Sahaj e-Village Limited, a subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure which sets up and operates broadband enabled Common Service Centres in rural India in a public-private partnership, has partnered with the e-commerce venture Infibeam to launch an online shopping portal called SahajShopping.com. (more…)

Update: MakeMyTrip also seems to have introduced Apple Passbook integration for its flight bookings earlier this month. MakeMyTrip also adds that these passes will offer Flight reminders to Passbook users. (Hat tip – Vyom Prashant). (more…)

Online B2B marketplace IndiaMart has launched its mobile site m.indiamart.com and an Android app which available for download from the Google Play Store. (more…)

MTV India and Tata Nano have launched the second season of their digital travel show, Drive with MTV; The first season of the show showing four teams of contestants on road trip across the country over a period of 21 days, was telecast entirely on the web and had 1,41,000 tweets and other social media content generated around it, it claims. The team with the highest social media response, team Nano North won Nanos at the end of the show. We spoke with Ekalavya Bhattacharya, Head of Digital, MTV India to understand their digital strategy. In this first part of our interaction with him, he spoke about how digital is changing their content strategy, the relationship between TV & digital and the challenges with doing shows that are digital only: (more…)

Online music streaming site Dhingana has launched video roll advertising on its iOS app and will be rolling it out to its Android app soon, reports The Next Web. (more…)

India has decided to ask Internet Telephony companies, including Skype, to set up servers in the country, and also ask ISPs and telcos to segregate IP addresses on a state-wise basis reports the Economic Times, citing minutes of an April 23rd Home Ministry meeting. Skype appears to be the key concern here, and the lack of regulation and as well as iffy jurisdiction scenario poses concerns for companies. (more…)

TyreOnWheels is an online mobile tyre fitting service that allows customers to buy tyres online and get them fitted to their car at their home or their office. The company claims to have served around 700 customers since its launch in February 2013. (more…)

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Earnings-Mar13

- MeritNation In FY13: Rs 9.82Cr Operating Revenues; Rs 21.43Cr Operating EBITDA Loss
- OnMobile FY13 Concall: Music Downloads, Unbilled Revenues, Investor Warns Against Any Large Acquisition
- OnMobile India Revenues Decline 19.6% In FY13 To Rs 284.5 Cr; Total Revenues Rs 725.4 Cr
- Shine.com Reports Loss Of Rs 31.2 Cr In FY13 (more…)

Update: Tata Sons has informed the BSE that it has cancelled the offer for sale, however it hasn’t disclosed any specific reason for this cancellation. (more…)

It looks like the Indian Army has launched a Facebook page that goes by the name ‘ADGPI – Indian Army‘, thereby expanding its social media presence after launching its Twitter account few months back. (more…)