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With the advent of pay per click advertising and ecommerce booming in India smaller brands and small retailers having products for a niche segment are transcending geographical boundaries by using the Internet’s reach. Ecommerce has been given a boost with Ebay conducting ecommerce seminars. Also players like Indiatimes shopping and Rediff shopping have been pushing [...]

Business Line: ValueFirst, has launched a SMS helpline that could be used by women to reach out for help. With this, any women can send an SMS to the number 6070, which would be automatically forwarded to the local police department of the area. The service, at present, has been introduced in Gurgaon and would [...]

DNAindia: We had mentioned earlier how yahoo was planning to launch regional language chat in India and how MSN and Rediif had already launched the same in the markets. So here it is Yahoo India on Wednesday launched a new feature ‘Indichat’ in its yahoo messenger that would enable users to chat in Hindi and [...]

Larry Sanger,co-founder of Wikipedia is launching a rival website citizendium.org Larry sanger came out of wikipedia in 2002 and became an avid critic of wikipedia for lacking accuracy.
A test version of "Citizendium" to be launched this week in California. ( the pilot project will not be open to general public view). The project got funding [...]

Music can be everything you want it to be.. It can be spiritual, romantic, religious and even money! Well if its mobile music that is. According to Juniper Research revenues from mobile music services will top $14bn worldwide by 2011. Also Asia will become the world’s largest market for mobile music by 2011 with some [...]

According to P N Padukone, Sr Deputy Director General of Dot Telecommunication Engineering Centre WiMAX could be the answer to ‘last mile’ connectivity issues that prohibit Internet connection in rural India. Now its easy to brush this off as a over optimistic statement but one look at the RNCOS’ report “WiMAX - A Market Update [...]

Universal Music Group filed lawsuits against  two video-sharing Web sites Grouper.com and Bolt.com  for copyright laws  violation and by allowing users to share music clips and other content without permission.
Grouper.com was acquired by Sony pictures in August for $65 million. Universal Music agreed to a content licensing agreement with YouTube and negotiated licensing deals with [...]

‘iPhone’ the term highly popularized by the blogging communities, has been filed for copyright by Apple Inc. It can be presumed that the launch of the iPhone is pretty close. Also a cell phone with integrated ‘iPod’ would be irresistible another point that comes to otice is the URL ‘www.iphone.org ‘ redirects to the Apple [...]

IAMAI came up with another report I-Cube 2006 report along with IMRB International.
Some highlights of the report:
Around 38% of all internet users in India are ‘heavy users’ i.e. around 14 million users and on an average spend about 8.2 hrs per week on the internet. IAMAI has also predicted that Indian online users [...]

San Francisco-based retail chain GAP inc is testing, a ecommerce web site piperlime.com with 100 shoe brands ranging from $24 to $900. Gap generated online sales of about $600 million on its new site last year, making it the biggest specialty apparel chain online, according to Internet Retailer magazine. In the first half of 2006 [...]

Exchange4media: Not too long ago there was a story we featured about reliance looking to invest $100 million in gaming over three years and here is the reliance gaming portal called Zapak.com. Zapak.com a casual gaming portal has been launched in beta version under  new gaming division of Anil Dhirubhhai Ambani’s group named Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd.
The final [...]

Viacom’s MTV Networks has acquired a teen-centric online community Quizilla.com from Gorilla Nation Media for an undisclosed amount. Quizilla.com is a Web site where mostly teenaged girls create and share content consisting of quizzes, puzzles, stories and poems. According to comScore Media Metrix, the site reached 4.7 million unique visitors globally in September and ranked [...]

India’s leading online travel company Makemytrip.com has roped in Nurun inc to redefine its online brand. Nurun Inc is a subsidiary of Quebecor Media Inc. a global company which strategizes executes, and measures interactive programs that use new technologies.
According to a press release experts at Nurun said that the new look and feel of the [...]

The cabinet yesterday cleared the amendments to the IT act in a move the strengthen the laws surrounding data security in India. This move was pending ever since India became the BPO hub for the world. The IT act ammendments will also have a great impact on the Internet industry.
Here is a synopsis of what [...]

Since we started the India 2.0 series the activity in the web 2.0 space in India has grown manifold. Our last part India 2.0 part 5 featured 8 web 2.0 sites and we thought it would be the longest post on WATblog for sometime.. But guess we proved ourselves worng in just a week.. So [...]