Weekly Recap – [22nd – 28th sep]

Startups Profiled:

• Taroby : Email Dashboard for Enterprises
• CashUrDrive – Get Paid to Display Ads on Your Vehicle

Entrepreneurship Related:

• Outlook for Indian Corporate Venture Capital
• Demystifying Dual licensing with GPL

Mobile/Telecom Related

• Google Phone, G1’s India launch in December or early January 2009
• Obopay and Tagit team up for common mobile banking infrastructure
• RBI issues Mobile Banking Guidelines – Conservative Approach
• Govt. decodes Blackberry – all set to snoop
• Telco Roundup: Etislat : Swan, Broadband Subscriber base : 4.73mn..and more

Funding Related

• NVP and Reliance Technology Venture Invest in Suvidhaa, S-Commerce Company
• InfoEdge invests Rs 20 crore (for 49% stake) in eTechAces, online insurance distributor
• Govt. sets up Rs.10 crore funds to promote entrepreneurship in Design
• Ojas and Inventus Capital invest $2mn in TeliBrahma

New Launches:

• Times Group Launches Business Networking Portal, PeerPower
• Novatium and Tata Teleservices launch Nova netPC, thin-client based network computer
• Google Launches InQuotes : No ‘development’ quote from Lalu Yadav
• Pramati Launches WoM Social Widget – Tell-a-Friend
• MSN India Launches Live Search Maps
  
• PubMatic Launches AdFlex, Campaign Fulfillment Service for Ad Networks
• German Company uses Chrome to Launch Iron

Interesting Articles/Discussions:

• Interesting comments: Logo similarity between LinkedIn and In, Few Guerrilla Marketing Tips
• The secret behind in.com’s traffic!
• Recession Joke
• India Mobile Web Report – Google services most browsed
• Why Wikipedia is bad example for Startups (for UGC)
• NEN explains the goofup..but is still a goofup
• Internet Searches in India – 51 per month (per netizen)