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500 Gameplexes and China, Russia & West Asia Markets On Zapak.com’s To Do List!

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 to agencyfaqs the BIG (They do everything Big dont they.. think bigadda, bigflicks, bigfm and many more bigs to come!) plans when it comes to [...]

“Sunday” – The Movie Ties Up With Mauj Mobile

 
 
Mauj Mobiles with Eros Multimedia, has launched wallpapers, ringtones, video animation and many other such things for the first major release of the year “Sunday”. The movie stars Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Ayesha Takia and many others. Mauj Mobile in association with Kumar Mangat, the producer of Sunday,  will provide the mobile content for all [...]

Now Give Your Mock Entrance Tests On Tata Indicom Mobile!

In one of my recent posts, I have discussed about IIT lectures on YouTube, this made it go international. But was unable to reach the small towns and villages where Internet is still can not be accessed. There are lots of people in India who are still uncomfortable using Internet. To break this disability [...]

Microsoft Buys 35% Stake In Oxigen- India’s E-Distribution Company

 
With mergers and acquisitions happening all over the Internet advertising space Microsoft has added one more company to its kitty. It recently picked up 35% stake in Oxigen. Oxigen is India’s e-distribution company that provides users with online bill payment, booking air and railway tickets, recharge, and subscription for various services like internet and so [...]

YouTube Videos Now On 3G Cell Phones

 
In one of my recent posts I had discussed about the IIT classes now on YouTube. This service could only be accessed through a laptop or your PC’s. YouTube videos can now be accessed on your mobile phones. The minimum requirement for the mobile phone to download the YouTube video is the feature of 3G.
 
 
What [...]

2DMovie.com to Acquire Film Titles

 
2DMovie.com is an online movie-serving platform for regional cinema. It has Malyalam titles. 2DMovie.com has announced that it will acquire additional movie titles for Rs. 50 lakhs.
 
Pradeep Nair, from the creative team of 2DMovie.com, said.
 
“The investment would go up as the demand increases,”
The portal works as a platform for the Indian cinema and allows [...]

Entrance Tests And IIT Lectures Goes Online

 
In my earlier posts I have discussed about the virtual school that has been started between India and UK. This step showed that the educational system in India is planning to improve. With this thought Base and ExcelSoft, an e-learning company has launched www.successrunway.com. This site will enable the students to prepare themselves for the [...]

LegalAdda – Networking For Legal Professionals Backed by Microsoft!

LegalAdda.com (I guess Adda is getting synonymous with networking sites i.e. BigAdda, Blogadda.) is an initiative supported and promoted by the MD of Microsoft Neelam Dhawan who feels that enforcing IPR laws was a “challenge” and that the industry, as per studies, was losing almost 72 per cent of its revenue due to circulation of [...]

Orkut Reveals Stats Behind The Scraps!

Today almost everyone is aware about the power and potential lying in the social networking sites. When talking about them I can never miss out the name “Orkut “being one of my favorite. Since the time it was introduced in late January, 2004 there has been a significant rise in the number of people [...]

Post Proto Review – An Analysis On Internet Startups That Presented

Proto.in which concluded last weekend has some interesting internet startups strut their stuff on the podium. Some of them were unheard of but on presentation seemed like some very good opportunities catering to unattended markets. Here is lowdown on those startups and what we liked in them.
 
TheViewspaper – This is one startup that was bubbling [...]

Startup Review : MeraMD.com , MyDoctorsZone.com

After reviewing startups for sharing pictures, editing pictures, adding effects to pictures, adding pictures to videos, and vice-versa, sending SMS to all your friends, sending SMS when they are online, sending SMS when they do not want to receive SMS, publishing pictures through mobile, blogging-singing-dancing-advertising and doing almost-everything from mobile, I was happy to review [...]

rhydhun – The Indian Music Jukebox from musicindiaonline.com

Music is life for most of us. Instead of illegal download of MP3s, I use musicindiaonline.com to fill the silence in my life, for two reasons:-

It has a huge collection of songs, in different languages.
It provides two options to stream music – mp3 and Real media (perfect for dial-up users).

 
Recently, musicindiaonline.com has launched a [...]

Kolkata Mirror Goes Online!

Mirrors are on a roll. Initially there was only Mumbai Mirror later on joined by Delhi Mirror and Bangalore Mirror. Out of these only Mumbai Mirror had a portal and now http://www.kolkatamirror.com joins the league.
 
 

Amitava Bhattacharya, General Manager, The Times of India Group, said, “The city-specific portal will be like a banyan tree providing [...]

FTV Launches Indian Centric Portal and Partners with Hungama Mobile!

Recently, Hungama Mobile – A Mobile Entertainment Company has entered into to an exclusive partnership with Fashion TV. This will enable people across the country to download images, videos, ring tones, games and interactive content on fashion and lifestyle on their mobile phones.
 
 
Mr. Neeraj Roy, MD & CEO, Hungama Mobile said “As the Indian mobile [...]

Funding Updates: AutoIndia, 123Greetings, Druvaa get funded, While Nokia says NO to Mobile VAS Funding!

So if on one end its startups that are bubbling on the scene on the other end there are VC’s and Angel’s who are lining up to fund these startups and help in taking them to the next level. So here is a low down on whose raising money and who isn’t!
 
 
AutoIndia Receives Angel investment
 
AutoIndia [...]