Fropper.com winds up eco-ganpati initiative with a post immersion cleanliness drive

Mumbai, Sep 15, 2008 – People Group’s Fropper.com, India’s first friendship & social networking website highlighted the importance of environmental friendly festivities and heightened civic responsibility by conducting a post immersion cleanliness drive at Girgaum chowpatty today. The cleanliness drive saw the students of Ruia College, Fropper.com members and its employees come together in a bid to save the environment. The cleanliness drive was among the various other initiatives which were undertaken by Fropper.com to support the cause of Eco Ganpati through its site www.ecoganpati.com.
With this drive, Fropper.com aimed at taking an online initiative offline by providing key communities such as students and members an opportunity to support a cause they believe in.
Fropper.com had also taken upon itself to educate the masses about the concept of artificial ponds, an initiative being fronted by the Mayor of Mumbai – Dr. Shubha Raul during Ganesh Utsav. Fropper.com promoted this initiative on its site www.ecoganpati.com and also provided details of various Mumbai locations where the ponds had been put up by BMC. Fropper.com has also tied up with e-Coexist.com to promote the sales of eco-friendly Ganpatis.

Navin Mittal, Business Head – Fropper.com, said “Fropper has always believed in taking up issues, which are pertinent to the India of today; and environment conservation is a huge concern. We introduced Eco Ganpati last year to create awareness about the effects of harmful chemicals on marine life, and we received such an overwhelming response that it made us believe that we were on the right track. In its second year, this initiative is our way of giving back to Mother Nature, and to unite the youth over a social cause, which affects their future.”

This is the second year of Fropper.com’s Eco Ganpati initiative; last year over 2000 signed an online petition to ban the use of POP in making Ganesh idols. The petition was then presented to the Mayor of Mumbai - Dr. Shubha Raul.


About Fropper.com
Fropper.com is India’s first friendship & social networking site and is a part of Anupam Mittal led People Group. Launched in 2003 with a vision of becoming the hangout place for Indians worldwide, Fropper.com has worked on a simple principle -No one’s a Stranger. Today, Fropper.com has more than 3.5 million members who use the platform to share, interact and connect with like-minded people & make new friends. With features such as Photo & Video Sharing, Blogging, Authenticated Groups, Personalized Zones etc., Fropper.com has become the preferred place for Indians from India & across the world to hang out & stay connected . Fropper.com was also the first to introduce Music Networking in India. ‘Fropper Music’, with an initial song base of more than 15,000 songs is a unique space for the user to connect and network with other Fropper users tuned in to music in Real-time! PC World Web Awards 08 has also awarded Fropper.com for the Best Technology Usage among networking sites in India.



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GurukulOnline Learning Solutions gets accredited by Financial Planning Standards Board, India to provide Education for Certified Financial PlannerCM c

Mumbai, September10th, 2008: GurukulOnline Learning Solutions (GOLS), the pioneer and innovator of eLearning in India became the first company in the country to offer online training for Certified Financial PlannerCM (CFPCM) certification. As an accredited education provider of Financial Planning Standards Board, India, GurukulOnline will offer the CFPCM certification course at an introductory price of Rs. 20,000. Any graduate can apply for this online certification course, which is awarded in India by Financial Planning Standards Board, India, the only licensing authority of the CFPCM mark in the country

“Financial planners are most sought in a population that earns well and needs expert handling of finances. Once certified, the person must then fulfill a continuing education requirement annually, by upgrading his knowledge on the current planning strategies and financial trends,” says Mr. Ranjeet Mudholkar, CEO, Financial Planning and Standards Board (FPSB) of India.

About Certified Financial Planner Programme

Considered to be the global Benchmark certification in Personal Finance, this programme will train aspirants to become financial planners and equip them to offer expert opinions on retirement planning, investment planning, tax planning & estate planning and Risk Management.
Candidates have a maximum of seven years to complete the certification process. To become certified, candidates are required to meet the 4 Es certification requirements viz.,: education, examination, experience, and ethics.
The CFPCM certification equips the certificant with the technical competency to write a comprehensive and detailed financial plan for an individual.
Interested candidates can register at www.fpvarsity.com and apply for the course and pay the fees online thus facilitating the students to learn at their own pace, space and time irrespective of their geographical location.
Speaking about the career prospects of a Certified Financial Planner, Mr. Shailesh H.Mehta, CEO & Founder, GurukulOnline Learning Solutions said, “Demand for CFP is growing rapidly in India and with GurukulOnline offering this course online, we are steadily inching towards our ultimate objective of providing quality education to the masses. A career as a financial planner can prove to be both challenging and rewarding. In the US, a CFP certificant holder can earn anything between $40,000 and $100,000 annually while in India, a CFPCM certificant can earn starting salary approx. Rs.4-6 lacs p.a & upwards.

GurukulOnlines learning Solutions’ Fpvarsity.com offers Video Based Training (VBT™), Web Based Training (WBT), Live Virtual Classrooms, Mock Tests, Academic Support, online chat, message board, apart from giving eBooks/books, in its Virtual Training.

Fpvarsity.com delivers its courses over the internet, and are easily accessible, practical, convenient, and affordable. Students are engaged in web-based learning activities including quizzes & assignments, and most importantly it delivers Video Based Training (recorded lectures) to increase retention and comprehension. This VBT serves as a personal tutor for the student with the best faculty delivering the lectures at his own convenience.
To encourage regular studies, FPVarsity has developed a study plan which if followed will guarantee success in the final exams.

Instructors (CFP faculties) are available via an internal email messaging system and message boards. Student services are available via email, live chat, and phone.

About GurukulOnline Learning Solutions:

GurukulOnline Learning Solutions, a pioneer and innovator of eLearning in India, is leading this revolution since 2001. Their expertise in each phase of the eLearning cycle – Consulting, Installation, Integration, Deployment, Training and Support is unmatched in the industry.The Company services customers in five key markets viz., Retail (B2C), Corporate (B2B), Institutions & Universities and Mandatory Training, each of which have strong synergy with the other. GOLS has partnered with leading eLearning technology vendors like, IBM, Centra-Saba and have mastered expertise on open source different LMS.

Headquartered in Mumbai with offices in major metros of India, GurukulOnline Learning Solutions™ is the brainchild of Mr. Shailesh H, Mehta. He launched his career as an entrepreneur with various path-breaking first moves in the marketing and manufacturing industries before introducing the concept of eLearning in India

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FPSB, India is an affiliate of FPSB, with latter having headquarters in Denver, USA.

FPSB, India is governed by a twelve-member board of directors and supported by the charter members, a group representing 48 leading organizations in financial services.

There are currently over 110,000 CFP professionals worldwide, and in India this figure is just about 400, the demand for which is growing exponentially each year.

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LiveJournal the official blogging platform for ZoOm’s reality show “Idea Bollywood Club”.

Mumbai, September 15, 2008: LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com), the leading global online community-blogging platform, and ZoOm, India’s hottest destination for Bollywood content, announce the launch of “Idea Bollywood Club” Community on LiveJournal.com


The community has been designed to give contestants on ZoOm’s path-breaking new reality show, Idea Bollywood Club, an opportunity to express and engage one-on-one with viewers. Snippets, exclusive bulletins, opinion polls and uncensored videos are other interesting scoops viewers can enjoy, other than participating in the conversations themselves. Bollywood personalities are also expected to blog on the community from time to time.


The Community can be accessed at http://community.livejournal.com/bollywoodclub/


Active buzz will be generated online through ZoOm’s | Audience Network, featuring partners including Youtube, Rediff, Nautanki.tv amongst others. Promotions across all LiveJournal networks and users in India will be encouraged to actively participate. The LiveJournal community will also be promoted across the globe to Bollywood communities that are already very popular on LiveJournal.


Commenting on the launch of the community, Sameer Pitalwalla, Head, Digital, ZoOm, said, “Idea Bollywood Club is the perfect platform for strugglers looking to break into Bollywood. We will take talent generated offline and feed their stories back into the community on LiveJournal and through video on Zoom |Audience Network”



Benjamin Wegg-Prosser, Director of Corporate Development, of SUP, the owners of LiveJournal, added “LiveJournal offers Idea Bollywood Club a ready-made community service and audience. We are thrilled to be working with ZoOm to pull together what we hope will be one of the most lively and entertaining communities on the web. We hope users of the community get a real sense of the drama behind the show. Our partnership with ZoOm is very important. This is our first project of this sort in India and therefore a special one.”






About LiveJournal Inc.


LiveJournal is one of the world's most respected community publishing platforms. Since its launch in the United States in 1999, LiveJournal has become the online home to a wide array of creative individuals looking to share common interests, meet new friends and express themselves. LiveJournal encourages community and personal expression by offering users both a user-friendly interface and the ability to deeply customize their journal. The site allows users to set up their own virtual diary and communicate with their friends by posting and receiving comments on each other's entries. In many countries the site's most popular functionality is the community aspect which allows users to engage each other on issues of common interest. LiveJournal has registered more than 16 million accounts since its founding, and currently has a worldwide monthly audience of 20 million (Omniture). LiveJournal Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.livejournalinc.com.



About ZoOm:

ZoOm is the channel of choice for Urban, Upscale Indians, appealing to all who switch on their televisions in search of lifestyle, glamour and, most importantly, everything related to Bollywood. The channel now connects to 80 percent of Indian households and, in terms of impact, matches all English movie and news channels in the country put together. Over 11 million viewers watch Zoom via Zoom | Audience Network on the web.


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Audi appoints five new dealerships in India

· New showrooms to be opened in Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata and Ludhiana
· Audi dealer network expands to 12 dealers
September 12th, 2008, Mumbai: Audi, the German luxury car manufacturer, today announced the appointment of five new dealerships at Ahmedabad, Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata and Ludhiana. Audi’s dealership network now expands to 12 locations across India.

“Audi has received an overwhelming response in India. Our sales growth in first eight months of this year has been over 190%. The announcement of the new dealerships is the commitment to a great future for the brand in India”, says Benoit Tiers, Managing Director of Audi India. “We are expanding to twelve exclusive and luxurious Audi dealerships in India. This will give customers the possibility to experience our models, the Audi world and premium service.”

Audi Ahmedabad (Nixynova Motoren), Audi Chennai (Jubilant Enpro), Audi Kochi (Patel Cars), Audi Kolkata (Imperial Auto) and Audi Ludhiana (Olympus Motors) dealerships will be among the largest luxury car showrooms in their cities. The showrooms will have separate modern Audi workshop to service all Audi models. However, the dealerships have already started operating from their sales offices.

The showrooms will be designed to give the customer a complete Audi experience - the whole Audi model range with different equipments and the “Audi world” with the international standards of Audi Corporate Identity. The interior is being designed with unique and exquisite materials from different countries: furniture from Germany, lights from Japan, the floor from Austria and tiles from Italy.

In addition to the five newly appointed dealers, the Audi model range of Audi A8, Audi Q7, Audi A6, Audi A4 and Audi TT is available at present in seven dealership showrooms across the country: in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Gurgaon.

AUDI AG

AUDI AG develops and produces cars for the luxury car segment worldwide. The company achieved its twelfth consecutive record year in 2007, with 964,151 cars sold and a revenue of 33,617 million Euros and profit before tax of 2,915 million Euros, the company attained its best figures ever. Audi produces vehicles in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm (Germany), Gyor (Hungary), Changchun (China) and Brussels (Belgium). At the end of 2007, production of Audi A6 started in Aurangabad, India. The company is active in more that 100 markets worldwide. AUDI AG’s wholly owned subsidiaries include Lamborghini S.p.A in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy, and quattro GmbH in Neckarsulm. Audi employs more than 54,000 people worldwide, including 45,000 in Germany. The brand with the four rings invests more than €2 billion each year in order to sustain the company’s technological lead embodied in its “Vorsprung durch Technik” slogan.

In 2007 Audi India, based in Mumbai, commenced its business activities. The Audi model range in India includes Audi A8, Audi Q7, Audi A6, Audi A4 and Audi TT.

Authorized Dealer Showrooms:
Audi Bangalore- Survey No. 6/1, Beratana Agrahara, 15th KM, Hosur Main Road
Audi Chandigarh- Plot No. 171, Industrial Area, Phase I
Audi Delhi- F 85, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase I
Audi Gurgaon- Orchid Centre, Sector – 54, Golf Course Road
Audi Hyderabad- 8-2-684/A, Road No.12, Banjara Hills
Audi Pune- Pro1 Business Centre, Plot No. 395 + 396, Senapati Bapat Road, Shivajinagar
Audi Mumbai - 81, Dr. Annie Besant Road

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Audi Chennai
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Chrysler Approves izmocars' iCRM

Logix Microsystems Limited, India's premier software and platform development company announced today the certification of izmocars Customer Relationship Management Software (iCRM) by the Chrysler Corporation. iCRM is a Web Based, Enterprise Class Customer Relationship Management solution for the Automotive industry which covers the entire CRM needs of an automotive dealership, including pre-sales, sales, finance & insurance, service, and business analytics based marketing campaigns.
September 12 2008: Logix Microsystems Limited, India's premier software and platform development company announced today the certification of izmocars Customer Relationship Management Software (iCRM) by the Chrysler Corporation. izmocars iCRM is now approved for use in the Chrysler Lead Central program.
iCRM is a Web Based, Enterprise Class Customer Relationship Management solution for the Automotive industry which covers the entire CRM needs of an automotive dealership, from Sales Force Automation to Service Management. iCRM enables users to track customer communication and interaction with every department at a dealership throughout the entire customer relationship lifecycle including pre-sales, sales, finance & insurance, service, and business analytics based marketing campaigns.

"We are truly excited about this certification by the Chrysler Corporation. The izmocars iCRM solution is the perfect complement to the Chrysler Dealer Network and will offer Chrysler dealers maximum flexibility in Internet lead delivery and management", said Sanjay Soni, Managing Director of Logix Microsystems. "With the certification, izmocars is now a preferred national partner of Chrysler in the U.S., and dealers will be able to receive leads seamlessly from "ChryslerLeadCentral", the Chrysler Lead Management program", added Soni.

Logix owns the world's largest collection of automotive images and rich media animation. The ground breaking rich-media online sales solution, izmotoolkit, developed by Logix Microsystems, is the industry standard in the U.S. automotive market. The platform is utilized by Yahoo!, AOL, AutoUSA, and thousands of successfully prominent Auto Dealer groups.

Logix Microsytems also offers a high-performance suite of Internet Automotive Solutions. The Product Suite Includes:
· izmoWeb: Intelligently designed websites that generate more leads
· izmoRainmaker: Organic Online Marketing to build a long term online business
· iCRM: Customer Relationship Management solutions including Internet Lead Management to improve sales operations
· iConsult: Personalized Sales Performance Coaching that enhances the dealer sales team's ability to sell
· AddOnAuto: Online Accessories solution that empowers dealers to sell accessories within their dealerships with no inventory cost

All Logix products are marketed in the U.S. by izmocars, its subsidiary. izmocars is the #1 content provider to the U.S. Automotive industry and has developed the largest library of Interactive Media content which is updated each year.

Established in 2002, izmocars employs 80 people and services more than 50% of the top 100 eDealers in the U.S. The company is based in San Francisco, with offices in Long Beach, Chattanooga, TN, Philadelphia, and Brussels in Europe. For more information, go to http://www.izmocars.com

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Azingo To Offer Adobe Flash Lite

Pune, Sept. 11, 2008 — Mobile Linux company Azingo continues to deliver on its promise of providing a complete Internet experience on mobile devices with its announcement today of Adobe® Flash Lite™ 3.1 support on Azingo Mobile. Azingo has integrated Adobe Flash Lite into its advanced mobile browser enabling the display of animated web content and videos and making Adobe Flash available on a Linux mobile platform. Azingo also announced integrated support for rich mobile applications based on Adobe Flash Lite.

This collaboration enables Azingo Mobile customers to strongly differentiate their mobile devices by offering a richer web experience and dynamic, animated applications that leverage the power of mobile Linux. In addition, more than one million Adobe Flash developers gain an immediately available mobile Linux platform for delivering applications, which can be developed using the Adobe tools already familiar to them.

Based on LiMo Foundation software and leveraging the economies of open source innovations, Azingo Mobile provides a less costly and more flexible platform for designing and deploying mobile devices.

Azingo Mobile now delivers rich Flash-based content offering advanced browsing of most Flash-based websites and enabling the display of animations and Flash Player compatible videos that make the mobile Web experience more familiar and complete. Integrated support for Flash Lite applications means that these applications can be immediately deployed on handsets based on Azingo Mobile.

“The Azingo/Adobe collaboration provides customers with the most complete mobile browsing experience on mobile devices available today. We’re very pleased to be working with Adobe to offer the mobile industry ever richer mobile experiences, incorporating the latest and most innovative applications on Azingo Mobile,” said Mahesh Veerina, president and CEO of Azingo.

“We are committed to providing rich user experiences through Flash across a broad number of devices and mobile platforms in the world,” said Gary Kovacs, vice president and general manager, Mobile and Devices at Adobe. “Azingo has provided a fast and comprehensive integration of Flash Lite, opening the world of mobile Linux to Flash developers and enabling rich web browsing experiences for mobile phone users worldwide.”

Azingo Mobile consists of a complete mobile Linux platform that includes a highly configurable user interface and web 2.0-enabled mobile applications suite, an SDK for applications developers, and mobile Linux engineering services that offer customers high-speed porting and customization capability.

The LiMo Foundation is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders using an open, governance model to deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform for use by the whole mobile industry.
About Azingo
Azingo is a leading provider of open mobile phone software that delivers Internet-enabled, rich user experiences to entertain, inform and enrich the lives of mobile users worldwide. Azingo uniquely offers a one-stop solution for designing and commercializing new mobile phone products based on Linux, selling its Azingo Mobile platform together with comprehensive engineering services that significantly reduce development costs and shorten delivery schedules for chipset manufacturers, handset manufacturers, integrators and operators. Azingo is privately-held with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California with development centers in Pune and Hyderabad. Visit www.azingo.com.
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Bharti Airtel takes a Pioneering step to promote Innovation and help

New Delhi, September 11, 2008: Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s leading telecom services provider, today announced the launch of the ‘Airtel Innovation Fund’ aimed at promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of telecommunications. This is the first ever innovation fund in India specifically for the telecom sector. The objective of the Fund is to provide opportunities to entrepreneurs with a vision to build businesses based on innovative ideas. The Fund will have an initial corpus of Rs 200 crores and will be led and administered by Bharti Airtel.

Announcing the launch of the Airtel Innovation Fund, Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel said, “Bharti Airtel has demonstrated that Indian entrepreneurship can create world-class companies. Innovation has always been at the core of our DNA – be it our unique outsourcing model or world-class products and services. The Airtel Innovation Fund is a pioneering step to promote innovation and help budding entrepreneurs realise their dreams. We are confident that this initiative will co-build the twin pillars of innovation and entrepreneurship to usher in a new wave of entrepreneurs in India.”

The Airtel Innovation Fund’s intent is to provide seed money to entrepreneurs who may not otherwise be able to access funds, and to serve as a vehicle to promote developments in technology, content and software applications in the area of telecommunications.

Mr. Manoj Kohli, CEO and Joint Managing Director, Bharti Airtel added, “Bharti Airtel has been a pioneer in the India telecom sector and revolutionised the market with innovative products like Lifetime Prepaid. This fund will be a catalyst in further promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship in Indian telecom as well as development of exciting technologies for the benefit of customers.”



About Bharti Airtel Limited:

Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India’s leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of over 75 million customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007.

Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units - Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel’s high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 78,540 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems - i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit www.bhartiairtel.in




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