December 26, 2007 – 7:52 pm
As we draw the curtains to 2007, I thought it’d be a good time to look back and seek the audience vote on their favorite startups.
The idea is to club the startups in categories and conduct a poll for each of them:
Here’re some of the categories and the startups as part of each category:
Local search:
Asklaila, […]
December 26, 2007 – 4:04 pm
Its holiday season and that explains the light posting this week.
Wanted to share with you guys about an event - ‘Entrepreneurs Forum’ being planned in Bangalore.
The event involves highly focused & interactive sessions/ workshops on various aspects of entrepreneurship by high-profile entrepreneurs and VCs. The target audience is focused and consists of budding entrepreneurs from […]
December 23, 2007 – 4:21 pm
ContentSutra pointed to a story in ET about Zapak acquiring Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) for $300 million. Just like Nikhil, I had my own doubts about the deal — $300 million is too small a price for a company making $150 million in revenues.
Its now reported that the rumor is bogus and is SOE has […]
December 21, 2007 – 1:30 am
It looks like thats exactly what Google is building.
Google recently launched Google Profile - a centralized profile system that will be integrated into most of the Google services and will provide a coherent identity across the Google network. You control how much information is shared as part of your public profile. Several products like Google […]
December 20, 2007 – 1:13 am
The first major act of consolidation in the online travel portal industry in India. TravelGuru ($42 million revenue this fiscal) has acquired B2B hotel portal Desiya for $25 million (Rs 100 crores).
TravelGuru has raised $25 million in funding over two rounds.
via ET
December 19, 2007 – 10:06 pm
Sumitr is a new social network targeted towards Indians. Sumitr literally means ‘good friend’. Sumitr has most of the fan fare that you would expect from a social network. Sign up, complete your profile and invite your friends from Yahoo, Google, MSN or Outlook Express to join. You can also associate your spouse and […]
December 19, 2007 – 5:46 pm
The emergence of Web 2.0 and Internet startups has given rise to a whole new industry in itself - web metrics. If you follow the Web 2.0 world, it is unlikely that you havent heard of at least one of the following companies - Comscore, Hitwise, Compete, Alexa, Quantcast. All these companies provide various web […]
December 18, 2007 – 11:21 pm
Two great events - Proto and HeadStart, are going head to head in the 3rd week of January. Proto is scheduled for 18-19th January 2008 while HeadStart is scheduled for 18th - 20th January, 2008.
While Proto needs no introduction, HeadStart (& Compute) are twin events being organized by ACM Bangalore at the JN Tata complex, […]
December 18, 2007 – 1:21 pm
While skimming through the Web 2.0 coverage I’d missed over the last month and a half, the HT Media - DesiMartini deal caught my attention. Simply put, I was astonished by the jaw-dropping < $10 million acquisition price - a sentiment echoed through the Indian blogosphere.
Why was HT Media shopping for a social networking site […]
December 17, 2007 – 11:18 am
First and foremost — I owe you guys an apology. For a long, extended and most importantly, unannounced absence from writing. Some family health issues took precedence in my life over the last month and a half. While things are fine now, i cant help but wonder — how life has its own way of […]
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