Malaysian Investor Astro is picking up 50% stake in New-Delhi based GETIT Infoservices for Rs 96 crore, after the latter’s investment proposal was approved by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board...

Another local search portal has joined the wagon – Askme.in (beta version). This portal has been launched by Infomedia 18. Listings are distributed under 18 categories and 74 cities. Infomedia is calming...

We had questioned at the time of the sale of Burrp to Infomedia18 on whether this deal was a strategic sale or a distress one! Well now the cat or the amount in this case is out of the bag. Burrp was sold...

The mobile is becoming or rather say has already become the first point of information access and a useful service like mobile classifieds has significant demand. Matrix Partners India recently announced...

AskLaila one of India’s local information search engine ties up with HindustanTimes.com to enhance their reach to more audience. The tie-up is to form a co-branded city information microsite which...

A recent Comscore report about the state of the search engines in India states the obvious – Google is an undisputed leader in the space with close to 88.4% market share. The remaining dozen is shared...

The local search space came into focus in India way back in 2006 with the funding of guruji.com and then there were a flurry of players that ventured into this space right from onyomo, asklaila, yulop,...

Telecom players seem to be waking up to the power of local search so both Airtel and BPL seem to have launched local search products that their large subscriber base can use. While BPL Mobile has launched...

Yes we are back this time with a WATShow with Sulekha Director of Brand and Global Marketing on Sulekha.com’s focus, local commerce, userbase demographics, on their competition and also on their expansion...

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...

AskLaila, one of India’s hottest search engines will now be available on your mobile phones via a WAP based app and also an SMS service. Any mobile subscriber with GPRS connectivity can log in to the...

Yulop, a Banglore focussed vertically structured search engine has just launched CityEvents an online events platform for its pilot city.       Yulop plans to provide “in-depth event...

If you are one of google’s followers then you would know about google’s all famous labs which showcases google’s products in beta and allows users to test these products. Google launches...