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Financial Times To Part Ways With India’s Business Standard; Deal With Network18? - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 09 Mar 2008 09:57 PM PST

‘Tis the season for breaking and making media partnerships in India—Mint reports that Financial Times is ending its 15 year old content partnership with Indian financial daily Business Standard, while…

ByIndia.com Goes Up For Sale On Ebay; SaffronConnect Shuts Down? - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 20 Feb 2008 09:46 PM PST

It’s Buy ByIndia or Bye ByIndia...the site which was acquired by Web2Corp in August 2006 is on the block, up for sale on ebay, here. Is this India’s first portal…

Seedfund To Invest In Online Publishing And College Info Ventures - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 19 Feb 2008 02:00 AM PST

Two of the businesses that were showcased at an IIM Calcutta business plan competition will receive funding from Seed Fund, reports Mint. Mudranik allows users to publish and sell their…

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Jupiter Media To Launch Image Sales Ops In India; Cautious About Media Business; Job Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 17 Feb 2008 11:02 PM PST

Nasdaq listed Jupiter Media is taking a cautious approach to India: the company’s Chairman and CEO Alan Meckler was in India for a couple of days - his first trip…

MTVRoadies.TV Launched For Fifth Iteration Of Roadies
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 13 Feb 2008 09:08 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Another one for the road. Roadies 5.0 (for the fifth time!) has gone online with MTVRoadies.tv. The website, according to this Agencyfaqs article, has received 83,000 registerations…

Orkut, MTV And Airtel Come Together For A Cross-Media Contest - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 12 Feb 2008 09:55 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) owned social networking site Orkut, TV channel MTV India and telco Airtel have joined forces for a cross-media contest that allows users to bid to win a…

Myntra Ties Up With Ibibo, HolidayIQ For Personalized Merchandise - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 11 Feb 2008 08:44 AM PST

Erasmic Ventures funded startup Myntra, which creates personalized merchandise, has announced a tie-up with ibibo.com (MIH India), BCCL funded HolidayIQ. They claim they have 10 partners in all, but apparently…

Pioneer Looking To Sell Up To 49 Percent Stake; Portal Revamp - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 11 Feb 2008 02:03 AM PST

CMYK Printech, which publishes English newspaper The Pioneer, is looking to raise funds by selling up to 49 percent stake, reports the Mint. The company, promoted by veteran journalist and…

Eye On New Media Revenues, Indian Producers Want Copyright Life Extended - 1 Comment
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…

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…

AOL To Split Audience Business From Access - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 07 Feb 2008 09:32 PM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) will split in two President and CEO Jeff Bewkes, in his first earnings call, said that plans to separate AOLs audience business from access are underway, but…

Turner Revamps Cartoonnetworkindia.com; Partners With Outblaze - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 07 Feb 2008 02:48 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Turner has tied-up with Outblaze for a joint venture in Asia called TurnOut, which will create online communities for Cartoon Network portals. Outblaze, according to this Agencyfaqs…

NDTVProfit.com Gets A New Look - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 28 Jan 2008 09:30 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] NDTV Convergence has relaunched NDTVProfit.com, the online version of its business news channel. According to this note by Sanjay Trehan, CEO, NDTV Convergence, the site aims to…

MY FM Launches Website - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 27 Jan 2008 07:53 PM PST

MY FM, the FM station from the Bhaskar group has launched a portal - www.myfmindia.com. Don’t go by the press release (here, doc file): They’ve launched podcasts, but the execution…

Fashion TV Launches India Portal - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Jan 2008 10:09 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Sushma Swaraj will be beaming. FTV has launched its India centric portal and partnered with Hungama mobile for mobile content. We’d reported earlier that Hungama Mobile is…

NDTV Launches NDTVimagine.com; Gets Active On Mobile
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Jan 2008 11:58 AM PST

[By Cerius Shah] So the General Entertainment Channel wars have begun. NDTV seems to be the flavour of January with the high profile launch and the NBC stake acquisition. The…

Info Edge (Naukri) Launches Online Real Estate Brokerage - AllCheckDeals.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 22 Jan 2008 02:59 AM PST

Info Edge (BOM: 532777) (Naukri.com) has launched a new portal - AllCheckDeals.com, in the real estate segment. The site offers online real estate brokerage services, to complement the listings portal…

Times Of India Launches Kolkata Mirror Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:01 AM PST

Any idea on how Sify’s city specific portals - chennailive.in, hyderabadlive.in, bangalorelive.in and delhilive.in - have done? Now the TImes of India has launched a city specific site for its…

123Greetings.com Raises First Round Funding From Intel Capital - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 18 Jan 2008 12:57 AM PST

Infrasoft Technologies, which owns the e-cards portal 123Greetings.com has raised its first round of funding led by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, as per a release. The amount of funding has…

Club JAM: Just Another Online Community? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 08 Jan 2008 11:29 PM PST

Agencyfaqs reports that JAM Magazine has launched an online community called Club JAM. JAM Magazine has launched an online community called Club JAM. The community is powered by Ning and…

StudyPlaces Gets $3 Million In Funding From Naukri, KPCB And Sherpalo Ventures - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Jan 2008 05:31 AM PST

StudyPlaces, which had received $500,000 in funding from Info Edge (BOM: 532777) (via it’s Mauritius subsidiary) earlier last month, has received a total first round of $3 million in funding…

Updated: Motorola To Acquire Asian Digital Music Service Soundbuzz - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Jan 2008 12:26 AM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that it will acquire online and mobile music distribution company Soundbuzz. The details of the deal have not been disclosed, but Motorola expects to close…

NDTV Tries Answers With Ammas.com
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 06 Jan 2008 11:10 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] After Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Ask and Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) its NDTV Convergence getting into the business of free advice with NDTV Answers. According to this E4M story…

Chandamama Eyes Triple Digit Growth; Integrates Rediff Q&A And Instant Messenger With Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 06 Jan 2008 09:45 PM PST

Chandamama CEO L. Subramanyan, in an interview with Mint, says that the company is eying triple digit growth. No revenue projections for the website, which they’ve only recently acquired control…

Naukri Looking To Raise More Funds; Invests $500,000 In Study Places Inc - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 20 Dec 2007 10:11 PM PST

Info Edge (BOM: 532777) India (the Naukri.com Group) has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that the company’s board of directors will meet today (21st of December) to “discuss raising of…