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BuildingBlocks, a Delhi based company has launched an online help portal Imom.in to help new Moms to answer their day-to-day questions on montherhood.

— Vishal L   

B2B portal MatexNet.com is looking to raise $4 to $5 million venture capital funding to be invested in building infrastructure.

— Vishal L   

Over 100 embassies and government offices around the world have had their email addresses hacked by a hacker and posted on the hackers website at DerangedSecurity. Email accounts that were hacked include Indian Ambassadors to China, US, Sweden and Germany, besides officials of the National Defense Academy (NDA) and Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). The Indian Express has confirmed the authenticity of the hack by sending an email to one of their reps in China and access it online using that hacked info.

— Vishal L   

Venture Intelligence has reported that Venture Capitalists in India are not too happy with the opportunities in India in the Mobile Value Added Services sector and Internet sector. Investments have dropped to a low of 13% of total funds in the first 8 months of 2007, as compared to 38% in the same period in 2006.

— Vishal L   

Naukri.com held an offline job fair in Pune a couple of days ago, which has been hugely successful and is said to have attracted 40,000 job seekers and 30 companies. About 4000 candidates have been shortlisted.

— Vishal L   

Saregama India has setup 25 kiosks in Nokia stores to sell PC-to-USB card downloadable music for Rs 12 a pop in Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

— Vishal L   

A community news portal which allows users to upload and publish information, news, photos and videos in real time without any gate keeping has been launched by ABC News at CitizenXpress.com.

— Vishal L   

Lastminuteinventory.com website that allows users to purchase unsold inventory on TV, Print, Outdoor and Online - at the last minute, is said to go live shortly in September 2007. The site is operated by Densu Media - the Indian arm of Japan-based Dentsu group.

— Vishal L   

The BankofIndia website recently suffered an exploit that dumps malware into visitors PCs through the browser. Its best not to visit the site until this has been fixed. It is believed that fully patched IE and Firefox browsers should be safe from the corrupted Bank of India website.

— Vishal L   

Times of India Group has acquired a stake in TravelMasti.com, an Indian travel portal that offers online hotel reservation and information. It is rumored that  TOI will give  TravelMAsti.com free ad space in exchange for the stake -  but this is not confirmed. The provision of ad space in exchange for equity is something TOI had done in the past with other startups.

— Vishal L