India Loses the Contact : Internet Down For A few Days

by | posted: January 31, 2008
Internet service in India and neighbouring countries were affected due to the damage done to undersea link between India and the east coast of USA and UK.   Internet Service Providers Association...
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After launching Facebook Application, Nautanki.tv Partners With Games2Win for Flash Games

by | posted: January 31, 2008
  Nautanki.tv, which started off as an online video channel, has now expanded its services by including games offering to its services. The games will be provided by Games2Win and will be accessible...
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Funding Updates!

by | posted: January 31, 2008
A lot of mergers and acquisitions have been happening in the ICT space. Newer companies have been raising investments to fund their operations and expansions. Below are some of the investments done by...
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VCs invest over half a billion dollar in India in 2007

by | posted: January 30, 2008
A report by Venture Intelligence says Venture Capital firms invested around $543 million in India in 2007. A total of 98 companies were invested in, majority of them being the seed-level and stage 1 funding.   Sudhir...
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CRY and IBM India strengthen global online community at SecondLife.com

by | posted: January 30, 2008
To reach and engage wider global audience and volunteers, create awareness of child rights and taking action, CRY (Child Rights and You) has partnered with Indusgeeks, a technology and new media company...
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Build the community + add in relevant jobs around it = Job Search 2.0 ?

by | posted: January 30, 2008
Watjob Alootechie job board Venture jobs Startup jobs in india Contentsutra jobs Agency Faqs Jobswitch Exchange4media jobs You might have noticed that in this list you can find the Watjob; Alootechie job...
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Travelguru To TAP The Long Tail Of Blogs & Websites Through An Affiliate Program

by | posted: January 30, 2008
  Sometime back Travelguru had gone for shopping and bought desiya.com. This deal helped travelguru to build a strong base in UK. Google’s partnership with HolidayIQ simplified the search...
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Books – Most Sought after Items Online

by | posted: January 30, 2008
A new research has revealed that more books are sold on the Internet than any other product and the number is rising.     Neilsen Online conducted a survey of 26, 312 people in 48 countries, which...
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Indians Apparently Filling up their Online Shopping Bags

by | posted: January 30, 2008
A recent research by Nielsen has indicated that a large number of Indians are wielding their credit cards online – and they are second only to Turkish and Irish e – shoppers.     According...
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Mobile Worx & Alabot Tie Up to Launch Natural Language Search On SMS

by | posted: January 30, 2008
Mobile Worx is a company we have featured before as well on WATBlog regarding their mobile advertising and social network platform. Now Mobile Workx has tied up with Alabot a artificial intelligence drive...
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Ibibo Zee tieup for Finance Budget Related TV Reality Show “Public Ka Vitt Mantri”!

by | posted: January 30, 2008
Trust Ibibo the blogging/social/answers network to come up with different kinds of marketing tactics. So if earlier it was paying users for blogging which we also put as a question to the Ibibo CEO on...
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YouTube Mobile Improves, Downloadable App Released

by | posted: January 29, 2008
This comes in via TechBuzz      Last week, YouTube rolled out an update to their mobile site and released a downloadable mobile application for few supported handsets. Users can access YouTube’s...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales visits the IIT Tech Fest

by | posted: January 29, 2008
The Internet is changing culture – we are moving from a culture of competition to a culture of collaboration.      WATBlog visited IIT’s Techfest this weekend – we attended Jimmy Wales’ lecture...
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Is Podcasting the Future of Radio Stations?

by | posted: January 28, 2008
We have discussed podcasting and its benefits before as well. Globally podcasting has been catching on due to mobiles that are enabled for podcasts.  According to Edison Media Research, more than 32 million...
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This Webisode is Brought to you by… (Will this be the future?)

by | posted: January 28, 2008
Im essentially a child born in the TV era where after every episode there was a sponsor note “This episode was brought to you by…”. Well though the internet has just been around as a...
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500 Gameplexes and China, Russia & West Asia Markets On Zapak.com’s To Do List!

by | posted: January 28, 2008
Just last week Reliance Entertainment was in news with regards to tying up with Manchester United for the Mobile Gaming Company Jump Games. Reliance Entertainment President Mr.Rajesh Sawhney has disclosed...
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