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Google India Launches MapMaker; Takes On WikiMapia - 2 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 31 Aug 2008 04:24 AM PST

Considering the success of Wiki-Mapia in India, it isn’t suprising Map Maker was a product developed by Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Indian engineering team. Take a quick look at the most…

Google To Power Apps For Sify; Mail And Chat Included - 1 Comment
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…

Google Adds Tamil To News, More Languages To Orkut and Gujarati, Marathi and Bengali To Search - 1 Comment
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…

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Google Proposes Hosting Bengali Literature And Movies - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 21 Jul 2008 12:58 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is planning to host Bengali movies on YouTube as well as post literary works of renowned novelists on the web. As per the release, West Bengal IT…

T-Series Issues Notice To Guruji.com Amongst Others - 7 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 17 Jul 2008 11:39 AM PST

Sure enough, the days without incident were indeed numbered. T-series has issued a notice to Guruji.com amongst other websites including MSN, MySpace and Bharatstudent. It has accused them of allowing…

Google Adwords Launches Netbanking; Ties Up With DirecPay - 2 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…

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…

@ 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…

Economic Times, Times Of India Block Google News, In.com - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 May 2008 09:07 PM PST

Update: The robots.txt files have been updated, and crawlers are now being allowed. Update: Mohit Hira, Director of Marketing at Indiatimes, informs us that the company was in the midst…

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…

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…

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…

YouTube To Launch India Site On May 7th - 14 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 29 Apr 2008 10:54 PM PST

ContentSutra has learned from various sources that YouTube is planning to launch an India site on the 7th of May. Apparently, as with all things Google (NSDQ: GOOG), this has…

India Most Active Country On Mosh; 50% Of Online Indians Upload On Youtube - 5 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 23 Apr 2008 05:32 PM PST

--- It seems like we are not as UGC lazy as it may seem. Last year we had covered Linardos, Head of Mosh, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Internet and mobile social…

Orkut Launches Applications, BigAdda Gets BigB On The Day MySpace India Is Launched
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 07:30 AM PST

-- Google (NSDQ: GOOG) owned Orkut, widely acknowledged as the social network with the largest Indian community, launched applications today. Orkut has been building up to the launch of applications…

Orkut Launches Mobile Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 14 Apr 2008 08:49 PM PST

Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) social networking site Orkut, which has a substantial Indian and Brazilian userbase, has gone mobile. They’ve launched a mobile version of the site - http://m.orkut.com, writes Siddharth…

Yahoo-AOL In Advanced Talks on Combining - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 09 Apr 2008 07:54 PM PST

Well, with its announcement of a two-week Adsense trial, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is finally playing a very public hand with Google—thus raising the stakes even across during Microsoft’s three-week deadline.…

Google Launches Voice Based Local Info Search In Hyderabad - 9 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 04 Apr 2008 07:01 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has reportedly launched a voice based local information service in India, in Hyderabad. Syed Abbas writes (via Labnol) that the service, launched on the number 1800-41-99-99-99 is…

Race On YouTube; Om Shanti Om On Google Video - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Apr 2008 07:55 AM PST

While writing the previous story on Saavn providing content to Verizon (NYSE: VZ), I did a search on YouTube for the UTV channel, looking for promos of the movie Race.…

Google India’s Head Of Content To Join Mobile Co Aryty - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 31 Mar 2008 08:52 PM PST

ContentSutra had learned that Harbinder Narula, formerly the Head of Content for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India has put in his papers, and will be joining Aryty, to set up their…

Airtel Launches Broadband Portal Powered By Google - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 31 Mar 2008 04:37 AM PST

Wow...I didn’t know that there was such a paucity of web developers and designers in the world that India’s largest telco Airtel had to resign itself to having its broadband…

YouTube And T-Series Given Time To Settle Copyright Infringement Dispute - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 28 Feb 2008 06:54 AM PST

The Delhi High Court has given YouTube and T-Series time to settle their copyright infringement dispute, and the case will be heard next in July. Representing YouTube and Google (NSDQ:…

YouTube Down For Two Hours After Pakistan Blockade - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 26 Feb 2008 04:55 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah] As a result of the Pakistan’s Telecommunications Authority’s (PTA) ban on Youtube there was a worldwide outage of the video sharing behemoth for around 2 hours. Pakistan…

Google.org, Soros And Omdiyar Tie Up For $17 Million Fund; Don’t be Evil? - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:01 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] While Sergey Brin is enjoying Zero Gravity flights with the Mayor of San Francisco, Google.org has teamed up with Soros and the Omdiyar network (philantrophic firm founded…

Google To Set Up Campus In Hyderabad - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 17 Feb 2008 09:16 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] While the state housing the commercial capital is belting out teenage angst on its workforce, Andhra Pradesh is making hay. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will set up its…