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Bollywood Rising : New Media in New Films
In the United States, the majority of the revenue that a film rakes in is through channels other than the box office. So, DVD sales, merchandise, licensing, selling of rights and digital properties (ringtones etc.) forms the major chunk of the money that Hollywood earns.
India, predominantly, has always been a box-office dominated market. With the multiplex boom, came a different kind of cinema that did not require mammoth budget and popular themes. Now, even the ringtones of the songs are pretty poplar among Indians. Wallpapers of stars, movies, song downloads and ringtones downloads are now increasingly becoming an alternative revenue sources for the industry.
Bangalore Is One Hungry Place When It Comes To Food Ordering Online!
Everything sells online be it flights, properties, electronics, tickets, clothes, books.. phew.. But now it seems the new trend is to sell food online. The latest startups on the web scene seem to be catering to the online food ordering segment. I had earlier heard on hungrybangalore which was one of those catering to this [...]
Airtel’s New Portal Airtellive.com Hosted & Created on iGoogle
Not too long ago Airtel had launched an ad campaign on television which mentioned google search on mobile. So if in that case a google product was available on Airtel network but now it seems airtel is returning the favour to Google by launching Airtel’s brand new portal called airtellive.com which is hosted and powered [...]
Consim Info’s IndiaProperty Looks Overseas For Business – Launches Monthly Magazine & Property Show
Consim Info’s plans to go international were made clear last year with its name change from Bharatmatrimony to Consim Info. I guess its the whole classifieds space of matrimony and especially real estate which seems to be booming from outside of India i.e. the NRI segment. Also incase of property portals real estate developers are [...]
BAG Films Launches Entertainment Portal To Back Its Channel!
The combination of Television + Web works wonders as Television brings in the eyeballs and web creates the engagement and longterm subscribers. Also its a good combination because it combines broadcasting i.e. TV with narrowcasting i.e. the web. So taking the same route BAG Films & Media Ltd which had recently launched a Bollywood focused entertainment channel called E24 has now backed it up with an online portal called E24Bollywood.com.
Wikipedia To Receive $ 3 Million Donation From Sloan Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation has said it has received a $ 3 Million the New York based The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The funds will be utilized to enhance the quality of the content and support the expansion of outreach events.A part of the funds will also be used to expand Wikipedia Academy, designed enhance Wikipedia’s quality by teaching how to contribute and to support efforts to disseminate collected knowledge through traditional media like DVDs and books.
Do We Need Still Lower Mobile Tariffs? – TRAI Abolishes ADC
Well, it can be said that lowering of tariffs is going to benefit the consumer, but I would argue that providing cheaper call rates to the rural population was far more important. An important question to ponder over is, do we really need still lower tariffs. They are already at an all-time low, and the lowest in the world. BSNL was doing a good job of providing telecom access to the rural population. Talking of “inclusive growth” it’s important that these people have access to affordable telecom and computing solution. I actually don’t mind paying Rs.0.50 per minute extra, if that money is utilized to help a poor woman talk to her husband working in the adjacent village.
Adobe Launches Web version Of Photoshop – Photoshop Express
Following on the lines of if you can’t beat them, join them, Adobe has launched the much-awaited web version of its popular image editing software Adobe Photoshop. Names Photoshop Express, the software will be available for free to the users. Adobe is not looking to generate revenues from the launch. This is mostly for brand awareness. Adobe hopes that many of the users of the online version will finally migrate to the boxed version of Photoshop.
Chinese Social Networking Site QQ.com Beats Facebook Almost 4:1 Revenue Wise!
QQ7 a Chinese SNS has announced its 2007 earnings. In the year 2007, QQ made $523 Million while the other popular SNS like Mixi had $100 Million, Facebook $150 Million, Cyworld $(200 Million). While their operating profits are as follows:
Business Standard Launches Hindi Website
Months after launching the Hindi version of its popular business newspaper, Business Standard has launched a Hindi news website. Called BShindi.com, the site offers business news from stock market, about companies, investment and economy from Business Standard. It also sources news from agencies like Reuters, Bloomberg and PTI. The site also has a section for regional business news covering areas like Lucknow, Bhopal, Ludhiana and Jalandhar
Tie Ups Update: Makemytrip Ties Up With IBM Daksh While Paymate Ties Up with Tata Tele
In the WAT (Web, Advertising and Technology) Space it seems to be a phase of tieups where companies are trying to build core value by partnering with others. This is especially being seen in the travel space. Lets look at two such tieups which happened recently:
Makemytrip Ties Up with IBM Daksh To Outsource Contact Centre [...]
Happy Birthday Rushabh! WAT-A-Cake.com! LOL
Well Rushabh who is a core team member of the WAT Team celebrated his Birthday today! So we ate some delicious cake and also smashed some of it on his face!!! It was super fun and we wanted to share this with our readers! Rushabh has blogged some really interesting posts on WATBlog and you [...]
TutorVista Goes Offline With Tutorial Centres In India!
TutorVista which was primarily an online tutoring firm based out of bangalore and servicing the students abroad on school courses. Now it seems just like how the other India focussed web players seem to be going offline even tutorvista whose main business is servicing the US market is looking at going offline in India.
They plan [...]
Publicis Launches Digitas in India!
Publicis which was earlier in the news as to looking at creating a foothold in the digital advertising space in India through acquisitions has finally done so but by launching digitas in India and also acquiring Solutions a digital marketing solutions company. So the entity in India will be created by merging digitas with solutions [...]
Indian WiFi Market To Boom By 2012!
We recently carried a quote by Oracle R&D head that most devices would be internet enabled and would access the data available on the internet to function better. Well being internet enabled could very well mean that we could soon be in a wifi world. According to a study “Wi-Fi in India: A key enabler [...]
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