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Eros Does 100 Movie Streaming Deal With Jaman - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 May 2008 02:00 AM PST

Jaman, the international online and video service which is trying to develop a niche in Bollywood/Indian content, has done a large size content deal with Eros Intl., the biggest distributor…

First Look At Web18s Horizontal Portal In.com - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 15 May 2008 07:58 AM PST

While some have been saying that the horizontal portal is waning in influence, Web18, the internet company from the Network18 group is set to open its so-called-horizontal portal In.com for…

Kolkata Knight Riders Ties Up WIth Contests2Win; Shah Rukh Khan To Blog - 3 Comments
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…

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Private Treaties Acquires Stake In ApnaCircle.com; MouthShut Doing PT Deal For Dekhona? - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 13 May 2008 08:50 PM PST

Two announcements from Private Treaties, the investment arm of the Times Group. The first, it has acquired a minority stake (rumored to be in the 20-30% range) in social network…

Shiksha.com To Launch On This Week; Thoughts On The Education Segment - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 12 May 2008 04:07 AM PST

So it’s not two-three weeks, but the next three-four days: Info Edge (BOM: 532777) (Naukri.com) has planned to launch its education portal Shiksha.com by the end of this week, contentSutra…

Times Of India Group Planning An IPO: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 11 May 2008 09:59 PM PST

This is big news: Bennett, Coleman & Co - better known as the Time of India group - is planning for an IPO, reports Business Standard. Ravi Dhariwal, CEO of…

Sony Entertainment Television Sells 32 Pc Stake To BK Modi For $320 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 11 May 2008 09:45 PM PST

Multi Screen Media, the company formerly known as Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television, has sold 32 percent stake to the BK Modi group for $320 million, report Variety and NDTV.…

@NDTV NMC: Mainstream Digital Media; Display Beats Search Advertising? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 09 May 2008 10:15 AM PST

Mainstream Digital Media? A term for us to consider - when asked about Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) position on spends on regional language content, Lloyd Mathias, Marketing Director for India &…

@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…

Shine.com Goes Live: Job Matching, Career Advice, Industry Insights - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 08 May 2008 09:47 PM PST

Frankly, the part that interested me most about Shine.com, HT Media’s new job portal, was the integration of content. There are two segments, Industries & Companies and Career Advice, which…

Yahoo India Adds Content To Search Results With Glue Page - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 07 May 2008 07:55 PM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has unveiled a new search-related product in India called “Glue Page”. A Glue page adds context to search results with a mashup of content from multiple sources…

YouTube India Goes Live - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 May 2008 11:59 PM PST

I just checked, and Youtube India has gone live today, with a host of Indian content partners - NDTV, UTVi, Bindass, Zoom and Indiaglitz are broadcast partners, content from Rajshri…

Updated: India To Be Hub Of BBC World News’ South Asia Ops; Content Deal With Six Telcos - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 May 2008 10:51 PM PST

Update: India will be the hub of the BBCs South Asian Marketing, Communications and Audience Insight activity, reports Exchange4media. Vaishali Sharma has been promoted as Head of Marcomms, BBC Global…

Reliance Entertainment’s Content Acquisition; Zapak Plans Merchandise, 500 Gameplexes - 0 Comments
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…

One97 Communications To Close $25 Million In Funding - 11 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 05 May 2008 03:09 AM PST

Mobile Value Added Services company One97 Communications is in the process of raising $25 million in Series B funding, the company has confirmed to contentSutra. Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder and…

Google Launches Hindi Translation - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 05 May 2008 01:16 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched the Google Translate service for Hindi, which allows users to translate text from English to Hindi and Hindi to English. Here’s what Waiting For Godot…

Reliance Big Entertainment To Raise $500 Million From PE Firms; Company Structure? - 1 Comment
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…

Microsoft-Yahoo: Links To All Of Our Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sat 03 May 2008 10:56 PM PST

For quick access to our coverage on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) withdrawing its offer to purchase Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) on paidContent.org… -- BREAKING: Microsoft Withdraws Offer For Yahoo -- MSFT-YHOO: From…

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…

Scrabulous To Launch Orkut App In The Next Few Days - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 11:45 PM PST

Scrabulous, the Scrabble-like game and Facebook application from Kolkata based Agarwalla brothers, which hit the headlines after Hasbro and Mattel accused them of copyright violations, is all set to make…

Zapak Targets BRIC Countries; Jump In Talks For F1 Deal - 0 Comments
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…

Web18 Reorganization: Khiani Appointed COO For Content, Thomas COO For Financial Properties
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 06:48 AM PST

Web18, the Internet and Mobile company from the Network18 group has reorganization its operations into two separate groups: Financial and Content verticals, contentSutra has learned from sources. Rishi Khiani, who…

UTV Launches Website For Business Channel UTVi - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 04:14 AM PST

The website for UTVi the business channel from the UTV Group, has gone live, albeit in beta. The site has news, market updates, industry-wise updates; there are ”Guru Blogs”, which…