Snapdeal goes truly mobile

Snapdeal.com is offering a discount on mobile phone services. Its users do not need to carry print outs to avail the offer or discount.

 Snapdeal.com, one of India's popular discount and deal websites, has announced the introduction of a voucher of phone service. The new service allows users of snapdeal.com to avail deals bought from the website without having to carry a print out of the deal. The transaction is carried out through the SMS message that the customer gets on the registered mobile number after buying a deal.

As compared to the earlier process, which involved a physical voucher having to be carried around to avail the offer, the user now just needs to show the shop attendant the SMS, or the email containing the voucher number if he is using a GPRS connected phone.

ApnaCircle app launched for iPhone

ApnaCircle will also launch its application for Android and Blackberry as well that will widen the platform for professional opportunities of users.

ApnaCircle.com, a business and career networking site, has launched an iPhone application that gives users an easy access to its updates, status, profiles, discussions, connections, inbox, and invitations.

"ApnaCircle application for iPhone is a step taken to give the smart phone consumers an added tool to network for business and career. As mobiles are the closest and fast growing means of communication, our mobile application gives the power of sharing, connecting and networking in the user's hand," said Yogesh Bansal, chief executive officer and founder, ApnaCircle.com. 

Naaptol application now on Android

The app enable users to browse more than two lakh products from more than 500 categories and garner detailed information, reviews, specifications of the products and experts' reviews.

Naaptol, a virtual home shopping brand, has come up with an application for Android-based devices, the users of which can use it for quick and convenient shopping.

The application will enable users to browse more than two lakh products from more than 500 categories and garner detailed information (image review, MRP), reviews, specifications of the products and experts' reviews. This procedure helps the user to do a comparative analysis of the available products and can avail the products at the best price point.

Ignighter To Launch Mobile App; Targets South-East Asia

Group dating site Ignighter.com is in the process of launching a mobile application in India. The mobile app would add a revenue stream to the company, which currently monetises its site via an annual subscription fee and virtual goods (gifts). Incidentally, India has 811.59 million users as of March, 2011, compared to the total broadband subscriber base of 11.87 million.

In a video interview with VCCircle, Ignighter CEO Adam Sachs said, “You will see a mobile app coming from Ignighter which we don’t currently have. That’s a part of the long-term product goal. We are currently on track to being one of the largest sites in India.”

Zapak launches first Adver-game on Reliance Digital TV

Reaching out to over 14 million Households in India; this is for the first time that any Gaming company has made adver-game for multiple DTH players.

Zapak, India’s largest gaming portal has launched its first Adver-game on Reliance Digital TV and Dish TV with an aim to provide fun and engaging games on DTH platform.  Reaching out to over 14 million Households in India; this is for the first time that any Gaming company has made adver-game for multiple DTH players.

Close Up, one of the leading toothpaste brands in the country, partners with Zapak to enter the digital space this year to promote their new variant Close Up - Fire Freeze. Zapak with their tradition for making the most outstanding online games for their consumers brings to you another one which will excite you even more this time around- Kiss but don’t get caught. 

Speak Asia clarifies over wrongly claiming clients

Survey group Speak Asia Online (SAOL) today said it has worked for companies such as Bata, Nestle,Airtel, ICICI and ING Vysya but has not provided commissioned services to them amidst media reports that the company had falsely claimed them as their clients.

"We have interacted and worked with these companies. But we have not provided any commissioned services to them," Speak Asia India's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar, told reporters here.

SAOL is a company where consumers pay around Rs 11,000 for a membership which will allow them to conduct some surveys online for the firm.

Online Gifting Is a Rs 1,000 Cr Market: Murugavel Janakiraman, CEO, Consim Info

Murugavel Janakiraman is the founder and CEO of Consim Info Pvt Ltd, one of India’s top Internet players whose flagship is Bharatmatrimony.com. Consim Info Pvt Ltd just launched an e-commerce portal Matrimonygifts.com and is readying to launch another portal in the matrimonial space this week. In conversation with Techcircle.in, Janakiraman discusses the opportunity in online gifting, the traction seen, and Consim’s online and offline plans for the year.

How many sites does Consim Info Pvt Ltd run in all?

We run 300 sites under Community Matrimony and 15 sites under Bharatmatrimony.

How many active users do you have and how has this grown compared to last year?

We have a total of 20 million registered users across all portals and 3 million active users in all. This user base is growing at 20-30% year on year.

Travelocity India launches a never before Lowest Price Guarantee

This guarantee is made possible by Travelocity’s powerful search engine that trawls multiple travel service providers, including airlines and OTA websites and highlights the lowest rate available.

 In a move that further strengthens Travelocity India’s commitment to Indian consumers, the company today flagged off a powerful rate guarantee on all flights and hotel rooms booked through its site. This covers the all the 400 airlines & 100,000 hotels throughout the world, including 4000 in India, that can be accessed through Travelocity.co.in. The guarantee is simple & straight-forward, encapsulated by the phrase “Find it for less and it’s free”!

In case an identical booking on any other Indian website is cheaper than what is available on Travelocity.co.in for an air booking, the full (base) fare comes free and in the case of hotel rooms, the first night comes free. This guarantee is made possible by Travelocity’s powerful search engine that trawls multiple travel service providers, including airlines and OTA websites and highlights the lowest rate available.

Another Dot-com Boom

A dot-com boom in India is attracting major venture capitalists and other investors from the U.S. and Europe. Modeled on companies like Amazon, Groupon, eBay and Netflix, the Indian firms are overcoming infrastructural constraints such as low Internet penetration to generate impressive revenues and expand their customer bases. It’s a matter of time before e-commerce picks up speed in India, according to Wharton faculty and some dot-com entrepreneurs.

Among the high fliers is Kunal Bahl, 29, founder and CEO of Delhi-based Jasper, better known by its ecommerce site SnapDeal.com. The online retailer sells discounted “perishable distressed inventory” of products and services such as holiday getaways, beauty parlor and gym coupons, sunglasses and watches. A 2006 graduate from Wharton’s management and technology program, Bahl founded SnapDeal in February 2010. It is growing its subscriber base of four million by a million new users each month, and expects to have revenues of $20 million this year.

Desi Media Group Launched Three Major Websites for Jobs, Classifieds and Video Sharing in India

 Desi Media Group, http://www.desimediagroup.in, has launched three major websites for the Indian market as the India Internet user market is one of the fastest growing markets. Desi Media Group is managed by people educated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Business School and has offices in India (Pune) and USA (Boston). Desi Media Group is funded by an angel investor from MIT and TiE member.

http://www.desijob.in – Desijob is a high end technology job search website only targeted for people who want to earn over 10 + Lakh per year. At this time, the website is focusing on only technology jobs but Desi Media Group is planning to add more job categories in the next few months like financial and manufacturing sector. Desijob.in is a very good option for mid career professional who wants to search jobes that pay over 10 + Lakh yearly.

http://www.desilist.in – Desilist is the fastest growing free classifieds website in India. By visiting desilist users can post free classifieds similar to the newspaper. The major difference Desilist has over its competitor that it is offering its service to each and every city of all states in India from Jammu Kashmir to Kerla and Arunachal Pradesh to Gujrat. Many classified are just focusing on major metros.

http://www.desitubes.in – Desitubes is a video sharing website that specializes in Indian videos that include college videos, personal videos, etc. Desitubes.in is very popular within students and professional videographers who shoot marriage, birthday and other occasion videos. Deistubes is giving a platform to share their videos with instantly.

Desi Media Group is in the process of partnering with major TV channels in India to share their content with Desitubes as major TV channels unauthorized content is already available in other websites. TV channels and content providers are very interested in releasing their authorized contents to Desitubes.