IMImobile, an end-to-end provider of converged mobile and online value-added services for mobile operators, media companies and enterprises today announced that it has raised USD 13 million in a financing round led by Sequoia Capital and existing investor First Mark Capital. The funding will enable IMImobile to embark on its next phase of growth building on the impressive gains the company has made over the last few years. Spark Ventures plc, a founding partners of IMImobile is the largest institutional shareholder and had provided the seed capital. MAPE Advisory Group acted as advisor to IMImobile for the investment. Sequoia Capital has enormous experience in consistently partnering with entrepreneurs to create global market leaders such as Cisco, Google, Apple SKS Microfinance, Cafe Coffee Day and Just Dial. Mohit Bhatnagar, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India will join the Board of IMImobile. Vishwanath Alluri, Founder and CEO of IMImobile said: “The new financing will enable us to develop our cloud infrastructure for Tier 1 telecom operators and allow us to expand our customer base and account penetration through acquisitions. Sequoia Capital’s global experience and strong local expertise will be a key differentiator as we look to launch into our next phase of growth” "IMImobile’s unique and ...

BOLT is a free downloadable browser that offers an uncompromised browsing experience on even lower-end mobile phones, noticeably for phones that are NOT smart phones, PDAs or Phones. Apparently the BOLT browser give as much high-end experience for lower-end phones as a Blackberry browser. Bitstream India Pvt Ltd, headquartered in Delhi, contributed substantially to BOLT’s engineering Two months after its public debut at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Bitstream Inc today announced that BOLT, the company’s web browser for mobile phones of all types. Bolt has more active users in India than in any other country outside North America. Today one in six of BOLT’s active users reside in India where users have visited more than 4 million web pages and consumed more than 1,000 gigabytes (1 terabyte) of bandwidth using the mobile browser since it debuted in February of this year. Optimized to conserve data transmission, BOLT features unrivalled speed – routinely at least 25 to 50 % faster than competitors. The WebKit-based BOLT browser offers ultra-fast viewing of streaming and flash video, high standards compliance, rich media and graphics that enable people to view websites just as they do on a PC. BOLT’s feature set includes: Fast, secure, desktop-style web browsing on ...

SMSResume.in is new web start-up from India in its very young phase eventhough worthy for many as it enables users makes it possible to send their resumes via SMS over their cellphones. The process is - users needs to register at www.smsresume.in, upload resume on the site for once and thereafter can send resumes through their cellphones only. The service comes handy especially for those job seekers who have to apply urgently for a job and when there is no internet connection available at any point of time. To availe the service for free, the users needs to register at www.smsresume.in, upload one's resume on the site and then, whenever the need be, shoot off the resume by sending an SMS to 9711532380 in pre-defined format i.e. Resume <hr emailid> (example: Resume career@xyzcompany.com). User would even receive Email notification from smsresume.in as the smsresume server send a BCC copy to users' email id and informs that the resume has been successfully delivered to the recipient.

Yet another Indian start-up myMobile Ergonomics which is a Mobile Startup company based in Noida has developed new Mobile Texting technology - CleverTexting, which makes predictions based on the statistical nature of a language instead to that of a dictionary based predictions that we usually know as 'T9 Dictionary' in most of of our mobile handsets. CleverTexting make predictions on what characters you are most likely to type next based upon what have just typed before and armed with the probabilistic statistical tables of what is actually found in the language. This is an experimental model and apparently providing excellent results in the prototype that has been built. The CleverTexting prototype when installed in mobile Java enabled device make predictions that are shown on the screen and you use the numeric keypad to make the choices, always with a single keystroke. No multitap, no mode change, no disambiguation. That user interface , with no characters fixed to the face of the numeric keypad and dynamic allocation of characters to the keys is also new and the company has applied for a patent for it. Interestingly, CleverTexting predicts the most likely characters following what has been entered and placing them into positions easiest to ...

TheChanner is a new entrant in Internet TV on both PCs and mobile phones. TheChanner tunes the free Internet TV through a Wi-fi or 3G phone, and let people comment about the WorldTV to the others. It is now on a private beta in its first version for Windows Mobile phones and PC that brings live Internet TV for free to its users with channel ranges from news to music, weather to sports, entertainment 24/7. TheChanner with feature of grouping channels as your favorite list also have other interesting has features such as adding comments which will be visible for everyone from mobile or a PC, last channel viewed at shutdown will be automatically played when you restart theChanner and filtering channels by country, language or category, from the TV list. One can download the beta version of theChanner.com for viewing on PC or viewing in Mobile phones separately.

Beep is a new Indian mobile startup from NowPos online services, presenting a new way of Advertising currently offering in Hydrabad city only. Beep is the Mobile application development Company which offers advertisers' Ads directly on mobile screens limited to 18 pixels X 80 pixels and will be priced on the basis of Imressions/ 60 minutes. To create pretty large user base in order to propagate their mobile services, company is aggressively signing up mobile phones users by offering them free talktime of Rs 100 for Airtel to Airtel ( at present Hyderabad City Only ). One need to download the application of Beep in their mobile handsets and see the Ads. NowPos has tied up with Airtel and offers Rs 100 FREE talktime to Airtel subscribers for downloading the Ad software onto their mobile phones, they will receive an SMS from Airtel confirming talk time update within 4-5 days from registration. The ad gives all the updates in regards with the news, the products, exclusive discounts, customized offers and last but not the least the subscriber gets the talktime of 100 mins. Apparently one has too see the success of such concept as Beep in itself is not a user involving content ...

Woices.com stands for World voices, is an Internet start-up company that provides Location Based Audio Services along with GPS application for mobiles. Woices allows people to create, share and consume location based audio tag allowing people to do location based audio tagging. These audio tags are known here as echoes i.e. audio records which are linked to a very specific geographical location or real world object and here echoes are words, left by one person at some precise place, that can be later listened to by anyone, as if user who created it was still there. Echoes can be about anything one want, from history, art or curiosities to personal memories or advices. Woices.com describe itself to be provider of a new layer of oral information and calling it 'echoesphere' that would pull out those histories and pieces of information that is not possible to find in the tourist guides. Moreover, Woices is also on verge of launching it mobile application integrated with GPS, though the website do have mobile website at woices.mobi that allows users to search for information created by other users in form of echoes. Woices.com uses web services from geonames.org for geolocation based functionalities and has come with a ...

Lately past month an another Mobile Social Networking App has been Launched in India and it seems that past couple of weeks were the busiest period when mobile startups in India has been launched. Rocketalk has launched public beta of its free mobile social networking application in India just after Zook.in, Qeep and a recent one - MobileAdda of BigAdda.com etc. It is one of earliest mobile 2.0 startup from India (since 2004) as the founder of company is a product himself of premier Indian institute IIT, Mumbai. Rocketalk is a downloadable mobile phone application (m.rocketalk.com) which allows mobile phone users to meet and interact with new people through text, voice, picture and video messaging. Users can mash-up user generated content with other content, create and share their own content with friends and family and obviously join and interact with mobile communities. Moreover the company is in verge of making RockeTalk an IM chat compatible in near future i.e. IM facility with Yahoo, Google Talk, MSN, AIM and ICQ. RockeTalk is a venture-backed company, headquartered in San Diego, California, USA with offices in Delhi, India.

An another Mobile web startups Zook.in has been launched by Bangalore based startup Ziva this week. Zook is India's first mobile fetch engine that gets exact answers to any query made across India. The mobile search start-up has been incubated at IIM Bangalore, a premier management institute of India. Zook.in let users to search info such as Movies, Businesses, Restaurants, ATMs, Travel, Weather, Traffic and at the same time create custom alerts for search results. To set alerts, users can visit www.zook.in to find and set the desired alerts by searching for "alerts " where category can be deals, movies, etc. or by SMS as well such as "alerts " where category can be deals, movies, etc. to 5757 5665 (India). Other than this user can also search and get SMS Forwards, Mobile Graphics/Videos, Ringback Tones, Games, Ringtones by sending simple SMS code.