Mobile Cricket Player Profiles

By James Quintana Pearce

Apr. 1, 2006 - 12:03 AM EDT Apr. 1, 2006 - 12:03 AM EDT

Mobix Interactive has released some interesting sport content…a series of player-profiles to coincide with the England cricket team’s tour… Read more »

New Lycos App Combines Entertainment And VoIP

By Staci D. Kramer

Mar. 28, 2006 - 3:05 AM EDT Mar. 28, 2006 - 3:05 AM EDT

Lycos is partnering with India’s Globe 7 on a SIP softphone app that offers ad-supported phone time. What makes the Lycos Phone Beta worth c… Read more »

Walt Disney Plans Digital Content Initiatives In India

By Sahad PV

Mar. 27, 2006 - 11:04 PM EDT Mar. 27, 2006 - 11:04 PM EDT

The Walt Disney Company, which ventured into India in end 2004 with its kids channels Toon Disney and The Disney Channel, has mega digital p… Read more »

Dentsu Venture Gets FIFA Soccer Rights in Asia; Includes Broadband & Mobile

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 21, 2006 - 6:04 AM EDT Mar. 21, 2006 - 6:04 AM EDT

Japanese advertising firm Dentsu said its upcoming joint venture with Swiss sports event marketing firm Infront Sports & Media has obtained… Read more »

SiRF Acquires Mobile Video Tech Firm TrueSpan

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 17, 2006 - 7:03 AM EDT Mar. 17, 2006 - 7:03 AM EDT

SiRF, a provider of GPS-enabled silicon and premium software location platforms, has acquired TrueSpan, a communications systems IP company,… Read more »

Telekom Malaysia Plans MVNO In India

By Sahad PV

Mar. 14, 2006 - 1:04 PM EDT Mar. 14, 2006 - 1:04 PM EDT

Telekom Malaysia, which recently picked up 49 per cent stake in India’s Spice Telecom, is looking at expanding in India through the Mobile V… Read more »

Malaysia’s Celcom To Enhance Tamil 3G Content Offerings

By Sahad PV

Mar. 9, 2006 - 1:03 PM EDT Mar. 9, 2006 - 1:03 PM EDT

Indian regional language Tamil-focused mobile content is creating waves in Malaysia, where a huge Tamil immigrant population lives. Celcom (… Read more »

Hotmail Founder Invests $5 Million in New Blog-Hotmail Venture; New VOIP Venture

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 6, 2006 - 11:04 PM EDT Mar. 6, 2006 - 11:04 PM EDT

And hey, it is a glorified toolbar, which allows you to blog easily and downloads e-mail (Hotmail) onto desktop. Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhat… Read more »

Do-It-Yourself Radio Station In A Remote Indian Village, Costing $1

By Rafat Ali

Mar. 2, 2006 - 5:04 AM EDT Mar. 2, 2006 - 5:04 AM EDT

Its happening everywhere, and it certainly doesn’t have to be online: a do-it-yourself radio station in a a very remote village in the poore… Read more »

Third Channel Communications, Hungama Mobile Join Hands To Sell Hollywood Content In India And South

By James Quintana Pearce

Feb. 23, 2006 - 9:03 PM EDT Feb. 23, 2006 - 9:03 PM EDT

US-based Third Channel Communications has joined hands with Hungama Mobile to provide Hollywood and Western-style content to cell phone subs… Read more »

Indian Mobile Content Firm Mauj To Get Funding From Intel And Sequoia

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 21, 2006 - 2:03 AM EDT Feb. 21, 2006 - 2:03 AM EDT

Exclusive from our sister site ContentSutra: Mumbai-based mobile content company Mauj Mobile is all set to get funding from three big name V… Read more »

Indian Cricket Rights Sold For $612 Million For Four Year; Broadband Rights Included

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 18, 2006 - 5:03 AM EDT Feb. 18, 2006 - 5:03 AM EDT

The magnitude of what happened in India earlier today is just mind-boggling: the governing body for Cricket in India just sold four-year TV… Read more »

Our Coverage From TV Korea Showcase

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 9, 2006 - 8:03 AM EDT Feb. 9, 2006 - 8:03 AM EDT

We told you…we’re omnipresent…Our sister site ContentSutra has some coverage from the TV Korea Showcase conference held in Mumbai yester… Read more »

KPCB Makes Two Venture Deals In India; Takes Stake in Naukri.com

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 3, 2006 - 9:03 AM EDT Feb. 3, 2006 - 9:03 AM EDT

So suddenly, in a space of about a month or so, the online travel and jobs space has seen a lot of frenzied deal activity in India, and for… Read more »

Earnings: Rediff.com’s Revenues Grow By 48 Per Cent; In Profits

By Rafat Ali

Feb. 3, 2006 - 7:03 AM EDT Feb. 3, 2006 - 7:03 AM EDT

Q4 earnings for Indian portal Rediff.com came in good: Net profit for Q4 was $0.32 million, compared to a net loss of $0.3 million in the ye… Read more »

News Channel Launches on Mobile First Prior To Cable Launch, In India

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 24, 2006 - 5:02 AM EDT Jan. 24, 2006 - 5:02 AM EDT

You can either call this a sign of times to come, or a gimmick. Whatever it is, the dynamics are interesting: India’s biggest media group Ti… Read more »

Industry Moves: Longtime CEO At India’s Largest Portal Replaced

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 19, 2006 - 11:02 PM EDT Jan. 19, 2006 - 11:02 PM EDT

We have the story on our sister site ContentSutra: IndiaTimes, the biggest portal in India, has replaced its longtime CEO Mahendra Swarup, a… Read more »

Digital Summit 2006, Mumbai: Day Two Coverage

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 19, 2006 - 11:02 AM EDT Jan. 19, 2006 - 11:02 AM EDT

The Internet And Mobile Association of India’s two-day Digital Summit 2006 ended today. Here is the complete coverage of the event by our Mu… Read more »

Digital Summit 2006, Mumbai: The Day One Coverage

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 18, 2006 - 1:02 AM EDT Jan. 18, 2006 - 1:02 AM EDT

As we promised last week, we’re blogging live from the Digital Media Summit in Mumbai, india. Our stringer Radhika has extensive coverage fr… Read more »

The Communications Scenario In India

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 13, 2006 - 1:03 AM EDT Jan. 13, 2006 - 1:03 AM EDT

Well, I never really intended to, but looks like I am becoming the investment evangelist for India. After I wrote that piece recently about… Read more »

Conference Coverage: Two From India: Online & Mobile

By Rafat Ali

Jan. 11, 2006 - 12:03 PM EDT Jan. 11, 2006 - 12:03 PM EDT

We’ll be at two conferences in Mumbai in India next week; tune in to our sister site ContentSutra for extensive coverage:
– Digital Media S… Read more »

Sequoia Pulls Out of IndiaTimes Investment Deal

By Rafat Ali

Dec. 4, 2005 - 12:13 PM EDT Dec. 4, 2005 - 12:13 PM EDT

Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley-based VC heavyweight, has pulled out of its investment in IndiaTimes, the biggest portal in India. Initi… Read more »

Announcing Our ContentNext Delhi Mixer: Dec 21, 2005

By Rafat Ali

Dec. 4, 2005 - 6:14 AM EDT Dec. 4, 2005 - 6:14 AM EDT

Time to go international with our mixers…after two successful ContentNext mixers in LA (in July) and DC (in November), we’ll be doing our… Read more »

NewsCorp Does Not See Indian Internet Space Attractive Currently; “May Be, Later”

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 30, 2005 - 9:12 AM EDT Nov. 30, 2005 - 9:12 AM EDT

News Corp does not see Indian internet space attractive as of now. Michelle Guthrie, CEO of Star (a 100 per cent subsidiary of News Corp) sa… Read more »

Online Bollywood Movie Firm Plans AIM IPO

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 28, 2005 - 9:12 AM EDT Nov. 28, 2005 - 9:12 AM EDT

Opus Media, a London-based online movie company which runs Indian movie portsal Bollywood.tv, is planning an IPO on AIM. The $85 million IPO… Read more »

Indian Portal Stake Sold For $63 Million

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 11, 2005 - 3:13 AM EDT Nov. 11, 2005 - 3:13 AM EDT

Sify.com, one of the three big online portals in India, has sold a big stake of the company for about $62.6 million. Satyam Computer Service… Read more »

Rediff.com To Raise $48 Million in Secondary Offering

By Rafat Ali

Nov. 10, 2005 - 3:12 AM EDT Nov. 10, 2005 - 3:12 AM EDT

Rediff.com, one of the biggest portals in India (also listed on Nasdaq), is going to raise $48 million in a secondary offering, which is bei… Read more »

Earnings: Rediff.com Posts 2Q Profit, Shares Jump

By Rafat Ali

Oct. 24, 2005 - 10:11 PM EDT Oct. 24, 2005 - 10:11 PM EDT

Rediff.com, among India’s biggest portals (and traded on Nasdaq), posted a sizable profit for Q3, reversing a year-ago loss. Rediff earned $… Read more »

Indian Portal Indiatimes Mulling IPO

By Rafat Ali

Oct. 14, 2005 - 7:11 PM EDT Oct. 14, 2005 - 7:11 PM EDT

One of the biggest portals in India, IndiaTimes, which recently took on $36 million investment from the likes of Sequoia, is mulling an IPO.… Read more »

ContentSutra Exclusive: Economic Times To Split Into Two

By Rafat Ali

Oct. 12, 2005 - 1:11 AM EDT Oct. 12, 2005 - 1:11 AM EDT

Just to show you we’re working all continents… The Economic Times, India’s largest selling and read business newspaper (from what I know,… Read more »

This Week: More Conference Coverage: Mobile Gaming, New Delhi, India

By Rafat Ali

Sep. 21, 2005 - 1:10 PM EDT Sep. 21, 2005 - 1:10 PM EDT

Continuing on the heavy conference season this Sept, this week our sister site ContentSutra will be covering the Mobile Gaming Conference wh… Read more »

Indian Digital Media News: Headlines From ContentSutra

By Rafat Ali

Aug. 30, 2005 - 11:10 AM EDT Aug. 30, 2005 - 11:10 AM EDT

Top headlines from our India-focused site ContentSutra:
– Rediff.com Discusses Internet Access in India
– VAS Ringing In Cash Registers Fo… Read more »

Credit Card Cos Watch Out, Airtel To Start Mobile Payments

By James Quintana Pearce

Aug. 12, 2005 - 6:09 PM EDT Aug. 12, 2005 - 6:09 PM EDT

Indian mobile service provider, Airtel, is working on launching a new value-added service that will enable payments via a mobile phone. The… Read more »

IndiaTimes Sells 15 Percent Stake To Sequoia & WestBridge For $36 Million

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 29, 2005 - 5:09 AM EDT Jul. 29, 2005 - 5:09 AM EDT

In a move which will surely send ripples across the Indian online media industry, IndiaTimes, one of the biggest online portals in the count… Read more »

India Vs China: The Digital Media Market

By Rafat Ali

Jul. 21, 2005 - 4:09 AM EDT Jul. 21, 2005 - 4:09 AM EDT

The story compares the Chinese online/digital media market with the Indian market, and based on raw numbers, China’s way ahead of the game,… Read more »

Indian Digital Media: Top Headlines This Week

By Staci D. Kramer

Jul. 3, 2005 - 11:08 PM EDT Jul. 3, 2005 - 11:08 PM EDT

Top five headlines from ContentSutra, our site focused on covering the Indian digital media market:
– Indian Online Adspend Takes Off, Port… Read more »

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