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Exclusive Feature: India And The World Of Online Classified; 10 Questions Answered By Pranay Chulet, CEO, Quikr.com

Couple of years ago, we had reported that Pranay Chulet was to be appointed the New CEO of Quikr.com.  That was in the year 2009 and zoom forward 2012, Quikr.com and Pranay have witnessed a phase of transition...
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The Race For Cloud Computing Dominance Between Microsoft & Google Heats Up In India

Microsoft and Google have both established themselves in the country with their offerings of personal productivity software and services. And now they are competing against each other in the still nascent...
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United States Embassy Inviting People To Chat With Their Top Honcho Via Facebook: Power Of Facebook Truly Realized?

We have just got word that Robert O. Blake, Asst. Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs is going to chat with everyone via US Embassy’s Facebook page tomorrow, 29th of March at 9.30...
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Flyte On Its Way To Being The iTunes Of India

What started out as a rumour of Flipkart launching a section where consumable media could be downloaded, took form in February to become their own Music Store named Flyte. In a country where piracy is...
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Midday.com To Feature Games From Hungama Game Studio

Hungama Game Studio, has partnered with Midday Infomedia to launch a dedicated filmy games section on Midday.com. A part of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, the game studio has developed over 50...
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Exclusive: Social Gifting Venture DropGifts Entering India

Our sources tell that DropGifts, a social gifting start-up, is planning to launch operations in India very soon in a big way. DropGifts was launched by Rocket Internet, a $2 billion German firm.   Berlin...
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IT Dept. Relents; Returns $500 Million To Vodafone

Indian Govt. has bowed down & returned US$ 500 Million (Rs. 2500 Crores) to Vodafone. Obeying Supreme Court’s orders, Indian Govt. had to release the amount it had withheld as deposit. The court...
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Bollywood Music Streaming Site Saavn Booming With 1 Million Streams Per Day

With content on the internet being available for close to nothing, a lot of companies have realized that they can’t sell Digital Music, videos, etc. at full price like before and expect customers....
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War On Piracy Continues: 104 Music Sharing Sites To Be Blocked

Few days ago, we spoke about popular file download site Songs.pk being blocked by ISP’s due to a directive by the Calcutta High Court.  We also said how easily the website circumvented the...
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Exclusive Conversation: Peyush Bansal, Founder, Valyoo Technologies

Not so long ago, in 2011 to be precise, we had reported that Valyoo Technologies Pvt Ltd had received an initial funding of $4 million from IDG Ventures. Since then Valyoo Technologies has seen a lot of...
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Budget And Its Impact: Govt. Improves Tax Structure, E-Com Ventures To Benefit the Most

The Budget’s impact on the E-Commerce ventures is going to be heavy this year owing to the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has assured that GST will...
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Socialblood.org Gets Facebook People Connected To Fight Blood Shortage In Our Country

Karthik Naralasetty, a 22-year-old thought of deleting a plague from our society – Blood Shortage. Looking at the grib of Facebook in our country, Karthik Naralasetty started Socialblood.org to help...
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Foursquare Adds A Nicer Facebook Timeline Integration

Foursquare, the location sharing start-up has made some nifty changes to its Facebook Integration. This integration is specially made so that it can take advantage of Facebook’s new Timeline for Brands...
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Mobile Money In India: Nokia Out, Google In

Mobile money is generating the biggest buzz in India with players like Airtel, HDFC and Times Group diving headlong into it. The trend is quite young in India and is destined to be big this year. Although,...
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Twitter & Google+ Releases Support For Many Languages Including Indian Ones

Communication is an important tool in the modern world, especially the social communication aspect. Making the web adaptable to many language groups and nations is the next step towards connecting people...
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Special Feature: Nokia Announces Nokia Music Theatre To Help Indian Folk Musicians

Music is going to play a big role in the Indian Digital Industry this year. Yesterday, we blogged about Hungama’s offering for Indian Indie artists, ArtistAloud.com. There is a lot of local music talent...
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