Tie Ups in Web, Advertising and Technology

It looks like payment gateways has become a main attraction for financial services giants as Citibank India, consumer banking arm of Citigroup, has tied-up with Vodafone Essar Ltd and Nokia India to launch a pilot project testing its Mobi-payment solution in India.

The pilot project is said to be one of the largest ever taken and [...]

Content and Carriers seem to be gelling well these days as two more tie up announcement sprung up with regards to telecom providers tying up with content providers. Here are the updates:
Blue collar Jobs on Airtel Powered By Babajob
Airtel has tied up with Bangalore blue collar jobs service Babajob to launch as sms based service [...]

We want to contribute to the growth of these mobile applications, which is why we’re happy to announce our beta launch of AdSense for Mobile Applications. And so saying Adsense has sort of opened gates for a mini revolution of sorts in the mobile applications field. It’s a revolution for not many reasons and it is mini for a whole lot more, nevertheless it is an important step.

Soon current payments methods like credit card,debit cards,sms mobile payments will become history. Accells and mChek showcased a revolutionary patent pending technology which can make contactless payments possible with the help of mobile phones. This solution uses a variant of Near Field Technology which is the most advanced technology for mobile payments.Using this solution users [...]

Geodesic, Indian owner of widely acclaimed Mundu IM has launched its universal chat app for android platform. The app is a paid one and Geodesic would be charging 11$ alike its app on other platforms like Windows mobile, symbian, blackberry(free app for iPhone). Geodesic had earlier tied up with Indyarocks for universal IM product.

The universal [...]

HDFC Bank has tied up with BIGFlix, R-ADAG owned DVD Rentals service to promote and proliferate the use of its Net Banking product. This commercial tie-up offer would be available in 18 branches in Mumbai from 14th June.
According to this tie-up customers subscribing to net banking services will get a trial from BIGFlix DVD Rentals [...]

WAT (Web, Ad & Tech) Space is continuously buzzing with tie-ups for mobile payments. DTH players are also embracing the idea of integrated mobile payment with their bouquet of services. Dish Tv in the meanwhile has announced their tie-up with Atom technologies to offer innovative phone and mobile payment solutions to DTH major subscribers.
Commenting on tie-up, Salil [...]

By Siddarth Raman

At WATBlog, we’ve kept you abreast of the latest developments in the mobile world. Last year, a report by Springboard research estimated that over 12 million subscribers would be using Mobile TV after the first year of its launch in India.

This time, its BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) which entered the Mobile TV [...]

Kingfisher Airlines has announced the launch of King Mobile, a mobile ticketing solution. Kingfisher has tied up with ngpay to provide this service to its customers. Via this  service one can book tickets using all GPRS enabled low-end as well as high-end phones. Besides for booking and paying for the ticket one can also check [...]

Valuenotes.com, a respectable Financial analysis portal has announced a distribution tie-up with Dalal Street Investment Journal.

The tie-up would be for Pop-Stocks, subscription based service currently provided by Dalal street journal.
The partnership would see Valuenotes distributing Pop-Stock product to its subscribers. Pop-Stocks is an investment advisory service giving SMS alerts on scripts and markets daily with [...]

Indians like all internet users around the world are now demanding interactivity in the TV medium along with the convenience to watch what they want and when they want it. And keeping along with such demands, web TV has emerged in a huge way in the sub continent. Whether it is the Indian or US [...]

Smartphones from HTC have a decent niche market in India among the upper middle class. Especially their HTC Touch phone has done rather well on the back of the iPhone hype around the world and its expensive pricing in India.

Now HTC has tied up with SatNav Technologies for bundling its SatGuide solutions with the HTC [...]

Up till now, Twitter has kept shy of officially endorsing any services or tools that promote user tweets in wearable merchandise format. However as of 18th May, 2009 Twitter has partnered with Threadless and launched a user generated crowd sourced service called Twitter Tees by Threadless. The Twitter thinking tank has clearly taken a tentative [...]

Three domestic airlines in  Kingfisher Airlines, SpiceJet and IndiGo have tied up to take on the OTA Bandwagon. In a bid to get rid of the agents commission and service charges the three have come together to launch an online travel portal called Rang7. Rang7 is managed by a separate  entity known as ShiVik Internet [...]

Hulu in a quest to satisfy global thirst for quality streaming content has announced that it would soon launch internationally and has also tied up deals with U.K.-based Endemol, big brother fame and Saavn, one of the leading distributors of Bollywood movies.
The content tie-up with Saavn would currently include 5 titles namely Sarkar(2005), Hera pheri(2000), [...]