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Don’t Rediff & Sify Have To List In India This Fiscal?

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 24th, 2010 |

With just over a month for the 2009-10 fiscal to end, Rediff and Sify may be running out of time to list on the Indian stock exchanges. Back in 2008, ... Continue_Reading

Rediff Net Loss Down To $1.64M, Revenues Up 18% QoQ As Advertisers Return

By Preethi J on January 28th, 2010 |

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After a poor September quarter where it witnessed a doubling of net losses, Rediff.com, which is listed on the Nasdaq, has wrestled back to post a reduction of 37.2 percent ... Continue_Reading

Rediff Incorporates 9 Indic Languages Into Upgraded RediffBlogs

By Nikhil Pahwa on December 15th, 2009 |

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It has been almost four months since we had written about Rediff switching its blogs to WordPress MU, effectively addressing the dichotomy and pointlessness of maintaining both Rediff Blogs and ... Continue_Reading

Rediff Launches Diamond Comics For Mobiles

By MediaNama on November 11th, 2009 |

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More news of comic books on mobile: it is now the turn of Diamond Comics to tie up with Rediff to bring its titles – Chacha Chaudhary, Panchatantra, Tenalirama, Akbar ... Continue_Reading

eCPM Rates Same Says Rediff CEO; Rediff, Yahoo & Cult Following

By Nikhil Pahwa on November 9th, 2009 |

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eCPM (effective cost per milli impressions) rates have not decreased for NASDAQ listed Rediff.com in the last two quarters, Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan told MediaNama on the companys conference call ... Continue_Reading

Rediff’s Losses Double, Revenues Down 15.5% QoQ

By Preethi J on November 7th, 2009 |

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For the quarter ended September 2009, NASDAQ listed Rediff.com (REDF) has reported net losses of $ 2.61 million compared to losses of 0.42 million in the quarter ended September 2008. ... Continue_Reading

Rediffs Music Streaming Service SongBuzz Goes Live

By Nikhil Pahwa on November 3rd, 2009 |

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Rediff.com, a leading Indian portal, has launched an audio streaming service called Rediff SongBuzz. SongBuzz allows consumers to search for and play music (via streaming) online. There’s a social component ... Continue_Reading

News Digest: Vodafone, BSNL, MTNL, 3G, Intel & More

By Diwaskar Chettri on November 3rd, 2009 |

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Vodafone Joins Tariff War Vodafone Essar has announced a nation-wide pay per second tariff. There are different plans for different circles and some have an additional deduction of 50 paise per ... Continue_Reading

LBS Co Imere Sells Minority Stake To Rediff; Buddy Finder App Ohe!

By Nikhil Pahwa on November 2nd, 2009 |

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Little known Bangalore based location-enabling company Imere Technologies has sold a minority stake Rediff.com, a NASDAQ listed Indian Internet company. The quantum of the minority stake has not been disclosed. Imere uses ... Continue_Reading

Rediff Upgrading RediffBlogs, Migrating Users From iLand To Wordpress MU

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 16th, 2009 |

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Update: Rediff Chairman and CEO Ajit Balakrishnan, in an emailed response, has told MediaNama that the company cannot comment on products under development; we’ll update with details when the company is ... Continue_Reading

Rediff CFO Joy Basu & VP (Products) Zaki Ansari Leave Rediff: Report

By Nikhil Pahwa on August 7th, 2009 |

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Two significant moves at Rediff.com: ContentSutra reports that Zaki Ansari, VP (Product Development) and CFO Joy Basu have resigned from the company. MediaNama contacted Ansari, who declined to confirm or ... Continue_Reading

Quillpad Launches Commercial Widget For Transliteration; Comparison With Google; Clients

By Preethi J on August 6th, 2009 |

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Tachyon Technologies‘ Quillpad has launched a commercial, license-based widget for websites. The launch follows 45 days after the Bangalore based company launched widgets for personal use. These widgets allow website ... Continue_Reading