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Hack Days seems to be the in-thing amongst developers. The 24-hour coding challenge has caught the fancy of the tech community which is looking for various ways to make work more interesting.
Barely a few weeks after Yahoo conducted its much publicized public Hack Day, Sabre Labs is holding …
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WiMax is the promised shangrila for bigger broadband penetration in India. It's been a distant hope for many years and there's been much hype surrounding it. Lately, we've been hearing about WiMax being deployed in a few cities in India, so it's a good time to get a realistic …
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What does Yahoo! India's research and development center in Bangalore do? Listen to Pranesh Anthapur, the new chief operating officer discusses the broad roadmap for Yahoo's India office and shares what it takes to merge companies.
Prior to relocating to Bangalore, Pranesh was the VP of HR and …
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It's not often you come across a company where the CEO does not have a corner office but has the same setup as a trainee developer. I was pleasantly surprised that the ThoughtWorks office has an open and innovative culture — something that's not too common in India. The …
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Netflix meets Fedex is how Raghav Kher describes his online movie rental company Seventymm, which he founded in Bangalore in 2005. This is Raghav's fourth company, and it has recently received a second round of investment of $10 million from Matrix Partners India.
In this interview Raghav discusses why …
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The venture investment scene in India appears to show no signs of slowing down. In the past few days, a number of investment deals were inked and signed.
Leading the pack is Travel Guru, a travel portal, received $15 million from Sequoia Capital and Battery Ventures. Next in the …
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Very recently, QUALCOMM India, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and mobile data solutions, hosted the second annual BREW Developers Conference in Mumbai.
In this episode, I speak with Vishal Gupta, senior director of Qualcomm India about Brew and what it means to the mobile …
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A professional-turned-entrepreneur, Deep Kalra promoted India's most successful online travel company, MakeMyTrip in April 2000. [tag]MMT[tag] is a comprehensive travel services provider for leisure travel to, from and within India.
Over the past 5 years, MMT has grown rapidly to become the market leader for U.S.-India travel. MMT's domestic launch …
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Dushyant Mehta and his company, IndiaPicture, has been in the news recently for signing up a deal with Corbis to be their exclusive distributor in India.
Corbis is a company owned by Bill Gates and it is the world's second largest stock photo website.
Dushyant's passion for rich media and …
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Recruiting for Indian IT companies is proving to be a challenge. In an interesting twist, companies like Texas Instruments are turning to hires in the U.S. when filling positions in their offices in India.
Aloka Naskar is managing partner of Brown Venture Associates, a boutique search company based in …
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Basab Pradhan is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Gridstone Research.
As a fairly recent entry into the financial services space, where Basab and the Gridstone team are focused on creating products and services for the financial services sector. The company is more than a year old and has …
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Will an Indian clone of an international hit take off in India? That's what we ask MeraVideo.com's founder, Kanwaldeep Kalsi whose site is a direct clone of YouTube.com.
MeraVideo was recently in the news for being close to signing up venture funding of $1.5 million. We ask Kanwaldeep about his …
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Rishi Navani is the founding managing director of Matrix Partners, India. Rishi has been involved in the Indian investment space for about 10 years and has seen the investment landscape in India undergo a dramatic change in the last few quarters.
Matrix Partners has a $150 million fund and it …
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VC investments show no signs of slowing down in India. Two companies - Carzonrent India and Tejas Networks received funding in the past week.
It's just not IT and services companies that are in investor's radar - hospitality and travel sector in India have also received a fair chunk …
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In an unprecedented move, RajShri Media, one of India's biggest movie houses, premiered its latest movie on the Internet, on the very same day of its worldwide theatrical release.
Rajshri Media has already aggregated more than 3,000 hours of premium Indian video content across multiple genres. Consumers can stream …
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Will an Indian social networking site succeed against Orkut?
In this episode, we have Prerna Gupta, founder and CEO of Yaari.com - a new social networking site that claims to be "created by Indian youth, for Indian youth". (Yaari means friendship)
At a time when the social networking space is …
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At the recently concluded TiECon Meeting in New Delhi, TiE and Canaan Partners, along with other partners, announced a business competition for start-ups and businesses.
Canaan Partner's Alok Mittal discusses the business plan competition: who can participate and what do winners walk away with as their prize?
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Why do Indian companies pay such scant respect for usability? We ask Amit Ranjan, who heads the Delhi office of Uzanto, a Silicon Valley startup. He heads the product development team that has built two of Uzanto's products, SlideShare & MindCanvas. SlideShare is a Web 2.0 application for …
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Stepped up activity is the underlying theme of this week's tech round-up on India.
There is stepped up activity in VC funding in India. Two 10-year old companies received $10 million this past week. Sulekha, an Indian social networking site received $10 million in funding from Norwest Venture Partners. …
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TiE Delhi's annual conference, TiEcon 2006, was held on the 26th-28th October. The conference theme was 'Entrepreneurship: The DNA of Growth' and the event was a meeting ground for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, industry leaders etc. Besides the main conference sessions, the agenda also included networking sessions, interest specific …
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Shan Appajodu of RingCube Technologies talks about MojoPac - his company's cool new technology that has been variously described as "a computer in your pocket" or "pour your PC into your pocket."
Recently, MojoPac won the DemoGod award in San Diego, where they first unveiled their product.
Shan …
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YouTube sold out for a whopping $1.65 billion to Google recently. And guess what the YouTube users got? Nothing. So, this has rubbed people like Chris Messina the wrong side. We talk to Chris about CrowdSourcing and he explains why big companies buying popular user-generated content websites may …
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It's not easy taking on the mighty Google. So, when you come across a man who has the guts to do that, you can't help but admire the man's spirit. Dr. Sridhar Vembu is the founder and CEO of AdventNet, the company behind the Zoho suite …
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That familiar term IPO is making a comeback in India. Info Edge India Pvt Ltd opened its Initial Public Offering for subscription from today through November 2, 2006. Info Edge owns properties like Naukri.com, a job search portal; JeevanSaathi.com, a matchmaking portal and 99acres.com, a real estate …
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Steve Hamm is a senior business writer for Businessweek. His new book, Bangalore Tiger: How Indian Tech Upstart Wipro Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Competition, looks at the $650 billion outsourcing industry, tracing the growth and success of billionaire Azim Premji and Wipro, India's third largest IT company.
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It's freezing cold in Dharamsala, India, in the mountain state of Himachal Pradesh. Clouds chase the sun away, and rain shatters the sky with numbing regularity. But something about this place has a special meaning to everyone who comes here. Once upon a time, it was for a metaphysical search, …
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Kavita Iyer is CEO of MingleBox, a new Web 2.0 start-up in the social networking space. MingleBox allows members to have personalized Web pages that include their interests, blogs and photos.
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Iqbal Gandham has been involved with internet startups since before the days of Yahoo and Hotmail, when the coolest thing to do with a webpage was to make the text blink.
Initially based in the UK, Iqbal setup several ISPs, and then found his calling in India, where he went to …
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Anurag Dod is the CEO and founder of Guruji.com, the latest India-based search engine.
Recently, Guruji secured an investment of $7 million from Sequoia Capital, the same investors who backed Google.com.
Anurag has more than years of extensive software engineering experience, including key contributions to two successful startups. As …
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