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In a wonderful example of corporate diversification, Moser Baer has announced the hiving off of it entertainment division as a separate company, pending shareholders; approval, reports Business Standard. The company will initially be valued at Rs.250 crores.

After lying low for months, here comes a killer blow from Network18. It seems that the media and entertainment conglomerate Network18 Media and Investments Ltd is venturing into film exhibition. And if you think that it’s all hogwash and the rollout may take ages, sample this – It is opening its first multiple-screen [...]

There has been some buzz around Reliance launching Big Maps for a while now. This was reported sometime in November. We have some more information on Big Maps from sources that do not wish to be named.
 
A few facts:
The BigEntertainment team has been working on Big Maps for about 20 months now in the [...]

According to the latest report although Yahoo search engine users have declined but when it comes to web search ad market it has started gaining more than Google. A research by the Marketing firm SearchIgnite shows Yahoo out pacing Google in spending on search advertising, ad viewer ship and click-through rates during the first quarter. Besides that recently it has also tweaked its search engine technology.

Hotwise an online competitive intelligence service announced in its report that Google search attained a new high while Microsoft and Yahoo! Search attained new lows. According to March 2008 statistics for the search engine in USA, Google received 67.25% of the entire US search. While Yahoo search received 20.29%, MSN search received 5.25% and ASK.com search received 4.09%.

 
2DMovie.com is an online movie-serving platform for regional cinema. It has Malyalam titles. 2DMovie.com has announced that it will acquire additional movie titles for Rs. 50 lakhs.
 
Pradeep Nair, from the creative team of 2DMovie.com, said.
 
“The investment would go up as the demand increases,”
The portal works as a platform for the Indian cinema and allows [...]

 
Shemaroo has partnered with WatchIndia.tv to release its movies online. Aftre Rajshri put Vivaah online and Heyy Baby released online, Shemaroo is the next one to enter the increasing spate of Indian production and distribution houses putting their content online. The focus is on the NRI community. At least in the initial phase. Rajshri’s attempt [...]

Ram is a techie, nerdy, stuck-to-the-roots, traditional South Indian in his late 20’s. Ria is the suave, stylish, cosmopolitan Mumbaiker in her early 20’s. Fate plays cupid and in spite of being complete opposites, they fall in love in a hurry and marry in haste. And now, they will be available Online and a Mobile [...]

Radio One, the joint venture between BBC and Mid-Day has now came up with service for its mobile customers. The service will be provided along with OnMobile Global Limited, a Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) company. The audience can just dial a number to listen to selected programmes on Radio One.
 
Select programmes will be available [...]

Amar Chitrakatha was the premier comics brand in India. My parents always talked about how they have grown up on Amar Chitra Katha. Though I saw a few copies, I wish I had seen the time when everyone read, owned and exchanged Amar Chitrakatha.
 
Somehow, the guys missed the bus. Earlier, it seemed they missed to [...]

Online video entertainment which was made popular world over by Youtube is starting to catch on in India and leading the way is suprisingly is Rajshri Media the digital media and entertainment arm of the Rajshri group which recently launched rajshri.com as a broadband entertainment destination online for premium Indian video content on November 10. It started the [...]

agencyfaqs: Rajshri Media, the digital entertainment arm of Rajshri Group, has appointed Limelight Networks as the exclusive provider of streaming content delivery services for Rajshri.com Rajshri.com currently serves more than 3,000 hours of full length Indian movies, music videos, TV shows, short films, documentaries and other premium programming. Rajshri.com claims to serve over 1 million [...]

Agencyfaqs: Sifymax announced an alliance with Sony Entertainment Television to be the official website of their reality show BiggBoss,Sifymax will feature exclusive footage from each episode, as well as footage, which users do not get to see on television Sifymax will feature the Bigg Boss show format, profile of the anchor, profiles of contestants who [...]

Bipasha basu goes online with a new website www.bipashabasunet.com. The site will be more like a blog, maintained and updated personally by Bipasha (believe it or not). And it will have regular, almost daily updates of  bipasha’s life…   ideas, thoughts, observations, things that  she wanna  share with audience.(There is hardly any content as of now, [...]

Bollywood is the biggest entertainment business in India. The advent of multiplexes has made it even more profitable as movies in today’s day and age make their money in the first week itself. Lets take the example of a latest movie kabhi alvida na kehna which supposedly made 28 crores in its first week itself. [...]