1. Startup Advice

  3. Other Avashya Editions

  4. Web 2.0 India Jobs

  5. VC Funds in the News

    (18 articles) Sequoia Capital India

    (4 articles) Accel Partners

    (2 articles) Draper Fisher Jurvetson

    (2 articles) Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

    (2 articles) ICICI Bank

    (1 articles) Accel India

    (1 articles) Sequoia Capital China

    (1 articles) Ojas Venture Partners

    (1 articles) Indian Angel Network

    (1 articles) Mosaic Media Ventures Private Limited

  6. Organizations in the News

    (15 articles) Google

    (14 articles) Airtel

    (10 articles) Moolchand Healthcare

    (10 articles) Nokia

    (8 articles) Samsung

    (7 articles) Microsoft

    (7 articles) Apple Inc.

    (7 articles) Mauj Telecom

    (6 articles) Reliance Industries Limited

    (6 articles) Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

  7. People in the News

    (16 articles) Alap Naik Desai

    (11 articles) Vikas SN

    (8 articles) Anupam Saxena

    (8 articles) Apurva Chaudhary

    (7 articles) Shravan Talwar

    (4 articles) Rajesh Ghonasgi

    (4 articles) Aatif Sumar

    (4 articles) Manmohan Singh

    (4 articles) Anjali Shrivastava

    (2 articles) Shaloo Reddi

  8. Quotes

    1. “ There is a huge amount of growth that is still to come in as far as smartphones go. From 6% of the overall market smartphone have inched up by a percentage point in a year which leave a lot of room for growth. ”
      By Anshul Gupta
    2. “ We have been fighting for this for long and it seems the ISPs are finally responding. ”
      By Harish Ram
    3. “ The long-term clarity on the regulatory environment will have an immediate impact on the balance sheet. ”
      By S. Dilli Raj
    4. “ The Indian parliament has a history of rejecting many proposals already cleared by the cabinet, We can only hope that this bill doesn't face the same fate. ”
      By Nitin Kumar
    5. “ Any improvement in collection of loans from this state that accounts for as much as 40 percent of the loan book of the industry will improve the investor and banker sentiment toward the sector. ”
      By Santosh Singh

  1. Recent Articles

    1. Freshdesk Launches $10M “Future Fund” To Bring Free Help Desk Support To 500+ Startups

      Explore TechCrunch (1 hour, 50 min ago)

      Freshdesk, the makers of cloud-based help desk software that allows companies to support their customers through email, phone, website, Facebook and Twitter, are on a mission to compete with the big boys of the space, like Zendesk and Salesforce's Desk.com. Though it believes that the biggest market opportunity down the road will be in offering a unique brand of cloud-based customer support to the enterprise, Freshdesk wants to entice (and give back to) the little guys as well. That's why the startup is today announcing the first phase of its "Future Fund," which will provide customer support ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   SalesForce   Freshdesk

    2. Video Of Shahrukh Khan MCA Fight & Vidya Balan Mala Jau De Lavani

      Explore Information Madness (4 hours, 31 min ago)

      Shahrukh Khan and controversies go hand in hand. Whether its Shahrukh Khan's USA immigration pat down or Shahrukh Khan and Karan Johar's 'friendship'. Media loves all these for sure. Today it was alleged that Shahrukh Khan got drunk and verbally abused MCA authorities for not letting him enter the Wankhede stadium after his team Kolkata Knight Riders won the match. So what Vidya Balan has to do with this? Well keep reading (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Shah Rukh Khan   Karan Johar   Vidya Balan

    3. Handset Market Grows In India Inspite of Worldwide Shrinkage In Sales.

      Explore WATBlog.com (6 hours, 30 min ago) Mobile

      Handset Market Grows In India Inspite of Worldwide Shrinkage In Sales. The Indian mobile phone market is very unique. It has been on a phase of constant growth since its advent, even now, as worldwide sales of mobile phones are taking a hit. The Times of India reports that India managed to skip the global mobile slowdown and grew by 6% instead! The worldwide sales have [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Nokia   Samsung   The Times

    4. The Facebook Stats Game: Brazil Has The Highest Active Reach; Bangkok Tops The List Of Cities

      Explore TechCrunch (6 hours, 40 min ago) Social Networking

      Facebook says that it generated half of its revenues outside of the U.S. and Canada in the first quarter of 2012, and some numbers out today underscore just how extensive its reach is in different markets, with active usage in some countries outstripping that of Facebook in its home market. According to figures from Nielsen -- some of the latest numbers to come out in the battery of data that is being fired out in the final day before Facebook goes public -- Brazil has the highest active reach of Internet consumers using the social network from home/work computers. Some ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Nielsen

    5. Facebook’s Prospects In Asia

      Explore TechCrunch (7 hours, 5 min ago) Social Networking

      Facebook's IPO story is a lot about mobile, international growth and Asia. I am not Asian by birth but have been living there for a dozen years and researching key Asian markets since before Facebook was created. Here are my views on Facebook's prospects. From Facebook’s S-1 filing: "In countries such as Japan, Russia, and South Korea we estimate that we have penetration rates of less than 15%; and in China, where Facebook access is restricted, we have near 0% penetration" While that sounds like a lot of room for growth, let’s look at the reality ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Akamai Technologies   Google   Sarbanes-Oxley

    6. Airtel 3G Data Rates slashed for Prepaid/Postpaid customers!

      Explore India Business Blog (7 hours, 58 min ago) Telecom

      Airtel 3G Data Rates slashed for Prepaid/Postpaid customers! Airtel today announced significant reduction in their 3G data tariffs, much to the delight of Airtel subscribers. As per the press release sent to us Airtel has also launched additional data usage plans “Smartbytes” for postpaid 3G data subscribers. With Smartbytes 3G data plan, Airtel subscribers now have a choice of subscribing to incremental 3G [...] (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Airtel

    7. Anonymous claims to take down Supreme Court and AICC websites

      Explore Tech News & Gadget Reviews (8 hours, 5 min ago)

      Anonymous claims to take down Supreme Court and AICC websites Earlier in the day we posted a story, regarding a Madras High Court ruling which ordered ISPs to block numerous torrent sites and video service VIMEO. BGR India had learnt that the complaint was filed by Chennai based Copyright Labs. Now comes the news that hacker group Anonymous is not taking it lightly and has started taking down government websites in response to this censorship of content on the web. Anonymous announced this via Twitter. In particular, Anonymous claims to have taken down http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in and http://aicc.org.in. We tried accessing these sites and they refused ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Parliament   Arun Jaitley   Intermediaries Guidelines

    8. Airtel Reduces 3G Data Tariffs; Introduces Smartbytes For 3G

      Explore MediaNama.com (8 hours, 56 min ago) Telecom

      Airtel Reduces 3G Data Tariffs; Introduces Smartbytes For 3G Airtel has reduced 3G data tariffs for postpaid and prepaid subscribers, and introduced Smartbytes additional data usage packs for its postpaid mobile customers on 3G. It’s interesting to note though, that Airtel had been offering a double data benefit on most 3G data plans, which it had said, were for a limited period. Today’s announcement essentially makes [...] (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Airtel   Apurva Chaudhary

    9. Anonymous Launches Operation Against Indian Government Websites.

      Explore WATBlog.com (9 hours, 21 min ago)

      Anonymous, the worldwide initiative by hackers to defend free speech and file sharing, has now targeted Indian Government websites. A blog called TheDNetworks, was the first to break the story. Anonymous claims this is retaliation for the Government’s directive to ISPs to block video and torrent websites.     MT Operation #India: BREAKING: Tango Downs: [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency (Read Full Article)

      Comment

    10. How Facebook Is Impacting Jobs, Growing In India & Probably Launching A Pages App For Mobile

      Explore WATBlog.com (9 hours, 27 min ago) Social Networking

      How Facebook Is Impacting Jobs, Growing In India & Probably Launching A Pages App For Mobile The Facebook IPO goes live tomorrow and there is a lot of excitement in the social media circles. Facebook’s IPO measures have already been covered obsessively but Facebook itself is concentrating more on their consumers due to the many changes they have shipped to service this week. Facebook is no longer just a social networking [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   University of Maryland   Facebook IPO

    11. Anonymous Takes Down Websites Of Indian Supreme Court & Aicc #IndiaBlocks

      Explore MediaNama.com (10 hours, 21 min ago)

      After almost an year of not being active, it seems like Anonymous’s opIndia has taken down the Indian Supreme Court’s website and the official website of the All India Congress Committee, in its response to Internet censorship in India. While there weren’t any notices on these websites indicating the hack, we weren’t able to access these websites at [...] (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Indian Supreme Court

    12. Axis Bank & Bharti Airtel Collaborate To Bring Easy Banking Solutions To Mobiles

      Explore WATBlog.com (10 hours, 48 min ago) Mobile

      Axis Bank & Bharti Airtel Collaborate To Bring Easy Banking Solutions To Mobiles Bharti Airtel & Axis Bank have partnered to bring simpler banking solutions to India’s far-flung areas with ‘Airtel Money Super Account’. Apparently, keeping in mind the tie-up with a Bank, subscribers can directly access their saving account on their mobile account. How does it work? Airtel subscribers can open a ‘No-frills’ account in Axis Bank. Once the account is linked with [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Airtel   Axis Bank   Bank

    13. Are Smartphones turning Gimmicky?

      Explore India Business Blog (11 hours, 25 min ago) Mobile

      Smartphones are going through an interesting transition. While on one end of the spectrum, the principle of Better, Faster and Cheaper seem to be driving Smartphone innovation, on the other end however, smartphones seem to be suffering from problems of differentiation. When all phones start having more or less the same Operating System, the same [...] (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Nokia   Samsung   Sony

    14. Cross-Platform Ad Network Drawbridge Secures $6.5 Million In Funding From Sequoia Capital & Others

      Explore WATBlog.com (12 hours, 8 min ago) Mobile , Acquisition

      Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have put in a total of US$ 6.5 Million in Drawbridge (a one-year old startup). The company aims to cover the gap between desktop & mobile advertising with a single solution. What’s it about? Drawbridge is a cross-device ad network. That means it will work across multiple devices [...] Looking For A Social Media Agency?? - Contact WATConsult - India's Leading Social Media Agency (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers   Sequoia Capital India   Alap Naik Desai

    15. Trivone Acquires Chakpak.com & WheelsUnplugged.com

      Explore MediaNama.com (12 hours, 33 min ago) Acquisition

      Trivone Acquires Chakpak.com & WheelsUnplugged.com Trivone Digital Services, a digital media and content company, has acquired entertainment portal chakpak.com and an automobile portal wheelsunplugged.com. The exact terms of the deal and financial details have not been disclosed. Trivone told MediaNama that it acquired Chakpak from Flipkart.com. Chakpak had also received a funding of about $5 million from venture captial firm Accel Partners, the same venture firm [...] (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Accel Partners   Digital Content   Flipkart

    16. See all articles >>

  2. Recent Articles