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Website of the Year India award – 2011

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Website of the year 264 websites were nominated over 22 categories. More than 15,000 votes were cast between the 14th October and the 21st November.

The following websites are the winners of the 2011 Website of the Year India award:

 

Most Popular
 Best Website
Automotive Car Dekho The Automotive India
Career Naukri.com TimesJobs.com
Communities WAYN.COM Facebook
Dating Shaadi.com IndianDating.com
Educational IGNOU W3Schools
Entertainment YouTube YouTube
Finance State Bank of India moneycontrol.com
Games ibibo Free Online Games
Health & Well being Yahoo! Health Health.com
Charities UNICEF Save the Children
Housing & Interior MagicBricks.com CommonFloor.com
News & Information Yahoo! News The Hindu
Government Indian Railway Indian Railway
Leisure & Travel TravelTriangle TravelTriangle
Shopping eBay Flipkart.com
Sports ESPN Cricinfo ESPN Cricinfo
Telecom airtel Skype
TV & Radio NDTV BBC World
Comparison naaptol naaptol
Weather & Traffic Google Maps Google Maps
Search & Find Google Google
Mobile Websites Facebook Mobile Samsung India Mobile

The Website of the Year India award is the online people’s choice award initiative by online research agency MetrixLab. Click here for the complete news

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Businessworld Young Entrepreneurs Award Shortlist

Monday, February 21st, 2011

25 companies have been screened and shortlisted by a panel of venture capitalists in the selection process of the Businessworld Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2011.

Category A: Companies that are at least 2 years old and less than 5 years old
Aspiring Minds, Delhi
Anjaneya Lifecare, Mumbai
Clickindia, Delhi
Cocubes, Chandigarh
Commonfloor, Bangalore
Desicrew, Chennai
Gridbots, Ahmedabad
Kwench, Mumbai
Minimac Solutions, Pune
P2Power Solutions, Noida
SEED, Gurgaon
Techbuddy Consulting, Mumbai
The Hiring Tool, Hyderabad
TouchMagix, Pune
Wirkle Technologies, Delhi

Category B: Companies that are less than 2 years old
ArrayShield, Chennai
AliveNow, Bangalore
Engage4More, Mumbai
Eko, Delhi
GreenwayGrameen, Mumbai
MobStac, Bangalore
Phyzok Learning, Coimbatore
Tatsam Sports, Delhi
Valuefy Consultants, Mumbai
Witcraft Marketing, Delhi

Two independent juries will meet in Mumbai next week to evaluate the shortlisted companies and pick the winners in each category. Five companies will be picked as winners in Category A and three in Category B.

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IITR Tech fest Cognizance Presents Blogomania 2011

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

With India boasting of around half a million blogs, and all the major news channels consisting of a presence in the blogosphere, there is no doubt that this powerful media is here to stay. Blogomania, an event to exploit this face of the internet, aims to pit the top bloggers of the nation against one another. Primarily a contest to test the blogging skills of the contestant, this is a platform to showcase one’s eloqence, wit and humour to impress the masses.

All registered users of Cognizance 2011 can participate. Cash Prizes worth Rs. 30,000 are at stake.
Check out Blogomania site.

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Hottest startups from Bangalore

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Bangalore is known as India’s Silicon Valley.

* InMobi (2nd largest mobile Ad Network the world)
* Flipkart (Indian Amazon)
* Redbus (Online bus booking)
* Grabbon (bought by snapdeal) and Taggle (group buying)
* CloudMagic (improves gmail search)
* AllGo Systems (conceptualised a $35 tablet.. possibly the Indian govt one)
* Notion Ink (developing Adam tablet has shifted their base to Bannerghatta Road
* Myntra (print tshirts/mugs on-demand)
* HealthCareMagic.com (Ask a doctor)
* IonLabs (innovative products like cointracker)
* MustSeeIndia.com (Travel website)
* Crederity.com ( Online Identity verification)
* Minglebox.com ( Career Site)
* HolidayIQ.com ( Holiday Reviews Site)
* Commonfloor.com ( Apartments networking site)
* Althea Systems (the company behind shufflr.tv — making videos more social)
* Hidden Reflex (Built Epic Browser, the first truly Indian browser)
* AskLaila (local search)
* TringMe (VoIP)
* NGPay (mobile payments)
* GoVasool (local shopping)
* http://revu.in/ check-in and review via SMS
* http://mobstac.com/ Create better mobile version of your website
* http://oobi.in/ Interactive design solutions
* http://taggle.com Group buying

Complete discussion here

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Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2011 at IIT Kharagapur

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Ecell is a Student organization with the aim of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among college students in India and nurturing young people with bright ideas. Ecell boasts to be one of the most active student bodies in India – with more than 15 start-ups from IIT Kharagpur itself within its five years of inception.
With rise of interest in students to pursue entrepreneurial and non conventional careers Ecell is organising a start up camp at the campus during Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Startups can participate to hire interns from students of IIT Kharagpur and 50 other engineering and management institutions as well as will get a chance to network with several Venture Capitalists and other startups.
Global Entrepreneurship Summit  is the annual flagship event of Ecell. It is one of the biggest entrepreneurial platforms for academicians, new-age entrepreneurs, eminent business, personalities, venture capitalists, startups and the students to gather at one place and share their entrepreneurial endeavours and experiences, and to pledge to take entrepreneurship to greater scales.


The Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2011 is going to be held from 14-16 January 2011.

Startup Camp Details:
1. The start up camp start ups shall give a small (2-3 slides) presentation of their start up and the work profile they have to offer.
2. The registered student will then proceed to the start up camp arena where they can interact with different start ups over a coffee table.
3. Near to the networking space, a short presentation upon the opportunities in various attending startups will be flashed continously compiled in the form of videos.
4. Various VCs and angel investors will also be invited to take part in the networking with various startups and the students. There will be a separate conference session between VCs and startups where startups can pitch their idea for funding by the VCs.
5. There will be a panel discussion of VCs and startups on how a college startup can get funded by a VC.
6. Participating Start Ups will also be given space on our website where they can post about opportunities with their own company and draw attention.
7. Start Up shall have to pay a nominal fee of 1500 INR per representative to E-Cell for participating in Start Up camp on campus. However posting on the web shall be at free of cost.


Benefits to startups attending the Startup Camp:
1. The camp will serve as a pre-placement talk for the startups looking for talented and passionate student willing to learn by working in a startup.
2. The camp will serve as a great platform for the networking between startups, VCs and students.
3. The event will create a creditable profile of participating startups amongst the student community helping them in branding and their future hirings.

For more information about Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2011 visit www.ges.ecell-iitkgp.org
For any more Information regarding Entrepreneurship Cell, you can visit www.ecell-iitkgp.org

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Lifeblob accuses Facebook of copying its ‘Related Photo’ feature

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

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Lifeblob is accusing Facebook for blatantly copying its ‘Related Photos’ feature.

Pranav (Founder/CEO) of Lifeblob says – Just to set the record straight, we have had this feature ( and a lot more ) at http://www.lifeblob.com for over a year now and facebook has blatantly copied it. Every time you upload a photo on lifeblob, a recommendation engine not only looks at the face tags, but also the other information associated wtih your photo to show you photos that are closely related around it.So when you upload your graduation day photos, we discover other photos of your graduation day and show it next to your photo. What facebook has done is picked up this idea and launched a simple version of it that only uses face tags.

The question is that how many Indian Startups would suffer from these unethical activities from Biggies like Facebook, Google & Microsft.

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Go out and vote in BBMP elections on 28th March!

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

The BBMP elections are here finally! Get ready to elect your Ward Corporator on coming Sunday – 28th March 2010, and play your role in improving the governance in Bangalore.

Janaagraha’s Jaagte Raho! campaign has teamed up with CommonFloor.com to ensure all residents of Bangalore go out and vote for these all important elections, which will affect our quality of lives on a day-to-day basis!

Click here to take the pledge to vote now!!!

In order to vote in these elections, your name must be on the voter’s list.
•    If you were registered to vote for 2009 Loksabha elections, check the voter list click here.
•    If you registered recently (after May 2009), check the latest supplement at the office of your Revenue Officer (RO). Click here for to find the address.

Please remember that your name must be on the voter list for you to cast your vote whether you have a voter ID card or not. If you haven’t been issued a voter ID card, you can vote with any other valid photo ID card.

In case you wish to BE THE CHANGE, you can run an effective door-to-door campaign in your own society / neighbourhood, and ensure that all your neighbours go out and vote in these elections!

Download our guide to organize a neighbourhood door-to-door drive.

To know more about your candidates, click here to check the affidavit details (education, assets, criminal records) of the candidates contesting from your ward. You can also be a part of the following “Know Your Candidate” events being held across Bangalore:

Ward 7- Byataranayapura
Date and Time: March 23 (Tue), 4:30pm
Venue: Vinayaka Sunrise School, Coffee Board Layout, Near MK Ahmed Stores, Kempapura.

Ward: 112-Domlur
Date and Time: March 24 (Wed), 4:30pm
Venue: Domlur club, Domlur

Ward: 34-Gangenahalli
Date and Time: March 24 (Wed), 5pm
Venue: Staff institute, DGQA Residential Complex near Para School, Mekhri School,Opp. HQ training command, airforce, Bangalore- 560032

Ward 6: Thanisandra
Date and Time: March 24 (Wed), 4:30pm
Venue:Kenneth George English School, Bhuvaneshwari Nagar.

To volunteer with Jaagte Raho! campaign or for further details, call at (080) 41277105.

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Qualcomm buys Mango Tech Products: Ojas Exits

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Qualcomm, has bought Mango’s handset user interface software with a PC-based customization kit that allows developers to create mobile applications.

Mango has announced the sale of few of its products to Qualcomm Inc.
Ojas Ventures, the $35-million early stage venture fund floated by N S Raghavan, the co-founder and former joint managing director of Infosys, has made its first exit from its investment in Bangalore-based Mango Technologies Pvt Ltd.

The exit for Ojas follows Mango Technologies’ move to sell few of its products to Qualcomm Incorporated, the world’s largest wireless semiconductor company. As part of this transaction, Qualcomm received mobile handset user interface (UI) software and a PC-based UI customization toolkit from Mango. The value of the deal was not disclosed. The deal with Qualcomm has offered an exit window for both Ojas, which is the first institutional investor, and other angel investors in Mango.

Reference Links:
http://www.vccircle.com/500/news/ojas-makes-its-first-exit-with-mango-technologies
http://www.livemint.com/2010/02/03231305/Ojas-exits-Mango-Tech-after-Qu.html
http://contentsutra.com/article/419-ojas-ventures-invests-in-software-solution-provider-mango-technologies/

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The Entrepreneurship Summit 2010 by Ecell, IIT Bombay

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

E-Summit is the annual event of Ecell at IIT Bombay.

E-Summit 2010 focuses on the three E’s:
* Explore
* Evolve
* Enterprise

E-Summit will bring in some of the most enriching and enlightening panel discussions, workshops and interactive sessions with successful and distinguished entrepreneurs and corporates. For startups and entrepreneurs there will be parallel events like mentoring sessions and startup showcasing. The summit will also host the finals for EUREKA! 2009- Asia’s largest Business Plan competition.

Web: http://www.esummit.ecell.in
Date: 7th Feb, 2010
Venue: IIT Bombay

Organized by:
The Entrepreneurship Cell
SAC, IIT Bombay
Mumbai-400076
Phone No: (022) 25764044
Fax No: (022) 25768490
E-Mail: ecell@iitb.ac.in

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JustDial Sues Askme for data theft

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Data theft is quite a common phenomena in any web business, especially the local search. JustDial has recently sued Infomedia’s newly launched portal, Askme.in for content theft.

JustDial has obtained an exparte injunction against Infomedia 18 Limited, restraining it from carrying out any business or rendering any service of providing information of business, services, and products, through their newly launched website askme.in.

The High Court has also appointed commissioners to visit Infomedia 18 Ltd’s office in Delhi and Mumbai and to seize and take into custody all the CPUs, compact, floppy discs and/or other storage media containing any part of the commercial or business directory database belonging to Just Dial (source).

Complete news here.

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