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Google's mission is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. This mission, which began as an idea in a Stanford University dorm room, has been fulfilled and is expanding daily. Now Google is widely recognized as the world's largest information provider, especially since its acquisition of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.

Google's utility and ease of use have made it one of the world's best known brands almost entirely through word of mouth from satisfied users. It has changed the face and nature of the internet search industry, and some of its innovations, notably The Google Toolbar and Google Adsense, are revolutionizing online browsing and advertising, as well.

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 6 million+ other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like automatically shares them with like-minded people - and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.

Nebula is dedicated to enabling all businesses to easily, securely and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures. The company has developed a hardware appliance that allows any business to easily build a massive private computing cloud from hundreds or thousands of inexpensive computers. Nebula was founded in April 2011 by Chris C. Kemp, Steve O'Hara and Devin Carlen, and named after a project that Kemp started at NASA Ames Research Center.
Zazzle is a retail platform for consumers and major brands, offering billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products, created on-demand and shipped within 24 hours. This process is made possible due to years of R&D, proprietary manufacturing systems, and hard core software development. According to the company's website, each product they ship is made – literally – one at a time, right after ordering. They'll even let you "design your own".
Naukri maintains India's most popular online careers website. It provides a forum where employers, placement agencies and job seekers can exchange information quickly, effectively and inexpensively. At Naukri, you can advertise for a job, search for a job, browse through resumes, place your resume, place your home page, visit employers' home pages and visit other Indian and International career sites. In addition to online job placement and recruitment, Naukri offers matrimonial & real estate classifieds and related services in India and Dubai.
ClearTrip is a travel booking service with one objective -- making travel simple... The company has integrated with numerous travel and accommodation providers in order to be able to offer an all-encompassing travel experience. They guarantee all rates and reservations, and offer both straightforward business travel and "theme packages" for those looking for adventure.
PayMate is an electronic transaction provider. It offers simplicity, security, convenience and flexibility for making payments using a mobile phone. PayMate can be used in conjunction with a member's credit card or debit card account with any of the participating banks and merchants or as a standalone stored value card. The company uses the popular SMS (Short Message Service) communications protocol, which allows the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephones.
Inkling is the world's first end-to-end platform for mobile learning content. Simple tools for content creation, powerful educator tools and a rich learner experience make it the best way to bring learning content to iPhone and iPad.

Inkling puts everything students need, from textbooks to assessment to friends, right at their fingertips, helping them reach their learning objectives more quickly and with better results.

Inkling in the News

Apr 29 13...The Future of User-Centric Ebooks (EContent)
Apr 25 13...IDPF Announces Speakers For BEA Conference (Digital Book World)
Apr 18 13...Declaring Independence (Fresh Ink Blog)
Apr 11 13...Behind the Screens: Introducing Inkling Engineering's New Blog and Twitter Handle (Fresh Ink Blog)
Mar 07 13...2013: The Digital Year that Will Shape the Future of Education (Huffington Post)
Feb 17 13...Inkling gives e-books more visual punch (San Francisco Chronicle)
Feb 13 13...Inkling's CEO on turning an idea into a business (CBS Moneywatch)
Feb 12 13...Inkling Builds a Better (and Pricier) E-Book (BusinessWeek)
MapmyIndia has long been known as India's premier navigable map provider. In December, 2007, the company introduced the MapmyIndia Navigator, a smart and sleek GPS gadget that uses satellites to determine a user's location. The user can then enter any destination across India, and the Navigator will guide him to the destination, turn by turn, with graphical map instructions supported by voice prompts. Users may also search for points of interest along the way, like gas stations, retail outlets and ATMs.

Online or en route, MapMyIndia provides a pleasurable and life-like mapping experience.

Pinkberry, founded in January 2005 by Korean Americans Shelly Hwang and Young Lee, is an upscale chain of frozen dessert restaurants headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

The tart, rich, frozen dessert. for which the company is named, has a groupie-like following. The company acknowledges this following by maintaining a "groupie corner" on its website (www.pinkberry.com). The company was the subject of an American Express commercial for a new "Plum Card" aimed at mid-sized business owners in 2007. The commercial stated that "it's amazing how in just three years, [Hwang and Lee] created a cultural phenomenon". (Info from Wikipedia)

ZoomIn is a leading Indian online photo service providing customers with unlimited digital photo storage capacity, simple to use tools for uploading and sharing photos, and great prices on professional quality prints. ZoomIn launched in September 2007 with the goal of becoming the premiere International solution for the world's online photo needs.

ZoomIn in the News

Apr 09 13...Best Price Everyday (ZoomIn Blog)
Mar 26 13...An Update on ZoomIn Studios (ZoomIn Blog)
May 09 12...Indiatimes Shopping & ZoomIn's Launch Unique Photo-keepsakes (Press Release)
Apr 10 12...Pinterest Wave & Instagram Valuation: What’s It About Pictures That Gets Us Hooked & What’s Cooking In India (VC Circle)
Mar 26 12...New photo editing tool: Up the photo fun factor! (Zoomin Blog)
Oct 24 11...400,000 Facebook fans! (Zoomin Blog)
Aug 08 11...A new ZoomIn is here! (ZoomIn Blog)
Jul 01 11...Now, gifts are forever (Daily News and Analysis)
"As part of India’s largest retail chain, we enjoy the benefits of buying in bulk for the entire group and keep our margins low, so you get a great range of products at great prices. We pass these benefits on to you, so our prices are the lowest we can make – every day."

FutureBazaar in the News

Oct 22 12...The rewards of loyalty (Business Standard)
Aug 14 12...Find the best Independence Day deals on mobile phones here (CIOL)
Apr 17 12...Futurebazaar.com to add B2B to B2C arm (mydigitalfc.com)
Apr 01 12...The e-commerce boom in India (Postnoon)
Mar 11 12...‘Supply chain, inventory costs in e-tailing slightly lower than retailing' (The Hindu Business Line)
Feb 03 12...Retailers gear up for e-tailing as consumers go online (Livemint.com)
Dec 09 11...Rising online sales make e-commerce sites confident (Business Standard)
Dec 03 11...FutureBazaar.com – the new and improved version! (Future Bazaar Blog)
InMobi, previously known as mKhoj, is a global mobile ad network that provides Advertisers targeted ways to reach their Consumers through mobile internet sites and provides Publishers of those sites to monetize their traffic from advertising revenue.

InMobi has been rapidly evolving with the efforts of a young team of experienced and highly qualified entrepreneurs who believe that mobile is the future of marketing and has the potential to be even larger than web based advertising.

What is The Bump Technology? A universal interface for device-to-device communication. Now you can exchange your phone number, other people's contact information, or photos by simply bumping two phones together. We are hard at work developing other applications for The Bump Technology.
Headquartered in New York City, Next Jump is building the next generation of e-commerce and advertising technology, and revolutionizing the way consumers and marketers interact online. The company has created the most powerful technology engine for sales achieving the highest conversion rates of browsers to buyers. Over 28,000 merchant partners, both retailers and manufacturers, leverage Next Jump's technology, to create the most targeted, cost-effective and measurable campaigns to reach more than 100 million users. Next Jump acquires its users through a B2B model, with over 90,000 corporations, affinity groups, and institutions including more than 84% of the FORTUNE 100 and nearly 60% of FORTUNE 500 companies. Next Jump has offices in New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, U.K.

Next Jump in the News

Apr 25 13...Workplace Culture Hacks From America’s Politest City (Fast Company)
Jan 27 13...Beyond the hype: 5 ways that big companies are using gamification (GigaOM)
Jan 23 13...Gamification: The Hard Truths (Huffington Post)
Dec 25 12...Video: Gaming Workplace Workouts (The New York Times)
Nov 27 12...OO.com Teams up with charity: water for #GivingTuesday (Press Release)
Nov 17 12...Online shopping campaign could help Torrington schools (Torrington Register Citizen)
Oct 25 12...The 44 Healthiest Companies to Work For (Greatist)
Oct 24 12...Oo.com Presents Shop the Night Away, LA (Press Release)
KOTAK URJA™ Private Limited, Bangalore, is a concern dedicated to the promotion of Eco-friendly and Environmentally Safe Renewable Energy propagation and implementation globally. It is a KOTAK family enterprise and group concern which are engaged in diverse commercial activities in India and globally in areas of Exports-Imports of Textile Raw materials & Finished Products, Energy Solutions, Engineering Goods, Agricultural Products & Minerals and Financial and Insurance solutions through various group concerns.
As the leading internet privacy services provider, TRUSTe helps thousands of businesses promote online safety and trust, and guides consumers to sites that protect their online privacy. TRUSTe helps both consumers click with confidence and online companies promote their Web site privacy policies online. Thousands of Web sites rely on TRUSTe's privacy, including top-fifty sites like Yahoo, Facebook, MSN, eBay, AOL, Disney, New York Times, Comcast and Apple.
Callaway Digital Arts transforms the media landscape with interactive apps. As the lines between traditional media converge, Callaway is redefining the reading experience with products that constitute a new medium. At its core, Callaway Digital Arts creates immersive reading experiences that reach the heart of what matters to you.

Callaway in the News

Mar 12 13...Endless Alphabet Is Endless Fun (Wired)
Feb 16 13...Best apps for preschoolers (Fox News)
Feb 13 13...ABC apps go beyond the alphabet (Green Bay Press Gazette)
Feb 13 13...Daily iPad App: Endless Alphabet is an enjoyable way for kids to learn their ABCs (tuaw.com)
Feb 10 13...ABC apps go beyond the alphabet (USA Today)
Feb 03 13...Top 5 Apps for Kids This Week (Mashable)
Feb 01 13...3 Free Kid Friendly iOS Apps (The Mac Observer)
Jan 31 13...Callaway Digital Arts Releases Endless Alphabet for iPhone, iPad & iPod touch (Press Release)
Remember the days when everyone communicated using paper and ink? Correspondence was a craft: personal, and intentional. At Paperless Post, we seek to redefine the tradition of paper stationery so that people can send custom, personalized invitations and announcements with the same thought and care as previous generations, but the way we communicate today: online.
GreenDust is India's premier online shopping site that offers customers and bulk buyers option to purchase unused, branded factory seconds, surplus, overstock, and refurbished products at the lowest prices - guaranteed.
Our Vision: Planetary Resources is bringing the natural resources of space within humanity's economic sphere of influence, propelling our future into the 21st century and beyond. Water from asteroids will fuel the in-space economy, and rare metals will increase Earth's GDP.

Our Mission: Planetary Resources' mission is clear: apply commercial, innovative techniques to explore space. We will develop low-cost robotic spacecraft to explore the thousands of resource-rich asteroids within our reach. We will learn everything we can about them, then develop the most efficient capabilities to deliver these resources directly to both space-based and terrestrial customers. Asteroid mining may sound like fiction, but it's just science.

Decide is a service dedicated to helping consumers shop with no regrets. The company has raised $8.5M in venture capital from Madrona Venture Group, Maveron, and angel investors. Decide was co-founded by Internet search pioneer Oren Etzioni and has gained support from consumer Internet and ecommerce veterans.
At Sunglass, we're thrilled to help build tomorrow's smart products, buildings and cities! Seamlessly manage and collaborate around your portfolio of 3D content, and choose from a universe of pay-per-use apps built by our community. What will you build?
Prana Studios is an artist-driven, full-service 3-D animation and visual effects studio with production offices in Los Angeles, CA, USA and Mumbai, India. We develop content and create state of the art visual imagery for full-length feature animated films, high quality visual effects for live action and hybrid films, short-form media, and special venue attractions.

We work in collaboration with major Hollywood studios and independent production companies throughout the world. Our creative skills range from visual and story development to final post, including complete CG and stereoscopic animation and image creation.

Prana Studios in the News

Mar 30 13...Prana Studios acquires Rhythm & Hues (UPI.com)
Mar 29 13...Prana Studios' Winning Bid for Rhythm & Hues Valued at About $17.8 Million (Hollywood Reporter)

ACQUISITIONS

  • Cove Inc (sold to DropBox)
  • Zecter, owner of ZumoCast and ZumoDrive (sold to Motorola)
  • FlightCaster (sold to Next Jump Inc.)
  • Mint (sold to Intuit)
  • Plaxo (sold to Comcast)
  • Junglee (sold to Amazon.com)
  • Enosys (sold to BEA Systems)
  • Business Signatures (sold to Entrust)
  • Tellme (sold to Microsoft)

PRIOR INVESTMENTS

  • Mevio
  • CombineNet
  • Yodlee
  • Elance
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