startups
Qyuki.com – AR Rahman & Shekar Kapur’s social networking, branding startup – Cisco buys in stake
By Manoj Govindassamy at 19 February, 2012, 7:51 am
This is simply awesome. We are seeing the start of a trend thats hugely popular in the western countries. Media buffs, celebrities, heavy pockets in the country are starting to invest, incubate their own startups to shape up their creative ideas rather than relying on the “1st world” innovations and products. Oscar winner AR Rahman [...]
Read More >>FlipKart.com acquires LetsBuy.com – start of consolidation in Indian eCommerce space ?
By Manoj Govindassamy at 11 February, 2012, 4:45 am
Here is the start of consolidation in the Indian eCommerce arena. Though not in hundreds, we have at least a dozen of well known and nicely established eCommerce companies in the country. Its still a debate on whos leading on the online retail space as we don’t have official numbers from many of these players. [...]
Read More >>iXiGO unveils awesome travel search tool – natural lang flight search answered via Twitter and Facebook msgs
By Manoj Govindassamy at 19 January, 2012, 10:42 am
Wow, travel searches are taking a new avatar now. Travel related queries can now be made in natural language at iXiGO travel portal. Natural language searching is not any new. But, iXiGO has given a new flavour to it by making these natural language search queries be made and answered thru social networking protocols. Interesting [...]
Read More >>FASHOS.com – personalized footwear destination
By Shivani at 16 November, 2011, 1:12 am
Online shopping has suddenly been given a new dimension in the Indian e-commerce landscape. Recently launched, FASHOS is an interactive fashion footwear-shopping portal, started by Navin Joshua and Sumit Agarwal. FASHOS.com is a fresh approach to suggestive buying online. It very carefully caters to the needs of the traditional shopper as well as the social [...]
Read More >>Zaheer Khan invests in Sher Singh–Exclusively.in’s new fashion label
By Shivani at 13 November, 2011, 8:27 am
Just like daily deals site, luxury fashions and lifestyle portals are also sprouting like weeds these days. A well known fashion site Exclusviely.in has spun off a new portal and branded it as “Sher Singh”. This new label deals with lifestyle products for men and women including T-shirts, trousers, polos, shirts, dresses, saris and tunics [...]
Read More >>MakeMyTrip.com net revenue soars – invests in MyGuestHouse.net
By Shivani at 9 November, 2011, 1:37 am
MakeMyTrip.com has announced its revenue details for the quarter ended September 30, 2011 and its all impressive. The company which recently had a stellar IPO debut in NASDAQ is continuing its success run by posting 57% increase in gross bookings to $245 million for Q2FY12. Profit for the same quarter stood at $1.5 million compared [...]
Read More >>MakeMyTrip.com picks up majority stake in travel meta search engine iXiGO.com
By Manoj Govindassamy at 17 August, 2011, 2:43 am
MakeMyTrip.com – the OTA which recently minted money in US market, through its stellar IPO has acquired a majority stake of 76.6% in online travel meta search engine iXiGO.com along with well known VC Fund SAIF partners…..I feel MakeMyTrip.com’s investment in iXiGo.com is more strategic, will strengthen and widen its market scope in the long run. The remaining travel meta search engines like zoomtra, mobissimo, …. other OTAs soon. Lets see if somebody else does similar meta travel search investments….
Read More >>Cognizant Campus Proposal Worth Rs.600 Crores In West Bengal
By Robinsh Kumar at 12 June, 2011, 2:37 am
According to media specially from the state West Bengal it is proposed by India’s fourth largest IT Company Cognizant that they are interested in setting up a campus in around 40 acres of free hold land and they have also said in their proposal that this startup will generate more than 30,000 jobs in the [...]
Read More >>Renault Plans to Launch 4 More Cars On Indian Roads by 2012
By Robinsh Kumar at 4 June, 2011, 3:58 pm
Renault India : Planted in Chennai designing at Mumbai announcing in media that they are planning to launch four more cars on Indian roads by the end of 2012 to compete with SUV segment frontiers like Fortuner, Endevour, Hondo CR-V means they have their designs in process to target the market ranging price under 20 [...]
Read More >>Rise of luxury fashion and lifestyle portals – Exclusively.in , 99labels.com, FashionAndYou.com – Rich Sarees, Home Decors and Jewels
By Manoj Govindassamy at 4 June, 2011, 6:50 am
Many new startups have sprouted in the country concentrating on high end luxury lifestyle items and online portals for the same…. Exclusively.in – fairly a new entrant in the space and is the high flying bird right now in the high end & luxury lifestyle portals in India (at least by visitor stats )… 99Labels.com .. delhi based startup is around for 1 year and has partnered with various national and international brands to sell their products to its members.. FashionAndYou.comhas been around for an year and as shown a good growth over time. Just like Exclusively.in, this company offers various deals on luxury indian fashion items, home decoration..
Read More >>Google is dedicated to offer streetview in Banglore, India
By Robinsh Kumar at 26 May, 2011, 7:30 pm
Google today said it will offer street view of Bangalore city on its maps platform. In a statement Google said,” it will begin imagery collection in Bangalore for the Street View feature in Google Maps”. The Internet search engine giant will collect images of streets by driving across the city in specially designed cars and [...]
Read More >>This 27th of May, iPhone 4 to be launched in India
By Robinsh Kumar at 25 May, 2011, 6:07 pm
Telecom operators Bharti airtel and Aircel today said they will start selling Apple’s iPhone 4 in India from May 27. “With a robust roll out of Aircel’s 3G services in 13 circles across India, the launch of iPhone 4 will allow our consumers to truly savour the 3G experience,” Aircel Director Sandip Das said in [...]
Read More >>User want 3G, High Speed Internet attracts 9 million user just in 4 month
By Robinsh Kumar at 22 May, 2011, 3:23 pm
The third generation (3G) has created a rage since its launch four months ago, garnering at least 9 million active users ever since. This number holds special significance taken into consideration that till date, there are only 11 million wireline broadband customers. Bharti Airtel leads the 3G race with with 3 million active subscribers closely [...]
Read More >>Rajinikant Suffering From Lung, Liver Ailment
By Robinsh Kumar at 17 May, 2011, 5:40 pm
Rajinikanth’s frequent hospital visits lately have fuelled many rumours about the superstar’s health. His much awaited film Rana is being shelved for the moment. A family source of the actor said he was not expected to shoot for the film. Soundarya Rajinikanth, the star’s daughter, who is also the producer of the film, said, “Our [...]
Read More >>Brokerage product from IIFL – “Lifetime Pre-Paid”
By Robinsh Kumar at 26 March, 2011, 12:21 am
IIFL (formerly India Infoline) on Friday launched its prepaid brokerage product ‘lifetime prepaid, anytime money back’, starting from Rs 10,000. IIFL said customers opting for the prepaid product would pay 25-30% lower (depending on the trade size) brokerage, compared to its other customers who pay per transaction. In addition, prepaid customers will enjoy free access [...]
Read More >>“HTC Incredible S” officially launched in India – Basic price will be Rs.28,900
By Robinsh Kumar at 22 March, 2011, 9:57 pm
One of the leading smartphone maker HTC Corporation today launched its new handset ”HTC Incredible S” in the Indian market priced at Rs 28,900. HTC Incredible S is the answer for those looking for the perfect combination of performance and style and will help them stand out from the crowd as an icon,” HTC India [...]
Read More >>Top 10 most innovative companies in India – 2011
By Manoj Govindassamy at 21 March, 2011, 12:56 pm
US based business magazine FastCompany has released its version of “Top 10 most innovative companies in India” for the year 2011. FastCompany magazine reports on topics including digital media, technology, innovations…Robert Scoble, an ex Microsoft employee, a prolific blogger … Shaadi.com, tata motors, HarVa, Apollo …
Read More >>How Bihar became the first state in country to make assets declaration
By Robinsh Kumar at 10 March, 2011, 8:37 pm
According to the latest update on Bihar government web portal termed as Asset Declaration initially from the ministers themselves and the first class employees around the entire state, and in the beginning they have already uploaded the data collected from over 80,000 officials. Ten days after majority of the 450,000 government officials, including Indian Administrative [...]
Read More >>Edutor Technologies launches an eLearning device for CBSE students
By Robinsh Kumar at 9 March, 2011, 7:00 pm
pEdutor Technologies located in Hyderabad frequently deals in technical updates specially for the field of education is launching a special e-learning device “Edutor Advantage e40″, for the 3 -12th std students of CBSE./p pa href=”http://www.moneymint.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/edutor-e40.png”img src=”http://www.moneymint.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/edutor-e40.png” alt=”” width=”407″ height=”220″ class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-4723″ //a/p pThis is a touch screen device preloaded with student’s class-specific, curriculum-aligned content. [...]
Read More >>Guruji.com shuts down its sweet spot ‘music search’ – is Guruji dying ?
By Manoj Govindassamy at 9 March, 2011, 3:22 pm
pLocal search engine Guruji shot to fame immediately after its launch and Sequoia Capital invested … Guruji has been in the market for over 5 years and IMHO this startup has failed to keep its momentum up. In fact, it had given up a long time back. The traffic stats…. Now with the shutdown of music search, 10% more traffic will be cut from their already declining traffic ..But, we cannot deny the fact that the online music search and streaming market is highly competitive with totally legal players like Saavn.com, In.com, Rediff Songs, the latest Google India music and a plethora of illegal sites like songs.pk…/p
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