CURRENT ISSUE March , 2010 
 
Top 25 Most Promising Internet Companies
Cover Story

Witnessing the great surge in usage of Internet in India, the SmartTechie announces the prestigious "Top 25 Most Promising Internet Companies" list.
ST Team



 
 
 VC talk
Medical Technologies Claim the New VC Interest

Dinesh Patels talks about how Molecular diagnostics, next-generation sequencing, and single-cell/single-molecule analysis are emerging technologies in the Personalized Medicine investment sector.
Dinesh Patel

 STARTUP CITY
Silver Stripe Software

Today, development centers of software firms are scattered all across the world, thanks to the advancement in telecommunication technologies, however these firms also face the challenge of managing the teams simultaneously while working on a project.
Benny Thomas

 Top 25 Most Promising Internet Companies
Galatta.com Movies on a Platter

Galatta.com, a 'complete movie portal' which offers news, trailers, wallpapers, music, and everything imaginable from the world of movies in seven languages, has now also ventured into net mobile services.
Deepika Cariappa





Traveltechie.com Hitting the Right Opportunity

Traveltechie.com, a travel information portal that helps anyone who is looking for the best deals, discounts and offers in travel, is all set to grow big and become India’s leading player in Travel Industry.
Jayakishore Bayadi

Seventymm.com: Hangout with Movies

Seventymm.com offers - over 20,000 movie titles from across genres delivered to thousands of its members across the country, within few hours of members requesting for it.
Sikta Samantaray





Bolohealth.com: Making health consumer-centred and interactive

Bolohealth.com is a consumer-focused health and wellness portal providing information, engagement and networking opportunities for users in the space of health and wellness.
Zoya Anna Thomas

Concern Infotech: Revolutionizing Internet in India

Concern Infotech, a firm providing web designing and web applications which has grand projects in the pipeline, aims to be in the top ten internet companies list in India.
Ojas Sharma





Winds Online: Carving out a niche for itself

A next generation business application development company, Winds Online delivers internet based services of any complexity to clients worldwide.
Zoya Anna Thomas

Magnon: Taking internet solutions to another level

Magnon starts with the consultation stage with their client, then design website for them, put technology application on website, promote them on internet along with search engine optmimzation and marketing.
Ojas Sharma





YO PEDIA: Performs Routine Tasks with 'One Click'

The Dot Com era set the tone of leveraging the best of technologies to develop rich, user-friendly, and effective desktop applications that work offline and run off the Web browser.
Sudarshan Kumar

MobiKwik Aiming to Lead Online Recharge Market

MobiKwik.com, an e-commerce startup, which is in the business of aggregating and selling mobile apps, mobile content, and mobile transactional services under one platform is all set to leave a mark in the field.
Sikta Samantaray





Future TechnoCrafts: Crafting Success Confidently

The company has met with success after modest beginnings
Deepika Cariappa

PurpleTeal Aiming for Leadership in Personalized Health Intervention

PurpleTeal focuses on hand holding individuals to help them improve their health
Zoya Anna Thomas





iJiny: Making Online Classifieds Simple

Unlike other classified sites, where the user needs to fill a long form and select from several categories, iJiny lets users post and discover classified ads without any registration or login.
Sudarshan Kumar

Zed-Axis: Providing Global Web Solutions

Zed-Axis provides sales and service management solutions to a global clientile.
Deepika Cariappa





Netsoft: Simple Web Solutions

Intelligent innovations and smart solutions for your virtual office.
Deepika Cariappa

Sprinklr: Using Opt-in e-mail as a Marketing Tool

Sprinklr tells you how the modest e-mail can be used as a powerful marketing tool
Deepika Cariappa





Ethnic Online: Emerging Player in the Ethnic Domain

EON is a single reach ad network platform that allows advertisers to market themselves effectively to diverse target groups in the South Asian market in one go.
Deepika Cariappa

 Woman Achiever
Conquering the Man’s World

Starting from the time when she began her career as a Student Counsellor to becoming the Managing Director of Serena Software’s India operations, Sangeetha is a success story personified.
Deepika Cariappa

 Guru Talk
Incredible Journey

Even today I feel I am just starting out because there is still so much more that I want to do.
Saurabh Srivastava

 Tech Buzz
Ramco Unveils Partner Program for OnDemand ERP

Ramco Systems has announced its Ramco OnDemand ERP Partner Program (ROPP) for Karnataka, which aims at improving skill sets of partners by providing extensive training opportunities.
Zoya Anna Thomas





Juniper Networks Unveils Mobility Framework

Juniper Networks has unveiled a new technology framework with new software and mobility solutions that will transform the user experience and operator economics of mobile broadband.
Zoya Anna Thomas

Zynga: Creator of Mafia Wars, Farmville Lands in India

Zynga, the developer of the popular social networking games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, which started two years back, has now decided to open its first office outside the US in Bangalore.
Zoya Anna Thomas





Nabler Launches Web Analytics Tool - MapMyLead

Bangalore based Nabler Web Solutions, a web analytics company has launched 'MapMyLead', a web analytics tool that has been entirely conceptualized and developed in the labs of the company.
Zoya Anna Thomas

HP Unveils Agile Accelerator to Meet Business Needs

The application testing market is growing at a fast rate in India and companies are looking for solutions that will reduce the timespan spent in testing.
Zoya Anna Thomas





Nokia Siemens Expands R&D Center in Bangalore

The Finland based telecom equipment provider Nokia Siemens Networks has expanded its R&D center, making Bangalore one of the largest centers of the company.
Zoya Anna Thomas

 Business
Is India Ready for E-commerce?

American youngsters buy nose studs, belly chains, and temporary tattoos from India. Canadians are hugely fascinated by Bollywood fashion.
Deepika Cariappa

 Tech Tracker
Mobile in Creative Destruction Mode?

Find out what trends emerged at the Mobile World Congress 2010
Deepika Cariappa





Now, Google to Offer Super-fast Internet

Google's Internet is touted to be 100 times faster than what we get today
Deepika Cariappa

Your desktop could be a supercomputer!

Supercomputers are coming home. Find out how.
Deepika Cariappa





‘ichip’ Offers Nothing New

What does Appl'e chip have to offer?
Deepika Cariappa

 Tech Product
Android Powered Acer Liquid Comes to India

India gets the world's first Qualcomm Snapdragon based processor running on Android 1.6 OS
Ojas Sharma





Dash: Sony’s 7-inch Internet Viewer

It provides access to over 1000 free Internet apps
Ojas Sharma

Viewsonic Launches Green ViewBook Pro Notebook

Viewsonic has launched 13.3” VNB131 ViewBook Pro notebook
Ojas Sharma





Windows 7 Loaded Algiz 7 Tablet

Handheld has launched an ultra rugged mobile 7-inch widescreen tablet
Ojas Sharma

 Movers and Shakers
Driving the Leadership

Roping in wide experiences in sales domain, Debadutta Upadhyaya is recently donned as the Vice President, India at Vdopia.
Sikta Samantaray





Translating Visions to Reality

Souma Das is now appointed as the as General Manager of Infor India. He is responsible to manage the company’s India operations and lead the team to drive sales growth and achieve business objectives.
Sikta Samantaray

Playing Big with Focus

A veteran in the IT and software services industry, Ramesh Emani will join the Board of Directors at eMids Technologies.
Sikta Samantaray





Delivering with Strategic Vision

Mahesh Baxi is appointed as the Managing Director of ThoughtWorks, India. He is responsible for the company’s India operations, business strategy, software delivery excellence, customer relationships and balancing sustainable growth and employee needs.
Sikta Samantaray

Steering Business Enterprise

Sudheer Mareddi has been appointed as the Senior Vice President (SVP) - Managed Services SBU at Virtusa.
Sikta Samantaray





Scaling the Business Process

Anil Pandey has been recently appointed as the Head of Telcordia India Labs (India R&D Center) in Chennai.
Sikta Samantaray

 Engineer's Diaries
Define Your Attitude at Work

Read about Rashmi SR, a Software Engineer at ThoughtFocus with 3 yrs.
Sudarshan Kumar





Team Work, a Key to Success

Read about Amarjit Singh, a Software Engineer at Cisco India with 3 yrs and 4 months experience.
Sudarshan Kumar

Challenge Yourself to Go Beyond

Read about Laxmikanth KT, a Software Engineer at YODLE Infotech with 3 yrs.
Sudarshan Kumar

 Venture Beat
CircuitSutra Raises Funding From SIDBI SAS

CircuitSutra Technologies has raised Rs 90 lakh from SIDBI SAS, the risk capital fund of Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) for MSMEs.
Deepika Cariappa





SMS GupShup bags Globespan’s Indian investment debut

SMS GupShup managed to raise $12 million in Series D round as US-based venture capital firm Globespan Capital Partners chose SMS GupShup to make its Indian investment debut
Deepika Cariappa

iCreate Gets Rs 15 Cr from IDG Ventures India

iCreate, focused on the banking sector, has raised Rs 15 crore in the first round of funding from IDG Ventures India
Deepika Cariappa

 Technology
Build for India, Sell to the World

Even though Indian companies have been building software for customers around the globe, but very little of that software is sold as an Indian product.
Narasimhan Mandyam

 Editor's Desk
Internet 2.0: What’s the Business Model?

The other day I’d misplaced my keys. Instead of cueing me for where exactly I’d kept them, my mind was impelling me to ‘Google’ it out.
Jayakishore Bayadi