Startups Profiled:
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)