August 26, 2007 – 10:55 pm
Buoyed by the success of the Naukri Initial Public Offering (IPO), People Interactive Pvt. Ltd., owner of Shaadi.com is planning to launch their own IPO in 2009. The goal is to finance acquisitions in the online classifieds and communities spaces with the funds generated. The listing may happen either on NASDAQ or on the domestic […]
August 26, 2007 – 9:10 pm
First of all, apologies for the slow posting lately. Things have been insanely hectic the last 1-2 weeks thanks to all the traveling. But by this week, things should stabilize a bit and posting will hopefully get to normal.
While still on the road, I had to make time for this post - more so, I […]
August 23, 2007 – 9:47 pm
Mauj announced today that they have signed a deal with ESPN to bring mobile ESPN to Indian mobile users. As part of the tie-up, Mauj will integrate the short code ‘3776′ and provide the WAP destination for mobile ESPN services. Short code will be used for sports updates and alerts while WAP will be used […]
August 23, 2007 – 9:21 pm
BlogAdda is a new Web 2.0′ish platform for Indian bloggers to showcase their blogs. The goal of the site is twofold - (1) blog owners can promote their blogs and (2) the site audience can uncover new blogs that may be of interest to them. Users can rate the blogs, comment on blogs and uncover […]
August 23, 2007 – 3:42 pm
Sify has thrown in the towel regarding their own classifieds site and have instead opted Sulekha to power their classifieds section. So now, they have a small ‘Powered by Sulekha’ in the top right corner of the site. From the looks of it, posting a classified on Sify will also post your classified ad to […]
August 21, 2007 – 7:05 pm
As per a story in the Hindustan Times, voice features offered by some of the popular Internet messengers (Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk, Skype) may soon be taxed. While reviewing the licence norms for Internet service providers (ISPs), the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India had recommended to the Department of Telecommunications in May this year that multinational […]
August 21, 2007 – 11:30 am
Greylock Partners, the US based VC firm, with about $2 billion under management, has entered the VC market in India. Some of Greylock’s notable investments include - Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg and DoubleClick.
They have invested in TechProcess (formerly known as BillJunction), a player in the payment processing services industry. The size of the investment was […]
August 21, 2007 – 11:13 am
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has entered into a partnership with AOL, by offering MTNL broadband customers a co-branded portal on AOL India website. The portal will be available at www.aol.in/mtnl and will offer news, videos, sports, entertainment content, messenger and unlimited mail to MTNL customers. 35% of the ad revenue will go to MTNL […]
August 20, 2007 – 9:48 am
Ok..Not related to the Indian market, but definitely a high impact news - Google, who’s China efforts have been less than stellar thus far, has acquired an undisclosed stake in Chinese social network site - Tianya.cn. Various media reports put the stake anywhere between 10 - 60 %.
Google, which comes a distant second to the […]
August 20, 2007 – 12:06 am
Google search can now be accessed in several Indic languages - Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil. Google allows users to search in 13 languages, including Sanskrit and Assamese, besides Sinhala, the official language of Sri Lanka, the company said on its India labs website.
So, looks like a head-on Google vs. Guruji vs. Raftaar.
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