Network 18 raises Rs 204.92cr via QIP issue

Disclaimer: Web18, which owns Moneycontrol.com and Indiaearnings.com, belongs to the Network 18 Group. IBN18 is a part of the Network18 Group. Here is a verbatim transcript of the exclusive interview with Raghav Bahl on CNBC-TV18. ...

Brand Marriage: In.com and Sprite say seedhi baat …

What happens when two unique brands share a similar message? Look into the In.com mail page to find out some clutter breaking branding created by Brand Sprite for In.com. Network 18’s most successful website and your gateway to the web In.com ...

In.com and Sprite say seedhi baat in, bakwaas out!!!

Commenting on the unique message positioning, Rajan Srinivasan, Head of Sales - Web18 says, 'We are happy to be leading the waywhen it comes to going beyond pure branding on the internet. In this case, we have married the brand core with the product ...

Google Owned Orkut Revvs Up Advertising Pitch; India Stats; Ad Plans

(By Preethi J & Nikhil Pahwa) Just as Facebook seems to be putting up catchy, event-related ads off late, competitor Orkut has announced a few changes in its advertising policies too. It has pushed up the position of ads to eye-level and is launching various advertising options to draw advertisers in the [...]

Has Airtel outsourced too much?

Bharti Airtel is a pioneer and the leader in Indian telecom space. It leads and most of the other telcos follow. It was the first to outsource its IT operations to IBM. The deal is now worth more than $2bn. At least 6 other telcos has outsourced their IT operations to IBM, Wipro and [...]

May-09: 8.3Mn GSM Connections Added; 89,710 BSNL Connections Dropped

In the month of May, India added a dismal 8.3 million GSM mobile connections, lower by a million compared to April’s additions, bringing the total number of GSM connections to 306,453,590. The sector recorded a 2.78% growth from 298.1 million connections in April. This number does not include additions by Reliance. The drop could be due [...]

Sequoia Capital opens office in New Delhi

Sequoia Capital's website has listed a third Indian office in New Delhi. Last year, in August, Sequoia Capital India closed its India Growth Fund II on $725 million. The fund is focused on late stage, pre-IPO and public market investments in India in ...

Sony To Launch ITV Reality Show ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here’

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television, which recently launched a new line up of shows after the end of the Indian Premier League, which was telecast on its sister channel SET Max, will soon add an international format reality show from Britain's ITV (LSE: ITV). I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, which will launch in July, will be co-produced by Miditech and ITV unit Silverback Productions. The show premiered on NBC in the US on 1 June. The Indian version will be filmed in "Malaysia's Taman Negara rainforest, infamous for its tropical wildlife and reputed to be the oldest jungle in the world," the companies said in a press statement. The show will feature ten celebrities who will forego their lavish lifestyles to survive in an inhospitable jungle. It will be the third recent reality show involving celebrities (sort of) on Indian television after Big Boss (Big Brother) and Khatron Ke Khiladi (Fear Factor) most recently seen on Viacom18's Colors channel. Both the highly publicized shows helped Colors gain traction and get viewers to sample its soaps in the initial days after its launch. Big Boss, a format owned by Endemol, was originally with Sony before the channel discontinued it. Other reality shows that have appeared on the channel include Indian Idol, Fame Gurukul, Jhalak Dikhla Jaa and Dus Ka Dum. For the week ended 6 June, Sony was the fifth highest rated general entertainment channel, with 90 GRPs, trailing Colors, Star Plus, Zee and NDTV Imagine. Sony's immediate rival, NDTV Imagine, is also set to launch the reality show Rakhi Ka Swayamvar, in which the controversial actor Rakhi Sawant will find a man to marry from among the contestants at the show. A Sony spokesperson said the channel was not revealing any further details about the show at this point.

Google’s New Translater Toolkit; Will It Be Used?

Google India has launched a toolkit for Indian language translation to help spur the addition of Indic content online. This language editing application is a follow up to Google Translate, which automatically translates websites or documents to Hindi, and its Indic Transliteration initiative, which lets users easily type in Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, [...]

Sequoia & Bharti Buy Sanjiv Mittal Stake In Comviva; Mittal Sets Up Saarthi Enterprises

Sanijv Mittal has resigned as the Vice Chairman of Bharti Enterprises owned Mobile Value Added Services company Comviva Technologies Ltd. He ceased to be a member of the companys Promoter Group effective 31st December 2008 onwards, and resigned as Vice Chairman of the board on the 23rd of April 2009. Confirming the development, Mittal said that he [...]