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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 of India (ISPAI) President Rajesh Chharia said repairing will take another 15-20 days.
 
“Majority of the firms are trying to restore their connections through the [...]

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 through a widget.
 
Nautanki.tv has been offering video content for online viewing. All the content is original. There is no user generated content (UGC) [...]

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 few companies.

 
1) IDG Invests $2.5 million In iViz
 
 
Data security is fast becoming a major issue faced by several IT and non-IT [...]

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 Sethi, Director of US-IVCA and founder, chairman and managing director of IDG Ventures India said,
 
”With strong interest among Limited [...]

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 and opened up its campus in SecondLife.com and became “first Indian non-profit organisation working on child rights” to open an office in Second [...]

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You might have noticed that in this list you can find the Watjob; Alootechie job board; and Startup jobs in india of the blogosphere - but not say… a Monster or Naukri. Now this is not a slam on Naukri or Monster .On the contrary, [...]

 
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 for local hotels. Travelguru has now launched “The Travelguru Affiliate Program” (TAP) to increase its revenue.
 
 
What is TAP?
 
It is a program that offers the website and [...]

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 found out that about 41% online users had purchased books.
 
 
2 years back – the figure was at 34%
 
 
The Figure is quite comprehensive [...]

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 to the report, about 85% of users online are engaging in e – commerce. In Ireland, 91% of shoppers are undertaking transactions online, 86% in Turkey [...]

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 natural language powered chat bot that works on IM, Sms and web as well to launch a natural language search through sms.
 
This [...]

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 WATShow. Now Ibibo has gone ahead and done a tieup with Zee TV for a budget based TV reality show [...]

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 mobile site on their 3G/WiFi enabled handsets by point their mobile browser to m.youtube.com. 
 
 
The newly updated mobile site lets you sign into your account and view channel subscriptions and favorites. [...]

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 where he spoke about Wikipedia and a lot more. We also caught up with him after the session – Watch out for that on WATShow soon!
 
 
“The ideal encyclopedia should be radical, it should [...]

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 people have listened to an audio podcast. Also in the US podcast-specific deals are becoming common as a trend that has been [...]

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 popular medium for over a decade in India. The creative minds are already looking at leveraging it as a medium [...]