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mCommerce to Get a Boost: Bharti Airtel and Axis Bank Join Hands

posted 5 days ago

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Bharti Airtel and Axis Bank announce strategic alliance for financial inclusion Bharti Airtel, through its wholly owned subsidiary Airtel mCommerce Services Limited, and Axis Bank today announced a partnership for extending banking and payment services to India’s unbanked millions through the ubiquitous mobile platform. This alliance will leverage the companies’ respective strengths in telecom and… read more »

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Citrix Unveils Mobile Enterprise Strategy at Citrix Synergy SanFrancisco

posted 11 days ago

Citrix

Today at Citrix Synergy™, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet, Citrix unveiled the next phase of its strategy to enable the mobile enterprise. With the advent of the Cloud Era, an increasingly mobile workforce is looking for easier ways to work the way they want – with anyone, from any location, on any… read more »

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With Credool, You Can Afford to Forget All your Usernames and Passwords

posted 13 days ago

Credool

Remembering a dozen passwords and usernames is a pain. I usually have to keep a note of the note as to where I’ve stored all the confidential logins and ids. Folks at Credool also faced the same problem and decided to solve the problem. Founded by two brothers, Soumyadeb and Rudradeb Mitra, Credool targets the problem… read more »

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11 Innovative Tech Start-ups Pitched at JFDI – Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Demo Day

posted 17 days ago

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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 »

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Global Mobile Handset Sales Forecast

posted 21 days ago

Global Mobile Handset Sales Forecast

A GigaOM report pointed out how the numbers themselves spell the reign of mobiles in the coming years. The word also has been around that mobile will kill Web 2.0 very soon. A staggering 85% of world population owns a mobile phone! Nokia and Samsung control the majority of this market and with countries going… read more »

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Kark Mobile from JFDI Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Raises Funding Ahead of Investor Demo Day

posted 24 days ago

Kark Mobile

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 »

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Reverie Will Come To You With DataWind’s UbiSlate 7C, Commercial Version of Aakash 2 Tablet

posted 25 days ago

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From the sidelines of the Datawind’s UbiSlate 7C launch today in New Delhi DataWind, the makers of the Aakash tablet, has announced two new UbiSlate tablets – UbiSlate 7+ and UbiSlate 7C. Both the DataWind tablets come with similar specifications, other than the display quality and internal storage. The Ubislate 7C is said to be… read more »

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Is mCommerce More Convenient Than eCommerce?

posted 25 days ago

mCommerce

In recent times, people have talked a lot about the potential of the eCommerce industry in India. But,  mobile broadband seems to be the underdog as far as this sector is considered, serving as the primary driver of overall Internet penetration in India. Of the next lot of Internet users to be added in the coming quarters,… read more »

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Why I Am Betting on Product Tech Startups from India and Why TechSparks 2012 Makes Sense

posted 28 days ago

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It was early 2010. There was a lot of buzz in the startup ecosystem about India’s inability to produce cutting-edge product tech ventures. I, for most part, was a silent spectator to these discussions. While I did agree that we were not at par with the innovations in the West, I did not, for a… read more »

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Intel’s First Smartphone to be Launched in India with Lava Mobiles

posted 31 days ago

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Intel Corporation and Lava International announced the general availability of the XOLO X900, the first smartphone with Intel inside. The device will be available to customers for purchase beginning 23rd April at a best-buy street price of approximately INR 22000. Lava also announced its long-term partnership with Croma, a national chain of mega stores of… read more »

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