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Top articles of this week includes our interview with Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com. Aaron shares amazing insights in the art of starting up and the interview is highly recommended for entrepreneurs.
Other top articles are
A Look at IRCTC’s Banner Ad Rates [From 20K to 9L]
Interesting data on banner advertising rates of IRCTC.
Are you happily married? [Co-founders]
The cofounders. The team.
Dell Streak Launched in India, Priced at Rs. 35,000
Do you think that’s a failure story in making?
Maiden Test Flight of Virgin Galactic [Extreme Ventures]
Virgin Galactic completed her first solo test voyage to space successfully sometime back!
“Historic morning in Mojave CA: our beautiful spaceship, VSS Enterprise has just landed, completing her first solo glide flight successfully” says the Virgin Galactic team. And indeed it is so.
Google Shuts Down 1-800-GOOG-411, Boon for JustDial?
The service will shutdown on November 12th and while Google has its own reasons, expect Justdial to benefit from the voice search.
Funding/M&A
- Komli Media Acquires Indoor Media, UK Based Ethnic Marketing Media Company
- Mast Kalandar secures Series B funding from Helion and Footprint Ventures
- Hosting Provider, NetMagic Raises $16Mn from Nokia Growth Partners, NVP and Cisco
- News Roundup : Mastercard Acquires 12.5% Stake in Pune Based ElectraCard Services (ECS)
Tech/Online
- Futurebazaar.com revamps its 4 year old online shopping space [Deal Marketplace]
- Google Instant Launched in India
- Opera Launches Open Mobile Ad Exchange, Marketplace for Feature Phones
- Book Review–The Man Who Lied to His Laptop
- BJP Files Cyber Fraud Case Against Congress [Domain Redirect Issue]
Toons
- Artificial Brain [PI Cartoons]
- Sir Newton vs Sir Rajnikanth [PI Cartoons]
Freemium Series
- Business Model 101: Why startups often fail at Freemium
- Business Model 101: Number Crunching before you try Freemium
Opinion
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