Sonam Gulati

Mobile VAS Company Launching M-commerce Site RockASAP

Delhi-based Handygo Technologies, a wireless solution provider of mobile entertainment and value added services, is launching what is one of the first m-commerce site, RockASAP. RockASAP, launched in beta mode four months ago, allows mobile users to ‘shop on the move’. The users can browse from ...

Team TC

SaaS-based Start-up Freshdesk Refreshes Its Customer Support Platform

Accel Partners-backed SaaS-based start-up Freshdesk Inc has launched what it calls ‘version 2.0’ of its helpdesk platform to make customer support more engaging, powerful and as simple as sending an email. Freshdesk is a customer support platform that allows organizations to support their custo...

Nandana Das

We Have Enough Ground To Increase Our Market Share In India: Satish Kadu, VP & Business Head, Komli Media

Komli Media India Pvt Ltd, the Mumbai-based ad network and audience measurement services provider, seems to be on an innovation and acquisition spree. It has recently launched Komli Labs, a centre for research in advertising sciences, besides ATOM, India’s first real-time bidding platform to get a...

Nandana Das

Nadathur Group-backed Start-up Amagi Expands Operations To 35 Cities

Four-year-old start-up Amagi Media Labs, a company that facilitates geographic targeting of television advertisements, has expanded its presence in India and is now operating in 35 cities including the metros. The company claims that nearly 400 small and medium scale businesses have used its platfor...

Anand Rai & Sonam Gulati

Smartphone Growth Sparks Investment Call

There will be more mobile connections than people in the world for the first time this year but the rapid proliferation of smartphones and tablets is causing unprecedented strain on global telecoms networks, according to one of the industry’s most senior figures. Franco Bernabè, chief executive o...

Sonam Gulati

E-learning Start-up Carveniche Secures Funding From Mumbai Angels

Bangalore-based education technology start-up Carveniche has secured an angel funding of around Rs 1 crore ($0.2 million) from Mumbai Angels. Founded in 2010 by former Infosys engineers Avneet Makkar and Saraswathy A, Carveniche is an education technology venture which provides content-based product...

Bhawna Gupta

Airtel Money Goes Pan India, Rolls Out Services In 300 Cities

Bharti Airtel has expanded its mobile wallet service Airtel Money through its wholly owned subsidiary Airtel M Commerce Services Ltd. The service is now available in more than 300 key cities in India. Initially the service was launched in Delhi NCR and Chennai in May 2011. In 2010, Airtel M Commerc...

Sonam Gulati

Comviva Joins MasterCard’s Mobile Money Partnership Program

Mobile app and value added services company Comviva has announced a strategic partnership with MasterCard to launch what it calls a first-of-its-kind open loop Mobile Money Partnership Program. Under this partnership Comviva and MasterCard will enable their customers to gain access to all major fina...

Sonam Gulati

Former Yatra.com COO Raja Natesan Switches To TUI India

Raja Natesan who had quit his position as COO of  Yatra.com few months back, has joined TUI Travel India, a part of TUI Travel PLC – an international leisure travel group, as its COO. Although he quit Yatra.com last August, the announcement of his new position at TUI has come only today. Nate...

Reuters

PayPal Gets New Rival In Offline Payments Race

PayPal, the online payments company owned by eBay Inc, just got a new rival in the race to develop a mobile payment service that can be used in physical stores. Boku Inc, a big online mobile payments company backed by venture capital firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Benchmark Capital, unveile...

Reuters

Apple Ponders Cash, Caves On Board-vote Proposal

Apple Inc on Thursday adopted a measure long desired by investors and corporate governance activists, granting its shareholders a bigger say in the appointment of directors to the board of the world’s most valuable technology company. Chief Executive Tim Cook also repeated that he has been ...

Richard Waters / FT

HP Printer Business Facing Challenges

The printer business which has long underpinned Hewlett-Packard’s finances is facing structural problems that threaten its position as the company’s cash cow, Meg Whitman, chief executive, has warned. Ms Whitman’s comments, which included a warning that the US computer maker faces deep challen...

Sonam Gulati

Agri Company Taps GPS-enabled Devices For Real Time Info To Connect Farmers

Krishidhan Seeds, an agricultural research driven company, has given out 3G-enabled android 2.3 Tablets to its marketing & sales team to help cater  farmers and agriculture fraternity. The basic aim of using GPS-enabled Tablets is to provide real time and instant solutions and information on t...

Reuters

Apple, Google, Amazon, Smartphone Makers Sign Privacy Accord

Six of the world’s top consumer technology firms have agreed to provide greater privacy disclosures before users download applications in order to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, California’s attorney general said on Wednesday. The agreement binds Amazon, Apple, Googl...

Reuters

Sony’s Vita Arrives Just As Market May Be Fading

Sony Corp’s Vita hits the United States on Wednesday, the latest in a long line of mobile gaming gadgets in the spirit of Nintendo’s Game Boy and Atari’s Lynx. But with gaming habits rapidly changing, it may also be the last of its breed. Vita will be a tough sell to gamers who may...