Updated: YouTube Struggles With IPL 2010 Live Streaming
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 16th, 2010 |
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Update (March 16th): Looks like YouTube’s got its act together. The live streaming is working fine for me today. I’m in the office, watching the Royal Challengers challenge the Kings ...
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What ValueFirst Plans To Do, To Be IPO Ready In 2012
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 16th, 2010 |
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Mobile Value Added Services company ValueFirst is eying an IPO in 2012: we’ve heard of IPO plans from several companies in the past, including competitor One97 Communications, and spoke to ...
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KPCB & Sherpalo Sell Significant Stake In Info Edge
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 16th, 2010 |
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Venture Capital firms Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have sold most of their stake in BSE listed Info Edge India, though we’re not sure if KPCB (through its ...
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BBC News Launches Premium Voice Blog On Airtel; How Will It Become Viral?
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 15th, 2010 |
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Bharti Airtel has launched Airtel Blog, powered by Bubble Motion’s Bubbly. Any Airtel subscriber can sign up for their own blog by dialling *7*, and ask their friends and family to ...
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Web18 Sells Back 50% Stake In JobStreet India; $0.126M Cash
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 15th, 2010 |
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A little less than four years after it had first acquired the stake, TV18’s digital business Web18 has sold back its 50% stake in JobStreet India for a total cash ...
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Our Apologies…Tech
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 12th, 2010 |
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Our sincere apologies to our readers, who may have faced difficulty in accessing MediaNama this week. Of late, we’ve had an unexpected and quite staggering increase in traffic, particularly every ...
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VRock Licenses IPL Mobile Content To Multiple Co’s; In Talks For Stake In PhoneyTunes
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 12th, 2010 |
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Well, this is unprecedented: within around seven days of acquiring global SMS, MMS and IVR rights related to the Indian Premier League, vRock Mobile has managed to license non-exclusive content rights ...
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Airtel Launches Digital Media Distribution Biz; Bigger Play Than Digital Cinema
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 12th, 2010 |
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Bharti Airtel has entered the digital media distribution business, establishing what they’re calling a “digital media exchange”. The exchange will enable the transference of digital content from media houses, producers ...
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BSNL Drops 3G Data Card Rates Across India: Tariff War?
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 11th, 2010 |
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Don’t you just love price wars? BSNL, the government owned telecom operator, has thrown down the gauntlet by launching 3G EVDO plans that substantially lowers access charges for consumers on ...
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Apalya Gets IPL 3 Global Mobile Live Streaming Rights For 3 Years; Subscription vs Advertising
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 10th, 2010 |
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Update: An interesting question from Kushan Mitra: if one can access YouTube’s live streaming on a laptop using a data card, why would they subscribe to the same content via ...
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Advertisement: Headstart In Hyderabad On 12th March 2010
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 10th, 2010 |
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Over 2 years, more than 50 volunteers, 6 cities, 80 startup saturdays and 3 national events with a total audience to 5000 entrepreneurs; Headstart team now travels to Hyderabad presenting ...
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BSE Launches GPRS Based SENSEX Streamer App; V.01 Hopefully
By Nikhil Pahwa on March 10th, 2010 |
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The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has launched a mobile application for receiving live quotes of its SENSEX index. Called BSE SENSEX Mobile Streamer, the Java based application is a 113 ...
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