Akamai has released it’s ‘State of Internet’ report and here are a few interesting data points worth mentioning The top 10 countries accounted for just over 71% of the total global unique IP addresses seen by Akamai, down less than half a percent from the second quarter, and just over two percent less than the same...
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Worldspace India is shutting down its service from today onwards (i.e. on December 31st) and while we wait for the new owner to revisit their India strategy, lets look at Worldspace story in India. 8 years, 35 Channels, 4.5 Lakh (paying) subscribers, but are they enough? 50% of Worldspace subscribers came via Airtel DTH partnership –...
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Worldspace US filed for bankruptcy in October 2008 and December 31, 2009 is when their Indian arm will do mute, i.e. will cease to exist from January 1st. The company, in a letter to subscribers have announced the latest developments and subscribers who have paid for services beyond December 31st stand to lose their money.
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Digital media is the 3rd most preferred option after print and television for advertising, says a survey on digital marketing in India. Digital agency Sapient Interactive has released the findings of a survey, titled Digital Marketing: The CMO perspective. The survey was conducted with leading Chief Marketing Officers to understand their views on various...
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Rediff did a redesign recently and that received criticism from all over. Here is a view at where Rediff went wrong.
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Bollywood is back in multiplexes & so is the news about Indian Cinema Industry. While chatting with a friend on Friday who’s living in a small town up north, came to know that she is taking her kids to the first day first show of Harry Potter’s latest movie “Harry Potter And The Half...
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Last year it was Orkut, and this time around, MTV’s youth icon 2008 award went to Ankit Fadia, the well known ethical hacker. What’s interesting about Ankit’s achievements are the questions raised over his credibility (as a hacker): Ankit Fadia is a typical charlatan who gets published in one article and rides the wave of not...
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Rediff is bracing up to launch the portal in 22 languages (by Jan 2009) All Web sites including Yahoo and Rediff have this ‘look at me’ design for many years now where each item is screaming at the viewer to ‘look at me.’ We were forced to make it look like a newspaper, and though...
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Bookmyshow (Network18 venture) has partnered with Airtel and their app will now be available on Airtel Live. Airtel customers can book tickets on the Airtel WAP site live.airtelworld.com/AirTel Live on all GPRS enabled handsets. Airtel customers can also call 5432191 that would be directed to the Bookmyshow call center for tele-booking and home delivery,...
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Within 3 months of launch, In.com claims to have 3 million
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Sify has started redirecting it’s broadband users (I am one of them) to the iGoogle partner page – called World in my Inbox (WiYi) (not sure what does that mean). WiYi is powered by Google apps
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While covering the Minglebox’s new strategy, I checked their traffic ranking in Alexa and Comscore and here is the contrast: As per Comscore, Minglebox’s traffic (UU/PV/Avg. Visitor) seems to beat Facebook’s India traffic – but Alexa throws a completely different view! Who do you trust? Alexa or Comscore? Comscore doesn’t track the traffic from cybercafes and has...
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Zoomtra, the travel search engine has partnered with Routeguru for helping the Delhi bound travelers with driving directions. The service will help tourists who come to Delhi by guiding them through the shortest route between any two locations in Delhi/NCR along with distance and an approximate auto rickshaw fare for that route. The service is...
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BIG Music, part of Reliance Entertainment after signing deals with Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros has partnered with Fox and Disney for its home video business. BIG Music & Home Entertainment is
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Airtel has partnered with naukri, monsterindia, clickjobs and sulekha.com to launch jobs on mobile service (presently only in Kerela – dial *321*661# and follow the instructions). There is an immense opportunity in this space (a company in Bangalore offers pretty much similar service, just that they don’t have data partnerships from big players) – and...
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Web18 started consolidating it’s portals sometime back and except moneycontrol, most of it’s portals have been moved under the domain, in.com. Let’s try to understand the rationale behind this consolidation: The Traffic In.com, thanks to all the
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SatNav, having secured $7mn from Sequoia seems on the aggressive path in the GPS navigation space. Apart from focusing on retail distribution, the company launched RoadsofIndia (month back) and also launched ‘Citizen Mapper’, a GPS Enthusiast centric initiative aimed at rewarding the users for suggesting additional Points of Interest (POI’s) and also sharing updates on...
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Now this is something that sounds really scary! Deloitte studied the Mumbai wireless networks and here are some interesting results: Of the total networks sampled (6700), around 36% appeared to be
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Media buying agency ZenithOptimedia (unit of Publicis Groupe), has reduced its forecast for adspend growth to 4.3 per cent in 2008 (down from the 6.6 % growth forecast it had published in  June earlier). In recent years, however, ad expenditure has roughly tracked the economy, and has remained at 0.92 per cent-0.93 per cent of...
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ApnaLoan has partnered with Reliance money to provide information about personal finance on their website. As a part of the tie-up, content on the Easy Loan, EMI Calculators and FAQ sections on the Reliance Money website will be
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