Weekly Recap: Launch of Junglee, Indians #2 on Facebook

Popular Posts for week ending Feb 5th, 2012

• Amazon India Goes Live with Junglee
• Why Junglee is a Brilliant Move by Amazon
• This is why Amazon’s Junglee is gonna SMASH the B**ls of Indian e-Commerce players
• Of Product discovery, Smaller Retailers and Junglee
• Nokia Leads Multi-SIM Device Market with 19% Market Share
• Flipkart Raises $150mn at a Valuation of $850mn
• India Number 2 Nation for Facebook – 46 million active users per month

Startups Profiled

• Startup Flo Launches In-Taxi Digital OOH Advertising Network in Mumbai
• Exchange4Artist Lets You Source Artists On Demand
• Search for Deals on SearchDeals [Student Startup]
• SAAS Startup Grexit Skips Freemium Model [SAAS Pricing]
• This Indian app startup witnessed more app downloads than Rovio
• Search for Deals on SearchDeals [Student Startup]

• Rockfeller Foundation’s Top 11 mHealth Innovation Challenge : 3 Projects from India that made it to the list
• Harnessing energy from Cavitation to expedite chemical & biological processes: Hyca Technologies [Interview with Founder]

• Kookoo Integrated with Twilio’s OpenVBX – Now Create your own Phone System on the Cloud
• Retail Chain GKB Opticals Goes Online, Integrates With Offline Store for Delivery

Digital Economy: Internet/Telecom Business

• Telecom Operators Seek Govt. Subsidy to Deploy LBS Infra in India
• Bharatmatrimony Moves Competition Commission of India Against Google India
• Seventymm to close down rental business, will focus on ecommerce
• News Roundup: Govt to take away Aakash deal from IIT-Rajasthan
• Of Mr Raja, 2G licences and Honorable Supreme Court
• Google’s First Implementation of Country Specific Censorship : Blogspot Redirected to Blogspot.in in India
• News Roundup: AOL’s Coolage Partners with IITs/IIMs, Dell Readies $1Bn Warchest for India buyout
• Will regional languages attract a sizeable chunk of (online) users soon?
• Telecom Subscription Data: Urban Down, Rural Up. Wireless Teledensity reaches 74.15%
• Rediff’s Homepage Looks Ugly [Again]
• News Roundup: Micromax develops cold feet over IPO

Resources

• Explained: Do You Need to Pay Service tax on Adsense Income in India?
• Is it a good idea to ping an investor via LinkedIn?
• Explained: How to Design Terms of Service for Your Website?
• “What Keeps You Going?” [Pluggd.in TV]
• LinkedIn More Effective for Lead Generation Than Facebook & Twitter [Less Noise Does the Trick]
• What is your development philosophy?
• Explained: Amazon RDS for MySQL in Amazon Cloud-A DBaas

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