Mobile VAS company One97 Communications is planning for an IPO in the next two quarters, MD Vijay Shekhar Sharma told VCCircle, and raise around $100 million in order to fund ... Continue_Reading

A switch among voice based VAS companies from DTMF to speech recognition based services appears to be in progress – Nuance Communications yesterday announced deals with One97 Communications and Comviva. ... Continue_Reading

“I don’t like this term Value Added Services. It’s time to move from Value Added Services to Services, and put the consumer in the centre,” One97 Communications MD Vijay Shekhar ... Continue_Reading

Updated below With the users wallet being limited and ARPU declining, mobile commerce is being seen as a means to drive incremental revenues for telecom operators in India. Intel Capital funded Mobile ... Continue_Reading

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued a directive which makes it necessary for certain Mobile Value Added Services to be billed only on the explicit consent of the ... Continue_Reading

Varun Singh, CTO of Web18 is moving on to start his own company, reports ContentSutra. The buzz on Singh’s move has been fairly strong – that he is leaving to ... Continue_Reading

One opinion held about One97 Communications is that they have a significant dependancy on voice based services. The Mobile VAS company announced a fund raising from Intel Capital and Silicon ... Continue_Reading

One97 Communications today announced a fund raising from Intel Capital, with previous investor Silicon Valley Bank also participating. The company operates in the Mobile VAS space, and competes with the ... Continue_Reading

Intel Capital has announced investments of a total of $23 Million in three companies – Mobile VAS company One97 Communications, which has been looking to raise funding since May, IndiaMART, ... Continue_Reading

Marathi language daily Deshonnati has tied up with VAS co One97 Communications to offer daily alerts of local news, information and entertainment in Maharashtra. Among the services are local mandi ... Continue_Reading