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ESPN-STAR Sports on Tuesday announced the launch of Mobile ESPN, marking its entry into the mobile value added services (VAS) domain in India. The new service will be available on major telecom networks such as Hutch, Airtel, Idea, BSNL, etc. from November 15, 2006. Prices range from Rs 50 to Rs 100 for a month’s [...]

Yahoo’s former India head Neville Taraporewalla, has decided to join Connecturf, as MD & CEO. V Ramani, the current CEO will take on the role of vice-chairmanship of the group. Mr Taraporewalla, who will be the operational in charge of the company will report to Ishan Raina, chairman and innovator of Connecturf as well as [...]

Business Standard: An Indian YouTube clone, Meravideo.com, is close to getting $1.5 million venture capital funding Kanwaldeep S Kalsi, Head, Braingain Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., said: “The money, which is for an initial period of 8-9 months, will be spent on infrastructure, bandwidth scalability, manpower and public relations and marketing of the site.” MeraVideo is a [...]

Exchange4media: Job portals fight for numbers took another turn when Clickjobs.com, the jobs portal from the Bharat Matrimony group, has for the first time scored over Timesjobs.com on the Alexa charts last week. Recently ClickJobs.com, has introduced new features, including "My Search" and "Real Time Web Notification" to enhance the overall online recruitment experience. With [...]

Exchange4media: Quasar Media has won the interactive advertising duties for online movie rental service, Seventymm.com. Quasar Media will work on the entire online advertising initiative for seventymm.com whose target audience are young earning couples in Bangalore and Delhi. Founded by Raghav Kher a former Microsoft manager who founded Imandi.com, a heavily-funded Internet startup which morphed [...]

BusinessStandard: Cellnext Solutions Ltd, a value-added service providerand a subsidiary of the Escorts Group is gearing up to offer M-paper services to users in India and discussing the possibility with two leading english dailes reports business standard Cellnext is carrying out a pilot run with mobile service provider Idea Cellular to deliver news on mobile [...]

Well its interesting to see that despite the internet boom which according to many analysts is here to stay companies are making losses. Though you might argue that profit is not really a measure of the potential of a segment (think youtube buyout by google) but still its surprising that something as revenue generating as e-recruitment has [...]

During 1980s, the IT Industry was vertically aligned. The old style computer manufacturers had their own semiconductor chips, built the computer in their own factories and developed their own proprietary Operating System. But as the 1990s approached, the industry had gone through a tectonic shift, as the industry structure got horizontal. With the emergence of [...]

Hindustan Times: Well the online world might be going ga ga over ecommerce and online retail but when one thinks about what do people buy on a daily basis in India? The first thing that comes to mind is vegetables! So can vegetables be sold online? Well are you pessimistic?? Don’t be because vegetable selling [...]

Hungama Mobile and Excel Entertainment, the producers of DON, have launched DON Mobile Games and the first ever Multiplayer Online Game for any Bollywood movie on India’s gaming portal www.gaminghungama.com.

Mr. Neeraj Roy, MD and CEO, Hungama Mobile, said, “Our creative and gaming team visited Kuala Lumpur in May 2006 for the making of the movie. During which there [...]

Movie marketing online has been picking up in India with every movie thats being released. So its no surprise that Don the latest sharukh khan movie has tied up with MSN India for a promotional contest. MSN India has launched "The Don Chase" contest on www.in.msn.com. "The Don Chase" contest promises to be a high [...]

IndianTelevison: In a recent online survey conducted in 41 countries around the world, ACNielsen asked consumers what helped them to arrive at their final decision when it came to purchasing a variety of products. Conventional advertising, the most likely purchase influencer overall, is a dominating decision-influence for consumers in India when it comes to ‘investing’ [...]

Internet boom 2? Is web 2.0 rising in India? Well Indiatimes talked to three incubators Mr Murugavel Janakiraman, CEO, Bharatmatrimony.com (BM), Mr Glynn Willet, CEO, Tutorswithoutlimits.com (TWL) and Mr Mohit Dubey, CEO, Carwale.com (CW) and here’s what they had to say..
There was a boom and then a bust and then the internet is lifting up [...]

Well we have heard this one before that Internet can get addictive.. But now giving this notion more credibility is a study done by Stanford where the researchers conducted a nationwide household survey and interviewed 2,513 adults. As there are no generally accepted screening instrument that exist for problematic Internet use, the researchers developed their [...]

Trust Google to come up with innovations that continously help them improve and to a large extent dominate the online search business.
So here comes "Google custom search" which basically means that now anyone can build a search engine of their choice! So whether its travel deals from all the travel sites or technology based [...]