Category: startups
UTV Buys 51% in IndiaGames.Com
UTV Software Communications Ltd has acquired controlling stake in IndiaGames for a consideration of $15 Million [Rs 68 crores]. UTV has also bought 70% stake in UK based console gaming company, Ignition Entertainment for a consideration of $13.3 Million [Rs 60 crores]. UTV is an integrated communications and software company…
Seedfund India to fund your innovative ideas
Six years into the new millenium, the Government of India is still lost in petty politics of Casteism / Racism in every walk of life – Education to Jobs ignoring a new class of Indians – Innovators. Indians Innovators together have filed / secured 30% more patents in the past…
MeraVideo – You Tube of India ?
With 1.5 Billion dollar buy out of YouTube by Google, you can see the zeal in Indian entrepreneurs rising to a new high. Brain Gain Entertainment’s MeraVideo is all set to receive VC funding to the tune of $1.5 Million and hopefully will be the YouTube of India. Kanwaldeep S…
VCs likely to chase Social Networking Sites in India
Venture Capitalists in India are likely to chase the Social Networking startups in the next 6 months. With the rise of Social Networking in the US – MySpace, FaceBook, FriendSter etc, VCs have been busy counting cash after several high profile buy-outs. Indian market is not lagging behind. Orkut India…
Web 2.0 Social networks in India
Web 2.0 is all about social networking in different forms. All of the recent mega deals involve Social Space be it the Google MySpace Advertisement deal or Google buying YouTube. However, in the Indian valley where the entire country has mere 1.7 Million broadband connections, localized social networks have come…
RedBus takes Bus Ticketing Online
Entire India and the VC community is busy building Travel and Holiday portals neglecting the most essential service, “Techies” in the Valley are looking for – Online Bus Reservation. PilaniSoftLabs, a startup by “Techies” from the valley have solved this problem by founding RedBus.in. Please don’t confuse about RedBus.in being…
SMS for CarPoolers in Mumbai
Typically you goto a carpool classified website and hook with other drivers. However, it is common to stay back at work late evenings. Essentialy your return times are never fixed. But you still want to carpool, how can you do it ? Mumbai based, MESN(Mumbai Environmental and Social Network) came…
Indian Web Properties are getting hotter.
Its just not that real estate in Bangalore or Gurgaon or the Mumbai stock exchange SENSEX touching new highs, but the Indian Internet properties are also getting hotter. India had approximately 40 Million Internet subscribers at the end of 2005, witnessing a growth of 54% YoY. Business 2.0 reported that…