The online classifieds portal Kijiji backed by Matrix Partners and also partnering with eBay Inc has changed its name and domain to Quikr.com
( via Indiaprwire )
Jiby Thomas, Co-Founder & VP-Marketing, Quikr.com, said, “We’ve had an exciting inning as Kijiji in India and this event marks a new beginning for us. This journey for […]

Picked up this eye-catching image from the web [ Origin link would be posted later, kindly bear ]. We are running “BINC Caption Contest“, open to all bangaloreinc readers. Kindly post some cool [techno / comic / imaginative] captions to go along with the following image. Or any descriptive observation, anything that strikes you about […]

Well! this is not exactly a post about startup but an offline cab sharing service for commuters to and from the newly convened Bangalore airport, anywhere from the city. The service hosts a fleet of brand new Innova cars customized for the cab service. They also promise in-car entertainment for the individuals, smooth ride, an […]

The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation and The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in collaboration with The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) today announced the opening of nominations for India’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2008. The award to find the very best and innovative entrepreneur with credible work done towards alleviating problems of […]

IIT Bombay has launched a global initiative to discover, what is termed as the “10 great ideas to change the world” contest. This is an initiative to bring out the very best of IIT’s innovative culture and is open to all the IITB’s alumni, students, staff, faculty, past and present. The contest is open till […]

Here’s a call for small and medium business entrepreneurs to present their business plans from New Ventures. The focus is on funding ventures with a business model and direction towards solving issues in the clean tech and social entrepreneurship. This is applicable to SME’ in India, Indonesia, Mexico, China and Brazil. New Ventures helps by […]

StartupSaturday is a monthly get-together event held on every second saturday of every month, supported by the Kickstart team to bring together resources like mentorship, VC community networking, peer networking, legal advice and so on. It is a platform to showcase any seed ideas and get feedback from the kickstart community ( that’ soon growing […]

So yet again we a city based food ordering online system, this time it’ Kolkata based mhungry.in with plans of expanding to further cities like Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and more. One of previous post on this blog covering online food ordering and booking sites looked into existing websites. The usual features of ordering meals, tiffin, […]

The property and real-estate portal Makaan.com , covered here earlier on this blog has launched what it calls, India’s first online property rating system, known as the ‘makaan rating system’. This provides a greater level of authenticity for the properties listed on the online portal and an extra screening of advertisements, meaning the quality of […]

One of NASSCOM’s [ National Association of Software and Service Companies (India) ] popular initiatives in the innovation area is the “Top 100 IT innovators list” which traces the best innovators in the Software & Services space in India. Some of the current and hot startups that were placed on this list were:
BharatMatrimony.com, Indiagames […]