(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

A couple of weeks ago, Orkut, a Google owned social networking site which primarily has users from India and Brazil, rolled out its “new version”. Upon going through the site ... Continue_Reading

Update: I tried out the service: messages are published on Twitter, and are delivered from those twitters, whose device updates you have subscribed to. Within five-10 minutes of subscribing, I ... 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

(by Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa) In final part of  our three part interview with Orkut (read Part 1 and Part 2), we spoke to Google India’s Rahul Kulkarni (Product Manager) and ... Continue_Reading

(By Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa)Google owned Orkut is believed to be the largest social network in India in terms of userbase, with claims of around 13-15 million users from the country. In ... Continue_Reading

(By Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa) Google owned Orkut, believed to be the largest social network in India in terms of userbase, announced the Orkut Zeitgeist last week – a report ... Continue_Reading

Social networking site Desimartini.com by HT Media’s digital media subsidiary Firefly Ventures is the latest portal to partner with Reliance ADAG company Zapak to power its gaming section. Zapak ... Continue_Reading

Update It’s official: we’ve just received a press release from SMS Gupshup confirming what we had reported last week: the company has tied up with Facebook for SMS updates. It ... Continue_Reading

On the heels of Google’s international launch of Friend Connect which boasted support for 47 languages including 9 Indian ones, Facebook has upgraded its own universal login interface to support ... Continue_Reading

Google appears to be planning to introduce “Orkut Promote”, a self service advertising platform for its social networking site Orkut, reports Digital Inspiration. The platform apparently allows users regular Orkut ... Continue_Reading

At around midnight on the 8th, according to Anshu Prateek, Facebook launched its Indic language interface, featuring Indic languages including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and Malayalam. The interface allows ... Continue_Reading