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Britain's ITN Source Buys 70 Years Of Asia News International Footage (28 November 11:07) |
| News agency Asia News International (ANI) has signed a deal with UK broadcast footage archive ITN Source to license 70 years of its footage across all platforms. ITN Source, which has over o... |
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Sify Technologies Proceeds With Sify Communications Merger (25 November 10:03) |
| Nasdaq-listed Sify Technologies Ltd has announced its decision to proceed with the planned merger of Sify Communications Ltd into Sify Technologies Ltd. Sify Communications Ltd is a majority... |
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Walt Disney Completes UTV Software Open Offer; Ups Holding To 60 Percent (21 November 04:15) |
| This deal marks the completion of the first major buyout of an integrated media house by a multi-national firm.
Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) has completed the acquisition of UTV Software. The s... |
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Jerry Yang To Step Down As Soon As Yahoo Board Finds Replacement (18 November 12:15) |
| Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his post as soon as the board finds a suitable replacement, and BoomTown broke the story. The official release from Yahoo is out.
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Infibeam Acquires Photo Printing Portal Picsquare (18 November 11:33) |
| Picsquare CEO Manish Agrawal has confirmed the deal with Ahmedabad-based Infibeam to VCCircle.
Bangalore based photo printing portal Picsqure has been sold to Indian online retail firm Inf... |
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Accel India's Prakash: 'We Are Yet To See Slowdown In Business Plans We Receive' (17 November 12:38) |
| Prashant Prakash, Partner, Accel India, says only very high quality biz plans will get funded now.
Accel India, the new avtar of Erasmic Venture Fund, the Bangalore-based early and seed st... |
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Accel India Closes $60M Second Fund For Seed, Early Stage (17 November 12:31) |
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There will be no significant shift in the investment strategy for the new fund.
While there are almost all the funds targeting the late stage, growth capital investing and even PIPE ( pri... |
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M & A Star Buys Majority In Asianet; Forms JV With Rajeev Chandrasekhar (17 November 12:29) |
| Star's acquisition of majority stake in Asianet shows the importance of growing South Indian media.
Asianet Communications Ltd (ACL), Malayalam's first entertainment television company, ha... |
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IMI Mobile Buying Digital Music Distributor DX3 For Euro Expansion (14 November 02:14) |
| Hyderabad-based mobile-content distributor IMI Mobile is buying digital music distributor DX3 of London as a beachhead into European and non-mobile markets. The UK company distributes music ... |
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DoCoMo Takes 26 Percent Stake in India's Tata Teleservices (12 November 11:31) |
| In a major move and a first by a Japanese telco into India, NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is taking a 26 percent stake in local telco giant Tata Teleservices, for a price of $2.7 billion. This is s... |
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Why The Apple iPhone Has Stumbled In India (12 November 01:37) |
| The original iPhone generated a lot of interest in India, selling well on the grey market, so it went to reason that when the 3G version launched officially in the world's fastest growing wi... |
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Reliance Launching Ad-Subsidized Mobile Game Storefront (07 November 05:26) |
| Reliance's push into the mobile entertainment space continues…The Indian media juggernaut is now launching its own application storefront to distribute more than 900 ad-supported games on ... |
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Mobile VAS Firm TeleDNA Raises $10 Million From Peepul Capital (06 November 05:16) |
| TeleDNA Communications Pvt Ltd, a US and Bangalore-based mobile value-added services (VAS) solution provider, has raised $10 million from Hyderabad based private equity firm Peepul Capital. ... |
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Auto Classifieds Portal Carwale Raises Upto $7 M From Sierra Ventures (06 November 01:37) |
| Carwale had raised money from Seedfund in 2006, and Sierra Ventures is one of limited partners in Seedfund.
Auto classifieds portal CarWale.com has raised funding of upto $7 million from S... |
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India TV Floats India TV Interactive, Ropes in Arvind Mahendru (06 November 01:23) |
| Rajat Sharma's India TV has floated a new media firm – India TV Interactive Pvt. Ltd. (ITVI). ITVI will be the vehicle for India TV to
foray into various new media platforms and value-add... |
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Nokia Targets Emerging Markets With Internet Services And New Handsets (05 November 05:34) |
| Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is targeting emerging markets with seven new handsets and some interesting internet applications, with India the first country to get them. The internet services include em... |
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Zee News Acquires 26 Percent In Bengali Media Player Sky B (05 November 11:51) |
| Zee News already runs a Bengali news channel, 24 Ghanta, owned by Zee Akaash News Pvt. Ltd. in a 60:40 JV with Sky B.
Media and entertainment company, Zee News Ltd, has acquired a 26% stak... |
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Myntra Raises $5 Million From NEA-IndoUS, IDG Ventures India (05 November 11:49) |
| The customised gifts and merchandise space is hotting up as eYantra, a similar firm, recently raised $3.1 mn.
Myntra Designs, a Bangalore-based company that provides customised gifts and m... |
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LG India To Preload Social Net App On Handsets; LG And Microsoft Reaffirm Commitment (04 November 03:04) |
| Korean handset maker LG (SEO: 066570) has struck a deal with RockeTalk to preload the Indian start-up's mobile social networking application on several handsets, including the LG KT610 and... |
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Top Headlines: paidContent.org, mocoNews And paidContent:UK; Conference Coverage (01 November 02:18) |
| Thanks to everyone who's been a part of our October events this past week. In case you missed it—or if you want to refresh your memory—our full coverage is on our conference channels: Fu... |
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Sify's Losses Mount; Broadband ARPU Falls; Launches Gaming Portal (31 October 10:42) |
| Nasdaq-listed Sify Technologies' reported its Q2 FY09 results today showing a net loss of $ 5.32 mn compared to net loss of $ 0.83 mn in the same quarter in the previous year. The company's ... |
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Deccan Chronicle Appoints KPMG To Sell Its IPL Franchise (31 October 06:27) |
| Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd has officially admitted that it is looking to sell its IPL franchise, Hyderabad's Deccan Chargers. The Hyderabad based media company has given the mandate to KP... |
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Bharti Ropes In Google's Nikesh Arora As Independent Director (31 October 06:25) |
| In an interesting move, Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile services company, has appointed Nikesh Arora, a top executive of Google Inc. on the board of the company as an indepedent direct... |
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ContentNext Special Analysis: Online Fantasy Sports: Growth Outlook Intact (28 October 06:42) |
| Tired of the doom and gloom in the financial markets? Looking for growth? It's fantasy football time of year. Sports content is still an area which will likely continue to grow in spite of t... |
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Vodafone Seeking To Postpone India's 3G Auction (28 October 08:53) |
| Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), which operates as Vodafone Essar in India, is seeking to postpone the country's 3G auctions, currently scheduled for December. The reason? The global financial crisis, ... |
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ContentNext Special Analysis: Positive Bias: The Problem With the Latest Online Ad Forecasts (25 October 02:07) |
| The unprecedented shocks to the global financial system in the last two weeks have left analysts scrambling to recalibrate their economic forecasts. What will these massive jolts mean for on... |
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Q3 Results: Info Edge Sales Up 24%, But Profits Stagnate (24 October 10:32) |
| The company's profits stagnated on account of higher employee costs and advertising expenses.
Info Edge (BOM: 532777) Ltd, the owners of job portal Naukri.com and matrimony portal Jeevans... |
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Reuters Expands Mobile Farming Info Service To Another Indian State (21 October 06:26) |
| Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) is expanding its mobile news service for farmers in to another part of India. Reuters Market Light offers data on crops and weather plus 17 commodity prices to... |
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Capital18, Goosefish Media Back Vertical Ad Network Firm (15 October 09:31) |
| NetworkPlay.in, an audience focused vertical ad network company, has announced that it has raised undisclosed seed funding from Capital18 (Network18's VC/PE arm) and Goosefish Media Ventures... |
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Our Latest Hire: Lauren Rich Fine Joins Us As Research Director (14 October 11:04) |
| We're very pleased to announce that Lauren Rich Fine has joined our company's executive team as our Research Director, a new position for ContentNext. Building upon our existing report busin... |
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IPL Rights Holder Live Current Launches Fantasy Game, Hires Ex Cricinfo Executive (13 October 07:41) |
| Vancouver, Canada-based Live Current Media has launched a fantasy cricket game on its Cricket.com site aimed at cashing in on what it says (release) is a potential audience of one billion cr... |
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RIM Launches Touchscreen Blackberry Storm (08 October 03:49) |
| RIM's long-awaited touchscreen iPhone rival, the Blackberry Storm, is launching later this autumn with Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) in the US and Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) in Europe, India, Austr... |
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SMS GupShup Raises $11 Million From Helion Ventures and Charles River Ventures (07 October 11:31) |
| SMS GupShup, the microblogging platform, has raised $11 million (Rs 53 crore) in funding from Charles River Ventures and Helion Ventures. Business Standard reports that the money will be use... |
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Scrabulous Developers Claim Mixed Victory In Indian Court; Name In Violation, Game Not, They Say (29 September 05:34) |
| Jayant and Rajant Agarwalla are telling fans they've had a partial victory in their effort to defend Scrabulous, their highly popular digital version of Scrabble. The LA Times reports that t... |
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Insurance Aggregator eTechAces Gets Rs 20 Crore From Info Edge (26 September 05:36) |
| Info Edge (BOM: 532777) will pick up 49% stake in Etechaces Marketing and Consulting, which runs Policybazaar.com
Info Edge India Ltd, the owners of Naukri.com, will invest Rs 20 crore for... |
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Insurance Aggregator eTechAces Gets Rs 20 Crorre From Info Edge (25 September 06:42) |
| Info Edge (BOM: 532777) will pick up 49% stake in Etechaces Marketing and Consulting, which runs Policybazaar.com
Info Edge India Ltd, the owners of Naukri.com, will invest Rs 20 crore for... |
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RTVL, Norwest Ventures Invest In E-transaction Firm Suvidhaa (25 September 04:22) |
| Reliance Technology Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners India have invested an undisclosed amount in Mumbai-based Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt Ltd, which has a technology that helps people make ... |
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Top Five Digital & Mobile Music Deals (23 September 11:12) |
| As we gear up for Tuesday's EconMusic conference in London, we've assembled a list of the top five recent music deals by size. Given the tremors in the music industry, it should come as no s... |
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Helion Venture, NRIs Invest Rs 33.97 Crore In 9.9 Mediaworx (23 September 12:37) |
| Helion Venture Partners and a clutch of NRIs have invested Rs 33.97 crore in media start-up 9.9 Mediaworx. The consortium of investors have picked up a total of 97,057 shares or a 49.25% sta... |
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ContentSutra News Links Roundup (22 September 04:27) |
| More of Newsgroup: ContentSutra Links
Join us for EconMusic Sep. 23 in London featuring a Mobile Music panel with Nokia Music’s Tom Erskine, Sony BMG’s Ian Henderson, Vodafone UK... |
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Reliance Injects $1.2 Billion Into New Hollywood Film Powerhouse, Ending Paramount-Dreamworks Clash (20 September 02:23) |
| Well, at least big Hollywood names can still get a line of credit in these trying times. The heads at DreamWorks SKG have firmed up a $1.2 billion deal to leave Viacom's Paramount Pictures a... |
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Yahoo Launches New Social Network SpotM, Only in India (19 September 10:38) |
| In one of those local experiments that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) keeps doing from time to time, it has launched a new social networking service called SpotM in India. This is Yahoo's third or fourt... |
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Mukta Arts Buys Majority In Mobile Content Firm Coruscant Tec (19 September 09:25) |
| Mobile content company Coruscant Tec has finally found a buyer. Bollywood biggie Mukta Arts Ltd has agreed to pick up 51% stake in Mumbai based Coruscant for an undisclosed sum. Mukta has re... |
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Yahoo Starts Limited Beta Of New Front Page (18 September 12:27) |
| A week after AOL unveiled its new-look front page with lifestreaming and e-mail aggregation, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is starting limited random beta tests of new home pages—and we mean limitedâ... |
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Reliance Mobile Offers BBC World News Streaming TV Channel (17 September 04:49) |
| Reliance Mobile has partners with BBC Worldwide to offer its BBC World News channel through mobile TV streaming. Reliance's unicast service started back in 2004, offering news, sport, music ... |
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Hemant Sachdev Leaves Bharti To Head Up Microsoft's Consumer Biz (17 September 12:21) |
| Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) India has poached a long time Bharti Airtel executive to head up its consumer and online business. The tech giant has hired Hemant Sachdev, a group director at Bharti,... |
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EconMusic, Sept. 23: New Speakers: BPI CEO Geoff Taylor To Keynote; Danny Rimer, Others Added (12 September 04:24) |
| With less then two weeks to go, we've added to an already excellent lineup for our EconMusic conference at London's Natural History Museum on Sept. 23. Geoff Taylor, chief executive of... |
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Cleartrip Lays Off 42 (11 September 09:20) |
| As the dynamics of air travel is changing with more and more airlines finding themselves stuck on the tarmac, the online travel ticketing business is going through some belt-tightening. Clea... |
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Tata Comm Invests $11.5 Million In Content Delivery Network BitGravity (08 September 08:18) |
| Tata Communications, the telecom arm of the Tata Group, has invested $11.5 million in Burlingame, CA-based content delivery network BitGravity. Also Tata has announced the launch of its glob... |
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Reliance Buys Majority Stake in Cricket Video Webcasting Site Willow.tv (08 September 08:18) |
| Reliance ADA Group, the Indian telecom and media conglomerate, has bought a 70 percent stake in Willow.tv, the Cricket webcasting site based in Sunnyvale, CA. The price was undisclosed, but ... |
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