Jaxtr growing faster than Skype

September 27, 2007 on 5:53 pm     No Comments

Jaxtr increased userbase to 100000 in just in a month . Jaxtr dosen’t require a download as opposed to Skype and can hook up your phone to the web and also can embed Jaxtr widget on social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook. Still, we would like to get comparison between Jangl and Jaxtr userbases. Press Release

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Wi-Fi memory card is coming; Thanks Eye-Fi :)

September 27, 2007 on 5:46 pm     1 Comment

Taking a small dip on the hardware side of things, Atheros Communications has announced that its single-chip AR6001GL ROCm(TM) (Radio-on-a-Chip) mobile WLAN solution was chosen to provide 802.11g connectivity in the world’s first wireless memory card for digital cameras designed by Eye-Fi. The Eye-Fi Card is expected to debut this fall — in time for the holiday season. The wireless memory card for digital cameras will capitalize on Wi-Fi, making it effortless for users to upload, save, share and print photos, thereby removing virtually all obstacles to instant photo sharing. Now I really need that it’s been months I moved photos and videos from my camera over to my PC to eventually print them out some day.

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YouTubeVibes Sold

September 27, 2007 on 5:44 pm     4 Comments

Nt Media acquired YouTubeVibes, where users can upload media and share with users. Press Release

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ApnaCircle - Sabeer Bhatia’s SN venture

September 27, 2007 on 5:42 pm     1 Comment

I guess more and more entrepreneurs are getting motivated by the $10 billion valuation that Facebook is getting. Newest to join the mad-mad race is Sabeer Bhatia, who made a fortune in 90s by selling Hotmail to Microsoft. Sabeer has teamed up with Yogesh Bansal to launch social networking site ApnaCircle(aka MyCircle) targeted at Indian users. I think it was about time India got an experienced pro to work on that, as compared to jackass teams spamming their users.

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Social networking catching up in India

September 27, 2007 on 5:35 pm     No Comments

According to NASSCOM by 2010 there will be 100 million Internet users compared to 40 million now. As the internet users increase the social networking going up. In a span of a month BigAdda.com has now half million users

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Odnoklassniki.ru gets $1M: SN investment in Baltics

September 27, 2007 on 5:34 pm     No Comments

In a deal that happened in the far east, Forticom, a Baltic company owned by private equity funds Digital Sky Technologies and Tiger Global, acquired a 25% of Odnoklassinki.ru, a social network for classmates, for about $1 million. Odnoklassniki.ru has 4 million registered users and some 10% regular users.

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Ringtones are still hot; MVisible raises $6.5 million

September 27, 2007 on 5:30 pm     2 Comments

MVisible Technologies has gone for extension of it’ Series A round about which we had reported around the same but last year. The startup announced that it has raised $6.5 million in equity financing from Harris Preston & Partners, Morgenthau Venture Partners and New World Angels. From the product standpoint - mVisible technology enables independent musicians and artists to share and sell ringtones and wallpapers directly from their own websites or MySpace pages. Other smart upcoming ringtone players - Emotive(review), Vringo(review)

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GlobalGrind - StartPage + Music; Gets funded

September 27, 2007 on 5:17 pm     No Comments

So, now niche personalized page apps are coming up. Newest on the block is GlobalGrind that is looking to link advertisers to urban music enthusiasts online. The startup is backed by Russell Simmons, Accel Partners. Press Release

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Zude Public beta next week

September 27, 2007 on 5:10 pm     No Comments

Personalized webspace provider Zude is looking to go ahead with public beta next week. I have played around with the app but not really been able to figure out where it fits.  Besides that, oversized ads taking up majority of my laptop screen, I am ……. More next week.

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Waterfront Media raises big money

September 27, 2007 on 4:58 pm     No Comments

Good days for blogs continue as diet and health blog network Waterfront Media becomes another publishing company to raise big round of money. Waterfront’s 4th round was worth $25 million, led by Scale Venture Partners and joined by Foundation Capital, Rho Ventures, Time Warner Ventures, BEV Capital and Neocarta Ventures. Not sure how diluting was the 4th round for the founders.  {via}

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