Amit@DI has an amazingly helpful post how to find out everything about a website - what hosting company is used by a website, is it accessible from China-Japan, what other sites are hosted on a web server (reverse IP lookup), what web technology is being used by a site etc.
He had another bookmark-worthy post a […]
Guruji.com, the Indian search engine, has started monetizing traffic by adopting a pay-per-click revenue model and is hoping to make $5 million (Rs 20 crores) by end of 2009 - early 2010.
Guruji received a first round funding of $7 million from Sequoia Capital and Suvir Sujan (Nexus India Capital) and is looking to close a […]
While Star launches Starboxoffice.com and BAG films launches E24Bollywood.com, Filmaka has launched a different kind of entertainment portal. The site is not focused on Bollywood content or gossip. Rather, its a site where users can upload their short movies and participate in thematic contests.
Movies can be between 1-3 minutes long and users actually pay Rs […]
March 27, 2008 – 11:51 am
Over the weekend, I was reviewing the wave of Internet startups emerging in the Indian market. There seemed to be a common thread across a lot of these startups, which I couldnt exactly pinpoint in the first glance. On a second follow through, I was kind of able to put a handle on it.
It seems […]
Yahoo has announced a collaboration with Tata Sons Ltd. owned Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to support cloud computing research. As part of the agreement, Yahoo researches will get access to CRL’s EKA, the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world.
With 14,400 processors, 28 terabytes of memory and a peak performance of 180 teraflops, EKA is only […]
I’ve been procastinating to write this post for a long time now. However, when I read about Sulekha’s IPO plans for 2009, I knew there just wouldnt be a better time.
As per a BS story, Sulekha plans to launch an IPO in 2009 targetting revenues of $ 30 million. The company is also planning to […]
ByIndia.com was recently put up for auction on eBay.
The auction ended on February 29th with zero bids received. Apparently, there were no takers for this “start Indian social media network”.
March 18, 2008 – 11:35 am
Erick@Techcrunch had an interesting post - The Internet from a global perspective. While US had the maximum number of Internet users (161.6 million), China was catching up fast (96 million).
With a user base of 25.2 million users, India came in at the 8th position. We (me included) keep whining about how Internet penetration in […]
March 17, 2008 – 12:04 pm
Two interesting stories related to the Indian online advertising market:
1) Business Today has a good story covering the full spectrum of digital advertising companies in India - from full fledge interactive agencies to online Indian ad networks.
Most interesting tidbit from the story:
* As per a Lintas media report, Internet advertising in India is Rs […]
LordsOfOdds is a Pune based startup, which enables you to “bet” on outcome of Indian events.
Here’s how it works.
The site will float a new entry for an event and start accepting bets on the outcome of the event. Users offer their wager for the outcome they think is most likely. As the support (demand) for […]
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