Online Newsroom FirstPost.com Launched By Web18 In India – Another News Source?

by | posted: May 9, 2011
The web has been a destination due to information, convenience and utility. Look around and you would see that sites that offered news or information (yahoo), email (hotmail) which was great communication...
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Network18 – Q1’11 Results : Revenues See A Jump Of 40% To Rs.318 Crores ; Digital Growth Lags Behind Old-Age Media

by | posted: August 4, 2010
Network18, a media conglomerate, has announced its quarterly results amidst a big business re-alignment plaguing the whole group . Network 18 has seen their revenues increase by 40% to Rs. 318 crores compared...
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Netizen Toddlers – How Does That Sound?

by | posted: November 6, 2009
Two years back when I saw my 9 years old neighbor chatting away on MSN, I was shocked. She also had a profile on Orkut! I didn’t know whether to complaint to her mother or just sigh and think that technology...
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Funding Updates: MChek – Nexus | Nokia Growth Partners – Web 18

by | posted: October 2, 2009
Funding continues in the Indian space. Though its still more of middle to late stage funding that seems to be filling up the Indian digital media space. Here are two recent deals. One in the mobile space...
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Moneycontrol Ties Up With Intuit To Introduce Personal Finance Tool

by | posted: August 28, 2009
Moneycontrol, a finance portal from Web18’s fold has announced their tie-up with Intuit to provide a new personal finance management tool. The tool is currently in beta but soon would be rolled out to...
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In.com Soft Launches Blogging Platform Blish – A Test Of Engagement On In.com?

by | posted: April 20, 2009
In.com has gone ahead and launched its own blogging platform in Blish. Blish marries the concept of multimedia blogging to a twitter like community platform. On Blish One can Post text, photos, videos,...
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Vdopia To Power Video Ads Across Web18′s Websites

by | posted: January 2, 2009
Vdopia which was recently in the news for raising funding from Nexus India capital has struck the biggest deal yet in the online video ads segment. Vdopia has struck a video advertising deal with Web18...
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Bookmyshow.com Partners Airtel To Expand Reach To 80 Million GSM Subscribers

by | posted: December 16, 2008
Bookmyshow.com Web18′s entertainment ticketing service provider has partnered with Bharti Airtel to offer all Airtel subscribers across India direct access to bookmyshow.com on their mobile phones....
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In.com Launches ‘Email In The Future’ Feature

by | posted: November 17, 2008
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...
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Web18 Reports Q2 Loss of 24.2 Crores – Claims No.2 Postion In Indian Internet Space

by | posted: October 27, 2008
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...
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In.com Integrates Cricketnext, Tech2, Josh18 & Buzz18 – Launches Shopping, Photo Sharing & Mobile Version

by | posted: October 22, 2008
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...
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Updated : Linkedin Looking For Local TieUps In India?

by | posted: August 26, 2008
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...
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Web18′s Revenues Up by 41%, TV18 Hopes for a Turnaround in Performance

by | posted: July 30, 2008
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...
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Web 18 Revamps Moneycontrol.com – In.com Integrated In New Layout

by | posted: July 29, 2008
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...
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WATBlog Spots: Web 18′s In.com Goes Public Beta – Big Media Spend Expected..

by | posted: July 22, 2008
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...
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UTV To Invest 120 crores in 10 Internet Portals.. Completes ITNation Acquisition

by | posted: May 27, 2008
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...
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