1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Greytip, Bangalore

Greytip, the second NASSCOM Emerge 50 company to be featured in Deal Radar, is a strong example of an Indian product company that has shied away from the body-shopping approach and been committed to the local market, recognizing that even though this market is small, it has significant potential. Greytip makes Folklore HRIS, an HR and payroll software suite designed to automate various processes, saving time and money. >>>

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: iWeb Technology Solutions, Mumbai, India

iWeb Technology Solutions is the first Deal Radar profile of a series of companies that have been chosen for the NASSCOM Emerge 50 for 2010. NASSCOM is the primary trade body and chamber of commerce of the Indian software and BPO industries, and every year it names 50 startups and growing companies to watch. iWeb Technologies is the creator of iWeb Enterprise Suite, an enterprise resource management (ERM) product that consists of modules, allowing companies to chose the combination of applications that best suits them. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: ShopSocially, Mountain View/London

Deal Radar, which has covered various aspects of the emerging area of social commerce, looks today at ShopSocially, a shopping recommendation engine and a site where friends can give and get shopping advice. It also has a social commerce platform that retailers can integrate into their own sites to harness the power of social recommendations. The aim is to turn purchases into conversations and social endorsement, driving significant ‘friend referred’ traffic back to the retailer’s site. >>>

Business Incubators: The Morpheus (Part 1)

By guest authors Praveen Karoshi and Prashant Sachdev

After a few hiccups, it was great to finally meet Indus Khaitan, partner at The Morpheus, an incubator out of India, face-to-face over lunch. We were talking to Khaitan as part of a new series, an exploration of how business incubators are doing their part in advancing the cause of entrepreneurship. >>>

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: StyleCaster

StyleCaster is a media company that creates and distributes women’s lifestyle content. It provides consumers, advertisers, and partners with content and advertising solutions across a portfolio of sites that span the lifestyle spectrum – fashion, beauty, celebrities, food & drink, entertaining, and travel. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: CrowdEngineering, Pisa/Silicon Valley

CrowdEngineering is the developer of CrowdForce, a “business process crowdsourcing” SaaS platform, and of solutions to enable companies to crowdsource customer service, with expert customers supporting others. One of the major aims is to cut the amount of money companies spend on customer service. >>>

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Craig Technologies, Cape Canaveral, Florida

Craig Technologies, based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, site of the Kennedy Space Center, specializes in systems engineering, project management, infrastructure installation, software design and engineering, research and development, modeling and simulation, training and other custom technical products and services provided to federal customers, predominantly in the aerospace and defense industries. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2010: Hireplug, India

Hireplug is a SaaS recruitment technology company whose products are designed to help companies to recruit talented candidates from employees’ social networks and boost employee referrals in the process. Hireplug has two components – hireplug.com and the Facebook app We Are Hiring. >>>