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Give the power to the people.. that’s the new mantra online.
Travel guru a popular online travel portal has generated 6,000 user reviews of 2,000 hotels across the country.  Users while looking up hotels on the website can read reviews written by actual users which helps to take better decisions while booking hotels.
Travelguru was India ’s [...]

Zapak announced Zapak Gameplex Championship in Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh.. A gaming tournament for Indian gamers. Zapak is being very aggressive in promoting gaming amongst Indians. Reliance already had a stint at organizing such tournaments way back when it launched the gaming tournaments in its Web World stores across the country. This move [...]

The internet is soon to take up the space of what television holds today for the common man in India. Very soon, ISP’s are going to start offering Wi-Fi services to residential homes. If these services are offered at cheaper prices to residential homes, it might even lead to the internet taking the space [...]

The new reform to hit Indian Mobile Industry is money transfer through your cell phone. Isn’t that amazing? Its something that should have been introduced in India much earlier compared to foreign countries, but it’s never too late. Imagine a guy working (lets say in) USA will soon be able to transfer his hard earned [...]

Interestingly, Bajaj Allianz has come up with an online game, “Time Out”, developed by Contest2Win.com where you are taught to save early for your retirement plan. The game has its protagonist, Smart Alec collecting various coins (savings) as he progresses in the game. The player has to make sure that Smart Alec collects as many [...]

Pagalguy.com, the premier online MBA exams resource centre has introduced a ranking system for the Business Schools. The difference this time will be that, the rankings will be based on users voting for different b-schools. Pagalguy calls it “crowdsourcing”. The survey ranks 76 schools on different parameters. The press release says that within 24 [...]

Amar Chitrakatha was the premier comics brand in India. My parents always talked about how they have grown up on Amar Chitra Katha. Though I saw a few copies, I wish I had seen the time when everyone read, owned and exchanged Amar Chitrakatha.
 
Somehow, the guys missed the bus. Earlier, it seemed they missed to [...]

 
Its time for some great news for all IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) aspirants who did not get admission to the prestigious institution. All the seven IIT’s in association with IISc (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore plan to stream course materials and lectures online within the next few months. The plan is part of a [...]

 
 
We have written about this before. Digital advertising companies have proved that they are effective in marketing. The traditional media has begun to take note lately. After the WPP’s acquisition of Quasar Media, now comes the news of Capital 18 acquiring a stake in WebChutney. Capital 18 is the venture capital arm of Network 18. [...]

Yahoo! has been very active with new feature with regards to its mail. It had gone regional recently with its mail to reach to wider audience. Now Yahoo India, has taken a step ahead by announcing the launch of new product for visually impaired people to use Yahoo Mail Service.
 
 

The company mentioned Yahoo Mail [...]

Just yesterday we blogged about instacoll and sabeer bhatia’s claims of launching something soon that would be “Bigger than Hotmail”. Now the announcement has just come in and the reason there were almost 100 engineers working in the bangalore office of Instacoll is because they were working on an online office suite.
 Sabeer Bhatia has announced the [...]

A new trend of Indian bloggers taking the internet space to discover change in all areas of life including the corporate world is starting to grow. In India, blogging has become a powerful medium to express opinions and protests these days. Indian consumers are increasingly using the blogging space as an effective medium to voice [...]

 
So, Desimartini got sold for less than $10 million. Success? Definitely. That was the business model. No, you are getting it wrong, online advertising was never the main business model .That is the apparent business model. The indirect, but main business model is to get bought by some big player. And so, I say, Desimartini [...]

According to a research web will slow down by 2010. Video and Interactive sites being the major reason behind web slowing down.
 
 

Nemertes President, Johna Till Johnson said “Users will experience a slow, subtle degradation, so it’s back to the bad old days of dial-up,” and “The cool stuff that you’ll want to do will be [...]

Hotmail was sold for $ 400 million dollars. Yes, I understand that in the times of Google-Youtube deal worth $ 1.6 billion and Facebook’s valuation touching $ 15 billion, $400 million looks like a speck of dirt. But it was a lot of money in 1997. In 1997, when an energetic young man made the [...]