Posts by Nikhil Pahwa

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BCCL group company Indiatimes has made live two separate verticals – a womens portal called iDiva, and a B2B marketplace called, well, B2B. Both sites are still in the process ... Continue_Reading
In what appears to be its largest deal yet, thin client company Novatium has signed a deal with government owned telecom operator BSNL to offer its Nova NetPC at Rs. ... Continue_Reading
Rajesh Mishra, CEO (India) of UFO Moviez said at the IAMAI Digital Entertainment conference yesterday that the company intends to launch MovieBeam in India in around 6 months. Moviebean is ... Continue_Reading

BSNL Eyes Overseas Acquisitions; Why Not MTNL First?

Public Sector telecom operator BSNL is eying overseas acqusitions in Africa and the Middle East reports PTI. BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal told reporters that the company is open to acqusitions, ... Continue_Reading
Well, Motorola’s been in a lot of trouble, and were earlier reported to be in talks with Videocon for selling their handsets business. It appears that the company has sold ... Continue_Reading
More of an infrastructure deal, this: Bharti Telesoft (BTSL) has tied up, interestingly, with a company that its sister concern was wooing: CIOL reports that BTSL will provide deploy SMSC, ... Continue_Reading
Panelists: Hrush Bhatt, co-founder, Cleartrip.com; Saurabh Gupta – CEO of Phonethics Mobile Media; Naveen Tewari – CEO of MKhoj; Saurabh Khullar, Co-Founder of Ideacts; Jiby Thomas, Co-Founder of Quickr Theme: Before & After (Starting ... Continue_Reading
Much was expected from the Rediff.com this quarter – as the leading online media site in India, and with around 75% of its India Online revenues dependent on the Advertising ... Continue_Reading
Mint, the business daily from HT Media, has launched podcasts at its website LiveMint. Titled LiveMint Radio, it features interviews with entrepreneurs and investors from the Silicon Valley, and is ... Continue_Reading

Weekly Wrapup (3-7 November)

Most Read Stories on MediaNama Reliance Entertainment is planning to launch an online advertising network called Kyphy, in April 2009. The project is being led by Sudipto Majumdar, former CTO of ... Continue_Reading
Update: An official press release from Rediff confirms that the company has taken a minority stake in Eterno Infotech. Original story (Nov 7th): Perhaps inadvertently, but responding to our question in ... Continue_Reading
Note: Any questions for Rediff – do let us know in the next 20 minutes either in the comments here, on email or on twitter by responding to @nixxin Nasdaq listed ... Continue_Reading