Will Google do a rainbow doodle for India next?
Shyam Konnur woke up to a pleasant surprise today. Google had a ‘rainbow’ doodle with silhouettes of athletes in the same pattern as the gay pride flag. Right below it was this excerpt from the Olympic...
View ArticleNewcomer credits startup city Bangalore, launches VenuePlan – a dynamic venue...
James Solomon Prince came to Bangalore 10 years ago with just Rs.2000 in his pocket along with a suitcase and a Yamaha Rx. Today he is the founder of VenuePlan, a dynamic event venue directory, and...
View Article20-year olds create an innovative Braille learning device, to demo at PyCon...
Aman Srivastav and Sanskriti Dawle, The Brains behind Project Mudra Give an engineer a tool and he will work wonders. This is what happened when Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastav, second year students...
View ArticleThree marketing tips for digital startups and how Ustad Zakir Hussain helped...
When the world’s greatest tabla player tells an audience of over a thousand fans that they must use your product, what exactly does that do for a startup? One heck of a lot, as mobile music startup...
View ArticleMusicfellas, platform for international indie artists gets acquired by Gaana.com
Mayank Jain Musicfellas is a platform for indie musicians, which was co-founded by Mayank Jain, Gaurav Shahlot and Shubhranshu Jain in late 2012. The company has now been acquired by Gaana.com where...
View ArticleHealth 2.0 India conference: Value for money, value for many – how to use...
Mobile and social media along with a range of wearable devices and other technologies can empower not just the average citizen but entire populations on a mass scale. These were some of the key...
View ArticleForgot to call girlfriend? Android app Call Looper to the rescue
Sandeep Nair, co-founder, Call Looper Sandeep Nair once forgot to wish his girlfriend on her birthday and had to face the music the next morning. To save himself from similar situations in the future,...
View Articlefoodpanda chief shares a secret recipe
They are spreading out faster than any other online food delivery service worldwide. In less than two years, foodpanda has expanded from Germany to 36 countries in four continents. Now, with a fresh...
View ArticleDiagnostic lab management gets a hi-tech avatar with HealthMacro’s DiagSmart
“When I hit my 40s, I took a break to take a plunge into entrepreneurship and explore my dream of building something that touches people’s lives. For a year, I worked with a couple of startups,...
View ArticleTalent engagement platform Huntshire launches ‘Marketing Challenges’
Huntshire is a talent engagement platform backed by T-Labs and also a TechSparks company. The company has launched ‘Marketing Challenges‘ – a tool for companies to crowdsource new ideas for marketing....
View ArticleThe rise of Gangs of ‘Morpheus’pur
In the wake of ‘Morpheus shutting down’ news doing the rounds, I dug into my mailbox to revisit my early interactions with the Morpheus team when they had just started operations. On 22 June 2009, I...
View ArticleGoogle supports gays. Do you?
To liberal minded people everywhere, a rainbow doodle from Google on the morning of the Winter Olympics opening in Sochi, Russia, was a welcome wake up call. The doodle had silhouettes of athletes in...
View ArticleTruly Spain to sweep you off your feet with unique experiences
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton Almost all of us have a list of places to see, and a bucket list of things to experience. Some of us want...
View Article[YS Lounge] How to ‘Plant a greeting card’? 21fools has an answer
21fools, a Mumbai-based startup founded by Divyanshu Asopa, is a ‘Mailchimp for greeting cards’ that helps corporates and individuals connect with their customers and friends in a meaningful way. The...
View ArticleQualcomm Ventures’ QPrize 2014 India competition launch for early-stage...
Qualcomm Ventures, the venture capital arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, had announced earlier this month the kick-off of its fourth edition of Qprize 2014. QPrize™ is an international seed investment...
View Article[Jobs Roundup] Top jobs in Technology and Marketing
Jobs this week are mainly focused at Technology and Marketing sector. You can click here to access the jobs posted earlier. Technology/Development Android Developer at Eruvaka Technologies PHP...
View ArticleCity Surf, a lifestyle coupon book, offers big deals across lifestyle...
While there are a plenty of online coupon websites which offer promotional code for online shopping, none of the websites extend deals like City Surf, a lifestyle coupon book, consisting of over 500...
View ArticleWhat Dhoni can learn from Facebook’s biggest mistake
India have yet to win a single game on their ODI and Test tours of South Africa and New Zealand, the latest being a loss in the Auckland Test on Sunday after a spirited fightback. This is...
View ArticleBerlin tech startup Ubertweek: reinventing video entertainment
Video makes today’s entertainment world go round, even though business insiders see an inevitable change arising within the industry. With generic content shifting to special interest sets and popular...
View ArticleWhat tech startups can learn about content marketing from Akamai’s ‘State of...
Akamai Technologies is a cloud services provider to help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences across devices. Founded in the late 1990′s, the company has had a strong hold in...
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