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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.

24/7 Customer provides BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) to mostly North American companies from Asian call centers, located mainly in India.

The company's clients include... "financial services, technology, telecom, retail and service industries, including a number of Fortune 500 companies".

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.

PayMate in the News

Jun 22 10...Another Tech Casualty: Your Wallet (FOX Business)
Jun 01 10...Paymate to launch money transfer service in Sri Lanka (Mobile-Financial.com)
Feb 22 10...Karnataka Bank launches student card (Business Standard)
Feb 17 10...PayMate looks to set up shop in Sri Lanka, eyes West Asia (mydigitalfc.com)
Jan 25 10...Replace your wallet with mobile phone (The Hindu)
Nov 28 09...Mobile banking: Hows and Whys (Times Of India)
Nov 06 09...Tata Tele partners Corp Bank, PayMate for m-Commerce (Business Standard)
Oct 29 09...The MobileStore Partners With PayMate for Next Generation Payment Solutions (TMCnet)
Anchor Intelligence, formerly known as Fraudwall Technologies, uses a wide range of innovative modeling techniques, proprietary analytics, and an extensive network of security intelligence, to determine the quality of traffic on websites. The company specializes in preventing click fraud on major cost-per-click ad networks like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. The company also provides the most comprehensive analysis of web traffic quality available on the market today.
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.

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.

MapMyIndia in the News

Jun 25 10...Dial62 – When You Are Lost! (WATblog)
Jun 10 10...MapMyIndia RoadPilot GPS Navigator: The path finder (The Financial Express)
Jun 03 10...Public distribution system to be linked to GPS (mydigitalfc.com)
May 10 10...You Are (Really) Here (Outlook)
Mar 29 10...Motorola launches Milestone in India (Tech Ticker)
Mar 12 10...MapmyIndia launches new GPS navigator (The Economic Times)
Feb 25 10...MapmyIndia's latest India map for navigation, LBS (The Economic Times)
Feb 08 10...Now you can map Indian cities and towns on your cellphones (mydigitalfc.com)
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)

Pinkberry in the News

Jun 25 10...Lunch tip: Pinkberry's 'summer flavor' debuts today (OCRegister)
Jun 25 10...Pinkberry launching first Florida store in Orlando in August (Orlando Sentinel (Blog))
Jun 25 10...Frozen yogurt trend hits Fort Worth (Pegasus News)
Jun 11 10...Pinkberry to launch summer happy hour (OC Register)
Jun 04 10...Pinkberry to open first Georgia location (Fast Casual)
May 27 10...Free fro-yo draws camped-out crowds at pre-opening Pinkberry party (Westword (blog))
May 14 10...Yogurt stores look to cover metro area (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
May 13 10...Downtown Denver will be thinking Pinkberry (Denver Business Journal)
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

May 20 10...ZoomIn launches retail studios in five cities (indiaretailing.com)
May 04 10...Zoomin.com Expands Via Photo Studio Retail Strategy (WATBlog.com)
Feb 28 10...Top 5 Sites for Printing Digital Photographs (Techie Buzz)
Jan 29 10...Rise of a serial entrepreneur with each new venture (Economic Times)
Jan 07 10...Zoomin.com: photo printing, personalized gifting, and photo sharing service [Review] (Digit)
Oct 16 09...Connect, Create, Celebrate (ZoomIn Blog)
Aug 10 09...ZoomIn Workshops (Zoomin Blog)
Dec 16 08...Local companies find their own Street View paths (Computerworld New Zealand)
"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

Jul 07 10...Brands going the digital way! (SiliconIndia)
May 06 10...Future Group gets ready for big e-bazaar (The Economic Times)
May 31 09...Online retailing gathers steam in India (Business Standard)
Feb 05 09...Infibeam.com partners with FutureBazaar books store (Merinews - India)
Dec 12 08...Future Bazaar deploys anti-fraud solution (IT Examiner)
Nov 10 08...E-shops go from strength to strength (IT Examiner)
Oct 02 08...Buy your airticket at shopping portals (Business Standard (India))
Aug 27 08...FutureBazaar attracts expatriates looking for low prices (SmartBrief)
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.
FlightCaster predicts flight delays. We use an advanced algorithm that scours data on every domestic flight for the past 10-years and matches it to real-time conditions. We help you evaluate alternative options and help connect you to the right person to make the change.
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.
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.

kotak in the News

Mar 30 10...New Body To Promote Solar Thermal Energy (EFYTimes)
Mar 01 10...“Magic” lamp to transform rural homes (The Hindu)
Feb 22 10...Cleantech Startups Heat Up In India (Forbes)
Zecter is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that transforms the way people access and store content.

With HybridCloud™ storage solution, our product ZumoDrive connects consumers to their content across all of their devices. With our patent pending technology, ZumoDrive allows users to bring all their music, photos, videos, and documents with them even on mobile devices that are limited in capacity.

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.

TRUSTe in the News

Jul 07 10...TRUSTe Names Two New Members to Board of Directors (Press Release)
Jun 28 10...KNTV-NBC Interviews TRUSTe President Fran Maier on Facebook & Privacy (TRUSTe Blog)
Jun 20 10...Funds Invest in Privacy Start-Ups (The Wall Street Journal)

ACQUISITIONS
  • 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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