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...

Disney UTV Digital has launched four new apps for feature phone users.  Named as UTV Video, Disney, Comedy and Devotional the apps provide users with content ranging from movies to mythological stories. The UTV app offers content about latest movie trailers and full length  Bollywood & Regional movies along with Bollywood gossip and more. The Disney App includes short form content featuring...

Times Internet has announced that it is getting another popular global content property to India after partnering with Gawker Media recently. This time it is the popular business and tech publication, Business Insider. Many of you may be aware of the publication’s in depth coverage of consumer tech companies. Times Internet has announced that it will be entering into a strategic agreement which will...

Soon after Google introduced Google Play Movies in India, it has introduced YouTube video rentals and purchases for Indian consumers. Similar to Google Play Movies, the service is a based on pay to view model. Is it any different from Google Play Movies? It is almost similar to Google Play Movies with a few tweaks. First of all it does not require Android hardware to rent these movies which will...

As more people and services come online, there seems to be a strong surveillance and data access trend among Government enforcement agencies, according to Google. It seems that the Indian Government and its enforcement agencies are demanding requests for takedown or personal information at a  rate of 13 requests per day, on an average. Google’s latest transparency report suggests that governmental...

Times Internet’s BoxTV service has come out beta and is now currently available for public viewing. For all those who missed this, BoxTV is a online on demand video service, a concept similar to Netflix and Hulu. Times Internet has also announced that it has partnered with Sony Pictures Television and Disney UTV to get some premium content onto the platform. BoxTV currently has TV shows, short films,...

Flyte, Flipkart’s mp3 distribution service is celebrating its first birthday in style. It will be giving away 100 albums a day, free of charge to Flyte users till 28th February, which happens to be its birthday. The albums will be selected from various genres like Rock, Hip Hop and R&B, Pop, Jazz and Blues, Bollywood, Ghazals and Sufi, Devotional and Spiritual, Hindi Classics, Classical and regional...

Times Internet has announced that it has launched an iPad app for its online spiritual networking service, Speaking Tree. Now all the content from Speaking Tree can be viewed easily on your iPad. The content includes articles, tips on meditation, spiritual blogs, forums and conversations between people who use the service. Here are some screenshots of the app. Archana Vohra, Vice President of Times...

That Indians are moving away comfortable corporate jobs and daring to carve a path for themselves is no secret. Look around and you will find at least 2 entrepreneurs in a group of 10*. While some are walking down the e-commerce path, some others are venturing into never-before-explored careers; take stand-up comedy for example. A distinct breed of ‘entrepreneurs’ are bloggers. These are the people...

Saavn has announced the beginning of a new feature which lets celebrities to curate the music on the website for one day. As their first guest editor, they snagged Bollywood actor Neil Nitin Mukesh to curate music and create playlists on his birthday from Saavn’s 350,000 track database. Saavn has gotten some good traction  due to their persistence in bringing the music streaming service to every...