Live From Yas Island, for Abu Dhabi Media Summit
Big media chasing money isn’t new. That they’re coming to the oil-rich desert nations of late, is. More specifically, at the call of Abu Dha… Read more »
Penske’s Mail.com Launching India Portal With Zee, on India.com
Mail.com Media Corp, the owner of Nikki Finke’s Deadline.com and other portals, has finally closed and announced its JV deal in India, after… Read more »
SinglePoint Expands Into India With Purchase Of M2Junction
SinglePoint is acquiring India-based M2Junction, which has developed a text-messaging mobile advertising platform. The purchase comes just a… Read more »
India’s Texting Community Provider SMS GupShup Raises $12 Million
SMS GupShup has raised $12 million to help build out its texting-based mobile-phone communities in India. The company, which has operations… Read more »
Tempered Response To DB Corp IPO; Subscribed 0.62 Times On Day One
DB Corp., publisher of Dainik Bhaskar and Divya Bhaskar, and joint venture partner in DNA, opened its initial public issue of shares and was… Read more »
News Roundup: Peter Bhatia Named Editor At The Oregonian; Terror Threat To Tech Firms; HCL-News Corp
Peter Bhatia, executive editor at The Oregonian, will succeed Sandra Mims Rowe as editor at the 159-year old publication. Rowe announced yes… Read more »
Why Mint Founding Editor Raju Narisetti Left India Earlier Than Planned
The answer (from this NYT story): due to a “troubling nexus” of business, politics and publishing that proved to be “draining on body and so… Read more »
Real CEO Sunil Lulla Steps Down
Veteran media executive Sunil Lulla, group CEO at Alva Brothers Entertainment, has stepped down. He confirmed the development.
Lulla joine… Read more »
How Your Favourite Newspapers And Magazines Fared In The Readership Survey
The results of the latest round of Indian Readership Survey is out and here’s a compilation of how some of the most popular English newspape… Read more »
Sun TV Network Raises Ad Rates By 9-33%
Sun TV Network Ltd today said it was raising ad rates on its flagship Tamil channel by 9-33% w.e.f 1 January 2010.
It has also raised ad r… Read more »
New In Rajya Sabha: Journalist H.K. Dua, Ananda Bazar Patrika Chairman Ashok Ganguly
President Pratibha Patil last week nominated senior journalist H.K. Dua and former Hindustan Unilever chairman Ashok Ganguly to the Rajya Sa… Read more »
TV18 Undertakes Major Restructuring; About 200 Staffers To Get Laid Off
Television Eighteen is laying off 12% of its permanent staffers (about 200 people, according to a company source) as part of a major restruc… Read more »
Internet Users In India Grow 17% Y-o-Y To 35.8 Million; Growth Rate Lower Than Asia-Pac Average
In September, India had 35.8 million Internet users (excluding visits from net cafes and handhelds), up 17% year-on-year, according to web m… Read more »
Korea’s GS Home Shopping Invests $18.5 Million In HomeShop18, Valuing The Firm At $123 Million
South Korea’s GS Home Shopping, the world’s third largest home shopping network (as per this release), will invest $18.5 million in HomeShop… Read more »
PVR Buys DLF’s DT Cinema For Rs52 Crore In Stock & Cash; Separate Stake Sale To Thailand Firm
Multiplex chain PVR Ltd is buying realty major DLF Ltd’s cinema chain DT Cinemas, which currently runs 26 screens in Delhi, Gurgaon and Chan… Read more »
Rohit Bansal Steps Down As COO At India TV
Rohit Bansal, COO at Independent News Service Pvt. Ltd, which runs India TV, has stepped down. Bansal, who has worked at the firm for five y… Read more »
Subhash Chandra Assumes An Active Role In DNA’s Operations; Delhi Edition Soon?
Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra, part-owner of Mumbai-headquartered broadsheet Daily News and Analysis, or DNA, has assumed an “active… Read more »
Govt Announces HITS Policy; Foreign Investment Upto 74% Allowed
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The Union Cabinet today approved information and broadcasting ministry’s guidelines on Headend In The Sky (HITS), a technology that enables… Read more »
Prabhash Joshi, R.I.P.
Veteran journalist Prabhash Joshi died of cardiac arrest yesterday. He was 72.
Joshi was the founder editor of Hindi daily Jansatta, a pub… Read more »
News Roundup: Intel’s Wimax JV, AFaqs’ Telecom Portal; Cricket Ratings; Nick’s 30-Min Blank Out
Business Standard reports that chip making giant Intel Corp. (NSDQ: INTC) is considering participating in bids to form joint ventures with s… Read more »
Government Amending Press Act Of 1867; Draft By March 2010
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The government is working on “drastically amending” the Press and Registration of Books Act of 1867, which regulates the print media in the… Read more »
Glam Media Set For France Expansion In 2010, BRIC Nation Launches Planned
Women-focused content network Glam Media is on course to launch in France next year and has plans to open offices in more European markets a… Read more »
BAG Films To Raise $30 Million Via GDR/FCCB Issue
BAG Films & Media Ltd today said its board has approved a plan to raise up to $30 million (Rs142 crore) from the international market throug… Read more »
FoodieBay Seeks To Raise Funds For Second Phase Of Growth
IIT Delhi graduates Deepinder Goyal (26) and Pankaj Chaddah (24) just quit their consulting jobs at Bain & Co. They will now focus on growin… Read more »
AOL Keeping Its Venture Investments And AOL India
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Last week I reported, based on AOL’s spinoff SEC filing, that Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) may be retaining AOL India and AOL’s venture investmen… Read more »
News Roundup: Petition On Internet Telephony; Editors Guild On Manipur; TedIndia Live Webcast
The Internet Service Providers Association of India, an industry body of ISPs, has moved the Competition Commission of India alleging that t… Read more »
Deccan Chronicle Q2 Net Profit Up 120% At Rs99.9 Cr; Revenues Up 11%
Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd, publisher of dailies such as Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age and Financial Chronicle, posted a net profit of… Read more »
Yahoo Wants To Make More Money From Its International Users
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) purchased Arab portal Maktoob this summer for a reported $75 million and additional international acquisitions could be o… Read more »
Vdopia Raises $4 Million In First Round; Names New CEO
Vdopia, a fast-growing video ad network startup, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Nexus Venture Partners; in conjuncti… Read more »
Dish TV Losses Down 63% Y-O-Y On Strong Sales Growth
Direct-to-home service provider Dish TV today posted a net loss of Rs56.13 crore for three months ended 30 September, down 63% year-on-year… Read more »
Climax To NDTV Imagine Swayamvar: Time Warner Close To Buying Nearly 90% Stake
Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is close to acquiring a “very high level of holding” in general entertainment channe… Read more »
AOL’s Spinoff From Time Warner: The Process; AOL India May Be Retained By TW
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AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc, the new about-to-be-spun-off unit from Time Warner, has filed an amended filing with SEC detailing some of the spin-off… Read more »
9.9 Media Launches CFO India, Monthly Targeted At Finance Professionals
9.9 Media, the New Delhi-headquartered B2B publisher, today launched CFO India, a monthly targeted at finance professionals. The title is un… Read more »
TV Today Net Up 40% On Cost Control; Revenue Down 3.5% Y-O-Y
Broadcaster TV Today Network Ltd today said net profit for the three months ended 30 September was Rs10.61 crore, up 40.15% year-on-year. To… Read more »
News Roundup: Ad Spends Growing; Fin Min Letter On 3G
Ad spends in print and television in India grew 28% year-on-year during the April-June quarter, Mint reports, citing a Nielsen study. Ad spe… Read more »
Recovery In The Air: DNA Announces Partial Roll Back Of Salary Cuts
In what will come as good news to Indian media professionals across companies who have suffered salary cuts, Mumbai-based daily Daily News a… Read more »
Value Of Cricket TV Deal Drops: Shorter Format Eating Into ODI Viability?
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When the Indian Premier League was launched, the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the game’s top administrative body, saw it as an add… Read more »
UK Firm May Be Chosen As The Producer For Commonwealth Games Broadcast: Report
UK’s Satellite Information Services Ltd, a company that pioneered the live broadcast of horse racing in that country, may be chosen over Mum… Read more »
NBC Universal Is Exiting NDTV Networks; Who Will Come In?
Broadcaster NDTV Ltd will buy back a minority interest in its non-news subsidiary NDTV Network Plc. from NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). The compa… Read more »
Twitter Partners With Bharti Airtel; Indian Users To Get SMS Tweets For Free
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Twitter has sealed a deal with Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile carrier, that will let its wireless subscribers receive tweets by SMS f… Read more »
