Weekly Summary : Facebook’s Growth In India Slows Down; What Has Not Changed with India’s Payment Gateways

Back from the loong vacation? Well, here goes curated not-to-be-missed pieces from articles published on NextBigWhat.com during August 11-18th week.

Before that, have you checked out bigMobilityConf? Scheduled for August 31st, bigMoblityConf will bring entrepreneurs, doers and geeks from mobile space (including apps). Grab your seat right away!

– Editorially Recommended Articles –

• Chinese UC Browser Overtakes Opera To Become #1 Mobile Browser In India
• Kerala to Celebrate Sep 12 as Entrepreneurship Day, Student Entrepreneurship Policy to Extend to school-going students
• What has not changed with India’s Payment gateway providers
• Facebook’s Growth In India Slows Down; 75% Are Mobile Users Now
• Startups are Riding the Change in Domestic Travel in India; It’s all About Adventure

——— Channel : Indian Startups / Resources ———

• Restaurant Search Engine Tunnn Will Tell You What’s Good Around Where
• Renting and Selling Books gets Easier for Delhi University Students with Bookelivery
•  Companies Bill 2012 – A Startup’s Perspective [Whiteboard Friday]
• Controlling the Cost of Capital = Value
• Sort and Do More with Gmail Attachments Using MetisMe
• GSF Accelerator Announces Latest Batch of Startups; Microsoft Accelerator too has announced its new batch.

———- Channel : India Online 

• India Launches School Education Portal Under Creative Commons License
• Pakistan’s Napsters Crew Hacks MTNL Mumbai and Pune Traffic Police Site
• The Online Food Business Just Got A Little Tougher; Justdial forays into Food Delivery
• Indian Government Will Spend Rs 22.5 cr Of Tax Money on New Social Media Wing

——— Channel : APPS

• Why App Developers Develop Apps? Most For Sense of Achievement (And Not Fortune)
• AdIQuity Launches $1mn Fund for App Developers
• Samsung Launches 9 Indian Languages UI; Ropes in Startup Reverie, Facebook
• Open Data Is Great, But It Must Get Real (Time) for Meaningful Apps
• IISc Makes It To Top 500 Universities Ranking; No Other Indian Institutions Are On It
• Native App vs Mobile Website – a Founder’s Perspective
• After The Frenzy, Enterprise 2.0 is Getting Real Now: Sumeet Anand of Kreeo [Interview]

—–Channel: Indian Startup Funding

• Rural Skill Development Startup Head Held High Raises Rs. 2.5 Cr In Angel Funding
• Bangalore Based Datacenter solution provider NxtGen Raises $8.8 Mn from Intel Capital
• Caravan Craft Retail Raises Rs 1 cr from Unitus Seed Capital for Apparel & Home Decor Line
• Cloud Based Bioinformatics Startup, InterpretOmics Raises INR 10 Crores Funding

———–PRODUCT CHANNEL ————

• How Qualified is your Lead?
• Of Yatra, ICICI and Dependency on Internet Services [Dear Product Startups: You are in ‘Services’ Business]
• The Product Lesson Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Medium? Soul Matters

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