Mint, the financial daily from Hindustan Times, who with Livemint.com, did a rather good job with their online edition, is now also available on mobile phones.
They claim to provide business news as well as updates on markets, corporate news apart from information such as top gainers and losers, and global and sector-wise indices, etc.
To access [...]
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Bangalore-based e-governance services firm Comat Technologies has raised $15 million (Rs. 60 Crore) in its third round of funding from Omidyar Network and the Unitus Equity Fund (UEF) says VCCircle.
This is the first non-microfinance investment for UEF and the first direct investment of Omidyar Network in India.
Comat, which operates a network of rural business centres, [...]
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After Shaadi launched its mobile matchmaking services in association with Vodafone, its the turn for BharatMatrimony, which has tied up with Airtel to allow Airtel subscribers India to access BharatMatrimony services on their GPRS enabled handsets. Almost seems like a response to competition.
I wonder why both these companies are still going the WAP route, wouldn’t [...]
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In a soft launch of its service across Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Punjab, Bangalore and Chennai, RCom has issuing test SIM cards to employees on Sunday. The actual launch is slated in the next 8 to 10 weeks in Mumbai and Delhi says Business Standard.
With a projected investment of Rs 6,000 crores for its GSM operations, [...]
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Info Edge India Ltd, the owners of Naukri.com, will be investing Rs 20 crore for a 49% stake in eTechAces Marketing and Consulting Pvt Ltd, which owns policybazaar.com, an online aggregator of life and non-life insurance products.
“The company’s bouquet of products include insurance products to be sold online, which is so far an untapped area [...]
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There are many virtual worlds currently available or under development, but Second Life (SL) is the one that is best known and most widely used by the educational and academic community. Many educators have adopted SL as the platform of choice for developing educational activities across many disciplines. The concept of the book is to [...]
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Driven by the developing nations, the worldwide mobile subscribers is expected to reach to 4 billion by the end of 2008 according to the International Telecommunications Union.
Since the turn of the century, the growth of mobile cellular subscribers has been impressive, with year-on-year growth averaging 24% between 2000 and 2008. While in 2000, mobile penetration [...]
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High Tech Computer (HTC), makers of the Andriod platform powered Google phone (G1) is planning to launch the phone in India by December. This was launched in the US earlier this month, and is considered a competitor to the iPhone.
The price, however, will be higher than the US debut tag of around Rs 8,200 ($179).
Research [...]
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Currently, powering more than 4,000 local kirana stores across 15 states in over 100 cities with its S-commerce technology with plans to further expand to 20,000 franchisee outlets across the country by 2009, Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt Ltd. has raised an undisclosed sum from Reliance Technology Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners India.
Styled s-commerce, the Suvidhaa platform [...]
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The Indian Journal of Law and Technology, published by the Law and Technology Committee of the Student Bar Association of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, is India’s devoted to the field of law and technology. Articles are selected for publication after being peer reviewed by an external Article Review Board consisting of [...]
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