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Yahoo had signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard to place a co-branded Internet toolbar on the company’s computers in North America and Europe. In addition, Yahoo would be the default search portal when HP computers start shipping with Internet Explorer 7 later this year.
 While Google has signed with Dell, and software makers like Adobe Systems, Intuit [...]

Business Line: Cartoon Network has signed its first video on demand (VOD) deal in India with VSNL. The agreement will enable Tata Indicom Broadband subscribers to watch their favourite (if any) Cartoon Network toons on their PC with just a click of a button. The content, available in both Hindi and English, will be available in [...]

OK!!!am i the only one to see this? and if i am not why arent people talking abt this? :O …we always knew this is going to happen, infact we all called them fools for not doing this before….but yet when i saw it tonite on one of orkut’s community’s page…i couldnt believe it!!!….Orkut now [...]

Well read this article 2 days back on their official blog. Sounded interesting, but we did our very own research. If one is a regular user of  Google Reader (like me) I am sure it will take a little time to figure out what to make out of the new interface. I think the current [...]

BBC is teaming up with Microsoft to develop next generation internet services. Microsoft will work on formulating the BBC’s digital strategy, which includes plans for an online archive and updated website redesigning the present site in the form of Web 2.0 to accommodate more audio and video and introducing services that allow users to create [...]

About 106.5 million people — or three in five U.S. Web surfers — watched an online video in July, according to comScore’s Video Metrix Index (the first and only service to track actual online streaming video behavior among U.S. Internet users)
In total, nearly 7.2 billion videos were streamed or downloaded by U.S. Internet users for [...]

Research and Markets has released a research report on Indian Telecom Sector Analysis (2006-2007)
Key Findings:
Asia Pacific Wireless Telecommunication Market is attributed to the growth in demand in countries like India and China.
India’s mobile phone subscriber base is growing at a rate of 82.2%.
China is the biggest market in Asia Pacific with a subscriber [...]

Funding from Yahoo and Canaan has given Bharat Matrimony Group the muscle power to advertise and now it has handed its media duties to Starcom Worldwide following a multi-agency pitch. The pitch for a whopping Rs 25-crore account involved six media agencies. The Bharat Matrimony Group portfolio includes clickjobs.com, indiaproperty.com, indiaautomobile.com, indialist.com and indiapages.com, the [...]

Business-Standard: It was just recenttly that Sify had joined hands with Railways to leverage its network of cybercafe’s and now Sify is turning its over 3,400 cyber cafes into virtual studios, which can conduct screen tests, auditions and record performances of wannabe filmstars.Sify has joined hands with Zee TV to launch Zee Cinestars, a reality talent [...]

 How about search marketing solutions in local languages??
Economic Times Yahoo search marketing general manager Sandeep Deshpande said they have plans but no defenite dates to launch to launch local language search solutions.Recently launched yahoo India search marketing solutions was tied up ( for the offering) by over 50 large advertising and marketing companies gud going [...]

We have mentioned the IAMAI and Pinstorm report on search which release recently earlier as well but here is a detailed low down on what can be termed as the most positive report for search marketing. Why do i call it the "most positive"? well i will let the numbers answer that.
The top Search Engine Marketing buyers [...]

                                         Domino’s is well known for its marketing strategy rather than Pizzas :P. But this is one helluva site (For Fast foods) I came across in recent times. Yes, Dominos has launched it India-Specific Website with a bit of Indian Persona of the brand. The site is simple, but the content (Promotional Offer ) [...]

A Microsoft spinout wallop launched its social networking website with an ads-free service intended to challenge MySpace and Facebook
The company, Wallop, began as a research project at Microsoft about four years ago, and is backed by about $US13 million from Microsoft and venture capitalists Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners and Consor Capital.
Wallop compete with established brands [...]

                          Now here is a service that is going to redefine the the rules of WEB 2.0  created by sites like Myspace, Flickr &  Youtube. When I say this I mean it (But again if it comes out of its never ending problems). Ning is coming up with a service that is offered by Web [...]

Today is Google’s 8th birthday and i on behalf od the entire team of WATblog would like to wish the search giant a very happy birthday! Google  has not only transformed the internet but in some ways is responsible for the growth that internet as a medium sees today.
Since inception Google has always been [...]