Blizzard releases Diablo III (via WATGame.com)

by | posted: June 30, 2008
      Well, with most of the internet guessing the announcement of Diablo III at their Worldwide Invitational in Paris, wishes have finally come true. Diablo III, the popular strategy-RPG...
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TravelGuru Sells Out To Expedia For 17 Million $ – Finally Some Travel Consolidation!

by | posted: June 30, 2008
Update: Travelguru Founder has denied the story but speculation still exists and now the valuation is being pegged at 75 million $ and acquisition at a higher amount!   Earlier Posted:The travel scene...
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Did Twitter Founders Run Away With All The Funding Money?

by | posted: June 30, 2008
    The infamous micro blogging site Twitter was initially used for internal purpose by San Francisco Startup Company called Obvious, LLC. It all began in March 2006; Twitter was started...
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MTV Networks re-launches Atom Films as Atom.com, another comedy site

by | posted: June 30, 2008
  MTV Networks had entered into an agreement with Atom Entertainment to acquire the company, along with Shockwave and AddictingGames, for $200 million on August 10, 2006. Now, two years after acquiring...
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Funding WindFall 2.0 – Canaan To Invest More & Walder Returns With More Money!

by | posted: June 30, 2008
Well this is surely funding windfall 2.0 and if the earlier windfall was cut short by the dotcom bust this windfall will take some stopping if at all it can stop. The money seems to be pouring in from...
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The Concept of Brand Premium in Online Advertising

by | posted: June 30, 2008
      Online advertising is an enigmatic subject. The nature of the Internet provides for better targeting of a company, compared to other mediums, except maybe for mobile advertising....
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Google Trying Hands At Video Ads With Help From The Creator of “Family Guy”

by | posted: June 30, 2008
Google will soon tie up with Seth MacFarlane, creator of “Family Guy“, to create original content, to be distributed through its AdSense advertising platform. “Family Guy”...
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Technopax, Another Social Network – Attempts to Connect “Techies”

by | posted: June 30, 2008
It’s been a while since social networks have become a common place of “hangout”. Even the way, a social network could be used, has changed from just writing messages to each other to...
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Domain Name Game To Change The Face Of Internet!

by | posted: June 30, 2008
Well if you have been in the internet business for at least a year or so you would have realized how much importance a domain name is given. And you would have also realized the what kind of importance...
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To Yahoo: Open up your search index to gain market share

by | posted: June 30, 2008
Yahoo has been going through some turbulent weather. The Microsoft/Yahoo merger talks has fizzled out with Yahoo trying to fiercely stay independent. Yahoo has signed up a multi-year search ads monetizing...
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BIG Plans By Seventymm.com.. Will They Work Out?

by | posted: June 28, 2008
Seventymm.com was the first DVD rentals company that recieved million dollar funding in India. It used that funding to acquire a smaller player like madhouse.in mid last year. We also featured an interview...
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Exclusive Interview with Vivek Bhargava, CEO of Communicate2 – On the Synergy between Aegis Media & Communicate2

by | posted: June 28, 2008
       Aegis Media had recently acquired stakes in SEM Firm Communicate2, which would help Aegis to add search engine marketing capability to its media planning arm Carat in the country and...
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Now Ubuntu On Your Mobile Phone. Oh No! Wait! Not Yet

by | posted: June 28, 2008
This article in PC World had me jump with joy. It spoke of Ubuntu being used as an operating system for Mobile devices. Ubuntu in my mobile, what could be better, I thought. But a little more...
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WATBlog Turns 2 Years Old.. Server Crashes.. Internet Goes Down! But We Survive!

by | posted: June 27, 2008
Dear Reader, It will be 2 years to WATBlog since I put the first post way back on 27th June 2006. WATBlog was started as a platform to reach out to the WAT (Web, Advertising and Technology) Industry and...
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One More VC Joins The Bandwagon – Inventus with 125 M $.. Some Pointers On Dealing With VC’s

by | posted: June 27, 2008
India is possibly the only market in the world where there might be more Venture capitalists doing the round than entrepreneurs and there and very few platforms as well which help showcase entrepreneurs...
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Amitabh Bachchan Blogs Through Mobile Now.. BigAdda’s Beta Test Strategy?

by | posted: June 26, 2008
Well It seems like BigAdda is using Amitabh as their brand ambassador to promote all the new features that BigAdda plans to release. Atleast thats what it seems looking at their latest press release which...
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