(with inputs from Nikhil Pahwa) Facebook has announced that they will open an office in India, in Hyderabad. While the company claims that it has 8 million users from India ... Continue_Reading

Reliance Communications has launched a mobile VAS application called Socially, which gives access to to social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn through a single client. What’s interesting about it ... Continue_Reading

Updates below with details from Apurv Pandit of PagalGuy Pardon the pun, but this is probably the “killer application” for online education websites in India. Old favorite PagalGuy.com and Sequoia Capital ... Continue_Reading

Norwegian software company Meltwater Group has has acquired social media monitoring company BuzzGain Inc. PC reports that the deal is worth $4 million including earn outs. BuzzGain is a California ... Continue_Reading

Webdunia has launched a niche social networking site for doctors and health care professionals. The site is also open to medical students, hospitals and medical institutions.  The company also claims ... Continue_Reading

Zoho’s tagline is “Work. Online”. Facebook’s could as well be “Bunk work. Online”. The two could not be further apart, yet by enabling Facebook Connect, Zoho hopes to woo ... Continue_Reading

Social networking site Facebook and eBay owned online payment service company PayPal have tied-up to enable PayPal services in Facebook’s advertising and developer systems. As per the agreement, advertisers on ... Continue_Reading

Talking about consistently changing the rules of the game. TataDoCoMo, which came into the limelight with their pay-per-second billing plans and marketing blitz, has now expanded its BuddyNet service to ... Continue_Reading

VoxOX’s Translation Service VoxOx, a free consumer service created by San Diego based TelCentris Inc, that allows voice, video, IM, text, social media, e-mail, fax and file sharing in one application, ... Continue_Reading

Update: BBC To Launch Two Apps For News And Sports Content BBC is set to launch two applications for news and sport that will make it easier for smartphone users in the ... Continue_Reading

Sequoia Capital funded Bubble Motion, has launched a voice-based social  networking service called ‘Bubbly‘ built specifically for mobile users. With the service, users can record a voice message and send ... Continue_Reading

ACK Media, the owner of Indian comic content such as Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle and Karadi Tales, has a slew of projects lined up for the year:  online games ... Continue_Reading