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Sify Technologies announced quarterly revenue of $35 million, a 7 percent increase from $32.7 million in the year-ago quarter. The growth came entirely from the enterprise side of things, as consumer-revenue dipped 22 percent to $8.72 million. Net loss expanded to $2.39 million from $1.09 .. read full article »

People: There are ~8 bomb blasts reported so far. Since telco networks are jammed, please use this twitter id to share your status (so that your near and dear ones can know your well being).Or else, use spy to track the bangalore news across social media. Word of advice: if you are in your .. read full article »

This was on the cards but is now official. The Indian creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous have been sued by Hasbro, the US based company that owns copyright over Scrabble. Check out reports here, here & here. The suit has been filed against RJ Softwares, the Kolkata based .. read full article »

Over 300 million mobile ads served to Indian users in the month of June, 2008! Can you believe this number? Most of the domain experts won’t!! Admob has shared it’s monthly mobile metrics data and here are some interesting metrics from India: Ads Served: 344,896,073 Requests: .. read full article »

[Guest post by Raja Shekhar - he has some interesting suggestions/ideas to Indian Internet companies] For the past many years, I had some ideas regarding how to utilize e-mail service and offer various other services effectively. As I have weakness with my writing, I never put it down until last .. read full article »

Just received this tip. Jeevansathi.com now lets you chat with other users over Google Talk. No IDs are exchanged, you can do it anonymously. Users can now chat with the users who are already online. All they have to do is add jeevansathichat@gmail.com to their Google Talk. Once done, you will .. read full article »

    Yesterday seemed to be a doomsday for people in the blogosphere as their favorite messaging system Twitter had encountered with a weird problem. All of a sudden our hard earned followers had disappeared. As you all must be aware that this is not the first time that Twitter is facing .. read full article »

Is Indian media group Bennett, Coleman & Co, owner of Times of India newspaper, eyeing another cheap UK acquisition? The shares of British media group Trinity Mirror rose more than 5 percent on Thursday on market rumours that the Indian media giant is looking to bid for the UK company whose .. read full article »

Steve Ballmer has laid out the new priorities for Microsoft and shares his strategy to kill Yahoo, Google and Apple. Here is an excerpt from mail he sent out to MS employees: Windows: The success of Windows is our number one job. In the weeks ahead, we’ll launch a campaign to address any .. read full article »

Reliance Industries Ltd recorded a net profit at Rs 4,110 crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal, a 13 per cent rise against the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal. Its turnover increased 38 per cent to Rs 43,050 crore for the quarter ended June 30, from Rs 31,290 crore in .. read full article »

Bharti Airtel has reported Q1 FY2009 revenue of Rs. 8,483 crore, up 44% year-on-year, on the back of an addition of 75.09 lakh customers in the quarter. Bharti's subscriber base crossed 7.17 crore, giving it a market share of 24.2%. Here are the highlights: EBITDA of Rs. 3,522 crore (up 44% .. read full article »

Remote support company, iYogi has raised $9.5mn from SAP Ventures (), Canaan Partners and SVB India [via]. Canaan and SVB earlier invested $3.1mn in Series A last year and this round of funding will be utilized for expansion into more regions (US/UK/Canada etc) iYogi’s customer approval rate .. read full article »

Consim Info's BharatMatrimony and People Interactive's Shaadi.com have launched matrimony services on DTH via Dish TV and Tata Sky respectively. The Bharatmatrimony and Tata Sky property is called Actve Matrimony while the Dish and Shaadi venture is called Shaadi Active. For those that missed .. read full article »

A new entrant in social networking space of India, quite good in usability and features to lure audience, this is one social network I would IndiaHangout.com in category - “Secondary Social networks” likewise to third World Countries in political scenario, the primaries would obviously be - .. read full article »

More than 28 million people in India aged 15 and older accessed the internet from home and work in May. This represents a 27% increase over last year. Do note this report excludes traffic from public computers, including cybercafes as well as acces from mobiles/PDAs. More on the methodology can .. read full article »

As part of their monthly reports on the mobile Web, Opera has released their June 2008 stats breaking down usage of their mobile web browser – Opera Mini – across 10 countries and 100 sites. It's not the most encompassing of studies but it does throw some light on mobile usage, specifically .. read full article »

Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital, the venture capital arm of chipmaker Intel, has announced that it would invest $17 million into three Indian companies - which includes travel portal Yatra.com, events-oriented social networking portal BuzzInTown.com, and Emnet Samsara Media Pvt. Ltd., an out-of-home .. read full article »

Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) has reported Q2 revenue of $8.32 million, a 22 percent increase from a year ago, helped by strong, 42 percent growth at the company's India Online division. On the US Publishing side, revenue declined 19 percent to $1.76 million. Helped by a slightly expanded gross margin, .. read full article »

Rediff announced its first quarter results and things are looking bright as far as the Indian online business is concerned. Here are the highlights of the key numbers: India Online revenues up to 6.56 Million $ from 4.62 Million $ same quarter last year. That works out to an increase of 42% in .. read full article »

Jeevansathi now allows you to chat with your prospective life partner on google talk with complete confidentiality. Without even revealing your google talk id, you will be able to send and receive chat requests to other jeevansathi members who are online. This is a very cool feature that surely .. read full article »

Over the past 5 years, we have seen immense technological advancements on the internet. There have been huge changes to the way a visitor interacts with a website and pages. These technological aspects gave birth to the social factor on the internet. Websites started enabling the users to .. read full article »

Mobile services still constitute majority of the revenues with Enterprise Services gaining traction. Airtel reported a profit of Rs 20bn for Q1 FY09 up 25.7% compared to Q1 of last FY. Here is a quick summary of the results, Mobile Customers increased to 69.38 mn at the end of June-08 .. read full article »

Disclaimer: Please view this video with discretion as it contains explicit content This amateur video was forwarded to me some time back via an agitated email from a student of XLRI Jamshedpur asking me to publish it on my blog to ‘expose’ the indiscretions of their IIM-C counterparts. I .. read full article »

  How secure are you when you browse the internet from your computer? How secure is your financial data? Do you check what page you are going to visit? How safe is the page that you have just opened in your browser?       These are some questions that no one can answer for certain. With the .. read full article »

Intel Capital India, the $250mn fund is planning to pump $17 million into three Indian companies, comprising two Internet portals (Yatra, BuzzInTown ) and one OOH advertising firm (Emnet Samsara). The breakup of investment is not yet known. More about the companies: Yatra has raised funds from .. read full article »

Northgate Technologies Ltd through its wholly owned subsidiary Globe7 HK Ltd has formed partnerships with Chinese advertising giants, Baidu, Alimama and Allyes, to build mainland advertising exposure for Globe7 products Globe7.com, Egglad.com, Ziddu.com and Longhaier.com. Clayton Haswell, .. read full article »

RK Swamy BBDO, a 650-crore group having its own creative agency is planning to launch an HR portal for India, reports Business Standard. Rs. 3 crore will be invested in the portal that is planned to generate revenues of Rs. 10 crore by the first year.   Srinivasan K Swamy, chairman and managing .. read full article »

A report by Juniper on mobile coverage for the Indian sub-continent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka) states that content revenues in the Indian region should hit $8.3 billion by 2013. The revenues are largely driven by data traffic and are expected to hit $3 billion in .. read full article »

It takes a lot of guts and courage to talk about one’s failure. Vijay Rayapati, bootstrapped his startup and shares his story on the failure and lessons learnt.A must-read for every entrepreneur! NOTE: This post is a bit longer but If you have some time (15 mins) then it’s worth reading,You .. read full article »

TutorVista has raised $18 million from Sequoia Capital and LightSpeed Venture Partners to fund its expansion into a hybrid (online-offline) education model (Sequoia had earlier invested $2mn in TutorVista) The co. is also looking to raise another $15mn and plans to focus more on the offline .. read full article »

I checked across this really creative funding pitch deck from a Kolkata based event management company that is looking for potential investments. They uploaded this to SlideShare and have entered this in the World’s Best Presentation Contest that we are currently running. Its a very well .. read full article »

This afternoon we had our first EconCeleb conference at the Roosevelt hotel in Hollywood where we heard from industry heads such as Harvey Levin, managing editor of TMZ.com and Bonnie Fuller, former EVP & chief editorial director of American Media, Inc and many more. Some highlights are below .. read full article »

If you are visiting any city in India and you are a blogger, you can now find accommodation for free to stay and the place would be another blogger’s home. This is a sort of barter exchange being propagated by Indian website - ExtaBed.in. At ExtraBed.in, bloggers are being asked to participate .. read full article »

Ringtones are a big business in India, the worlds 2nd largest mobile market. They in fact make up for more than 35% of all mobile VAS revenues. Isnt it time that companies stop charging for ringtones ? Why even pay the Rs. 7-15 for a ringtone ? If you want to stop paying for ringtone downloads .. read full article »

The future seems bright for astrology, with the overall market estimated at Rs 4000 crore and the online sliver valued at Rs 15-20 crores. Do note however that this market is highly dis-organized, ranging from a palm reader in Dadar to computerized horoscopes. Regardless, E4M reports online .. read full article »

In conjunction with our EconCeleb conference later today, we present the Econoclast10, a top 10 list of the most influential and innovative online celebrities. Whether they're blogging, investing, entertaining or, well, updating their MySpace profiles, these celebs are finding new ways to reach .. read full article »

Cyn.in the Mumbai based Enterprise 2.0 collaboration company (profiled on Webyantra in Sep’06 ) has launched its platforms in two new avataars. Cyn.in V2 is now being offered in an on premise model packaged as what the company is calling a “software appliance“. Additionally Cyn.in V2 .. read full article »

Comscore has released numbers related to the Indian Internet usage for May 2008. As per the report: 28 million users in the age group 15 & older accessed Internet from home - work locations This indicates a 27% jump in the Internet usage from last year  India has one of the fastest growing .. read full article »

Yeah, its time for some midweek fun ! I am sure you guys will enjoy it. Watch this video to know the progress on India-Pakistan Border resolution :) Serious subject uhh? See the video and you will know ! Volatile India-Pakistan Standoff Enters 11,680th Day The Onion news network  comes up .. read full article »

After the success of Opera Mini and iPhone’s Safari, Microsoft plans to bring Internet Explorer to the mobile phones. The phone will be available in the third quarter of 2008, reports Telecom Tiger.   Opera has recently released Opera Mini for browser. WATBlog had reviewed it in an early .. read full article »

Zapak.com has dipped its toes into the mobile domain through its Zapak.mobi venture. The GPRS-based site offers games for mobile download and play, with multiplayer aspects and a message box, to bring in a community touch-point. The multiplayer titles are currently turn-based only—apparently .. read full article »

Here is the insightful story of 2 failed startups: Monitor110: Raised $20mn in 3 rounds, but finally shut shop. 7 deadly sins? The lack of a single, “the buck stops here” leader until too late in the game No separation between the technology organization and the product organization Too .. read full article »

Recently posted startup jobs: .Net techies Freelance PHP Developer Needed Sr. Sales Head / VP Sales - for CXO Level B2B Enterprise Sales Opening for dotnet programmers New Delhi based startup looking for technical person Several Engineering positions More Indian startup Jobs Do you think you .. read full article »

It was just today that we brought you the news about Zapak launching a mobile gaming site at http://zapak.mobi. Now, we have just been told that NDTV Active, the mobile portal from NDTV now brings your mobile Java based games, courtesy of Hovr.   NDTV Active is a mobile portal from the .. read full article »

The iPhone 3G will be available as early as next month in India reports Techtree. As we had reported earlier, the phone was expected sometime in October from both Vodafone and Airtel. The report indicates an earlier launch date of August. Moreover, Vodafone will enjoy a 15-day first-to-market .. read full article »

You are reading it first here: Well that was quick! I just got informed by Bharatmatrimony that they too have tied up with Tata Sky and unlike Shaadi.com - Dishtv alliance have already launched the service on the Tata Sky yesterday itself. So as I write this blog the press conference is being .. read full article »

Comscore today released statistics for top web properties in India for the month of May 08. The numbers throw up some interesting facts. For one, Google has overtaken the Numero Uno position from Yahoo that it had held since the start. Last year they were neck to neck with roughly 14.5 monthly .. read full article »

Shaadi has partnered with Zee’s DTH service for “Shaadi Active’”, a subscription based service that will enable marriage prospects/their parents to search for eligible bride / groom of their choice - right from their tv screens.[source] Next in the Portal-DTH partnership list - Job .. read full article »

Well taking the web everywhere seems to be the funda being followed by the big web players. So if earlier it was about opening offline centres now Shaadi.com has set its eyes on the set top box users by tying up with DTH player DishTv to provide Shaadi Active a service that will allow DishTv .. read full article »

Zapak, the immensely popular gaming site from the house of Reliance Entertainment has just launched Zapak.mobi, a mobile gaming site for all the mobile aficionados out there. The site, which is directly accessible via GPRS, has been optimized for mobile browsers found on most handsets in the .. read full article »