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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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Perfios: A software application to manage personal finance

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Perfios, a Bangalore based startup, is introducing an innovative software application to manage personal finance in a Safe and Trusted environment and help users analyze and understand their finance in a simple, easy and secure way. Perfios was created by individuals who are backed by extensive years of experience in the software domain and are further backed by financial domain experts from various financial institutions.

The members of the Perfios think-tank have had long, successful stints at organizations leveraging the best-of-the-breed technologies to build intuitive, secure software applications for the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) sector. The founding team members have served as C-level executives in several multinational organizations and have been instrumental in setting up and managing global delivery teams. The members have also successfully transformed several start-up software companies into large, profit-making enterprises.

Who can benefit from Perfios?
Perfios is for anyone who wishes to solve the problem of managing wealth distributed among various asset classes and among various institutions. If you have bank accounts, credit cards, Mutual Funds, Equity etc with multiple institutions, how often have you felt that – ‘what if all of this could be accessed at one place?’ Perfios addresses exactly this aspect (and more!) and provides access across asset classes on one platform and in the process takes care of your other worries too!
Please do give it a whirl (www.perfios.com) and share your feedback.

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Maneesh Dhir Joins Apple India As Country Sales Manager

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Maneesh Dhir has joined Apple as the companys “new Country Sales Manager for India, responsible for the day-to-day operations in the region.”
In July last year, Apple India lost its chief Alok Sharma who had led the firm for five years and was reportedly responsible for growing its operations from $10 million to $100 million. Tom Preising, Director, Sales Operations for Apple EMEA had taken over as country head for India.
Complete News

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Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

IndiaKhelo announces Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball in association with CommonFloor.com

Indian Startups are not shying away from going offline and touching all part of the ecosystem. Indiakhelo, India’s premier sporting site, announced Bengaluru’s first ever Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball for teams from schools, colleges and apartment complexes. Commonfloor, India’s biggest online apartment community will be co-organising the tournament for apartment complexes. The tournament will host more than 150 teams across 35 colleges, 35 schools and 20 apartment complexes. Some of the apartments who have confirmed their participation are IDEB Springfields, Ferns Rainbow Drive, Sobha Jasmine, Purva Fountainsquare, Suncity Corporate Leisure, L&T Southcity Apartments, etc. The teams will play their matches on Dec 5th and Dec 12th at Jayanagar stadium to announce the final winners across various categories.

While the tournament will be a very important addition to the school and college level sporting competitions, it will provide apartment level players a first ever chance to move ahead from local level matches and compete with the best players across the city. Sumit Jain, co-Founder, Commonfloor.com said, ”Our association with the IRL is a win-win situation for apartment teams to move on from gully-sports and play in the highest competitive form and the most authentic professional setting. Moreover, it is yet another opportunity to reaffirm the community spirit that we stand for.”

In case your team still hasn’t registered, kindly contact:
For Schools & Colleges: Aman Prakash, Indiakhelo.com (aman[at]indiakhelo.com, Mobile: 8050973479)
For Apartment Complexes: Vikas Malpani, Commonfloor.com (vikas[at]commonfloor.com, Mobile: 9886063375)

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Startup Saturday at Bangalore ­- October Edition

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Theme – Online Retail

Startup Saturday is an initiative by Headstart to provide entrepreneurs in each city with a monthly community driven forum that is structured in agenda but open in discussions. A Startup Saturday provides a forum for entrepreneurs to discuss, present, network and learn from peers, prospective customers, adopters, partners and investors.

The fundamental idea is to have all parts of the innovation ecosystem interact with each other with high frequency and through rich conversation. We strongly believe that this would lead to faster evolution of the entire ecosystem.

Time and Venue:­
Saturday – 10th October, 2009 10:00 hrs – 13:00 hrs
Venue: NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore

Agenda:
Demo 1:  FlipKart.com
Demo 2:  Picsquare.com
Lightning Pitches:
Panel Discussion “Opportunities & Challenges in Online Retail”
o  Vitheeswaran from Indiaplaza.in
o  Vijay from WisdomTap
o Vijay from Infibeam.com
Snacks and Networking.

Visit http://network.headstart.in/projects/startup-saturday-bangalore/project-home or http://headstart.in/ for further details.

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Broadband Connectivity: India just manages to beat Egypt & Nigeria

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Even though we are close to touching 400mn mobile subscribers, India’s broadband speed is not at all a story to talk about. In a study conducted on Broadband Quality Speed (BQS), India stood 62nd and has managed to beat Egypt, Kenya, Indonesia and Nigeria.

Overall average broadband quality increased across the globe:

  • Global average download throughput increased by 49% to 4.75 Megabits per second (Mbps)
  • Global average upload throughput increased by 69% to 1.3 Mbps
  • Global average latency decreased by 21% to 170 milliseconds
  • South Korea, Japan and HK top the list, followed by Sweden, Switzerland and Netherlands (source).

Complete post here.

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Cool Startups and Cool Entrepreneurs

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

As quoted in today’s Livemint: “Cool jobs may be difficult to find in these recessionary times, but there’s no shortage of cool entreprenuers”. That is true in India. This recession thing is acting as air to the spark, the result is going to be  huge fire among Indian youth. These cool start-ups not only working on the cool idea, but provides a cool environment to work for. Here are some the companies covered under Cool Startups by Livemint on 25th September 2009.

D.light Design

CommonFloor

Cocoberry

Syringes

LordsOfOdds.com

RideInSync

Gift a Garden

Mantrikpl

CashurDrive

For complete coverage, get hold of Todays’ Mint Lounge or read it online here

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Unpluggd on SEO & SEM – September Edition

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Mayank Bidawatka, Head of Marketing at RedBus.in presented the overview of SEO & SEM for startups in the September edition of Unpluggd.

Representatives from following companies attended the event:

eLagaan

CommonFloor,

EveningFlavor,

MustSeeIndia

Cheesecare

90Di

And many other startups.

For more details about the presentation, visit pluggd.in

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Startup Saturday on E-Commerce and Internet Marketing – 13th June 2009

Friday, June 12th, 2009

This Startup Saturday would have Rajeev Goswami CEO – Shore Consulting who will be speaking on marketing strategies for startups. You can register here.

Demos:

Date: 11 AM, 13th June 2009, Saturday
Venue: Honeywell Technology Solutions, opposite IIMB, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore

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CricFeeds: Live White Label Syndication Service

Friday, June 12th, 2009

As the name suggests, Cricfeeds is a startup in Cricket domain. With T20 world cup going on, the cricket fever is on all time high.
According to their website: Cricfeeds enables News, Entertainment and Sports portals to launch Cricket channel in a transparent white label fashion.

The site has got good traction with Alexa Rank as 26,271. But it looks that they have worked a little on their public pages including the ignored contactus page.

http://www.cricfeeds.com/cricfeeds_customer-service.html

http://www.cricfeeds.com/cricfeeds_privacypolicy.html

http://cricfeeds.com/terms_of_service.html

All these pages have the same title tag saying “Cricfeeds.com — Terms of service”

Well it’s good that they have got the basics right with a reasonably good product.

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