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Bigadda To Shutdown Social Networking – Converts to eCommerce

Bigadda, the social networking and blogging platform from Reliance Entertainment is now changing its avatar into an eCommerce portal. In a communication to the users Bigadda mentioned that no user…

Employer Rating/Salary Comparison site, JobeeHive ‘almost’ shuts shop

Most of the other company review sites have been abandoned as well. Criticat, Talentty. Apart from the fact that most of these sites went thru’ recession blues when jobs were hardly few and far in between, there was ofcourse a basic missing factor – that of monetization/sustainability.

Social Media Community Pulse Service, BrandAdda to shut down

BrandAdda, a destination site to track community pulse has decided to shutdown, citing lack of success on the business front. Founder, Tej Arora shares some of the insights/challenges they faced…

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Personal Finance Startup, Zibika shuts shop

Update (April 20th, 2012): The site is back now! Started by IIM alumnus, Zibika was focused on insurance space (earlier coverage) and had tie ups with Swiss-based VIG Insurance brokers,…

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Digital Out of Home Company vJive Networks shuts shop(?)

Digital OOH company vJive, which was started in 2004 has shut shop, as mentioned by a reliable source. The company raised close to $5mn from Matrix Partners and tied up with retail outlets (like Subhiksha) as well as BFSI outlets for expansion.

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Is there anything called ‘Art of Dying’? Techtribe goes off the web, Media sections lives on

After ‘Art of Start’, is there anything called ‘Art of Dying’ in Entrepreneurial world?

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Sneakcast, India based Video Search Engine officially dead

Sneakcast, video search engine (an Indian startup) is officially dead (though we announced their march towards deadpool in

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Webaroo morphs into SMSGupshup..to move office to India

Webaroo has decided to morph into it’s portfolio product, SMSGupshup – the site now redirects to smsgupshup’s site. Webaroo started an application that will enable users to search and browse…

Movie ticketing site, BookEazy shuts shop – Founders to focus on Lipikaar

BookEazy, Pune based online movie ticketing service has shut shop and the founders will now focus on Lipikaar, the language transliteration startup. ‘There has been a significant shift in the…

TechTribe (Deadpooled) founder to launch TenMarks? [Grapevine]

Techtribe is dead and the founder, Rohit has launched a new startup Tenmarks.

Video Startup TinselVision out of sight – shuts shop

Internet video startup, TinselVision has closed it’s operations and the site now throws 403 error. Tinselvision closed $6mn last year and their video-on-demand service was targeted towards South Asian communities…

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TripMela shuts shop – on sale @ eBay

Travel lead generator, TripMela has decided to shut down their operations and the site is on sale @ eBay.in Tripmela’s business model revolved around lead generation (via travel newsletters) and…

Ninemotion, Online SMB Exchange Marketplace shuts down – Founders share insights/experience.

Ninemotion (read our review), Bangalore based online marketplace/exchange for SMBs has decided to shut down it’s service. Deepak Vinchhi, co-founder of ninemotion shares his insights/experiences: “The only real failure in…

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OrderMonger shuts the service

Hyderabad based OrderMonger (read our earlier review), has decided to shutdown their service. “We regret to inform you that OrderMonger.com will cease all operations from Oct 1, 2008. This decision…

TriedPool..not DeadPool

Over the last few days, you must have noticed few posts on shutting down of few Indian startups – while it disturbs some of you, the reality is that it’s…

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Antya nearing Deadpool? Founders move on

Antya, (profiled earlier) the Indian version of Mahalo is almost nearing deadpool (or shortcircuit, as we call it). Founders (earlier used to work for ibibo) have moved on: Sunny Saurabh…