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agencyfaqs: Rajshri Media, the digital entertainment arm of Rajshri Group, has appointed Limelight Networks as the exclusive provider of streaming content delivery services for Rajshri.com Rajshri.com currently serves more than 3,000 hours of full length Indian movies, music videos, TV shows, short films, documentaries and other premium programming. Rajshri.com claims to serve over 1 million [...]

The Hindu Business Line: Hyderabad based Ybrant technologies acquired Mediosone an internet advertising network focusedon global consumer base. Ybrant has formed a separate business unit focused on building Internet advertising network to address international traffic online. Mr Brad Cohen will be the CEO of this new business unit. Its existing business of providing services and [...]

It’s definitely BREWing!If one were to go by the postive sentiments and optimism expressed at the recently held Brew 2006 Developers Conference - India at the ITC Grand Maratha Sheraton, Mumbai, the future definitely looks bright for BREW.
The day began with Kanwalinder Singh - President, QUALCOMM India & SAARC delivering a keynote address. According [...]

Exchange4media: TBWA India has announced the launch of Tequila India. Tequila is TBWA Worldwide’s interactive arm and is one of the largest global networks offering CRM and interactive services. Tequila was recently named One to One Agency of the Year, Asia Pacific by Media magazine. Awanish Kumar ex Solutions Integrated Marketing Services will head Tequila [...]

Travelguru, has received a fresh infusion of capital commitment to the tune of $15 million from US-based Battery Ventures and Sequoia Capital India.Sequoia had invested $10 million in the first round of funding for Travelguru. The second round of funding will help Travelguru in building retail initiatives to support online growth and support its plans [...]

ICICI Bank is in talks with Internet service providers such as Reliance Infocomm for providing interview cubicles with audio-visual recording and tele-conferencing facilities to control recruitment costs and raise productivity of its HR personnel ICICI bank expects to hire 15,000 people every year for the next several years and most of the recruits will come [...]

                      It was a successful project by Google, which had been up and alive for past 4 years. A project called Google answers, which was started by Larry page and 4 others, which would accept questions and answer them. This was a user driven product (Some thing like wikipedia, where one can post info) and [...]

A survey conducted by University of Pune found that majority (77 per cent) of online readers in India was in the age group of 21-40 years. Most readers (79 per cent) spent at least 15 minutes on reading the newspaper on the Internet.
A majority of them spent up to 30 minutes to one hour [...]

Agencyfaqs: Sifymax announced an alliance with Sony Entertainment Television to be the official website of their reality show BiggBoss,Sifymax will feature exclusive footage from each episode, as well as footage, which users do not get to see on television Sifymax will feature the Bigg Boss show format, profile of the anchor, profiles of contestants who [...]

Exchange4media: CNBC-TV18 & moneycontrol.com has announced the launch of a free business newsletter service for Blackberry and GPRS enabled phones. The newsletter, to be sent out once a day to all subscribers, will have all the top headlines of the day. The newsletter would include bullet headlines and a para description of the top stories [...]

TED brings together the best brains in the fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design or for that matter as the website says..Business, Sciences and The Arts..infact ANY subject area offering anything fresh and important. It is currently hosted by Chris Anderson and manged by his non-profit - The Sampling Foundation.
The TED blog is indeed a [...]

According to ‘Blogging India: An MSN and Windows Live Report’ released on Monday, India’s blogosphere is driven by youth and a passion for self-improvement and entertainment, with 42% of the online users reading blogs to stay informed about world events, and 49% citing entertainment as the main reason they read blogs
Some key findings of the [...]

Firstly i would like to apologize to all WATblog readers for taking so much time for the Part 7 of the India 2.0 series. I guess i pay the price of being an entrepreneur trying to change the way fresher recruitment is done in India. In short have been busy with generating revenue and answering questions of investors [...]

Exchange4media: Internet ad spend from HLL is going to increase may be 3 0r 4 times according to Rahul Welde, GM Media Services HLL HLL has renewed its focus on the Internet for some of their key brands speaking further on HLL’s Internet strategy, Rahul Welde, said, “We are using the Internet aggressively for select [...]

Google maps were at its best. Scanning satelite images, they provided us the best virtual maps ever made. Now Microsoft is not left behind.Microsoft unveils its Virtual Earth Product with a business touch to it. Microsoft had released a beta version of Virtual Earth , a web-based application that combines local search with maps and aerial [...]