Plugged.in Newsletter Archive: 7/21/13

Friday, July 26, 2013

Angel Investing In India Is Broken; Phone Makers Have Something to Learn from Xolo

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Only 5% of Indian SMEs have a Web Presence: Report

Web-enabled small and medium enterprises boasted revenues 51% higher, had 49% more profit, and customer bases 7% broader than their offline-only counterpart says a new report compiled by Nathan Associates, which has been jointly released by FICCI and Google.

Alok Mittal of Canaan Partners raised a red flag about India’s Angel investing scene yesterday: It needs to be fixed fast.

Media company NDTV has launched an e-commerce portal for ethnic wear targeted at the Indian diaspora.

“What phone is that?”"Xolo”"Ah – the Intel phones. Which one? How’s it?”That, and the ads and some of the results Google displays when you look for “Intel mobile” or “Intel phone”, tell an interesting tale.Just check for the number of times “Xolo” shows u

Soundice is a music player application accessible via the web browser, that users can use for free, without any limits and in-ads. It has readymade radio chart playlists and also gives you a way to create your own. Perfect for queuing up music for a long day.

“Unlike IITs, BITS is not always about education, but also about all round development and better exposure. The people also come with strong analytical background, to add to this development, there is strong peer pressure and competition.”

Recently the Uttar Pradesh(U.P) Government was criticised for dumping undistributed laptops in godown, and letting them rot by exposing them to dust and rain water. Only 79,000 of the total procured laptops had been distributed and the remaining are rotting away in the godowns.

The government is planning to allow private institutions to plug into the National Knowledge Network, to make access to high perfomance computing and shared resources cheaper.

Wikimedia Foundation has launched its initiative for enabling free mobile data access for Wikipedia, called Wikipedia Zero in India. The non profit organization has signed a 3 year agreement with Indian telecom operator Aircel for this initiative .

What are Indian entrepreneurs like? Do they have shiny degrees to show off? Are there a lot of grey hairs? Are they risk averse? Early stage venture firm Canaan Partners has brought out some data which gives us interesting insights into these questions. Here are the findings based on a survey by Venture Intelligence of…

Google has sent out an email to Google India Mapathon participants stating that is unable to announce the winners of the contest that was due on July 23rd because of security concerns expressed by the Survey of India (SOI). It has also displayed the letter on the Mapathon site.

Procialize, a product of Indian School of Business’s (ISB) one credit ‘Planning an Entrepreneurial Venture’ course, is a cloud based event networking platform .The platform, incubated at ISB, will help attendees network and interact before, during and after an event, through its portal.

The Tata Group is in talks to acquire Indiaplaza, one of the oldest running e-commerce ventures in the country.

With a total of $4 mn to back them, the Taxiforhave set out on an ambitious plan in a crowded space.

Lytkraft, a Bangalore based startup is focusing on a different niche all together. Instead of home-grown brands, it targets startups that are based abroad but have suppliers base in India.

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Soon JustDial Will Be An Internet Company; Should They Worry?

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Of E-Commerce in the 90s to starting up BigBasket: Hari Menon [Video]

Hari Menon, the CEO & Co-Founder of BigBasket.com, is not new to entrepreneurship. Back in 1998, he was part of the team which started India’s first e-commerce venture called Fabmall. From then to now, e-commerce has changed a lot. By 2007, the team had ventured into offline retail as well. After selling the chain of…

Founded by Ashish Gupta & Lavesh Bhandari both from IIT (Delhi), TheShoppingPro is creating a set of web and mobile tools to help online shopping.

So, what do we need to optimize? Is it only the website for the search engines, or is it time to actually see where we are lacking as far as the engaging ability of our website is concerned and optimize our website so as to get the best of conversion?

We’ll have regular inputs, insights from these folks on a variety of topics that matter to all of us. And every now and then, you can expect a real gem that we will showcase as “NextBigWhat Select”.

Big data startup Minetta Brook Inc, DIY App Platform SnapLion and local grocery shop LocalBanya has raised funds from investors.

Internet & Mobile contributed to 62% of total search requests on Just Dial as compared to 54% last year. Its primary revenue source is paid campaigns through advertisers and it grew 21% compared to last year.

CATapp helps you revise and make sure you are getting things right. You still have to study with books and other reference materials.It contains CAT papers from 1994 to 2008 to help students prepare for the entrance exam.

There was speculation that the company had raised $6 mn in April. However, at the time, Accel Partners had only made a strategic investment in Power2Sme.

In 2012 the Government had come up with the National Policy On Electronics (NPOE) in order to fill the gap between domestic demand and production of electronic goods.

In comparison, it has the lowest average connection speed in the Asia Pacific region. China’s average speed is 1.7 Mbps and South Korea has 14.2 Mbps, the latest Akamai State of the Internet report said.

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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Average Internet Speed in India Grows 20% to 1.3 Mbpsl iPhone Sales Up by 400%

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Average Internet Speed in India Grows 20% Sequentially to 1.3 Mbps: Report

In comparison, it has the lowest average connection speed in the Asia Pacific region. China's average speed is 1.7 Mbps and South Korea has 14.2 Mbps, the latest Akamai State of the Internet report said.

Cook specifically said that sales of iPhone 5 and iPhone 4 were strong, and added that the buyback schemes launched in India with the iPhone 4 helped increase its sales.

Flipboard has launched a web version for people to be able to curate, read and share magazines. The experience will be similar to the Flipboard app on mobile devices.

Find out how e-commerce player Snapdeal is increasing conversions by personalizing its site.

OnMobile Global Limited, the telecom Value Added Services (VAS) company, has said that it has closed the acquisition of Livewire Mobile. The acquisition was announced earlier in June. The Bangalore headquartered company, is one of the largest B2B digital VAS providers for mobile, landline and media services globally. The company provides mobile entertainment services, such…

Line's chief competitors WeChat, which dominates the Chinese market, has over 300 million users while WhatsApp has over 250 active monthly million users.

For first 28 days sellers will get one on one support from a Facebook marketing expert who will help the seller with building a page, growing fan base and driving engagement. After a month, e-mail support will be available.

The company's product, Kartrocket, is a DIY platform which can be used by sellers to start an online store.

The Lumia 625 has 512MB RAM and an internal storage of 8GB. The Nokia Lumia 625 also supports a microSD card up to 64GB. The phone is powered by the latest version of Windows Phone 8 and also includes the Nokia Lumia Amber update.

Canonical is looking to crowdsource $32 million on Indiegogo within 31 days to build an Ubuntu phone. The company has already raised $3 mn from supporters.

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Monday, July 22, 2013

Hack Attacks All Around: Has Internet Security Hit a New Low?

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Free Customer Care Video Chat for Websites With POSfish

Hyderabad based POSfish.com offers free to use customer support video chat software for websites. Since POSfish is based on WEBRTC, website owners can easily integrate this on their websites without much development skills.

When it comes to healthcare, there are hardly any reliable comparison services and importantly, the lack of transparency in this sector makes it all the more difficult for consumers to trust online healthcare services.
Kolkata based Surgerica is

The infamous Anons, members of the global Anonymous hacktivist group, mainly oppose Internet censorship and control. Their main targets are governments, organizations, and corporations that support Internet censorship and control agendas.

. Users will now be able to follow other foodies who match their taste in food and opt to only see restaurant rating aggregates from these people.

Myshkin Ingawale and his team at Biosense Technologies are planning to crowdsource resources for their urine analysis app.

The Apple Developer site has been down since Thursday and now Apple has released a statement saying that the site was compromised by an “intruder”.

This week’s The SunnyMag contains stories about the future of cars, flying humans, the massive global smartphone market, the cheat codes to life and a lot more.

In 2011, when Nogle had raised funds from Info Edge, we’d asked if a web app startup should raise fund even before a product launch from large corporates?