Reliance Entertainment

Seventymm Sticks To Online; MovieMart Goes Offline, Ties Up With TNT - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:47 PM PST

Distribution is seemingly the magic sauce of the movie rental business as both Seventymm and Moviemart expand their footprint. Moviemart, earlier relegated to Delhi and the National Capital Region, has…

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…

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…

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Reliance Lays Out Big $10 Billion Plan - 6 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Sun 25 May 2008 07:42 PM PST

It must be hard living up to a name like that. After recently announcing development deals with eight Hollywood based studio’s, Reliance ADAG’s multi-billion entertainment arm Big Entertainment seems to…

Reliance Entertainment Rebrands BigFlicks As BigFlix - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 21 May 2008 07:07 AM PST

I’d gone to a Reliance WebWorld to pay the bill for my data card connection today, and noticed a BigFlicks shop-in-shop store, so took a photo (pictured above). It’s taking…

@NDTV NMC: TV On TCP/IP; Leapfrog To 4G; Nearly Good Enough Quality On Video; Companies In Flux - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 09 May 2008 05:19 AM PST

A thought-provoking comment from Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO of Rediff at the NDTV New Media Congress, yesterday - “underpinning the whole convergence argument is that the TCP/IP protocol needs…

Reliance Entertainment’s Content Acquisition; Zapak Plans Merchandise, 500 Gameplexes - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 May 2008 06:11 AM PST

An interesting insight from Kamal Gianchandani, COO of BigFlicks on content acquisition by the Reliance Entertainment. Gianchandani tells Indiantelevision.com in an interview that Reliance Entertainment has a central acquisition team,…

Zapak, Jump To Launch Cricket Game Based On Ishant Sharma - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 05 May 2008 09:47 PM PST

Reliance Entertainment owned Zapak and Jump games continue their licensing streak. Both gaming divisions of ADAG will develop an online and mobile game respectively, based on cricketer Ishant Sharma. The…

Reliance Big Entertainment To Raise $500 Million From PE Firms; Company Structure? - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 04 May 2008 11:06 PM PST

Reliance Big Entertainment is looking to raise $500 million, divesting around 10 percent equity, reports the Economic Times. The company is in talks with PE funds like Kohlberg Kravis Roberts…

Zapak Gets Shanda’s Racing MMOG Crazy Kart To India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 16 Apr 2008 04:04 AM PST

Well, the news is finally, finally out: Zapak, Reliance Entertainments online gaming company has acquired the exclusive licence for operating Crazy Kart, a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMOG) Game from Shanda,…

Big Buys DTS Digital Imaging Business For $7.5 Million Cash - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 09 Apr 2008 09:40 PM PST

DTS, the digital technology company known for its DTS Digital Sound product that competes with Dolby Digital and SDDS, has sold its Digital Images business to ADAG’s Big Entertainment. According…

Airtel, Reliance, Zee, BCCL, NDTV And Mobile2Win On FDI Limits In Media And Telecom - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 04 Apr 2008 12:28 AM PST

In response to queries regarding foreign investment in Broadcast and Telecom sectors - with an eye on convergence - stakeholders have submitted their comments to the TRAI. On the key…

Video Content Roundup: BigFlicks-RajTV; Rajshri-Baba Ramdev - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 18 Mar 2008 04:29 AM PST

BigFlicks.com has added Tamil Content to its online video streaming portfolio via an alliance with Raj TV Networks. BigFlicks.com is the Reliance ADA Groups video rental and online video streaming…

Reliance Entertainment Plans 20 Channels, 8 Websites Including Job Portal, Classifieds
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 13 Mar 2008 02:22 AM PST

Maybe this is the BIG announcement that Rajesh Sawhney had told us about - Reliance Entertainment is going to launch two separate companies - Reliance BIG TV News and BIG…

BigFlicks.com Goes Retail - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 20 Feb 2008 12:45 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah] BigFlicks.com has announced its offline plans. Previous to this, the prime contender to the Indian Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) model had started with a Download-to-own online only variant,…

George Soros Picks Up 3 Percent Stake In Reliance Entertainment For $100 Million - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 07 Feb 2008 06:03 AM PST

This just in: close to the heels of an uncorroborated story about Reliance Entertainment planning an IPO, Business Standard reports that George Soros has picked up 3 percent stake in…

Reliance Entertainment Planning An IPO?
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 06 Feb 2008 09:45 PM PST

A BIG IPO indeed: Reliance Entertainment, which houses all the media and entertainment properties of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) is finalizing plans for an Initial Public Offering, reports…

Reliance Partners With Yahoo oneSearch - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Jan 2008 03:28 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] The marriage season continues. Airtel goes with Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) with MSN and now Reliance has tied the application knot with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO).…

Will the BIG Bang Happen? - 7 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 02 Jan 2008 09:05 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah] It has been an eventful year for Reliance Entertainment in the digital space. According to this interview, Zapak is currently the top gaming website on Comscore (NSDQ:…

Report: Reliance Entertainment To Place 5% With PE Firms; Valuation of $1.5 Billion? - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 24 Dec 2007 12:19 AM PST

Another day, another story in the Economic Times about Reliance Entertainment...again not corroborated. As per the report, ADA Group company Reliance Entertainment is looking to place 5 percent of its…

Reliance Entertainment Acquires Animation Studio Anirights
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 Nov 2007 05:12 AM PST

I thought this was old news, but apparently not: Reliance Entertainment has acquired Anirights Infomedia, an animation company based in Pune, reports Economic Times (via VC Circle); at TiE-ISB Connect,…

“India is very unfriendly to people producing content”; Zapak To Launch MMOGs In Q1 2008 - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 15 Nov 2007 06:56 PM PST

“We’ll roll out MMOGs in the first quarter next year.” Reliance Entertainment President Rajesh Sawhney during the Media and Entertainment panel at TiE-ISB Connect in Hyderabad yesterday. MMOGs, he added,…

Reliance Signs Up With Microsoft on IPTV Venture - 6 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 05 Nov 2007 10:33 AM PST

Reliance Communications has tied up with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for its IPTV venture, which is launching in March next year: Reliance will pay Microsoft about $500 million in license fees…

Reliance ADAG In Talks To Acquire SeventyMM? - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 10 Sep 2007 08:44 PM PST

When online DVD rental company SeventyMM bought out competing DVD rental company, I wondered if it was too soon for consolidation in the business. Now, Mint reports that Reliance ADAG…

Updated: Reliance To Invest $100 Million Over Five Years In BigFlicks - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 29 Aug 2007 08:49 PM PST

Some addons to the story we’d done earlier on BigFlicks. As per the official announcement, BigFlicks isn’t just online play. As we had first reported in March, the company will…