Latest news in the digital world in India

Blogging seems to be becoming a norm be it any website or platform. Right from corporates to film stars to even newspapers are launching blog sections. Going by this trend DNA has introduced a ‘DNA editors’ blog’ where you can read, comment and contribute to it.

As the name suggests all the editor’s/ senior journalists of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Komli Media the adnetwork funded by VC’s like DFJ, Helion and Nexus Capital has tied up with an international online brand advertising measurement system provider Vizu.  According to this tie up Komli Media will exclusively deliver Vizu’s Ad Catalyst technology in India.

Vizu serves brands like Burger King, Polaroid, Warner Bros and Hilton in the US. [...]

Reliance Money which is part of the Reliance ADA Group, has launched a new e-commerce Web portal  for a range of financial as well as non financial products. Called reliancemoneymall.com, the ecommerce portal will sell insurance, mutual funds and bullion and non-financial products such as apparel, accessories, books/ magazines, music CDs and DVDs, home appliances, [...]

HT Media Ltd has formed a new joint venture with a London Stock Exchange listed firm Velti Plc to provide mobile marketing services to other brands, ad agencies and network operators in India.

Firefly e-Ventures Ltd which is HTMedia’s investment arm and has earlier acquired the likes of desimartini will have a 65% stake in the [...]

Travelguru.com which initially started as a flight booking platform but later repositioned its core focus from Flights to hotel booking has now taken a step futher to ‘cut costs’ and further sharpen its focus on hotel bookings by tying up with iXiGo.com to power it flight search and booking.

What kind of tie up is this?
iXiGo [...]

Intel has always been a supporter and promoter of Wimax technologies the world over. So its no surprise to see Intel being interested in investing in Wimax technologies in India as well.

Mr Sriram Viswanathan, Vice-President, Intel Capital and General Manager, WiMAX Program Office had this to say when questioned on his India plans  - “We [...]

WATGame was at the India Gaming Summit and Session 4 was on Marketing The Gaming Industry.

Session Chairman – Arun Mehra, Zapak
Panelists –
+ Shantanu Sirohi, Interactive Avenues
+ Madan Sanglikar, Mindshare
+ Saurabh Kanwar, Channel [V]
The session was focused on marketing the games themselves and marketing done through the games.
Shantanu started his session first. Being from an Interactive [...]

WATGame was invited to the Zapak Gaming Summit 2008 I Mumbai. We reached late. Session 3 and 4 were what we were able to attend. In this two-part article, we give a rather detailed overview of what was discussed in the summit.

Session 3 was on Gaming Platforms – Online / Mobile / PC / Console
Moderator [...]

Its seems to be a trend for news channels to go digital in more ways than one through tie ups. So if Timesnow chose the online medium with a tie up with Nautanki Zee news has chosen to go mobile with a tie up with One97. Through this association mobile users across India can access [...]

After Zoom Tv’s alliance with Nautanki another Times Group TV Channel has been bitten by the Nautanki bug. Times Now the business news channel by the Times Group has tied up with Online Video Network nautanki.tv to stream 3 shows across Nautanki’s claimed 6000+ blog video widget network. Its no surprise as now Nautanki is [...]