This week, Indian Telecom Industry celebrated 15 years of mobility and as per the latest numbers, 18 million mobile subscriptions were added in the month of June.
Here are the top 5 articles from week ending August 1st, 2010.
- The Amazon – Facebook Alliance… The most obvious marriage… Finally!
- Paypal Resumes Electronic Withdrawals–Changes Policy like Facebook
- Blow to IRCTC – Indian Railways to Launch its own Website for Ticket Booking Site
- MakeMyTrip Files for $100mn NASDAQ IPO
- Underestimating Opportunity – Quotes That Misfired [Inspirational]
Startups/Entrepreneurship
- India Has Got Talent [and Hackers]
- A Look at Early Stage/Angel Investment Mindset in India
- IAN Invests in Pune Based Innovize Tech, Enterprise Productivity Software Startup
- PocketSafe – Hasslefree Insurance Search (Review)
- Best ever Mobile Site Plugin for WordPress Bloggers (You can have an Awesome Mobile Site Like Pi)
- Embrace Technology [Before your Competition Does]
- Match Them, Beat Them, Ignore Them – Interview with FlipGraph Team
- The Arrogance, Post-Google Acquisition (?)
- FlipGraph – Books, Movies, Music Store With a Flip
India Online
- Facts & Myths in Indian Local Search Space [Insights from an Insider]
- Internet Advertising to grow by 20.1% and Gaming by 25.2%: [PwC Entertainment and Media Outlook 2010 report]
- Sad State of Job Portals in India [Startup Opportunity]
- Indian Ocean Pokes at Record Companies, Gives away Latest Album for Free [Kill Piracy]
- Consumer Confidence Index: Indians are Super Confident [2010 Q2 Survey Results]
Mobile/Telecom
- Much-Awaited Dell Streak In India by October (?)
- Telecom Roundup: 17.9 Million Subscribers Added in June
- Vodafone Launches Solar Powered Mobile Phone for Rural India
- 347% Growth in Mobile Internet Browsing in India Since 2009 [Opera Report]
Technology
- Tech Around WWWorld: Playdom Acquired by Disney, Firefox 4 Beta 2 Released
- The Case for SAAS : Business is Networking
- McAfee Acquires TenCube, Makers of WaveSecure
- Facebook Taps into The Community Knowledge- Launches Facebook Questions
Current Discussions @Pi Forum
- Tell us why you chose to be an Entrepreneur.
- need feedback on freecharge.in
- A website I built today: http://www.contd.in
- The Men That Don’t Fit In
- Paypal Alternative in India
Gadgets et al
- Apple’s Magic TrackPad Teardown
- Garmin-Asus to capture Indian Smart phone market by giving correct, price to performance ratio
- Micromax X600
- How to develop Qt apps for Nokia devices
- Nokia X6, the Unlimited Musical Phone In India by Next Week
Best of the Toons
- How VCs work?[Pi Toon]
- Facebook Albums [PI Toon]
- Pot holes – Biz opp [PI Toon]
