Social Media

Loop Mobile Enters India Though JV With Radical SoftNet - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 10 Feb 2008 11:29 PM PST

More action on the mobile community front: Loop Mobile (ASX: LPM), a mobile community venture headquartered in Sydney, Australia, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a joint venture…

Juice Wireless To Launch JuiceCaster In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 06 Feb 2008 04:15 AM PST

Juice Wireless, an LA based mobile social networking co, has announced plans to launch its JuiceCaster service in India in Q3 of 2008. The service allows users to create and…

Yahoo To Launch Our City And Maps On Mobile; On Yahoo Groups - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 05 Feb 2008 08:32 PM PST

Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) front page will open up to widgets, reports the Hindu. On the mobile, they will launch a mobile version of Our City and Maps, once Yahoo Go…

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Social Net Hi5 Raises $15 Million Venture Debt - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Jan 2008 09:59 AM PST

SF-based social network Hi5 has taken $15 million in venture debt from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. The site, which originally targeted Indian expats but now has a more global outlook,…

Pakistani Social Networking Company Naseeb Gets Second Round Funding - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Jan 2008 04:46 PM PST

We don’t necessarily cover Pakistan, but this is an interesting funding in a country where brand name VCs don’t usually do digital media investments: Naseeb Networks, a Pakistani online recruitment,…

Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could Involve Investment - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 20 Jan 2008 09:07 PM PST

An exclusive story at our sister site PaidContent.org: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on a mobile deal, with Facebook being ported on to Nokia handsets; the Facebook placement…

Rediff Adds Pixelkraft’s Online Sitcom To Ishare - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Jan 2008 09:56 PM PST

More proprietary content making its way to Rediff’s (NSDQ: REDF) video content portal iShare; this time, by means of a tie-up with PixelKraft, which publishes an sitcom Ram and Ria.…

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…

Northgate To Invest Rs 25 Crore In Social Networking Site Bharatstudent.com - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 04 Jan 2008 03:45 AM PST

BSE listed Northgate Technologies intends to invest around 300 million 3 million pounds (around Rs. 25 crore) in its social networking venture Bharatstudent.com, reports Business Standard. The investment will be…

BAG Films Sets Up New Media Entity; Launches English News Portal For Hindi Channel - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Jan 2008 08:22 AM PST

BSE-listed BAG Films & Media, which launched a Hindi news channel News 24 in December, targeting “Young Adults”, has - oddly enough - launched an English news site to supplement…

@TES: Platform Game; The Debate Will Change; Monetization Of Social And Professional Networks - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 13 Dec 2007 09:10 PM PST

At the TiE Entrepreneurial Summit, Manu Rekhi, Product Manager at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for Orkut gave away no secrets: Google did research in Brazil to figure out what worked for…

MySpace Meeting With Bollywood Stars For India Launch - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 13 Dec 2007 03:52 AM PST

This according to a small mention in a WSJ story about MySpace’s international efforts, including its plans for starting an Indian site (which has been announced before). The story said…

HT Media Buys Social Networking Site DesiMartini
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 20 Nov 2007 08:30 PM PST

Hindustan Times Media group has bought social networking site Desimartini.com, through its online subsidiary Firefly eVentures. The financial terms were not disclosed, but HT Media said it was for less…

MIH India Launches Genealogy Based Social Network - OneFamily - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 Nov 2007 02:49 AM PST

MIH India has launched a genealogy based online networking site called OneFamily. Other international genealogy based networks include like Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com and MyHeritage.com. Users are added to the network virally;…

T-Series Obtains Restraining Order Against Google And YouTube From Delhi High Court - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 05 Nov 2007 02:55 AM PST

You’re reading this here first: Super Cassettes Industries Limited, better known as T-Series, has obtained an interim restraint order against YouTube.com LLC and its parent company Google (NSDQ: GOOG) from…

HT Media To Acquire A Social Networking Site - 11 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 30 Oct 2007 05:50 PM PST

HT Media is “in the process of acquiring” a site in the social networking space, as per an earnings release (pdf) from the company. So any guesses on which company…

India Is Number One Market For Nokia’s Mosh - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 24 Oct 2007 06:00 AM PST

George Linardos, Head of Mosh, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Internet and mobile social networking site, tells Reuters that “Our number one market has been India, by pretty overwhelming degree”. The site,…

MySpace Eyes India - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 16 Oct 2007 02:02 AM PST

I’d heard murmurs of MySpace’s India plans a few days ago - that there’s an announcement of India plans due by the end of the month - and we were…

Eros To Provide Movies And Music Videos To Joost - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 09 Oct 2007 09:20 PM PST

AIM listed Bollywood producer Eros International has signed a deal to provide over 200 movies and 600 music videos from its catalog to Joost, reports Business of Cinema. Joost had…

Sabeer Bhatia Launches Networking Site - ApnaCircle.com - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 23 Sep 2007 08:55 PM PST

We missed out on this one last month, so just for the record: Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia is entering the online networking space with ApnaCircle.com, reports Business Standard. Well it’s…

MIH India In Talks To Acquire Burrp? - 31 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 20 Sep 2007 02:12 AM PST

ContentSutra has learned from multiple sources that Naspers owned MIH India is in talks to buy local listings and review site Burrp.com. Rajeev Sathe, Director of Strategy and Commercial for…

Rediff’s iLand Goes Multilingual…Revamped - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 13 Sep 2007 07:27 PM PST

Rediff iLand, Rediff’s social blogging platform (I think that’s what they call it), has undergone a revamp, and they’ve added multiple languages - Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali…

Updated: Stealth Social Net Masala Gets $4.5 Million First Round Funding - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 29 Aug 2007 08:40 PM PST

Updated below (By Rafat Ali on Paidcontent) Masala, a still-in-stealth San Francisco-based social networking startup, has raised $4.5 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by…

Northgate Technologies Sets Up Social Media India To Promote BharatStudent.com - 14 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 28 Aug 2007 05:32 AM PST

BSE listed Northgate Technologies has informed the bourses that they’ve set up an Indian subsidiary called Social Media India Ltd, which will seek online advertising for their social networking portal…

Sunsilk Gang Of Girls Ties Up With Zoom, Oxford Book Store
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 28 Aug 2007 03:32 AM PST

Branded community site Sunsilk Gang of Girls has tied up with BCCL owned TV channel Zoom for a reality show called ”Spotlight Mein”, reports Indiantelevision. Four contestants will be selected…