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Tandem Entrepreneurs (a Mobile Accelerator) visiting Pune for 10 days

Sunil Bhargava writes in VentureWoods.org: I run Tandem Entrepreneurs, a mobile accelerator in San Francisco Bay Area. I am visiting India and will be in Pune from Tuesday 7th Feb for about 10 days. I would be happy to meet … Continue reading

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Business Standard Q&A with Pune’s Ganesh Natarajan on Indian IT Industry Outlook

Business Standard has an interview with Ganesh Natarajan, CEO of Zensar Technologies, and the head of the IT committee of CII, and ex-Chairman of NASSCOM, where he talks about the outlook for the Indian IT Industry, and also future plans … Continue reading

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Interesting Visitor: Patricia Sauthoff, doing research on Hindi Wikipedia

Patricia Sauthoff one of the people who’ve been awarded the WikiHistories summer fellowship, as a part of which she is studying the community that is building the Hindi Wikipedia, and she is in Pune for the next week or so. … Continue reading

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SMEStory Interview: Devendra Deshmukh (@devendradesh) of e-Zest Solutions

SMEStory has an interview of Devendra Deshmukh of e-Zest a company that does enterprise software / application development services. Excerpts: One of the recent turning points would be us acquiring the Pune-based Maestro Mobile Services to strengthen our mobile development … Continue reading

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Pune’s Titash Neogi (@tneogi of @bibkosh) wins British Council’s YCE award

Pune based Titash Neogi, co-founder of Bibkosh, has just won the Young Interactive Entrepreneur award by the British Council. The eligibility and selection criteria of this award are here. Here is the write-up of Titash that goes with the award: … Continue reading

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SMEStory interviews Vishwas Mahajan CEO of CompuLink

SMEStory has an interview of Vishwas Mahajan, founder and CEO Compulink, a Pune-based product company that has a couple of interesting SaaS products. Vishwas is also quite active in the tech and startup community in Pune, being a charter member … Continue reading

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SMEStory Interviews founders of Seed Infotech and QuickHeal

SMEStory, an initiative of Pune-based SME Joinup has two interesting interviews of tech companies based out of Pune. The first is an interview of Narendra Barhate of Seed Infotech that talks about the journey of Seed Infotech from a small … Continue reading

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Pune’s @Sudhanwa Joglekar named to Wikimedia Grant Advisory Committee

The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization which runs Wikipedia, has created a “Grants Advisory Committee” consisting of members of the Wikimedia community, whose role would be to help the Wikimedia foundation decide which grant requests to accept, help improve grants, ensure … Continue reading

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Pune Startup SheepStop covered by YourStory.in

Pune’s SheepStop, a crowdsourcing T-shirt design company, has been covered by YourStory.in. There is a nice interview with Bhagyashri, the co-founder of SheepStop which gives a number of interesting tidbits of information about SheepStop, including: SheepStop is an eco-friendly company. … Continue reading

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Top environmental award for Ramana Athreya of IISER Pune

Ramana Athreya, an associate professor at IISER Pune, one of India’s top higher educational institutions (on par with IISc and the IITs), has been awarded the Whitley Award, one of the most high profile “conservation” awards. Indian Express reports that: … Continue reading

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