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Textbuk.in ? A Text Book Rental Service for Students
Textbuk.in is a Pune based startup offering text books on rent. Service currently, available to engineering and diploma students at Pune University has 900 users and rented out approximately 3,000 books last semester. In addition to renting out books, venture … Read More » | | |
Five Google+ Stats for India You Should Know [86%males, Delhi most active]
India is among the top 2 nations for Facebook and the story doesn?t seem to be very different for Google+. Gender Distribution While Facebook boasts of a ?healthy? ratio (27% female, 73% males), Google+ is highly skewed towards male population, … Read More » | | |
Open Source ERP Product for Schools, Fedena Introduces Developer License Program
Open source ERP product for schools, Fedena has introduced OEM partner model for the product through the introduction of Developer License, that will allow any other company to build their own application using Fedena’s source code. The Bangalore based startup … Read More » | | |
Create Picture Stories Using Shuffls
There is no dearth of photo sharing or blogging sites on the Internet . Why, even social networking behemoth Facebook boastsof 100 billion photos. However, this newest kid on the block, Shuffls.com, does it differently, by creating a dedicated portal … Read More » | | |
Get Discounts at Cafe Coffee Day Using Mojostreet App
Foursquare entered India with Caf? Coffee Day partnership and while we haven?t yet seen any serious effort from Foursquare team(to grow India business), the homegrown LBS startup Mojostreet has partnered with CCD enabling check-in based offers at 1,174 Caf? Coffee … Read More » | | |
Weekly Recap: Launch of Junglee, Indians #2 on Facebook
Popular Posts for week ending Feb 5th, 2012. Read our full coverage of Junglee, Amazon's India Venture. Read More » | | |
TechCrunch.com
The Samsung Doth Advertise Too Much, Methinks
 At CES, the AOL booth where we worked, did interviews, and ate lunch was just a few short feet from Samsung's huge Galaxy Note booth, where they were giving out free shirts printed with your caricature, drawn, of course, on a Galaxy Note. There was a line around this thing the entire time we were there, scores of people waiting for hours for their free t-shirt.
Outside CES there were enormous banners in the most prominent and expensive ad spots on the convention center. Phone? Tablet? It's Galaxy Note?!
And just yesterday, in a grandiose ad rather out of keeping with their well-received "next big thing" campaign, the Note was made out to be the end of all our troubles, ending the tyranny of using our fingers and letting us circle and cross out and all those things you wish you could do on your obviously-now-obsolete iPhone.
But I saw the Note at CES and formed my opinion in about five or six seconds: it's weak. And that's why this advertising blitz makes so much sense. | | |
Yelp Ads Are Not A Rip-Off, You Pay To Seal The Deal
 Yelp built its ad business by attracting users that know what they want, just not who to buy it from -- exactly when ads are most effective. That's why I find today's VentureBeat piece by Rocky Agrawal titled "Yelp advertising is a rip-off for small?advertisers" to be ridiculous. His sources say Yelp charges a $600 CPM, or 1,000-times the standard online CPM rate.
Yes, these ads are expensive, especially for low-end restaurants. But for lawyers, dentists, jewelers and mechanics with a high lifetime average revenue per customer, turning someone searching for their services on Yelp into a loyal customer is no rip-off, it can drive huge ROI. | | |
Real Augmented Reality Google Goggles In Prototype Stage?
 There have been whispers in the past of augmented reality goggles or glasses, but generally we have been able to dismiss them as exaggerations or concepts. The technology, while it isn't unrealistic, simply isn't quite there yet.
Apparently that hasn't stopped Google: a new report is appearing corroborating earlier ones that they are working on a pair of augmented reality glasses. They'd piggyback on your phone's connection and overlay information like directions, news, and so on.
Whether you think it's a good idea or not, this kind of thing is going to come eventually, so it's natural that Google would want to start girding itself for the approaching augmented glasses wars of 20XX. | | |
Halliburton Dumps RIM, Chooses iPhones For 4,500 Employees
 To say that RIM has had a tough time these past few months is an understatement, and today's news probably won't help raise the morale around Waterloo. According to AppleInsider, oilfield services giant Halliburton will soon be migrating their BlackBerry-toting workforce to run exclusively on a new fleet of iPhones. | | |
Groupon Buys eCommerce Data Targeting Startup (And Angelpad Alumnus) Adku
 I love the smell of acquisitions in the morning! We've just heard that Groupon has acquired Adku, a stealth startup that uses big data in order to personalize the online shopping experience for people visiting eCommerce sites like eBay, Amazon and Zappos.
The company built their personalized targeting technology in three months, and have basically been in stealth since they launched at the Angelpad Demo day a year and a half ago. Adku is backed by Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures and True Ventures in addition to being an Angelpad startup. | | |
Lip Reading, 3D Desktops, And NUI: Microsoft Plans To Reinvent User Interaction
 Deep in the skunk works of its Research and Labs divisions, secreted around the Seattle area, Microsoft is working on totally reinventing the way people interact with their computers. Very little is out in the open or in more than a prototype form, but the work is unquestionably being done.
Last week it transpired that Microsoft is working on building Kinect into the bezels of laptops, and after that, presumably, tablets and eventually mobile phones. But it's not just about building out the install base for Dance Central 3. It's enabling the next generation of awareness in our electronics. The iPhone ushered in an era where our devices know when we touch them. Microsoft is working on the next one, in which our devices will simply know us. | | |
GigaOm
Super Bowl XLVI by the (Twitter) numbers
Twitter is fast becoming the focus group of the 21st century, a status solidified yet again during Sunday night's Super Bowl. The platform saw 453 times the maximum tweets per second it saw during 2008's game, and sentiment analysis of tweets might have predicted the upset. | | |
When is your Nextel service going kaput? There?s a map for that
It?s no secret that Sprint plans to shut down its iDEN network in 2013, but until recently the details of how it would sunset it were a secret. Over the weekend, new maps appeared on the Sprint website that identify the individual cell sites being decommissioned. | | |
99designs sheds light on its cloudy crowdsourcing platform
99designs' use of Amazon services to run its crowd-sourcing site is seen as a model for how small companies can leverage cloud services. The company's site claims to handle hundreds of thousands of unique visitors and tens of millions of pageviews monthly. | | |
Is Apple ready to issue a dividend?
With $100B in cash, there have been quite a few whispers about an Apple dividend, starting when Tim Cook officially become CEO. But after years of wishful thinking on the part of longtime investors in Apple, it's starting to look like it could actually happen soon. | | |
Debunking the ?original sin? of online newspapers
Media industry executives love to talk about the "original sin" that newspapers supposedly committed, by not charging for content when the web was young -- but this theory misses the point that the media game as a whole is being played according to fundamentally different rules. | | |
Facebook needs ad initiatives with quicker payoffs
Facebook appears more focused on proving the long-term promise of social media marketing than on taking some immediate steps like adding traditional ad formats and selling mechanisms to boost this year?s ad [...] | | |
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