PuneTech

Upcoming Event: POCC meetup - Footprint Ventures and Google M&A

What: Pune OpenCoffee Club get-together. Informal meeting with Footprint Ventures, and Google Corporate Development and M&A.
When: Thursday, 3rd July, 6pm.
Where: Seed Infotech’s office in Erandawana
Registration and Fees: This event is free for everyone. Register at upcoming.
Details:
Hemant Joshi, of nFactorial would like to invite POCC members to an informal get-together with special invitees: Footprint Ventures, and [...]

Upcoming Event: Footprint Venture entrepreneurs meeting

Update: See the updated post on the latest details (including venue, and Google M&A’s participation).
Hemant Joshi, co-founder of nFactorial Software, writes:
Footprint Venture will be visiting Pune in next week, 3rd July. They are an early stage venture capital fund, based out of India. (http://footprintventures.com/index.htm ). I am trying to arrange their meeting with POCC members [...]

Upcoming Event: Pune OpenCoffee Club Meeting

What: Meeting of the Pune OpenCoffee Club - theme: startup mentoring, incubating and collaborations
When: Saturday, 14th June, 5pm
Where: Barista, Law College Road, opposite IndSearch
This is the (loose) agenda:

Synergising startups through Service Provider - Client relationships or just good old Fashioned Business Collaboration.
Freeman Murray will lead a discussion about the possibility of Y!Combinator style startup incubation [...]

Reconnex named a leader in DLP by Forrester

(Newsitem forwarded to punetech by Anand Kekre of Reconnex)
Reconnex, has been named a “top leader” in the data leak prevention space by Forrester in its DLP Q2 2008 report.
DLP software allows a company to monitor all data movements in the company and ensure that “sensitive” data (i.e. intellectual property, financial information, etc.) does not go [...]

PubMatic Launches Default Optimization Service to Recapture $1 Billion in Lost Advertising Revenue

A large number of websites rely on advertising as their primary source of income. Typically the ads are served by third party ad networks (for example Google’s adsense). When an ad network is unable to find an appropriate ad for a specific page being served to a specific reader, they put in default or public [...]

Monkiri adds Blogger/Wordpress support - becomes more useful

When Pune-based social web-clipping service Monkiri had launched a couple of weeks ago, I had complained that it’s utility is very limited because it does not allow posting the clips to the user’s personal blog. They have moved quickly, and fixed the problem. They now support Blogger and Wordpress blogs. That should certainly increase its [...]

Upcoming Event: Talk by Jason Goldberg Founder+CEO social|median & ex-Founder+CEO Jobster

Serial entrepreneur, Jason Goldberg, who founded and headed Jobster, and who is now on to his next startup, social|median, a social news website, will share his past experiences as an entrepreneur and then Jason and Nishith Shah, CEO of True Sparrow Systems will talk about their experience in working on social|median development with Jason in [...]

Company Profile: Monkiri - Webpage clipping service

Pune-based Monkiri is a browser plugin (IE & FF) that enables a web user clip portions of a webpage, comment on it, and post it to a blog hosted on Monkiri.
Literally Monkiri means the Japanese art of paper cutting. Monkiri lets one read and write blogs about any item published on a website. At this [...]

Upcoming Events: Proto.in online startup meet

Compared to how things were a few years back, the Startup Community has come together in such a fabulous way. We have OpenCoffee Club meets, Startup Lunches, Startup Saturdays, Mobile Mondays, Barcamps, Ideacamps etc, etc, and the plethora of other activities that organizations such as TiE, NEN, NASSCOM, etc are providing to benefit this same [...]

Company Profile: Reconnex

(This article is a copy of the Reconnex Pagecreated by Anand Kekre on the PuneTech wiki. Please help by creating one like this for your own company.)
Reconnex is a provider of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) appliances that are designed for organizations that want to secure sensitive information, protect their brands and maintain compliance. Reconnex [...]