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

Apalya, a mobile video application company, has launched vFlash TV as part of the launch of Virgin’s USB modem device vFlash. This is similar to the launch of Photon TV ... Continue_Reading

The Indian telecom regulatory body TRAI has released the quarterly report for the quarter ending September, 2009  on the statistics and performance of service providers in the telecommunications and internet markets. Wireless In the ... Continue_Reading

Doordarshan, India’s public sector broadcaster, has set aside an amount of Rs. 1209 crore of a total approved outlay of Rs. 1369 crores, just for digitization, as per the 11th ... Continue_Reading

Another indication that 3G services will focus on data consumption, comes from Tata Teleservices, which announced the launch of Photon TV powered by Apalya Technologies. Photon TV allows Tata Photon ... Continue_Reading

BSE-listed applications company Geodesic Ltd is still negotiating its latest social networking acquisition. In answer to a question by Medianama at the company’s post-earnings conference call, Kiran Kulkarni, MD, Geodesic, ... Continue_Reading

Last week, Apalya Technologies announced the raising of $3 million from two investors: IDG Ventures India and Qualcomm Ventures. Apalya is a Hyderabad based company started by Vamshi Reddy and ... Continue_Reading

Hyderabad-based Apalya Technologies or MiMobiTV, has raised $3 million in its second round of funding, from venture capitalists IDG Ventures India and Qualcomm Ventures. A year ago, Apalya received ... Continue_Reading

Star India recently announced more channels were being added onto partner Apalya’s mobile TV application and that it was launching it’s own Mobile TV application soon. In this two part ... Continue_Reading

Update: The company today clarified that Star India has launched two channels on partner Apalya’s Mobile TV application while its own mobile TV application is not yet live. Star India ... Continue_Reading

In the final half of our interview (Part 1 is here) with Viacom18’s Director, Digital Ali Hussein, he spoke about monetisation, bundling platforms for advertisers, the company’s voice strategy, Mobile ... Continue_Reading

Viacom18 is a joint venture between Viacom and IBN18 Broadcast (IBN18 has a 50% stake in Viacom18), and in India, it manages MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and Colors. Earlier, we’d spoken ... Continue_Reading