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WATShow happened to catch up with Rohan Verma, Director of MapMyIndia, some time ago and we had quizzed him on their monetization strategies, navigation services and also about their future plans.

It was June 07, 2006, when Rajiv first started with WATBlog. WATBlog was the very first initiative of all the WAT groups. It’s been almost 2 years and WATConsult followed, alongwith WATShow, WATJob and then WATGame. I hope I am not announcing it prematurely but we also plan to come up with podcasts, named as WATCasts. Today, WATMedia (combining Blog, Show, Jobs, [...]

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Tomihisa Kamada, The Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Access Co. Ltd, Japan delivered the keynote address while Atanu Mandal, President of ACL Wireless, Viren Popli, Head of Mobile Entertainment for Star India, and Milind Pathak, Co – CEO & Country Manager, Buongiorno (Hong Kong) Ltd. Shared their insights on Mobile VAS in India.
 
 
Here is a compilation of what [...]

Mark Read, the Director of Strategy at WPP and the CEO of WPP Digital Delivered the Keynote Address. V. Ramani, the Co Founder of Connecturf also delivered a presentation outlining the various bottlenecks with respect to client – agency relationships online (special emphasis on the Indian Online Space). Kiran Gopinath, the founder and CEO of Ozone media along with Vishnu Mohan [...]

Manikandan Vembu, Director of Product Management at Zoho was the key note speaker. Watch out for his exclusive interview on WATShow. He was accompanied by K B Chandrashekhar of Exodus Communication and Chairman of e4e Services and Aztec Software, Jamcracker’s USA.   
 
 
 
Here is WATBlog’s round up of key insights delivered during this discussion:  
 
Unified Communications: The Theme of SaaS Today  
 
 
Communication and Collaboration + IT Services [...]

Esther Dyson,Chairperson of EDventure Holdings (USA) delivered the keynote address. AshishKashyap, CEO of Ibibo and Anupam Mittal, Chairmanof the People Group completed the Panel.
 
Here is WAT we think required attention andanalysis:
(Psst.. watch out for exclusive interviewsof Esther Dyson and Ashish Kashyap on WATShow)
 
 
Privacy of users will be the concern oftomorrow. Users will be given  morefreedom to control their content. [...]

Esther Dyson, Chairperson of EDventure Holdings (USA) delivered the keynote address. Ashish Kashyap, CEO of Ibibo and Anupam Mittal, Chairman of the People Group completed the Panel.
 
Here is WAT we think required attention and analysis:
(Psst.. watch out for exclusive interviews of Esther Dyson and Ashish Kashyap on WATShow)
 
 
Privacy of users will be the concern of tomorrow. Users will be [...]

9/ 1/ 2008; 4: 45 am - 3 WATBloggers reach Chatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai to catch a flight to Delhi. 
 
The Flight finally takes off at 6:15 am and reaches Delhi at 8: 15 am - but wait - the fog prevents them from landing!
 
They are diverted back to Jaipur where the plane refuels and [...]

Yesterday we dealt with the idea of a Value Proposition and went deeper into the idea of ‘generic benefits’ that consumers experience (something that was floated in Part 1).
 
 
Today I am going to try and give you a closer look at Innovation and whether it should be branded. I will possibly try and outline where innovations [...]

In continuation with our earlier post , we would like to update our readers that MID-DAY Banglore has finally carried an apology in their paper. This apology comes almost about a week later, after a whole lot of delay from Sunayana (the mid-day journalist) sides, who kept promising it would come in ‘the next days [...]