RockYou, a social widget maker located in San Mateo received $35 million as part of its Series C funding.  DCM  led the funding for this latest round and previous investors of RockYou include Sequoia and LightSpeed.
RockyYou’s array of social widget offerings include SuperWall,  Horoscope, SlideShow and many more. Their widgets can be found on Facebook, […]

In India entrepreneurship has got a lot of attention and buzz, especially in the IT and tech sector. Is there such a thing as youthful optimism when it comes to entrepreneurship? Do you need to be in “the” location for your startup to succeed? Does your startup have to be in the IT and tech […]

Jambool is a young startup based in San Francisco that has carved out a strong niche in the social media space. I first met Vikas Gupta, CEO and co-founder of Jambool sometime in August/September of last year when they had just developed their first social widget on sharing photo memories. We actually did a great […]

Meet Mani Krishnan, a strong supporter of Barack Obama from Silicon Valley. In this video clip Mani talks about why he is a supporter of Obama. I asked him about the political gaffe that was committed by Obama and his camp about the Indian American community not so long ago. Obama referred to Senator Hillary Clinton […]

Meet Taara Rangarajan, 23-year old Indian-American from Silicon Valley, who is actively involved in the US elections 2008 campaign. Taara works for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.Taara is running for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) election for the 14th District in California. She hopes to get elected and participate in the DNC in Colorado in August 2008, […]

Last night I came across a post that said MSN’s content partner India Syndicate posted plagiarized content. Melanie Phung of All About Content wrote in her blog post:
“My recent post on Viagra’s anniversary happens to rank well for a search on that phrase, but so does an article posted on MSN India.
This piece, “written” by […]