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Well i was shocked when one of our readers commented on our Reliance Chintee.com post saying whether we had any arrangement with Mid-day Bangalore to provide them content. I replied to the comment asking our reader to send us a screenshot of the newspaper as i felt it could be a case of plagiarism! And [...]

Today is World No Tobacco Day and we at WATBlog are making a conscious effort towards this cause. For starters none of us at office smoke.
Other than just Blogging and Consulting, we guys here have varied interests in biking, video editing, photography and many more… (Includes gorging on chocolates all the time!)
We hope [...]

 
 Now Apple TV users will be able to browse, watch and save Youtube videos directly using the Apple TV starting mid June(internationally). One’s computer won’t be required to watch videos.
Steve Jobs said that “This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch, and it’s [...]

 
Television giant, BBC has stepped into the popular video sharing website YouTube, so as to facilitate the channel’s reach to millions of internet users across the world.
Around 30 news clips have been gathered from the BBC’S 58 international news bureau and its 250 correspondents worldwide and they are available everyday. The users have the option [...]

  
 
eBay- an online shopping website has just acquired Stumbleupon a social discovery service for $75 million.
StumbleUpon has shown a tremendous rise in the past 1year and has grown nearly 150% since then having around 2.3 million users and approximately approximately five million recommendations daily. StumbleUpon allows users to access new random websites based on their [...]

‘Page views per user’ received can be a decent parameter to judge the user engagement levels of any Social Networking site, especially since not many of them are Ajax heavy. So, we decided to see how the Indian SN Sites compared with their International counterparts.
28 May, 2007:

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Indian companies are now being sold on eBay.  A Lucknow based company has just auctioned offering to sell up to 25 per cent stake at a minimum rate of Rs25,000 for a one per cent stake to bidders on eBay. in. (Sounds like a good deal?).
There have been 10 Internet companies which sought out [...]

Brand Equity (Economic Times) came out with its annual list of India’s Most Trusted Brands today. While brands like Colgate, Vicks and Lux took the top 3 positions – the interesting aspect was seeing the rise of mobile related brands.
Nokia featured as the 4th most trusted brand in India. Here’s a handset company which was [...]

Techtribe.com the techie social network whom we have reviewed earlier in our India 2.0 series. Techtribe has been making constant progress and has been in the news for corporate alliances as well.

Now it seems its the ever expanding erecruitment industry that is on techtribe ceo rohit aggarwals mind. I had a 20 minute conversation with [...]

Well the new venture of Reliance group is called Chintee.com. Chintee in English refers to ants. After Big Adda and Big Flicks Reliance is all set to come up with a search engine as speculated (We may be wrong also).However if one types only chintee.com it is directed to the Big Adda site. Its only [...]

Well if there was one communication tool online that is being adopted as fast as it is being used its blogging. Just over the last few months we have reported blogs being used as a medium of communication.
So every one from ebay, fropper, to even the ceo of naukri.com is realising the power of blogging. Recently AOL [...]

Talk about internet players having money muscle power! Bharatmatrimony is supposedly going to pump in 57 crores into advertising for all the different kinds of classified portals it owns. The bharatmatrimony group will spend Rs 25 crore as ad-spent budget on ClickJobs.com, Rs 20 crore on as ad spend on BharatMatrimony.com, Rs 10 crore on IndiaProperty.com and about [...]

When we search the internet we often come across some interesting websites. Well we came across a few that we found interesting for guys who just about like to surf anything. 
1) We came across this link and  found it very interesting. It’s a list of the top 100 oldest currently registered names on the internet. [...]

BBC World Service and MSN India have joined hands to make the news content of the BBC Hindi website, available to the users of MSN Hindi.
MSN India executive producer Krishna Prasad said, "BBC is known worldwide for quality and objectivity in its reporting. We are extremely proud to be associated with an organisation as reputed [...]

A full-fledged Hindi net browser? That’s what we were expecting. But after downloading the application from the Hindi microsite, I was left rather disappointed. Hindi wasn’t listed…

You can download the Hindi Language File though and patch it to a certain extent.
in.opera.com now leads you to a completely Hindi page, with their product details.It’s rather Shudh-Hindi! [...]