There is a lot of scope these days in education application development which generally was a neglected field earlier in India, especially where technology was concerned. Edserv, an education support service company has tied up with Amazon so that their education products may have a greater reach through the latter’s Android App Store. The first product that they plan to release on the App Store...

In a country like India, where Mobile Phone companies may boast of 865 Million Subscribers [TRAI] & yet struggle with Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), Tata DoCoMo has managed to up its revenue from Value Added Service (VAS) to more than 33 Percent. With rapidly increasing mobile internet & growing demand for mobiles, people occasionally use the mobile phone for talking. Most of the time is...

With a view to now enable IIT JEE & AIEEE aspirant’s further hone their skills, Tata Docomo has tied-up with Chennai based Education Support Services Company EdServ to Offer “Tutor on Mobile” (TOM) service.  Tutor on Mobile, launched recently in July, in partnership with VoiceTap, is a combination of Videos, text, images, live interactions and pod-casts on the smart phone offers students...

Nokia is currently the largest mobile handset manufacturer in the world, but its Smartphones category has not been able to match up to the iPhone’s, Samsung’s and HTC’s. Nokia smartphones are mostly based on the Symbian platform (Nokia has now entered into an agreement with Microsoft, which will see Nokia phones on the Windows Mobile platform). The Nokia Ovi App Store is no match for either the...

In the year 2010, we reported that EdServ introducing a free application where students get to ask their doubts and in return receive an answer via SMS on their mobile phone. It is now reported that Edserv is launching a new educational support service called ‘HumThum.com’ which can be accessed via smartphone anywhere at any time. The agenda of HumThum.com is to solve doubts of students,...

The education sector has seen a lot of improvements, or shows promise for improvements, thanks to various acquisitions and initiatives by various companies looking to expand the education field online. Educomp started online coaching classes for engineering entrance exams followed by EdServ enabling students to ask and receive questions through their mobile phones. An important part of education for...

Education in India is definitely set to improve by leaps and bounds. First, Educomp started online education for schools in Karnataka and also started online tutoring for engineering entrance exams. Recently, the HRD ministry launched a $35 laptop which is set to bring internet to most students in the country and thus revolutionize education in India. Now, EdServ has taken it a step further with the...

Edserv is building competency against other education based companies through its acquisition led strategy. So after acquiring startup 2tion and SchoolMATE it is set to acquire Smart Learn WebTV for a total consideration of $1 million (4.6 crores). Smart Learn WebTV provides e-learning and tutorial courses for IIT JEE and AIEEE aspirants.It currently has 10,000 registered users and expects to quadruple...

Edserv is clearly on a acquisition spree as it has announced another acquisition of SchoolMate – Hyderabad based School ERP and CRM solution provider. A few months ago it acquired 2tion.com to proliferate its Online tutoring services business. Edserve currently serves a niche in Education space by providing technology to meet human resource requirements for educational institutions along with...

The buzz surrounding online education industry refuses to die down and this time it seems M & A has become the toast of the industry. To fuel its growth momentum Edserv has announced the acquisition of 2tion.com, a niche portal in online education space. 2tion has a base of 50000 students and also has several hundreds of tutors under its fold.2tion helps tutors and teachers to get training...