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After acquiring Twango for $100 million and establishing its name in the social space, they (Nokia) have now launched ‘MOSH’ a mobile social networking/sharing website.
Mosh, short for Mobile Sharing would probably be a mash up of Twango and other social networks. For all those not familiar with Twango,
What is Twango?Twango is an online [...]

Visitors will abandon sites where they experience poor video performance, says a study conducted by Jupiter Research for Akamai Technologies.
The most compelling results reveal that, having experienced poor video performance at an Internet site, more than half of online video users would seek content from a competing Website, and a quarter would leave with a [...]

So its Sunday again and the last week whizzed past pretty quickly.. So here i am again listing down the news recap from last week that did not feature on WATBlog during the week..
1) Two UTV movies - Blue Umbrella and Fear to Premiere at Indyaondemand.com  .. Read More
2) Indyarocks launches widescreen video features  .. Read More
3) [...]

Red Herring Magazine have announced their list of 200 finalists for the “Red Hering 100 Asia” Awards 2007.
In case you are wondering what exactly is Red Herring 100?Well Red Herring is a global media company – they run a leading innovation magazine and an online daily technology news service amongst other services.
So the Red [...]

ecompare is a website that allows users to compare financial products in their area and of their interest which is very easy to search and is very helpful .
Instead of wasting time by physically going to banks and asking rates or surfing on individual websites of banking trying to compare rates with other banks, [...]

Sulekha has recently launched BLOGPRINT Contest, which is Aimed to promote quality blogging and to spot promising talent among Indians globally, (who are part of sulekha)
The contest will run for a period of 6 months, from August 1st, 2007, till January 31st, 2008. Every week starting August 10th, the two best blogs on Sulekha.com will [...]

Hutch offering Sanjeev kapoor recipes on mobile
Hutch, one of India’s leading Telecom service providers, along with Mobifusion, a global publisher of mobile applications and technology has introduced a service for users where they can download recipes by Sanjeev Kapoor (renowned Indian chef) directly on their phone.
“Any Time Temptations” the recipe book by Sanjeev Kapoor [...]

Mkhoj a mobile advertising firm has introduced a new platform for consumers that allows them to search for local every-day products having best deals and discounts directly from their mobile phones.
Users have to just type the product (e.g  shoes) along with the locality (bandra Mumbai) and then send the message to mkhoj at 6767777
merchants [...]

Just the other day there was an article saying that Nokia has chosen India as the location for the first in a series of satellite design studios across the world i.e they would be having Indians suggest designs for future Nokia handsets.
Established via a two year partnership with the Srishti School of Art, Design [...]

YOU ARE READING IT FIRST HERE: Naukri.com which was hinting at launch of a website that caters to the needs of passive jobseekers has gone ahead and launched Brijj.com.
As of writing this post i tried registering on the site and was faced with some problems. It seems that the site has not been officially announced [...]

We had written about zapak tie up with maxim and how zapak was turning into a portal with everything from games, email and video content being available on the site. Now it seems there is clear intent from zapak to get the youth hooked on to its mail services by partnering with Indias largest college festival [...]

India possesses the largest population of English speaking audience. India also possesses a massive pool of young population – a generation which is net and technology savvy. Social Media is on the rise. Net penetration is increasing by the day.
1/3rd of the Indian web users are Web 2.0 site users according to a recent survey. [...]

Online advertising spend will overtake US newspaper advertising by the year 2011 according to Financial Times.
The findings are from a widely-watched annual research report on the media sector by Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS).
"In the 2007 study, published on Tuesday, VSS forecasts that online advertising will grow by more than 21 per cent per year to [...]

American Greetings e- card and interactive division AG Interactive, Inc, has launched a new mobile e-card service that allows users to send greeting cards from the web directly on the cell phones.
The new mobile e-card service uses the latest technology to deliver full- color, animated greetings to cell phones thanks to a partnership between AG [...]

We have featured a few virals before and some of them have been good while the others aren’t so great. But the best thing about virals is that they bring almost instant results for the brand that is behind the viral and also they are very cost effective as they are user forwarded.
The company that [...]