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TWIA #46: Pratyush Prasanna from Xerox & SMS Gupshup

SGEntrepreneurs — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:10:33 +0000

Following on our special interview series, we have Pratyush Prasanna (@pratyushp) from Xerox and also a former founder of SMS Gupshup, a well-known SMS and microblogging mobile service in India which have a total of 20M users. In our conversation with Pratyush, we chatted with him on how he started SMS Gupshup with his fellow co-founders and grew it to the state today. We also asked him on his new challenge as an open innovation manager for Xerox and get a sense of the India market on mobile applications. He will be speaking as a panelist on “Mobile Applications: The State of Play”. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs.

About Pratyush Prasanna from Xerox & SMS Gupshup: Pratyush Prasanna presently looks at technology related investments for Xerox in India. Pratyush was on the founding team of SMS Gupshup, India’s largest social network on mobile and was responsible for growing the application from zero to its first million users (today about 20M users are on the Gupshup platform). Since then he has worked in Microsoft’s mobile strategy team with special focus on the mobile productivity applications and emerging markets. With his background in startups, he looks at promising new ideas and research projects for Xerox to invest in India. Pratyush has hands on experience in running startups as well as managing software development teams at Microsoft. Pratyush has a B.Tech degree from IIT Kharagpur and is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. He also writes for Pluggd.in, an Indian tech blog.

TWIA Episode 18: Everyone’s a Scraper

SGEntrepreneurs — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:43:07 +0000

The TWIA crew gathers after Chinese New Year without Daniel Cerventus to run thru a couple of stories that rumbles across the Asia landscape this week. Starting with Zynga’s global expansion into India, the crew ponders whether the foreign companies are shifting their focus away from China. Once again, censorship takes the headline in China and Indonesia. Of course, we devise the new googleometer where we ask if Google is really moving out of China with their gestures on canceling the Android event in Beijing. Finally, the biggest story that rocked Southeast Asia with Facebook acquiring Octazen, a Malaysian based company and finally the crew looks at the rise of the Global QQ and ending with a short commentary on Siok Siok’s new film, Twittamentary.

Zynga in India: The creator of Farmville and Mafia Wars starts their global expansion with their first stop, India. Why not China?
Indonesia looks to block offensive Internet pages and China tightens control on websites rings a new dimension of censorship in Asia.
Facebook acquires Malaysian start-up, Octazen: We chat about the recent acquisition of Octazen, a Malaysian based start-up which specialize on contacts importer and wonders why TechCrunch offers an alternative perspective to the issue.
Google snubs China on Android: We ponder whether Google is really walking out of China and then the gestures of them canceling the Beijing Android developers’ event.
QQ expanding globally?: We discuss what QQ is really planning for their global expansion.
Lastly a short reprise on Siok Siok’s Twittamentary.

TenCube’s WaveSecure in Nokia’s N96 (India)

SGEntrepreneurs — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:00:05 +0000

While India celebrated the launch of the new Nokia N96, Singapore startup TenCube had their own piece of good news to shout about. Their flagship product WaveSecure is the only 3rd party application that is bundled together with the sleek N96! Links to several news sites after the jump.

Nokia Unveils the N96
Tech2 – Mumba,Maharashtra,India
The Nokia N96 comes pre-bundled with WaveSecure, an application that allows consumers to secure everything on the device wirelessly. …
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Nokia Unveils the N96 in India as a competition to Apple 3G
By Latest on Tech(Latest on Tech)
The Nokia N96 comes pre-bundled with WaveSecure, an application that allows consumers to secure everything on the device wirelessly. One can save and create a back up of all data (contacts, SMS, call logs and calendar entries) through …
Talk about Gadgets, Freeware,… – http://freewareindia.blogspot.com/

Nokia launches the N96!
By Editor
It comes loaded with Wavesecure that allows the device to be tracked in case of theft and allows data back up through Internet. It also offers Navigation through Nokia 2.0 maps, a 5megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. …
Thinking Aloud – http://www.thinkingaloud.in

Nokia N96 launched in India!
By jaganath
… Dual slider with dedicated music keys; A-GPS chip with built-in software for turn-by-turn directions; 3G with HSDPA; Dedicated music chip for excellent sound quality; Built-in WaveSecure software for storing backups. …
Nokia N96 Blog – http://n96.nokiablogs.com