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Apple To Formally Launch iTunes In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 26 Aug 2008 02:12 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is close to formally launching its iTunes store in India states this BS report. A truncated version of the India store, featuring only iPhone apps has been…

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…

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…

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Babelgum Launches Bollywood Channel With WEG India Pictures - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jul 2008 03:23 AM PST

P2P TV platform Babelgum is adding what it says is the largest collection of online Bollywood films to its catalogue. Its Colours Of Bollywood channel includes over 100 hours of…

Valuable Group Acquires MovieBeam; To Integrate with BOX Networks? - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 14 Jul 2008 11:47 AM PST

The Sanjay Gaikwad led Indian tech-media group Valuable Group has announced the acquisition of MovieBeam. The release claims the acquisition includes all assets, including trademarks and intellectual property rights which…

BigAdda Launches Mobile Blogging Application With Big B(eta) - 3 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…

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…

Nimbus Announces Home Video Rental And Sales Foray With Showtime - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 27 May 2008 12:03 PM PST

Nimbus Communications has officially launched its home video entertainment rental and sale business called Showtime. The stores, which distribute DVD, VCDs and Game CDs, are currently only Bombay centric with…

Moving Pictures Company Ties Up With Startup Movico To Digitize, Promote Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 19 May 2008 11:10 PM PST

Film and television production house Moving Picture Company intends to digitize its library of rare archival footage, as per a release. The company has tied up with Movico Technologies, which…

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…

Mahindra & Mahindra To Set Up Entertainment Fund; Can’t Be Just $5 Million… - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 May 2008 10:49 PM PST

Auto major Mahindra & Mahindra has set up an entertainment media fund, reports IANS. There’s no formal announcement yet, but the company has acquired world distribution rights for the film…

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…

Jaman To Open Mumbai Office; To Launch Ad-Supported Video Streaming - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Apr 2008 06:23 AM PST

I met Gaurav Dhillon, Founder and CEO of Jaman, on the sidelines of FICCI Frames last month. Jaman (named after an Indian fruit) is a community site around World Cinema…

TinselVision.com To Target India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Apr 2008 11:31 PM PST

Video streaming co TinselVision has expanded its online content distribution arrangements with STAR India and other licensors to include streaming content to India as well. Tinselvision had deals with STAR,…

MTNL Considering MVNO Tie-Up For Garuda; Mittal Skeptical - Low ARPUs - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:12 AM PST

According to an HSBC Global Research Report, public sector telco MTNL may also do a branding deal, similar to that between Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) and Tata Teleservices. However, this…

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.…

Saavn Provides Bollywood Content To Verizon Wireless - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Apr 2008 07:42 AM PST

Saavn is providing Bollywood content to Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), as a part of their V Cast Video service in the US. Content includes full length music videos and pre-release…

Yet Another Bollywood Site: STAR Launches Starboxoffice.com - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 31 Mar 2008 03:57 AM PST

This appears to be a day for entertainment websites - and I wonder if we’re headed for a glut of some sort: It appears that STAR TV has launched an…

Onyx Takes Hungama, YRF To Court Over IPR Claims
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 26 Mar 2008 12:25 PM PST

The Kareena Kapoor - Saif Ali Khan starrer Tashan (English: Style) appears to be running into hot water with Onyx dragging Hungama and Yash Raj Films (YRF) to court over…

Nimbus Launches Cricketnirvana.com and Video Streaming And Home Video Sites - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 25 Mar 2008 09:35 PM PST

Nimbus Communications has launched a broadband initiative - CricketNirvana, and two other sites - Filmnirvana.com and Showtime Video. The site will begin streaming rich media content today, to co-incide with…

Content Owners Join Forces To Combat Low Revenue Shares, Piracy - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 19 Mar 2008 06:14 AM PST

This could be a key event for content providers in India. Three industry bodies - Film and Television Producers Guild of India (FTPGI), the Indian Music Industry (IMI) and ASSOCHAM…

Jaman Screens Short Films From Bollywood Directors; How Are Short Films Doing Online? - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 18 Feb 2008 10:53 PM PST

Jaman, a World Cinema community, has launched Jaago, a compilation of four short films - Migration, Blood Brothers, Positive and Prarambha - from directors Vishal Bhardwaj, Farhan Akhtar, Santosh Sivan…

Eye On New Media Revenues, Indian Producers Want Copyright Life Extended - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 11 Feb 2008 01:21 AM PST

Eying revenues from new revenue streams like the Internet, mobile and with the advent of multipleses, FICCI and Bollywood production companies are pushing to get the copyright of films extended…

Warner Bros MPI In A Post-Production Alliance With India’s Prime Focus - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 08 Feb 2008 04:15 AM PST

Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging has entered into a strategic alliance with Indian co Prime Focus; the latter will provide digital post production facilities to film-makers. Prime Focus apparently has…

VSNL, YRF To ‘Premiere’ Chak De On Web - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 28 Jan 2008 09:54 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Yash Raj Films (YRF) and VSNL (now Tata Indicom Broadband) have tied up for the web premiere of the SRK starrer Chak De India. Tata Indicom apparently…