Indian movie rental service Seventymm has raised Rs 50 crore in a new round of funding from NEA-Indo US Ventures, according to the Hindu BusinessLine. A Netflix copycat, Seventymm offers DVD rentals in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi and Chandigarh. The latest round of funding will go toward expanding the service to more
Apple’s iPhone 3G officially debuts in India on Friday, 43 days after the hot mobile phone was launched in the U.S. After 41 days of owning and using a 16GB iPhone 3G in the U.S., we would caution potential buyers that the hype is way ahead of the reality for this device. Caught up like a lot […]
Akshay Kumar’s crap show Singh is Kinng has collapsed at the U.S. box office in the second weekend (August 15-17, 2008). Compared to this Akshay Kumar fella, Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan managed to do a far better job with Om Shanti Om and Jodhaa Akbar respectively in the second weekend at the U.S. box office. […]
comScore confirms what we suspected all along – Microsoft search sites are a complete disaster in India. In comScore’s June 2008 study of the online search market in India, Microsoft sites accounted for a tiny and irrelevant 1.7% share of searches in June 2008. Microsoft had to suffer the ignominy of coming in No-4, behind even […]
HP has reported impressive results in its fiscal third quarter ended July 31 in contrast to its Silicon Valley rival Sun Microsystem (which turned in pathetic results in its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2008). HP reported revenue of $28 billion, up 10% from a year earlier and up 5% after adjusting for currency […]
Venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla has backed a New York City-based healthcare startup ZocDoc. Vinod’s VC outfit Khosla Ventures led ZocDoc’s Series A round, which raised $3 million. ZocDoc, which went live in September 2007, lets users make online appointments for primary care, dermatology, ophthalmological and dental care in New York City. The fledgling hopes […]