The potential of making education more accessible is immense these days with the proliferation of the Internet around the country. It is not surprising there is considerable interest being shown in the segment by both VCs and startups. One of the companies that provides online education services is Liqvid which calls itself an e-learning company. Currently, their focus is on English Edge, their new...

WizIQ is an online Indian platform for schools, colleges and Universities. It is owned and operated by Authorgen which is in turn a subsidiary of Educomp. Authorgen has announced that they have raised $4 million in a Series B investment round which was lead by private equity firm Kaizen and Bertelsmann, a Germany based media company which also owns Gruner+Jahr (which acquired NetworkPlay and SeventyNine...

After a year being in the closed Beta testing phase, the Online exam preparation service Examify has gone live for the public to test. Still in Beta phase, it is backed & mentored by angel investor Vishal Gondal.   What does the service offer? Our readers will recall a similar endeavor launched by Airtel for its DTH service. Titled iExam, the service was meant to prepare students with virtual...

The mobile is where all the action is! In 2012, India crossed the 919 million mobile subscribers mark and it was reported that 44 million of these are active mobile web users. Over the past couple of months, we at WATBlog, have consistently reported about the latest developments in the mobile and mobile internet segment. We have seen how mobile internet is driving entertainment, changing the music...

Two Carnegie Mellon University professors, Raj Chakrabarti (systems engineering) and Anisha Ghosh (financial economics) have collaborated to launch one of its kind Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) platform for imparting Business Education. This MOOC Platform called ‘The Academic Financial Trading Platform‘ (AFTP) is aimed primarily at Indian MBA students and executives. This platform...

IIT-Bombay spinoff InOpen Technologies recently collaborated with Google’s Edtech Team to organize ‘Google Apps for Education India Summit’. Held for 2 days at the American School of Bombay, the summit was first of its kind & meant to introduce Google Apps geared for education. Google Apps is a collective effort of the search giant Google that aims to offer a plethora of internet driven...

With Hungama Mobile backing up Bharti Airtel, the telecom provider has launched a concise 30 day Crash Course for CAT aspirants. The Common Admission Test (CAT) is the pre-requisite for students who wish to get into the myriad management institutes which jointly form the consortium of Indian Institute of Management (IIM). Since late 2011, even Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) & Indian Institute...

Aakash II Tablet will finally make its appearance on 11th of next month. India’s Human Resource, Information Technology & Communications Minister Kapil Sibal has additionally confirmed that the tablet will not be a rudimentary education centric slate, but will come with mainstream hardware & software. Keeping up with the times, Aakash II will run on Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS v4.0). While the...

Online education website SimpliLearn.com has received funding from IndoUS Venture Partners (IUVP). Though the exact amount is undisclosed, the parent company Simplilearn Solutions Pvt. Ltd will utilize the funds to fructify its expansions plans. As part of the deal, Rajesh Raju, MD of IUVP will be joining SimpliLearn’s Board. The Bangalore based company is primarily involved in 2 products pertaining...

If you were born in the ‘80s or before, you will know what an intricate relationship a cassette and a pencil/pen share. If you were born in the ‘90s you understand the functioning of discs and if you were born in the 2000s, you probably have no clue what I’m talking about! While the battle between the physical and digital world are mostly the stuff Hollywood blockbusters are made of, the conflicts...