Rajiv is a prolific blogger who has over 1000 blog posts to his credit at WATBlog. The Founder & CEO of WATMedia our parent company and the Chief Blogger at WATBlog, he has been the driving force of the WAT Evolution. Rajiv does some excellent analysis of the digital media industry in India and often brings out deep insights with his inimitable style of interviewing. Just mail rajiv|at|watblog|dot|com and it will reach him..

So Komli today morning announced the launch of their free traffic measurement tool vizisense soon after they tied up with Vizu an ad measurement company based out of the US. Of recently, traffic measurement has come into focus with multiple free tools being available in the market for anyone to measure the traffic of a [...]

December was suppose to be an eventful month with atleast 5 events scheduled but the economic slowdown and the latest terror attacks on Mumbai has had its impact on the digital events in India as well.
Events that are cancelled:
3rd December - Web Innovation 2008 - Web Innovation 2008 which focusses on Web 2.0 and was [...]

Ok. The reason for the question mark in the title is because we have been tipped off on a propective downsizing initiative at Bharatmatrimony stating that it is in deep trouble financially. Just 2 hour back we got a mail from a anonymous reader tipping us off that all’s not well in Bharatmatrimony i.e. Consim [...]

Economic Times has recently launched online financial portfolio management tool (not sure when it was launched but tipped off by a reader as a recent launch). This tool is very much like the ones available at moneycontrol and rediff.com.The economic Times financial portfolio management tool has an investment tracker and manager for Equity, IPO, Mutual [...]

Well we announced our first panel in Delhi last week and have got a tremendous response with over 70 registrations in just a couple of day. We have limited seats (just 150) so hurry and book your place. Even more reason to attend the WATBlog panel is the set of elite panelists that are going [...]

Last week saw a sense of shock and sadness among all Indians with the Mumbai terrorist attacks. We expressed our views on the same here and got a lot of views and responses of readers here. A must read to know what the common people of India are feeling as there are over 25 comments.
We [...]

This saturday we bring to you a startup which is founded by an ex Yahoo employee which looks at building a community around brands and products and is an impressive attempt to say the least.

One sentence description: A Collaborative community around products, services and brands
About Startup: BrandAdda is kind of in the same space as [...]

WATShow caught up with Suvir Sujan of Nexus India Capital and asked him about his recent investment in sedemac a company in the efficient energy segment and we also queried him about what kind of companies he is looking to fund given the newly closed 220 million $ fund.
Check out the WATShow below:
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The Trai has released subscriber numbers for the month of October for mobile and for broadband and yet again mobile growth has been clocking 10 million a month taking the total wireless subscribers above 325 million.
Key highlights for the month of October are:

10.42 million Wireless Subscribers added in October 2008.
Broadband subscribers reaches 5.05 million [...]

Rediff has launched a new product called Web in Mail which as the the name suggests is a product that enables you to recieve web pages via mail. Also this isn’t limited to web pages but one can also get rediff search results for search terms in their mail. This can be done by sending [...]

Dear All,
Hope all who are from mumbai are well. My heart goes out to those victimized by this tragedy. I was up till 4am today morning trying to get in touch with everyone.
Hope God gives each one of us strength to get through these tough times. Do let us know if we can be of [...]

After doing its first panel in Mumbai amongst students and industry people at IIT Bombay WATBlog Panel is now heading to New Delhi. And this time we are connecting the digital media space with traditional brands who are looking to go digital.
WATBlog Panel On Bridging the Digital Divide examines the challenges and opportunities faced by [...]

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) a buzz word for quite sometime now and last heard that TRAI would favor the number portability implementation by June 2009.
Now DoT has taken a step further and invited bids from technology players to setup the Mobile Number Portability system in India. For those who dont know Number portability allows subscribers [...]

According to an Ebay census Mumbai is the top e-commerce centre in India, followed by Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. Also in terms of items sold on eBay USB drive register the maximum sales. I guess thats understandable given that USB drive ranges from 300-1000 rupees which is the ideal online transaction amount. Other popular [...]

Fox Interactive which is the digital arm of News Corp has launched its online ad network in India called .FoxNetworks. The company has roped in Pooja Puri who recently quit hindustan times as national director, sales.

Ad networks are a dime a dozen (check list below) in the Indian market and a consolidation or shut [...]