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Its a saturday and though there is no Startup Saturday happening in Mumbai today but that doesn’t stop us from covering an interesting bangalore based startup. The startup we are taking about is Snappyfingers.com
which is a Question and Answer search engine.

About SnappyFIngers
Snappyfingers crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in [...]

VNL has managed to develop a simplified base station that is powered by solar panels and requires just a fraction of the electricity of typical base stations.

However, convincing telecom operators to buy a stripped-down base station made by a little-known start-up won’t be easy. VNL is among many companies trying to develop mobile-phone technologies for poor rural areas.

Ramo stands for “play” in Gujrati and a new startup by the name of Ramogames.com has been launched. This gaming site is targetted at kids and is founded by Sumir Meghani a Harvard Business School graduate and Yahoo! alum along with others having experience with companies like Electronic Arts, Thomson Learning.

Ramo Games is already angel [...]

Monkiri.com
 
Submitted by Madhu Joshi
 
Monikiri is a tool that enables you to mark out specific areas of the webpage that you are seeing and comment on it. The word Monikiri in Japanese means the art of cutting paper. With Monikiri, you can read and write a blog about any item published online. The ‘View Entries’ feature [...]

Jobmixi.com
 
Raising Media India Pvt Ltd, an online media and entertainment company with roots in Hyderabad, India today officially announced the launch of jobmixi.com, a comprehensive and effective job search engine.
 
 
 
Job seekers can now get free and instant access to thousands of employment opportunities from hundreds of sites, which now includes all the job listings from [...]

Human is a social animal but, now a days it is reflected only through social networking sites. It’s a common to see people not knowing or interacting with their neighbors unless and until there is an utter need.
 
Recently Bangalore based startup, maxHeap has launched CommonFloor.com which provides a platform for people living in residential apartments [...]

 
Previously we have blogged on travel social networking site WAYN coming to India and on the Travel + Web 2.0 strategy of other travel sites.
 

 
Now, another player Travelobuddies has entered with Social utility service + Travelers community as the theme with a purpose to offer a platform for the users across the globe to share [...]

There is news for every one willing to start up. Recently Yahoo India announced their new strategy to help young entrepreneurs. Yahoo wants to invest its fund in untouched areas like Indian food, health and nutrition etc.
 
“We are interested in partnering with entrepreneurs who would develop some applications that can be leveraged through Yahoo,” [...]

If you people can remember back in September 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave a birth to world’s favorite search engine Google. Dr. Eric Schmidt later on joined it as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2000. Since then everything is history. They have been in market now for more than 10 years. [...]

 
Last week I wrote about FlauntR. The website can be used to edit the pictures online. The interface and pictures seemed good. It even automatically imported all my Flickr pictures. In all, I was satisfied with the product. This week, another company in the picture sharing business has released a new feature. Picsquare has introduced [...]