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India’s largest Telco Bharti Airtel has received only 150 applications for its “Airtel Innovation Fund“, Sarvjit Singh Dhillon, Group Director, Bharti Enterprises told Silicon India. Applications are from sectors like Mobile TV, M-commerce, wireless security, m-advertising, healthcare and social networking. 150 for applications is a rather low number, since companies may also apply while still [...]
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SCI, ONGC Plan Revival of JV for Vessel Operations - Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) are planning to revive a proposed joint venture (JV) for services related to vessel operations and are working on hiring a consultant for the purpose. Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) are planning to revive a proposed joint venture (JV) for services related to vessel operations and are working on hiring a consultant for the purpose. (Business Standard)
Zylog Lines Up Rs 200 Crore - Zylog Systems India Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chenna-based Zylog Systems Limited, is planning to invest around Rs 200 crore in setting up infrastructure to support its wireless internet service – Wi5 – over the next two years. The company has already launched Wi5 in Chennai and will now roll out the services in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune by mid 2010. Around Rs 84 crore will be invested in Phase-I to create the infrastructure. The company targets Rs 500 crore in revenues in the next five years through the service. (Business Standard)
OGP Ties Up Rs 400 Crore for Six Power Plants - Oriental Green Power (OGP), a renewable energy generation company promoted by Chennai-based Shriram EPC, has achieved Rs 400-crore financial closure for six bio-mass based power plants. The company is planning to invest around Rs 1,100 crore in eight projects, of which financial closure for six projects has been achieved. Amajority of the lenders are public sector banks, with the only private sector bank being Yes Bank. (Business Standard)
Foreign Firms May Buy UTI AMC's 26% Stake - Three overseas financial giants have evinced interests to pick up 26% stake in UTI AMC, where four stakeholders including LIC and SBI have 25% stake each. However, no concrete decision has been taken yet. Life Insurance Corporation of India, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and Punjab National Bank hold equal stakes of 25 per cent each in UTI AMC, which has Rs 63,438 crore assets under its management as on May 31, 2009. (Business Standard)
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Date: 5th to 12th June 2009
Segments: Interviews, Stats, Editors Picks, Your Picks, Industry News
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Indian Nokia N97/Ovi Store Applications
– Search, Games, Blogging, Fitness, Movies
– By Indian Media Co’s: India Today, NDTV, Rediff, CNBC-TV18; Eterno & Galatta
Stats
– May-09: 8.3Mn GSM Connections Added; 89,710 BSNL Connections Dropped
Editors Picks
– Reliance Communications Forms Rural JV With [...]
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Bharti Airtel
10 June 2009:Bharti Airtel Signs Managed Services Deal with Comviva
Geodesic
8 June 2009: Regulation 8A of SEBI (SAST) Regulations
IBN18
10 June 2009: IBN18 Raises Rs.62.5 crores from the Sale of Treasury Shares
9 June 2009:Disc under Reg Subs Acq &Takeover & SEBI Insider Trading Reg
Info Edge
9 June 2009:Reg.13-SEBI(Prohibition of Insider Trading Regulations)1992
MTNL
12 June 2009: Limited Review for [...]
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The Union Budget on July 3 should abolish all duties on computers, telephony, cables etc in order to build a strong and affordable information infrastructure. Online and social media are as vital as print and electronic, writes Pradyuman Maheshwari
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OnlyGeekGadgets, Gizmos, Technology and Tech News with Review and VideosOnlyGeek, IndiaTexas-based global language tracker, the Global Language Monitor, has declared Web 2.0 as the millionth English word beating 'Jai Ho', Noob and slumdog. The technical term, Web 2.0, means the next generation of World Wide Web services and products. ...
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You gotta be kidding me! Expansion in the time of economic slowdown and that too the luxury retail segment. India is not considered to be the consumer of overly expensive and exclusive luxury niche. We, the common man (aam admi) brigade pride ourselves in buying the cheapest durable product that is.
It's time to wake up and give it a re-thought. Indian Consumer has changed and so has their mindset. Ok, not to generalise it but yes, there has been a drastic change in how the Indian Consumer behaviour has gone through a radical makeover. The focus has shifted from Price to Quality to a large extent.
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Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm that funded Google's startup, has invested US$11 million (RM38.5 million) in SKS Microfinance, the largest MFI in India. In 2007, Helios Investors, a UK-based private equity firm, paid US$175 million (RM613 ...
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HTC Touch Diamond 2, the latest Windows Mobile Touch Screen mobile phone from HTC is now available in India.HTC Touch Diamond 2 has a compact design, iconic style and fits comfortably into the hand. It includes a large 3.2” high resolution 13.7 mm wide-screen VGA display. Besides, the handset comprises of a new zoom bar which is touch sensitive. It gives better viewing of web pages, emails, text messages, photos and documents. The phone offers a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus. It also has an expandable memory and a gravity sensor with an ambient light sensor.