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Last month Jack Dorsey the creator of Twitter unveiled his new device and service to make bulky and expensive credit card swiping machines – History.
The Solution goes by the name Square and is being funded by Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures fame.(Editors Note – Vinod Khosla is also an investor in SKS Microfinance and Grama Vidiyal [...]
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NAGPUR: A city-based entrepreneur claims to have developed a technology to harness wind pressure generated by a moving train and convert it into electricity. Santosh Pradhan, who has even obtained 22 national and international patents for the concept, is sure that his eco-friendly way of generating power was the answer to country’s electricity [...]
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PhokatCopy – Get Photocopies of notes and books for free – http://www.phokatcopy.com/
Phokat copy is a pro student initiative that provides free photocopies subsidized by advertising on the back page.
Shoe Dazzle – http://www.shoedazzle.com/
Users of Los Angeles-based ShoeDazzle begin by taking a fashion survey, the results of which are used to guide the company’s personalized shoe selections. [...]
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A few years ago, a job portal for rural India would have been unthinkable. Internet penetration was extremely low – even today, there are only 12.8 million Internet subscribers among the country’s 1.2 billion people, according to the Internet Service Providers Association of India. What’s more, a study by market research firm IMRB International found [...]
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Silicon Valley sees a profitable future in the humble brick thanks to a low-energy production process that illustrates the greening of the U.S. technology capital.
Brick maker Calstar Products is heavy on PhDs and backed by venture capitalists whose vision is to create buildings less expensively and in a way that saves energy.
“We think it is [...]
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Did you Know ?
The mobile device will be the world’s primary device for connecting to the Internet in 2020.
That Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every second and Dell earned US$ 3 Million via twitter posts.
or that 90% of the 200 billion emails sent everyday are spam ?
This completely new video includes facts and stats focusing on the [...]
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Environment: A washing machine uses thousands of nylon beads, and just a cup of water, to provide a greener way to do the laundry
SYNTHETIC fibres tend to make low quality clothing. But one of the properties that makes nylon a poor choice of fabric for a shirt, namely its ability to attract and retain dirt [...]
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No one would debate that India is a land of entrepreneurs. From the globally renowned captains of industry like the Ambanis and Tatas, pharmaceutical giants such as the Reddys and well-known IT pioneers like Narayana Murthy and Azim Premji to the millions of men, women and children who are entrepreneurs out of necessity, using their imagination [...]
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You’ve heard of book and CD libraries, but now comes toy libraries for young ones. The concept is fast catching on with parents in Indian cities as it provides kids with a learning avenue and is light on the pocket too. And entrepreneurs are cashing in on the trend.
Nishant Patel, a Delhi resident, has enrolled [...]
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We’ve already written about a few microfinancing platforms focused on the developing world, including Kiva and C4-World. Next up is Mobile Movement, a Canadian initiative we just learned about that works via mobile phone.
Few young social entrepreneurs in the developing world have computers, so Mobile Movement provides mobile phones and training to foster both micro-funding [...]
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We’ve covered the value of worm poop, and now it’s time for the merits of cow dung to come to the fore. EcoFaeBrick turns cattle waste into bricks that are greener, stronger and 20% lighter than regular clay bricks.
The Indonesian organization was set up earlier this year to tackle the problem of excessive waste in [...]
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Given below is the latest issue of Springwise a website dedicated to
highlighting new trends and business ideas from around the globe.
The latest issue is now online and can be accessed here
Given below are some of the highlights of this issue
Rooftop beekeeping at Fortnum’s
Food & beverage / Retail / Eco & sustainability
Fortnum & [...]
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