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Google acquires Adscape
Google acuired Adscapemedia, the online in-game advertising company for $23 Million. Adscapemedia, was a lucrative offer considering the Google’s goals of establishin a one platform for any form of advertising. Adscapemedia was pretty famous for its patented AdverPlay™, which allows advertisers and publishers, measurable in-game advertising opportunities.Adscapemedia is also famous for Real World/Virtual World Gateway™ [...]
Zapak gets girly with Zapakgirls and soon to go kiddy!
There is no better proof of Girl power than this! Zapak has gone ahead and set up a new section all together new website called zapakgirls.com for girl gamers!
And it seems zapak is not the only one acknowledging woman prowess in gaming. Indiagames which is launching a gaming tournament in the first week of [...]
Updated: Bloggers hold protest against Yahoo!
UPDATE: The malayalam recipe blog controversy in which the content from a bloggers site was blatantly copied to yahoo’s portal has caused a bloggers protest against Yahoo!.
Here is an image representation of the protest!
Visit this blog to know more about the protest which is asking "Yahoo! to apologize to the bloggers and not shamelessly remove the [...]
Online travel – Are we in a crowded space?
A lot has been spoken about how indian online travel is booming! There is also a lot of news articles on all sorts of travel sites poping up. And now it seems even international players are down in India to play the travel game!
In an interview Indian MD – Himanshu Singh of the Internationally reknowned travel [...]
Indian developer community booming!
According to IDC, the Asia Pacific region is set to become the largest market for software developers by 2007 (I can vouch for this fact as i have seen the increasing statistics of techies that apply for jobs through my jobsite).
IDC predicts that the total number of professional developers worldwide is set to soar over the [...]
Technology’s Top 5 Deal Makers
Core Source: Forbes
This article is about the most famous deal makers based on the profits they have made, by taking in companies to Public and sold. According to Forbes 460 Venture Backed Firms were sold for whooping $35 Billion last year. Internet is still dominating. Some of the other Tech and WEB firms that have [...]
Gyaati.com – Split ur Expenses
Sharing accomodations and expenses, is a way of living for most of the foreign students and legal workers from other countries in US. The trend is picking up in other countries as well. The worst part of staying in a group, is to maintain the bills and expenses. Usually each and everyone has turns to [...]
Premiere of Adlabs Co-Production “Marigold” on ‘Mobile’ at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona
Marigold the much awaited movie soon to be launched by Adlabs Films on “Mobile Phones” had its “first look” at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
The 3GSM World Congress is one of the largest exhibitions for the mobile industry. The event attracted over 60,000 attendees from across the global mobile value chain The filim [...]
Gmail is now free signup! No need for invitation!
Gmail has opened signups to all users and this is no surprise as it comes shortly after opening orkut to all users. Google also released four promotional videos posted below to promote the new open sign up for gmail.
We had earlier mentioned how gmail is growing in India and is only second to Yahoo [...]
Internet to form 3% of 7660 cr Indian media market by 2012!
According to the new "India Media Market 2007" report from Heernet Ventures, the Indian media market is expected to grow from revenues of $9.2 billion in 2007 to $17 billion (around 7660 crores) by 2012. a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13%.
See charts below..
So doing my math right the online media spend is pegged [...]
Icici and Irctc tie up for e-ticket service
Irctc’s online ticket selling has been one of the most prolific e-commerce successes in India. So after highly successful i-ticketing and e-ticketing for the Internet users, IR is now going to start net based e-ticketing vending machines to be run by merchant’s establishments in all the major towns for common mass.
E-points of sale (e-POS) [...]
A community full of regrets!
Update: Well it turns out that the myregret.in site has been made for kotak mutual fund! What a let down! Though a nice attempt at being innovative!
When i think of it Myregrets would have been an interesting web 2.0 stand alone portal if explored! Because a lot of people have regrets out there and [...]
European directive bans fake blogs/reviews
EU is passing a new law that will make it illegal for companies to knowingly try to deceive customers about the origin of a weblog or other advertisement The new regulations also will apply to authors who praise their own books under a fake identity at e-commerce websites reports Times online 43% of e-commerce sites [...]
Voting for the best blogs starts at Indibloggies!
Indibloggies (http://www.indibloggies.org), the blog awards we had mentioned earlier as well has entered the public poll phase where voters will choose their favourite blog. From 13th to 20th February, 2007 the Indian blogosphere would witness the titans of blogdom clash for prizes worth more than Rs 13,00,000 (1.3 Million, ~ $28000). During this phase the fate [...]
Yahoo to place ads on mobile across 19 countries
Yahoo Inc. will now start showing mobile display advertising in its Yahoo Mobile Web service in 19 countries. Yahoo mobile advertising will be launched in countries like India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Thailand, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam.
The customers who click on these ads [...]
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