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ZipDial Funding: Raises Rs.3.5Cr In Series A Led by Mumbai Angels

By Team PI 1 Comment

ZipDial Mobile Solutions, one of the Power Plugs finalists for the March edition, has raised Rs.3.5Cr in first round of investments. The investment is from a group of investors, including some US based investors, led by Mumbai Angels. The valuation … Read More »

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08 Apr

Infibeam to Power KKR Online Merchandise Store

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KKR is one of the 10 franchises of the Indian Premier league. Having enticed the audiences with superlative performances and stylish cricket gear, KKR ventures into an exclusive merchandise store. Infibeam partners with KKR to launch a wide range of … Read More »

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12 May

Reliance Inks $100mn Deal with ICC – Live T20 Content

By sinha No comments

Reliance Communications has inked a deal with ESPN-Star to deliver live content from the ICC World T20 matches to its subscribers’ mobile phones. The Reliance-ESPN deal will run through 2015 and

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11 May

IPL – Are Prediction Games Equivalent to Betting/Gambling?

By sinha 3 Comments

The Union Sports Minister, M.S.Gill denounced the SMS game introduced in IPL (fans can make ball by ball predictions for cash prizes) saying that it’s almost equivalent to betting/gambling. “This is viewed as ‘openly encouraging gambling and betting’, which official … Read More »

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11 Feb

CricFeeds: Live Cricket Simulation – delivered as a White Label solution

By sinha No comments

Cricfeeds is an interesting startup that simulates live cricket (ball-by-ball) with player names/positions in the field. What’s really interesting about Cricfeeds is that any site can build a cricket solution using their platform (essentially, cricfeeds is selling a white label … Read More »

cricfeeds, cricket, live cricket

20 Jan

oCricket – Content Portal for Cricket Crazy

By sinha 6 Comments

India is a cricket crazy country and while Cricinfo rules the traffic curve, there is surely an opportunity in this space. oCricket is a newly launched portal that lets you create cricket related content (including rich media) , meet other … Read More »

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29 May

The Domain war – Rediff vs. BCCI

By sinha 2 Comments

BCCI has filed a petition against Rediff seeking to restrain Rediff from using the domain name Indianfantasyleague.com in an online cricket game (via). What’s really funny is that Rediff is not at all involved with Indianfantasyleague, and they were just … Read More »

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15 Apr

IPL’s big logistic challenges

By sinha 1 Comment

IPL is big and is bigger than World Cup, Commonwealth Games and even Asian Games when it comes to logistics. While organizers of events like commonwealth games and Asian Games had 2 years of time for preparation, IPL organizers have … Read More »

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04 Mar

Page Title – How it can improve your site’s stickiness? Check out cricinfo

By sinha 16 Comments

Can page title improve your site’s stickiness? Well, look at the pic below and see it for yourself: Except cricinfo, no other site (including cricketnext, cricket.yahoo, cricketbuzz and rediff) show the cricket scores on the page title! Well, a valid … Read More »

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