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We had quoted Ashish Gupta saying that they had not funded SmsGupshup but its quite possible that at that time which was about three months back the deal would be in process and not confirmed for him to commit to the funding. But now Helion has made a confirmed announcement and a total of 11 [...]

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..

In.com which is web18’s horizontal portal play which had launched as a closed beta site with invite only and a logged in portal as we had blogged before has now opened up to public beta. The site has a very nice UI but looks more like an aggregator of content when compared to its biggest competitor in the horizontal portal space i.e. rediff.com which i known for creating editorial content. Read on to find out more on what could it mean for horizontal space..

Rediff.com announced the launch of its developer program at Proto.in (http://developer.rediff.com). This move comes after the huge success of both facebook and orkut developer platforms which have activated the apps development business the world over. We had broken the story earlier of Rediff integrating orkut and facebook feeds and were pleasantly surprised at the innovative [...]

Rediff.com has invested an undisclosed sum in Vakow.com and this move is a part of Rediff’s strategy to encourage young and promising start up companies to innovate and build world class products that will be mutually beneficial. Even earlier rediff has acquired a minority stake in a language related startup Tachyon tech. This strategy seems to work for rediff which is more of a Media and less of a Technology company and hence has to look for technology innovation outside of its own company which can be incubated and gradually tied in with the existing rediff products to create mutual value.

We had blogged about the impending launch of Web18’s horizontal portal yesterday and now Its already been launched (thanks to anand and dinesh our readers for commenting and letting us know)
 
Its a two alphabet domain and one of our readers commented that it cost them 2 crores! I wont be surprised if that was the [...]

We have discussed rediff’s tie up strategy umpteen times before. On similar lines we have also discussed fropper’s social cause marketing strategy as well where it was using social causes like ecoganpati and aids to build a connect with the socially evolved youth. Now it seems rediff is doing a fropper by taking the social [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Movies and internet go a long way back. Since the time the internet started movies and movie related content has been a prime attraction for users on the internet. So its no surprise to see that movie affiliated branding is being done on the internet. But the one which is soon to happen is an [...]

Rediff.com reknowned as india’s largest online portal has got a place in the ten most dynamic companies in India by the international publication BusinessWeek.
The BusinessWeek article is about India being the world’s fastest growing economy after China. The article describes Rediff.com as India’s Global Site and describes the website as “The site is the go-to place on the [...]