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Healthkart Acquires Fitness Community Portal MadeInHealth

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Healthkart Acquires Fitness Community Portal MadeInHealth

Healthkart, India’s leading e-health store, today announced acquisition of MadeInHealth, India’s premier online fitness and body-building community and supplement store. The move reinforces HealthKart’s leadership position in e-health space, and seeks to boost its presence in eCommerce market, which is expected to grow several fold in next few years. Expressing their delight on the acquisition, Prashant… read more »

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Startups, Are You Looking for Interns? IIT-B Students are Available

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The Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Bombay is run by the students at the college and aims at manifesting the latent entrepreneurial spirit of undergraduate students. E-Cell is launching a new initiative which will give 1st year undergraduates at IIT-B an opportunity to pursue an internship at a start-up. There are many 1st year students who… read more »

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iXiGO’s Operations and Product Platform to Get a Boost as Abhishek Sharma Joins as VP

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ixigo

iXiGO.com, India’s leading travel search engine has been bullish about their growth plans and recently signed a deal to power search for the international airport of Maldives. iXiGO announced the appointment of Abhishek Sharma as Vice President, Operations & Product Platform whose professional experience spans across 13 years of strategic and operational leadership at young… read more »

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IAMAI’s Views of TRAI’s Recommendations for Mobile VAS

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TRAI published recommendations for the mobile value added services industry on 14 May 2012. Without going into the merits of each recommendation, IAMAI is of the view that the set of recommendations are self-contradictory and defeats the purpose with which the consultation paper was published. The most important recommendation of TRAI is to bring the… read more »

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Biggest Tech IPO in History

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It’s time for the biggest technology IPO there is. Facebook is going public tomorrow with a valuation of $38 per share , keeping its valuation at a whopping 104 billion USD. Facebook has commented that it won’t lose its focus of keeping the users happy, as Mark Zuckerberg commented – “We don’t build services to… read more »

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Freshdesk Announces Future Fund to Provide USD 10M in OnlineHelpdesk Support to 501 Startups Worldwide

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freshdesk

Today, Freshdesk  announces phase one of its Freshdesk Future Fund to provide customer support services to new companies. The fund will provide 501 startups and incubations with USD 10M worth of Freshdesk’s cloud based support solution for one year. Startups have their finger on the pulse when it comes to new technologies and disruptive ideas.… read more »

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Qualcomm Ventures Announces the QPrize Venture Investment Competition in India

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Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the third edition of its venture investment competition in India to identify the industry’s most promising early-stage technology companies. The Qualcomm Ventures QPrize™ competition was first launched in 2009 to promote innovation in the technology industry and is managed by Qualcomm’s venture investment arm, Qualcomm Ventures. The Qualcomm Ventures QPrize competition is open… read more »

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Twelve Charter Angels Join VentureNursery, A Startup Accelerator

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VentureNursery, India’s first angel-backed start-up accelerator, today announced that twelve angel investors have joined its Charter Angels program. The Charter Angels program is an anchor element of VentureNursery’s value proposition and is meant to give a platform to graduating start-ups to pitch for on-going mentoring and seed funding by seasoned and active angel investors. “We… read more »

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OrangeScape to expand global footprint after IAN’s USD 1 million Bridge Round

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Indian Angel Network, with over 200 highly influential members, comprising India’s most successful entrepreneurs and dynamic CEOs, has invested US$1 million in priced bridge round in OrangeScape. OrangeScape is a leading, Chennai-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider inIndia. Founded by CEO Suresh Sambandam and CTO Mani Doraisamy,OrangeScape provides Visual Platform as a Service (PaaS), a modeling driven visual development… read more »

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CarZ Uses USD 5 million Funding to Open Nine New Outlets

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CarZ, a multi-brand car service network raised Series-A funding of $5 million from Indo-US ventures for its expansion plans. Carz has opened nine service outlets in Guntur, Khammam, Rajahmundry, Kakinada, Nellore, Anantapur, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. CarZ, which commenced operations in Hyderabad in 2008 now has 12 outlets across Andhra Pradesh (including three in Hyderabad… read more »

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