Companies

Updated: Nautanki.tv Gets Content From Zoom, FTV And Bollywood Hungama - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 21 May 2008 11:44 PM PST

Video distribution startup Nautanki.tv has recently inked deals for three channels - with Zoom TV (BCCL Group), and with Hungama for FTV and Bollywood Hungama (earlier known as IndiaFM). All…

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…

Eros And Lionsgate In A 50:50 Joint Venture For Film Production & Distribution - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 21 May 2008 07:02 AM PST

Eros International and Lionsgate have set up a joint venture for the distribution and production of movies in India and North America. It’s a 50:50 deal, and is likely to…

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Earnings Call: HT Media To Invest Rs. 150 Crores In Internet Business Over 2-3 Years - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 21 May 2008 12:33 AM PST

I’m currently listening to the HT Media earnings call, awaiting my turn to ask questions. The company intends to invest Rs. 150 crores in the Internet Business over the next…

Buongiorno Launches Mobile Ad Solutions In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 20 May 2008 12:07 PM PST

Hong Kong based VAS and Mobile marketing player Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) is rolling out their mobile advertising solution in India. We had earlier in the day covered mobile web usage…

Makaan Launches SMS based Real Estate Mobile Application - 4 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 20 May 2008 11:05 AM PST

People Group’s real estate property, Makaan.com, has launched an SMS based mobile application, developed by sister concern, Mauj Mobile. The difference being that while those like Magicbricks have apps that…

Earnings: HT Media To Build Real Estate, Matrimonial Portals; Claims 130 M Pageviews/Year For HT.com - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 20 May 2008 06:05 AM PST

In its earnings release, HT Media has claimed that Hindustantimes.com (HT.com) has emerged as the No.2 player in the news segment with approximately 2.4 million users, and about 130 million…

AOL India Allows Users To Send SMS Via Email And Mobile - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 20 May 2008 05:27 AM PST

AOL India is trying to drive signups by offering users free SMS services via mail and messenger. Subscribers are offered the facility to send free Instant messages and SMS’ to…

XBox 360 Fails To Sell In India; MS To Wind Up Ops In Tier-I Cities: Report - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 19 May 2008 04:48 PM PST

As far as India is concerned, the xBox is the x’ed Box, if this report from CNBC-TV18 is to be believed. The console has apparently been such a dismal failure…

Naukri’s Education Portal Shiksha.com Goes Live - 19 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 18 May 2008 08:00 PM PST

A few days later than we’d heard, but never mind that...Shiksha.com, the education portal from Info Edge (BOM: 532777) India (Naukri.com Group) has gone live. I’ll just go through it...In…

OnMobile Acquires France’s Telisma S.A. - 8 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 18 May 2008 02:24 AM PST

OnMobile Global, India’s VAS major, has acquired France based speech recognition software provider Telisma S.A. As per the earnings call we had covered recently, OnMobile had indicated two acquisitions, the…

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 - 14 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
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…

Private Treaties Acquires Stake In ApnaCircle.com; MouthShut Doing PT Deal For Dekhona? - 2 Comments
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 - 1 Comment
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? - 1 Comment
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 - 16 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 - 4 Comments
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 - 1 Comment
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…