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Does words like “Freemium” or “Virality” or “Pivot” sound confusing to you? If you are an Entrepreneur, especially in online space you would be familiar with them. These buzzwords are commonplace in Silicon Valley and now very much part of…

According to the 2011 State of the Internet report (Third Quarter) by Akamai Technologies, India has seen slightly encouraging trends in broadband adoption and increased hyperconnectivity in the third quarter of 2011. This report provides…

Ever since I have started using my blackberry my mobile bill seems have to dropped significantly. It is down by more than 40%. When I analyzed this month’s bill I suddenly realized that I had much fewer calls and the number of SMS’s has…

Couple of years back no one expected ecommerce to catch on so fiercely in India, but today not a week passes when we don’t hear about either a new ecommerce site getting launched or someone getting funded in this space. We have yet…

This is the largest first round funding for an Indian startup. BigBasket.com, a online grocery store founded by serial entrepreneurs K. Ganesh & Meena Ganesh (of TutorVista) along with Fabmart & Fabmall founders (V S Sudhakar, Hari…

Just like Google is synonymous to the verb ‘search’ on Internet, the sheer magnanimity of Facebook’s brand image has made it synonymous to the exploding world of social media. Just like the rich attracts more richness and wealth in any…

Facebook is expected to have One Billion accounts in 2012, whereas Twitter is estimated to be half that size. It’s not as if niche social networks like Pinterest and Instagram will replace these giants. They will actually benefit from…

“Time is never right for your ideas; you have to make it right”. Steve Jobs truly exemplified the Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Steve Jobs, who lived 56 years of his life doing what he loved, turned a garage based computer venture into…

Indian NGOs have come a long way in terms of raising funds for charitable causes. While most major Indian NGOs have a fairly good web presence since the past few years, GiveIndia and GuideStar India has emerged as mature online platforms…

Times Internet Ltd. (TIL) announced launch of India’s first weekly magazine purely for tablet computers on Wednesday. This Weekly magazine - TWEEK - has been developed by TIL in partnership with GENWI, a cloud based mobile publishing…

A few noble hearts in the top political circles have truly understood that the best way to tackle corruption in public services is by going hi-tech and reducing public interface with the government employees in order to curb manipulation…

Whether you're on the top of the game at your workplace or you're a fresh graduate looking for jobs, networking online and offline will come handy when you really need it. Unfortunately there are no fixed rules for increasing your…

Recently farmers in Maharashtra have found an unusual ally in Facebook. The turmeric farmers there were facing a challenge as over supply had reduced the prices drastically. So they struck on an innovative solution. They formed a group on…

In December last year, India crossed 100 million Internet users landmark out of which over 50% users are “active users”. Over 40% of Indian internet users regularly participated in social networks. Facebook alone has over 43 million Indian…

Here is a golden chance for Indian mobile developers to lap up a shiny new 16 GB BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet. We are slightly late in reporting this as there are only 4 more days to go, but I guess it is still worth all the effort! Alec…

Social media learning, which is a significant component of the e-learning industry, is gradually being adopted in the Indian academia and corporate in a big way. 2012 will only see more inclusion of social media in e-learning systems across…

India has added close to 11 Million Facebook users in last 6 months and has now beaten Indonesia to have the 2nd largest userbase on Facebook. According to stats revealed by Social Bakers, a social analytics company, India now has 43.5…

Amazon has finally made an official India debut, but don’t raise your hopes in anticipation that you will have the similar product buying experience as its parent Amazon.com - infact, far from it. Amazon comes to India as Junglee.com,…

We've already covered 10 Indian Android apps earlier so now it's time to offer something to Indian iPhone users. Here are 5 India centric iPhone apps that will arm you will all the necessary information you need while you're in the country.…

Arun’s Note: I have been a regular customer of Flipkart for over couple of years now and have had pleasant experiences with them in 9 out of 10 transactions I have conducted. I had one real bad experience (about a year back), when it came…