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Updated: YouTube Struggles With IPL 2010 Live Streaming

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 16th, 2010 |

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 ... Continue_Reading

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 ... Continue_Reading

Tata Tele Launches Dialog For Internet On TV; Price vs Education

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 8th, 2010 |

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How do you increase India’s budgetary allocations for broadband? Simple, convince the Finance Minister that Farmville generates agricultural income! Jokes aside, another initiative has been launched to try to make the ... Continue_Reading

ITV Gets UK Broadcast Rights For IPL 2010; Live Streaming vs YouTube

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 8th, 2010 |

DQ Entertainment IPO Opens On March 8; Challenges

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 5th, 2010 |

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Hyderabad based animation firm DQ Entertainment will be going public on March 8 with 16,048,011 equity shares of Rs. 10 each. Subscriptions will close on March 10, 2010. The ... Continue_Reading

Indians Ready To Pay For Books, Videos & Music: Survey

By Preethi J on March 4th, 2010 |

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Twenty nine percent of Indians polled have already paid for books (note: not e-books) online, 19 percent have paid for online magazines, and 18 percent have paid for music, ... Continue_Reading

Apalya Launches Mobile TV On Virgin’s VFlash; Tendulkar’s Double Ton

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 4th, 2010 |

Updated: ZEE Inks JV With Mail.com For Entertainment Portal; Arvindra Kanwal CEO

By Preethi J on February 24th, 2010 |

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Update: (Nikhil Pahwa) The portal is going to be hosted at India.com, a domain which MMC bought last year, ContentSutra reports; we’ve confirmed the same from our sources as well. ... Continue_Reading

Budget: Web18 Launches MoneyControl MyTV; Integration?

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 18th, 2010 |

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With Pranab Mukherjee’s 2010-11 budget speech just 10 days away, Web18 has launched MoneyControl MyTV, a video content site targeting its core constituency of brokers and individual investors. It’s quite ... Continue_Reading

Jose Felix On Cricket Nirvana’s Experience With Live Streaming Cricket Matches

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 17th, 2010 |

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Launched in 2008, Cricket Nirvana was probably the first website in India to experiment with live streaming of Cricket matches. It began with a subscription model, and later switched to ... Continue_Reading

Game On! News Channels To Give IPL 3 A Miss

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 16th, 2010 |

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Game on! As expected, news broadcasters are up in arms against the restrictive guidelines instituted by the Indian Premier League, India’s city based T20 Cricket tournament. Following a meeting with ... Continue_Reading

Indian Premier League Changes Terms For Digital & TV Coverage

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 9th, 2010 |

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Reruns can become tiresome. Every year, the Indian Premier League, probably the worlds richest T20 Cricket tournament, puts forth restrictions on the usage of content, only to roll them back. ... Continue_Reading