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Times Audience Network Goes Mobile – Ties Up With VuClip
2009-11-10 08:14:00
The Times Audience Network (TAN) which is the the digital video arm of the Times Group and has invetory of videos across TimesNow, ETNow, ZoomTV and a bunch of network sites has announced a tie up with Vuclip to go mobile. As per this partnership the entire video library of premium content across TimesNow, ETNow and ZoomTV would be available for consumption for mobile users in India. This has been made possible via Vuclip’s proprietary real-time transcoding mobile video platform. One can access Times Now, ET Now and Zoom  on www.v.timesnow.tv; www.v.etnow.tv and www.v.zoomtv.in respectively.  Mobile video for other TAN partners, including Balaji, iStream, Lehren, Desimad, Desihits, amongst others, can be found on www.official.vuclip.com. Recently Vuclip also raised a series B round of funding of 6 million $ from Jafco Ventures and NEA. Currently Vuclip’s cloud-based, real-time transcoding service delivers more than one million mobile videos every day to mobile users on more t...

AirMe Creates photoWALL – A Photo Sharing Mobile Based Service
2009-11-10 07:00:00
Airme a mobile centric social media upload application has launched a new platform called the photoWALL. As the name suggests this uses Airme photo upload core technology via mobile and posts it to a photowall online also called Photo wall.com with many types of geo-tags and VoiceTags as well. .  photoWALL also enables simultaneous live uploading of mobile media to Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. photoWALL just like Airme is a downloadable app which is available for iPhone, Sony Erricson, Nokia, Windows mobile and Palm Pre.  Android and Blackberry versions are upcoming soon. In India, photoWALL has tied up with MSN and has launched a co-branded microsite on http://msn.photowall.com.  MSN India is the sales and marketing partner for Airme for the Photowall app. Sanjay Trehan, Head – MSN India, Consumer & Online Business, Microsoft India had this to say about the tie up, “In today’s ever connected world, photoWALL is a powerful new medium to communicate and stay updated. I...
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ScamVille, Facebook And The Poor Little Indian Farmer
2009-11-10 06:42:00
(By Prateek Waghmare) Over the last 10 days the internet is abuzz with stories of Scam Ads found in popular games from companies like Zynga (Farmville ring a bell?) For those that are unaware of how such games are monetized. Users are allowed to spend real world money to buy in game currency to level up and have a better gaming experience that someone who wouldn’t. This is where Plan B for pulling in those dollars comes in. A little bit of genius and some knavery is responsible for an estimated 1/3rd of Zynga’s revenue through what are known as ‘lead gen scams.’ How these ‘scams’ work is deceptively simple. Using one of the oldest tricks in the book, a lie of omission. A user takes a simple quiz which promises them in game currency. After completion however, the user is asked for a valid cellular phone number and a PIN (which is texted to the given number). What the user does not know is that he/she may have been slapped a 10$ per month recurring subscription to ...
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Google To Rule Mobile Ads Now – To Acquire Admob For $750 Million
2009-11-10 06:30:00
Google is one of the largest digital advertising players in the world with its online ad revenue beating those of any other player. Over the last 2 years google has been on an acquisition spree to bolster its advertising delivery. It started with the massive acquisition of DoubleClick at 3.1 Billion $ and then the subsequent acquisition of feedburner at 100 Million $. But over time another form of digital advertising has gained traction and thats is mobile advertising. Globally Admob is known to be the leading player in mobile display ads and had recently raised a round of 15.7 million dollars in funding from Accel Partners. India is the second largest market for Admob which serves millions of mobile impressions worldwide. Google seems to have noticed this opportunity and has announced that it would be acquiring Admob for 750 million $. Check chart below: Talking about the acquisitionSusan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management at Google said, “Mobile advertising has...
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Now A Blackberry App Store Launches For India
2009-11-09 14:31:00
Research In Motion the company behind Blackberry phones announced that BlackBerry App World which is the the official app store for BlackBerry smartphones would now be available for users in India . The app store will provide a range of free personal and business applications for users to discover, including applications specifically built for the Indian market. Currently the Indian apps include Hungama MyPlay, CNBC TV18 Moneycontrol, Mundu Radio and Arrowmatics. Indian users can now download BlackBerry App World to their BlackBerry smartphone by visiting www.blackberry.com/appworld. One requires GPRS or Wifi connectivity inorder to use the app store. The App Store Revolution Apple App store made the app store concept famous when its own app store touched the 2 billion download mark. This got all and sundry looking at the app store model. Nokia entered with ovi though one has to say that nokia ovi vs apple app store battle is still being won by apple. We have earlier debated on the ...

Microsoft Online Services Now Available In India At $2 Per User Per Month
2009-11-09 10:31:00
With the cloud threatening to take over the computing world Saas based models are gaining momentum. Just a few months back Microsoft had launched online tools for Small and Medium Sized Businesses on a free trial basis. Known as Microsoft Online Services which provided e-mail, collaboration, conferencing and productivity capabilities. Now it seems to have commercially launched the same service. The service is priced very competitively starting at $2 per user per month. Microsoft has tied up with partners like HCL, Infosys, Wipro to provide value added Services. Within the last 3 months of free trial over 1800 India n businesses have come on board. Microsoft Online Services Ready Reckoner What: E-mail, collaborate, conference, IM facility online on a pay as you go basis Where to access: www.microsoft.com/india/onlineservices How much it costs: (excluding applicable taxes) – The standard suite costs $10 /user/month – Individual offerings are available at: - $5 per user/month fo...
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Rediff Q2 Results: Revenues Down 16% (Q-o-Q),To Focus More On Social Featur
2009-11-09 10:08:00
Rediff has registered a 43 % decline in Q2  revenues at $4.19 Millions compared to $ 7.32 Mn recorded in corresponding quarter last year. The company has also declared a net loss of $2.61 Mn against a loss of $ 0.42 Mn last year. Sequentially the revenues are down 16 per cent and profitability has worsened. Rediff reported revenues of $4.96 Mn. in june quarter along with net loss of $1.43 Mn. The operating expenses are up by a little margin but lower than the company prediction of $1-1.5 Mn increment for few quarter in a row. Rediff has seen a decline in revenues at a time when advertising spends are on rise and is seeing heavy allocation for Online media although it should still be noted that it went for a total revamp doing away with all homepage ads. The advertising revenues were down 21 per cent sequentially but witnessed a 10 % rise in U.S revenues. One must admit that they made a big move by removing ads from homepage but then why have popups? Which is worse...
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WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp – 3rd – 8th November
2009-11-09 07:21:00
Last week was one where I was away attending events while the WATBlog team brought you interesting stories each day. The important announcements of the week were the acquisition of Imere by Rediff, launch of  Chat Services by Rcom and google’s launch of a Commerce Search Engine. In international news Second Life went enterprise and Google news made you the editor.  All in all a week in which we did some exclusive interviews like with SEOmoz Coming To India and also brought you Arvind Rao’s views on mobile app developers. This and more in this weeks weekly wrapup Posts via WATBlog.com Netizen Toddlers – How Does That Sound? Web Messenger For Multiple IM Clients – For imo.im, Restricted Is Nothing! TRAI To Amend SMS Termination Charges – Will SMS Charges Come Down? Google Analytics’ ‘Intelligence Engine’ Goes Live Online Awareness For A Cause – Fighting Against Fatal Diseases Google Launches Commerce Search Engine For Shopping portals Shoe Biz Come...
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The TEDIndia Experience – Ideas That Should Spread – Part &ndas
2009-11-09 06:19:00
By the 3rd day of TEDIndia I was convinced in my mind and my heart that I hadn’t experienced so many thoughts, ideas and emotions in such a short span of time ever before as the first and second day were fantastic. When I was invited to TEDIndia I had thought that I would just cover the Technology side of stuff that came up during the event but I soon realized that TEDIndia was not about a vertical, not about businesses or cultures or India alone but it was about life and its experiences. It was about the passion, perseverance and spirit of human kind and what it could achieve going forward. The last day at TED was one which started of with C.K.Prahalad sharing his thoughts on business and innovation. He stated that success is the first enemy of innovation as companies feel that they must be right and dont delve deeper to innovate or create something new. He also stated that size by no measure is a signal of a great company. He felt smaller companies could create the same prod...
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The TEDIndia Experience – Ideas That Provoke – Part – 2
2009-11-09 05:26:00
We wrote about day 1 and TED and how it was a mixture of Hans Rosling’s brilliance with numbers and Pranav Mistry’s brilliance with technology. Day 2 was a different day though. I dont think anyone in the audience expected the day to be so intense but it surely was. Day 2 was kicked of by a session called Reinventing Development and there are three talks that I would like to point out. First one being that of Anil Gupta who runs the honey bee network which brings innovators from all parts of India together. He showcased 2 very interesting innovations among many. First one being a palm tree climbers created by a coconut seller and the second one was a bicycle with floaters which could be used both the road and on water. This was again created by a simple man who wanted to go across sea to meet a loved one. His talk was centered around how innovations aren’t limited to the west or to great scientists and how each and every simple person can also be innovative. My fav...
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The TEDIndia Experience – Ideas That Transform – Part – I
2009-11-09 04:26:00
The last 3-4 days of mine have been spent in immersing myself into an experience called TED. As you may have noticed we had blogged about the fact that we would be at TED and shall be covering the same. So lots of people tweeted about TEDIndia and many blogged as well. The reason Ive waited till the event got over was because I didn’t want to blog about each talk individually but about TEDIndia as an event as a whole. In my last 3 years and more of blogging experience Ive attended over 50 events (atleast) and each of them have left me richer in knowledge or in insight. But none of them have ever moved me to tears or made me go in deep thought or made me proud to be Indian all in the matter of days. TED which stands of Technology, Entertainment and Design is far more than that. TEDIndia infact was more a reflection of what are the grave issues in India and the brilliance and the fallacy of India rather than being specific to Technology, Entertainment and Design. So here is my h...
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Punishment For Cyber Crime – Life Imprisonment, Facebook Makes Millio
2009-10-30 13:12:00
At WATBlog, we’ve commented quite a few times on cyber crime and how the fast changing face of the Internet has a lost of scope for misuse. A while back, we covered the amendments made to the IT Act. While the post was focused on the changes and how it could affect the privacy of the individual, there are several positive impacts to the Act as well. The IT Act of 2000, was modified in December 2008 and has come into force on October 27. A lot of crimes now come under the ambit of the IT Act. Some of the offences are: Cyber Terrorism Wi-Fi Hacking Sending / Viewing child pornography Video Voyeurism Identity Theft Spam. The original act was vague, and had only one criminal section – Section 66 for cyber crime. Now, it possesses a commendable expanse of powers for specific acts. Section 66F for example is applicable in case of Cyber Terrorism. If Wi-Fi or Internet is used to send terror mail, offenders can be effectively punished for life. (Life sentence). Similarly, any...
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NDTV Q2 Results: Revenues Grow 17%, Expenditures Down 10%
2009-10-30 12:50:00
NDTV has registered a 17% growth in revenues at Rs 140.37 crore against Rs 120.27 crore a year earlier. The company registered a net loss of Rs 85.59 Crores against Rs 83.41 Crores in the sequential quarter. The standalone revenues figure came in at Rs. 69.35 Crores a dip of 6 % from corresponding quarter whereas net loss was Rs. 11.85 Crores. The company also managed to lower its expenditure for the quarter through various cost cutting measures taken by the management in past quarters. The consolidated expenditure decline by 10% to Rs 208.66 Crores from Rs 231.23 Crores in the year-ago quarter. Subscription income has increased 23% over the same quarter of the previous year. Mr. Pramod Bhasin, CEO Genpact would also be joining NDTV board. The appointment signals the need to handle cost pressures in an effective manner as done by many big outsourcing companies in India. NDTV Imagine and NDTV Good Times are seeing a spike in viewership. NDTV Profit has maintained its mark...
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Exclusive Interview With Saurabh Bhatia, Co-Founder, Vdopia – On The
2009-10-30 11:27:00
We recently spoke to Vdopia’s co-founder and Chief Business Officer, Saurabh Bhatia in an exclusive interview concerning the recent $4 Million Series-A Funding raised from Nexus Venture Partners. It seems the funding has come to them at the right time when many online streaming sites are finding it tough to monetize video content hence specialized video ad networks like Vdopia are enjoying success. Saurabh shared with us Vdopia’s strategies in how they’ll use the funding for the future of their organisation. Lets take a look at some of the crucial facts and figures that he shared with us. Some excerpts of the interview - 1) What will the funding be used for? The funding that we have raised will be essentially used in four key areas. Expansion of our operations in India which is a very critical market for us. We recognize mobile to be the next big thing and we continue our commitment in that space. For that we have launched probably the world’s first video ...
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Ballsmedia JUSTPROUD About Their New Fashion Initiative – Can They Su
2009-10-30 08:15:00
One of the most prominent social networking sites in the world, Twitter once started blending two discrete forms of entities to create added value to their users. Aggregating Twitter and politics, they formed Politweets which played a vital role in the US Elections 2008 which further turned out to be a healthy revenue model and not just a mashup. They termed this move as something ‘Of The People, By The People, For The People‘! Hence, they introduced a new way of letting people take part in democracy by engaging in an instinctive motive of keeping them updated of what is happening with the people, organizations, and events they care about. What’s in the News? Ballsmedia, a marketing consultancy has recently launched their first step to revolutionize the social media arena. Their slogan includes survival of a healthy community is difficult sans a business, and a business cannot survive sans a healthy community. They opted fashion to become their mainstream marketi...
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New Orkut Launched With Many Facebook-Twitter Like Features – We Revi
2009-10-30 04:58:00
We had reported that Orkut was to ape twitter’s status updates feature and so it has with the launch of the new orkut. Orkut sent me a mailer with an invite to check out the new orkut. They have setup an orkut group for all those folks who want to try out the new orkut here. There is also an animated video describing whats new in the new orkut (Caution: I found the video rather irritating!) So whats ‘NEW’ with Orkut? 1) “What are you upto?” feature? As many of you would know orkut never had a status update feature. It always had a USP in scraps which turned into spam posts with malicious links pretty soon. While facebook and twitter have had status updates as the key feature which has worked well for both of them. This move by orkut can be called ‘playing catch up’ to the growing trend of status updates. Click screenshot of status updates below: 2) Friend Suggestion Feature The friend suggestion feature was another winner at facebook in co...
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Bigflix To Reach Out To International Audiences Via Hulu
2009-10-29 14:08:00
BigFlix the dvd rentals and video on demand site from the Reliance Entertainment stable has struck a deal with International video site Hulu.com to bring Bollywood movies to Hulu. Internationally Hulu offers hit TV shows, movies and clips at Hulu.com but most of the content is US centric but this wont be the first time Hulu has looked to tie up with a bollywood centric content provider. Even earlier hulu tied up with Saavn and at that time the deal included 5 titles. We dont have information on whether that deal is over but from the looks of it we can say that Bigflix seems to be the new partner for Hulu when it comes to bollywood content. This tie up will be a good way for Bigflix to reach out to the international market targeting the South Asian population and non-NRIs. Given its video on demand service this audience is the prime target audience who actually pays for video on demand. This association will start by offering 12 Bollywood movies which will have English subtitles so...
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Exclusive Interview With K. K. Venkataraman – CEO, 3DSoC – A 3D
2009-10-29 13:44:00
We got in touch with K. K. Venkataraman, CEO, 3D Solid Compression Pvt. Ltd. (3DSoC) which is a start up formed in 2006 that focuses on geometric compressions to enable the widespread deployment of 3D applications. Currently they have developed a new patented data format for 3D model representation – “VIS” format, which is typically 100 times smaller than some of the CAD formats and is smaller than even the JPEG or GIF images. Among their products VISPublisher Solution (Virtual Interactive Solid) is a concise 3D representation, which provides for a graphical animated instruction set along with linked voice and text content. With mobile and internet playing important roles in today’s diversified advanced society, knowing 3DSoC’s plan of action in a technocratic society would be of great use. Their multilingual, geographically dispersed models, supporting complex mechanical equipment are funded by IDG Ventures. Mr. Sudhir Sethi and Mr. Hemir Doshi repres...
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Vdopia Raises $4 Million From Nexus Venture Partners, Appoints New CEO
2009-10-29 11:16:00
Its raining on Indian deal street as VC investments have started to see uptick. In a latest move Vdopia has secured $4 million in series-A funding from Nexus Venture Partners . Last year there were rumors about nexus chipping in the money but it was never confirmed. The funding is amid different monetization tie-ups garnered by Vdopia in recent past. It has tied-up with many portal from Web 18 fold & NDTV Profit for video montization. The company has been banking on online video advertising coupled with mobile videos. It also launched iVdopia to exploit the thriving iPhone apps segment for video advertising opportunities. The funding comes at a time when many Online streaming sites are finding it tough to monetize video contents but specialized video ad networks like Vdopia are enjoying success. Specialized Ad Networks are procuring access to premium inventory than just user generated content which is what tilting ad revenues in their favor. The funding is also ...

3G Netbook At Rs. 10,000 – Qualcomm’s Kayak To Sail In India
2009-10-29 11:10:00
Qualcomm, the US-based mobile chip-maker announced in November that they were working on a low-cost PC, codenamed ‘Kayak ‘. A ‘Kayak’ for all those who don’t know is a small, sleek and fast boat used by American India ns (Red Indians). And India might be the testing ground. The computer will be priced under Rs. 10,000 (200$) and might be tested in India by the second half of next year. Why India? Low PC Penetration Huge untapped market Attractive to those with low purchasing power The Kayak will be solely dependent on India’s 3G network. Now, we’ve been covering the 3G story for a long time. Recently, we reported how the 3G auction will finally take place in January (hopefully). With the 3G network enabled, the Kayak will have access to high speed Internet. The PC has a design model and very specific software specifications, all of which will be made available to device manufacturers. The Kayak seems to be a very basic model, for those who ...
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Opera Mini Crosses 35 Million Users – India Mobile Page Views Grow 20
2009-10-29 08:34:00
Opera the browser company which is more popular for its mobile browser Opera Mini has announced that the Mini has crossed more than 35.6 million users in September 2009  all around the world. This is an increase of 11.5% month on month for Opera mini, as well as an increase of over 150% year on year. Opera mini also announced the top 10 countries as per usage for september and they are: Russia, Indonesia, India , China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Poland and Vietnam. As one can see India ranks 3rd in the above list. Here are some India specific statistics for September 2009. * Page -view growth since September 2008: 202.6% * Unique-user growth since September 2008: 61.4% * Page-views per user: 339 * Gmail is back on the list after a 2-month absence, and My Opera is back on the list after a 1-month absence. * Yahoo, which is usually at position 3 or 4, took a big drop down to position 7. Top 10 sites in India (unique users) 1. google.com 2. orkut.com 3. gm...
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Gujarat Goverment In Association With Gujaratilexicon – Together They
2009-10-29 07:19:00
Now-a-days the in style argument about newspapers shutting down due to the entrance of another useful medium seems to be catching fire with news flickering from different corners of the world. But I think there’s nothing that online media has to do with the newspapers when it comes to psychological satisfaction of reciting a physical source of information. Secondly, one medium cannot suppress another, so the contention is totally hypothetical. I personally don’t think I’ll ever stop reading a newspaper. Agreed that e-newspapers are very helpful to read an article for the second time at your workplace when you’re not carrying your paper, but this wouldn’t conflict someone’s personal choice. Momma always questions me of what I read in a newspapers after watching the TV news before going to bed, and to be honest I never have the answer. Well, as King Odysseus once said that women have ways of complicating things, I wouldn’t disagree without bei...
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Komli Ties Up With Artivision – To Work With Ogilvy On Online Video M
2009-10-29 06:15:00
Komli Media an ad network which has constantly been in the news for various tie ups and initiatives. Recently we had covered its foray into video advertising. Komli has now partnered with Artivision to introduce advertising solutions for online video content publishers in the Indian market. One of the first clients for this alliance would be Neo@Ogilvy & OgilvyOne which would set up India’s first online video creation facility and work closely with the Komli – Artivision to maximise the potential of online video for its clients. Komli Media use Artivision’s Target-Ad™ technology in India for placement of advertisements in all types of online video content. There are a couple of big video ad networks in India in jivox and vdopia and both of whom are backed by funding from Venture capitalists. Infact vdopia recently confirmed its funding of 4 million $ from Nexus India Partners which we had reported way back in december. Komli’s entry into the video inventory moneti...
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The Chrome OS Beta is a Fake, Don’t Download
2009-10-28 17:54:00
If you read this like right now and head to Twitter and search for “Chrome OS”, you’ll find over a 100 tweets getting updated by the second that Google has released a Beta Version of its Chrome OS. The link that you see on the image leads to a Google Sites page. The which has just four pages immediately seems like a shady part of the web for Chrome OS to be made available. The Download page says this: Chrome OS is at the beta stage. You can download the free virtual appliance of Chrome OS here: And gives links to a couple of torrent files with other file details like the size. What’s easy to miss though is a tiny bit of line which says: Chrome OS is not related to Google. Service provided by SUSE Studio. See the license. So there you go, despite what people might be tweeting, Chrome OS is not out. And what you have instead is a Linux software made out of Suse. So don’t download it. Unless of course you want to have some fun like the guys at Dow...
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Online Wheels Update – CarWale.com and Gaadi.com On Cloud Nine!
2009-10-28 13:30:00
Red Herring Asia 2009 included CarWale.com as one of the Top 100 technology companies. Little too much as a responsibility to maintain for a long time, I think. Apparently the winners include include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube. We recently saw how CarWale was chosen by Skoda Auto India to launch their new Fabia. With that, everything seems to be getting wheels online with the penetration of the internet increasing each day in different corners of the country. On the other hand flashing in the news we have Gaadi.com ranking second in the Auto Portal category according to the traffic measurement tool ComScore. I mean, did all the automobile manufacturers started giving away free laptops with data cards with Gaadi.com’s marketing pitch installed? Gaadi.com was started by Desimartini’s notable founder Vivek Pahwa getting it to shine among all the online portals dealing with automobile. Like the famous say – One Innovation can change the g...
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iXiGO Partners With Air Valid For User-Generated Ratings In Flight Searches
2009-10-28 12:19:00
iXiGO has announced its partnership with Air Valid to display user generated airline ratings on its International flight search results. This tie-up will help users of flight search engine to know the quality ratings of International airlines. Air Valid has an international presence with dedicated portals for many regions. It also has aggregation data for many international airlines around the world. The international portal has Indian presence at [www.air-valid.in] launched only a few months ago. Rajnish Kumar, Co-Founder & CTO added, “Our user analytics shows that passengers do not make choices solely driven by price, specially for international travel. Factors like on-time performance, comfort, seat-spacing, level of service and cleanliness vary from one airline to the other, influencing the choice of airline, specially on competitive routes where fares are similar across carriers.” Indian airline industry is witnessing influx of many foreign airline...
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HT Media Q2 Results: Bottom Line Surges 92%, Top Line Marginally Higher
2009-10-28 12:09:00
HT Media announced 92% Y-o-Y growth in Net Profit for Q2 at Rs 31.41 Crores up from Rs. 16.28 Crores. Top line was slightly up by 4% at Rs. 348 Crores against Rs. 334 Crores recorded in corresponding quarter. The operating margins has seen a major spike as the economic conditions are turning positive giving boost to publication margins. The company also undertook various cost saving measures in recent quarters which seem to have lifted the bottom line. Publishing segment revenues were stagnant at Rs. 282 Crores circulation revenues although grew 28% to Rs. 47.9 Crores. Radio Segment contributed 10 Crores to the revenues with losses of 3 Crores incurred in this segment. HT Media also expects lower newsprint cost to improve margins in future at same time expects upturn in economy to benefit its operations positively. Other Highlights: HT media has claimed that it has got positive responses for  redesigned version of ‘Hindustan Times’. The revenues from Hindustan Time h...
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India Vs. Aus ODI Series Tickets Available At KyaZoonga – How Big Is
2009-10-28 11:35:00
The India vs. Australia One Day International Series is off to a fantabulous start. With body language of both the teams looking industrious, they definitely mean some serious business out here. After the first ODI victory, Indians can feel the heat of the tournament and are banking on the tickets to watch the games Live from the stadium. However, if you’ve been out there in the queues to book your North End ticket, it’s apparently the most annoying thing before you get to watch your favourite superstars in action. Of course it ought to be a tiring task, when the whole country is pumped-up to witness a historical tournament between the arch rivals. And, when it comes to India, cricket becomes a religion! KyaZoonga.com is one of those watchdogs that seems to be keeping an eagle-eyed watch on the latest and the most popular events happening in the country. Be it a cricket series or an in vogue Bollywood flick. Sales for one of the India vs. Australia ODIs have been out fo...
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Microsoft Ties-up With JNTU, Offers Free Softwares To Students
2009-10-28 07:02:00
One of the perks of being a student is that you do tend to get a lot of discounts on software and products. However, Microsoft took it way ahead when it lunched the DreamSpark programme. It provides no-cost access to Microsoft designer and development tools for verified students around the world, to support and advance their learning and skills through technical design, technology, math, science and engineering activities. Bill Gates had launched this programme initially in February 2008, it has later officially launched the same in India in November 2008, and the current vision is to target even school students. It is estimated that a whopping 35 million students will be able to access these software titles free of charge through this programme. Currently Dream Spark is functional in 11 countries including India, the other being United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Spain and China. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderaba...
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Google Wants To Be Your 3G/Wimax Provider
2009-10-28 05:21:00
While 3G/Wimax might have been delayed for the nth time the interest its generating from all parts of the world for India is something else. Now it seems that even Google is looking at broadband wireless access (BWA) in the country and may participate in the upcoming 3G/WiMAX auction with an Indian partner. Google’s interest may stem from the fact that India’s broadband penetration is dismal at a paltry 6-7 million which means that majority of the growth would be driven by 3G and Wimax as far as internet penetration is concerned. Given how big the google products and brands are in India it makes sense for google to participate and evangelize the internet penetration story in this country. The next 50-100 million users in India would be first time users of internet and this segment would be quite different from the one that already uses the internet currently. This makes the role of an ISP important in providing services that encourage these users to log on and use the i...