Bangalore-based mobile advertising network claims it now provides ads to more than 691 million customers on their mobile phones across a massive country user base of 165 million. That, according to the mobile ad giant, covers about 40% of the world’s total smartphones. The USA is home to their largest customer as well as end user base, which according to its report, is pegged at 156 million unique...

Ant Farm is a startup platform which calls itself the ‘innovation sandbox’ with an aim to create global brands by supporting bright ideas, concepts and people in India. The platform was launched last year in November and has announced the launch of its first company today in the advertising space. The company is called Fork Media and is going to offer content based marketing solutions to advertisers...

Nokia India, continuing with its push for developing apps on the Windows Mobile platform, has launched ‘Appcelerate-India‘ in collaboration with AppCampus and the members of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels (India chapter), to foster development on Nokia Lumia and Windows. The key stakeholders are set to invest in excess of $500,000 to provide for an array of grants, seed funding,...

Indian cloud startup, ShepHertz has announced that it has raised funding from 3 venture capital firms, namely, Kae Capital, Mumbai Angels and Blume Ventures. No financial information regarding the deal was disclosed. The startup has announced that it will be using the fresh funds to boost marketing, product development and hiring talent. ShepHertz is a one stop cloud, Backend and API  solution for...

In this age of free web services, ads have become the number one source of revenue. However, these ads have evolved. They are no longer static and but have been made to become smarter (or creepier) so that said service can learn more about your behavior, even outside the site. While the need for revenue is understandable, retargeting and behavioral analysis of a person’s web browsing habits even...

If you are looking to get fan merchandise, then there is a new e-store on the block. The newly launched Bluegape.com is a one-stop fan merchandise store that offers multiple products – t-shirts, laptop skins, posters, et.al. The site allows the customer to pick from an assortment of brands (fan store), products and troll merchandise.  The fan store houses many brands like One97, Brand69, Nirvana,...

Nasscom (National Association of Software & Services Companies), which recently launched its ‘10,000’ startups programme, has announced that it is inviting applications from cutting-edge technology start-ups across India for angel funding and startup acceleration program. The Indian tech and software giant expects around 5,000 more start-ups to enroll for their programme by the forthcoming...

Zomato is expanding rapidly! We have now got news that the service is live in Johannesburg. The expansion to South Africa and the African continent in general may prove to be a good thing for the service as the mobile Internet growth in that continent is pretty good and could be leveraged by Indian startups to get in more users and revenues. Zomato has paid a lot of attention to its mobile service...

Policybazaar.com,  a website which aggregates Insurance policy plans has received its third round of funding. eTechAces Marketing and Consulting Pvt. Ltd., the company behind Policy Bazaar has confirmed that they have received $5 million (Rs. 27 crore approx) in a round that was led by Inventus Capital Partners. Previous investors Infoedge and Intel Capital have also participated in this round. The...

Power2SME, a Gurgaon based online service which acts a buying club for several SMEs has received a fresh round of funding from Accel Partners. The funding amount has not been disclosed. Previously, the company had raised Rs. 10 crore in funding from Inventus Capital. Kalaari Capital had also joined Inventus in funding the company in December last year. Power2SME currently focuses on sectors like construction,...