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BharatMatrimony.com the matrimony portal which claims to have over 12 million registered members announced the launch of matrimony services on Airtel. Airtel has over 77 million mobile subscribers and bharatmatrimony’s matrimony services would now be available on Airtel Live the wap portal on all the GPRS enabled handsets using an airtel connection across the country.

Keeping [...]

Arzoo.com the travel portal backed by Sabeer Bhatia of Hotmail fame is getting into the print business with a magazine on lifestyle and leisure known and ArzooLife. The innaugral issue of the same is is expected to be launched on the 30th of October.
ArzooLife claims to be a super premium magazine aimed at SEC A++ [...]

The India centric blog Mutiny.in is venturing into the print media space.
Mutiny.in, which started in 2006, prides itself as an Indian thought terminus - a platform to place one’s opinion, share experiences, and debate issues. A community blog that aims at discussing and addressing issues of social importance around politics, religion, science, media, technology, terrorism, [...]

Recently Affle announced a tie up with Airtel on the sms search front with its SMS 2.0 product which would be powering the sms search on Airtel. We felt there was a need to get a sense where this Industry i.e. the mobile search space was headed be it sms search or search via mobile [...]

A considerable time after it sent out request for proposals, BCCI.TV, the Indian cricket body’s new official website is finally out. The site is neat, fresh and ordinary and hasn’t broken any path in its effort to bring Indian cricket online (officially at least). So you find a scorecard of India’s last international match, overview of domestic tourneys, news, and perhaps the most interesting part the archives (subjective).

Delhi based Educomp Solutions Ltd, who acquired a 51% stake in Learning.com for Rs. 105 Crores and acquired Singapore based Ask n Learn back in May 2008, have now announced that they have been handed a project to implement Computer Aided Education in the schools of Karnataka.

Karnataka’s Department State Education Research and Training (DSERT) have [...]

Company has been giving. The company has distributed around 10,000 test SIM cards to its employees.
RCom has invested around Rs.800 crore and erected 2500 towers. By mid-December, the company plans to launch the full GSM service.
The testing began in the cities of Mumbai, Bangalore, Surat, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Ludhiana.
The second stage of funding will involve [...]

According to Hindu, BSNL has made its dial-up connection, NetOne, available for free. Such a move by BSNL spurred a thought in me. What if dial-up connections are actually made free in India? Will that see people making bee lines outside land line operators’ for new connections, all year round? How can an operator leverage on such a scenario. Let us try to analyze how life would be, in a world of free internet (dial-up, of course).

This is just in: BigAdda.com Reliance ADAG backed social network has tied up with Jivox the video advertising platform which recently recieved 10.7 million $’s in funding will power both the video technology on Bigadda as well as the ad serving and monetizaton of videos via its Jivox’s Premium Video Network. After the addition of [...]

Mobile social networking and how is it different?
Mobile social networking is soon becoming a buzz word in India and why not after all India does boast of over 300 million mobile subscribers and social networking is a fad that has moved from Orkut To Facebook but hasn’t died down in India. Infact Indian social networks [...]

We caught up with Infoedge CFO Mr. Ambarish Raghuvanshi and questioned him about the recent investment by Infoedge in the online insurance leads website Policybazaar.com which is owned by EtechAces Marketing and Consulting Pvt Ltd.
Here is an exclusive interview with the Infoedge CFO on what made them cut this deal and what to they plan to [...]

Social entrepreneurship is fast growing popular and the opportunity in it is far beyond the buzz. Personally, I am of the opinion that growth in India will eventually move out of the big cities and happen int he rural confines of our country. I believe that the value waiting to be unlocked in our hinterlands is enoromous. Of course social entrepreneurship doesn’t just mean you have to work in villages. It is about empowering the underprivileged wherever they might be.

I hope the two buzzwords of our time social media and social entrepreneurship work together and grow to completely alter the value chain and entrepreneurial eco system for the better.

Google phone will debut in India in December this year, reports Business Standard. The price will be higher than what the user has to pay in the United States ($179 or Rs.8200). The handset will be an HTC device, and will be launched through a possible tie-up with some operator.
As we discussed, the Google phone [...]

Not just following on the footsteps of HP Printers’ snapfish intative to get into photo sharing and printing market, but taking it a step ahead, Epson has launched a complete photography portal - Foto Flock. 
The website will have articles, news, interviews, forums, tips & tricks, contests, event listings, photographer profiles and other resources related to photography in [...]

T-Mobile has launched the first phone based on Google-backed Android operating system. Yes, the first ‘Google Phone’ is out. The handset itself has been manufactured by HTC. Comparisons to iPhone are inevitable.
Blogosphere is loaded with reports of the first G-phone finally hitting the market. The reviews (opinions, actually) are mixed all over. From the time [...]