Best of the Week – Indian SMEs,IRCTC Failure Rate [and more]

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Coming back to the recap, top 5 articles of the week include

• Mr Entrepreneur, How Approachable are You? [Lessons from Calls I received after I shared my mobile number]
• Damn! The Big SME Opportunity that Technology Entrepreneurs Ignore
• 23% Failure Rate for IRCTC Transactions in Jan 2010
• Facebook Driving More Traffic to Yahoo than Google [Power to Social Media]
• Freelancers Report – India Tops the Chart, SEO and Internet Marketing are the Hottest Skills

Startups/Entrepreneurship Related

• Social Media Community Pulse Service, BrandAdda to shut down
• Bookmark Library – Library++ for Book Lovers
• Helpless Indian Technopreneurs rescue themselves – Go Social, asap!
• Is PaaS hard to sell in India?
• Tranz – Share Files (Music, Videos) with your Phone Contacts
• OTA from Spicejet /Indigo and Kingfisher, Rang7 Shuts Down
• Dell and Google India Partner to Target Indian SMEs
• United Prosperity – Serving Channel for Microloans (Social Business Review)]
• Funding Roundup: Career Launcher Invests $1mn in 361 Degree, Actis in Integreon 

Digital/Mobile World

• No IPL for News Channels – Who Wins? YouTube
• MWC Coverage – They all are talking about iPhone
• Nokia to Launch Mobile Money in India – In Partnership with Obopay/Yes Bank
• Zynga Comes to Bangalore. Ibibo threatened?

Technology

• HTML5 is in. Google Gears RIP
• Tech News: Google LivingStories Goes Open Source, MS-Yahoo Deal, BBC [and more]
• Adobe Photoshop Turns Twenty – Founders Expected to sell only 500 Copies/Month
• Videos will account for 90 percent of network traffic by 2013
• Another GSM Service, T24 to hit the market (Future Group/TTSL Partnership)

Also, keep an eye on Job section for latest jobs in technology and marketing world.