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Rediff announced its first quarter results and things are looking bright as far as the Indian online business is concerned.

WAT was logged into the conference call and we have blogged some of the key statements that were made by Mr.Ajit Balakrishnan Chairman of Rediff.com

Read on to know more on rediff’s future strategy..

Rediff has registered a copyright in its name for an analogue designed to show how “hot” is a stock. It enables the users to reach a quick and snapshot conclusion about how a stock or mutual fund is fairing. Rediff.com India has already obtained copyright registration of a ‘virtual analogue representation´ titled as “How hot is a stock” having the features of an analogue dial.

12 months after Mozilla coming up with Firefox 2 and after 3 release candidates and 5 beta versions, the official and stable version of FireFox 3 is finally set for rollout, scheduled on June 17, 2008. There have been a lot of speculations in the blogosphere regarding the 4th release candidate of Mozilla Firefox but it seems Mozilla has finally managed to release the final version of Firefox 3.

Rediff has spruced up Product Search. It still essentially remains a retail aggregation model. Some things that Open2Save.in (we wrote about them Yesterday) can learn from this model and vice versa. A lot of innovative feature and interesting mashups. Search made interesting with peripherals.

Web18 Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, the Internet arm of Network18 Media and Investments Ltd is set to launch a horizontal portal, said two people familiar with the development (according to Livemint).
 
A horizontal portal refers to an Internet portal site that offers a broad range of content and services. Exampels could be Rediff, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL etc.
 
Web18 had launched Josh18 sometime back [...]

Yahoo has unveiled an Earth Day initiative to divert mountains of landfill trash, using the Internet to match people unloading “junk” with those that want the stuff.
 
 
 
Yahoo is hoping to convince 500 million people to join freecycle.org - a nonprofit devoted to finding new homes for just about anything people are getting rid of.
 
 
“Our mission is keeping things out [...]

JuxtConsult has released many reports before as well and this time they came out withe a ‘Website User Friendliness and Usage Satisfaction’ Study. The survey was conducted by JuxtConsult through an online poll on the basis of 19 criteria.
 
The websites were evealuated on the following accessibility, likeability, relatability, navigability, interactivity and task accomplishment’. The sample [...]

I could not make out the specialty of the offer after going through the complete news and even after checking out the website.
They ask you to point your GPRS-enabled phone’s browser to wap.emailtomobile.com and acces your emails. Well, can’t I do it already with my Yahoo! Mail ? I think I can. Most of the popular portals have their WAP versions (Although WAP is hardly popular) and I can anyways access my Internet from my existing emails if I have a GPRS-enabled phone.

Im essentially a child born in the TV era where after every episode there was a sponsor note “This episode was brought to you by…”. Well though the internet has just been around as a popular medium for over a decade in India. The creative minds are already looking at leveraging it as a medium [...]

Results of Common Admission Test, CAT 2007 that was held on 18th Nov 2007, will be announced tomorrow i.e 8th Jan, 2008 from 3 pm onwards. Apart from the official website and telephonic service, aspirants can access their result on SMS too. The SMS service is backed by Rediff Mobile (short code 57333) and charges [...]

ROI! Return on Investment can be tracked and that’s the sole reason why Online Advertising is the future of advertising and why a company like Google is valued at such an astronomical figure.

But what’s wrong in India?
While advertisers in the Western world have welcomed the entire evolution of the web and web 2.0 - with [...]

Online advertising in India is clicking fast even though 95% of the Rs. 10,000 Crore advertising market is captured mostly by television and print media. The reason behind this upsurge is due to the fact that internet connectivity is vastly improving and spreading like wildfire all across the country. People are becoming more internet savvy. [...]

Rediff which is one of India’s largest and oldest portals has announced its 2nd quarter earnings and it seems like the future is bright for this portal. Rediff.com reported total revenues of US$7.9 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, an increase of 18% compared to the same quarter last fiscal year, with India [...]

After Yahoo, Google and Rediff now it is time for to go regional. As a part of an aggressive global expansion strategy AOL is launching Hindi and Tamil language version of internet portal in India and also launches Indian version of its video search engine called Truveo.
We have also blogged earlier that [...]

Well this is the question that has been raising many eye brows recently. There is news that Rediff.com could very well be taken over by a unidentified company which has led the stock soaring at the NASDAQ exchange. There was some buzz earlier about Google and yahoo looking to acquire Rediff.
Paul Foster, options strategist at [...]