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NDTV to stream Sri Sri Ravishankar’s teachings over Mobile and Net–‘Art Of Living’ App
By Shivani at 28 February, 2012, 11:04 am
The only way to pull in new readers on the digital platform is to present a whole new genre of contents. NDTV has got this rightly and on a spree to tie up with various content producers. You will be soon able to enjoy Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s “Art Of Living” preachings on NDTV’s online [...]
Read More >>Qyuki.com – AR Rahman & Shekar Kapur’s social networking, branding startup – Cisco buys in stake
By Manoj Govindassamy at 19 February, 2012, 7:51 am
This is simply awesome. We are seeing the start of a trend thats hugely popular in the western countries. Media buffs, celebrities, heavy pockets in the country are starting to invest, incubate their own startups to shape up their creative ideas rather than relying on the “1st world” innovations and products. Oscar winner AR Rahman [...]
Read More >>CNN Song of the year 2011 – Why this Kolaveri di ?
By Manoj Govindassamy at 1 January, 2012, 8:50 am
Can you guess CNN’s Song of the year 2011 ? You would probably think it was won by Justin Bieber or Adele or Pitbull or some other western pop songs. But, to everybody’s surprise a regional song has overtaken other top pop songs of the western world. The song is none other than the country’s [...]
Read More >>Top 10 People – India 2011
By Manoj Govindassamy at 31 December, 2011, 1:09 pm
Well, we are almost done with this year. New year 2012 is just round the corners and the country is hoping to see better days ahead. Year 2011 has seen various new people soaring to heights, becoming more influential and spotted in limelight. The below top lists of people are from Google Zeitgeist 2011. Zeitgeist [...]
Read More >>Reliance BIG TV to raise Rs. 2500 Crore via stake sale to US based Comcast
By Manoj Govindassamy at 1 September, 2011, 11:20 pm
It is believed that Anil Ambani is in talks with few US based cable operators like Comcast to sell upto 49% stake in his DTH venture for a whopping amount of Rs. 2000 – 2500 Crore. Thats brings the valuation in the range of Rs. 4000 – 5000 Crore… Tata Sky raised Rs. 250 Crore by selling its 10% stake to Temasek (Singapore) .. 2. Sun Direct raised Rs. 900 Crore by selling its 35% stake to Astro (Malaysia) ..On subscriber count, BIG TV is be no where near the top as the leaders in this space are (1) Dish TV (2) Sun Direct (3) Tata Sky..
Read More >>NDTV India and IDBI Bank launch Sawaal India Ka – Dimaag Lagao, Laakhon Pao
By Robinsh Kumar at 22 August, 2011, 7:07 pm
Indian television gone crazy since last decade and we watched a lot of reality shows on air and some of them were really catchy because of their theme and benefits to the common viewers started by the great KBC also gone very popular worldwide because of the host who was none other than Mr. Bacchan. [...]
Read More >>Watch Bollywood movies online for FREE & legally – Yahoo launches free indian movie streaming site MoviePlex.in
By Manoj Govindassamy at 17 August, 2011, 2:47 am
Wanna watch latest desi movies online for FREE ? Why waste time downloading low quality videos from the illegal sites, get infected by the spams, annoyed by pop ads…..Yahoo India has launched a desi movie streaming site – MoviePlex.in, allowing users to access licensed full length Indian movies for free on the Internet. Right now, a limited selection of movies are available on the site and only bollywood …The success of these sites solely relies on how fast they can increase their movie library, ease of use, exclusive partnership with movie production houses…
Read More >>MicroMax A70 phone pokes iPhone 4 – A70 spec, price and review – A70 or iPhone ?
By Manoj Govindassamy at 13 August, 2011, 10:19 am
Mega Micromax Advertisement on Times Of India says “i (can afford this) phone”. And, “Best buy Rs. 7999/-”. Isn’t it clever ? Do they mean Micromax A70 is the iPhone for masses ?.. ..A70 might not have the latest Android OS. But, for the price, descent hardware and descent OS, I would rather go with Micromax than an iPhone. For, a common man like me gets almost same experience on both smartphones. Way to go Indian phone manufacturers. Karbonn, ..
Read More >>Google To Suspend Street Mapping At Banglore
By Robinsh Kumar at 22 June, 2011, 11:06 am
Last month moneymint covered about new startup from the Google Inc from India’s IT hub Banglore for it’s free Street View service but recently a news coming from the commissioner of police of the city who passed an order to stop Google Image Mapping cars which were roaming around the city taking pictures at 360 [...]
Read More >>Renault Plans to Launch 4 More Cars On Indian Roads by 2012
By Robinsh Kumar at 4 June, 2011, 3:58 pm
Renault India : Planted in Chennai designing at Mumbai announcing in media that they are planning to launch four more cars on Indian roads by the end of 2012 to compete with SUV segment frontiers like Fortuner, Endevour, Hondo CR-V means they have their designs in process to target the market ranging price under 20 [...]
Read More >>Girls student Outperform Boys in ICSE board Exam
By Robinsh Kumar at 18 May, 2011, 1:13 am
According to the CICSE which declared the results here on Tuesday, the pass percentage of girls in Class X stood at 99.15 per cent against 98.19 of boys. In Class XII, the pass percentage of girls stood at 98.40 per cent while it remained 96.30 per cent in the case of boys. “Girls have done [...]
Read More >>India Against Corruption – Anna Hazare leads the demand for Jan Lokpal Bill – Gandhi 2.0
By Manoj Govindassamy at 8 April, 2011, 1:14 pm
Anna Hazare – an ex-Army man, a social activist and now at his age 78 has taken a bold step against corruption… with a demand for Jan Lokpal Bill..Netizens are no bad in supporting this corruption free movement. This event on Facebook is already a hit with over 82,000 attending, over 500K awaiting reply and the number is only going up faster. Twitter trends for India has rightly caught the nation’s sensation with the top 3 trending topic currently being #lokpal, #annahazare, #corruption.
Read More >>Honda’s final deal to exit from Hero Honda
By Robinsh Kumar at 5 April, 2011, 4:12 pm
India’s largest two-wheeler bike maker Hero Honda on Tuesday said its erstwhile Japanese promoter Honda Motor Co. has exited the company completely after selling its 26 per cent stake to a group firm of the Indian promoter family. “Pursuant to a share transfer agreement amongst the promoters of the company, Honda Motor Co., Japan, has [...]
Read More >>Nokia is still the top mobile handset in India – 59.1% market share – Nokia 3110c top used – InMobi Mobile Ads Insight Report
By Manoj Govindassamy at 5 April, 2011, 1:18 pm
InMobi, one the leading Mobile Ad networks has released its mobile insights report for the quarter October 2010 – January 2011 and does carry some interesting facts..Android, iPhone, BlackBerry OS are making in roads. They are inching up at slower rate with Android phones seen leading this pack…Nokia 3110c is the widely used mobile handset – accounts for 5.4% of total ad impressions served in India. Other sidely used mobile handsets india are Nokia 5233, Nokia 7210, Samsung GT-c3303, Nokia N2690…
Read More >>IPL 4 Live Streaming – IndiaTimes inks deal with BCCI – catch IPL actions on net and mobiles
By Manoj Govindassamy at 31 March, 2011, 1:21 pm
The internet and mobile arm of Times Of India (TOI) group – Times Internet Limited (TIL, the one which runs IndiaTimes.com) has won the global rights of Indian Premier League (IPL) for Internet, Mobile, Radio and Television (in few places other than India) for next four years 2011 – 2014. TIL will pay Rs. 261 crore as the rights fee to BCCI…As Lalit Modi’s IPL era was accused to be scam linked, BCCI has …
Read More >>Bhaskar Pramanik : Microsoft India’s New Chairman
By Robinsh Kumar at 28 March, 2011, 10:50 pm
Microsoft has appointed Bhaskar Pramanik as the chairman for Microsoft India. Pramanik will report to Jean-Philippe Courtois, President of Microsoft International. Last month, Ravi Venkatesan, who was earlier the chairman and corporate vice president of Microsoft India had announced to quit the company, after serving the company for seven years. “Bhaskar comes to Microsoft with [...]
Read More >>TV on Internet, A win – win situation for digital entertainment as well as information data
By Robinsh Kumar at 23 March, 2011, 10:06 pm
In the coming years it will be a real need to combine these two sources of information and media at a single platform that may become something like net TV or similar, just imagine how beneficial this planning will be ? specially for the commons who use both the mediums separately in their day to [...]
Read More >>GATE 2011 results are out now
By Robinsh Kumar at 15 March, 2011, 7:29 pm
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, GATE 2011 results are out and the outcome of the test has been put up at the offices of GATE under the Indian Institute of Science (IIS) and also the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). Candidates who are in search of the results can actually check the details over the official [...]
Read More >>Jivox to power video ads of Jagran’s online properties – Jagran Yahoo, Jagran Videos, OnlyMyHealth, MidDay, JagranJosh
By Manoj Govindassamy at 4 March, 2011, 3:32 pm
Jagran choosing Jivox may be something to do with the impressive publisher list which Jivox currently runs on – Moneycontrol.com, Indian Express, Time Of India, BuzzInTown, Rajshri.com, BigAdda, TimesofIndia, Hindusantimes.com, LiveMint.com, Metacafe, MSN India, Sify, etc., Well, its a good idea to monetize the online properties. … But, if the company goes an extra step and tries to monetize all possible pixels then it would end up in irritating its online subscribers – just like the way individual articles of Time Of India irritates people with Ads on all possible spaces…
Read More >>2G scam money routed to DMK’s Kalaignar TV ? CBI in search of Bigger Fish – Maran/Kanimozhi/Karunanidhi ?
By Manoj Govindassamy at 18 February, 2011, 4:04 pm
Instead of auctioning the licences for 2G spectrum, Raja chose to go with “first come first serve” policy and even advanced the deadline for payments and informing only some of the players (CBI is just accusing this date advancement and selective messaging ). … After winning their licences, Swan and Unitech sold equity to foreign companies..Rs. 214 Crore reached Kalaignar TV after crossing multiple hands and retraced back immediately after CBI started sniffing the footsteps..It was A.Raja before and now its Kalignar’s and his daughter Kanimozhi’s turn. Would DMK fare any better in this election even after all these allegations..
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