Netcore Acquires Greynium – Bullish On Local Languages

Our recent WATShow with Abhijit Saxena Of NetCore Solutions had questioned the importance of vernacular content to his business (check his answer here) and now it seems Netcore has gone ahead and acquired...
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Coming Soon: Domain Names In Hindi, Telugu And Other Regional Languages

Very soon India will become one of the first countries to have non-English internationalised domain names (IDN) in regional languages such as Hindi, Bangla, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati. If...
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Live Hindi Scorecards for the 1st Time Courtesy Josh 18

  Josh18, a part of Web18 has announced the launch of ‘Live Cricket Scorecards’. The only difference is that these scores will be showcased in Hindi.       There obviously is a huge market...
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“Its just the beginning”- Siddhartha Roy, COO, BigAdda.com

As promised in my earlier post I am back with BigAdda’s COO, Siddhartha Roy in an exclusive interview on WATBlog regarding BigAdda launching 8 regional languages. WATBlog: Orkut already has a multilingual...
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WATShow Episode 14 – Dan Neary – VP – EBay Inc On India, Regional Language Ecommerce & Skype

WATShow is back! With yet another exclusive interview! And this time we have gone and got Dan Neary who is the Vice President of Emerging Markets in Ebay Inc to answer the following questions: 1) What...
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ICANN, India working on Domain Names in Regional Languages

    The Internet will become truly ubiquitous in India when the ones living in rural areas can connect with it. Agreed it has the ability to offer a host of extremely useful services from weather...
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