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Facebook Now The King Of Internet, Tops Google In Number Of Visits

Facebook Now The King Of Internet, Tops Google In Number Of Visits

In another clear indication of Facebook’s ever-increasing growth in the internet arena, Facebook surpassed Google last week as the most visited site in the United States. According to a report by Hitwise Intelligence, Facebook surpassed Google for the week ending 13th March. According to the report, Facebook last week accounted for 7.07% of the US market share, which [...]

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Aircel Partners INQ - To Launch Device In India

Aircel Partners INQ – To Launch Device In India

Aircel is on a tie up spree with new devices that want to be launched in India. Just recently they had tied up with Peek (an email only device) and now they have gone ahead and tied the knot with a new mobile entrant in INQ. INQ Mobile is launching in India with Social Mobile [...]

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Facebook To Open Office In Hyderabad, India

Facebook To Open Office In Hyderabad, India

Its like we hit the nail on the head few days back! when we blogged about does facebook need an office in India.
And guess what? Facebook today has announced that it is investing in India by opening an office in Hyderabad, where it will host a support team for its growing number of users, advertisers [...]

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GoJiyo.com - Godrej's Attempt At Branded Secondlife.com For India

GoJiyo.com – Godrej’s Attempt At Branded Secondlife.com For India

If you have been watching IPL lately then you must have noticed a coming soon ad which ends with the popular brand logo Godrej. If you haven’t then check the ad below:

GoJiyo.com is Godrej’s attempt at venturing into the mysterious world of virtual worlds for India. Their website is live and has a counter which [...]

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WATBlog Wins The Best Indian Blog Award 2009! Thanks To Our Readers, Bloggers & Staff!

WATBlog Wins The Best Indian Blog Award 2009! Thanks To Our Readers, Bloggers & Staff!

Its taken 4 years.. over 4000 posts.. and over 40 bloggers.. But its been worth every bit of effort! That is the reason it feels special to win the Best Blog Award for 2009. Yesterday the Indian Digital Media awards was organized at Taj Lands end by exchange4media and WATBlog was awarded as the Best [...]

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Social Networking App Downloads Top Airtel App Central

Social Networking App Downloads Top Airtel App Central

Its been just a month that Airtel launched its app store called the App central and it seems the 100 million plus subscriber strong has hit the sweet spot when it comes to downloads. The Airtel App central claims that it has done over 2.5 million downloads in just 30 days.

Here are some insights on [...]

123Greetings Goes IPO On 23rd March - We Interview Arvind Kajaria, MD, 123greetings.com

123Greetings Goes IPO On 23rd March – We Interview Arvind Kajaria, MD, 123greetings.com

Intrasoft Technologies Limited (Intrasoft) the company behind 123greetings.com has decided to open its Initial Public Offering (IPO) for subscription on Tuesday March 23, 2010 at a price band of 137-145 and is looking to float 37 lac shares which will raise over 50 crores from the markets.
123greetings.com recieved over 15 million unique visitors last year [...]

Facebook Now The King Of Internet, Tops Google In Number Of Visits

Facebook Now The King Of Internet, Tops Google In Number Of Visits

In another clear indication of Facebook’s ever-increasing growth in the internet arena, Facebook surpassed Google last week as the most visited site in the United States. According to a report by Hitwise Intelligence, Facebook surpassed Google for the week ending 13th March. According to the report, Facebook last week accounted for 7.07% of the US market share, which [...]

Paypal To Grow Via Asia Route - India A Part Of The Plan?

Paypal To Grow Via Asia Route – India A Part Of The Plan?

Paypal is looking for growth in Asia as the next level for their company states a new announcement by their CEO. Infact Asia is the fastest growing market for the online payment solution provider.

PayPals buoyancy about the asian market got a thumbs up as it stated that it    will work with Chinese electronic payment [...]

Dow Jones Partners With Airtel To Launch WSJ India On Mobile

Dow Jones Partners With Airtel To Launch WSJ India On Mobile

Dow Jones has made one more alliance after the recent Jobs alliance with Naukri.com for Wall Street Journal India. This time The Wall Street Journal India has tied up with Bharti Airtel to launch a downloadable mobile application exclusively available to Airtel mobile customers during an initial launch period.

The service can be downloaded free-of-charge by [...]

How Patents May Stifle Innovation!

How Patents May Stifle Innovation!

Thomas Friedman once famously said – The world is flat! While I did not completely agree with him when I read it, I am beginning to see some truth to it. At least as far as Innovation is concerned. Yes, Patents have been around for a while now. So have Patent Infringement Lawsuits. Most of [...]

Aircel Partners INQ - To Launch Device In India

Aircel Partners INQ – To Launch Device In India

Aircel is on a tie up spree with new devices that want to be launched in India. Just recently they had tied up with Peek (an email only device) and now they have gone ahead and tied the knot with a new mobile entrant in INQ. INQ Mobile is launching in India with Social Mobile [...]

Jobsite Exits: Kliener - Naukri(Infoedge); Web18 - Jobstreet

Jobsite Exits: Kliener – Naukri(Infoedge); Web18 – Jobstreet

Its exit time in the digital space as two exits by investors in two jobsites in India were announced. Lets have a look at them and how they differ from each other.

Kliener Exits Naukri – Makes a profit of 61 crore
Naukri.com the poster child of the dotcom space in India can pat itself on the [...]

IPL Merchandise and Apps Hit The Web & Ovi

IPL Merchandise and Apps Hit The Web & Ovi

IPL hysteria is going from one level to another with more and more companies looking to leverage it by providing one service or another. Here are two more such announcements that provide official IPL goodies to fans.
Infibeam To Provide Official IPL Merchandise
Infibeam the company which is offlate known more for its e-reader product Pi has [...]

Peek Partners With Aircel To Launch In India

Peek Partners With Aircel To Launch In India

Last month we blogged about Peek an email only device that was to be launched for India after a launching in the US. Its seems peek has found a partner in the newbie telecom player Aircel. Aircel has partnered Peek to launch the same for the Indian markets.

Pricing & Plan Details For Peek
As blogged earlier [...]

Google Finally Heading For A Shut-Down in China - A Complete Low-Down on its China Strategy

Google Finally Heading For A Shut-Down in China – A Complete Low-Down on its China Strategy

Google’s embroilment with Chinese authorities is finally coming to a close with it making up its mind to completely shut down its China operations. Google enraged a war against Chinese censorship when it made public its intention to no longer succumb to such online censorship demands of the government.

Google has tried every move in past [...]

Facebook To Open Office In Hyderabad, India

Facebook To Open Office In Hyderabad, India

Its like we hit the nail on the head few days back! when we blogged about does facebook need an office in India.
And guess what? Facebook today has announced that it is investing in India by opening an office in Hyderabad, where it will host a support team for its growing number of users, advertisers [...]

Apalya Technologies Expects To Double Subscribers Via Acquired IPL Live Mobile Streaming Rights

Apalya Technologies Expects To Double Subscribers Via Acquired IPL Live Mobile Streaming Rights

IPL fever is creating ripples for various digital media businesses to flourish with its scattered deals in place. In a demonstrate IPL earlier allocated first of its kind Online streaming rights for any sporting event in India to youtube and as anticipated did the same for mobile streaming rights. Apalya has managed to acquire live [...]

Indiagames To Foray Into Casual & Social Gaming - Chirag Shah (Ex-Zapak) To Be CEO

Indiagames To Foray Into Casual & Social Gaming – Chirag Shah (Ex-Zapak) To Be CEO

The gaming industry seems to be getting more and more competitive day by day with one gaming company key executives joining others. The other trend is the rise of social gaming which is taking shape in India with ibibo, zapak and now indiagames all having social elements or social networking entwined in their games.

Our sources [...]

GoJiyo.com - Godrej's Attempt At Branded Secondlife.com For India

GoJiyo.com – Godrej’s Attempt At Branded Secondlife.com For India

If you have been watching IPL lately then you must have noticed a coming soon ad which ends with the popular brand logo Godrej. If you haven’t then check the ad below:

GoJiyo.com is Godrej’s attempt at venturing into the mysterious world of virtual worlds for India. Their website is live and has a counter which [...]