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Web18’s in.com has launched another interesting feature known as ‘FUTURE MAIL’. This feature basically allows users to schedule mails at a future date. As a professional this could be very useful for setting birthday emails anniversaries or any crucial dates.

In.com is directly competing with the likes of rediff.com when it comes to email userbase of [...]

Web18 Reports Losses - An Economy Slowdown + In.com Marketing Spend Impact?
Web 18 has reported a net loss of 24.22 crores as per this release of their Q2 results. A look at the numbers shows that their earnings are around 15.26 crores and the expenses are 34.2 crores. Now as one may know most of [...]

Well In.com the horizontal portal from web18 whose expensive domain name was talk of the town has been very active offlate making upteen number of changes not only on In.com but also on other sister sites of Web18 which are being integrated as a part of In.com.
So which are the Web18 sites that are now [...]

Update:
CMBC.com and LinkedIn have collaborated together to enable users to share and discuss content with their professional network! As a result of the tie-up, CNBC.com is expected to generate more pageviews and extended reach with targeted sharing of content with the top notch in the genre and LinkedIn shall get more mileage and functinality for [...]

Web18, the internet arm of TV18, part of the Network18 group has seen a rise in its revenues, with a 41% rise. The revenues rose to Rs. 13.1 crores from Rs. 9.3 crores year-on-year. While, the operating losses reported were Rs. 5.6 crores compared to Rs. 2.3 crores last year in the same quarter.

So finally moneycontrol.com has got a new face, that means they must had done customer survey before changing it to Web 2.0 look (use of ajax, curved corners etc..). The moneycontrol.com was one of the first websites dedicated to investments, stocks and other markets news. Moneycontrol.com is an online property of Web 18, heavily funded & the most popular one. Read on to know how this could be part of a bigger integration 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..

We had broken the story of UTV acquiring ITNation sometime back and now news is abuzz with the completion of the acquisition and the numbers are out. UTV paid 15 crores to acquire 76% of ITNation which owns digital news properties like Techtree.com , CXOToday.com, Channeltimes.com & Enterpriser.in. Earlier to ITNation UTV had acquired a [...]

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 [...]

Web18 Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, the Internet arm of Network18 Media and Investments Ltd is set to launch a horizontal portal, said two people familiar with the development (according to Livemint).
 
A horizontal portal refers to an Internet portal site that offers a broad range of content and services. Exampels could be Rediff, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL etc.
 
Web18 had launched Josh18 sometime back [...]

Movies is big business and thats pretty evident from the way indian films are recovering their investments in the first week itself. So the demand for tickets and convenience based tickets for movies and other entertainment events like concerts and theatre shows is rising. Given this environment Bookmyshow.com the online movie and entertainment ticketing portal [...]

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. [...]

Indiwo.com the Indian woman centric portal launched by web 18 is getting innovative when it comes to creating and delivering content to its audience. Called the Holistic Health Show, Indiwo has roped in Health and Fitness guru Mickey Mehta to feature in an online video show.
 
In this online video show Mickey will talk about women’s [...]

Web 18 part of network 18 group held a Award Ceremony at event at the ITC Grand Central, Parel, Mumbai on October 18, (yesterday) where they launched the
‘Geniuses of the Web’ of the web awards, that would recognize outstanding industry achievements by companies that have done commendable work in the online space, spanning across 19 [...]

The web18 network of websites seem to be growing day by day! (see screenshot at end of the post) It seems every month they seem to have a launch which is around the corner. So if earlier today we covered a news on buzz18 now they have gone ahead and launched another web property and [...]