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Developers offered Free Blackberry Playbook to convert Android Apps to BB apps!

by Arun Prabhudesai on February 9, 2012 |

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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 Saunders, Blackberry’s Vice President of Developer Relations …

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Flipkart’s Letsbuy Acquisition – Consolidation in Indian Ecommerce Begins! [PR Update]

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Now, if this news is true, it may probably be a game-changer for fast growing Indian E-Commerce space. Last night, Medianama reported that Flipkart will soon be announcing acquisition of Letsbuy.com. Although, there is no official word or confirmation on this acquisition, the news has a good chance of being true. Flipkart …

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Yahoo Mail Home displays Full-page Fastrack Ad [Desperation?]

by Arun Prabhudesai
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I visited Yahoo Mail probably after a few months as my amazon account is attached to it and mails come to that email ID. However, I was taken by surprise when the page loaded – I was a bit confused for couple of seconds wondering if I landed on “Yahoo typo” homepage. But that was [...]

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Wow! Indians most willing to donate to Wikipedia…

by Arun Prabhudesai
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This is one news that has made me really happy – According to the study published by Wikimedia, Indians have expressed strongest desire to donate to Wikipedia. Over 42% of Indians are willing to donate as compared to 33% Americans. Wikipedia concluded its annual fundraising on January 2nd and raised a record-breaking USD 20 …

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Now, IRCTC SMS will serve as E-Ticket for train travel!

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Indian Railways is bringing up much needed changes to the system and making life easier for Indian train travelers. For few years now, the only accepted way for E-Ticket confirmation was carrying a physical paper printout of tickets booked online. Tons of paper was wasted purely on this. Few months back, IRCTC announced that …

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Weekly Wrap-up: Innovation, Rediff design, Tablet Penetration, Amazon Entry & more…

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Its Monday morning and time for us to look at some of the popular posts published on trak.in last week. Here are reasons why India remains one of the most attractive countries for Global Businesses to expand. Here is an article that beautifully explains what is innovation, and the process …

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Indian Funding, M&A deals of the Fortnight [23rd Jan - 4th Feb 2012]

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Lets take a look at the funding & M&A deals that in the fortnight starting January 23rd 2012. [Generally, we publish this weekly, but we could not cover it earlier, so we have put up fortnightly deals] Funding, M&A Deals of the Week [Jan 23rd to Feb 4th 2012] …

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Naukri.com launches Android, iPhone & BB Apps – Introduces HTML 5 site

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Naukri has finally launched dedicated mobile apps for its Job search engine. Being the biggest Job site in India, they should have come up with these apps earlier – However, its better late than never :). From the looks of the apps they have released, they have done a good job of it. …

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India beats Indonesia to have 2nd largest userbase on Facebook!

by Arun Prabhudesai
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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 million users on Facebook as compared to 43.1 million of Indonesia. Roughly, that stands [...]

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ITI Ltd will procure Aakash henceforth, IIT-Rajasthan out!

by Arun Prabhudesai

Aakash had run into rough weather few days back due to negative feedback received from its users. Most of the users reported Aakash was under powered and had an out-dated Operating System. There were also skirmishes between IIT-Rajasthan (who were commissioned to procure initial batch of Aakash) and Datawind (Manufacturer who supplied Aakash Tablet) regarding [...]

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Amazon enters India with Junglee.com Product Ads!

by Arun Prabhudesai
Amazon Product Ads

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, essentially a shopping comparison engine. According to news broken by Rajat Agrawal of BGR and then [...]

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Indian Mobile Subscriber base reaches 893.84 Million [Dec 11]

by Arun Prabhudesai
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9.47 Million new mobile subscribers were added in December 2011 taking the total tally to 893.84 million as on December 2011. December also registered the highest growth rate since March last year. Past 6-8 months, there had been a constant slide in the Mobile subscriber growth rate. Indian mobile subscriber addition since March …

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E-Tutor Tablet: A Rs. 7500 Cloud Based Tablet for students! [Image, Specs]

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Looks like we now have an elite cousin of Aakash coming up – It is called “E-Tutor Tablet”. Many mainstream media newspaper including Times wrote about it saying it was yet another Government initiative. However, this initiative is anything but Government’s… The news also mentions that this “E-tutor tablet” is a joint effort of …

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Are Tablets really taking over? [Infographic]

by Arun Prabhudesai

For last couple of years, tablet computers are in vogue. Even in India, tablets have become quite popular (at least the word “tablet”), thanks to “Aakash” by Indian Government. Popularity of tablets can be gauged from the fact that in last year alone close to 100 different tablets were launched by more than 35 different [...]

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Rediff Redesign: Shopping/Daily Deals In, Cricket Out!

by Arun Prabhudesai
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I am not sure if you have noticed, but Rediff Homepage has got a makeover. It is not a drastic one, but there are some noticeable changes. Rediff had set a precedence (in India, which no one followed :)) in 2009 when it introduced a minimalistic, ad-less homepage design, which was a sea-change from previously [...]

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