Locallycompared hires QBurst to develop their business listing website. QBurst will develop the listing application using CakePHP a rapid application development framework that supports search engine friendly URLs.locallycompared owns hundreds of domains like locallyleeds, plumbersinlondon and dentistsinmanchester. The listings will appear simultaneously on the main, category and city sites. In addition, each business will have their own local landing page where they can post announcements, events and jobs. Users can rate the businesses and businesses can reply to those ratings.

QBurst opens its new state of the art development center at Technopark, Trivandrum. This new center is located in the ‘Thejaswini’ building at the sprawling Technopark campus. QBurst has a strong growth record and opening of this center marks the next phase of its business growth.

QBurst joint ventures with Tierlinear, UK to launch SaaS products for the UK market. The product will be marketed by British Telecom to small and medium businesses in UK. The first version of this product BTBizBox.com was launched in October 2007, and 100’s of businesses have already signed up.

Plusnet selects QBurst as their outsourcing partner. Plusnet, a subsidiary of British Telecom, is a fast growing broadband InternetService Provider, based in Sheffield, UK. QBurst will provide business application development services on LAMP platform to Plusnet.