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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...

Guy Kawasaki On Entrepreneurship & Twitter Marketing @ Nasscom Product
2009-10-28 04:47:00
Guy Kawasaki who was part of Apple and later founded Garage Technology Ventures a venture capital firm and is well known as the author of the best seller ‘The Art of the Start’. He currently is the Founder of Alltop a news/content aggregator and spends most of his time tweeting and marketing alltop.com, He was present at the Nasscom Product Conclave happening in Bangalore on the 27th – 28th of October. Pic Credit – Renie Ravin Guy spoke about a range of topics. His morning take was on entrepreneurship and the following slides are the ones he presented: Later in the day he also spoke about Twitter as a tool for marketing and how he uses it. Here are some excerpts on his talk on twitter. Guy’s Marketing tactics using twitter Guys stated that he uses twitter as a pureplay marketing tool. His objective is to gain as many followers as possible and then to tweet interesting stories to attract more followers. He also pointed out that much like TV where there...
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Content Sharing Deal Between Facebook And MySpace – Can They Make It
2009-10-27 13:31:00
Just in the morning, we covered as to how Google stopped the migration of email-id’s from Orkut to Facebook by excluding the email-id’s from the CSV file, in order to preserve the privacy of their consumers. All that meant was that Google doesn’t want its users to go away with Orkut completely. As the statistics speak for themselves, Orkut isn’t doing any good recently and Facebook is on a high. With Orkut trying to block Facebook in every possible way to emerge as the best social networking site, it has become difficult for MySpace to compete in an already tough market. Amidst such circumstances, Facebook and MySpace found a new way to handle things. It has been reported that Facebook is in talks with MySpace in a content partnership deal. Now, this is simply big. If the deal works out fine, it could just be the end of Orkut. From the Facebook’s point of view, Twitter has been a big big problem for them and with the search engine giants – Google...
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Idea Cellular Q2 Results: Net Profits Grow, Hints At Pricing Pressure
2009-10-27 12:12:00
Idea Cellular seems to be riding high on Indian telecom growth story as it has reported a 52 per cent rise in the consolidated net profit to Rs 220.1 crore against Rs 144 crore in corresponding quarter. The revenues have also seen a similar surge by 29% at Rs 2973.9 crore against Rs. 2303.3 crores reported last year. The number might look impressive on Y-o-Y basis but are lackluster if compared on a sequential basis as revenues has been flat and profits down severely. The company has also witnessed erosion in operating margins as it is down by 140 basis points at 25.3 per cent. Mr Aga, Idea MD has also hinted at pricing pressures in short term and emphasized the fact that around 20% of all Indian subscribers are using multiple SIMs causing Telcos to realign their tariffs. Subscriber Count & Other Stats: The company’s subscriber tally stands at 51 million with a rise of 50% Y-o-Y. The company along with its subsidiaries operates commercially in 18 circles but ho...
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Web URLs Go Local: Coming Soon In Hindi!
2009-10-27 09:48:00
I am sure that most of you would be surprised to know that a non-profit corporation called ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) exists with the sole responsibility of managing top-level domain name systems and IP addresses. So was I. But the cool part here is not what they have been doing, rather what they are gonna do now. This week, international domain names that can be written in languages other than English, are going to be approved by members of ICANN. This means you will be able to see web addresses in Arabic, Korean and Hindi etc. More than half of world’s internet users have been known to use other scripts except Latin (ever seen a blog in Devnagari script?). And India, which has 50+ million internet users, has more than hundreds of languages. ICANN’s new president and CEO is meeting representatives from all over the world this week in Seoul. He said that the first entries into the system would likely come sometime in mid 2010. Challenges to ...
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Q2 Results Roundup: Tata Communications, Mindtree
2009-10-27 09:31:00
Tata Communications has registered a 30 per cent decline in standalone revenues at Rs. 759 crores compared to Rs.992 crores in the same quarter last year. The bottom line also took a serious hit and came in lower by 68 per cent at Rs 10.45 Crs against Rs 33 Crs. The major reason for decline in revenues was lesser demand for wholesale voice services in telecommunication services segment which contributed only Rs 300 crore in this quarter compared to Rs 461 Crores contribution in corresponding quarter. The enterprise and corporate data segment contributed Rs. 300 Crores to the revenues whereas other services contributed Rs. 159 Crores. Tata Communications was formed by merger of VSNL, its international subsidiaries. They seem to be focusing on servicing enterprise clients. The main cause of worry for TATACOM  is the entry of telcos in the enterprise segment to derive higher margins and volume. Mindtree Q2 results: MindTree has reported 34 per cent growth in the botto...
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Orkut Stops Migration To Facebook – Contradicts Google’s Policies
2009-10-27 09:13:00
The mission statement of the Google data liberation front reads as follows: “Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team’s goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.” However it seems that all this was nothing in the prospect of losing consumers. Sometime back ago face book launched their export tool, which enabled users of Orkut to export their contact information including their email ids to facebook, however as soon as this happened, the feature developed a bug, which according to Goggle happened as they were upgrading the feature to offer enhanced security . When the feature came back, users were in for a surprise, the feature had everything but the email ids, i.e. You could export a plethora of information but not the email ids, hence making the tool completely useless. The official stand of Google on this is - “Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks — when ...
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3G India – 5th International Conference – A First Look Review
2009-10-27 06:22:00
The 3G India International Conference kicked off with the speakers and the chairperson lighting the Diya to mark a sanctum start. The first session was based upon the road ahead for telecom landscape in India from the service providers’ point of view majorly highlighting the opportunities for 3G in India. P. Balaji, Ericsson’s Vice President for marketing and strategy in India spoke at the Conference, during which he shared some persepectives revolving around the need for 3G in India. Beginning with, the survey conducted by Ericsson in metros and Tier I and Tier II cities showed results that most of the 3G subscribers across each segment use it mainly for music and imagery. Some points that he raised - Why mobile broadband? Since a user faces problems with his/her internet connection, 2 out of 5 were interested in 3G getting rolled out, after the survey results. Mobile Broadband has a strong pull from the consumer perspective. The early adopters of 3G in India - Youth Me...
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Brand Positioning Online In The Age Of Consumer Driven Media
2009-10-26 19:15:00
I landed up on a blog post about advertising and communications, about how they are different from one another and their overall impact on brand positioning. In essence the post revolved around the idea that advertising is brand positioning and not communicating product details. My immediate reaction, whether right or wrong, was that this idea doesn’t hold true online. So I set myself up on finding resources on the web that might prove me right. Blame my morbid luck these days, I only found well SEO’d and utterly useless articles in my search. It basically left me with no reference to create a hypothesis at the least on why I found the post perhaps not applicable to the web. And given my lack of any strong technical background of marketing and branding, I perhaps shouldn’t be speculating on the same. However, this did give me enough thought on how a brand and its positioning efforts need to take in to account social media. Clearly it wasn’t just about where y...
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Sify Q2 Results: Revenues Boost By 12% At $38.28 Million, To Focus More On
2009-10-26 12:34:00
Sify has reported 12 per cent increase in quarterly revenues to $38.28 million compared to $ 34.32 Million in preceding quarter (Q1). The bottom line shown signs of improvement although it still reported a net loss of $ 2.36 million against a Net Loss of $3.35 million (including tax adjustments) in the June quarter. Mr. Raju Vegesna, Board Chairman and CEO & MD, Sify Technologies, said, “We continue to grow our revenues with significant growth in Enterprise services revenues. Enterprises are engaging us to help create new business capabilities and significantly advance their business objectives over the short, medium and long term. We continue to experience demand across data center services, managed network services and managed voice services. On the consumer front, we are seeing traction in the online advertising space and expect it to continue going forward. We continue our initiatives to consolidate and rationalize access services through cyber cafes and expect to exp...
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Cyber Media Q2 Results: Top Line Sees 18% Jump, Bottom Line Continues To Bl
2009-10-26 11:36:00
Cyber Media , the owner of various media publications like DataQuest, PCQuest, Voice & Data and Living Digital has reported 18% jump in quarterly consolidated revenues at Rs. 26 Crores (Q-o-Q). The bottom-line was still in red and came in at Rs. 0.35 Crores compared to Rs 1.82 Crores in June quarter. The standalone revenues although was down 40.74% to Rs 10.56 Crores as compared to September ‘08 quarter. The consolidated revenue for half year was 48 Crores and recorded net loss of 2.8 Crores. The segmented revenues for media and media services were 14.4 Crs and 12.7 Crs respectively. The company is present into various media businesses and as such has media services subsidiaries like IDC India, ICT Research Company and Content Matrix, USA which provides through its subsidiaries, custom publishing and content management services. The company in light of serious business turmoil had to undertake major cost-control and organizational restructuring to mitigate operational cos...
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Indian Telecoms Expanding Fibre Optic Cable Network – Is The Competit
2009-10-26 10:54:00
Some of the major Indian Telecom companies are finally seeing some action on the expansion of their fibre optic cable network. Idea Cellular, Aircel and Powertel (The telecom focused BU of PoweGrid) have rolled out massive expansion plans. The currents stats of fibre optic network for these 3 are - S.no. Company Existing Network Proposed expansion to 1. Aditya Birla Group (Idea Cellular) 38,000kms 45,000kms 2. Aircel (Maxis) 10,000kms 25,000kms 3. Powergrid (Powertel) 20,000kms 31,000kms The companies hope that besides satisfying their own communication needs they would also be able to cater to overseas telecom operators such as British Telecom and SingTel who provide enterprise telephony services to corporate customers by offering connectivity between India and other countries through undersea cable networks. However the intercity network is dominated by the biggies such as BSNL, Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel and PowerGrid. The foreign companies ha...
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