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An Online Python/Haskell Course by Pune Faculty in running for MOOC Fellowship
Germany’s iversity is teaming with leading German think-tank Stifterverband to award ten €25,000 (about $31K) fellowships to professors around the world hoping to produce their own MOOC. The organizers hope the competition will help “fuel technological innovation” in European higher … Continue reading
GE to expand its $200M wind turbines / aircraft engines plant in Chakan #Pune
GE Vice Chairman John Rice spoke to the media on Friday about their plans to expand their manufacturing facilities in Chakan near Pune. Excerpt: Rice said the company has been very successful in manufacturing engineering products at Chakan. Therefore, it … Continue reading
.@pricebaba raises a round of funding from 500-Startups and Pune’s @jimkarter
Mumbai based PriceBaba, a local price discovery engine has raised a second round of seed funding from Silicon Valley based 500-startups, and existing investors Karamveer Singh (also known online as @jimkarter) and Tirthesh Ganatra. Karamveer Singh had led PriceBaba’s first … Continue reading
Pune has more “product” based teams doing high value dev. than Bangalore – Zinnov
IT Advisory company Zinnov has just released a survey of “product” companies/teams in India and points out that 12% of product teams in Pune work on high value development work, compared to just 8% in Bangalore. Excerpts: Product teams based … Continue reading
BMC Software to go private; to aggressively focus on cloud
BMC Software Inc. (BMC) agreed to be taken private in a $6.9 billion deal by Bain Capital LLC and Golden Gate Capital after struggling to compete with newcomers better equipped to handle the shift toward cloud computing. One of BMC’s … Continue reading
Talk at #ChefConf by Pune’s @Cheezo on #Knife cloud plugins for #VMWare #VCloud
Chef is an open source configuration management tool written in Ruby and Erlang.It is a DevOps tool used for configuring cloud services or to streamline the task of configuring a company’s internal servers. Chef automatically sets up and tweaks the … Continue reading
Venture Firm @HelionVC to invest 10-15% of $250 million in Pune
Livemint reports that Helion Venture Partners plans to invest about 10-15% of its $250 million fund in software firms in Pune, and the first such deal could happen by the end of this year. Excerpts: “So far, we have funded … Continue reading
Pune based crowdsourced organic T-shirts startup @SheepStop covered by ET
Pune-based SheepStop, which sells organic T-shirts whose designs are crowdsourced has been covered in an Economic Times article. Excerpts: The Dixits put in a seed capital of Rs 3 lakh and launched Sheep-Stop in September 2009. The money also helped … Continue reading
Pune’s AsianLaws.com conducts Survey on Facebook activities of School Children
Pune’s Asian School of Cyber Laws recently conducted a survey of school children in India with the intention of finding out their cyber security habits. The survey covered 13,050 school students (7th, 8th, 9th and 10th standards) spread across Pune, … Continue reading
Pune’s MindTickle in Business Today’s “15 Coolest Startups” Cover Story
Pune’s MindTickle, a startup working on “gamification” of enterprise employee engagement, has been covered in in Business Today’s Cover Story “India’s Coolest Startups”. Excerpts: Poorvi Agarwal’s first day at work was a lot of fun. The sales executive at travel … Continue reading