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We had an article about the naukri IPO which was over subscribed 55 times and about the Rs.290-320 Price Band offering. Well India’s first true blue internet company has been listed on the stock markets (both NSE and BSE) and in just one day it has doubled it valuations! Naukri i.e. Infoedge Ltd stocks hit a [...]

They say sharing is caring, which is indeed very true. But Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis perhaps took it a little too seriously, and created KaZaA and Skype. With Skype being acquired by ebay, the duo is now working on a project code named The Venice Project, which on the website calls itself “… a new venture [...]

Well since our last article we have come across a lot more stories on Internet access through mobile. Firstly the bad news! According to a study by SmartTrust, 53% of Indians whose cellphones have internet access don’t use it to surf the net as they feel it is too expensive. The slow pace of the Net, fear of [...]

Exchange4media: Inspired by the success of http://www.girlspace.com, P&G feminine hygiene brand whisper has launched an interactive online community called http://www.beingGirl.co.in for girls in the 14-19 age group to share their joys and anxieties and get solutions to their growing up concerns. BeingGirl.co.in is a guide to knowing what a girl always wants to know, but [...]

Business standard: BSNL has commenced testing of its Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) service in Pune and soon bring IPTV to other metros and rural areas. BSNL has tied up with the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Ltd (MKCL), a state government company, for integration of information technology in education and DiviNet, an infrastructure and technology provider BSNL [...]

Economic Times: Uniliver wants to take sunsilkgangofgirls global!! Unilever, however, has not yet finalised exactly how the concept will be taken forward. According to sources, Gang of Girls will also be taken to the rural market, where it will be rebranded Sunsilk Saheliyan. Launched in June 2006 with the aim of developing a closer relationship [...]

The Hindu: Bharatmatrimony which claims a membership of nine million, hopes to cater to 10 million users by March 2008 would replace Shaadi.com on Yahoo’s India matrimony specific site(shaadi.com also powers MSN india portal).
BharatMatrimony, which in July raised about Rs 40 crore from Yahoo and Canaan partners, for promoting 300 ‘offline’ matrimonial centres that the [...]

According to the Internet in India (I-Cube) study jointly undertaken by the Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International mumbai has 3.24 million internet users out of which 82% are active users i.e a whopping 2.6 million!
That begs the question.. Why is mumbai not getting WiMax? There was news earlier of [...]

TOI: Well here is some amazing news for all those into ecommerce. Bank customers, it seems, are increasingly using internet and other alternate modes to make transactions.
Here are some stats:
Payments through electronic channels like the Internet, credit and debit cards shot up by 121% in 2005-06. this translates to Rs 3,43,593 crore from [...]

Microsoft Corp has announced a global storage upgrade for MSN Hotmail’s 260 million plus active email accounts expanding the storage capacity to 1 gigabyte and extending the expiration period for inactive accounts from 30 days to 60 days for those accounts that are more than two years old.
Well finally the software giant has got [...]

The rate at which google is expanding its range of services across the globe its virtually impossible for its competitors to play catch up. Now google has expanded to several additional countries and is testing to provide ads to mobile devices.
The test, which began in August, was available in the U.S., the U.K., Germany and Japan, and now it [...]

Exchange4media: Indian Express Online has entered into an agreement with travel portal MakeMyTrip.com under which makemytrip will power the newly launched travel channel of ExpressIndia.com. Besides offering travel products, the channel would offer comprehensive travel content like guest travelogues, message boards, videos, restaurant reviews, regional festivities and snapshots for the leisure or business traveller.The commercials [...]

Business Line: “New technologies such as IPTV will offer new hope for live sports broadcast,” said Mr Sricharan Iyengar, Business Head - New Media, ESPN Software India.
Content of sports shows will improve and change to suit the new age TV viewer with the emergence of IPTV. It will also open up a whole world to [...]

MapmyIndia which provides detailed maps at different zoom levels on the Net and related applications like Mapsearch, eLocation, Driving Directions & Local Search to offer an exhaustive array of location-based solutions centring on India launched there next version known as v-2007 MapmyIndia v-2007 allows users to drag the maps ( at all zoom levels ) [...]

We have written before about Saas (Software as a service) market in India and about its growth potential which is exponential in the coming years. Software as a Service (SaaS) has showed strong growth in adoption levels across Asia in 2005, and is poised for stronger growth going forward, according to a Springboard Research market [...]