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 for the features he/she want them to access.

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 communications, i-Drive-like file storage and iGoogle-like information delivery all managed with through intuitive UI.”

Other features of Remindo app includes – Personal Dashboard that combines feeds from virtually anywhere on the Web and one can mix business and social information in it. And when you see something that’s relevant to the company, you can instantly share it with your team in just a few clicks.

Remindo.com has built-in personal profile pages, similar to social networks, where you can share information about yourself, both personal and business-related. For any level in the corporation, Remindo.com gives users a place to send out quick updates similar to that of ‘tweets’ of Twitter of about anything on their mind. It can be about a project, it can be about the weather or the latest sporting event, or it can even be about lunch. This ability to ‘tweet’ gives a business a way to communicate that shared and open, yet secure and private.

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 your business to use Wolf Service. No software to install, no maintenance cost, no hassles of creating a database, middleware, writing technical scripts, simple point and click user interface with english like business rules to build cross platform SaaS applications. You save more than 70% of your time & cost in building customized applications that can even interact with your existing software system’s – Complete cloud computing SaaS development framework.

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 interesting features of Taroby to note are:

• Access & restriction rights management (e.g. read / write / delete)
• Attaching of comments per message (e.g. working instructions etc)
• A complete overview of all incoming message streams (Unified Messaging: Faxes, SMS,
  E-Mail, Postal…)
• Usage of predefined filters and rules for automatic message delivery
• Sharing of folders, text- and design templates
• Complete transparency and tracking of any message (who received, read, forwarded,
  answered, deleted, assigned, comments left, moved etc)
• Free definable automations (e.g. Follow-up, email and sms reminders, send at a
  particular time/date, send after authorization and so on)
• No installations on the client necessary.
• Automatic updates on central server (SaaS, no need to install any upgrades on local computers in the future).

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 be business.com’s counterpart in India.

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 or Canada.

Through its custom mobile application the near empty mobile 2.0 market in India has been filled to some extent, where its limited to twitter or some 4-5 short digit number services which despite of being annoying to users, are flooded in market to poke cellphone users every 10 minutes for product sales, offers or deals.

Withe such mobile products as txtme we expect some ethically and productively better mobile products and services to serve end users in India.

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.

Bizak is a business tool where website owners, bloggers can calculate metrics, stats of how much they are getting from their visitors. Through Bizak, startups (website/blogs) could compute the benchmarks like RPV (revenue per visitors), cost per visitors, EPV (earning per visitors) and gross income/ profit they have accrued from their websites, blogs or other startups. With any revenue model one can calculate/ compare net income (profit/loss) from all internet operations like Google adsense, Yahoo search marketing, inhouse advertising etc.

Through bizak, start-ups can compare their metrics with other industry benchmarks like industry high or industry low numbers and can even analyze traffic with other startups of your business type and if your startup is stand out among rest it could even bring some interest of Investors, VCs.

For Investors, advertisers or business professionals, they can then sort out these start-ups, business types as per their investment choice to find out, which to invest in as per their traffic, EPV, RPV alon with their summary of business type, contact info.

The Bizak emerged as a business 2.0 tool to provide an open platform for flourishing start-ups, websites on one side and investors, advertisers and other business professional of same interest on other, to act as business market for them, where start-ups can market themselves as product to invest in and investors to line up the products as per their investment needs and their earning potential. At the same time providing the statistics, metrics and data analytics somewhat like MIS or DSS where one can come to conclusion as per historical data or business figures.

Below is a tool where you can do a sample calculation for your startups/ website or a blog:

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 the ability to share with other users who can then add their input to the document.

The startup is planning to add up some more web 2.0 modules gradually that serve to help business drive in business2.0 environment.

The tools are expected to release in Beta in January of next year and presently one can submit email-ids to get notified of same.