For Google, IPL’s YouTube partnership is so important that they have started promoting a specially created page for IPL. Worldwide, Google has promoted a few products (like Droid) on the homepage, but I believe this is the first time, Google India is promoting a landing page from Google.co.in. The special landing page created for IPL 2010...
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IRCTC has clocked a total of 6547581 number of successful transactions in the month of January 2010. In total, there were 77%  successful transactions across all the payment categories. As far as total transactions are concerned, 23% is a huge failure rate and questions the efficiency of payment gateways. 73% success rate for credit/debit cards, 71% success...
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IPL Season 3 is on and there are reports that IPL Season 3 will be live streamed on YouTube (update: the deal is confirmed). BCCI will announce the deal with Google India on Wednesday While Multi Screen Media (formerly known as Sony Entertainment and the company that owns SET Max, which airs IPL) holds the satellite...
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India has witnessed a tremendous growth in its media and entertainment business. In the past decade, we have seen the growth of billion dollar home grown media conglomerates like Network 18, Zee, UTV, Reliance ADA, Yash Raj, NDTV, Bennet & Colmen, and Hindustan Times to name a few. At the same time the foreign...
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Twitter’s hockey stick growth has flattened over the last few months, but it’s interesting to note the emergence of South East Asian countries in the usage of Twitter. Sysomos compiled a report on top tweeting countries (based on data between mid-October to mid-December, 2009 and data from 13 million tweets) and an interesting finding is...
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MapMyIndia has been in the launch spree – they earlier launched mobile app (GPS Navigator sans GPRS) and has now launched navigation device for motorbike enthusiasts. Termed TrailBlazer, the device is loaded with maps of 620 cities, is waterproof, and comes with an FM transmitter broadcasts turn-by-turn voice directions to FM radios within a particular...
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Few years back, Gmail had an April fool prank ‘Gmail Paper’ that offered users to send email via traditional postal service. Indian postal department has taken a leaf out of the prank and has launched ePost Corporate Service that enables companies to send business emails through the internet across the country. In order to use the...
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LinkedIn claims 4 million users from India (globally, LinkedIn has 55 million members). The last 3 million mark has been achieved in just 1.5 years (and it’s important to note that LinkedIn opened it’s office in India few months back, it’s first ever office in Asia). LinkedIn has witnessed explosive growth in the last few months...
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First announced in 2008, Kishore Biyani is now all set to launch MVNO services (in 6-8 weeks) and will reveal the details in few weeks. MVNOs, as you know do not own spectrum, and buy Minutes of Usage from telecom operators. ;there will be SIM cards based on the GSM platform from the Tata DoCoMo brand...
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Travelocity India has accused Cleartrip of partnering with Desiya officials and has filed a FIR in Gurgaon. Travelguru acquired Desiya in 2007 and was later acquired by Travelocity in September of 2009. In the FIR, Travelocity has even named Desiya employees (MD Amit Taneja, Regional Manager (North) Sanjeet Singh and travel consultant Imran Ansari)...
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We love micro-blogging services – they are short/simple and keeps conversation to-the-point and it’d be fun if microblogging meets QnA kind of service. So here is it – Answers.PluGGd.in.
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ASSOCHAM has come up with yet another ground breaking report (they have been slammed for some of their earlier reports) that mentions that social networking sites kills productivity of corporate employees by 12.5%. The survey (sample size of 4000) was carried out in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Indore, Ahemdabad, Surat, Mumbai, Pune, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Luckow,...
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Flickr has restricted Indian IPs for default safesearch, and that means searching for a porn query may result in Flickr blocking certain content (i.e. content rated moderate or restricted).
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Routeguru was the early entrant in landmark based driving direction service and while, several other companies followed (like Yahoo) the ‘route’, none of them were able to create a useful service (all of them had a regional strength and lacked pan India presence). Google took the UGC approach earlier (with Map Maker) and even launched...
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If 2009 was the year of recession (to the moon and back) and subsequently the fall in internet advertising, content business too doesn’t seem to crack any big chasm. Infact, it’s sad that nothing seems to have changed for content portals in India. Traffic for in.com, indiatimes, sify, rediff etc have remained at the pretty much...
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Reliance Big Entertainment entered into a strategic alliance with music company T-Series and Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (Hungama Mobile) wherein all three companies will co-own the current and future music catalogue of Big Entertainment and the same shall be exclusively distributed by T-Series on all platforms in all formats including the current...
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In India, Twitter is spreading like a wildfire, especially in the media world – every media house sports it's Twitter handle and wants you to follow them. But media being media, they still do not get the ‘new media’. And before you hit back on me, answer this question – how many of tweets from...
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By all means, 2009 is a milestone for social networking, especially for Internet-devoid-and-chatty citizens of India. Most of homegrown social networks took the back seat and the ones to survive are driven by media companies (with deep pockets).
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LinkedIn, widely known as the #1 professional networking website globally, has a large and rapidly growing base in India and is now establishing a local presence in the country as well. Alexa (a source I would at best consider indicative), ranks it in the top 15 websites in the country in terms of traffic...
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CPI(M) leader, Brinda Karat wants Google India chief to be arrested, for showing sex determination ads on Google India searches. Earlier supreme court issued notice to Google, Yahoo and Microsoft for displaying ’sex determination’ ads and the issue has resurfaced, even though Google claims that they have blocked all of the ads on Google.co.in site. The...
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