AOL-owned technology site TechCrunch has partnered with PlatformPlay to bring its series of two-day conferences to India by the end of this year. PlatformPlay informs that it will be collaborating with the TechCrunch events team to organize the TechCrunch conference series in three Indian cities, starting with Bangalore in November of 2013, followed by Mumbai in April 2014 and in New Delhi in August 2014. The partnership period or the financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. PlatformPlay informed that these events will feature tech, investor and entrepreneurship speakers, a startup pitch competition and a startup exhibition floor. It also added that the Delhi conference will feature a hackathon alongside product building nights. This format looks quite similar to the TechCrunch Disrupt conference conducted by AOL on a regular basis. However, its currently not clear if these conferences will also be branded as TechCrunch Disrupt or it will feature a new name. Its worth noting that PlatformPlay founder Rammohan Sundaram had previously co-founded Networkplay which organizes Ad:Tech conferences in India in partnership with dmg events. Sundaram had exited the venture in November 2012, after selling off the venture to Bertelsmann group's media company Gruner + Jahr in March 2012. In the same month, Sundaram had launched a new company called PlatformPlay which was looking to enable International digital businesses launch in India. TechCrunch India? With AOL extending its events business to India, we wonder if the company is also prepping up to setup an Indian edition of TechCrunch in the forthcoming future. We've been hearing rumors of TechCrunch launching an Indian editions for quite sometime now,…
