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   In India, Facebook Uses Google AdWords To Leapfrog Orkut

   Nokia Cuts 600 Jobs, Eyes Emerging Markets

   ChaCha Co-Founder Brad Bostic Steps Down As President

   Simply Hired Looks For Jobs Overseas

   Mobile Ad Network mKhoj Rebrands As InMobi, Eyes Expansion In Europe

   Redanyway Is Like MyBlogLog On Steroids (Invites)

   Infosys Co-founder Sells Part Of His Stake, Turns Venture Capitalist

   Naspers Could Be The Next Owner Of ICQ (And Why That Would Make Sense)

   Live Current Media In Trouble, Raising Cash

   Opera: Mobile Search On The Rise, Google Still King Of The Hill

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1. PayPal Wants To Go From 1000 To 2000 Employees In Asia – This Year

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Mar 17 2010)

   PayPal has seen the future, and apparently it lies out East. The eBay company has just announced plans to double its presence in the Asian-Pacific region by the end of 2010, and made a couple of other, separate announcements to underscore its focus on Asia. At PayPal's new international headquarters in Suntec City, Singapore's technology hub in the middle of the nation's central business district, the company said that it plans to double the number of employees in Asia Pacific from 1,000 currently to more than 2,000 by the end of the year. The company plans to add more than ... (Read Full Article)
   

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2. Facebook Opens India Office To House More Sales And Operations Staff

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Mar 15 2010) Social Networking

   Earlier this morning, social networking giant Facebook announced on its blog that, one week after it said it would be opening an office in Austin, Texas, it will set up an additional support center in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, the capital of the state of Andhra Pradesh. In the statement, the company says both offices will allow them to better serve its users, advertisers and developers. Facebook added that it is currently recruiting people to staff the online sales and operations teams for both office locations. (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Dell   Deloitte   Don Faul

3. PayPal To Restore Bank Withdrawal Service In India On March 3rd

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Feb 27 2010)

   About three weeks ago, eBay's electronic payments daughter PayPal suddenly started blocking personal payments going in or coming out of accounts from Indian customers, resulting in a flood of online complaints from the latter that ranged from accusations of racism to sheer amateurism. Last week, rumors that PayPal was actually forced into halting personal payments by Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) because they did not comply with all relevant regulatory requirements, were confirmed. Last night, PayPal posted a status update on its corporate blog, saying that they anticipate to resume part of its service, namely bank withdrawal abilities, as of ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Reserve Bank of India   Robin Wauters

4. PayPal Halts Personal Payment Transactions In India

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Feb 5 2010)

   PayPal isn't working properly in India. eBay's electronic payment juggernaut appears to be blocking personal transactions to or from accounts of India-based users. It is reversing personal transaction. Transactions involving businesses are still allowed. A reader checked in with us yesterday to let us know PayPal notified him that the company had stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India (full e-mail can be found below). This does not appear to be an isolated incident: see here, here and here for more reports, although we gather commercial payment transactions are unaffected at this point. (Read Full Article)
   

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5. In India, Facebook Uses Google AdWords To Leapfrog Orkut

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Jan 22 2010) Social Networking

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   Different territories demand different marketing approaches. Google, for instance, has been spotted taking the unusual route of promoting their search engine and Chrome browser with print advertising campaigns in India and The Netherlands, respectively. And now a reader informs us that Facebook is buying Google ads on the search giant's India portal (Google.co.in). You can see some examples embedded in this post or on our tipster's blog. (Read Full Article)
   

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6. Remote Tech Support Company iYogi Gets A $15 Million Boost From DFJ, Others

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Jan 6 2010) Funding

   iYogi, a company that provides remote tech support directly to consumers and small businesses, has raised a Series C round to the tune of $15 million. The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and joined by prior investors Canaan Partners, SAP Ventures, and SVB India Capital Partners. The Gurgaon, India-headquartered firm earlier raised $3.1 million and $9.5 million in two rounds in 2007 and 2008, respectively. (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   SAP Ventures   Microsoft and Cisco

7. New Enterprise Associates Bags Nearly $2.5 Billion For Thirteenth Fund

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Jan 6 2010) Acquisition

   New Enterprise Associates (NEA) this morning announced (PDF) the official close of its thirteenth fund, which it began investing in May 2009. At nearly $2.5 billion, it is comparable in size to NEA’s prior fund, which closed in 2006 and was just over $2.5 billion. According to NEA, its fund XIII represents an estimated 17 percent of all U.S. venture capital funds raised in 2009 and is the largest single fund raised since 2007. The new capital commitments brings the venture capital firm's total to more than $11 billion across all of its funds. (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   NEA   Robin Wauters   New Enterprise Associates

8. Opera Reports Massive Growth For Mobile Web Usage, Particularly In Asia And Africa

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Dec 22 2009) Mobile

   Browser maker Opera Software has released its latest 'State of the Mobile Web' report this morning, which is based on the usage of its Opera Mini browser for mobile phones. They do this every month, and the conclusion is always the same: mobile web usage around the world keeps on growing and growing. The Norwegian company says Opera Mini has garnered more than 41.7 million users, showing a 5.3 percent jump compared to the previous month and more than 154% compared to November 2008. In addition, Opera claims the number of page-views in November 2009 went up 9.5% and data ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Opera Software   Opera Mini   Opera

9. World Map Of Social Networks Shows Rise Of Facebook

   Explore Article TechCrunch (Dec 21 2009) Social Networking

   Italian writer, blogger and photographer Vincenzo Cosenza has for the second time put together a visualization that shows the most popular social networks around the world on a map, based on the most recent traffic data (December 2009) as measured by Alexa & Google Trends for Websites. The first one, which we featured in June 2009, already painted a picture of Facebook taking over the world from the West, but the second one shows its relentless colonization even more clearly. (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Vincenzo Cosenza   Robin Wauters

10. KIT Digital To Retire The Feedroom And Nunet, Projects 2009 Revenue Of $46M

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Dec 5 2009) Acquisition

    Digital video tech provider KIT digital spent about $21 million this year acquiring companies like The Feedroom (which previous investors had put over $60 million into) and Germany's Nunet. The publicly listed company now says it will be "retiring" both brands next week after successful consolidation and integration of their IP and resources, and concentrate all marketing efforts on the KIT digital brand. The company has also shared 2009 expectations and milestones, as well as its strategic objectives for next year. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Robin Wauters

11. More Research To Back The Notion That Streaming Kills Piracy

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Dec 2 2009)

    Research conducted by London-based Global Web Index, a collaboration between online market research agency Lightspeed Research and Trendstream, suggests that streaming might in fact be the right antidote against content piracy. The findings are in line with other research and conclusions reached earlier this year by The Leading Question, MusicAlly’s consumer research division, which suggested that the number of teenagers who download copyrighted content from illegal sources has fallen dramatically over the past few years in favor of streaming. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Robin Wauters

12. eBuddy Debuts Premium iPhone App

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Nov 30 2009)

    Nearly five months after launching a free, ad-supported application for iPhone and iPod Touch, eBuddy is today introducing a paid version of the program, which enables users to communicate with contacts across various instant messaging clients. Priced at $4.99 (iTunes link), which in my opinion is fairly expensive, the app lets you chat with friends on Facebook Chat, ICQ, Gtalk, AIM, MySpace, Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger alike. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Yahoo   InMobi   ICQ

13. Naspers Could Be The Next Owner Of ICQ (And Why That Would Make Sense)

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Nov 21 2009)

    Last week, it was reported that AOL - amid restructuring efforts in the lead-up to the imminent Time Warner spin-off and IPO - was putting its instant messaging service unit ICQ on the block and had hired bankers Allen & Co. and Morgan Stanley to assist in the sales process. According to the reports, AOL was looking to offload the asset for $300 million and talking to a pair of non-US companies about an acquisition (likely in a part cash, part stock transaction). Question is: who are those potential buyers? (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Naspers   London Stock Exchange   AOL

14. Mobile Web Usage Keeps On Growing, And Growing, And Growing …

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Oct 27 2009) Mobile

    Browser maker Opera has released its latest 'State of the Mobile Web' report this morning, claiming that there was a huge surge in mobile web usage past September. Last month, more than 35.6 million people used Opera Mini (which is now serving over 500 million pageviews per day on average on a wide range of mobile devices), up 11.5% compared to August 2009 and more than 150% compared to September 2008. The Norway software developer also claims more than 2 petabytes of data is now processed by its servers on a monthly basis. That'd be 1000 terabytes. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Opera   Opera Mini   Robin Wauters

15. Infosys Co-founder Sells Part Of His Stake, Turns Venture Capitalist

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Oct 23 2009) Acquisition

    Great news for Indian entrepreneurs! Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy and one of the seven founders of Infosys Technologies - a giant of a consulting and IT services company based in India with over 100,000 employees and offices around the globe - is turning to "the dark side" after selling a bundle of company shares in order to set up a venture capital firm. The man reportedly sold 800,000 shares, or 0.13% of the company, its total value converting to $38.7 million, more or less. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sudha Murthy   Infosys   Robin Wauters

16. Mobile Ad Network mKhoj Rebrands As InMobi, Eyes Expansion In Europe

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Aug 5 2009) Mobile

    Global mobile advertising network operator mKhoj shall henceforth be known under the name InMobi, which is infinitely easier to pronounce in the Western world. The company felt the rebranding was necessary given that it will be shifting more of its focus to Western Europe - where its services are currently already live in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain - after gaining sufficient scale on the Asian and African mobile markets. The startup is certainly performing pretty well in a very crowded market. Based on our understanding of their eCPMs and monthly ad impressions (which range up to 2 ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Reebok India   Robin Wauters   Yamaha

17. In India, Google Searches For Users With Print Ads

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Jul 3 2009) Mobile

    Different markets have different needs for marketing products or services. We all know that much. But that doesn't take away the weirdness of a company like Google advertising its core product (online search) by using ink that was printed on paper. Guilty of this hideous crime (I kid, I kid) is Google India, who apparently ordered some targeted quarter-page advertisements to appear in a variety of city supplements of The Times Of India, the leading English-language daily newspaper in the country. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Robin Wauters   Google   Times of India Group

18. Opera: Mobile Search On The Rise, Google Still King Of The Hill

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Jun 25 2009) Mobile , Social Networking

    Opera, the Norwegian software company behind mobile browser Opera Mini, has released its latest State of the Mobile Web report, providing some interesting data points for a detailed look at the evolution of Web browsing on mobile phones. Looking at global trends, Opera Mini's nearly 25.4 million users (as measured in May 2009, up 8.4% from the month before and up 36% compared to May 2008) have viewed over 9.6 billion pages. Since April, page-views have gone up 11.0% and increased an amazing 227% since May 2008. Opera says Mini users generated nearly 160 million MB of data for operators ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Opera Mini   Yahoo   Robin Wauters

19. ChaCha Co-Founder Brad Bostic Steps Down As President

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Apr 30 2009)

    This one slipped through the cracks, but apparently Brad Bostic, who co-founded mobile Q&A answer service ChaCha together with current CEO Scott Jones back in 2006, has stepped down as President of the company and will not be replaced. In an interview with the Indianapolis Business Journal, Bostic stresses that he will stay involved with the company as an advisor and strategist, saying ChaCha has matured enough for him no longer to be needed for day-to-day operations. “I’m doing some evangelism for the company at trade shows, at conferences. [To say I] ‘left’ is not the appropriate characterization,” Bostic said. (Read Full Article)
    

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20. Zoho Writer Gets A Makeover And Some New Features

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Mar 5 2009)

    Zoho, makers of an awesome web-based software suite comprised of document, project and invoicing management tools, has given its online word processing tool Writer a fresh look along with a couple of new features worth checking out. The Chennai, India-based startup says Zoho Writer 2.0 comes with hundreds of improvements, for the most part on the user interface. But the makeover isn't the whole story. Zoho is also introducing a couple of enhancements and new features worth highlighting. The menu toolbar, for example, has been completely redesigned and renamed to reflect these changes. Now called the 'MenuTab', it categorizes the ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zoho   Robin Wauters

21. Wow. ChaCha Is Raising Another $30 Million

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Jan 26 2009) Funding

    ChaCha, the human-powered answers service we've written about quite a bit here on TechCrunch, is raising a Series C round of $30 million, of which close to $11 million has already been secured according to a regulatory filing, reports peHUB. The filing doesn't list any new shareholders. The company raised $6 million in Series A financing exactly two years ago from Jeff Bezos and Bezos Expeditions, followed by a $10 million round by Morton Meyerson and 21st Century Technology Fund. If ChaCha closes the $30 million Series C round, the total capital invested in the company will amount up to ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Bezos Expeditions   Robin Wauters

22. Redanyway Is Like MyBlogLog On Steroids (Invites)

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Dec 8 2008) Social Networking

    Redanyway is a young startup out of India that aims to provide an alternate way to manage your 'centralized me' where your personal website or blog is your profile page outside of any walled gardens. The founders dubbed the application a 'distributed social network', but I look at it more like MyBlogLog on steroids, since it's basically a way to get to know and interact more with your readers. Signing up is invitation-only for now, but we've got some invite codes for the first 1000 TechCrunch readers that register for beta testing the application. You don't need to comment on ... (Read Full Article)
    

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23. Live Current Media In Trouble, Raising Cash

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Nov 20 2008)

    Live Current Media, a Canadian company which is in the business of developing, operating and monetizing premium domain names, has raised a little over $1 million through a private placement. The money comes from Live Current's own management team and a couple of outside investors, and is expected to be the first part of a private funding which could total up to $2 million in the next 15 days. Live Current, which changed its name from Communicate.com earlier this year, is a publicly traded company (OTCbb:LIVC). The investors paid 65 cents per unit, a premium of 38% to yesterday’s closing ... (Read Full Article)
    

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24. Nokia Cuts 600 Jobs, Eyes Emerging Markets

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Nov 4 2008) Mobile

    Finnish mobile giant Nokia has announced that it is trimming down and cutting over 600 positions, mainly in marketing and sales departments. The Nokia Research Center (NRC) will also focus on fewer research areas in the future. Nokia is also closing an entire site (Turku) by the end of January 2009, but hopes to relocate all of its 220 employees to Nokia's site at Salo or in the capital area in Finland. The changes in the Markets unit, Nokia Research Center and in other Nokia functions will come into effect on January 1, 2009. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Nokia   Robin Wauters

25. Simply Hired Looks For Jobs Overseas

    Explore Article TechCrunch (Oct 28 2008)

    Job search engine Simply Hired is expanding its operations into Canada, UK, Australia and India. The venture-backed startup was once an acquisition target for Google, and was recently called out for showing enormous jumps in traffic numbers that may have had something to do with shady tactics. Depending on where you look, the company says their database contains in between four and seven million jobs, and claims that 1.5 million will be added thanks to the international expansion. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Ron Conway   Guy Kawasaki

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