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Vaporware: Zapak Talking To Six U.S. and Chinese Companies on Acquisition - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 18 May 2008 07:35 PM PST

Zapak is indulging in vapor talk again: Anil Ambani-owned gaming firm Zapak Digital Entertainment says it is in talks with about six gaming companies in U.S. and China for acquisition.…

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@NDTV NMC: Mainstream Digital Media; Display Beats Search Advertising? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 09 May 2008 10:15 AM PST

Mainstream Digital Media? A term for us to consider - when asked about Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) position on spends on regional language content, Lloyd Mathias, Marketing Director for India &…

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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,…

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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…

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Zapak Targets BRIC Countries; Jump In Talks For F1 Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 01 May 2008 10:40 PM PST

We’ve heard often about Zapak Digital Entertainment, the online gaming company from the Reliance ADA Group, planning to launch a China site; the doors to China may have been opened…

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Zapak Launches ZapakKids With Bhootnath; Webisodes Hosted By Kids - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 29 Apr 2008 12:44 PM PST

Zapakkids.com, which has been around for many weeks now, has now been officially launched using Bhootnath as a tie-up announcement. The site currently offers movie tickets and movie merchandise as…

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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,…

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Zapak Claims 70-75 Percent Marketshare; Kancha Tournament; MMOG Launch Delayed - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 01 Apr 2008 10:30 PM PST

Reliance ADA Group company Zapak.com has claimed that they have around 70-75 percent of the Indian online gaming market, with a user base of 4 million. Rohit Sharma, COO of…

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Zapak Launches Cartoon Network Games, Fantasy Cricket Game - 9 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 14 Feb 2008 04:22 AM PST

Zapak, Reliance Entertainment’s casual gaming portal, has launched casual games from the Cartoon Network stable. Zapak currently features 17 games, while Cartoon Network’s own site has 32. Interesingly, not many…

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Zapak To Launch Chinese Site; In-game Ads And Advergaming Was 25-30% Of Revenue In ‘07 - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Jan 2008 10:12 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Plans are afoot to “step into the Chinese online casual gaming market with a Chinese website,” Zapak COO Rohit Sharma tells exchange4media.  For their MMOG, in partnership…

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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:…

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Updated: Sony Denies Zapak Buying SOE - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sat 22 Dec 2007 10:55 PM PST

Updated: So much for this, and as we said below, our sources also denied a deal: Sony (NYSE: SNE) is denying any such sale: “Sony Online Entertainment is not for…

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NatGeo Launches Game Portal Powered By Zapak; Some Gaming Stats - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 10 Dec 2007 05:26 AM PST

The National Geographic Channel’s has launched a website for its series “My Brilliant Brain”, which has been powered by the Reliance ADA Group’s online gaming company Zapak.com (release). The site…

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“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,…

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Zapak Brings Kuma War Games To India - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 Nov 2007 12:47 AM PST

Zapak has tied up with New York based Kuma Games for 5 games (over 100 episodes) - DinoHunters, Kuma War, Shootout, Dog fights and Kill Fight. The games require a…

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@AGI: Casual Gaming Might Not Scale; Advertising Portals On TV Doesn’t Help - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 04 Nov 2007 06:40 PM PST

During the gaming panel, Vishal Gondal, CEO of Indiagames focused on the need for distribution - Cable TV killed pirated videos because, at Rs. 100, you get all the channels.…

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Zapak Targets 4-7 Years Olds With Zapak Tiny - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 10 Oct 2007 05:58 AM PST

Reliance ADA Group company Zapak has launched Zapak Tiny targeting 4 to 7 years olds with casual games. Rohit Sharma, COO of Zapak tells me that advertising to kids is…

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Zapak Plans Europe, China Entry And Recruitment Of U.S., Korean Developers - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Thu 27 Sep 2007 06:25 PM PST

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s gaming company Zapak.com is planning to launch gaming portals in Europe and China and also intends to recruit gaming content developers from countries like US and…

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Zapak Targets 250 Gaming Cafes By March 2008, Payment Card By End Sept - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 05 Sep 2007 07:48 PM PST

Reliance ADA group’s Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd (ZDEL) has plan to open 250 gaming cafes in India by March-end and a payment card in the next two weeks. [via ET]…

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