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Every third day, we receive news that an Internet, mobile, web2.0 startup has received funding. Recently startup’s like Kreeda, FlightRaja and the much controversial Minglebox received funding. Proto.in is also consciously looking at bridging a platform for startups and Venture Capitals. Heres an exclusive article on what the eminent Venture Capitalist of the country think [...]

‘eBay is rebuilding its technical infrastructure in a project that could lead to the e-commerce giant hosting applications from outsiders’, reports CNET News.
An initiative, internally referred to as eBox, calls for the company to rebuild the technical frame of eBay.com as an “open platform” comprising a series of modular services, rather than a single, unified [...]

Smile Interactive the company that owns the interactive agency Quasar, the travel search engine zoomtra and the ad network tyroo is all set to launch its first foray into the mobile space by launching a mobile portal phirki.mobi.
Recently we wrote about the survey which mentioned the increase in the use of internet through mobiles [...]

JuxtConsult has recently come out with its report India Online 2007 which throws up an interesting set of numbers as compared to the same report done last year

66% users came from SEC ‘A’ and ‘B’ classes in 2006, only 56% come from these classes now.
19-35 year age groups accounted for 76% users last year, [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 Mobile2win recently tied up with Saregama who will be introducing a mobile game for their movie Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii.
In an article by Timesofindia, Indian movies get only 40% of its revenue trough the box office, the remaining 60% comes from DVD mobile Wallpapers Ringtones, games, caller tunes etc.
Recently there was an [...]

Internet is fast becoming a medium that seems to be upsetting someone or the other. So after the orkut vs shiv sena saga (which is still heating up with google being told to block orkut and google refusing to do the same as i last read in an offline article) comes the postman vs zapakmail [...]

 
We recently covered a story on Madhouse being acquired by Seventymm, In continuation with the same we spoke to Sameer Guglani, the then CEO and Founder of Madhouse and now the Vice President -Corporate Strategy of seventymm. He gives us a peek into the reasons behind the acquisition and discusses the path ahead for seventymm. [...]

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Retail is actively negotiating with the $19.3-billion Apple Inc of the US to bring its high-end Apple Store to India, reports Financial Express.
Japan is currently the only Asian country to have an Apple retail outlet and there are just 4 countries (UK, Japan, Canada and Italy) outside the US that have an [...]

It’s the latest talk of the town. You make like it, you may hate it but you certainly cannot ignore it… Apples latest product the apple iPhone has certainly created a big stir amongst the internet and mobile industry. Just for those if you who donot know what is the iPhone (I seriously doubt that) [...]

You’re always on the go? Even though you’ve got an RSS feed reader set up on your PC – you are not able to find enough time in the day to go through all the content coming in?
Well perhaps its time to give your Mobile another reason to redeem its high cost?!
(Still an alien in [...]

Burrp!, with its funky looking site, is a platform for anything and everything local. Here is a frank yet insightful interview with Deap Ubhi, Founder and Ceo of Burrp!, where he discusses everything from the thought behind Burrp! the name to the Impact of localization of content on the Indian internet space.
 
Q) Burrp – [...]

Well it seems that mainsteam media i.e. television has finally acknowledged the power of new media i.e. the internet. Im not sure how we missed this story which came out a week ago but nevertheless its surely worth dwelling upon.
So here it is MTV India announced it nominee’s for this years Youth Icon and surprise [...]

In continuation with our earlier post , we would like to update our readers that MID-DAY Banglore has finally carried an apology in their paper. This apology comes almost about a week later, after a whole lot of delay from Sunayana (the mid-day journalist) sides, who kept promising it would come in ‘the next days [...]

 
 
 
 
Well this news is just in.. Cricinfo (probably one of the best cricket related sites in the world) which was owned by Wisden Group has been acquired by the sports tv giant ESPN.
On the acquition Russell Wolff, managing director, ESPN International, told agencyfaqs “Growing our business in the on-line world is vital for us to serve sports fans. [...]

Following up from last weeks sunday recap.. Here is one more which contains stories that we didn’t dedicate a whole post to but nevertheless are worth mentioning here..
So here it goes..

B2B Travel Portal launched by saffron media .. More
Digital Ad network to be launched by Paypod .. More
Income Tax Dept launches blogs for tax queries [...]