Bangalore based education startup ThinkVidya.com, an online community of individual teachers, tutors and students has announced general availability (GA) of its “ThinkVidya 360” product – a SaaS based offering for coaching institutes for student and trainer management.
The future is apps and after Apple with its iTunes and AppStore success, Google doesn’t want to be left far behind. Today at Google I/O, Google announced the latest stats and new updates on Google Play – Google Play store has now over 600,000 apps and games 20 billion apps have been downloaded/installed so far [...] Read More
While almost the whole internet world was looking forward to the Google I/O 2012 conference for the new announcements and new product demos coming out of the Google stable – Sergey Brin, Founder and CEO of Google pulled off perhaps the best hardware product demo ever, by unveiling the Google Glass project in style with [...] Read More
Ohio-based seed capital investment fund LaunchHouse, has launched a new LaunchHouse Accelerator program to bring innovation to Ohio by inviting the world’s brightest entrepreneurs to participate in a 12-week Accelerator program. Selected teams will receive $25,000 in funding and will be surrounded with experience-based lab sessions, world-class mentors from their specific industry, an innovative work environment, [...] Read More
Over 100 investors including MIH Internet, JAFCO Asia, iGlobe Partners, Crystal Horse Investments, WaveMaker Labs, Golden Gate Ventures and Jungle Ventures attended ‘Demo Day’, an event to showcase the results of the JFDI – Innov8 2012 Bootcamp, this morning. Demo Day marked the end of an intensive 100 day acceleration programme that has given 11 digital start-up [...] Read More
In a recent post on YourStory, we told you about Dropmyemail.com, a Cloud-to-Cloud email backup solution, signing up 500k Users in just 50 days of launch at a faster user adoption rate than Dropbox and Pinterest. We couldn’t help but wonder, will this be the next Big startup success story? To delve deeper, we caught up with John [...] Read More
Singapore-based startup business ShopSpot Pte Ltd announced today that a group of angels and business entrepreneurs in Thailand led by Kris Nalamlieng has agreed to invest an undisclosed sum to fund development of ShopSpot’s mobile peer-to-peer commerce platform. In its own words, ShopSpot “makes selling stuff as easy as sending a tweet”. ShopSpot launched its mobile app [...] Read More
Kark Mobile Education Pte Ltd, one of the startups being incubated at JFDI Singapore, has announced today that Ideosource – a Jakarta-based investment firm incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has invested an undisclosed sum to fund development of a new product. The product, also tentatively called Kark, is a tablet-based edutainment platform for 5-12 year olds based on simulation [...] Read More
In a world where we constantly shift our attention from one screen to another, it’s perhaps ironic that the smallest screen is also the most powerful one. We’re, of course, talking about your mobile phone, the comprehensive winner of the battle to be at the centre of your digital life. What started out as a [...] Read More
Dropmyemail.com, a comprehensive consumer email backup service (along with contacts, calendars and chat), has announced that they have signed-up their 500,000th user only 50 days after starting operations. The company began offering the freemium service on 1 March, 2012 and within days they saw great traction in new user adoption and the coveted hockey stick [...] Read More
