Best Of The Week –Apple iPad2 in India (?)

Pluggd.in’s super charged contest, PowerPlug is ON for the month of April and if you are a startup that believes you have what it takes to be the PowerPlug, do apply.

Here is the weekly recap (for week ending April 10th, 2011)

Top Articles

• Early Stage Startups– “Take It Personally”, Will You?
• Of Customer Relationship, DNA of Entrepreneurship and The Industry
• From Local Deals To Selling Products – Group Buying Pivoting Already?
• The Best Ever Advice On Building A Sales & Marketing Machine
• How To Protect Your Brand Name [Legal Resources]
• Apple iPad2 Coming to India This Month? [Updated]
• The PowerPlug Contest For April is ON

Startups/Entrepreneurship

• From Collars To Buttons – Tailor Your Own Shirt Online At Peprismine
• Group Buying Site Koovs Moves To Products [CEO On RoI and Manpower]
• Sloka Telecom Raises $0.6 Million Funding From KITVEN
• Seedfund Invests in Nevales Networks, Cloud Based Network Security Services For SMEs
• Buy Handmade Items Online From NetHaat, NCR Based Marketplace Startup
• Should Innovation be a Closed or an Open Activity?
• App Review : Zomato
• Book Review: The SAAS Edge
• Book Review : The Crowdfunding Revolution [Social Networking meets Venture Financing]

Technology

• How To Protect Yourself From Bad Software Design
• Rediff Launches SlideSongs [Mix Photos and Music]
• Twitter Research–50% Of Consumed Tweets Are Generated by 20K Elites
• What Are The Attributes of A Winning Mobile App?

Jobs

• Senior Software Engineer
• Senior Business Development
• Software Engineer, Hibernate for 10W
• Lamp Developer
• Software Engineer
• Python Tech Lead
• Test Lead
• Dev Lead
• Delivery Manager and System Architect – Startup Company

Mobile/Apps

• App Review: Saavn Music
• Legal Research goes Mobile with Manupatra Applications
• Android Fragmentation Is A Huge Challenge
• In-app Billing Launched on Android Market

gadgets

• Creative Launches ZiiO Tablets that Comes with Pure Android Audio
• HTC Desire S Coming to India In April
• Firefox Releases List of AddOns That Slows Down The Browser
• Verizon and NEC Go Beyond 100G in Successful Field Trial
• Harley-Davidson Launches Forty Eight in India
• Evernote Statistics–89% User Acquisition Via Word Of Mouth
• Futuristic: Battery-less Mobile Phones
• Tata Pixel–The Next Generation “Zero Turn” Car
• Zune Marketplace Launched in India
• Motorola MILESTONE 2 Available in India For Rs. 21K

PR

• Sify Chairman Raju Vegesna Wins the ICC Auctioned Match Ball of the World Cup Finals
• Infibeam to Power KKR Online Merchandise Store
• *astTECS launches Fixed Mobile Convergence Gateway (*ast FMC gateway) in India
• Genpact to Acquire Headstrong for US$550 Million
• Hungama Launches the Cricket Stock Exchange
• Tata DOCOMO launches SongShare
• airtel rolls out 3G services in the cyber city of Hyderabad
• NyooMedia Launches Integrated Platform for Online Advertising
• Special Cellphone Number That Spell World Cup [New Concept]
• Free Call Back Service launched
• Bessemer Venture Partners Closes $1.6 Billion Global Fund [25% For India]
• IBM Invests US$38M in Cloud Computing Data Centre to Address Asia Pacific Growth [India To Benefit]