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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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