India is probably the first country where Internet adoption and growth rates have been slower than mobile phones. IAMAI and comScore data deviated widely for the user numbers in India. However, lets go with IAMAI figures, i.e 37 Million internet users at the end of Sept-2006. Here are some interesting numbers from a recent equity research reportContinue Reading

The emerging economy of India has created a new market which barely existed – Internet Advertising. A technical research was conducted on Search Engine Marketing by IAMAI and PinStorm – The Search Engine Marketing Firm, the first of its kind anywhere in the world. The report “estimates” the market size,Continue Reading

Business Today is one of the leading publishers of Business magazines in India from the house of India Today publications group. For some reason, I blindly don’t enter my credit card. The first thing I check is if the web-page accepting my credit card details is secure or not. InContinue Reading

Indian IT sector which grew leaps and bounds of the Y2K bug is now stepping into the stage of metamorphosis where companies work to engineer an innovative product. To fuel innovation amongst the Indian geeks, techTribe backed by several well known VCs in the valley is born. A yearlong campaign calledContinue Reading

Dainik Jagran and Times Network might be the largest circulated dailies in India, but a new trend is emerging in the Indian Advertising market – Internet Advertising, much in line with the global markets. A 2004 McKinsey & Co report suggests that between 2000 and 2004, the US newspaper market lostContinue Reading

Finally, the Indian internet companies have got a dozen reasons to smile, but free cash flow is the one which makes them grin. Indian population seems to be a blessing in disguise for these companies as more people log on to the internet everyday. We are all aware of theContinue Reading

If you have read The Google Story then you will probably regret having not majored in Math 😉 Billions of dollars lying idle in your bank account and all of a sudden you think Wall Street is the place to be at. That’s exactly what Googler’s might have thought. IContinue Reading

I wanted a secure web based email interface to communicate in my official capacity as an associate of this blog. Since their were some problems involved in configuring Convergence.In, I decided to use ConvergenceIndia.Com. To setup your free Hotmail like web based e-mail on your own domain, sign up withContinue Reading