Indian Startups Blog

IndyaRocks, an Indian social networking site has partnered with FXLabs, a leading end-to-end game comapny in India to launch a social gaming community for India.This partnership will create a gaming platform with more than 5,000 online casual games. The platform will also allow independent game developers to upload and get feedback from more than a million active gamers on Indyarocks. …Oops! Click the link to read more

See also:

• Speed Linking – Week ending 1st July 2007
• IndyaRocks Starts Online And Mobile Video Streaming
• Social Money, Rediff IM, Reliance Money, Unlimited Internet And More

BBC and ITV together has launched FreeSat, free digital TV for 98% of household in UK. FreeSat is a non-profit company owned by BBC and ITV.With FreeSat, everyone can enjoy free digital TV and HD programmes with no contract and no subscription. All you have to do is just pay for initial setup and you can watch free digital television for life.freesat offers a great choice of channels from entertainment and children’s to movies and music. Set top boxes for those who want to see high definition pictures will cost around £120, but for those who only want standard definition, prices will begin at around £49. …Oops! Click the link to read more

See also:

• Watch Indian Television Channels online for free
• Free Online Star Majha, Zee Telugu, Telugu TV, Bangla TV, Tamil TV

Here is something useful for television lovers. After the Digital Video Records (DVRs) one can record their favourite television shows and can watch it whenever they want but for those who doesn't have DVRs now can also get upto date information for their shows.MyTVRSS.com, a site that gives you an option to generate RSS feeds for your favourite television channels. MyTVRSS pulls data from TVRage.com. …Oops! Click the link to read more

Tamil Nadu +2 Results for 2008 will be declared on 9th May 2008 morning 10 am. You can find out the official results for Tamil Nadu Plus two 2008 at .The direct link to the Plus Two 2008 result search is .Another sites where you can check out Tamilnadu Public Exam XII Std Results 2008 is . Also you can check out Good Luck. …Oops! Click the link to read more

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It was only a year ago CitiGroup paid $800 million for Old Lane, the hedge fund of which the current Citigroup CEO Vikram S. Pandit (right) was a co-founder. If reports are to be believed, Old Lane is in trouble. Ten months after CitiGroup bought out the hedge fund (in an attempt to woo Pandit to its fold), the buzz is that almost all of the outside investors in Old Lane Partners are getting out.
Old Lane, which had $4.5 billion in funds under management last year, is now down to just $1.5 billion.
Last month, Citi CFO Gary Crittenden said that clients would be permitted to redeem their investments in Old Lane. In a recent regulatory filing, the bank announced that most investors would exercise the opportunity to flee the underperforming hedge fund by July 31. “In April 2008, substantially all unaffiliated investors had notified Old Lane of their intention to redeem,” Citi said in the filing. It’s not clear if Citi plans to shutter the fund. What it said all was that it is “evaluating alternatives for the restructuring of Old Lane.” (more…)