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Ybrant Technologies Ltd, a digital marketing services provider, has filed its draft red herring prospectus with SEBI for entering the capital market with its IPO of 3,500,000 equity shares of Rs 10 each.
Ybrant is a California corporation based out of Palo Alto, CA with a global delivery center in Hyderabad, India with over 200 [...]

Well Offlate there have been so many new startups springing up and so many updates on the startup front in India that its been difficult to keep up with the action! We have tried our best with posts like this, this and this in the last week but i finally ive found a better way! [...]

Zapak Plans to go global? 
Zapak.com which recently won the award for excellent work in ‘Branding’ at the Asia Brand Congress against nominees like google and naukri.com held in Mumbai on the 26th & 27th of this month has unvieled plans to go global by venturing into markets like China and Europe by launching gaming portals for those markets.
Zapak COO Talks [...]

After the huge success of the Twenty20 World Cup (primarily due to a dream India Vs Pakistan final) and the way web 2.0 phenomenon of blogs, social networks and video sharing sites reacted to the Twenty20 mania it is clear that cricket is hot right now and so is any online media or discussion around the game.
Keeping this passion [...]

We had covered the launch of AskLaila and how it featured against the other local search players. So if the laila got her first majnu (For those who aren’t indian laila and majnu can be classified as the indian counterparts of juliet and romeo.) in Matrix Partners the second, and third majnus have come in the form [...]

Internet  started as a facilitator so everything that was offline information started migrating online especially jobs, matrimony and real estate classifieds which have been tracked by the recently released comscore report as well. So marriages started being facilitated through the online mode even though India was traditionally known as a conservative country. Brides have their [...]

Hotmail goes local
We had earlier covered hotmail offering custom ids to their users, well this service is going to launch this weekend where you can have custom ids based on these categories.

Where i Live, Who i Like, Who am I, What i like & i dont fit.

Users will be able to create multiple e-mail addresses [...]

Ibibo has launched a mobile service for their users where users on ibibo can speak to each other over their cell phones absolutely free. (source - pluggd.in)
Users can only make these free calls only within India (which is still great).
With all the speculation revolving privacy issues on social networks, ibibo’s mobile service does [...]

What is Reffster?Reffster is a job referral website where users can refer their friends/colleagues for job openings that are available on Reffster.com
How does it work –
The process sounds very simple. Here is the diagram to explain the process.

I am sure the above picture must have made It clear. Just sign up and [...]

This is an Exclusive WATBlog interview with Mr Anuj Kanish Co-Founder & CEO of TolMol.com where Mr Anuj shares his thoughts with us about his company TolMol India’s No. 1 Comparison Shopping Site.
What is the Rational behind Tolmol? What are the synergies you see with your other internet spaces?
Avake launched online comparison shopping site for [...]

Goforads.com

Just one of the many existing online classifieds available out there who promises to provide ads for free which anyways all the other ones provide…
So what makes this site different?
Nothing really, goforads.com is much like any other classifieds website.
Other than buy sell ads goforAds.com also provides users to advertise their ad spaces [...]

I just came across the press release and it intrigued me as it said India’s first Video Search Engine - SneakCast.com! There have been International players like players such as Blinkx, Truveo and Dabble but I couldn’t help but click on the link to find out more..
So here is what i found.. SneakCast.com is probably [...]

If you are an active online reader then you should have heard or even subscribed to the Google alerts service. Google alerts which started as an alert service for google news quickly expanded to Blogs and web alerts for keywords. Those who dont know how google alert works basically you input keywords i.e. incase you [...]

Im not sure what people mean when they say our site is revamped. The word revamped sounds so dynamic but the actual usage of the word is even when someone changes one color or one image on the site!
Naukri.com has also supposedly revamped their site. According to Hitesh Oberoi COO and director, Naukri.com “With the [...]

Whoever said that social media and user generated content wasn’t booming in India? The world cup twenty20 series one of the most watched cricket series from an Indian fan point of view came to its rightful and fruitful end yesterday with the Indians lifting the worldcup after 24 long years (though the last one was [...]