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On Rediff’s New Social Content Sharing Platform - Ishare - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 10 Jul 2007 01:17 PM PST

I’ve been going through Rediff iShare - a social content sharing platform that the company launched today. On the face of it, the concept reminds me of esnips. Content being…

Rediff Planning For An IPO In India? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 10 Jul 2007 10:24 AM PST

CNBC-TV18 aired a speculative story today that claims that Rediff is planning to list in the Indian markets. The channel claimed that a team headed by Rediff CFO Joy Basu…

Updated: Web18s Entertainment Portal Buzz18; Still In Beta - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 04 Jul 2007 10:04 PM PST

Update: The portal has been de-cloaked and is now accessible - here. Some sections, like blogs are also live now. (Originally posted on 2007-06-24 07:12 PM PST) TV18 will soon…

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Dot Asia Domain Slated For October Launch - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Thu 28 Jun 2007 06:44 PM PST

Come October and Asia will be preceded by a dot. Internet addresses ending in “.asia” will be open to governments and trademark owners in three months time with general registrations…

Reliance ADAG To Launch News Site - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 27 Jun 2007 11:11 PM PST

The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is making an entry in the news media industry through a news portal that will eventually have the Big Internet brand name. [via Financial Express]…

Bharatmatrimony Launches Free Wedding Diary Site - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 26 Jun 2007 03:34 AM PST

Classifieds portal Bharatmatrimony.com has launched MatrimonyDiary.com a portal for engaged couples to create a Web site with their own domain name and share the story of their romance. The release…

Webdunia Launches In Five More Indian Languages - 4 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 24 Jun 2007 11:10 PM PST

Webdunia, a portal with channels such as Bollywood, lifestyle, religion, science, IT, career, astrology, literature, etc, is making its content available in 5 more languages—Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada and Punjabi,…

Yahoo Racing Ahead of Google in Asia’s Mobile Race? - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 24 Jun 2007 10:49 PM PST

Yahoo! seems to be racing ahead of Google with its Mobile plans for Asia, according to this agencyfaqs.com article. After launching the latest version of its mobile application, Yahoo! Go…

Reuters Plans India Site Revamp, Mobile Version Launch - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Fri 22 Jun 2007 01:08 AM PST

While the Thomson-Reuters deal could create a B2B information powerhouse, Azhar Rafee, Reuters Asia’s executive vice president of media, is focusing his energy on creating a consumer offering of the…

Online/Offline Model More Suitable For Social Networking in India - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 19 Jun 2007 02:18 AM PST

While VC BlueRun Ventures’ Vineet Buch says social media is sizzling in the U.S. Internet market currently, he expects a modified version of it seeing success in India [via Mint.]…

BREAKING: Yahoo Replaces CEO; Founder Jerry Yang Back In Seat; Decker Is President - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Jun 2007 01:56 PM PST

This is a huge surprise, even though we knew it was imminent ... Jerry Yang, Yahoo co-founder and long-time board member, as Chief Executive Officer. Terry Semel, current Yahoo Chairman…

Web18 Had Rs. 25 Crore In Revenue In 2006-07; Profitability And Use Case? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 18 Jun 2007 09:52 AM PST

TV18 India MD Raghav Bahl tells Mint that Web18 did Rs. 25 crore in revenue, but doesn’t talk about whether it is profitable...Web18 must be burning some serious money adding…

MakeMyTrip To List In 2008? Shaadi Also Planning To List Says Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 17 Jun 2007 11:11 PM PST

Following Info Edge India (the Naukri group) earlier this year, it seems more web companies are eying the heady Indian bourses which have constantly been hitting new highs over the…

Web18 Launches Enterprise Tech Portal - BizTech2.com; CIOL Revamped - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 13 Jun 2007 01:27 AM PST

Web18, the new media arm of the TV18 group has launched an enterprise technology portal - BizTech2.com - effectively taking on the likes of Cybermedia’s CIOL. In terms of design,…

Earnings: CyberMedia’s Internet Revenues Increase By 24.5 Percent - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 08 Jun 2007 10:03 AM PST

Revenues from the Internet businesses for speciality media company Cyber Media (India) Ltd (BSE: CYBERMEDIA) were at Rs. 7 crore, up 24.5 percent from Rs. 5.6 crore for the previous…

HT Media To Launch Job Portal? - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 04 Jun 2007 06:16 AM PST

HT Media has closed a deal with recruitment portal technology provider Redmatch, reports Ha’aretz. The size or the details of the deal have not been disclosed, nor is there any…

No Long Tail Of Online Advertisers In India? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 03 Jun 2007 11:26 PM PST

An article in the Financial Express takes the slippery slope, claiming that “analysts” are discussing whether horizontals are back in the online game, based on an increase in Rediff’s net…

Saffron Media Kicks Off Travel Mag, Portal - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 03 Jun 2007 10:15 PM PST

Saffron Media Advertisement Pvt. Ltd, a unit of the Adfactors Group, has launched a weekly magazine Travel Biz Monitor and http://www.travelbizmonitor.com, a news and information portal aimed at the supposedly…

Rediff Sees Mobiles As Key Medium, Cites Potential In Local Language Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Thu 31 May 2007 10:50 PM PST

Media company Rediff.com plans to give greater priority to mobile formats over Web versions, Manish Agarwal, Rediff.com’s vice president marketing told agencyfaqs! in an interview. “Because we believe that if…

BharatMatrimony Plans Five Fold Increase In Marketing Spend - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 30 May 2007 02:42 AM PST

Classifieds portal BharatMatrimony plans a five-fold increase in overall marketing spends for its sites such as Bharatmatrimony.com and Clickjobs.com, according to a PTI report. The company, whose Web sites include…

Damas To Sell Jewellery Online Through Rediff, Indiatimes - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 29 May 2007 11:09 PM PST

Here’s another jeweller trying to cash in on the Indian woman’s obsession with gold. Damas, the U.A.E-based jeweller who has stores around the world, has launched an eStore on Rediff…

EBay Testing Trading Posts At Cybercafes, Plans Late 2007 Rollout - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 29 May 2007 09:31 PM PST

Online marketplace eBay’s Indian arm is testing trading posts at cybercafes where customers can come and list their sale items on eBay, reports exchange4media.com. Rathin Lahiri, marketing head of eBay…

Govt sets up site, centers for NRI investment queries - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 28 May 2007 10:11 PM PST

So here’s a chance for non-resident Indians to deal with mouse-clicking rather than paper-pushing babus. The Times of India reports that the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in association with…

All India Radio To Digitize Services - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 28 May 2007 01:23 AM PST

All India Radio (AIR) is digitizing its services and did a pilot near Delhi University, reports Hindustan Times. Given the high cost of receivers, AIR isn’t going to do away…

Zapak sees Rs. 40 crore in 2007-08 gaming revenues - 3 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 27 May 2007 10:25 PM PST

Gaming portal Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. is targeting revenues of Rs 40 crore for fiscal 2007-08, 40 times 2006-2007’s revenues of Rs 1 crore following its November 2006 launch, reports…