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Actual Farmers (Not Farmville Players) Using Facebook For Mutual Benefit

Facebook, the largest social network in existence, is used by over 800 million people around the world. It encompasses people from all walks of society and all age groups. In India too, Facebook has caught on and overtaken Orkut, the previous champion. Today we have Facebook being used for a very different use case: by [...]

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Now You Can Tweet Using A Satellite: A Massive Step Ahead?
Twitter has announced that it will be partnering with two major satellite providers so that users around the world can get access to the micro-blogging platform. Tweeting via your Satellite connection is possible using Twitter’s SMS service. Twitter was built to be a SMS service but it slowly took over the world wide web to [...]
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Myntra Raises $20 Million In Series C Funding From Tiger Global
Bangalore based e-commerce start-up Myntra has raised its third round of funding led by the venture capital firm Tiger Global. This Series C funding amount is being reported as $20 million. This makes the total cash inflow received by Myntra from Tiger Global around $39 million. Myntra had raised $14 million in its previous funding [...]
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Its Finally Here! Check Out The Photos And Get A Feel Of WAT Summit 2012
Here are some of the pictures taken at our WAT Summit 2012. Check out more pictures on our website. Again, a big THANK YOU to everyone for making the Summit such an inspiring and amazing event! And for all those who missed all the action, a image speaks a thousand words! Day 1 WAT Summit 2012 – [...]
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Microsoft To Unveil Windows 8 Beta At Mobile World Congress
Microsoft has announced that it will release a test/beta version of its upcoming Desktop operating system, Windows 8. The operating system was revealed some time back and promises to be the next big upgrade to Microsoft’s Windows. Windows Vista was generally considered a failure but its successor Windows 7 got its act right. Windows 8 [...]
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Monster Releases BlackBerry App: Job Search Even Easier?
Right on the heels of ApnaCircle launching a BlackBerry Application, MonsterIndia has gone ahead & released a similar application with focus on finding jobs. Taking a cure from Naukri.com, MonsterIndia.com has launched a free application for BlackBerry smartphones, available in appworld. Christened MonsterJobs, the application has all the functions & also allow users to apply [...]
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Microsoft Readies To Tap Local: Hires Ybrant Digital For Smaller Towns
Ybrant Digital, an online marketing company, has been retained by Microsoft India to cater to cities outside Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore. In a bid to expand in Metros beyond the aforementioned, MS India has appointed Ybrant Digital to sell its ad inventory for media properties on MSN, Windows Live, and Bing. Ybrant further boasts partnerships [...]
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Foursquare Out With The New Version Of “Explore” For Smart Devices
Foursquare announced the launch of an updated version of "Explore" for iPhone and android devices. This will club all the features of Foursquare on web from filtering, photos till location changing abilities.
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Airtel Profits Decline Rapidly: What’s The Cause Of Distress?
Airtel seems to have succumbed to pressures of high loan repayments costs and competitive pressure in the Indian market. This coupled with low Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) has resulted in 22 per cent drop in its net profit. Country’s largest private telecom service provider, Airtel reported profits of Rs. 1,011 Crores. Meanwhile, its ARPU [...]
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Flipkart To Buy LetsBuy.com: A Marriage Of Convenience?
The Indian Digital Review reports that Flipkart is going to buy LetsBuy.com. The actual announcement will be made in a few days. This is exciting news for the e-commerce space in India. LetsBuy.com launched in July 2009 and had a venture capital inflow from firms like Helion Venture Partners, Accel Partners and Tiger Global. [...]
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Gamiana Scores $1 Mn. Funding From Indian Angel Network
Indian Angel Network (IAN) has confirmed pledging Rs. 5 Crores (US$ 1 Million) to online gaming start-up Gamiana. Gamiana intends to utilize the funds to enhance software development, increase customer base & bid for overseas contracts revealed Vishal Golia, co-founder of Gamiana, “We, at Gamiana, will now be able to leverage the global presence, market [...]
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Indian Cyber Law Obsolete? Insecurity Grips Netizens
Indian Cyber laws has once again risen, Facebook & Google have recently succumbed to the might of the law & removed the “offensive” content. The current law as it stands covers the “Post-Publication” phase. That means actions, if any, are taken only after something has gone online & is noticed. After a complaint is filed [...]
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Uninor Won’t Shut Shop, Will Bid In New 2G Auction
With the 2G Spectrum Auction being considered null and void, and a new 2G Spectrum Auction being reordered, number of firms were severely affected. However, out of the 22 Licenses which were cancelled, Uninor was affected the most. They had, by far, the maximum number of users on their newly formed network and had the [...]
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Flipkart Not Threatened By Amazon’s Junglee
Amazon has finally entered India by introducing their online marketplace called Junglee.com. This is not a direct competition to e-commerce players in India but Amazon is the big daddy of e-commerce around the world and its easy to understand why their entry into the Indian market would make Indian players nervous. This does not seem [...]
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After Garnering 41, 623 Followers On Twitter PMO Joins Facebook
With a recent stint at Twitter going well, the Indian Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is considering signing up for an account on Facebook. Stared just 2 weeks back, PMO’s Twitter account @PMOIndia, as of writing this, has already garnered 41, 623 Followers! Why the sudden shift of attitude? Indian Youth seems to engulfed by the [...]
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Vodafone To File For IPO. Essar Not Part Of It. New Changes?
With Essar abandoning the Vodafone- Essar Partnership, Vodafone India Limited [VIL] is one step closer to a partial stock market listing of its Indian operations. As Essar sold its stake in Vodafone India, Piramal Healthcare has bought it for a UK £ 385 Million cash! With just 5.5 per cent stake changing hands, the valuation [...]
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LinkedIn’s Localized Hiring Solutions Make Headhunting Simpler
World’s largest Professional Networking Site LinkedIn will soon rollout India centric hiring solutions. LinkedIn with a Global subscriber base of over 135 Million professionals has 1/10th of them Indians! Hence, India is one of the largest Professional communities actively using LinkedIn. Titled as LinkedIn Recruiter, will help Indian Recruiters effectively search & zero-in on the [...]
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Zapak Releases A Social Cricket Offering Called Cricville
Zapak.com, India’s leading online gaming portal have officially announced the launch of their social cricket game called Cricville. This is the companies second foray into social gaming, the earlier one being Tambola. The game was initially in released in a closed beta program to select people to review. It seems the ratings are through the [...]
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Google Buckles Under Pressure Removes Offensive Content. Facebook Refuses To Budge
In the ongoing issue about an Indian Trial court trying to book Google, Facebook, Microsoft and 18 other social networking firms over the alleged ‘Objectionable Content’ being hosted on their sites, Google India seems to have given in to the trial courts demands. They told the court yesterday that they have managed to remove certain offending web-pages [...]
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Mobile Phone Now Allows Marathi To English Translation: New Form Of Education?
Have you thought of your mobile translating words for you? Yes now Marathi words can be translated into English using a mobile phone. This service is now live and Marathi words can be translated into English via cellular text messages.
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