Badhai.in secures $200K from Private Investors

Online gifting portal, Badhai.in has secured USD 200,000 from private investors.
The company recently launched social and group gifting service and will use the fund for marketing and PR activities.
“We have seen good traction, approx 5-6 gifts per day and around 20-25 registrations without actually getting into marketing/advertising campaigns. Also the ticket size is significant. One of our esteemed user gifted 33000 to his friend on marriage. Now this shows a significant trust on the service. We are going to start our marketing campaigns and are expecting good results out of that.” mentions Ajay Pandey and Sandeep Debnath cofounders of Badhai.
Parts of the fund will also be used for increasing operational efficiency and focus on building mobile app for the platform.

Source: www.pluggd.in

Press Release

eInsignia Joins the SourcingLine Directory of Leading Web Development Companies

Mumbai, India 22nd March 2010*: eInsignia announced today that it has joined the SourcingLine directory of top web developers. SourcingLine confirmed the admission into their human edited directory and noted that we are pleased to add another market leading firm to growing list of top companies featured on SourcingLine. *Insert your company name* has been exploring additional marketing channels and found SourcingLine a good fit with its overall marketing objectives.

eInsignia is a team of young technocrats providing end-to-end web solutions in the areas of web design, software development, web-based enterprise solutions, web applications, search engine optimization, online marketing and other branding activities. The great opportunities in addition to the current expansion of operations backed up with the foreseen potentials bind up as the driving force behind eInsignia. We blend proven methodologies with cutting edge digital innovations to craft design, development and online optimization programs that give clients winning & measurable results.

Adopting a work ethic that transcends both geography and verticals, eInsignia has embraced the off-shoring phenomenon and honed it to a skill whereby we can afford to our client all the advantages of remote working without any hassles. Our unique value proposition lies in our experience of working and creating long lasting relationships with all our clients to provide them with the best possible services at all times.

SourcingLine is one of the fastest growing resources in the information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) sectors. SourcingLine provides a range of resources to both buyers and sellers including: how to articles, key facts and statistics, directories of leading IT and BPO firms, and a matching service to connect buyers with services companies best positioned to meet their needs. SourcingLine directories are human edited and feature industry specific ranking and filtering criteria.

Anannya Debnath, Media Relations
info@einsignia.com
+91 97699 73740

Business Networking

Business networking is more than just a clever tactic that most businesses use to draw in more clientele. For many small businesses that rely upon word of mouth, proper networking skills are completely necessary for the continued success and even existence of the company. Business networking is the fundamental act of referring business to other businesses, and in the process doing the same for you. Understanding how to give quality referrals is an art form in itself, and something that is extremely important in business networking matters. The old adage of, “I’ll scratch your back, if you scratch mine”, has never applied to anything more than to business networking.

Business networking, however, takes many forms, and you just might not realize how common it is. Whether a business is cold calling some of its clients on the phone, or meeting other business professionals for dinner or lunch, the networking is always taking place. Successful networking leads to referral business, new business ideas, and can help you to learn from other professionals in your field. Many businesses choose to become part of networking organizations such as different local chambers of commerce in their selected area. These organizations are excellent ways for business owners to participate in business advocacy and lobbying efforts, and offer a way for business owners to cooperate for their own protection. They often have meet and greet sessions where business leaders can meet together to discuss certain business topics that might be affecting them, the current business climate in their area, and formulate collective plans for the future.

Some say that up to 70 % of new companies get their business through word of mouth. Networking allows you the opportunity to formally introduce yourself and your business, to other business professionals in your area, to not only get to know them, but to get to know the services they offer as well. If business leaders can meet you and can trust you, they will have no problem sending business your way, and no problem receiving some from you. This is all part of the relationship building process that is so vital to successful business networking. It is a relationship built on trust and mutual interest.

In today’s high tech world, business networking has never been so easy and available. No longer do you need to live in the same area to network with business clients, or even in the same country. Due to popular online networking services, you can network with anybody all over the world. You no longer have to be a big shot to talk to big shots, or even speak the same language. Today you can have a dialogue, share ideas, and expand your business, all with the click of a mouse.

A PUBLIC APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF BENGAL

What has happened to the people of Bengal ? Have we actually become mindless intellectuals that the people of the world claim we are? Why are we allowing one mad woman to take up a crazy stand with her useless senseless attitude against a set of people whom we all genuinely respect?


When I was young I remember watching a TV commercial elaborating picturesquely all that a company has been doing for its locality – water plants, sanitation, urbanization etc and finally reminding us humbly, that " We also make Steel". With nerves of steel the Tatas came to Bengal albeit for their own investment but also to help us become a slightly more developed state. All through our childhood we have learnt to take the name of the Tatas with reverence not because they are mighty successful industrialists but simply because they are humane, they plough a large share of their profits into the growth process of the people they employ and their accompanying industries.


The Tatas are, to a great extent, single-handedly responsible for changing the face of West Bengal in general and Kolkata in particular. They gave us the magnificent Tata Centre, which they even lit up in the Tri Colour during the half century celebration of the country's independence (remember?). They decided to beautify our beloved Victoria Memorial and lit it up so that the city could see it in the dark nights. Kolkata, once called the Dying City by our erstwhile Prime Minister, was given a total new look by the Tatas.


And today when the Tatas need reassurance, when they need our support in the face of all the madness raised by one mad woman, are we , the people of Bengal going to keep quiet?? Are we going to let our legendary hospitality slip out of the Bengal through Mamata's craziness?


Just take a drive down the highway, (now of course it is out of the question), and you cannot but let out a sigh of despair at the sight of innumerable factories shut down. They have taken the form of horrifying carcasses stinking of shattered dreams of some brave entrepreneur and his family. Years of toil, a lifetime of investment… all gone down the drain because of someone's craziness. Then it was red madness, now it is craziness at the grass root level.


People of Bengal , I ask you, touch your heart and ask yourself, do we really not want this age of insane tyranny to end? 31 years we have been under the red regime, which has finally, probably, (hopefully) learnt its mistake and is trying to steer the state towards a fresh spate of industrialism. We are just beginning to see a faint ray of progress in that red sky. Are we going to allow ourselves to go back to grass root level, only to be trampled under public laughter.


Because that is what will happen to us if the Tatas bid good bye to Bengal .


We will become laughing stock for the world. R. N. Tata will lose nothing if he decides to pull out Tata Motors from Singur. We will lose. We will lose everything, our self-respect, our pride in Bengal , our self-esteem and most importantly livelihood of several hundreds of people of our villages.


My work often leads me to the interiors of rural Bengal . Our little group of three or four people attract hordes of villagers and apart from my professional role I often venture to ask them personal questions about their lifestyle. It has now ceased to surprise me that almost all those people want industrialization. Not that they want to stop agriculture. But they want industrialization of agriculture as well. They want hi tech information, hi tech machinery which will yield better crops and provide them a better lifestyle which in turn will ensure a better `industrial' lifestyle for their children.


Ironical, right? I do not represent either the reds or the grassroots, or the Tatas or anyone for that matter. I am a fiercely patriotic Indian who simply refuses to allow my country to be ruined by a crazy selfish woman. I have been indulging in conversation with several rural people quite near the affected areas of Singur and Nandigram and most of them would rather that the Tata Motors factory begins at the earliest and they embark on a better lifestyle. They sincerely believe that not only will they get a job, they have been paid for their land, a sizable amount which they have invested for their children's future, they are of the firm conviction that working for the Tatas will yield for their families a far better lifestyle which their wee acres of land, divided and subdivided would never be able to.


After all it is the legacy of the Tata Business House to take care of all its people. They are one industry house who do not talk about Corporate Social Responsibility. They live it out and not only we `literate' people, but, `illiterate' village people blindly believe it. Their conviction is written all over their faces.


It is wonderful to dream of a green West Bengal . But what about the nitty gritties for the people who are responsible for the bringing about the greenness of Bengal ? Is Mamata thinking about them? Is she thinking about what they want?


She is like those insecure people who refuse to do any kind of introspection and busy themselves blaming everyone. The Chief Minister should resign if the dog next door sneezes more than a couple of times. The Chief Minister should resign if the cat in Mamata's community decides to elope with a tom cat of a different community. The Chief Minister should resign if he dreams a modern industrialized Bengal . The Chief Minister should resign if… now she has begun to lose track of the number of reasons.


She behaved hysterically every time Bengal has shown the slightest signs of moving forward. I am not saying that the Chief Mister is a saint and she is a devil. (Even the devil would be ashamed). All I'm saying is how long? How long are we going to put up with her antics?


Frankly, I fail to understand why we are putting up with her at all? Why don't we physically throw her out? If she misuses democracy, then why don't we use the power that we have? Our own power. The power of our voice, the power of our pen. The most trusted name in the Indian industrial scenario has uttered the word `unwanted' in our state three consecutive times. Is this what Bengal is? After what the Tatas have done for us?


They bring us light after a long darkness of almost 35 odd years and we turn them out. Who is Mamata to voice the feelings of Bengal ? We are the children of Netaji, the descendants of Vivekananda and several other freedom fighters. Is this what we have become now? A senseless horde of mindless faceless inhuman specimens?


Rise people rise, from your apathy and show the Tata Group of Industries that Bengal cares. Please don't leave Bengal , we beseech them. We share you anxiety but we care for our people. We want progress. Together let us show Mamata that we are not going to be swayed by her cranky madness any more. Enough of bandhs, you mad woman, enough of your crazy heartlessness.


Mamata Banerjee your days are now over. Pack your bags and go elsewhere. We shall bid Tata to you.


People of Bengal, I do not need to tell you that if the Tatas go away then the door through which they leave will be the door of Industrialism, a door which will shut open our faces forever and ever. And then the whole of Bengal will slowly become like that desolate corridor leading up to Chandannagore, with large skeletons of dead factories on either side, only the Singur factory will be looming large in the dead state.

Invitation

To be or not to be is what I think all day long,
To take the plunge or give it a run.

I want to be happy for as long as I can be,
But with marriage will it be… or not to be?

Till now I was all alone…
but now I will have someone to call my own.

To double my joys and share my sorrows,
To be with me wherever life follows.

The vows will bring with it lots of responsibilities,
But for me will it be or not to be?

From now on its 'WE' rather than 'I'
Gosh no late nights for all I sigh!

No more booze parties, no more bachelorhood,
No more girlfriends, no more junk food.

Adjusting to a new life is what I fear,
But I `m all set and moved up the gear!

We are in love and that's all that matters,
Whether its air, land or waters,

It begins as soon as I take the vows,
The start of a lifetime without any sorrows,

I waited baited breath for the wedding day,
Coz its going to change my life forever, with love filling my bay.

We pledge to be together throughout the journey called 'Life'
For me as husband and she as wife.

Openings in Mastiff

Please Note: the current openings in Mastiff;

Kindly let us know if you have any references matching for any of the positions listed below;

Please send their profile/resume to (gladyssundhalkar@techmastiff.com or sheetal.sutar@techmastiff.com)

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1	ROR – Trainee ( Fresher)	0 – 1 year	B.E, M.E, MCA, BCA ROR, MySQL, Linux, PHP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, Radrails, Ajax, XML, CMS, Web Based applications	8
2	.Net - Technical Lead	3 - 5 years	.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML, XSLT, .NET 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0, VB.NET, ATLAS, AJAX	1
3	Java - Technical Lead	3 - 5 years	Core Java, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, EJB, Design Patterns, Database Fundamentals. Web 2.0 applications.	1
4	PHP - Software Engineer	1 - 3 years	PHP, My SQL, Ajax, XML, CMS, Web Based applications	2
5	PHP - Senior Software Engineer	3 - 5 years	PHP, My SQL, Linux, Apache, XML, CMS, Web Based applications	2
6	PHP - Technical Lead	4 - 6 years	PHP, Linux, Apache, My SQL, Ajax, XML, CMS, Web Based applications	2
7	QA Lead	4 - 6 years	QA, Java, ASP.NET, C#, Web Services, SQL Server 2005, COM, Cruise Control, NUnit	1
8	Web Designer	2 - 4 years	HTML, DHTML, CSS, Coreldraw, Photoshop	2
9	Action Scripter / Flash Programmer	3 - 5 years	Action Script, Action Script 3 , Flex, Flex2, CSS, Flash	1
10	System Admin	1 - 2 years	Certification in Hardware/Networking - CCNA/MCSE/RHCE	1

triber.com is LIVE in the Netherlands and in India

triber is making life easier for every internet user

What is triber?

triber provides users their own free website which comes with a virtual hard disk where the user can easily store documents, photo’s (and later video’s), bookmarks, music etc. This information is accessible with any web browser anywhere in the world. The user always decides whether certain data is shareable amongst family, friends or other people on the web.

Moreover users can easily manage their:

• Mailbox for multiple email accounts

• Personal digital safe for important documents

• Online address book, including a birthday reminder and more

• Web log which can be filled by mobile too

• Advertising page for selling and renting items

• And a powerful hobby/sport page for more fun and easy communication with hobby friends and team members

• Calendar, integrated in the hobby sport page too

These functionalities (except for the mailbox and the digital safe) are also accessible for those who have been authorised by the user. A triber user is always online with his data and network, everything under one roof, anywhere in the world, through a single password.

triber is not a traditional website with one million visitors, but one million websites with at least one visitor the user itself.

triber will go live on 28 January 2008 in English and Dutch language, launching in India and the Netherlands. triber expects to launch in other countries soon. The free 2 GB version of triber.com is not for sale, but only available through a friend or by special invitation. If an individual can convince us that he/she is doing something “good” for society he/she deserves that special invitation and will get a free triber account. Simply because we care.

Mastiff being the Technical parter for triber.com feels proud to have its child up and rocking the web. The expertise of Mastiff in Product development have shaken the internet world over years. One more in the queue.........

Mastiff As the technical Partner: http://triber.nl/Corporate/Partners/partner_login.html



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Would you like to receive more information or a free triber account?

Contact the founder, Rolf Trijber, by e-mail at rolf@triber.com or call +31(0)20 614 1965 or +31(0) 6 513 79 514 To see the one minute video on what is triber.com, please visit : http://triber.nl/Corporate/product/video.html

What is triber.com

Visit the link to know about WHAT IS triber.com ?

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Awaiting Dreams

Who needs to feel that way
Who needs those words to say
Who wants to give their heart
To watch love fade away
Cause I made up my mind
I didnt wanna know
Why should i find a love
That isnt here to stay


I wasnt waiting until you came along
And now i need you to tell me
where my heart belongs


I've seen the tears they cry
When its time for goodbye
I didnt wanna be the one who's asking why


I didnt think that i would ever feel so strong
but now i know that i was wrong

triber.com is LIVE now !!!

triber.com : "makes your e-life easy"

Currently triber.com is rocking the web in the Netherlands. Very soon it would be launched in India and the US. So guys, just hold your breath till then..............

What is triber.com?

triber.com is online user friendliness under one roof. Your own website with helpful and easy functionalities like: homepage, web log, virtual hard disk, digital safe, address book, e-mail, photo library, link/bookmark page, hobby tool, calendar, sale tool and a music library.

You can keep the personal content on your website for yourself, share it with family, friends etc. or make it public.

Everything on-line, in connection with each other, with only one login name and password.

Mastiff being the Technical parter for triber.com feels proud to have its child up and rocking the web. The expertise of Mastiff in Product development have shaken the internet world over years. One more in the queue.........

Mastiff As the technical Partner: http://triber.nl/Corporate/Partners/partner_login.html

http://www.techmastiff.com

The triber.com vision

A vision of a world in which every individual is a resident of the digital world too. In which everyone, male or female, young or old, poor or rich, educated or less educated, can enrich his/here life with the advantages digital technology has to offer.


The triber.com mission


A mission to make the benefits of digital technology as relevant as possible and as easy to use as possible for its users. We are devoted to creating technology that adds value to life and saes time in the real world.

The triber.com social mission

triber.com is a company with a heart. That’s why we find it very hard to accept that people in one part of this beautiful planet live in wealth and people in other parts live in poverty. To us the Internet represents a unique way of helping to bridge this gap. The worldwide web is a way of tapping into unlimited knowledge that can support every individual in its personal development.

triber.com is driven to improve the ‘digital situation’ of people in the poorer regions of the world. For this reason triber.com has founded its own charity named Web For Child. Through this foundation triber.com is distributing personal computers to schools in the less developed countries. triber.com donates part of its revenues to this foundation. This way every member of triber.com is contributes to create better opportunities for every child, woman and man on this planet.

To know more about triber.com, please visit : http://www.triber.com

The best years of my life.............................

A popular motivational speaker was entertaining his audience.
Said he: "The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who wasn't my wife!"

The audience was in silence and shock.

The speaker added: "And that woman was my mother!"
Laughter and applause.

A week later, a top manager trained by the motivational speaker tried to crack this very effective joke at home. He was a bit foggy after a drink.

He said loudly, "The greatest years of my life were spent in the arms of a woman who was not my wife!"
The wife went wan with shock and rage.

Standing there for 20 seconds trying to recall the second half of the joke, the manager finally blurt out

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"... and I can't remember who she was !"

Moral of the story: Don't copy if you can't paste.!

QA Engineers Requirement

Mastiff is recruiting QA Engineers.

Number of Openings: 3

A walk-in is scheduled on Saturday (22nd December 2007) – 9.30AM

Recruitment Process:

1) Written Test (QA Technical Test & Aptitude Test)

2) Two Rounds of Interview

Job Specification

Designation: QA Engineer

Experience: 0- 1 year

Educational Qualification: BE, MCA, BCA or PG Diploma in Computers

Job Description:

1) Graduates with consistent academic willing to work as Test Engineers are required.

2) Job involves Software Product Testing manually, building test cases, functional test, verification & QA and resolution

Desired Profile:

1) Engineers with Flair for Testing, attention to detail, strong desire to be test engineers.

2) Analytical bent, basic understanding of s/w dev/testing concepts.

3) Should be able to write test plans based on functional specification

4) Execute and measure test results, and work with developers in identifying root causes of the problems.

5) Good analytical skills, performance testing.

6) Good communication skill - MUST

Let us know if you wish to refer any candidate for the above requirement.

What should I do to marry a rich guy?

A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum:

Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy?

I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York. My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden (?), $250k annual income is not enough.

I'm here humbly to ask a few questions:
1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym)
2) Which age group should I target?
3) Why most wives of the riches is only average-looking? I've
met a few girls who doesn't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys
4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married)

Ms. Pretty


Awesome reply:

Dear Ms. Pretty,

I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here. From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty" and "money": Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worried 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position". If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same
goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased". Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps. If you are interested in "leasing" services, do contact me…

Signed,
J.P. Morgan

HOW TO STAY AWAKE IN MEETINGS: (OFFERED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE)

Do you keep falling asleep in meetings and seminars? What about those long and boring conference calls? Here's a way to change all of that.

1. Before (or during) your next meeting, seminar, or conference call, prepare yourself by drawing a square. I find that 5" x 5" is a good
size. Divide the card into columns - five across and five down. That will give you 25 one-inch blocks.

2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block:
* synergy /
* strategic fit /

* core competences / * expeditious
* to tell you the truth (or "the truth is")
* 24/7
* out of the loop
* benchmark
* value-added
* proactive
* win-win
* think outside the box
* fast track
* result-driven
* empower (or empowerment)
* knowledge base
* at the end of the day
* touch base
* mindset
* client focus(ed)
* paradigm
* game plan
* leverage

3. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those words/phrases.

4. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout "BULLSHIT!"



Testimonials from satisfied "Bullshit Bingo" players:

"I had been in the meeting for only five minutes when I won." - Adam, Atlanta

"My attention span at meetings has improved dramatically." - David, Florida

"What a gas! Meetings will never be the same for me after my first win." - Dan, New York City

"The atmosphere was tense in the last process meeting as 14 of us waited for the fifth box." - Ben, Denver

"The speaker was stunned as eight of us screamed 'BULLSHIT!' for the third time in two hours." - Paul, Cleveland