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Years ago, I watched the Shah Rukh Khan starrer, Baadshah. Media now addresses SRK by this name, which, now you know, started by this movie. But I’m not going to blog about that. Yes, I know you would have preferred that any day. But, what the hell, this is Web-Advertising-Technology. See, no mention of [...]

Companies in India, especially all IT companies, have started recruiting through social media networks and blogs. Earlier we had blogged about social media sites being a threat to job portals. This is a very good trend coming up as recruiters get a chance to make a background check of the person they are recruiting. Websites [...]

Social networking sites are taking over the world. The trend is surely growing fast and making life easy for a lay man. Social networking sites popularity is spreading like a virus. The image below shows the reach of social networking sites.
 

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When the social networking sites are creating buzz how [...]

 
Late! But, chalega. Still better than never. After the mega success of foreign online music stores like iTunes , Urge and Rhapsody.com, Indian music labels are finally getting up to setting up of online music stores in India. Saregama India, Sony BMG and T-Series have made a total of 50 lakh tracks available online. This [...]

Bharti Airtel has tied up with the very popular Western union (money transferring service provider) and is offering money transfer through mobile phones. Users from anywhere across the world can send money upto $100 to their hometowns in India.
According to The Hindu business line The move is part of a global initiative by [...]

Have a look at the statistic below – try and find where India figures on this list that ranks countries on the basis of Average Broadband Speed.

Surprised? A supposed hub of International technology development does not even figure on this list. Until August 2005, India did not even have a route server. It thus  took [...]

In my previous post on Facebook I wrote about the changes that Facebook has brought about to the Internet advertising industry by introducing Social Ads and capitalizing on the revenue generating capabilities of a social network. The other change that Facebook has introduced with respect to advertising is that it now allows Companies to officially [...]

November month is at its fag end and next month could be called a month of events. There are 3 summits happening across the country that should interest both entrepreneurs and internet enthusiasts. Here is a list of where to go this december.
TIE Entrepreneurial Summit Delhi - 11th, 12th & 13th December - (http://www.tiesummit.org)
TIE Summit [...]

This is certainly good news for the whole world. The Mountain View, a firm based in California announced that Google intends to launch a ‘renewable energy technology’ which will be cheaper than coal-generated energy and thus, is getting in the business of ‘finding limitless sources of energy’.
 

Larry Page, one of the founders at Google says:
 
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Bharti Airtel one of India’s leading telecom operators is planning to roll out mobile payment services for its 50million plus users.
This service will allow users to make payments using their cell phones. As Bharti is also getting in Wal-Mart in India it makes perfect sense for them to provide the mobile payment facility. I wouldn’t [...]

Globally, approximately a blogger signs up once every (1/2) seconds. What that invariably leads to is clutter in the blogging space.

There quite obviously seems to be a market niche (or maybe it’s not really a niche since there are so many bloggers anyway) here which can be occupied. A variety of players like buzzfuze.com, minekey.com [...]

Do you people still miss the good old days when your grandmother used to tell you Ramayan story? If you do, then in that case I’ve got something for you to cherish. Sony Online Entertainment, the global division of Sony Pictures has taken the great epic of Ramayan to the next level. This Indian [...]

Ram is a techie, nerdy, stuck-to-the-roots, traditional South Indian in his late 20’s. Ria is the suave, stylish, cosmopolitan Mumbaiker in her early 20’s. Fate plays cupid and in spite of being complete opposites, they fall in love in a hurry and marry in haste. And now, they will be available Online and a Mobile [...]

Knowledge commands, and knowledge is power, is what we all know. Online tutoring is starting to take off in a big way these days. Many online portals are starting to offer educational support to students which has further lead to a win-win situation for students, teachers and parents of students who are working for such [...]

We attended the Red Herring summit that was held recently and had the priviledge of seeing and hearing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. He spoke on Microsoft - Facebook Deal and a lot of other stuff.. Dont miss this WATShow..
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Note: The video is 11 minutes long so might take sometime [...]