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Deep Malhotra joins MySpace India as Director of Sales (14 March 12:48) |
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Rupert Murdoch owned social networking site MySpace.com has appointed Deep Malhotra, former group sales manager at Google India, as director of sales for its India operations.
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BharatStudent.com plans to launch fresher jobs service (14 March 11:33) |
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Youth oriented social networking site BharatStudent.com, which claims to have over three million registered users, is planning to launch a fresher jobs service dedicated to nurturing car... |
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99acres.com to host property fair in Hyderabad on 15-16 March (14 March 10:55) |
| Real estate portal 99acres.com is organising a property fair in Hyderabad on 15th and 16th March 2008. According to 99acres, the property fair will showcase residential properties of nationa... |
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TimesJobs.com pharma job fair in Mumbai witnesses 7,000 walk-ins (14 March 10:23) |
| TimesJobs.com has said its two-day pharma job fair organized on 8th and 9th March in Mumbai witnessed the participation of over 7,000 job seekers of whom over 100 received spot offers and ab... |
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Makaan.com launches viral campaign Kahani Me Twist (14 March 10:15) |
| Online real estate portal Makaan.com has launched a viral campaign hosted at KahaniMeTwist.com that combines the two biggest passions in India — cricket and Bollywood. According to Mak... |
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Reliance Entertainment plans to launch 8 portals, including jobs site (13 March 04:25) |
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Reliance Entertainment, a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is planning to launch at least eight new websites, including a jobs portal and a classifieds site, this year, ... |
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Makaan.com to host property show in Pune on 15-16 March (13 March 03:46) |
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People Interactive’s online real estate portal Makaan.com is organizing its Property Show in Pune on 15th and 16th March 2008. The company is expecting over 20 leading developers to sh... |
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Travel portals set their eyes on corporate clients (13 March 11:37) |
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Online travel portals have set their eyes on corporate clients as these clients offer high volumes and many last-minute bookings which are usually of high value, according to Ezeego1.com... |
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Tasveer-e-Hind.com launched to address grievances of NRIs (13 March 08:08) |
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Tasveer-e Hind Foundation has launched Tasveer-e-Hind.com that aims to address grievances of the small and medium income NRIs (non-resident Indians) and forward their problems to the gov... |
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Punarbhava.in seeks to make a better world for persons with disability (13 March 07:21) |
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Rehabilitation Council of India in association with Media Lab Asia has launched Punarbhava.in, an interactive portal that aims to make a better world for the persons with disability.
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Dentsu India appoints Aditya Ray as CEO of LastMinuteInventory.com (12 March 09:44) |
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Aditya Ray has been appointed chief executive officer and chief evangelist of Dentsu India’s online media inventory trading portal LastMinuteInventory.com.
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Gopal Krishna appointed as Audience Head at Yahoo India (12 March 09:06) |
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Yahoo India has appointed Gopal Krishna as head of audience, responsible for all consumer-facing products in the region. Prior to joining Yahoo, Krishna was setting up a seed-stage ventu... |
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Google completes acquisition of DoubleClick (12 March 09:05) |
| Google has completed its acquisition of online advertising firm DoubleClick that has a vibrant advertising business for banners, videos and display ads which are often intended more to promo... |
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Naukri.com’s TV commercial Hari Sadu wins Effie Award (12 March 09:04) |
| Job portal Naukri.com’s TV commercial Hari Sadu has won a Bronze in the Consumer Services Category at the 2008 Asia Pacific Effie Awards. According to Info Edge India, owner of Naukri.com,... |
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Campus18.com appoints judges for its ‘Best Video Talent’ contest (12 March 08:49) |
| Tangerine Digital Entertainment’s youth portal Campus18.com has roped in MTV VJ Nikhil Chinappa and actor, director Makrand Deshpande as judges for Digistars, an online reality contest to ... |
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Ambareesh Murty named country manager for eBay India (11 March 04:31) |
| Global internet auction giant eBay has named Ambareesh Murty, currently Director - Core at eBay India, as its new country manager for India, replacing Rajan Mehra who is moving out to pursue... |
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ApnaLoan to launch insurance portal ApnaInsurance.com (11 March 12:56) |
| ApnaLoan.com, an online marketplace for loan products, has unveiled its new brand identity. The company has also revamped its website as a part of the re-branding exercise. ApnaLoan.com is a... |
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Nigerian arrested for internet scam in Mumbai (11 March 12:04) |
| A Nigerian national has been arrested by the Sahar police in Mumbai for conning internet users in India by falsely promising them 9 lakh British pounds and then demanding large sums of money... |
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BigFlicks offers 14000 movies for download (11 March 09:25) |
| Online movie download and rental company BigFlicks.com, a part of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is offering around 14,000 movies and plays to download.
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SQL Star launches e-learning portal TheLearningPort.com (11 March 07:37) |
| Hyderabad-based IT education company SQL Star International has launched TheLearningPort.com, an e-learning portal that aims to promote systematic changes in the current teaching-learning pa... |
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Internet connection in India is slow, unreliable: Report (10 March 09:42) |
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A study by InternetTrafficReport.com reveals that the quality of internet services in India is among the worst in the world. According to the report, India has an overall index of 74 and... |
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RedBus.in launches its operations in Gujarat (10 March 09:07) |
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Online bus tickets company RedBus.in, which is currently present in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi and Visakhapatnam, has launched its operations in Ahmedabad. The company ... |
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IndiaHotelReview.com plans to roll out 500 travel packages (09 March 03:50) |
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IndiaHotelReview.com is planning to roll out 500 travel packages which could be booked online. According to Vriti Infocom, which owns IndiaHotelReview.com, the travel packages starting f... |
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Fropper partners with Indiwo.com to launch Women’s Bravery Award (09 March 02:54) |
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Social networking site Fropper.com in partnership with women’s portal Indiwo.com has launched Women’s Bravery Award on the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March). The awar... |
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SaonGroup plans to launch city centric job portals across India (09 March 01:47) |
| SaonGroup.com India, which launched its first city centric job portal MyJobsInPune.com in September 2007, now plans to invest 10 million Euros (approximately $15.4 million) to expand into al... |
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Google allows AdWords advertisers to pay by cheque, DD, net banking (07 March 06:25) |
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Google has launched new payment options for its AdWords advertising program in India. The new option allows advertisers to open and maintain their AdWords account by pre-paying via chequ... |
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BharatMatrimony says it continues to be the leader in online matrimony space (07 March 06:21) |
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Online matrimony portal BharatMatrimony.com, which operates through its 15 regional portals like HindiMatrimony.com and TamilMatrimony.com, has said it continues to be the leader in the ... |
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Zapak Gameplex to host gaming tournament in 12 cities (07 March 05:37) |
| Zapak Digital Entertainment is organising Zapak Gameplex Battlefield, a national gaming tournament which will be conducted on weekends from 7th March to 30th March 2008 at Zapak Gameplex in ... |
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Expedia enters India; launches Expedia.co.in (06 March 09:43) |
| US-based online travel company Expedia, which recorded gross bookings of $20 billion in 2007, has entered the India market with the launch of Expedia.co.in. The website would offer bookings ... |
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Online contest offers makeover of the worst office for free (06 March 03:49) |
| Microsoft India has launched MakeoverMyOffice.co.in, where the company is running an online contest whose winner will get a makeover of his office for free. The company also plans to telecas... |
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Google displays search box within some of its search results (06 March 11:22) |
| Google has rolled out a search box that appears within some of the search results themselves. According to the search giant, this feature will now occur “when we detect a high probability ... |
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ChangeIndia.in launched to mobilise people for Change India movement (06 March 10:57) |
| R K Misra, who recently won The Times of India’s Lead India contest, has launched ChangeIndia.in. The website aims to build a community of individuals who want to do something for society ... |
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Xpert Media launches online magazine for men, MensXpert.com (05 March 05:50) |
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Xpert Media Technology has launched MensXpert.com, an online magazine for urban men in the age group of 20-36, “which in spite of being largest base of internet users in India remain l... |
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Google India launches Internet safety campaign for students (05 March 05:07) |
| Google India has launched a national internet safety campaign called Be NetSmart. The campaign was launched in Mumbai on 18th February 2008, in collaboration with the Mumbai Police. Since th... |
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CollegeSpeaks.com to help students seeking admission in Indian colleges (05 March 09:57) |
| An Indore-based start-up has launched CollegeSpeaks.com, which aims to help students seeking admission in Indian campuses by providing them information about colleges through first hand expe... |
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TiE to host ‘An Evening with Ram Shriram’ on 14 Mar in Delhi (05 March 08:46) |
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TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi is organising ‘An Evening with Ram Shriram’, one of the foremost thought leaders and investors in the internet space, on 14th March 2008 in New De... |
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CarWale.com launches Consumer Choice Car Awards (05 March 08:44) |
| Auto portal CarWale.com has launched Consumer Choice Car Awards, which allows consumers to vote for their favourite car in a particular category and help the future buyers decide the best ca... |
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Rajeev Rastogi appointed head of Yahoo Labs – Bangalore (04 March 02:39) |
| Yahoo has appointed Rajeev Rastogi as vice president and head of its new Yahoo Labs – Bangalore. According to the company, Yahoo Labs – Bangalore will be a centre of excellence for next ... |
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Jeevansathi claims leadership position in online matrimony segment (04 March 01:30) |
| Matrimony portal Jeevansathi.com claims to have overtaken its competitors to emerge as the leader in the online matrimony segment. Quoting comScore figures, Jeevansathi.com has said it recei... |
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Zapak to organise gaming tournament for corporate executives (04 March 11:45) |
| Reliance Entertainment’s online gaming portal Zapak.com in association with Reliance Money is organising a gaming tournament for corporate executives at Zapak Gameplexes in Mumbai, Delhi a... |
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Web 2.0 start-ups together have 15 lakh users in India: IDC (04 March 11:01) |
| According to a study by IDC, India-focused Web 2.0 start-ups such as MingleBox, Fropper, SirfDosti and BigAdda have a combined user base of around 15 lakh users in the country, after elimina... |
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BigAdda enables users to send messages in 8 Indian languages (03 March 05:09) |
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Reliance ADA group’s social networking site BigAdda.com has launched a new feature that enables users to type their messages in eight Indian regional languages — Hindi, Marathi, ... |
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Google India announces winners of Women in Engineering Award (03 March 04:17) |
| Google India has announced the winners of the first ‘Google India Women in Engineering Award’ recognizing and rewarding deserving women students in Computer Science and related majors, t... |
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Soma Biswas joins Guruji.com as VP, Marketing (03 March 01:47) |
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Internet search company Guruji.com has appointed Soma Biswas as vice president, marketing. According to the company, Soma Biswas will be responsible for all marketing initiatives with sp... |
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Mumbai Police educating school children on safe internet surfing (03 March 01:07) |
| Mumbai Police have joined hands with Google for implementing a project to educate schoolchildren on dos and don’ts on internet. Under the initiative, officers of the Cyber Crime Investigat... |
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Chandamama.com now also available in Telugu (03 March 11:50) |
| Chandamama.com, the website of a popular children’s magazine Chandamama, has launched its Telugu edition; the first out of 12 language editions to go online.
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Quotes from industry leaders on Budget 2008-09 (03 March 08:09) |
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“While the 100,000 internet-enabled Common Service Centres (CSCs) and State Wide Area Networks (SWANs) will play a major role in taking the benefit of IT to masses, the number is still... |
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Tyroo claims to display 2.5 billion ad impressions a month (02 March 09:38) |
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Ad network Tyroo Media, which is incubated by Smile Interactive Technologies Group and funded by Yahoo, claims to have touched the 2.5 billion impressions per month milestone recently.
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Tyroo claims to display 2.5 billion impressions a month (02 March 09:38) |
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Ad network Tyroo Media, which is incubated by Smile Interactive Technologies Group and funded by Yahoo, claims to have touched the 2.5 billion impressions per month milestone recently.
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SimplyMarry launches matrimonial content portal SimplyMarryZine.com (02 March 08:40) |
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SimplyMarry.com has launched a specialised matrimonial content portal SimplyMarryZine.com which seeks to offer individual experiences, expert guidance and information on haute trends, lo... |
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