September, 2007

FT.com For Free Content

By at September 30, 2007 | 8:46 pm | 0 Comment

FT.com, the Internet version of the Financial Times, is instituting a new model for free and paid content on its website. Starting tomorrow, users will be able to access content on FT.com for free up to a total of 30 views per month. After 30 days, they will need to purchase a subscription in order to access more content. This gives users plenty of opportunities to get more...

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Queplix increases your company’s profitability by promoting Customer Loyalty"Customer Care"

By at September 30, 2007 | 8:41 pm | 0 Comment

What Company is Offering:Queplix increases your company's profitability by promoting Customer Loyalty, Brand Name recognition and Customer Retention. Traditional CRM vendors focus primarily on the acquisition portion of the Customer's life cycle. It is a known fact that it takes a much bigger budget to acquire a new customer than to keep existing customers loyal.QueWeb more...

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They Become Millionaire With MyYearbook.com

By at September 30, 2007 | 8:33 pm | 0 Comment

Who: Catherine and Dave CookWhat: MyYearbook.com, a social networking siteWhere: New Hope, PennsylvaniaWhen: Started in 2005Move over, MySpace and Facebook--these young entrepreneurs have found a new way to capitalize on the social networking rage. Amazingly, Catherine Cook, 17, and her 18-year-old brother, Dave, were able to create MyYearbook.com while they were still in more...

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Google’s now offering an ad creation tool

By at September 30, 2007 | 8:19 pm | 0 Comment

If you could use some help spreading the word about your small business, let Google lend a helping hand. Google's now offering an ad creation tool to help advertisers develop newspaper ads using pre-designed templates. The tool itself is free, though it's only available to AdWords advertisers. Marketers can also search through Google's inventory of 450 newspapers and chat more...

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Start Up Says Software As A Service Hit Among Them

By at September 30, 2007 | 8:14 pm | 0 Comment

Manish Agrawal heads Picsquare, a two-year-old Bangalore-based firm with a Web site that lets one order prints of digital photos. His company is made up of just 10 people, working on their laptops, designing and brainstorming. His servers sit in the US, rented at $140 per month. Storage, from Amazon.com’s S3 online storage service, is paid on a per GB per month basis. more...

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FOREIGN VENTURE capital (VC) funds have realised that investing in Indian start-ups could be far more rewarding than the country’s stock markets.

By at September 30, 2007 | 8:12 pm | 0 Comment

FOREIGN VENTURE capital (VC) funds have realised that investing in Indian start-ups could be far more rewarding than the country's stock markets. They are now busy tying up with Indian boutique investment banks to extend their reach in the country. At least 11 such tie-ups have either been announced or were in the pipeline. Foreign funds such as US-based Kleiner Perkins, more...

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Creating New Ventures in India: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges

By at September 30, 2007 | 6:10 am | 0 Comment

"Creating New Ventures in India: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges," is part of a technology entrepreneurship lecture series sponsored by Princeton's Center for Innovation in Engineering Education (CIEE) and the Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network, a venture capitalist group.The panel will be moderated by entrepreneur Ed Zschau, a faculty member in electrical more...

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FoundREAD

By at September 29, 2007 | 11:15 pm | 0 Comment

What Company is Offering:FoundREAD is where you can share resource, where anyone can contribute, either through their posts, or experiences or comments. You can choose to contribute freely or anonymously. Just like a GPS system helps us drive through a maze of freeways, the founders and entrepreneurs help their peers navigate the twisted, confusing roads of company more...

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Justroutes.com allows users to find all the public transport routes to a specific destination

By at September 29, 2007 | 11:08 pm | 0 Comment

What Company is Offering:Justroutes.com allows users to find all the public transport routes to a specific destination.The site currently only covers Dublin routes, but the site’s founders, Vincent Glennon and David Rooney, are planning to expand the service in the coming weeks to include mapping of the nationwide public transportation network.Hoe It Works:The end more...

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Third Generation Entrepreneurs

By at September 29, 2007 | 11:05 pm | 0 Comment

Only three short years ago, Justin Kling and Michael Pottern were 25 years old, in between jobs and unsure of their future. Having worked for others, they decided it was time to work for themselves. In 2004, they opened an apartment locating service in the heart of Chicago in an already well-established marketplace. Today, Apartment Savvy is a multi-million dollar more...

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Google buys start-up Zingku

By at September 29, 2007 | 10:54 pm | 0 Comment

Google's quest for devotees in the booming world of mobile online services continues with its purchase of a startup company that streamlines sharing pictures, messages and more via smart phones. The news comes as the leading Internet search firm vies with Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online to win the loyalty of people accessing the Internet on the move. "Google has more...

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"Xoom" The Smartest Way To Send Money Worldwide

By at September 29, 2007 | 10:48 pm | 0 Comment

What Company is Offering:Xoom offers fast, reliable money transfers at a great price! Send money from the convenience of your computer to friends and family worldwide and in the US.How It Works:Enter your contact information, your recipient's information, and the amount you want to send.We protect your personal information, and share it with our partners only for the more...

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GameXa is releasing a gamer to gamer marketplace for trading virtual currency

By at September 29, 2007 | 10:39 pm | 0 Comment

What Company Is Saying:"We are gamers, playing PCs, consoles and MMORPGs. It was obvious to us that the trade of in-game currencies was not transparent and is dominated by a few large Gold traders. This doesn’t only have a negative effect on the pricing, but also the delivery time and the level of service. Anyway, the gamer always feels that someone is taking advantage more...

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Site24x7 is a simple hosted web site monitoring service that works around the clock making sure that websites are performing flawlessly

By at September 28, 2007 | 9:58 pm | 2 Comments

What Company is Offering:Site24x7 checks for the response time and availability of your website. For example, you can add a URL, say http://mycommerce.com, for monitoring. You can set a threshold for a web page such that - if the page load time of that page is more than 3 seconds, you should be notified through EMail, SMS and RSS. This helps you in taking quick action more...

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Mint For Money Management

By at September 28, 2007 | 9:48 pm | 0 Comment

What Company is Offering:Mint connects nightly to the credit card providers, banks, and/or credit unions you choose to keep your transactions and account balances automatically up-to-date. Mint even auto-balances your checkbook and auto-categorizes your transactions. Set it up once and you’re done.Mint is a modern, powerful, easy and secure web-based solution for more...

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MarketWatch Community is a free service that lets you discover, organize and share MarketWatch stories with other readers

By at September 28, 2007 | 9:37 pm | 0 Comment

What Company Is Offering:MarketWatch Community is a free service that lets you discover, organize and share MarketWatch stories with other readers. Its new social site from Dow Jones owned financial site MarketWatch.How It Works:The community site gives its members the chance to decide what news stories or stocks are particularly worth paying attention to. Its UI is more...

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MicroPledge For free market-testing service to gauge the reception for new software products and features.

By at September 28, 2007 | 9:29 pm | 0 Comment

What company Says:Have an idea? Just need funding?Want to join with others to support to an idea?This site is for you."microPledge" is sure its site will come to be viewed as a free market-testing service to gauge the reception for new software products and features. How It Works:Anyone with an idea for useful software can submit it on the site. Others who like it can more...

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Brandfame is the premier marketplace connecting brands and producers sharing their videos on video-sharing websites like YouTube

By at September 28, 2007 | 9:23 pm | 0 Comment

What Company Is Offering:Brandfame is the premier marketplace connecting brands and producers sharing their videos on video-sharing websites like YouTube, metacafe, AOL Video, Revver, etc ... for live product placement and sponsorship deals. How It Works:Advertisers can list products they'd like to have featured in videos, and search for upcoming videos by producers to more...

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Online Receipt Organizer

By at September 28, 2007 | 9:18 pm | 0 Comment

Shoeboxed.com, a startup based in Durham, North Carolina, promises a way to safely store them. Anyone can sign up for the free service. Once enrolled, users receive an email address which they can give to merchants when buying online. The receipts then go to their Shoeboxed mailbox, where they’re safely stored. Better yet, the service allows members to organize their more...

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Revolution money Seems Big Business Opportunities For VCs

By at September 28, 2007 | 4:00 am | 0 Comment

What Company Says:We took a good, long look at the world of personal finance and thought to ourselves, "Is this as good as it gets?" The answer was a resounding "No."At Revolution Money, we think there's a better way. So we decided to shake things up. No tricks. No gimmicks. No hidden fees. Just clear and simple products that make your life easier.Every product we offer more...

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