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HeadStart provides platform for Indian startups

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BANGALORE, INDIA: HeadStar Foundation, an organization engaged in providing platform for startups in India, today held an annual conference focused on technology and innovation in partnership with Association of Computing Machinery, an association of researchers and professionals in computing.

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The motto behind organizing this event was focused on giving a platform to the start-ups and corporatism jointly identify, pursue, and execute business and also create an opportunity for the start ups to directly access large corporates.

The event showcased India's best technology start-ups.

Top Indian start-ups:

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CashNXT Technologies: A start up offering phone to phone money transaction model. The major advantage of this technology is that this does not depend in anyway on any operator. High Pitch sound gets transferred from the phone to phone.

The solution is not in the market yet. The company has tied up with 4 banks in India and is planning to deploy the product by February.

Verismo Networks: They have created a device which has an Internet/WiFi port HDMI, and other Analog ports to plug into your TV and USB ports to input and output the content. They have the necessary pacts with Google and others in place to source the content.

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They also have an inbuilt search engine in place. This can play pictures and audio as well. The product at SD is priced at just $99. The product is in its pilot stage in India and is now available only in the US.

SnappyFingers: A search product in Q&A vertical. They are looking at building search engines in several verticals. The monetization is through ad display on the search results. There are concerns on copyright protection. .

Alertpedia: You specify what kind of alert and you would get the alert you want. It is kind of Google Alert with more sources and more possible ways like searching for house for rent or online classifieds. It would enable getting information ranging from Traffic or Earthquake or simply a web search. There are a host of ways in which all alerts can be managed and aggregated.

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JobHive.com: A professional-social network site focused on employer and salary information. The site allows users to rate and review companies, research on salaries, and get information on the companies.

Tring me: The company's flash-based telephony provides with Unified Communication Platform, which could handle 20 million calls every month.

iDuple: the company's small medium business start up kit is a SaaS product which includes necessary web software for a start up. The worry of IT infrastructure is taken care by this product and the customers would have to subscribe the package on a monthly basis.

The event witnessed participation of various corporate houses like Honeywell, Phillips, TCS, Alcatel Lucent - Bell Labs etc.

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