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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.…

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…

In.Com Out Of Private Beta; Ties Up With More Labels
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 22 Jul 2008 02:18 PM PST

In.com has come out of a limited beta and is now open to public. Changes include a more comprehensive homepage, additions of more games and tie up with more labels.…

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Viacom18’s Colors Launches Website - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 17 Jul 2008 12:04 PM PST

Colors, the new Hindi GEC from Viacom18, has launched its site. It’s seems to be still in development mode, with some features such as My Colors and Mobile still tagged…

HomeShop18 Raises Rs 90 Crore In Second Round From SAIF Partners and Capital 18 - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 09 Jul 2008 12:41 PM PST

Network18’s investment arm, Capital 18, along with SAIF Partners have invested Rs 21.3 crores ($5million) and Rs 68.3 crores ($16million) respectively in Network18’s home shopping network business, HomeShop18. This is…

Industry Moves: Infomedia-CEO; MakeMyTrip-CMO; Microsoft-Director, Marketing - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 27 May 2008 02:38 AM PST

-- Lakshmi Narasimhan, Head of Business Development for Network18, has been appointed CEO of Infomedia India. Readers will remember that Network18 acquired Infomedia last fiscal. Narasimhan will expand the portfolio…

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…

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…

Web18 Reorganization: Khiani Appointed COO For Content, Thomas COO For Financial Properties
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 06:48 AM PST

Web18, the Internet and Mobile company from the Network18 group has reorganization its operations into two separate groups: Financial and Content verticals, contentSutra has learned from sources. Rishi Khiani, who…

Network 18 To Hive Off Cell 18 As Standalone Business Unit - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 29 Apr 2008 12:49 PM PST

Network 18’s promo and packaging arm, Cell18, will be hived off as a standalone entity, providing services outside of group properties. While continuing to make promotional content for group properties,…

Earnings: Web18s Posts Rs. 28.8 Crores Operating Loss, Rs. 57.3 Crores In Revenues In 2007-08 - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 28 Apr 2008 10:39 PM PST

Web18, the Internet and Mobile company of the Network18 group, has reported an operating loss of Rs. 28.8 crores for the financial year 2007-08 (FY08), up Rs. 7.99 crores for…

Kotak Buys FT Stake In Business Standard; FT To Launch Financial Daily With Network 18 - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sat 19 Apr 2008 03:50 PM PST

Like we predicted, Network 18 is all set to launch a financial daily in partnership with Financial Times, the new title is expected to hit stands by 2008 end. Mint…

Web18 Buys In.com; Is Active18 Being Rebranded? - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 09 Apr 2008 04:39 AM PST

Web18, the online and mobile company from the Network18 group has bought the domain name In.com, contentSutra has learned from multiple sources. At present, while www.in.com remains cloaked, domains like…

Network 18 To Launch Multiplexes - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 07 Apr 2008 04:34 AM PST

In accordance with their stated plans of being a full service media conglomerate with interests in all stated mediums, Network 18 has announced plans to roll out theater chains through…

Greycell 18 To Launch With Topper; TV and Internet - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 26 Feb 2008 06:19 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah] With a bevy of IIT’ians and IIM’ians as host and anchors, Greycells18 Media has announced the launch of its TV channel Topper. The content will cater to…

Promoters To Increase Stake In TV18 - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 25 Feb 2008 06:19 AM PST

Just a few months after NDTVs promoters made an open offer for stake in NDTV Ltd., the promoter group of TV18 is looking to increase its holding in the company,…

IBNlive Launches Student Blogs; Not Using Enough Citizen Journalism Content - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 12 Feb 2008 08:31 PM PST

IBNlive, the website for TV channel CNN-IBN, appears to have taken to Citizen Journalism in a big way. The site, which earlier allowed their own journalists and a select few…

Web18 Launches Biztech2tv - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 10 Feb 2008 08:21 PM PST

[By Cerius Shah The enterprise technology sub-brand of Web 18, Biztech2, has launched Biztech2tv. The site already had a text version of the tech B2B industry, including case studies, whitepapers…

Capital18 Invests In Tangerine Digital Entertainment - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 08 Feb 2008 04:55 AM PST

Tangerine Digital Entertainment, a media and entertainment company, has received funding from Capital18, the investment arm of the Network18 group. The amount of investment is not known, but sources have…

Report: Web18 To Dilute 10-15 % Equity Via ADR - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 06 Feb 2008 03:13 AM PST

Web18, the Internet and mobile company of the Network18 group is looking to dilute 10-15 percent equity, reports Indiantelevision.com, quoting a source. The company is planning to file for the…

Earnings: Web18 Reports Rs. 7.19 Crore Q3 Operating Loss On Account Of Increase In Investments - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 01 Feb 2008 11:50 PM PST

Web18, the Internet and Mobile company of the Network18 group, has reported an operating loss of Rs. 7.189 crores for third quarter of 2007 (Q3-07), ending December 31st, compared to…

Web18 Launches E-Commerce Portal Storeguru; What About Homeshop18? - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 24 Jan 2008 02:51 AM PST

Network18 now has two competing e-commerce businesses in the online retail space. Web18, the Internet and Mobile company of the Network18 group, has launched Storeguru.com, while the group already has…

STAR, BCCL To Launch Home Shopping Business: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Jan 2008 10:26 PM PST

After Network18’s HomeShop18, another home shopping network is reportedly in the works. Business Standard reports that STAR India and the Times of India group (BCCL) are tying up with a…

IBN Parent Gets Govt Nod To Raise Rs 500 Crores; Sell 26 Percent Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 25 Dec 2007 04:41 AM PST

Something about Rs 500 crores these days...the number is in fashion. First Naukri.com parent decides to raise the amount, and now Global Broadcast News Ltd., parent of CNN-IBN and IBN-7…