Gautam Bhatia

Paymate Enters Sms Advertising Space

Paymate one of indias leading mobile payment service is now launching a sms based advertising service which is some what similar to what others are already providing.
Paymate has tied up with some online travel agencies, travel Guru being the 1st and is providing a simple sms based service wherein users can search for travel related [...]

Nokia “Seeks” Mosh in its Last Phase

Mosh Nokias new social network started about 2 months back, is launching its third and final phase called ‘Seek’.
For the ones who may not be familiar, mosh is a social network which allows users to Upload and share video, images, ringtones, games and mobile applications from their mobile phones.
There are Three Phases to Mosh [...]

eBay Entering Into Microfinance

eBay Entering Into Microfinance

eBay the worlds biggest online auctioneer and payments company is now entering into the world of microfinance. Microplace.com a micro financing website was bought by eBay sometime in 2006 Microfinance is the supply of loans, savings, and other basic financial services to the poor which need not be a large sum of money and [...]

Onmobile To Launch Mobile Ad Network

Onmobile a popular Indian Vas company has rolled out its mobile ad network. They are certainly providing a unique method of mobile advertising, rather than the conventional method of having advertisements placed on searches, onmobile has taken the “Voice” route.
How does/will it work?
Callers will get to hear advertisements when they call, just like how [...]

Paid content in India Worth Only Rs20crores

Rs20Crore, that’s the worth of paid content subscription in India. Rs7080crore that’s the worth of the e-commerce market. That’s about 0.3% of the total market size. The study was conducted by IAMAI and IMRB, the report is available here.
Balendu Shrivastava, research director, IMRB International says “The paid content subscription market is very fragmented. In general, [...]

Domains Now in Local Indian Language

Domain names now will be available for sale in Hindi and other Indian languages. Here is a eg of what we mean WATBlog could look like वाटब्लाग् . Hindi, Tamil, Sanskrit, Bengali, Punjabi are a few of the languages in which the domain names will be available.
There have been companies that have taken initiative [...]

Web18 'Geniuses of the Web' award Winners Announced

Web18 ‘Geniuses of the Web’ award Winners Announced

Web 18 part of network 18 group held a Award Ceremony at event at the ITC Grand Central, Parel, Mumbai on October 18, (yesterday) where they launched the
‘Geniuses of the Web’ of the web awards, that would recognize outstanding industry achievements by companies that have done commendable work in the online space, spanning across 19 [...]

10 Reasons Why You Shoud Have a Facebook App

Below are Ten Reasons why companies/ websites should develop Facebook Apps -

1. Easy to make (open Api)& Cost effective - Just need a programmer and you are good to go. its Cheaper and more effective than advertising if done properly
2. Large base - Possibility to connect with a larger targeted audience having over 40million active [...]

Saturday Startups - Part One - Vakow On Your Mobile Phone

Vakow is a first of its kind web-mobile service which is meant for the sms forward crazy janta. As different the name may sound so is their service. The website provides sms forwards which are user generated where users can post, share, comment and subscribe to sms forwards which is viewable on the mobile phone. [...]

Online World In The Offline Industry - TV Still A Big Hit For Portals

Now a days we talk about Online Ad Spending to overtake Newspaper Advertising by 2011 and that everyone is shifting online, what we are missing out is the Offline spend by Online companies .

According to this article TV advertising of the Internet portals registered a growth of 190 % [...]

Kingfisher offering Search Book & Pay feature On Mobile

King fisher airlines one of inidas premier airline companies have tied up with Paymate a mobile payment solution provider where users will be able to search, book & even pay for their tickets from the cell phone. the service is called ‘FLYBUYSMS’ where users can do all the above from their mobile handsets using sms [...]

Google SMS'ng its way into India

Google SMS’ng its way into India

The latest scoop on google is that Google will be now available on sms. The service would be providing local information to users through sms. One does not even require a GPRS enabled handset to access this service. Google has tied-up with five operators Reliance, Bharti Airtel, BSNL, BPL and Aircel who would be providing [...]

Is rediff.com being bought over??

Well this is the question that has been raising many eye brows recently. There is news that Rediff.com could very well be taken over by a unidentified company which has led the stock soaring at the NASDAQ exchange. There was some buzz earlier about Google and yahoo looking to acquire Rediff.
Paul Foster, options strategist at [...]

After .in domains its time to conquer .asia

After .in crossing 2 lakhs and & .mobi doing pretty well for the time it has been around, Asia will be getting its own domain name. All the big buyers (cyber squatters) need not get too excited into buying domain names of big companies as The first “sunrise” period, which begins on the [...]

Lodestar study - India leader in Mobile Music

A study conducted by Lodestar Universal  has reviled some interesting figures, some of which are surprising and some are the pretty obvious ones.
the study has been conducted across10,000 respondents in the age group 16-54, from 21 markets in five continents, shows the trend of mobile phones rapidly converging from voice devices to multipurpose data [...]