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Times Of India Invests $4 Million In Online Content Network InstaMedia

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 9th, 2010 |

Why SMS Spam Has Increased In India: Business Model Changes

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 7th, 2010 |

On September 11th 2010, I’ll complete three years on the Do-Not-Call registry, and even now, I get a few calls a month (the last one today from +91-11-45197100), and a ... Continue_Reading

Updated: In.com And Traffic Tactics: Why Comparing In.com With Rediff Is Incorrect

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 6th, 2010 |

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Web18* owned In.com, according to a report in Afaqs, has surpassed Rediff.com, in terms of Unique visitors worldwide. Do check the report for exact numbers from Comscore. With this, In.com ... Continue_Reading

Airtel Broadband Doesn’t Want To Be A Dumb Pipe

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 6th, 2010 |

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Bharti Airtel is planning to introduce an applications store for its fixed line customers, reports Business Line. The company, which has over 3.1 million fixed line users and 1.3 million broadband ... Continue_Reading

Airtel Owned Warid May Have To Become A Public Limited Company

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 3rd, 2010 |

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Warid Telecom, a Bangladesh based telecom operators which Bharti Airtel acquired 70% stake in, in January this year, may be among 24 companies in the country that are asked to ... Continue_Reading

Naspers Invested Over $10 M In Ibibo In FY10; Goibibo $1M Per Month; Payments Platform?

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 3rd, 2010 |

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In its annual report, Naspers, the South African media conglomerate, has reported that it invested ZAR 76 million (around $10.29 million at current rates) in ‘Development Costs’ in MIH India ... Continue_Reading

Spice Digital To Launch VoIP Service S-Unno; IPO In 2011, 25% Dilution

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 2nd, 2010 |

StratosHear Launches MobiAdz, India’s Seventh Mobile Ad Network

By Nikhil Pahwa on September 1st, 2010 |

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StratosHear, which was earlier focusing on providing audio advertising on mobile caller ringback tones, has now become the seventh company to launch a mobile advertising network in India, after InMobi, ... Continue_Reading

IRCTC Reports 2 Million Failed Transactions For July 2010; 9.9 Million Total

By Anmol Pradhan on September 1st, 2010 |

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In the month of July, IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation), which manages the online rail ticketing for the Indian Railways, handled around 9.92 million transactions, of which 7.92 million were ... Continue_Reading

Top 10 Digital Media Trends & Bets For 2011-2013 By Anurag Gupta, MD, DGM India

By Nikhil Pahwa on August 31st, 2010 |

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Anurag Gupta, Managing Director at DGM India, the largest online performance advertising network in India writes about his top Digital Media Trends and Bets for 2011-2013. He blogs at ... Continue_Reading

Group Buying Moves To TV: Cellcast Launches Bargain TV Show

By Nikhil Pahwa on August 31st, 2010 |

New Telco’s Looking For A Way Out Of India’s Telecom Mess: Report; Our Take

By Nikhil Pahwa on August 30th, 2010 |

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Some of the new telecom operators in India, which received licenses and allocations spectrum in a questionable first-come-first-served manner in January 2008, have approached India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for ... Continue_Reading