One of the main reasons why my posting has slowed down (besides the increased workload of course) to a trickle lately is because I have been installing and playing with some of the PHP web application frameworks - Symfony, CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgniter etc…- wanted to brush up on my PHP, which has become a bit […]
Rajdeep Sahrawat, Vice President of NASSCOM, has a great piece in the Deccan Herald on developing the innovation ecosystem in India. He addresses how each of the involved stakeholders need to play their bit to develop this ecosystem.
Some excerpts that caught my eye:
While risk capital availability has increased in recent times in India, most of […]
Indian news broadcasters have come together to form a body - News Broadcasters Association (NBA) to deal with ethical, technical, operational and legal issues facing the news channels in India. Members include TV Today Network, NDTV, Times Global broadcasting Company, TV18 Group, Global Broadcast News, Independent News Service and Zee News Ltd.
The organization is head […]
Just a few days back, I’d written about how the strong rupee is hurting the Indian software services companies and the Indian BPO industry.
Yesterday,Knowledge@Wharton published an excellent story on the same topic - rising Rupee against the US Dollar.
Here’s one of the most interesting highlight of the story:
As per Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel, this […]
Rediff released their first quarter 2007 (quarter ending june 30, 2007) earnings report yesterday. Highlights of the earnings:
Revenues totaled $6.8 million, 18% increase over quarter ending June 30 2006
India Online revenues, which includes online advertising, totaled $4.62 million, a 14% increase as compared to same quarter last year
Net income was $2.12 million as compared to […]
Sometime last month, Picsquare and iTasveer announced that they had integrated Flickr accounts into their sites. Now, both have gone ahead and integrated Picasa also into their sites (Picsquare, iTasveer).
iTasveer has also introduced four different skins, that users can apply to their shared photos page. See some sample skinned pages here and here.
Its great to […]
GeoBeats, the site that provide video travel guides, has just beefed up their video player. You can now access maps, select other travel destinations and travel information about any particular travel destination from within the video player itself. With the addition of these subtle features, the utility of the video player increases manifold.
So, if the […]
TechTribe, a social networking platform for technology professionals, has secured venture funding from Canaan Partners, Miven Venture Partners and the Entrepreneur Fund. The size of funding is not known. The company is currently backed by angel investors in the US and will use this new cash infusion to boost sales and marketing.
They launched a referral […]
Google has joined the Band of Angels as an institutional member. The Band of Angels includes members like Alok Mittal (MD, Canaan Partners), Pramod Bhasin, Jerry Rao, Raman Roy etc.
As per Alok Mittal, “There is a limit till which each angel can invest in a company. Beyond that, an institutional member can co-invest with any […]
As part of the first quarter earnings, Infy lowered their outlook for the rest of the year.
Reason cited as the double whammy of increasing wages and a stronger rupee.
Here’s a glimpse of earnings report from some of the other software services companies:
Polaris Q1 net falls to Rs 14.42 crores
MindTree Q1 net profit dips 16%
Satyam profit […]
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