Google’s Shailesh Rao appointed to the US-India Business Council Board

Prior to joining Google, he was in the technology sector, beginning at AOL in the Business Affairs group focused on strategy and business development, and then as a Vice-President of Products at Yodlee, a Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners funded ...

Happy Mother’s Day To Everyone

You might have heard the saying Behind every successful man, there is one woman ... but check out this funny video which says Behind every great person there is a mother .. Did they make Mother Teressa as Mahatma Gandhi's mother or what? Check out this video......Oops! Click the link to read more

DishTV Ties up With Google For TV Ads

ADVERTISEONDISH.COM - I was just watching Dish TV and saw this commercial about advertising on Dish TV using Google TV Ads. The commercial was marketing about AdvertiseOnDish.com but I couldn't find the domain in google search so I went ahead and just typed it in and to my surprise, it actually redirected to Google Adwords TV Ads landing page.Looks like Google and DishTV has tied up together to bring in advertisers for Google Adwords TV Ads. I am a very very small publisher but thought of trying out TV Ads and as expected, I wasn' t allowed to create Google TV Ads. ...Oops! Click the link to read more

Networking tool for software developers – from IBM

Well, we have seen networking tools in general and more specialized networking tools like lagipadi - a networking tool for media professionals. But, what about people who develop tools like networking tools? Now, IBM has that answer ready. It has launched a networking tool for software developers. With this tool, developers across the world can collaborate [...]

Airtel Inks Five Year Content Deal With Manchester United

Telecom operator Airtel has inked a five year deal with football club Manchester United, which will allow Airtel customers in India, Sri Lanka and Seychelles access to Manchester United  content on their mobiles, apart from allowing nominated Airtel customers to participate in Manchester United Soccer Schools training sessions, watch Manchester United UEFA Champions League games  Content on offer includes video [...]

Fever 104 Dominates Radio Ratings, Tops In Mumbai

Fever 104 FM, HT Media Ltd's Virgin-branded radio station that was for long an also-ran in three of the four markets (except Delhi) it is present in, seems to be making a dramatic come back, registering strong gains in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. Most significantly, for the first time, the station has topped the charts in Mumbai, India's largest media (and radio) market by ad spends and one that is toughly contested. In Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi, three of India's biggest radio markets, Fever made the most gains in listenership share, while in Kolkata it registered a marginal dip. Listenership share grew by 4.7, 2.5 and 1.1 percentage points in Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai, respectively, while in Kolkata, the share dropped by 0.5 percentage point. Big FM made the biggest gain in Kolkata—1.6 percentage points. Listenership data was provided by Radio Audience Measurement, a unit of TAM Media Research Pvt. Ltd, and latest figures are for the week ended 26 April. The collective listenership share for Delhi and Mumbai is the highest for Radio Mirchi, broadcast by a subsidiary of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. While Mirchi has a combined 40% and average 20% share, Fever has a combined 34% and average 17% share. Radio accounted for Rs880 crore of ad spends in 2008, and will grow 15% to Rs1,012 crore in 2009, according to GroupM's This Year Next Year report on Indian media. Fever's success in Mumbai must come as a psychological boost for HT Media, which hasn't found success in Mumbai either with flagship paper Hindustan Times or with business daily Mint. Here's the full ratings chart Related Fever 104 FM Is A Profitable Operation, Says HT Media CEO Must Attend Event: EconSM: Social Meets Mobile, May 14th in San Francisco. Speakers include Seth Sternberg, (CEO and Co-Founder, Meebo), Kevin Thau, (Director, Mobile Business Development, Twitter), and George Linardos, (VP, Product Management, Media, Nokia) among many more. See full list and register at www.econsm.com. Get 10% off the the early registration fee by using code "EconSM0910"

Samsung LED TVs Now in India

Samsung LED TV has been launched a series of energy-efficient LED technology-based televisions in the Indian market. LED TVs use the latest technology by cascading millions of LEDs (Light emitting diodes) together to produce brilliant quality pictures, where as LCD TVs use Liquid Crystal Display. Visit the Samsung India Site to see and compare them. Models: Models are [...] No related posts.

Is the Growth Of The Web Slowing Down Or Just Taking A Breather?

There are now 231.5 million Websites according to Netcraft. But last year the number of new sites added to the Web slowed down to 29.9 million, from 48.7 million in 2007. Royal Pingdom went through Netcraft's server surveys to come up with the chart above, which shows the increase or decrease in the number of Websites for every year going back to 1996. The growth of the Web so far can be broken down into two five-year cycles, where every year the growth rate gets bigger until there is an economic downturn, when the growth rate takes a breather. In 2001 and 2002 the growth slowed and even went into negative territory, and again in 2008 there was another slowdown in the number of sites added to the Web. It stands to reason that the number of new sites will ebb and flow with the global economy, but it is not clear that there is any direct correlation. For instance, so far in 2009 we've added a whopping 46 million sites, many of them Chinese blogs. The total for the year will almost surely be much greater than the 2007 increase, and is already larger than all the sites added in 2008.

The Indian Education Market: Manipal K-12 (Company Profile)

The Indian educational market can prove interesting for private businesses, even in these times . India has a large population (more than 500 million) in the age group 0-24, the government spending on education is spent (nearly 97%) on meeting operational expenses and not for capital expenditure and for the average Indian, education for the [...]

Sulekha Asks Users To Pay a Tip; IPO May Not Happen; Consolidation On The Cards

Sulekha.com started as a community website and is now being projected as a classifieds site. Speaking to MediaNama, Sulekha’s President and CEO Satya Prabhakar spoke about the companys identity, direction and business performance. “Sulekha is India’s version of Craigslist meets Yelp,” Prabhakar said, adding that the site is sustained by social media. Craigslist is an online [...]