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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 [...]

The youth is known for being rebellious and independent. Its these characteristics that actually define the new age applications on the web as well. Right from youtube to orkut to facebook all offer customizability and genx kind of freedom oriented feeling with their features and the ability to contact people or upload anything anytime build a [...]

Last month we blogged about Guruji’s Search and Win contest and whether it was a nice strategy to achieve long term searchers.
Well how successful has the contest been?We don’t really have figures on that yet but we’ll try to get some for you.
Let’s get to the point now. If you are a frequent Rediff user [...]

Rediff launched their social content-sharing platform iShare around 2 weeks back and they have real big plans for it.
Rediff iShare is basically a one-stop platform where you can ‘share’ all your media content (Photos, Music and Videos). You can view/listen to this ‘shared’ content but are not officially allowed to download it. (Though we [...]

‘US-based Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo are eyeing Rediff.com India Ltd,’ reports Hindustan Times. Investment banking sources told Hindustan Times that the management of Nasdaq-listed Rediff was in talks with the global companies for a negotiated takeover deal.
Rediff is definitely India’s leading portal and off late have looked at incorporating certain Web 2.0 [...]

Rediff have launched iShare – A one stop sharing hub for all your media needs.
As you would have figured from the title, it is a sharing platform for Videos (YouTube etc), Photos (Flickr etc), but why have I mentioned Napster? Well Napster was one of the first P2P (Peer-to-peer) sharing platforms, primarily used for [...]

We mentioned that India’s largest portal had joined the Rs 21 crore online gaming bandwagon last week.

So what is Rediff Games all about?Currently they are in closed beta.
Click here to get a beta invitation.(You’ll require a Rediff / Rediffmail iD by the way)
It does get a little tedious after that - so we’ll recommend [...]

Rediff.com has reported its revenues for the quarter ended 31 December 2006 at $7.75 million, up 54 per cent YoY. The company’s India online revenues for the quarter grew 80 per cent YoY to $5.69 million.    Net income for the quarter was $1.51 million, or 5.20 cents per ADS, compared to a net income of $0.32 [...]

We hear news of Rediff.com entering into online gaming business and that too by this quarter itself!!!.
exchange4media quotes Ajit Balakrishnan, Founder CEO of Rediff.com "We are building our gaming division internally", negating the possibilities of acquisition all together. Going by the Pearl Research report online games market in India is valued at $4 million currently [...]

Following in the footsteps of the international sites Yahoo and Google, Rediff has launched its very own toolbar (finally!!!). One can download the toolbar here. Currently the toolbar supports only Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 so if you are a Firefox user no point reading this. Also if you go on the toolbar download page [...]

Ok Ok i know ordering rakhi and sending it through the online mode is something which is common now but DHL has taken it a few steps futher! So to add to the spirit of bonding on Raksha Bandhan, DHL has announced the launch of its unique service ‘Rakhi Express’ in association with Rediff Shopping.

The rakhi express seems [...]

Rediff.com’s profits in the fiscal first quarter increased nearly forty times on strong growth in advertising revenue due to the boom in the online advertising market in India.
Quarterly earnings grew to $2 million, or $6.70 per American depositary share, from $50,000, or 20 cents per U.S.-traded share, in the same period last year.
There has also [...]

The makeover season is here! Soon after the international Yahoo.com had a make over to look refreshingly new and organised the indian no.1 portal Rediff.com followed the trend (read my earlier blog : http://www.watblog.com/index.php?content=detail&id=2 ) and got its own makeover which looked seriously inspired by Yahoo.com and now the indian counterpart of yahoo.com thats yahoo.co.in has changed [...]