Forbes has launched its online and print magazine for India this week, noticeably its online edition is named as business.in.com unlike to its Europe, US and Asia edition as Forbes.com. Forbes India has launched in association with Network18, India's biggest full play integrated media network. Forbes India will server as one of a destination for today's discerning business reader via both of its print and online editions, featuring news, views and analysis. Anyone can subscribe to the Forbes India print magazine at ForbesIndiaMagazine.com and can also have brief look at its latest edition of June'09. The online edition business.in.com is not as populated with content as it is supposed to be, though expectations from India's business reading audience will be obviously be high because of the brand itself.

Invoicera is an automated web based invoicing application from Delhi start-up with features to eliminate any invoicing inconvenience. This online app generate professional looking billing software which is easy-to-use and offers a clutter free and systematized gateway to online billing. The user-interface of app is clean, crisp and user-friendly and offer features, services of invoicing over the web to a more than satisfactory level for users. A similar service of online invoicing is offered by an another Indian Startup called - WinkBill, which also offers some pretty good service for same. These are few good alternatives to much famous Zoho Invoicing and BlinkSale. Invoicera offers some very interesting features such as - while receiving payments from clients, users can offer them multiple payment gateways like Paypal, Authorize.Net, Google Checkout, etc. to pay from. Secondly, when sending e-invoices to clients through Invoicera, a business logo can also be imprinted on the invoices. Invoicera also offers printable version of billing reports in PDF and HTML. The online app also possess a good use of user management in a way that a main user of app can delegate duties to the other users and let them manage few billing transactions and can even set permissions ...

Remindo.com, a social productivity and intra-office collaboration applications which help businesses of all sizes get more done, today announced that its Web platform is publicly available for anyone to use for free. Remindo.com delivers a effective way to collaborate and communicate with co-workers and teammates. Combining the best features of social networks, group messaging, project management, knowledge management, competitive intelligence, and file storage, Remindo.com delivers the simple productivity boost that businesses need. When someone joins Remindo.com with their corporate e-mail address. Based on this verified address, Remindo automatically add them to their corporate network. At this corporate level, they can use the company 'Talk' to anyone in the company about whatever you’re doing or share links – either professionally or socially. In addition, they can also gain access to any shared corporate resources, including file storage and announcements. Continued yar Khan, "While other tools focus too heavily on either the social aspects or on the productivity aspects, we believe we’ve hit the right mix of features to drive both user adoption and dramatic productivity gains in the corporation, while helping promote communication and community in the business. Think of Remindo as the single place where companies can get Basecamp-like project management, Twitter-like ...

A Bangalore based firm has introduced WOLF Frameworks, its a platform which allows business analyst, domain experts to design & deliver all sorts of business applications over the internet without writing a single line of technical code (no script). WOLF is a 100% browser based Web Application Designing & Development Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which in turn will create mashable and interoperable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Business Applications on the internet without writing a single line of technical code or having programming knowledge. It provides a quick, easy, flexible and cost effective way of building customized web applications, targeted towards Business Users. This Business 2.0 tool/ framework offered over the web and can fundamentally revolutionizes the way companies can access Business software's on-demand, manage change, get lower cost, unlock their intellectual potential by rapidly transforming ideas as deployed applications & in turn increase Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption worldwide. The framework currently offers more than 25 ready-to-use WOLF Business Applications for SMB's & plans to bring many partner driven - customer centric SaaS applications to the market. View Demos of Wolf's 25 ready to use apps. Prerequisite for using this online framework over the web is an internet connection, a browser program and the knowledge of modeling ...

Planzone is a (SaaS) based collaborative project management platform and team collaboration solution launched by Netherlands based software firm Augeo Software. Planzone provide many of innovative features and collaborative ways to manage project completion plan. With its Planzone community it provide more of the community feature using project templates and public and private database to opt and at the same time advertise, publicize and promote your company. Planzone has also been certified and been granted sponsorship by "OSEO-Innovation", a French public institution (under the authority of the French Ministry of Economy). Moreover, the business tool is available in Dutch, English, French, German, and Russian languages and will soon be available in more languages in future. The business tool is continuously making efforts and improvisation in application and receiving feedback and help/ support through Planzone Forum. The free trial option when chosen provide at most 2 projects to be managed in application along with 25MB of document and file storage space with maximum of 5 users.

Taroby, a SaaS based messaging and collaboration suite from Kochi, India based software firm Advanced Millennium Technologies. Taroby enables sharing of email accounts among team members and here "Sharing" implies that emails are accessible to all team members working on a particular assignment or project, with the possibility to assign messages directly to individual team members. Taroby can be used online through internet browser for private and professional use, serving Clients, individuals, SME businesses, international companies and other global teams & work-groups. One can take a Test Drive of demo web app. In company's own words - "In traditional email clients, the inbox is a mere interface to read and write emails. Taroby however is something different: Through its innovative functions, it makes the inbox much more powerful than ever before, providing new strategies and a competitive edge to the user for working more efficiently and productively. It empowers normal inboxes with a complete work flow, task management and ticket system and thus helps organizations to holistically improve their internal and external communications. It is ideally suited for SMEs or work groups of any kind." Other than sharing of email accounts with others and assigning of messages to members in the team the other ...

Bizedia is new entrant in India's B2B (Business to Business) online services with being a directory to various business offshoots, be it Exporters/ Manufacturers, Importers/ Buyers, Real Estate, Restaurants or any other organization. Basically, Bizedia provides business leads via listings, classifieds and act as B2B search portal for finding any kind of business unit or organization via its interface. Currently Bizedia is offering free listings, classifieds for business owners in various categories and subcategories along with option to map your business listings. Registered members can check enquiries by visitors and members in their inbox provided by Bizedia. The B2B portal Bizedia is brought by a New Delhi based Web Solution company Vinove. Currently, Alibaba and TradeIndia.com are major B2B portal as far as Indian web is concerned, though there are few others portals also but users have addicted to google in this too, searching for same via http://local.google.co.in/, where they find more choices and options and get desired results much better in terms of quantity and quite simple search interface as well. Still there are portals such Business.com that have pretty large stake in market when it comes to B2B search activity on web and here where Indian startups can look for, to ...

Savitr, a wireless and mobile company in India has launched a custom mobile application for varieties of use in Business, marketing, Website or social apps. The product Txtme is text messaging application and software that connect subscriber data to carrier networks to provide custom use of this product such as - Sending sms to customers for marketing use. Integrating sms alerts in applications & online stores. Corporate use to stay connected with employees & partners through web interface. Integration with HR management system with predefined message for specific events. Web applications use by integrating text message functionality in web, social apps in networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Orkut. Other custom use such as message wall in clubs, restaurants, launge etc. Customized applications and solutions for startups & enterprises. Savitr through this product has provided solutions that rely on mobile device usage in perfect scenario when mobile usage is rising enormously in India being just second after US in mobile usage. At this time all type of businesses particularly startups are showing interest in exploiting mobile products of every sphere whether its is Twitter or short code mobile network services. Earlier Savitr had also launched one of its Txtme Facebook app to send free sms to USA, UK ...

Analytics does matters a lot in business and investing perspective as well. A new approach in this way has brought by Bizak, its a business network tool which computes the profitability and valuation of internet startups by creating industry benchmarks for comparative analysis. The business tool has launched by TOKiBiz services Inc, who also provide an internet startup creation services.

A new Web 2.0 startup Faayda.com to launch soon via Indian arena that will target small and mid-size business owners and freelancers. The site will inculcate in itself few business tools and applications that will help them drive their business in web 2.0 environment. Faayda that define as pure "Profit" in Hindi will be having web tools like to automate business activity such as Invoicing, Lead Management and Client Collaboration/ Information. These tools will be developed keeping in mind the latest business need that eventually in the process ease the business activity and flow of information. The first business application - "Invoice Tool" is said to be developed and launch first in early of January 2008 followed by business directory to showcase SMB enterprises to search and interact with each other that could also be part of lead management. The website will do have features to share, access and store all information in mobile as well which is mandatory trait of any Business and office 2.0 applications. The startup seems to inspired by Google Apps, Zoho Apps meme thus plans to move on to its next phase that is to develop tools to create various documents like word, spreadsheets, presentations etc. online and have ...