While you were sleeping last night, twitter quietly decided to unveil it’s latest feature, Twitter Suggestions. Twitter suggestions which can be found in the Find People sections suggests users whom you might want to follow. The algorithm it uses hasn’t been disclosed yet. Personally, I recommend Mr Tweet [ @MrTweet]. It takes time but at [...]

SITG the company behind digital agency Quasar and startups like Tyroo and Zoomtra has initiated an incubation centre in Gurgaon. Smile always has been in the business of incubation and this move just takes that strategy further ahead. Both tyroo and zoomtra have been outcomes of incubation at the SITG office and it has worked [...]

Apnapaisa.com which was not too long ago known as Apnaloan.com has raised a second round of funding from JAFCO and Sequoia Capital. Sequoia had invested $2.2 million in Apnaloan in early 2007. Though the amount of funding for the current round has not been disclosed but Apnaloan was in the news earlier for looking to [...]

Two more events are happening this coming week. One in mumbai and one in New delhi. Check them out below:
3G and Broadband Wireless Access: The Next Frontier - 19th January - New Delhi - BDA and FICCI will launch the joint report “3G and BWA: The Next Frontier” followed by an interactive panel discussion organized [...]

IAMAI And IMRB have come up with a release on the number of active rural internet users. The number as of March 08 is pegged at 3.3 million active internet users in rural India. The total number of Internet users that have accessed the internet atleast once is pegged at about 5.5 million.
According to the [...]

We blogged recently on how the 3G auction was relentlessly getting delayed due to the conflict on the reserve price between the DoT and Finance Ministry. Now in a bid to get the auction process for 3G up and running DoT has proposed an increase in the reserve price. But this increase isnt upto the [...]

Policybazaar.com the online non-life and life insurance aggregator which was funded by Infoegde (Naukri.com) has tied-up with the largest Insurance company in the country i.e. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to sell its policy “Jeevan Astha” via the online medium. This is the first time that LIC ties-up with an insurance portal to sell [...]

On their tenth anniversary (This year marks ten years of Intel Capital investments in India) Intel is investing US$23 Million in three Indian Companies - One97 Communications, Global Talent Track (GTT) and IndiaMART. Individual investment amounts were not disclosed. The funding will come from the $250 million Intel Capital India Technology Fund, established in December 2005.

Prashant Mehta has been appointed as the COO at Komli. He will be responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Komli Media’s overall business operations including sales, product development, engineering, marketing and business development.

Prashant has spent eight years at Yahoo! Inc., where he was most recently Vice President and Head of Monetization for Yahoo!’s [...]

We were at the Pay For Performance panel yesterday held at Sunville Rooms Worli, Mumbai by IAMAI and Pinstorm. The discussion was an interesting one but for me certain key issues were highlighted during the discussion which threw light on what could possibly be the future of Digital Marketing in India.

Insight 1- When you say [...]

Yesterday while digging an article, it asked me to describe what the Digg and particualrly cared to say not to put title says it all, because it is lame. But WATBlog isn’t Digg, so I will move to this post saying the title says it all.

I personally don’t have a problem with growing numbers of web designers in India, in fact it is good for the industry. However, a period has to come when the niche consolidates itself, otherwise it will end up cutting the pie into such small slices that no one will find anything to take home. This is an issue most service industries face, especially a growing one like digital media services. The issue is that of price becoming the only competitive advantage over a niche of similarly skilled people. That is when the pie crumbles.

Well its hattrick time.. this is our third WATBlog Wednesday in the last 3 months. We did the first one in Mumbai on 19th November 2008, second in Bangalore on 17th December and now we are heading to Pune on 21st January 2009. The theme for Pune’s WATBlog Wednesday is Tech Developer Mixer.
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Bharatmatrimony is being aggressive offlate by launching multiple offshoots of the main matrimony portal. So late december they announced Elitematrimony which is an exclusive portal for the elite and is currently in request invitation mode only. The other new launch that BharatMatrimony has done is a matrimony video portal called Bharatmatrimony.tv which hosts videos of [...]