Mumbai gets Samruddhi Venture Park
Maharashtra government, which is striving hard to consolidate its information technology savvy image, on Monday launched the "Samruddhi Venture Park," in north-west Mumbai with a view to offering necessary services to start-up companies.

Accordiant Ventures to begin operations in India by Jan 2001
Accordiant Ventures, the dedicated India fund with a corpus of $ 150 million, promoted primarily by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Raj Popli and Gunjan Bhow with several telecom companies as investors will be starting operations by the beginning of next year.

UTV arm, WIN Cable to float broadband portal today
Sharkstream.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UTV, is launching its broadband portal in the country on Tuesday with Mumbai-based WIN Cable Internet, after introducing it in Singapore and Taiwan.

Nortel Networks to invest $350 m in India over the next three years
Global communications major Nortel Networks said it would invest $350 million in India in the next three years as part of its recently finalised India strategy to create a 10 giga bits optical network and open an "Internet Knowldge Centre'.

RBI, Sebi may be first e-signature certifiers
RBI and Sebi may be the first licence holders to provide digital signature certificates. The first controller of certifying authorities, Mr NK Gupta told The Financial Express that he plans to open a dialogue with the apex bank and stock exchange regulator to become the first e-signature certifying authorities in the country.

Chennai first among 18 to get BSNL's cellular service
Chennai will be among the first 18 telecom circles in the country where the BSNL will launch its cellular telephony service within a couple of months.


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