Here is an interesting approach to the technological hurdles of mobile banking. Called Cashnxt, this venture in Kerala, uses high-pitched sounds via mobile phones to encrypt and decrypt the secure data needed to perform a financial transaction. An article on ReadWriteWeb, explains it as such: As a customer, if you and a vendor are a [...]
Your daily dose of headlines: Energy: Four ultra mega (super duper?) power projects have been greenlit by the Indian government across the country. Education: Microsoft is investing $20 million in education initiatives in India over the next five years. Along with their current programs which focus on resources and training, the company will partner with [...]
Here is a summary of some interesting opportunities for our readers: 1.The Great Indian Developer Award: “The Great Indian Developer Awards 2008 recognizes trailblazing individuals, technologies, and organizations contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem.” [Source: PluGGd.in] Go here to vote. 2. TIE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008: “Canaan Partners and [...]
Pluggd.in discusses the launch of an incubation program for technology start ups at IIM-Ahmedabad. “iAccelerator aims at accelerating the web and mobile related brainwaves into prototypes and possibly build a team around the idea, get some funding and most importantly achieve some traction from the potential customers. We feel that it is a novel way [...]
Headlines: Government Claims Job Scheme Has Benefited 3 Crore Families Government on Wednesday claimed in the Rajya Sabha that over three crore families had benefited from the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) programme and Rs 8,000 crore had been transferred to the accounts of the beneficiaries. Lok Capital Increases Fund Size to $22 Million Lok Capital [...]
comScore recently released a report entitled, Digital World: The State of the Internet, which provides information regarding worldwide internet usage trends. Here is an abstract of the report: comScore’s DIGITAL WORLD: The State of the Internet provides an indispensable reference tool for any marketer, website publisher, or investor who needs to understand how the Internet [...]
As mentioned in pluGGd.in, a new virtual stock trading portal named Khelostocks has just been launched in India. Khelostock’s mission is as follows: Khelostocks is a portal dedicated to educating and empowering retail investors. Khelostocks helps budding investors to experience the dynamics of real time stocks trading at zero cost and zero risk basis. Here [...]
A curious micro-debate seems to be emerging in the blogosphere on what is more critical to a social entrepreneur’s success — their humility or arrogance. This is an interesting discussion, as both qualities provide varied paths to success and failure. For example, often times organizations are inextricably tied to the charismatic, larger than life personalities [...]
Capitalizing on the attention given to the Tata Nano, a group of 5 students has built a functioning car that is priced at only Rs. 11,000, or 1/10th the price of a Nano. Using otherwise unusable scrap material, the car’s materials are excellent examples of resourcefulness and ingenuity. “The rear window of the car has [...]
LimeExchange is a new service marketplace for SMEs in India that will let them bid for free on service contracts from providers. Lime Spot, the company that also started LimeWire, hopes to leverage its global platform to allow SMEs in India compete for contracts all over the world. PluGGd.in writes that LimeExchange provides buyers with [...]
