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IRL for Basketball and Volleyball

Vikas Sharma — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:44:49 +0000

Indiakhelo.com, India’s premier sporting site, is conducting Bengaluru’s first ever Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball for teams from schools, colleges and apartment complexes. Commonfloor.com, India’s biggest online apartment community will be co-organising the tournament for apartment complexes. The tournament will host more than 150 teams across 35 colleges, 35 schools and 20 apartment [...]

Vdopia Raises $4 Million from Nexus Venture Partners

Vikas Sharma — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:13:21 +0000

Vdopia, the leading online and mobile video monetization player has announced that Nexus Venture Partners recently invested $4 million in their Series-A funding round. Vdopia has also appointed Rohit Sharma as its new President and CEO. He will work with company co-founders to continue to grow revenue and lead the company’s continued growth in enabling [...]

Free FusionCharts OEM licenses for Startups

Vikas Sharma — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:44:22 +0000

FusionCharts team will be exhibiting at the NASSCOM Product Conclave on October 27th and 28th, 2009 at the Lalit Ashok, Bangalore. They are giving out free OEM licenses to all product startups so that they can embed FusionCharts for free in their applications. FusionCharts is a Flash charting component that helps develop animated and interactive [...]

VCs invest $77-M during Q3 ‘09

Vikas Sharma — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:00:33 +0000

Venture Capital firms invested $77 million over 17 deals in India during the three months ending September 2009, according to a study by Venture Intelligence in partnership with the Global-India Venture Capital Association. The amount invested during the period was significantly lower compared to the same quarter in 2008 (which had witnessed $298 million being [...]

Attribo Joins Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Vikas Sharma — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:34:11 +0000

Attribo, today announced that it has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing computer power consumption by 50 percent by the year 2010. Together, Attribo and the other industry-leading members of the Initiative will work to increase the adoption of energy-efficient PCs and servers and increase awareness and use of [...]

My Engineering Story 2009

Vikas Sharma — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:19:15 +0000

Why?Newton in partnership with Career Launcher, is looking for stories that reflect the pulse of the engineering community in India. Why?Newton announced launch of the “My Engineering Story 2009” contest through its online portal www.whynewton.com, an upcoming knowledge sharing platform exclusively for the engineers – by the engineers. “Every engineer has a story which [...]

PE firms invest $763M in Indian Cos. in Q3 09

Vikas Sharma — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:07:15 +0000

Private Equity firms invested about US$763 million across 47 deals during the quarter ended September 2009, according to a study by Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on Private Equity and M&A transaction activity in India. While the amount invested during the latest quarter was during the quarter was significantly lower than that during the [...]

Attribo enters Public Beta

Vikas Sharma — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:27:29 +0000

Lost in the cloud? Here’s a solution for those finding management of various cloud spaces as a herculean task. Attribo is an upcoming & exciting start-up in cloud management space, with aggressive focus towards solving the end user adaptability & usability issues related with managing & monitoring cloud resources across multiple vendors. Attribo is currently offering [...]

Qualcomm Announces Finalists in QPrize Business Plan Competition

Vikas Sharma — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:13:23 +0000

SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today unveiled its regional finalists in Qualcomm Ventures’ QPrize(TM) international business plan competition. The four early-stage companies representing Europe/Israel, China, India and North America stood out among a pool of competitors to each receive US$100,000 in [...]

National level B School Business Plan Competition

Vikas Sharma — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:16:14 +0000

Sai Balaji Education Society’s “International Institute of Management Sciences” in association with “The Times of India” has announced a unique national level B School Business Plan competition “Change the Face of India Inc.”. The basic objective of this Business Plan Competition is to create awareness among young management students as regards the practical conceptualization of Business [...]