Google Plans Back Office In India; To Invest $1 Billion
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Second Indian M-Payment Company JiGrahak Gets Funding From Helion Venture
By Sahad PV
Via our sister site ContentSutra: This is the second venture investment in the Indian mobile commerce and payment space. Helion Venture Part… Read more »
Yahoo Invests In Indian Matrimonial & Classifieds Firm BharatMatrimony
By Rafat Ali
This is Yahoo’s first strategic investment in the Indian sub-continent (its Yahoo India portal is doing OK): Yahoo has teamed up with VC fir… Read more »
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Matrix Launches $150 Million Indian Fund; Focus On Consumer-Media Deals
By Rafat Ali
This is possibly among the biggest such venture funds to launch in India…and adds to others who are also rushing into the market. Matrix P… Read more »
US-Indian Portal WahIndia Gets Angel Funding
By Rafat Ali
From our sister site ContentSutra: WahIndia, a US-based online media and social networking company targeted at Indian community, has receive… Read more »
Background Tones Gain 1M Indian Users
By James Quintana Pearce
Cellebrum is claiming a million subscribers to its Background Tone service in India, which plays music in the background of a conversation.… Read more »
Top Headlines From ContentSutra
By Rafat Ali
Top five stories of the week from our Indian site ContentSutra:
– India Rejects Negroponte’s $100-A-Laptop For Kids Project
– A Third Of e… Read more »
Visual Radio Launched In India
By James Quintana Pearce
Hutch, Radio Mirchi, Nokia and HP have announced they are rolling out a visual radio service in India. “Visual radio allows listeners to tun… Read more »
Norwest To Invest $10-15 Million In Indian Firm Mobile2Win
By Rafat Ali
Our sister site ContentSutra is reporting exclusively: Mobile2win, a mobile content company that has operations in India and China, is close… Read more »
Earnings: Sify in Profits; CEO Changed
By Rafat Ali
Sify, the big portal company in India (listed on Nasdaq) announced its Q2 earnings today, and a CEO change, with further senior management c… Read more »
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India’s IMImobile Raises $10 Million From Pequot Ventures
By Sahad PV
From our sister site ContentSutra.com: IMImobile, a leading Indian enabler of mobile content services, raised $10 million in venture capital… Read more »
Update: Kleiner And Sherpalo To Pick Up Stake In Indian Mobile Payment Firm Paymate
By Rafat Ali
[By Sahad] Via our sister site ContentSutra: Update: There is a correction. We just received a press release from the PR firm of KPCB and Sh… Read more »
The Happy Coincidence Of Convergent Media
By James Quintana Pearce
Media companies are seeking new platforms to deliver content on so they can reach their audiences in more places, at more times. Mobile is a… Read more »
Indian Portal Sify Says They Are Not Up For Sale
By Rafat Ali
This from our sister site ContentSutra: Sify, one of the biggest Internet portals companies in India, has denied speculation that it is up f… Read more »
Reliance Signs For Disney Content
By James Quintana Pearce
This is a real leg up for Walt Disney Internet Group in India. After a recent deal with Bharti Airtel, the company is tying up with Reliance… Read more »
Music To India’s Ears
By James Quintana Pearce
High-end phones in India are coming preloaded with songs, a common move around the globe designed to increase usage of mobile phones for lis… Read more »
Indian Listings And Review Site Burrp Gets Angel Funding
By Rafat Ali
Burrp, a yet-to-be launched local listings and review website focused on metropolitan cities in India, has raised an undisclosed amount of a… Read more »
Vietnam Digital Content Market To Touch $400 Million By 2010
By Sahad PV
Vietnam may record 50 percent growth a year for the next five years in its digital content industry, which will make it a $400 million busin… Read more »
Operators To Start Third Party Billing For Mobile Content In India
By Sahad PV
Third party billing of mobile content is round the corner in India. In an interview to our sister site ContentSutra, Rajiv Hiranandani, Indi… Read more »
Celebs Is The Mobile Game
By James Quintana Pearce
This is an interesting note from India about branded vs non-branded games…one company (Nazara Technologies) paid cricketer Tendulkar an es… Read more »
India’s Mobile Subscriber Base Crosses 100 Million
By Sahad PV
India’s mobile subscriber base has crossed 100 million in May with GSM based cellular operators’ subscriber base touching 75.3 million, and… Read more »
India’s First Pureplay Dotcom IPO, For Naukri.com, To Raise $29 Million
By Rafat Ali
India’s first pure play dotcom IPO is round the corner. Info Edge, which owns market leading jobs portal Naukri.com, matrimonial site Jeevan… Read more »
T-DMB Due For India
By James Quintana Pearce
There’s a short piece here about a consortium being set up to launch a T-DMB service in India in October. “The MoTV Consortium led by ABSi c… Read more »
India Aims For 500M Telephone Users By 2010
By James Quintana Pearce
“The Indian government is targeting 250 million telephone connections in the country by next year, and plans to step up to 500 million conne… Read more »
India’s National Broadcaster Doordarshan To Launch Mobile TV Service This Year
By Rafat Ali
From our sister site ContentSutra: India’s state-owned TV network Doordarshan is venturing into mobile TV. It will launch its DVB-H service… Read more »
India’s TV Firm TV18 To Spin Off Internet Division
By Rafat Ali
From out sister site ContentSutra, this significant news: One of the biggest TV/media firms in India, the TV18 group (it runs CNBC’s local v… Read more »
STAR India Plans Mobile Audio Channel
By Sahad PV
Indian division of Newscorp’s STAR TV is ramping up its mobile content media initiatives. STAR India plans to launch a dedicated multi-lingu… Read more »
Airtel Launches Music Video, Sells 75M Ringtones
By James Quintana Pearce
India’s Airtel has launched “Full Music and Full Music Video downloads”, I think it’s the first time full-tracks have been available for mob… Read more »
Bollywood Distributor Eros Plans $100 Million IPO on AIM, To Fund New Media Plans
By Rafat Ali
A global distributor and creator of bollywood content, Eros International, plans to raise $100 million through a listing in London’s AIM mar… Read more »
Reliance Comm Says Data Usage Growing
By James Quintana Pearce
India’s Reliance Communications thinks data usage will grow to a significant portion of its revenue (although at the moment it doesn’t seem… Read more »
Some Wireless Subscriber Stats
By James Quintana Pearce
A couple of subscriber stats that hit my inbox today…
The updated version of India’s Wireless Market: Model for the Next Phase of Global W… Read more »
Indian Cricket Networking Site Sixer Gets Funding
By Rafat Ali
If any kind of social networking sites will work, it is niche/sports/hobbyist sites like these: Indian cricket-based social networking staru… Read more »
Yahoo Close To Making Acquisitions In India
By Rafat Ali
[by Sahad PV, Contentsutra] This is the big story of the day in Indian digital media. Yahoo’s top bosses Terry Semel, Jerry Yang and CFO Sus… Read more »
Top Mobile Headlines From ContentSutra
By Rafat Ali
Our India-focused site:
– Airtel In Exclusive Pact With Disney Internet Group To Distribute Content
– Reliance Entertainment Interested In… Read more »
The Booming World Of Mobile Entertainment
By James Quintana Pearce
This article covers the mobile content world extensively, from new-born promise to the rocky shores of reality that dreams crash upon. It is… Read more »
Infosys’ Mobile Content Offshoot OnMobile Planning $100 Million Raise?
By Rafat Ali
Something’s surely wrong here, as I mention in this post on our sister site ContentSutra: A story says that mobile content servies firm OnMo… Read more »
India’s TV18 To Invest $60 Million In TV/Digital Media
By Rafat Ali
This is interesting, if only because of the amount (from Indian standards) and aggresive expansion plans: Television Eighteen India (TV 18),… Read more »
Indian Mobile Music Industry To Overtake “Legal Conventional” Music
By James Quintana Pearce
Mobile music revenue in India is set to overtake the legal conventional music industry by the end of the financial year…growing from Rs 50… Read more »
Subscription Time – After Cable TV, It’s Mobile Content
By James Quintana Pearce
Indian operators are looking at rolling out subscription mobile content services in the next few weeks, according to this article. Planned s… Read more »
WSJ Europe Editor Leaves; Starting Biz Pub/Website In India
By Rafat Ali
Raju Narisetti, Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, has quit, and according to WSJ, Narisetti is “leaving at the end of May to launch… Read more »
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