BSE listed Educomp Solutions Ltd, an education service provider, is planning to acquire online education startup StudyPlaces for a maximum consideration of $1.5 million dollars, as a preferential share allotment. ... Continue_Reading

MotorExchange went live yesterday, and today the company announced an investment from VC Firm Canaan Partners. MotorExchange MD Vinay Sanghi told MediaNama today that after going live yesterday, the company ... Continue_Reading

Qualcomm has announced the short-list for its Qualcomm Ventures QPrize business plan competition. The startups shortlisted cover a wide range of telecom products, from Traffic monitoring and prediction, mobile based ... Continue_Reading

Dinesh Wadhawan, former CEO of Times Internet Ltd (Indiatimes) confirmed to MediaNama today that he has joined the board of RockeTalk, a San Diego, California based mobile application company. RockeTalk ... Continue_Reading

This one’s just for the record: MediaNama has learned from sources that BSE listed Geodesic Ltd, a telecom applications company, had acquired PhoneStack Technologies, a Hyderabad based based startup. Geodesic ... Continue_Reading

(By Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa) Pubmatic has closed its second round of funding from Helion Ventures, Nexus India Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson participating, a company press release said. While ... Continue_Reading

ValueFirst Messaging has secured $6 million in a Series B funding round from New Enterprise Associates, just as Medianama had reported in December via independent sources. In its first round of ... Continue_Reading

Recruitment site techTribe has buckled just two three years since inception, blaming the nascent nature of Indian Internet scene, and the fact that the referral model didn’t automate as desired. Rohit ... Continue_Reading

  NDTV Convergence has outsourced its mobile ad sales to Affle, after outsourcing the mobile portal development and management to July Systems. Affle is a mobile applications company, with investments from the Times ... Continue_Reading

Ashish Gupta of Helion Venture Partners is giving a great talk – something of a masterclass – at Headstart.in on execution in a startup and how to deal with many of ... Continue_Reading

Note: If any VC would like to respond to this, whether publically or anonymously, do get in touch with me at nikhil@medianama.com or +919810310053 (SMS) Where Venture Capitalists Are Failing In ... Continue_Reading

  Tikitag, a service that enables the launching of online applications by touching a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or (NFC) device like a cellphone to an item tagged with an RFID ... Continue_Reading