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Rajshri Launches Web/Mob-isode Akbar Birbal Remixed - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 02 Jul 2008 12:33 PM PST

Rajshri has launched Akbar Birbal remixed, its 3 minute a piece 90 episode series. The show revolves around a don, Akbar Anna, and his intelligent sidekick Birbal Bhaiya, set in…

Google Adwords Launches Netbanking; Ties Up With DirecPay - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 30 Jun 2008 01:03 PM PST

Just when you thought you knew all the usual suspects. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Adwords has launched its netbanking service and tied up with DirecPay, a subsidary of BCCL’s Timesofmoney. The…

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…

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“Early Signs In India Positive For Online Social Media Businesses” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 26 Jun 2008 10:40 PM PST

This story was provided to us by our content partner VCCircle. Recently, Tencent Holdings, an affiliate of MIH China, announced that it would pick up a 50 per cent stake…

BigAdda Launches Mobile Blogging Application With Big B(eta) - 2 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…

Sulekha Ties Up With CareerBuilderIndia, CricInfo With Myntra - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 26 Jun 2008 08:32 AM PST

--- Sulekha has tied up exclusively for content with CareerBuildersIndia.com for its ‘Premium Jobs’ section. The section will be co-branded although on checking it wasn’t live as yet. --- Cricinfo…

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…

Eros New Media Revenues Up 16.9% To 113.8 Crores - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 26 Jun 2008 07:56 AM PST

Eros International, the film production and distribution giant, posted 47% rise from 2007 in pre-tax profits $45.5 million. Its sales were 70% higher in the last financial year to 113…

TV Today FY08 Net Profit Up 40%; ‘New Media’ Absent From Results - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 25 Jun 2008 12:17 PM PST

The TV Today Network, part of the Living Media Group, announced a 40% jump in its net profit for FY08. TV Today runs news channels Aaj Tak (and a Delhi…

Tencent Holdings To Invest $7.5 Million In MIH India - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 25 Jun 2008 11:51 AM PST

MIH India, the holding company for ibibo, Dwaar, Onefamily, Bixee, Newscola.com and ad network Adwinks, will divest up to 50% stake to China based Tencent Holdings. Tencent will invest $7.5…

Rediff Invests in SMS Community Service Vakow - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 25 Jun 2008 07:29 AM PST

Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) is investing an undisclosed amount in Mumbai-based Twitter-clone site Vakow....the service allows for users to receive SMS from friends and send updates to friends via SMS, like…

Yahoo To Sell Mobile Ads on Idea; OneSearch on MTNL - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 16 Jun 2008 11:34 PM PST

Yahoo has signed up Idea Cellular to sell mobile adds across its network....the operator plan to carry a variety of graphical ads, sold and served by Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). It…

Times/BCCL Takes Stake in Travel Portal TravelChaCha - 5 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2008 07:12 AM PST

BCCL, the parent company of Times of India, has taken an undisclosed stake in Culture Holiday, the parent company of online travel portal TravelChaCha.com, adding to more crush in the…

Star May Divest 25.9% Stake In Balaji; A Look At Production Houses - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Fri 13 Jun 2008 01:43 AM PST

The general entertainment channel wars are hurting the mass entertainment conglomerates hard. Mint reports Star India, a News Corp (NYSE: NWS). subsidiary, is mulling divesting 25.9% of its stake in…

Hungama’s Parent Looking To Sell Stake To Merrill, Lehman, Among Others - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Jun 2008 10:50 PM PST

Virtual Marketing India, the parent company of Hungama, is about to get a minority investment of about $40 million (170 crores), and the race is on: firms such as Merrill…

MS To Expand SMS Services; MD Neelam Dhawan Quits - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 09 Jun 2008 08:14 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) India is planning to expand its SMS search services in India reports ET. MS, which currently has a tie-up with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) for SMS search services…

Rediff Launches Product Search - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Fri 06 Jun 2008 05:17 AM PST

Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) has spruced up its Product search, adding two high level categories - Electronics (16 sub categories) and Automobiles (two/four wheelers) and everything under them. All comparisons and…

AOL Launches Indian Version Of Men’s Portal Asylum - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Fri 06 Jun 2008 05:10 AM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) has launched the Indianized version of its international men’s lifestyle site, Asylum.in. Although the release claims the Indian site to have customized content, there is nary an…

Times Bought Virgin Radio For The Convergence; Will Not Use Virgin Brand - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Fri 06 Jun 2008 04:07 AM PST

Why did Times of India buy Virgin Radio? Because of the internet, A.P. Parigi, CEO of its TIML unit, suggested to FT. “‘Now is the time, Parigi,’ (group CEO Vineet…

People Group Launch Online Ad Network - 4 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 04 Jun 2008 12:05 PM PST

People Group, which includes web properties Shaadi, Makaan and Fropper.com besides mVAS company Mauj, has launched an ad network called ‘People Online’ that aims to target South Asian users in…

@ WAN: Nikesh Arora, VP EMEA, Google: ‘Unbundle The Package’ For ‘Journalism 2.0” - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 02 Jun 2008 07:47 AM PST

At the World Association of Newspapers’ 61st congress and World Editors Forum in Gothenburg, Sweden, Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nikesh Arora, told gathered newspaper…

Virgin Radio Sold To Times of India Publisher For $106 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 01 Jun 2008 12:29 AM PST

Indian media company Bennett, Coleman & Co, owner of Times of India newspaper, has made its biggest international buy: it has bought out UK’s Virgin Radio for about $106 million.…

Yahoo Restrained From Publishing T-Series Content By Delhi High Court - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 30 May 2008 06:49 AM PST

Indian Music label T-Series today obtained an interim injunction against Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Inc and Yahoo India from the Delhi High Court, contentSutra has learned. The Court issued a notice,…

Sify Reports Net Profit Of $0.12 Million; iWays To Be Relaunched In Small Format; Focus On Services - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 30 May 2008 06:45 AM PST

Sify Technologies has reported revenues of $150.59 million for the financial year ending 31st March 2008 (FY08), 11 percent higher than the previous fiscal. However, net profit was just $0.12…

Sify Launches International Roaming Broadband With iPass; Compared To GPRS? - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 29 May 2008 07:07 AM PST

Sify has launched an international roaming broadband service called Roam Connect International, allowing Sify customers to access wireless broadband service on the move. Sify claims to have more than 100,000…