The tool nicely mixes social networking (think Yammer) with task management (think Do) and tracking of projects (think Basecamp) and importantly, is totally free for 12 users (most of the other tools limit number of free users to 5).
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WhatsApp, the 'open' BBM has partnered with Reliance Communications to bring WhatsApp free to college kids. Reliance has launched a new plan - MyCollegePlan (available only on GSM) which bundles WhatsApp and Facebook app for free (apart from regular cheap calls/SMS tariff).
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Currently, around 17,000 policies are purchased online every month. Though the given figure only constitutes 2% of overall offline sales, it grew 200% in the last 2 years. What we have seen so far is the run up. The big leap will come in the coming years. What we have seen so far is the run up. The big leap will happen over the next 2-3 years.
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Currently seeing around 200 tasks being performed per month, Chachii will expand it portfolio of job offerings by moving into repairing and baby-sitting. They are working upon enlisting students for their planned B2B model, where Chachii would acts as the human resource for enterprises for their market research and event management.
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While many of us are now laughing at the extent to which the movie has been copied, but to those who knew nothing about the original artwork (did you?), the movie still is a great piece of storytelling and proves a simple point that a well conceived products (i.e. sum) is greater than the sum of parts.
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By combining big data with a robust, cloud-based analytics engine, Capillary optimizes the relevance and profitability of discounts and personalized offers to consumers in real time to increase loyalty and sales.
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Bangalore based deal site Bhaap.com is claiming that they will be the first to sell the new iPhone 5 in India at Rs 71,995 starting next Friday!
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Microsoft extended two years of optional support for Windows Server 2008 to its product-support roadmap, OMX launched a cloud computing platform built by Amazon Web Services.
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A study by online marketplace Sulekha.com says that consumers saved about Rs 42 cr in August 2012 by buying gadgets online from the top 15 e-commerce players in India. Thanks to all the VC money, online shops are perhaps selling all that inventory to us cheaper than they can afford to. The study indicates that consumers are buying mobile phones online at almost factory price.
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Mr Sam Pitroda’s first ever press conference on Twitter was right out of the first episode of Yes Minister, the British sitcom from the 80s. Much like Jim Hacker the newly elected Member of Parliament in the satirical series, Mr Pitroda, the adviser to the Indian Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation proclaimed ...
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More to read:

Explained: Interbank Mobile Payment Services [IMPS] in India
Texas based uShip attempts to create a marketplace for Indian logistics operators
Nokia launches Life+, to sell Asha 308 and Asha 309 by end of 2012 for under Rs 5000
Indian app developers CANNOT sell paid apps in the Play app store [Google removed India from the list]
IIT Bombay incubated Covacsis raises Rs 2.5 cr from Blume Ventures & Others
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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Since February 2012, around 15 banks have extended the IMPS service to their customer and the number of people adopting the service has gone up significantly.
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The easiest way to explain uShip is that it is like eBay for shipping – customers post items (literally anything – cars, furniture, fighter jets) they need moved, and professional transporters (anyone from an independent driver to larger packers and movers) bid for the job.
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Finnish phone-maker Nokia has launched Nokia Life+, an iteration of its Nokia Life Service which offers information on education, health and infotainment. The new service will be available on Nokia's new affordable smartphones Asha 308 and Asha 309 too. The two new phones were announced earlier and are likely to start selling in India by the end of 2012 for less than Rs 5,000.
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Google has now removed India from the list (link to support page, link to cached page).
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Covascis which helps manufacturing companies to measure floor economics on a realtime basis will used the funds to expand its business in India and abroad.
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rBus.in attempts to address these issues by designing a 'personal' public transport system in the form of bus pools. The bus service provides you a stress-free commute via a point-to-point bus with guaranteed seating, flexible timings, and your level of luxury.
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Cofounder Raghav shares that within three months of the launch, company has managed to grab 15,000 users/47,000 tests on the platform. Importantly, the platform isn't just about coding skills but offers 125 tests across 4 areas which include IT(programming),Finance , Law and General Aptitude.
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"So, while betting or playing for money among players on a game of golf, chess, bridge or billiards may be permitted, they cannot be considered legal if operated by a gaming house," the court said.
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$35 tablet's second version is set to launch on October 5, again, our Minister Kapil Sibal has been quoted as saying.
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With Piquor Booth, a club in Gurgaon is able to reach 120000 users on Facebook in just 2 months. The club had gathered 1400 authentic email ids of its regular visitors and has more than 3000 photographs of happy customers to showcase on their website and Facebook page
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More to read:

Paris-based Jib.li Makes Use of Surplus Luggage Space to Deliver Shipments [AirBnB of luggage]
Datagres Technologies raises $2mn from Nexus Venture Partners
Google to host Google for Entrepreneurs Day in Delhi
And Pluggd.in goes global!
No roaming charges from next year: Kapil Sibal
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