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Exclusive: Well we have confirmed news from multiple sources that Google is working on a Ad platform exclusively for Orkut.com and has already started testing the same with a few beta advertisers.

Here is what we know of this new ad platform:
1) Its separate from Adwords infact it uses Double Click technology which was acquired by [...]

Yesterday the Digital Entertainment Conference was organised by IAMAI in Mumbai and the theme was discussion on the various screens of entertainment i.e. the cinema theatre screen, TV screen, Computer screen and the mobile screen and the digital revolution in all of them.
The first panel was on entertainment from 25 feet i.e. the digital cinema [...]

UTV’s Q2 results indicated a a bullish outlook on both gaming and internet businesses.
As per the financial results of UTV over Rs. 250 crores has been invested by UTV in the gaming segment and it has acquired the likes of True Games an MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) to service the US and Turkey markets. [...]

With the RBI guidelines coming to the fore the mobile payments market has an official go ahead from the authorities. So we thought it was a great time to speak to some of the mobile payment players and know what they feel are the challenges and opportunities of this market.
We spoke to Sanjay Swamy CEO, [...]

As its understood by all the slowdown is here to stay and we have earlier taken the VC point of view on the slowdown but this time we spoke to Digital Media CEO’s and Business Heads to know their take on the slowdown and its impact on digital media.
We spoke to Sidharth Rao - Founder, [...]

Web18 Reports Losses - An Economy Slowdown + In.com Marketing Spend Impact?
Web 18 has reported a net loss of 24.22 crores as per this release of their Q2 results. A look at the numbers shows that their earnings are around 15.26 crores and the expenses are 34.2 crores. Now as one may know most of [...]

We had blogged about Rediff developer platform which was announced earlier this year at Proto.in and later about Sociali.com. After 4 months of its announcement in July Rediff.com has finally launched third party applications. These apps went live on its video and music platform Rediff iShare.
Facebook Apps on Rediff?? Really?
With this move Rediff iShare as [...]

Its seems both the casual gaming sites Reliance ADA backed Zapak.com and Games2win.com which were competing in the Indian market and both of whose CEO’s have been interviewed on WATShow here and here are now looking towards international shores for business.

Lets look at each of their international strategies just the way we analyzed their strategies [...]

Well In.com the horizontal portal from web18 whose expensive domain name was talk of the town has been very active offlate making upteen number of changes not only on In.com but also on other sister sites of Web18 which are being integrated as a part of In.com.
So which are the Web18 sites that are now [...]

So with a large part of the world quickly going mobile the browser wars are moving from the desktop to the mobile. Firefox which is the No.2 browser in the world in terms of market share has hardly had a browser in the mobile arena. A Mozilla based browser minimo was launched in 2004 and [...]

The WATBlog Panel was initiated by a keynote by Bruno Goveas, Head Marketing & Product Management (India), Akamai the sponsors of the WATBlog Panel. He initiated the panel outlining in his keynote that Media explosion over Internet was the future of the next decade.
The panel started immediately with panelists Ashish Gupta - Helion Ventures, Sateesh [...]

We had quoted Ashish Gupta saying that they had not funded SmsGupshup but its quite possible that at that time which was about three months back the deal would be in process and not confirmed for him to commit to the funding. But now Helion has made a confirmed announcement and a total of 11 [...]

Recently Affle announced a tie up with Airtel on the sms search front with its SMS 2.0 product which would be powering the sms search on Airtel. We felt there was a need to get a sense where this Industry i.e. the mobile search space was headed be it sms search or search via mobile [...]

According to Hindu, BSNL has made its dial-up connection, NetOne, available for free. Such a move by BSNL spurred a thought in me. What if dial-up connections are actually made free in India? Will that see people making bee lines outside land line operators’ for new connections, all year round? How can an operator leverage on such a scenario. Let us try to analyze how life would be, in a world of free internet (dial-up, of course).

Social entrepreneurship is fast growing popular and the opportunity in it is far beyond the buzz. Personally, I am of the opinion that growth in India will eventually move out of the big cities and happen int he rural confines of our country. I believe that the value waiting to be unlocked in our hinterlands is enoromous. Of course social entrepreneurship doesn’t just mean you have to work in villages. It is about empowering the underprivileged wherever they might be.

I hope the two buzzwords of our time social media and social entrepreneurship work together and grow to completely alter the value chain and entrepreneurial eco system for the better.