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The worst may be over for the private equity and venture capital industry in India. Some expect sizable deals to happen in the second half of the year.
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VCs/PEs go fund-hunting againTimes of India... while Helion Ventures raised $200 million. Accel India (formerly Erasmic), Sequoia Capital, Nexus India Capital and Reliance Technology Ventures are ...and more »
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If you are too busy typing into your mobile browser to search for something, Google has easen up your work. Now you can just go to your Google search page in your mobile browser and search based on your voice.
Google has launched a free voice-based mobile Internet search facility in India that has been built entirely by the Internet search giant's India engineering team. Currently available only to the estimated 400,000 Blackberry cellphone users, the company hopes to extend this facility to other handsets by the end of the year.
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Rajat Sharma’s India TV has agreed to join back the News Broadcasters Association (NBA), a voluntary coalition of news channels that had formed a self regulatory body—News Broadcasting Standards (Disputes Redressal) Authority.
The channel had quit NBA after the Authority, headed by former chief justice of India, J.S. Verma, imposed a Rs1 lakh fine following a complaint by one Farhana Ali that the channel had incorrectly dubbed in Hindi an interview she gave to Reuters. The self regulation mechanism was put in place after eager signs from the government that it would step in to regulate news channels. India TV’s walkout from NBA had thrown the whole process into jeopardy and many feared it would give the government just the right excuse to regulate news channels.
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Hungama and telco BSNL Ltd today announced a formal launch of their digital entertainment store exclusively available for BSNL broadband subscribers that number some four million. The service, which is locked to allow access only to BSNL subscribers, lets users download unlimited music and videos for less than the price of a regular music CD—Rs149. Currently, there are some 65,000 songs and 2,000 music videos. Access to unlimited game downloads will set you back by another Rs49 a month.
Files that are downloaded under this service tracks the status of subscription and cannot be used once the user doesn’t renew his subscription. So in essence, users are renting unlimited content at a fee.
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Microsoft Popfly, a Web site that allows users to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using the Microsoft Silverlight rich internet applications runtime and the set of online tools provided. Popfly is in Beta and will never be able to come out of beta.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it will shutdown their PopFly service. August 24, 2009, the Popfly service will be discontinued and all sites, references, and resources will be taken down.
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If you own a Palm Pre, you know that you could sync your music with your Palm Pre via iTunes. But With the release of iTunes 8.2.1 Palm Pre syncing with iTunes is broken (so far only Mac users.)
Well you have few options to make it work again. There is a third party workaround DoubleTwist
Salling’s Media Sync is a simple application which eschews the social aspects of DoubleTwist and just sends music, podcasts and photos to almost any USB connected device, including the Pre.
Media Sync sends photos from iPhone or Aperture and music and podcasts from iTunes. It also replicates the whole structure of playlists and the playcounts of individual songs. The only thing it won’t do is copy over DRM’d music, but if you ever bought copy protected music from iTunes that’s your own fault.
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Land given to build mosque demolished for Hyderabad airportGaea TimesUnlimitedLeads Warning - Finding A Lucrative Home Business Is Not Easy...... http://is.gd/14DOG Pamusl Selling in the Web 2.0 Marketplace, How to prepare ...
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US envoy meets Menon, discusses Clinton visitGaea TimesNEW DELHI - Hours before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lands in Mumbai to begin her five-day India visit, US ambassador-designate to India Timothy J. ...and more »
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I am not sure how many of you watch "Rakhi Ka Swayamwar" but I do watch it. At first, I thought it would be a stupid show and and Indian adaptation of English TV reality show "The Bachelor". When I watched the show where Ashwin was asking Rakhi about her past and entry of Abhishek into the show, I thought he was asking the right questions. I really thought that Rakhi would have someone who she wants to really marry in the show and in the end she will choose him. But now that none of the contestants are known to her, I really doubt if she would marry anyone or not.