Developing Countries Leading the Way in Mobile Innovation?
It is estimated that, globally, mobile phone use stands at about 96%. It’s a startling statistic which really highlights some huge opportunities for innovation and the way we interact and…
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10 of The Best Indian Startups To Watch In 2012
Opportunities in the web and mobile markets in India are budding new entrepreneurs every year. The country boasts of over 100 million Internet users, a 25% increase over the past…
Vodafone Launches m-paisa (Mobile Money Service) In India
HDFC Bank and Vodafone India have launched HDFC Bank MobileBank Account with Vodafone m-paisa from the tehsil of Chomu, on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan in India. The service, which…
10 Reasons To Join A Startup Accelerator Program
If you a startup building a product getting into the right startup accelerator would be one of the smartest moves you make simply because it helps you jump across the…
19 Reasons Why You Should Use Mobile To Your Advantage
Smartphones are changing the way we interact with the physical world. This trend is expected to increase at an amazing rate in the coming years.Mobile internet has made information and…
Top 10 Rules of Successful Entrepreneurship
Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor. In these tough economic times, more and more people are turning to entrepreneurship as an…
Two Former Microsoft Engineers Launch Rome2rio- Travel Search and Route Planner
Two former Microsoft engineers have launched a travel search tool that combines product search with end-to-end route planning. rome2rio is a travel search engine that shows you how to get…
A Closer Look At Mig33, India’s Largest Mobile Social Network
# Mig33 originated in a library coffee shop, as a way for teens to send text messages as much as they wanted, without the high costs of SMS # Mig33…
Just Eat, UK’s Largest Online Takeaway Ordering Service Makes Over £200M In Revenue
Just-Eat was founded in Denmark in 2000 and is based in London. Just-Eat’s mission is to make consumers’ and restaurants lives easier by enabling hungry surfers to “Order Takeaway. The…
A Closer Look At Stockezy.com, India’s First Social Investing Site
To evaluate the true value of a stock, one needs patience and hard work. In order to know the yardstick by which a stock measures, what’s required is a detailed…
Spice Launches Mobile Radio-iDJ For Safaricom Subscribers
India’s premier mobile Value Added Services (VAS) company, Spice, has announced the launch of one of its flagship services, Mobile Radio, in partnership with Safaricom Branded iDJ, the service will…
How Indians Are Earning Money By Reading Ads On Their Phones
mGinger is the first of its kind opt-in permission-based mobile marketing platform in India. mGinger is a service providing targeted advertisements on mobile phones. The advertisements are targeted on a…
Airtel Africa Launches Virtual Payment Card- Airtel 1time Shopping Card
The Mobile phone firm Airtel Africa, the Standard Chartered Bank and the MasterCard Worldwide has announced the launch of its virtual card that operates off a wallet residing on a…
Indian Mobile TV Company Apalya Technologies Raises $7.5M In 3rd Round
Hyderabad-based mobile TV company Apalya Technologies Pvt Ltd has raised $7.5M in its third round of funding, led by IndoUS Venture Partners (IUVP). Existing investors, IDG Ventures India and Qualcomm…
Groupon Acquires Indian Based Group Buying Portal SoSasta.com
Groupon Inc has acquired Kolkata-based group buying website SoSasta.com and will be renamed as Groupon India. SoSasta.com, co-founded by former Google employees Ananya Bubna and Udayan Bubna, is a venture…
Top 20 Groupon “Clones” To Watch Out For In 2011
Groupon has been a sensational startup in 2010. The company has been in the limelight in the last quarter of 2010. Google made a bid to buy them out ,…