The Naspers and TenCent owned social networking site Ibibo is planning to launch a mobile browser, called the "Ibibo iBrowser", specifically for the Symbian S60 v3 and Java phones: m.ibibo.com/browser. Correct us if we're wrong, but this is probably the first Indian Internet business to launch a browser. That said, digging into the 'About' section of the site reveals that the iBrowser is essentially the Tencent QQ Mobile browser. Tencent, the Chinese internet company, has a 10% stake in Ibibo (and an option to inrease its stake to up to 50%. However, Naspers treats Ibibo - MIH India as a joint venture with TenCent. We downloaded the browser on the Nokia E71 and were greeted with a Homepage which was full of links to Ibibo's services in addition to links for commonly used web sites including Yahoo, Facebook and Rediff, among others. -Tabbed Navigation: The navigation tool bar features Bookmarks and Search buttons, and an address bar. The best part about the browser is its tabbed browsing interface, to browse multiple sites in different tabs at once and switch between them using a list. - Search: The search button lets users choose between Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines (Nikhil adds: waitaminit...ibibo hasn't launched its own search engine yet?) - Data Compression, Data Tracking: It uses a compression technique to reduce data usage, just like the Opera browser. We don't know if the websites go through TenCent servers or not but the company claims it reduces data costs by 85%. Opera makes similar claims.…
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