Startups in India
Tencent Holdings has announced an USD 7.5 Mn investment over a 3 year period in MIH India Global Internet, promoter of Indian Social Networking site – ibibo.com, local search engine dwaar.com and a family tree portal onefamily.com. Naspers Limited promoter of MIH India Global Internet holds substantial equity in TencentContinue Reading
Being a Google’s AdSense publisher for over a year and closely tracking this network, I am of the opinion that good quality user generated content [UGC] generates high revenue. Social Network have atleast 35% quality UGC inventory and hence can cash-in on this. Hence, we conducted an agile study onContinue Reading
Skenzo – a leading provider of technology, in the traffic monetization business, has raised undisclosed significant funding parting a very small stake. Skenzo is Directi Business Unit / Subsidiary. Skenzo was the fastest growing domain parking company worldwide for 2006 & 2007. They also claim that they are globally numberContinue Reading
Last month while covering Citipals.com [Network of Trusted Reviewers] I had asked them about the idea of porting their reviews to social networks. Bingo! the team has done an excellent job in taking the Movie Match / reviews vertical online to facebook and I speculate they maybe porting it toContinue Reading
Mark set Developers on fire opening the facebook platform early this fall. Since then Developers have been writing and deploying applications. Friendhugs is the first facebook App that was sold by the developer to some private party for $21,500. Friendhugs used Amazon’s Hardware / Internet as a service platform [EC2]Continue Reading
We have had more than a dozen social networks targeted @ various Indians. Ashish Baluda and his brother Manish have come up with a new network, which borrows the concept of networking, listing and reviews for your city. Ashish said, Opinions of reviewers are good but opinions from your “friends”Continue Reading
ibibo social network became the first network in India to offer free mobile to mobile chat to its members. Yes!!! you can call your friend in the network and he maybe located anywhere in India. What ibibo is essentially doing is connecting you and your friend for a brief mobile chatContinue Reading
MobileNXT, one of the first Mobile phone retailers in the country has divested 35% stake in favour of the Network18 group. MobileNXT plans to utilize Network18’s content – ringtones, movies, web creatives as well as advertising on its network. They may also explore sales on HomeShop18. MobileNXT has opened justContinue Reading
Indian Social Networking site, Indyarocks will shortly launch WideScreen Video on its site. For folks like me who work on Dual Monitors with one turning into entertainment screen after 7:00 PM, I can easily pop-up the Video screen to the other monitor and continue to work on my primary. Check outContinue Reading
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