Archive for October, 2006

By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 31st, 2006 • Category: Uncategorized

You can listen to a podcast interview with UGenie’s Harish Abbott.
Harish and Krishna Motukuri founded the start-up in June, and received their first round of investment of $5 million from Sierra Ventures and BlueRun Ventures.
Prof. Rajeev Motwani of Stanford University is an advisor to UGenie. Prof. Motwani’s students founded Google.
UGenie currently allows comparison shopping for […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 31st, 2006 • Category: Uncategorized

UGenie, a comparison shopping search engine is finally coming out of its stealth mode and unveiling its beta version to the public tomorrow - November 1, 2006.
Give it a spin and see what you think of it.
I test drove the comparison shopping search engine and must confess that I really liked it since they took […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 31st, 2006 • Category: Uncategorized

At the stroke of midnight on Oct 31, 2006, Bangalore shall cease to exist. Instead the city will henceforth be known as Bengaluru.
I would love to see a copy of the official name change circular complete with the file name, subject matter, to whomsoever it concerns, appropos, complete with the signed herewith by the concerned […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 31st, 2006 • Category: Uncategorized

IDEA Cellular to go IPO? That is what DNA India is reporting that IDEA Cellular is planning on going IPO in early 2007.
Now, that makes it what the second or third IT/Mobile/Internet company that is thinking of going IPO in early 2007? MindTree is planning on going IPO in early 2007. Info Edge Pvt […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 30th, 2006 • Category: Uncategorized

Tom Foremski of SiliconValleyWatcher in his articles writes about his recent trip to India where he was with Vivek Ranadive of TIBCO.
Here are a couple of observations that Tom made in his posts that jumped out and caught my interest.

His observation that New Delhi and India reminded him of Warsaw and Poland before it […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 30th, 2006 • Category: Uncategorized

You can listen to a podcast interview with Bharatmatrimony’s CEO Murgavel Janakiraman heads India’s largest match-making portal.
You can also listen to the interview on ODEO.
Recently his company got its first round of investment from Canaan Ventures and Yahoo!
Murga discusses about the new features and verticals that Bharatmatrimony has introduced. Besides matchmaking, they also offer […]