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Monster Releases BlackBerry App: Job Search Even Easier?

Right on the heels of ApnaCircle launching a BlackBerry Application, MonsterIndia has gone ahead & released a similar application with focus on finding jobs. Taking a cure from Naukri.com, MonsterIndia.com...
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Monster.com Targets Students With Monster College. A Boon For Companies?

After invading the Social Networking circuit, Monster has launched another initiative into India’s Campus Placement Market. Called as Monster College, this is an integrated placement platform, which...
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CareerPlatinum.com- A Sneak Peek

Chennai based software services company CareerOne has launched the so called India’s first ever career enablement portal, CareerPlatinum.com.  The portal has one charter. To provide Indian youth a platform...
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Foodiebay Backed By Info Edge With INR 4.7 Crore Funding

Foodiebay has definitely come a long way since we reviewed in late last year. Their growth has not gone unnoticed with Info Edge, the company that owns, Naukri.com and Jeevansaathi.com, amongst others,...
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Jobs, Travel, Mobile Phones Top Keywords on Yahoo! Search – Is There a Yahoo Anymore?

Jobs, Mobiles and Travel have become the metaphorical roti, kapda and makaan (or bijli, sadak and pani) of Yahoo Search in India. A press release by the company on Yahoo’s “Top 10 Most Popular...
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MakeMyTrip Files For IPO – To Get Listed On NASDAQ

Many internet based companies have been planning to go the IPO way since some time now. We had earlier reported that Naukri (Infoedge Ltd.) were one of the first of these companies to actually make an...
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Jobsite Exits: Kliener – Naukri(Infoedge); Web18 – Jobstreet

Its exit time in the digital space as two exits by investors in two jobsites in India were announced. Lets have a look at them and how they differ from each other. Kliener Exits Naukri – Makes a...
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Monster Worldwide To Acquire Yahoo HotJobs For $225 Millions – Will It Trigger M&A Activity Back Home?

U.S economy is predicted to perform on a dicey ground for quite some time but the employment activity surely seems to be on uptrend worldwide.In a seconded move Monster Worldwide Inc has decided to acquire...
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Hari Sadu 2.0 says – ‘Bubbye Recession’

The New Ad of Hari Sadu is Back and it surely points towards the fact that naukri’s or jobs are back in the Indian market. Going into the history, Hari Sadu advert was launched in 2006 by Naukri.com...
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Monster To Follow Naukri & Launch Employment Index For India

Naukri had launched a new research centric monthly update on the hiring activity in India early last year called Jobspeak. It did get them coverage in the media and it seems Monster is set to follow the...
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Recap 2009: Job Sites & Recruitment Portals

2009 wasn’t by any imagination the best year for Job sites and recruitment portals. The year started with some bad news by leading Job site Naukri.com Founder stating on video that there was a drop...
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Q2 2009-10 – Infoedge (Naukri) Results – Revenues Dip by 10%

Infoedge which runs Naukri.com, Jeevansaathi.com and 99acres.com has announced its Q2 results. Highlights of the Quarter are: Total Income in Q2 of FY 09-10 at Rs.645.11 mn, a 10.8% drop over the corresponding...
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Is Clickjobs’ ‘Pay-Per-Contact’ Model Really Disruptive?

In May this year, WATblog had written about an innovative strategy by jobs portal, Clickjobs to make job posting and resume search free of cost to the recruiters and instead focus on a ‘pay-for-contact’...
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Naukri Follows Cleartrip – Adds Chatbot Based Search – Opportunity For Horizontal Chatbot?

Just recently cleatrip announced its chatbot based search feature and now Naukri has joined the fray with its own chat bot for jobs. Now people looking for jobs can chat their way to a new job opening...
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Techtribe.com Quits (looks for buyer) While FirstNaukri Begins..

The online jobs space is showing signs of slowing down and this was clearly pointed out by Sanjeev Bikhchandani on WATShow. This would have impacted the existing players who were focusing on jobs as a...
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TieUp Update: LIC Partners With PolicyBazaar To Sell Insurance Policy Online

Policybazaar.com the online non-life and life insurance aggregator which was funded by Infoegde (Naukri.com) has tied-up with the largest Insurance company in the country i.e. Life Insurance Corporation...
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