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Google To Power Apps For Sify; Mail And Chat Included - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 27 Aug 2008 05:02 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Sify are expanding their relationship beyond just search: Per a new agreement, Google Apps will power Sify’s chat, Sifymail, and online documents as well as other…

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…

iPhone’s Indian Reception: Small But Enthusiastic - 8 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 22 Aug 2008 05:16 AM PST

Maharajas, rich kids, and entrepreneurs: so that’s who’s buying the iPhone in India, according to a Reuters report from the front line, which found that the launch of the iconic…

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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 - 30 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…

Yahoo Expanding In India; Plans To Hire 400-Plus Over Next Year - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 18 Aug 2008 02:47 PM PST

After a recruitment slowdown that coincided with the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) bid saga, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is planning to hire more than 400 employees in India, according to Business Standard.…

UTV Software Acquires US-Based Online Gaming Startup True Games - 2 Comments
Posted By VCCircle - Mon 18 Aug 2008 08:27 AM PST

UTV Software Communications, the media and entertainment company, has picked up an 80 per cent stake in California-based gaming company True Games Interactive. The acquisition has been done through its…

Virgin Comics Serializes Properties On Rediff; Digital Comics; Ties Up With Grant Morrison - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 14 Aug 2008 12:41 AM PST

Virgin comics has serialized its comic and graphic novel series including Shekhar Kapur’s Devi, Guy Ritchie’s Gamekeeper and Deepak Chopra’s Beyond amongst others on Rediff. The attempt is to drive…

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…

Shaadi.com And Vodafone Launch Mobile Matchmaking Service - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 11 Aug 2008 11:15 AM PST

Shaadi.com, the lonely heart’s club arm of the People Group, has tied up with Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) to launch the ‘Shaadi.com on Vodafone’ matrimonial service via mobile. The service is…

FutureBazaar To Re-Design, Clocks Rs 62 Crore Revenue - 8 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 10 Aug 2008 02:55 AM PST

Futurbazaar,com, the online shopping window of the Future Group owned Pantaloons Retail is expecting to cross Rs 180 crore in revenue in the new fiscal on the back of a…

Google Adds Tamil To News, More Languages To Orkut and Gujarati, Marathi and Bengali To Search - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 10 Aug 2008 02:01 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is adding to and building out it’s local language engine and porting it across their product range. Tamil has been added to Google News, Search, Blogger and…

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…

Star In Talks To Acquire Asianet; Balaji In Talks To Exit Star - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 06 Aug 2008 01:53 PM PST

-- Starry few days for Rupert Murdoch, the man who made Tony Blair doesn’t seem to have lost his appetitite for a heady cocktail of politics and media, even in…

Voice Recognition Firm Ubona Funded By Capital 18 - 2 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 04 Aug 2008 11:18 PM PST

Ubona Technologies, a Banglore based business and consumer oriented speech recognition solutions provider has received a Series A investment from Capital 18, the venture and PE arm of Network 18.…

News Corp. Investing $100 Million In TV Channels Across India - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 04 Aug 2008 08:15 AM PST

News Corp (NYSE: NWS). will spend $100 million to start six regional TV channels in India over the next year, WSJ reported. The channels will be part of News Corp.’s…

Airtel Live To Be Embedded With Nokia Handsets? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 03 Aug 2008 04:16 PM PST

So says this ET story, citing talks that Airtel is having with handset players such as Nokia...Airtel Live, the mobile VAs app, may be embedded in Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and…

Moser Baer Posts Loss; Seeks Further Expansion In Entertainment - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 03 Aug 2008 03:08 AM PST

Moser Baer posted a net loss of Rs 103.98 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2008. The company posted a net profit of Rs 9.64 crore in the…

NDTV Posts Rs 105 Crore Operating Loss In Q1 FY09 - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 03 Aug 2008 02:56 AM PST

Further proof that launching a GEC in this market is like dating Paris Hilton. NDTV has posted a loss of Rs 105 Crores as compared to Rs 10.89 crores in…

Times Internet Takes 50 Percent Stake In Online Books Site A1Books - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 Jul 2008 12:13 AM PST

Times Internet, the online arm of BCCL/Times Group, has taken a 50 percent stake in Webnotions Books India, the parent company of online books site A1books.co.in. No details on how…

Earnings: Geodesic’s Net Profits Double - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Jul 2008 09:18 AM PST

Geodesic Information Systems, the Mumbai-based developer of mobile communication tools (such as Mundu IM), has reported its quarterly earnings for the quarter ending June 30th, and its net profits for…

UTV Revenues Up 154 Percent; Interactive Business Posts Rs 3.57 Crore Loss - 2 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 29 Jul 2008 09:03 PM PST

UTV reported a growth of 154 percent in total revenues for the quarter ending June 30, 2008, over the previous sequential quarter, buoyed mostly by its films segment: Rs 1,452…

Web18 Revenues Up 41%; Reports Operating Loss Of Rs 5.6 Crores - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 29 Jul 2008 10:49 AM PST

Web18 revenues were up 41% from Rs 9.3 crores to Rs 13.1 crores year-on-year. However, operating loss reported was Rs 5.6 crores, up 58% from Rs 2.3 crores in the…

netCore Ties Up With Tata Teleservices - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 29 Jul 2008 10:05 AM PST

netCore has tied up with Tata Teleservices to provide SMS based value added services in Mumbai. The service will include information on public events and emergency updates. As per the…

OnMobile Goes Content Aggregator; Exclusive Deal With 40 South India Labels - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 27 Jul 2008 08:24 AM PST

OnMobile Global has inked exclusive deals with around 40 companies from the South Indian Music companies Assocation (SIMCA). Medianama reports the deal value is around Rs 8.5 crores. A fairly…