VC investments show no signs of slowing down in India. Two companies - Carzonrent India and Tejas Networks received funding in the past week.

It’s just not IT and services companies that are in investor’s radar - hospitality and travel sector in India have also received a fair chunk ...

Social networking sites are popping up everywhere, and India is no exception. MingleBox is a Bangalore-based startup that allows members to have personalized web pages that includes their interests, blogs and photos. We have an exclusive interview with Kavita ...

Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders to meet and talk about change … and more of the same.

Veer wanted me to talk about podcasting, not the nuts and bolts, but where it’s at and its relevance to the radio paradigm. That’s a juicy opportunity, I thought to myself, and so found myself making the difficult journey to North Mumbai (needs planning and a sort of instinctive feel for which combination of segments and modes of transport make it the least painful overall).

Our top story is from Mumbai where Web18 Software Services Ltd, which is part of the TV18 Group in India received $10 million in funding from Tracer Capital. We have an exclusive interview with Surya Mantha, who recently joined Web18 as its new CEO.

Sandeep Murthy is CEO of cleartrip.com, an online travel portal located in Mumbai, India.

It came out of its stealth mode a few months ago, when it also announced that it received a new round of funding from Kleiner Perkin Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures.

Mobile value-added services company OnMobile is reported to have raised $35 million in a new round of funding. According to The Economic Times “OnMobile Systems seems to have closed a fresh round of funding - around $35m - from a group of investors, including Goldman Sachs.”

Venture funding is picking up its pace in India. Quattro BPO Solutions received $100 million in funding from Olympus Capital.

Venture Capital firm Matrix Partners made its first investment in India.

NBC recently released a series of six mini-games for mobile phones. Each is a “spin-off” from The Office, which airs on the network. Currently available on some carriers, the games will become more widely available on other carriers over the next few weeks.

Mumbai-based Indiagames Ltd. created the games for NBC. We spoke to Sean Malatesta, VP, Americas, about Indiagames and its strategy in the Americas.

The senior police officer, currently director, cybersecurity, at NASSCOM, India’s IT industry heavyweight association, talks about bringing about awareness on security issues to various stakeholders, including law enforcement, commerce and industry, users and foreign organisations outsourcing work into India.

Web 2.0 is at a fairly nascent stage in India. There are a bunch of India centric Web 2.0 products (or applications) that currently exist but that bunch is steadily growing. So, now you have a, not too insignificant number of techies, working zealously to create India centric social networking applications, mashups, aggregators, filters, web office products etc. But have you wondered about the profile of these people, who are leading the charge of the Web 2.0 brigade in India?

About Vickram:
Vickram Crishna, a graduate of IIT Delhi and IIM Calcutta, has worked in and around the Indian technology sector for three decades, including ten years spent in mainstream media. His stint as deputy editor at the fortnightly Business India, industry’s reference point, witnessed the desktop PC in India in the mid-90s mature from its niche to the mainstay of India’s booming business sector. Meeting the global industry’s major movers and shakers, from Bill Gates to Eric Schmidt, complemented the galaxy of Indian IT majors with whom he often interacted.