So you saw the pictures now hear it from the attendee’s themselves on how they networked, met interesting people and exchanged startup gyan at the WATBlog Wednesday Bangalore which happened on December 17th. This video is a short 2 minute one so that even our slow connection friends can see it as well.
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Twitter reported on its blog earlier today (Jan 5th US date) that around 33 accounts of prominent twitter users has been hacked. Hacked accounts included those of Barack Obama, Britney Spears among others. This follows close on heels of a Twitter Phishing Scam though Twitter maintains that the cases are different and not related in any way.

As most of you know Headstart is happening on the 9th &10th of this month and WATBlog would be attending the same bringing you all the happenings from bangalore. Headstart is given out discounted tickets especially to the readers of WATBlog so each of you can get 10% (Rs 200) off on a ticket to [...]

The Incubation Centre - Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship [CIIE] at IIM Ahmedabad in association with Leverage - the Student Initiative group, is organizing a Venture Capital Private Equity Conference on 6th - 7th of February. Part of the Conference will also be the Showcase Event on the 6th, which will witness 10 Entrepreneurs [...]

2009 can be termed as the year of the rise of the ad networks. This year many new ad networks were launched as well as some big deals were cracked in the adnetwork space. There was a lot of money via funding pumped into this space as well. Then by the end of the year [...]

The Economic Times has carried a much hyped 2009 - the year of India featured issue today, and one of the sections speaks on how the digital divide will be bridged this year. Incidentally bridging the digital divide was also the topic of WATBlog’s Delhi panel discussion. Though the panel didn’t put any conclusive date on when the gap will be brought down, the ET article suggests many reasons why this might be the time. As proponents and participants of the digital medium we would definitely want it to be, however the question lingers whether it can happen so soon.

The transition week of the year from 2008 to 2009 was an eventful one with 3-4 breaking stories on WATBlog as well as the Recap 2008 series which gave a lot of insights and is a recommended read for all in the digital space. We also released our Delhi WATBlog Panel Videos this week. So [...]

Social Networking which some may term as the big bubble of the web as besides for a few social networks like facebook, myspace and possibly bebo few others have seen that kind of even half that kind of success. The year 2008 was a year of defining one’s USP as far as social networks were [...]

Vdopia which was recently in the news for raising funding from Nexus India capital has struck the biggest deal yet in the online video ads segment. Vdopia has struck a video advertising deal with Web18 to power videos and video ads across all its web properties.
Web18 has a long list of destination sites which were [...]

Online gaming has been heavily invested in since Reliance ADAG’s Zapak.com came onto the scene in 2006 and started investing crores of rupees in this business. 2008 was a year in which online gaming players forged tie ups, went mobile and also chalked out plans to go international. The top online gaming sites of India [...]

You are reading it here first: We have got tipped off from reliable sources that Media2win the agency which is part of the 2win group headed by Alok Kejriwal has invested in Hover.in an in text advertising tool which was showcased in the proto.in event in Jan this year.

The amount of investment is undisclosed though [...]

As the year 2009 dawns and the year 2008 fades we at WAT want to take this opportunity to thank all our readers for standing by us through thick and thin and through an up and down but nevertheless a very meaningful 2008. We thank you for overlooking our mistakes and for encouraging us at [...]

The local search space came into focus in India way back in 2006 with the funding of guruji.com and then there were a flurry of players that ventured into this space right from onyomo, asklaila, yulop, burrp and a few others.

The year 2008 started with Asklaila launching its local search services in mumbai and guruji [...]

You are reading it here first: Reliance ADAG’s Big Entertainment has launched a Bollywood centric entertainment portal called Bigoye.com. This portal has news, interviews, movie reviews, celebrity blogs, games and movie rentals services all rolled into one. This portal directly competes with Hungama’s Bollywoodhungama.com (previously IndiaFM) and also the latest launch by Percept Knorigin i.e. [...]