Internet Giants Are Setting Up Data Centers In Singapore Despite Robust Usage Growth In India

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There is no doubt that India’s Internet Growth is accelerating at never before seen pace. Fueled by rapid proliferation of portable electronics Indians are using more internet based products & services than ever before. However, Internet Giants seem to have completely ignored these healthy growth signals & are favouring relatively smaller destinations like Singapore to host their Data Centers. Why...
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Business Intelligence Startup Helical IT Raises Seed Funding

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Helical IT Solutions has announced that it has raised a seed funding of Rs. 2.5 million from a Singapore based Citibank official. The company was bootstrapped since the last six months before this inflow of cash.  The company has been founded by Nikhilesh Tiwari and Nitin Sahu. Helical IT specialized in a niche but upcoming sector of business intelligence. We did a feature on business intelligence...
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AdIquity Partners With Singapore Based Art Of Click To Strengthen Its APAC Presence

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Global mobile ad platform AdIquity has announced a partnership with Art of Click, which happens to be another premium mobile ad network. This partnership is supposed to generate higher revenue for AdIquity’s  developers and publishers. Art of Click seems to have a strong presence in the APAC region and this will benefit AdIquity and its partners. Art of Click is based in Singapore. Santosh Kevlani,...
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Twitter Partners With Komli Media To Launch Advertising Sales In South East Asia

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Komli Media has announced an exclusive partnership with microblogging giant Twitter in order to sell Twitter’s advertising inventory in South East Asia. Komli will have exclusive rights to sell Twitter’s advertising products from the ‘Promoted Products’ category. The partnership will be operational in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. This move shows Twitter’s focus on earning...
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India’s Mobile Penetration Is Poor According To World Bank

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Even if it is about to breach the Billion mark, India’s mobile population is still behind the world, feels the World Bank. In its latest report titled ‘Information and Communications for Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile’, the World Bank has apparently painted a dismal picture about India mobile scenario. World Bank stipulates 70 mobile phone users per population of 100. Owing to multiple...
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JWT Singapore Buys Majority Stake In Hungama Digital Services

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JWT Singapore, a wholly owned company of global advertising firm WPP PLC has confirmed its intentions to acquire a majority stake in ‘Hungama Digital Services’. Source: bestmediainfo.com Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. currently employs the subsidiary for its marketing & promotional activities. Moreover, it also offers strategic planning, web design and maintenance, digital marketing,...
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Voicetap In The Process Of Raising $7 Million; Education Via Mobiles To Get A Boost

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Voicetap, a New-Delhi based company is in active talks to raise US$ 7 Million in its second round of funding. The 3 year old technology startup is focused on offering Education centric Value Added Services (VAS) to telecom operators. The multi-country funding campaign will have Venture Capital funding from Singapore, US & India. So far the company has already managed to raise US$ 1 Million from...
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Telenor Wants To Pump In Additional Rs. 2000 Crores In India

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Telenor group which holds the Uninor Brand along with Unitech, wants to invest another Rs. 2000 Crores (US$ 384 Million) in its Indian Operation. The Norwegian company is also looking for a new partner to continue its telecom service in India. So far the company has already invested Rs. 14,500 Crores (US$ 2785 Million) into its Indian operations. Telenor has been having very bad time Unitech. the...
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Indian Companies To Shine At Asia’s Premier Global Networking Events

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The upcoming Information & Media Communication Tools (ICT) events CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia will be held from 19th to 22nd June 2012 at Singapore. Indian Companies like Tata Communication & TPEC will be part of these prestigious events. The event helps launch newest technologies, products and solutions from over 2,000 multinational and small and medium companies. It also...
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NRIs May Boost Domestic Realty, Feels iProperty.com

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Real Estate Portal iProperty.com has unveiled an exclusive section meant for NRI’s. Presently, the site has projects spread across 14 metros. A while ago a similar initiative was launched by MagicBricks. Such websites seem to have realized the potential in offering quality listings to people who cannot scout for properties personally. NRIs either rely on agents or in this cases reality websites....
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