Zomato Accuses Burrp of Data Theft. Network 18 In A Tight Spot

by | posted: September 27, 2011
Zomato has accused Burrp for blatantly copying their website data dealing with restaurant listings. Burrp has been unable to defend itself since it has been revealed that Burrp has not only copied restaurant...
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65 Million Internet Users To Propel India’s E-Commerce Success Story

by | posted: August 24, 2011
JuxtConsult’s latest research puts the number of active Internet users in India at 65 million (or 6.5 crore), up 28% from 2010. 6.1 crore were regular users, and urban users aggregated 4.6 crore. Also,...
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JustDial Raises 10 Million Dollar In Funding

by | posted: June 8, 2011
Local search engine JustDial has raised $10 million in funding from SAP Ventures and Sequoia Global Capital Equities. Just Dial will use the funds to expand its businesses globally. JustDial is a Mumbai-based...
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Foodiebay Backed By Info Edge With INR 4.7 Crore Funding

by | posted: August 26, 2010
Foodiebay has definitely come a long way since we reviewed in late last year. Their growth has not gone unnoticed with Info Edge, the company that owns, Naukri.com and Jeevansaathi.com, amongst others,...
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Malaysia’s Astro to acquire 50% stake in GETIT

by | posted: August 10, 2010
Malaysian Investor Astro is picking up 50% stake in New-Delhi based GETIT Infoservices for Rs 96 crore, after the latter’s investment proposal was approved by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board...
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Just Dial Chale Amrika: Plans To Hire 1K People In The US

by | posted: May 3, 2010
Just Dial is a virtual directory service and a free local search engine for India. It won’t be wrong to say that it is a direct competitor of the Google Local search India, in a way. Just Dial has...
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Infomedia18 Sued, Askme.in Down & Deap Ubhi Quitting?

by | posted: January 31, 2010
Its all happening in the wrong way for Infomedia18 the arm of Network18 which acquired burrp.com and recently launched the classifieds listings portal Askme.in. We reviewed askme and clearly stated that...
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DIALB2B – TradeIndia’s New On-phone Service

by | posted: November 10, 2009
TradeIndia is back in news with the launch of DAILB2B service. This service has been started to help buyers & sellers to directly reach the potential business partner. With the help of DAILB2B service...
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Can Indian Search Engines Ever Tackle The Google Threat?

by | posted: September 24, 2009
A recent Comscore report about the state of the search engines in India states the obvious – Google is an undisputed leader in the space with close to 88.4% market share. The remaining dozen is shared...
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MTNL’s Location Based Services – Threat To GPS?

by | posted: September 10, 2009
Ever lost finding a place? Ever wanted to know where your friends really are? If you have a MTNL connection and you are in Mumbai, you now can. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) launched its new Value-Added...
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Guruji.com Goes Mobile! Also adds Gujrati.. Could Going Regional Be Guruji’s USP?

by | posted: February 28, 2008
Guruji has launched a mobile version of its search site. One does not need to go on another url and just keying in guruji.com on one’s wap/gprs phone is good enough to land you to the mobile version. Search...
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Yulop Launches CityFind- A Local Search Engine For Bangalore

by | posted: February 5, 2008
With the advance in technology, when everything is now made available on the Internet no one seems to read either books or newspapers. Today it is possible to read newspapers, books, tutorials online....
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Local Search Update: AskLaila Launches in Mumbai While Guruji Plans on Adding more Local Languages!

by | posted: January 20, 2008
Mumbai gets its own Laila  Asklaila the funded local search engine expanded its reach to another city after bangalore. Its Mumbai! Asklaila has launched its local search service for mumbai. Users can...
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Google increases India focus launches Labs and Local Search

by | posted: August 21, 2007
If you are one of google’s followers then you would know about google’s all famous labs which showcases google’s products in beta and allows users to test these products. Google launches...
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AskLaila where is Majnu? – One more local search site?

by | posted: August 6, 2007
Well go local and then search seems to be the mantra thats catching on the web. So if one player like guruji.com which was funded for 7 million$ wasn’t enough there are a bunch of other players like...
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The Ringmaster of TOLMOLBOL talks about his portal.

by | posted: July 24, 2007
The local search engine market is booming. One such website TOLMOLBOL that caters to local search engine and more presented at Proto.in that took place over last weekend. We Caught up with Anand Morzaria,...
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