VC money overflowing in internet and mobile sectors..

by | posted: April 17, 2007
Just read these numbers from an article and it seems like VC money is overflowing.. In 2006, venture capitalists (VCs) struck 30 deals worth a total of $200 million most of which went into Internet and...
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Orkut just keeps getting bigger and bigger by the day in India!

by | posted: April 16, 2007
18th March, 2007: Orkut demographics revealed – 13.57% of the nearly 47 million registered users on Orkut, were from India. 31st March, 2007: Orkut demographics revealed – 13.79% of the nearly...
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Hutch Pink Ticker

by | posted: April 15, 2007
Well I just talked about how something like ice cream has been taken to the interactive platform, here I’d like to talk about a TV campaign which could have definitely used the internet medium to...
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Icecream goes the Interactive way!

by | posted: April 15, 2007
The latest product from the HLL stable to use the interactive mode of advertising is the Cornetto – with the SpillUrDil site. Well the first thing once on their site which jars your ears is the...
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Ab aap hindi mein blog kar sakte hai on Blogger

by | posted: April 14, 2007
Well now you can blog in hindi on Blogger and the coolest thing is this… Ab aap hindi mein blog kar sakte hai directly converts to ‘Now you can easily publish your thoughts, experiences and...
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Google acquires DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion

by | posted: April 14, 2007
Well how much money does Google have? Definitely a lot. There latest acquisition is that of DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion! That is almost double the amount they shelled out for YouTube. Microsoft was...
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Tribal DDB makes a ‘Protected Entry’ in to the Webby Awards Nominees list

by | posted: April 14, 2007
The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Web has nominated Tribal DDB India’s “Protected Entry” for MTV India as the Best Interactive Advertising Work of 2007. We had...
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Compete measures your Attention

by | posted: April 12, 2007
In an attempt to go beyond page views and visits, web stats company Compete introduced "Attention metrics". The reason is that interactive Web page technologies such as Ajax and Flash –...
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University offer web 2.0 courses in US.. when will indian universities wake up?

by | posted: April 12, 2007
There used to be a time when the youth aspired tobe either a doctor or an engineer. Then came the management schools and their fat salaries which created a shift in people’s preference and made Management...
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Chat from Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ all at once from Your mobile phone.

by | posted: April 12, 2007
Mundu IM the worlds first IM for mobile phones that provides a cross conference capability for users across messenger services like AIM, MSN, ICQ & YAHOO through a single chat window.  Users can...
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Search Engine Marketing growing

by | posted: April 12, 2007
MediaPost reports that the entire search marketing industry is poised to grow and search spending is growing. Jupiter Research finds that 26% percent of companies with annual revenues of $50M or more...
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Case Study on Microsoft blogging initiative

by | posted: April 12, 2007
Starting a corporate blog in a big company is not easy. you got to deal with lot of bureaucracy, politics between different departments and offices. Fred Vogelstein wrote an interesting case study on...
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Travel + Web 2.0 = Success?

by | posted: April 11, 2007
It wouldn’t be wrong if last year was called the year of the travel portals. As more than a dozen travel portals were launched and almost half a dozen got funded. Among all the travel portals the...
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What’s Cooking in the Social Networking Scene in India?

by | posted: April 10, 2007
Well with biggies like Naukri (Reliable source and also mentioned here) looking to enter and Reliance entering the Social Networking scene, we decided to check out on the latest happenings in the networks...
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Web 2.0 not exciting enough for VC’s

by | posted: April 8, 2007
Well though the youtube story in the US and the popularity of orkut and orkutting may have lead to a huge number of start ups starting up in the web 2.0 space in India it has not had an effect on the Venture...
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Percept breaks ties with webpercept to create new online arm

by | posted: April 8, 2007
Percept has decided to part ways with its online arm Webpercept. Webpercept was a full service online communications agency having major stockholding by partner Netweb Solutions. Percept has also...
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