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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 [...]

Well we announced our first panel in Delhi last week and have got a tremendous response with over 70 registrations in just a couple of day. We have limited seats (just 150) so hurry and book your place. Even more reason to attend the WATBlog panel is the set of elite panelists that are going [...]

After doing its first panel in Mumbai amongst students and industry people at IIT Bombay WATBlog Panel is now heading to New Delhi. And this time we are connecting the digital media space with traditional brands who are looking to go digital.
WATBlog Panel On Bridging the Digital Divide examines the challenges and opportunities faced by [...]

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 [...]

Well besides for the pictures we have video footage for you as well of the event and of people who spoke about WATBlog Wednesday and about the Digital Advertising Industry as the Mixer was around Media, Marketing and Advertising.
Check out the video below:

One can also watch the video on facebook.

Do let us [...]

The first WATBlog Wednesday had an amazing turn out of 100+ people (exactly the number we had budgeted for :)) and there were people there till the wee hours of today morning. There was a singing session as well in the middle. A Big Thank You to those who attended and for those who missed [...]

It wasn’t even a week ago that we announced our first WATBlog Wednesday on WATBlog and the response has been overwhelming! We have had more than 130 registrations and people still seem to be calling us asking if they can get a few friends along

Honestly we are thrilled at seeing this support from [...]

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 [...]

WATBlog is launching its own brand of Mixer events for Web, Advertising and Technology Industry in India. We call it WATBlog Wednesday!
WAT is WATBlog Wednesday?
WATBlog Wednesday is a networking event where in professionals (has to be a focussed group i.e. techies, advertising folks or startups) come together on a wednesday evening network and have a [...]

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, [...]

Well the just launched vertical ad network NetworkPlay has pulled off a major deal in just the few months that it has been around. NetworkPlay has struck an exclusive deal with GawkerMedia which owns sites like Defamer (Hollywood lifestyle/entertainment), Jezebel (celebrity, sex and fashion gossip), Gizmodo (gadgets), Lifehacker (software and productivity), Jalopnik (car enthusiasts), Kotaku [...]

We are at the TIE-ISB Connect happening at ISB, Hyderabad and yesterday was day 1 of the conference where in workshops were conduction on raising funding and marketing strategy for startups.
One of the sessions was on fund raising by startups and DD ganguly of dimdim.com was the speaker.
DD Ganguly of Dimdim.com on How to raise [...]

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, [...]

Updated: It seems that simplyhired also has a how did you get fired? stories site at simplyfired.com! I guess even they prepare for the worst.. So incase simplyhired tanks after all the funding atleast they have a community and content site of those who are simply fired! Well such are times that simply fired might  [...]