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We had quoted Ashish Gupta saying that they had not funded SmsGupshup but its quite possible that at that time which was about three months back the deal would be in process and not confirmed for him to commit to the funding. But now Helion has made a confirmed announcement and a total of 11 [...]

So Google India launched Google Sms Channels (still in google labs) on 1st of October a product very much like our homegrown Netcore and Webaroo products Mytoday and Smsgupshup. In Short Google Sms Channels allows any one to create an sms group/channel and besides for sending group smses one even add one’s blog feed or [...]

Well last week the news of Smsgupshup being funded for 10 Million $ by Helion Venture Capital and Charles River Ventures was published all across the leading digital blogs in India. It all started with a plug by pluggd and spread to medianama which also had an excellent article on why Smsgupshup would need the [...]

Sitting in the movie theatre and watching “Aamir”, I was surprised to see the SMSgupshup group notification for that particular movie theatre on screen, during the interval. The group offered movie listings. The group was not for the entire chain of the movie theatres but just for that particular theatre. The theatre has been using [...]

Webaroo can be termed as a company that adapted very well to dynamic conditions of the internet and mobile space. Started as a company that helped you access your important websites offline it quickly realised its mistakes and learned from them and shifted its focus by launching new product in the group messaging [...]

We had written about Webaroo’s Smsgupshup way back in May when we had mentioned that it would surely take the advertising route to monetize this service! And guess what it certainly has! Besides for smsgupshup there is also Mytoday which provides a similar groups smsing service (which also powers WATBlogs sms alerts).
 
By adding advertising now [...]

The latest of the Social Networking Sites to go mobile in India are Fropper.
Fropper have introduced MobiFUN powered by Mauj 7007 service. Mauj is also part of the People Interactive Group.
What can you do with this Mobile service?Well Fropper says it’ll help you search and add new friends, scrap and send messages to your [...]

With the new Do-Not-Disturb registry being formed in India. A lot of advertisers will be facing advertsing problems as they would be restricted to make cold calls to numbers that are registered with the service.
So where does that leave the advertiser??There are new companies that help out users to make money at a cost of [...]