MediaNama had learnt from sources that Times Internet Limited (Indiatimes) has bought back Seqioua Capital India’s stake in the company. When contacted, Indiatimes CEO Rishi Khiani declined to confirm or ... Continue_Reading

Economic Times Ties Up With Facebook The Economic Times and ET Now have tied up with Facebook to let users share discuss the Union Budget for the financial year 2010-11. ... Continue_Reading

With local search portals sprouting up on the internet and starting to engage Internet users, BCCL-owned TimesCity.com, probably the oldest online city guide in India, has been overhauled completely to ... Continue_Reading

BCCL group company Times Business Solutions (TBSL) has launched a jobs portal specific for technology jobs called Techgig.com. Readers may remember that TBSL acquired Cybermedia’s Dice in July 2008 but ... Continue_Reading

Decreasing ARPU and hostile market conditions are no deterrent for telecom operators in India. After Uninor rolled out services in 7 circles simultaneously, earlier this year, Batelco owned S Tel ... Continue_Reading

TimesofMoney, the digital payments service provider from BCCL (the Times of India group), has applied to the Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) for a Payment Service Provider license. Avijit Nanda, President, ... Continue_Reading

Indiatimes, the online portal from BCCL owned Times Internet Ltd, has received something of a makeover, tweeted @neerajarora. The changes aren’t particularly drastic (new / old). Two key elements stood out for ... Continue_Reading

BCCL owned Times Internet Ltd (Indiatimes) is planning to launch a Weblogs Inc like unit, essentially an group of blogs on the lines of Gawker Media or Weblogs Inc/MediaGlow focused ... Continue_Reading

An old telecom industry joke goes like this: A Japanese VAS company goes to an Indian telecom carrier for a content deal. They’re thrilled when the carrier suggests an 80:20 ... Continue_Reading

Sunil Mittal On MTN, Tariff Wars Sunil Mittal, Chairman & Group CEO, Bharti Group,  is not very optimistic about the future with South African telco MTN after the deal fell ... Continue_Reading

Avinash Nair Roped In As GM At Hungama Avinash Nair has joined Hungama Digital Media as General Manager – South (India). Prior to this, Avinash was Head Sales- Karnataka, Andhra ... Continue_Reading

A few days ago, we’d highlighted the opportunity for Balaji Telefilms’ Hoonur.com, created because existing job sites just don’t have the tools to service the entertainment industry better and just ... Continue_Reading