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 Nokia has acquired social media sharing site Twango for around $100 million in a move to strengthen its mobile social sharing services.
What exactly is Twango? Twango is an online media sharing site that supports multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, [...]

 Sahad at VCCircle reports about Google spreading its wings in the Indian investing scenario. Google has now joined as one of the institutional members of Band of Angels (BOA).
Google had previously invested as a limited partner in two early stage funds – Erasmic Venture Fund and Seed Fund. Recently they even acquired 30% units of [...]

Yesterday Hewlett Packard (HP) organized an event to unveil its new Compaq logo along with some new products offerings under the Compaq portfolio.
Well this move by HP was to position its Compaq brand of computers as a cheap yet stylish option for the masses. And who else would you want to endorse your brand [...]

The local search engine market is booming. One such website TOLMOLBOL that caters to local search engine and more presented at Proto.in that took place over last weekend. We Caught up with Anand Morzaria, the ringmaster for TOMOLBOL and got an insight from him on his portal .
Q1) what was the rational Behind Tolmolbol?
We built [...]

"A pathbreaking event!" is what Sateesh Andra of DFJ Venture Capital termed Proto.in post the event. For all those who dont know Proto.in is a technology showcase for tech startups who are looking to raise venture capital. We have covered the first edition of proto here and the second edition concluded on this sunday in Chennai. For all those who dont [...]

The advent of Web 2.0 has brought with it a host of unique and innovative marketing possibilities. In fact various companies have sprouted up catering to this niche of Buzz Marketing, Social Media Optimization, Blog Marketing etc. We’ve talked about SMO in the past, so let’s have a look at Buzz and Blog Marketing.
What is [...]

 
Well don’t be surprised if you’ve not heard of these guys. After creating waves in the US, they are finally looking at India ops.
…and by the looks of it, their GetMobio service seems to be pretty cool!
What is Mobio? Who are these guys?
Mobile Widgets! These chaps mash up web services into mobile apps and serve [...]

Introducing - Chandan who works with a startup social network in Gurgaon and is the newest and youngest member to join the team of WATBloggers. Here’s hoping YOU our WATBlog readers welcome his first post with loads of comments. And hey chandan.. Welcome and All the best! Heres His 1st post…..
Orkut became the biggest [...]

In a recent report and study conducted by Privacy International on Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies, Google was ranked as the worst company when it came to handling a user’s privacy. Microsoft didn’t fare too good either and were assessed as a company which had ‘Serious Lapses’ when it came to handling a users [...]

This post is long due. I have been using "Next Action" a cool application to maintain your todo list for quite some time now. Its cool because of so many reasons. Here is the small screenshot of the tool-bar of the application.

It has dashboard to show you whats pending.

It clearly differentiates in actions and [...]

 
Euro RSCG,Delhi did an interesting campaign for net4domains.com to communicate that people can register any kind of domain names at net4domains.com.
Basically they pasted net4domians.com stickers in public places like bus shelters,dustbins, with a line "Register it at net4domains.com"
Innovative and cost effective but how many actually went to net4domains.com and registered domain names??
The advertisers claimed [...]

Well this has been in news since Orkut became synonymous with social circle and scrap with communication in India. Since orkut started becoming more and more popular among office goers, news of it being banned in offices also started becoming common. But i guess technology knows no barriers and soon there were proxy addresses reported [...]

Recently WATblog wrote an article on how Sony and Setmax had sent legal notices to Youtube for copyright Infringements. Our readers commented saying that platforms like Youtube only help popularize these shows. 
Taking similar steps, Eros International tied up with Youtube a month ago and already had 6oo+ subscribers to its channel. Their “bollywood” channel has [...]

Perfetti Van Melle the confectionery giant has some very well known brands like mentos, alpenliebe, chlor-mint and happydent among its large collection of confectionery brands. Recently their VP and COO of South Asia Mr.Stefano Pelle gave a talk on Online advertising at Indian Management Institute IMI on 17th July where he claimed that online advertising had great prospects [...]

We had blogged about percept parting ways with webpercept which was later rebranded as Id8labs in the early part of this year. Now it seems that percept has finally put together a digital agency of its own by the name of Percept Knorigin.
So what is percepts plan with this new outfit?
Viraj Malik, MD, Percept Knorigin, [...]