Archive for the ‘web’ tag.
Top tech influencers of Pune (@dnene @ScepticGeek @trakin) give Google+ a Thumbs Up
For the past few weeks, every techie in Pune has probably had Google+ on his/her mind. Many have tried it. Some have dismissed is as a Facebook wannabe that will never really catch on. Others think it is a little too complicated for the common man. However, three of Pune’s top tech bloggers have weighed [...]
Free web-development courses by Ozran Academy, Pune
Ozran is a small web development company in Kondhwa, Pune. This European company founded by Andor Admiraal and Rajesh Shet has some very unique policies and a different outlook from most other IT firms. One of their unique initiatives is that they offer completely free web courses to IT, Arts and Maths freshers. They even [...]
Event Report: CarWale.com CEO Mohit Dubey
(This is a live-blog of the TiE Pune talk by Mohit Dubey, Founder and CEO of CarWale.com. This is essentially an unorganized collection of interesting/insightful statements made by Mohit during his talk.) “Carwale.com, the story so far: Started in 2005, seed funding in 2006, hit break-even point in 2007, series A funding in 2008, got [...]
TiE Pune My Story session with Mohit Dubey CEO/Founder of CarWale – 3 June
TiE Pune presents a “My Story” session with Mohit Dubey, CEO and Founder of CarWale on 3 June, 6pm to 8pm, at MCCIA Trade Towers, Pune. Carwale is one of the few dotcom and “ecommerce” success stories by and Indian company for Indian customers – and hence should be a must for anyone in India [...]
ShopSocially focuses on retailers with new offering “SocialConnect”
(Pune-based Startup ShopSocially, whose launch was covered on PuneTech last year has recently been in the news again for their launch of SocialConnect, a product for online retailers to easily add social shopping features to their existing e-commerce site. Suneetha talked to Samir Palnitkar and Sunil Arora of ShopSocially, and this article starts with an [...]
Overview of KLISMA – Loyalty/Group buying startup incubated at Persistent
So Customer is King; and the “loyal” King gets rewards. But how many of us really carry all the paper/plastic around or remember to redeem these? KLISMA, is a new customer loyalty program, that can be used via your mobile – which you always have with you. KLISMA is primarily focused at providing group buying [...]
TechWeekend 8: Web Development Frameworks – Rails, Grails, Django
TechWeekend #8 (#tw8) this Saturday will focus on Web Development Frameworks. We have the following talks lined up, and one more is likely to get added in the next day or two Grails, and other web development techniques in Groovy, by Saager Mhatre Interesting new things in Rails3, by Gautam Rege “A Django Case-Study: Use [...]
Overview of Sokrati – Online Ads Optimization Startup
(A few days back, Pune-based startup Sokrati announced that it has received an undisclosed amount of Series-A funding from Inventus Capital Partners, a company that has also invested in such companies as RedBus.in, TeliBrahma, and FundsIndia. PuneTech chatted with co-founder and CEO Ashish Mehta to get more details of the Sokrati story.) About Sokrati Sokrati [...]
Pune Rails Drinkup: Ruby-on-Rails tech talks over (free) drinks
The Pune Rails Meetup Group invites all enthusiasts of Ruby-on-Rails for their second “Drink Up” event. Gautam Rege writes: This time we have a technical drink-up. We shall have 1 or 2 technical sessions followed by networking. Thanks to IntelleCap for sponsoring this meetup entirely! Venue: Boat Club Agenda: We have 2 technical talks of [...]
DocType HTML5 – Free 1-day conference on html5/css in Pune – Dec 4
DocType HTML5 is a one day conference on HTML5, CSS3 and related technologies. This is a free, technology-focused event aimed at helping folks get started with HTML5 as a rich application platform. DocType HTML5 will be held in Pune this Saturday, December 4, from 9am to 6pm, at COEP (College of Engineering, Pune). This is [...]