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ContentSutra Delhi Meetup: Sold Out - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 16 Apr 2007 03:14 AM PST

We’re overwhelmed by the response to our Delhi Meetup this coming Friday at Ruby Tuesday, PVR Saket: 103 125 135 of you have signed up, and we’re sold out. We…

Top Headlines From Last Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 15 Apr 2007 07:04 PM PST

-- Nazara To Close Second Round of Funding Of $7-8 Million; Registers Sales Of Rs 15 Crore In 2006-07 -- Reliance Entertainment To Invest $100 Million In Home Video Business…

Registration Open: ContentSutra Delhi Meetup, Apr 20 at Ruby Tuesday, PVR Saket - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 12 Apr 2007 07:22 PM PST

You’re invited to join us for a get-together at Ruby Tuesday at the PVR Cinema Complex at Saket in Delhi for our second ContentSutra Meetup. Date: 20th April Time: 7pm-10pm…

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ContentSutra Meetup In Delhi On 19th/20th? - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 08 Apr 2007 06:57 PM PST

For a while now, we’ve been thinking of doing ContentSutra meet-ups in Delhi. We had a fair number of people attending the meetup in Hard Rock Cafe in Mumbai in…

Top Headlines From Last Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 08 Apr 2007 06:54 PM PST

--One97 Communications Raises Series A Funding From SAIF Partners, Silicon Valley Bank --Mauj Telecom Gets A New CEO - Manoj Dawane --Percept Media Sells Stake In WebPercept; Earmarks $10 Million…

Yohooo: CNN IBN On Aligarh FM Station - 9 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 02 Apr 2007 10:23 PM PST

Nothing about what we usually cover here, but a report today on CNN IBN, about how the only FM station in Aligarh, the small-ish town my family lives in (I…

Top Stories From Last Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sat 31 Mar 2007 07:07 PM PST

--Games2Win Gets $5 Million Funding From Clearstone Venture Partners And SVB Financial Group --T-Series Sues Google For Copyright Violation --Moser Baer Launches Home Video Titles In Hindi; Unveils Website For…

Announcing The New ContentSutra.com Newsletter - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 28 Mar 2007 09:47 PM PST

We’re launching a spanking new ContentSutra.com newsletter today, with our signature packaging and content selection that gives you a quick and incisive overview of the Digital Media business in India.…

Top Headlines For Last Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 18 Mar 2007 06:10 AM PST

--Reliance Entertainment To Launch Home Video Rental Business --Zee To Tap User Generated Content Using Voice Portal ‘Suno Zee’? --Reliance To Start Social Networking Site --Vodafone, Essar Reaches Agreement; Hutch…

Top Headlines From Last Week - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 11 Mar 2007 04:33 AM PST

--Chandmama To Be Acquired By Geodesic For Rs.10.2 Crores --Bhaskar Group Forms Digital Media Company; Pradyuman Maheshwari Editorial Head --Web18 Acquires Majority Stake In Movie Ticketing Company Bigtree --Nimbus Issues…

Top Stories From Last Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 04 Mar 2007 06:20 PM PST

--Mobile Content Industry Brought Under Service Tax Net --Union Budget 07: VAS, ESOPS Taxed; Good News For E-commerce, Tech Incubators And Prasar Bharti --Tony Joseph Quits As Editor Of Business…

Top Stories From Last Week - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 25 Feb 2007 05:54 PM PST

—FICCI Asks For 10 Year Tax Holiday For Gaming Co’s; Reduction In Duties For Consoles —Vijay Singh Appointed As President, Strategy & Corporate Development of Star India —An Outlay Of…

India’s Online Tutoring Companies Rake In $15 Million A Year
Posted By Sahad PV - Thu 22 Feb 2007 03:40 AM PST

Here are some numbers on the online tutorial market. A PTI article quotes K Ganesh, CEO and founder of TutorVista.com, as saying that India currently earns $15 million from online…

Top Stories From Last Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 18 Feb 2007 07:55 PM PST

- Vodafone Sells 5.6% Stake In Bharti Airtel Back To Its Promoters For $1.6 Billion - Vodafone Reserves Right To Walk Out Of Hutch Deal In Case Of Delay Or…

Top Stories From Last Week - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 11 Feb 2007 04:53 PM PST

- Vodafone Gets Hutch; Bids At EV Of $19.3 Billion - 3G Services Will Be Delayed Until 2008 - Bad Quarter For STAR Due To Delay In KBC Launch; Expect…

Top Stories From Last Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 04 Feb 2007 07:56 PM PST

- CEO Of Mauj Telecom Arun Gupta Resigns From The Company - STAR Launches Mobile Application Based Service - Plus; Interview With Viren Popli - Q3 Earnings: Naukri.com Revenues Grow…

EconSM Conference: Early Bird Registration Now Open - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 02 Feb 2007 07:40 PM PST

[by Rafat]As we promised earlier this week, the early-bird ticket registration for our Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference is now open. The one-day conference, on April 26th in LA…

@3GSM India: Complete Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 29 Jan 2007 09:18 PM PST

I attended the 3GSM India summit in Mumbai last week, and sat through all the sessions related to content. I’m told that I missed out on a couple of interesting…

@3GSM India: Search - Branded Or Unbranded; GPRS, SMS And Voice - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 29 Jan 2007 07:22 AM PST

Senthil Kumar Sunderam, Head – Mobile for MSN and Windows Live said that the search strategy has to be different for different cities. More searches take place from B and…

@3GSM India: Mobile Communities, Moderation And Monetization - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 29 Jan 2007 05:23 AM PST

Faisal Farooqui, CEO of Mouthshut.com feels that for social networking, the time has come, at least in markets where Internet penetration is high, and this is the right time to…

@3GSM India: Off Portal; Marketing VAS; Operator Responds - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 29 Jan 2007 04:14 AM PST

“We’re off portal anyway,” said Neeraj Roy, MD & CEO of Hungama Mobile, during the first session of the content stream on Day two of the 3GSM Conference. The session…

@3GSM: Casual Games, Payment Models, Billing Leakages And Embedded Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 29 Jan 2007 03:10 AM PST

The final session on Day one of 3GSM India focused on gaming; moderated by Gopal Krishna, COO of Handygo.com, the session featured Sameer Bangara, COO of Indiagames, Salil Bhargava, CEO…

@3GSM India: CRBT Friendly Music; Dual Delivery; Searching And Impulse Purchases - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 28 Jan 2007 10:49 PM PST

The panel discussion on mobile music featured Sudhanshu Sarronwala, CEO of Soundbuzz and Shridhar Subramaniam, MD of Sony BMG. Subramaniam started off saying that the key thing for them is…

@3GSM India: Monetizing Music For Class Tier-Two Towns - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 28 Jan 2007 09:11 PM PST

The session on mobile music began with Pankaj Sethi, President VAS for Tata Teleservices giving a brief talk on mobile music that sells (as opposed to, I guess, music that…

@3GSM India: Mobile TV Pricing Models, Usability - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 28 Jan 2007 08:22 PM PST

The next session was on Mobile TV, and featured Neil Chakravarti, VP of Zee Telefilms, Viren Popli, Sr.VP – Wireless Interactive, STAR, Pradeep Shrivastava, CMO of Idea Cellular and Dan…