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TV18 Undertakes Major Restructuring About 200 Staffers To Get Laid Off (20 November 05:25) |
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Television Eighteen is laying off 12% of its permanent staffers (about 200 people, according to a company source) as part of a major restructuring exercise which will see the oper... |
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Corrected AOL International Cuts Coming But Looking For Partners ICQ For Sale (20 November 12:12) |
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AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong did a hurried Q&A session at the Paley Center this afternoon and then had to rush off to being the IPO roadshow, which starts tonight here in... |
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This Partnership Will Help Us Grow In The Lifestyle Space NDTV Networks Vikram Chandra (19 November 09:39) |
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NDTV Networks CEO Vikram Chandra, also a key anchor for the group’s news channels, spoke to contentSutra from New York shortly after his company’s strategic partnershi... |
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Scripps Networks Acquires 69 Percent Stake In NDTV Lifestyle For $55 Million (19 November 09:12) |
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Indian broadcaster NDTV Ltd and US-based Scripps Network Interactive today said they were forming a strategic alliance in the lifestyle broadcasting space in India.
As part of t... |
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AOL IPO Roadshow Begins Tonight International Cuts Coming But Looking For Partners ICQ For Sale (19 November 03:24) |
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AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong did a hurried Q&A session at the Paley Center this afternoon and then had to rush off to being the IPO roadshow, which starts tonight here in... |
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Internet Users In India Grow 17 Y-o-Y To 358 Million Growth Rate Lower Than Asia-Pac Average (18 November 06:53) |
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In September, India had 35.8 million Internet users (excluding visits from net cafes and handhelds), up 17% year-on-year, according to web metrics firm comScore. India’s gro... |
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HT Media Demerges Hindi Business Unlocking Value In Growing Regional Print Media (18 November 05:38) |
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HT Media Ltd, publisher of newspapers such as Hindustan Times, Hindustan and Mint, has decided to demerge its Hindi business. HT Media will transfer Hindi daily Hindustan, magazin... |
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Prem Panicker One Of Rediffs Earliest Employees Leaving To Join Yahoo India As Managing Editor (17 November 07:04) |
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Well-known cricket writer Prem Panicker, one of Rediff.com’s earliest staffers and the editorial director of the company’s US-based newspaper India Abroad, is leaving ... |
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Nachiket Pantvaidya To Become MD At Fox TV Studios India (14 November 04:45) |
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Fox Television Studios India is hiring Nachiket Pantvaidya as managing director, a person familiar with the development said. An announcement is expected soon.
Fox Television Stu... |
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Koreas GS Home Shopping Invests $185 Million In HomeShop18 Valuing The Firm At $123 Million (14 November 04:16) |
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South Korea’s GS Home Shopping, the world’s third largest home shopping network (as per this release), will invest $18.5 million in HomeShop18, a Network18 subsidiary.... |
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PVR Buys DLFs DT Cinema For Rs52 Crore In Stock Cash Separate Stake Sale To Thailand Firm (14 November 03:50) |
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Multiplex chain PVR Ltd is buying realty major DLF Ltd’s cinema chain DT Cinemas, which currently runs 26 screens in Delhi, Gurgaon and Chandigarh. PVR will also get exclusi... |
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Rohit Bansal Steps Down As COO At India TV (14 November 12:53) |
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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 years since 2004, has been active in the... |
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Subhash Chandra Assumes An Active Role In DNAs Operations Delhi Edition Soon (12 November 08:05) |
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Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra, part-owner of Mumbai-headquartered broadsheet Daily News and Analysis, or DNA, has assumed an “active role” in the day-to-day ope... |
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Govt Announces HITS Policy Foreign Investment Upto 74 Allowed (12 November 03:54) |
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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 satellite transmission of digital... |
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NDTV Imagine EVP Harsh Rohatgi Leaving To Join National Geographic Channel As MD (11 November 09:29) |
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Harsh Rohatgi, executive vice president at NDTV Imagine, is leaving the company to join National Geographic Channel as MD, a person familiar with the development said. Rohatgi den... |
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Well Known Sports Journalist Ayaz Memon Quits DNA As Editor At Large (11 November 02:47) |
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Noted cricket journalist Ayaz Memon has quit DNA newspaper, where he has been working since 2005. He was editor-at-large at the paper run by a JV between Subhash Chandra’s E... |
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ME At The WEF India Economic Summit Room For Growth Monetization Challenges Protectionist Voices (10 November 10:51) |
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Four themes more or less dominated an interesting panel discussion on media and entertainment at the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum yesterday.
1) India is und... |
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News Roundup Cable Licensing In Haryana Times Group Videos On Vuclip Barkha Dutt Domain Dispute (10 November 09:47) |
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The Haryana government is planning to auction rights to run cable services in the state, Business Standard reports. The move might lead to a legal standoff as existing cable opera... |
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Google To Acquire Mobile Ad Network AdMob For $750 Million In Stock (10 November 08:32) |
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has agreed to acquire AdMob, a mobile ad network, for $750 million in stock. Release.
At that jaw-dropping price, it marks Google’s third-largest acquis... |
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Zed-Tanla JV Hires Pancham Endlaw As Country Manager (10 November 07:32) |
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TZ Mobile Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Spain’s mobile content firm Zed and Hyderabad-based telecom software producer Tanla Solutions, has hired Pancham Endlaw as country... |
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IB Ministry Proposes Higher FDI News In FM Radio Phase III Licensing Soon (09 November 08:26) |
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The ministry of information and broadcasting has floated a cabinet note on the fledgeling FM radio sector, recommending an increase in foreign direct investment limit and allowing... |
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Rediff Losses Widen Even As It Invests In Improving Customer Experience (06 November 09:44) |
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Nasdaq-listed Rediff.com (NSDQ: REDF) India Ltd today said net loss for the quarter ended 30 September widened by 84% to $2.61 million, from $0.41 million during the corresponding... |
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Prabhash Joshi RIP (06 November 04:24) |
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Veteran journalist Prabhash Joshi died of cardiac arrest yesterday. He was 72.
Joshi was the founder editor of Hindi daily Jansatta, a publication of The Indian Express Group. H... |
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News Roundup Intels Wimax JV AFaqs Telecom Portal Cricket Ratings Nicks 30-Min Blank Out (06 November 04:13) |
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Business Standard reports that chip making giant Intel Corp. (NSDQ: INTC) is considering participating in bids to form joint ventures with state-run equipment manufacturer Indian ... |
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Changes At Star COO Sanjay Gupta To Handle Star Plus GM Keertan Adyanthaya Moved To Eng Channels (06 November 02:00) |
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In what is seen as a fallout of ratings performance, Star India has made changes to the management of flagship general entertainment channel Star Plus (via Indiantelevision). The ... |
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Roshan Tamang Quits Web18 As VP Headed To Indiatimes (05 November 06:32) |
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Roshan Tamang, VP for news, sports and entertainment at Web18, has resigned. This is his last week at the Network18 Group firm. Tamang confirmed the development, but would not say... |
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Government Amending Press Act Of 1867 Draft By March 2010 (05 November 06:00) |
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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 country and a draft of the ... |
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Google Centralises Privacy Control (05 November 04:51) |
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By Mercedes Bunz: With the new Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Dashboard, the personal data and product settings of different Google products are combined on one side to make it simpler for u... |
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FoodieBay Seeks To Raise Funds For Second Phase Of Growth (04 November 09:16) |
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IIT Delhi graduates Deepinder Goyal (26) and Pankaj Chaddah (24) just quit their consulting jobs at Bain & Co. They will now focus on growing a website they started in 2008 th... |
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Bloombergcom May Charge Up To $1000 A Year For News Feeds (04 November 06:06) |
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All aboard the paid content bandwagon: having signaled that its newly acquired Businessweek.com may raise the paywall for certain types of content, Bloomberg is now considering ch... |
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Abraham Thomas Steps Down As Red FM COO (04 November 03:20) |
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Red FM COO Abraham Thomas, one of the hottest radio executives in the country, is stepping down, he said in a memo to staffers yesterday. A person who has seen the memo confirmed ... |
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BAG Films To Raise $30 Million Via GDRFCCB Issue (04 November 02:34) |
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BAG Films & Media Ltd today said its board has approved a plan to raise up to $30 million (Rs142 crore) from the international market through an issue of global depository rec... |
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AOL Keeping Its Venture Investments And AOL India (04 November 03:21) |
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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 investments. Turns out neither is ha... |
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News Roundup Petition On Internet Telephony Editors Guild On Manipur TedIndia Live Webcast (03 November 08:31) |
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The Internet Service Providers Association of India, an industry body of ISPs, has moved the Competition Commission of India alleging that the government’s delay in allowing... |
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How Content Creators Can Benefit From Piracy (02 November 10:12) |
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Alok Kejriwal is a digital entrepreneur based in Mumbai. He is the CEO and co-founder of games2win.com.
Every time I listen to my iPod, I remember Napster.
The record industry t... |
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Rediffcom Invests In Location Sensing Tech Firm Imere (02 November 09:06) |
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Rediff.com (NSDQ: REDF) India Ltd has invested in Bangalore-headquartered location sensing technology startup Imere Technologies Pvt. Ltd, the Nasdaq-listed firm said on Friday, w... |
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Mobile Roundup Google Voice Search On Nokia S60 Comic Books On Tata DoCoMo MTNL Prepaid 3G (02 November 08:19) |
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India today launched a voice search application for mobile phones that run on the Nokia S60 platform. Most Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones in the N and E series, apar... |
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Ram Jethmalani Joins MJ Akbars Covert Magazine As Chairman Of The Board (02 November 01:30) |
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Prominent lawyer Ram Jethmalani has joined Covert magazine as the chairman of the board of directors. The magazine is promoted and edited by M.J. Akbar, one of India’s best ... |
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Interview Bloomberg News Editor-In-Chief Matt Winkler On UTV Tie-Up India Plans BusinessWeek (30 October 10:16) |
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Matthew Winkler is the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News.
Today, little else needs to be said by way of introduction. It wasn’t always that way.
In 1989, Mike Bloomberg, who ... |
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Deccan Chronicle Q2 Net Profit Up 120 At Rs999 Cr Revenues Up 11 (30 October 04:20) |
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Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd, publisher of dailies such as Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age and Financial Chronicle, posted a net profit of Rs99.9 crore for the three months ended... |
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News Roundup Softbank Capital Invests In DEN Bollywood Films On Hulu (29 October 07:32) |
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US-based SoftBank Capital and India Capital of Hong Kong have bought a 2% stake in Sameer Manchanda-promoted cable firm DEN Networks, The Economic Times reports. The transaction r... |
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PVR Ltd Q2 Net Profit Up 10 At Rs521 Cr Revenues Down 34 Y-O-Y (29 October 06:52) |
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Multiplex chain PVR Ltd today said net profit for the three months ended 30 September was Rs5.21 crore, up 10.3% from the year-ago period. The growth in PAT came from cost control... |
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Ratings Update Colors Gain Lead Over Competition Corners 27 Marketshare (29 October 02:54) |
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For the past few months, Star Plus, Zee and Colors have been playing musical chairs with the top three slots in GEC ratings, with marketshares of all three channels mostly falling... |
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Yahoo Wants To Make More Money From Its International Users (29 October 01:48) |
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) purchased Arab portal Maktoob this summer for a reported $75 million and additional international acquisitions could be on the way. Keith Nilsson, Yahoo’s... |
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NDTV Narrows Losses With Cost Control Revenues Down 6 (28 October 08:36) |
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Broadcaster NDTV Ltd today posted a standalone net loss of Rs11.85 crore for the three months ended 30 September, down 9.12% year-on-year. Total revenue fell 6.16% y-o-y to Rs69.3... |
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Sun TV Net Up 21 On Strong Ad Sales Growth (28 October 02:53) |
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Chennai-headquartered Sun TV Network Ltd today said net profit for the quarter ended 30 September was at Rs130.56 crore, up 21% year-on-year. Revenues grew 35% y-o-y to Rs320.39 c... |
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Vdopia Raises $4 Million In First Round Names New CEO (28 October 11:44) |
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Vdopia, a fast-growing video ad network startup, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Nexus Venture Partners; in conjunction with the funding, Vdopia has also an... |
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Dish TV Losses Down 63 Y-O-Y On Strong Sales Growth (27 October 09:50) |
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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 on a nearly 50% growth in sales. Revenu... |
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Jagran Prakashan Net Up 120 Ad Revenues Up 20 (27 October 09:00) |
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Publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd posted net profit of Rs50.27 crore for the quarter ended 30 September, up 120% from the year-ago period on strong growth in ad revenues. While ad re... |
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Climax To NDTV Imagine Swayamvar Time Warner Close To Buying Nearly 90 Stake (27 October 03:34) |
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Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is close to acquiring a “very high level of holding” in general entertainment channel NDTV Imagine, according t... |
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