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BigAdda Launches Mobile App, Wap Site and SMS Features; Mobile Number Ids - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 26 Aug 2008 12:48 PM PST

BigAdda, Reliance Entertainment’s social networking play, has gone mobile with a mobile app, wap site and SMS features. The Big B(eta) seems to have gone well, considering they first launched…

Reliance (Still) Scouting For Mobile Content Acquisitions In U.S.; How About Yahoo? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 19 Aug 2008 10:19 PM PST

Reliance ADA, which is already making strides in Hollywood through its Dreamworks deal, has been looking for mobile content deals in U.S. for some time now, and WSJ helps with…

Reliance Launches Its Satellite TV Venture BIG TV; Wil Launch IPTV By Year End - 25 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 19 Aug 2008 09:26 PM PST

Reliance ADA Group has launched its DTH/satellite TV venture BIG TV, with 202 channels including 50 subscription VOD channels. The company says it is targeting 40 percent of the market…

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Zapak Launches Flash Game Aggregator ZapakWorld - 7 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 11 Aug 2008 11:33 AM PST

Zapak, Reliance ADAG’s online casual gaming arm, has launched Zapakworld, a casual game aggregator consisting of 12236 games, reports Medianama. User’s have the ability to upload their own games. Note…

ADAG RoundUp: Dreamworks Funding; $1 Billion PE Fund; Big TV IPL Rights - 2 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sat 09 Aug 2008 01:37 AM PST

-- Anil Ambani is one busy man. Dreamworks SKG is near an agreement tbe funded by Reliance ADAG reports Bloomberg. As with an as yet un-finalized deal, the reports are…

Zapak Launches Zapak.mobi; Advertising Supported Turn Based Strategy Games - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 22 Jul 2008 07:11 PM PST

Zapak.com has dipped its toes into the mobile domain through its Zapak.mobi venture. The GPRS-based site offers games for mobile download and play, with multiplayer aspects and a message box,…

Seventymm Sticks To Online; MovieMart Goes Offline, Ties Up With TNT - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:47 PM PST

Distribution is seemingly the magic sauce of the movie rental business as both Seventymm and Moviemart expand their footprint. Moviemart, earlier relegated to Delhi and the National Capital Region, has…

BigAdda Launches Mobile Blogging Application With Big B(eta) - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 26 Jun 2008 09:32 AM PST

Its hard to resist a headline like that. Reliance ADAG’s love affair with the Bachchan’s continues, this time in the form a mobile blogging application called MoBlog developed especially for…

Big FM Ties Up With Singapore’s MediaCorp - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 26 Jun 2008 08:19 AM PST

T’is the season of radio going international. Close on the heels of Virgin Radio’s acquisition by competitor Radio Mirchi, Big FM has tied up with Singapore’s Radio Network MediaCorp to…

Nimbus Announces Home Video Rental And Sales Foray With Showtime - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 27 May 2008 12:03 PM PST

Nimbus Communications has officially launched its home video entertainment rental and sale business called Showtime. The stores, which distribute DVD, VCDs and Game CDs, are currently only Bombay centric with…

Reliance Invests in Mobile Social Network Pelago; Total $15 Million Raise - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 27 May 2008 09:13 AM PST

Seattle-based Pelago, which has been developing a mobile social network called Whrrl, plans to announce either today or tomorrow that it has secured $15 million in a second round of…

Reliance Lays Out Big $10 Billion Plan - 6 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 25 May 2008 07:42 PM PST

It must be hard living up to a name like that. After recently announcing development deals with eight Hollywood based studio’s, Reliance ADAG’s multi-billion entertainment arm Big Entertainment seems to…

Reliance Entertainment Rebrands BigFlicks As BigFlix - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 21 May 2008 07:07 AM PST

I’d gone to a Reliance WebWorld to pay the bill for my data card connection today, and noticed a BigFlicks shop-in-shop store, so took a photo (pictured above). It’s taking…

Kolkata Knight Riders Ties Up WIth Contests2Win; Shah Rukh Khan To Blog
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 13 May 2008 09:40 PM PST

Kolkata Knight Riders has tied up with Contests2win.com for its website, Kolkataknightriders.com. According to the release, 6 contests are currently live and another 5 are in the pipeline. I tried…

@NDTV NMC: Old Media Evolves With Consumers; Regulation Biggest Bottleneck; Who’s The Consumer? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 09 May 2008 08:00 AM PST

For some reason, at the NDTV New Media Congress, the session focusing on mass media companies taking to the Internet digressed down the New Media vs Old Media path. Kevin…

@NDTV NMC: TV On TCP/IP; Leapfrog To 4G; Nearly Good Enough Quality On Video; Companies In Flux - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 09 May 2008 05:19 AM PST

A thought-provoking comment from Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO of Rediff at the NDTV New Media Congress, yesterday - “underpinning the whole convergence argument is that the TCP/IP protocol needs…

Reliance Entertainment’s Content Acquisition; Zapak Plans Merchandise, 500 Gameplexes - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 May 2008 06:11 AM PST

An interesting insight from Kamal Gianchandani, COO of BigFlicks on content acquisition by the Reliance Entertainment. Gianchandani tells Indiantelevision.com in an interview that Reliance Entertainment has a central acquisition team,…

Zapak, Jump To Launch Cricket Game Based On Ishant Sharma - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 05 May 2008 09:47 PM PST

Reliance Entertainment owned Zapak and Jump games continue their licensing streak. Both gaming divisions of ADAG will develop an online and mobile game respectively, based on cricketer Ishant Sharma. The…

Reliance Big Entertainment To Raise $500 Million From PE Firms; Company Structure? - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 04 May 2008 11:06 PM PST

Reliance Big Entertainment is looking to raise $500 million, divesting around 10 percent equity, reports the Economic Times. The company is in talks with PE funds like Kohlberg Kravis Roberts…

Reliance Globalcom Planning A London Listing; Reportedly Valued At $12 Bn - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 02 May 2008 05:53 AM PST

Some updates from The Times on Reliance Globalcom’s (RGCom) proposed IPO: The company, into which the Reliance ADA Group had integrated its entire global telecom operations, is planning to list…

Zapak Targets BRIC Countries; Jump In Talks For F1 Deal - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 10:40 PM PST

We’ve heard often about Zapak Digital Entertainment, the online gaming company from the Reliance ADA Group, planning to launch a China site; the doors to China may have been opened…

Orkut Launches Applications, BigAdda Gets BigB On The Day MySpace India Is Launched
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 07:30 AM PST

-- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) owned Orkut, widely acknowledged as the social network with the largest Indian community, launched applications today. Orkut has been building up to the launch of applications…

Zapak Gets Shanda’s Racing MMOG Crazy Kart To India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 16 Apr 2008 04:04 AM PST

Well, the news is finally, finally out: Zapak, Reliance Entertainments online gaming company has acquired the exclusive licence for operating Crazy Kart, a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMOG) Game from Shanda,…

Big Buys DTS Digital Imaging Business For $7.5 Million Cash - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 09 Apr 2008 09:40 PM PST

DTS, the digital technology company known for its DTS Digital Sound product that competes with Dolby Digital and SDDS, has sold its Digital Images business to ADAG’s Big Entertainment. According…

Airtel, Reliance, Zee, BCCL, NDTV And Mobile2Win On FDI Limits In Media And Telecom - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 04 Apr 2008 12:28 AM PST

In response to queries regarding foreign investment in Broadcast and Telecom sectors - with an eye on convergence - stakeholders have submitted their comments to the TRAI. On the key…