IDG Launches Tech Blog Ad Network For India

IDG which owns the international technology ad network called IDG TechNetwork is bringing the same to India. IDG’s objective is to tap the growing tech blogger scene in India and provide them with an alternative to google adsense. Also there are a dozen other networks like Networkplay.in, Ozone Media (Funded by IDG Ventures), Tyroo, Komli, [...]Also Check Out: WATShow.com - Our Video Show WATJob.com - Our Job Site WATGame.com - Our Gaming Blog WATPR.com - Our Press Release Site

Citrix Systems intros new nCore tech

Citrix Systems intros new nCore techCIOL, IndiaBANGALORE, INDIA: Citrix Systems, Inc. unveiled a new nCore technology that allows its high-end Citrix NetScaler appliances to deliver rich Web 2.0 applications and cloud services for up to 7x more users with no new hardware investments required. ...

Indyarocks.com Listed in Top 25 Web2.0 Hot Start-Ups in India

Indyarocks.com Listed in Top 25 Web2.0 Hot Start-Ups in IndiaBusiness Wire India (press release), IndiaPopular Entertainment based Social network Indyarocks (www.indyarocks.com) has made it to Dataquest's list of the Top 25 Indian Web 2.0 start-ups. The result is part of technology publisher CyberMedia's research to highlight the fast maturing and ...

Can we get some IPO’s now?

Few days ago I read this interesting post from A VC (musings of a VC from NYC – I love this rhyming tagline) that the end of IPO drought is coming. Though Fred presented his views with some solid back up I couldn’t really believe it. I could not see the markets rising then. That post [...]

Agile Financial Technologies starts India operations

Agile Financial Technologies, a global technology company, launched its operations in India with its first office in Mumbai. The new operations will provide resources for domestic on-shoring services for Indian BFSI institutions.

Qualcomm’s mantra: Always-on wireless access at low cost

Qualcomm's mantra: Always-on wireless access at low costBusiness Standard, IndiaKanwalinder Singh, president, India and South Asia, of the world's largest CDMA (Code division multiple access) chipset maker, Qualcomm, has reasons to feel happy. Despite late entry into Indian market, CDMA 2000 has over 92 million subscribers and ...

TAM Data Says Cnn Ibn Was Most Watched As Poll Results Unfolded

News channels take elections very seriously. Election coverage is to general news channels what budget coverage is to business channels—the definitive event that establishes the street-cred of a channel. The ratings on that day also determines the bragging rights to being the channel that is 'most trusted' when it matters the most. On Monday we reported, citing data from aMap, that NDTV24x7 was the most watched english news channel on election day. Now the data from TAM is out—and the verdict is that CNN IBN was the channel of choice for Indians on counting day. Data from TAM, short for Television Audience Measurement, a unit of AC Neilsen, is the industry currency used by most media planners. aMap, however, provides data overnight. In this analysis, we are considering three different demographics for English news channels and four for Hindi news. Here's why. While All India data captures which channel was watched most across the country, data specific to the six metroes and cities with population of more than one million (some 74 of them), captures which channel was watched most in areas where viewers of such channels are concentrated. "Over 75% of the viewership in terms of gross impressions (eyeballs) for English news channels are contributed to from the top 6 metros. An additional 15% are from the rest 1mn+ markets as reported in TAM. The less than 1mn markets contribute less than 10% of the gross impressions for English news channels. Hence, for analysing news channels one would usually look at the higher population strata markets," said Premjeet Sodhi, chief planning officer at Lintas Media Group. CNN IBN leads the pack among English channels across all three demographics—All India, Metros and one million-plus cities. Times Now was second and NDTV 24x7 came third. Interestingly, on 9 May, the Saturday before counting day, Times Now had significantly higher viewership than CNN IBN, but when it came to election day, viewers moved to the Rajdeep Sardesai-Yogendra Yadav team. It's also rather ironic that viewers moved away from NDTV 24x7, which in a sense was founded on election coverage—founder Prannoy Roy, a trained economist, pioneered psephology on television in India. He was the face of elections on TV in the pre-liberalization era, when India had only one TV channel—the state run Doordarshan. Both Arnab Goswami (Times Now) and Rajdeep Sardesai (CNN IBN), star anchors and editors, sharpened their craft at NDTV, under Roy, before moving on to head up rival channels.  Among Hindi Channels, the story is not much different from the aMap data, and shows very little variation between demographics. AajTak, Star News and India TV are at the top three positions, in that order. In the Metros, Zee News beat India TV to No.3. Aaj Tak and Star News gained viewership from the week ago, while mostly everybody else declined. Here's the complete data on Hindi news channels. Compared with 2004 general elections, TV viewership has zoomed this elections, showing a significant increase in the penetration of the medium in these years. And English news channels made more gains in terms of reach than Hindi channels. While the reach of Hindi news channels (all India) grew 13.5%, that of English news channels grew 122.9%. Here's a detailed chart on how the two genres performed during counting day in 2004 and 2009. Join ContentNext, along with Social Media and Mobile visionaries, for our third annual EconSM Conference in San Francisco on May 14th. Registration includes admission for our post-conference mixer. Register at www.econsm.com for the May 14th event in San Francisco. Get 10% off the the early registration fee by using code "EconSM0910"

Firefox to revamp its Logo

Along with Firefox upcoming update 3.5 version, Mozilla is doing an important update in its Logo and Icon,  we all recognize Firefox logo/ icon as a orange color Fox enclosing blue earth like globe which is actually a mozilla planet. The Mozilla team along with its Ux (User Experience) team member, Alex Faaborg has released few [...]

Network18 In Talks With Foreign Financial Investors For Stake Sale

Network18 Media and Investments Ltd, the group holding company of Raghav Bahl-promoted Network18 group, is in discussions with foreign financial investors for a stake sale to raise Rs300 crore, according to a company official familiar with the development. The official asked not to be named. The company's listed subsidiary, TV18 India Ltd, recently said it will raise Rs510 crore through a rights issue primarily to retire debt. The company also said that Network18 Media & Investments will subscribe to the unsubscribed part of the rights issue. In a recent interview to CNBC TV18, a channel part-owned by him, TV18 MD Raghav Bahl said the company had a net debt of Rs600 crore and Network18 was raising Rs250-300 crore either through a strategic or financial stake sale (see page 2 in this interview).  As per today's share price, Network18 has a market cap of Rs827.23 crore, according to Moneycontrol.com. Promoter Raghav Bahl recently infused Rs250 crore into the company, taking the effective market cap of the company to above Rs1,050 crore. The recent guidelines on calculating effective foreign direct investment (FDI) in downstream investments made by a company (which has FDI), may have opened up space for bringing in more investment to the parent level, as in Network18's case, in sectors such as media, where foreign investment is restricted. Network18 holds 51.77% in TV18 as on 31 March 2009. Foreign institutional investors already hold 17.99% stake in TV18, according to filings with the Bombay Stock Exchange. Under earlier guidelines, this would have meant that Network18 could only sell a 16% stake to a foreign investor to stay within the permitted FDI cap in TV18 (and this is without taking into account the downstream FDI from Network18, where foreign investment is at 11.74%). Now, however, there is no cap, so long as the majority shareholder in the parent company is an Indian national. In days to come, we will likely see many Indian media companies taking advantage of this new relaxation to bring in money to fuel expansion, in a market where business sentiment is steadily picking up. A company spokesperson declined comment. From our Sponsors: Lotame Locate, Target, and Message your customer using Social Data What happens when events in Social Media threaten your brand, like Dominos Pizza? Read the real world case study that tells you exactly what to do and what not to do, if your brand comes under attack. This FREE case study from Lotame is a must read for every CEO, CMO and Brand Manager, EVEN if you don’t use Social Media today. Click here to download the case study.

Shut the telly mate. We aint watching IPL!

I strongly feel the IPL matches are fixed and it is not the players who are doing it. If I have to put in our lousy cricket commentator’s words “ I just get the feeling that most of the IPL matches are fixed”. Guess the commentator? Anyways, if I look at the IPL from a cricket [...]