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Slowdown or no Slowdown.. VC’s have money and they shall invest is the mantra as funding news continues to trickle in and there is no apparent impact as yet of the impending slowdown on the funding in the Indian space.
So two more startups have got funding lately and they are in diverse spaces like mobile [...]

When you have a 60% market share of a rapidly increasing mobile handset market in India, what else can you ask for? Well, more. And for Nokia that’s the Mobile VAS, another rapidly growing market. In India.
It was almost one year back, when Nokia announced. Described as an integrated services platform Ovi was a platform [...]

Indiatimes.com had a busy couple of days if their latest announcements are anything to go by. Singing the same tune as we did here at WATBlog on Friday, when the air was filled with more mobile industry stories than any other, Indiatimes has launched three mobile enabled services catering to different needs and projecting different business streams that mobiles are capable of. I guess this only adds to our assertion that mobile is moving ahead and moving ahead big.

Canaan Partners the Venture firm that has funded the likes of BharatMatrimony (Now Consim Info) and techtribe is now looking towards the VAS space with high expectations with its new fund ready for investment. The mobile space has seen some action lately with the likes of  Mkhoj, Smsgupshup raising funding.
Canaan raised about 650 Million $ [...]

Shaadi.com has announced a tie up with cellular service provider Vodafone. On what is claimed to be a first of its kind service in India, this tie-up will enable Vodafone customers to access Shaadi.com’s matrimonial services on their mobile phones. The service is being powered by Mauj Mobile. And what we have is an alliance between some major players in the digital media, certainly a high profile marriage.

Mobile Phone subscriptions in India recently crossed 260 Million in India making it the 2nd largest mobile market in the World. Everyone in Mobile has been grappling with revenue models.
 
 
The telecom providers in India currently on an average make about $7 per subscriber. They are looking at newer ways to drive up that figure. They [...]

WATShow is back! This time with an exclusive interview with the CEO of one of the biggest mobile VAS companies in India i.e. Mauj Telecom’s Manoj Dawane. Here are the questions we fired at Mr.Dawane:
 
1) Which are the areas that are still untapped in the VAS (Value Added Services) Market?
2) What is your take on [...]

Well India is soon going to take over the US numbers as far as mobile subscriber base is concerned. That would put India in no.2 position in the world by April according to TRAI which will be behind the mobile giant China which has 560 million subscribers which is more than double of what India [...]

We had previously covered Rajshri Media’s decision to launch a series of 90 mobisodes - each mobisode being 3 minutes long. 
 
 
Here are some more interesting facts on the Rajshri Strategy. It may lend some insights with respect to the creation of a mobile entertainment franchise.
 
 
According to Mr. Rajjat Barjatiya, “the Future of Mobile in India is Mobile [...]

The Chinese Government recently released some very interesting statistics - That of the number of Internet users in the country – the number at this point is pretty exciting. 210 Million are the number of Internet users in China – that’s about 5 times the number of Internet users in India!
 
 
 
The number also is quite [...]

Not too long ago a question was asked by a representative of Hovr in one of the mobile monday gatherings. The question was
‘I am providing Mobile Games for download completely free of cost on my site – would I face resistance from you as an operator?’ directed at Mr. Harit Nagpal (Marketing Director, Hutch).
 
The answer [...]

So if on one end its startups that are bubbling on the scene on the other end there are VC’s and Angel’s who are lining up to fund these startups and help in taking them to the next level. So here is a low down on whose raising money and who isn’t!
 
 
AutoIndia Receives Angel investment
 
AutoIndia [...]

 
I – mode by DoCoMo is a browser platform that allows users to access VAS content easily.
 
 
DoCoMo could be considered the Distributor when it comes to the mobile market. How did DoCoMo become a VAS heavyweight and get a higher share of the pie?
 
 
Shig Sando, head of DoCoMo Japan was in Delhi recently and he made a very [...]

The major buzz in the Mobile Internet space is the concept of a Mobile Wallet becoming a reality soon.
 
 
The mobile can be a key, money, an e ticket, a card, an identification device – everything a consumer essentially carries in his wallet.
 
 
 
Think about it – this really combines demographic and contextual analytical data.
 
 
The [...]

We have written quite a bit about Mobile VAS in recent times and a company that consistently comes up in discussions is Mobile Worx. As many of you would know, Mobile Worx looks to transform the Indian Mobile VAS Market by allowing users to download content paid by advertising.
 
 
 
Mobile Worx has also launched ZestADZ – a platform that [...]