Update: In an emailed response to MediaNama, Spice Digital has said that the development center in Dehradun, Uttaranchal will focus on key growth areas for the company, on data based services like Mobile Applications, and Mobility Solutions for Enterprise and government. In addition to this, they will look at servicing the requirements of customized products for the international market. The Parwanoo (Himachal Pradesh) office focused primarily on voice based entertainment products - Music, CRBT, and social networking. The company says that the center has been operational for the last six months, and they've only just announced it. Products developed at the Dehradun Center include: an application for BigFlix movie rentals, their music application (Spice Sangeet) currently available on the Airtel's Cell Mania platform, Unified chat product for Asiacell in Iraq, the App Store developed for Idea, and from a mobile governance perspective, the partnership with the IRCTC for Mobile Advertising. The center at Dehradun employs 25 people, and will be scaled up to 50; Spice Digital employs over 550 people. According to the company, a conscious decision was taken to choose Dehradun on account of the following: -- The plentiful supply of technically qualified manpower (given that there are almost 19 colleges (9 for engineering and 10 for MCA courses) churning out almost 5000+ students annually) -- For administrative reasons since it was also closer home, to the head office at Noida. -- It also helped that there were tax benefits available at Dehradun April 19th 2010: BK Modi promoted…
