Golden Seeds, a U.S based angel investing group that promotes women entrepreneurs, is exploring opportunities in India. A delegation of 14 will be visiting Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai, meeting with the early stage investing community and entrepreneurs. As part of this, 10 entrepreneurs are being selected from a call for business plans to pitch for [...]
The new plan from Vodafone has them partnering up to give banking services via mobile phones, a service that (possibly inadvertently) would reach out to the unreachable in India. Vodafone has partnered up with ICICI Bank (the second largest banking institution in the country) to bring electronics payment capabilities to Vodafone cell phone users. In the works are additional plans to provide other banking services as well, via mobiles.
Saltmarch Media’s annual Great Indian Developer Awards honor technologies that are contributing to the productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem. The awards recognize the product and innovation excellence of the hundreds of software products and tools that aid developer productivity, across 11 different categories. The selection criteria applied places emphasis on functionality, [...]
According to an article by international market research company Nielsen the system will improve over a billion lives. Nielsen quoted Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Authority of India as saying that “over a third of India’s 1.1 billion consumers had been largely overlooked in areas such as banking and social services.â€
In an earlier post we had covered the December 16 release of what is the first ever Gingerbread Android phone i.e. the Google Nexus S. Since then the Inter webs have gone into a frenzy with bloggers talking about the virtues of the newest release of Android and developers busy tweaking the released SDK to [...]
Fashion and You, India’s leading online private sales website announced that Sequoia Capital has invested $8 Million in the company. This investment will go towards growing the company’s product offering, strengthening its enterprise technology, expanding its distribution capacity and funding future growth initiatives. Mr. Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India, said “We are delighted [...]
Africa poses unique challenges for tech entrepreneurs as different locations do not have the same access to technology, stable power supplies and knowledge bases. When three Ugandan engineers and IT experts took this into consideration they built a rugged computer out of existing oil drum barrels, using solar powered panels for juice.
3G technology is more about the experience it brings in, rather than the speed. Speed may just be an enabler. The services, applications, possibilities, emerging devices and reliability is what comes as a bundle.
"From the operational point of view, the technology for scoring, timing, etc. is not in place. This has to be monitored carefully, as it is integral to the conduct of many events."
As the ecosystem pushes the pedal to transition to a mobile-centric computing world, developers find a greater need to distribute their products and services via mobile platforms.