Rediff clearly disappointed the street when it announced its Q4 results. In Q4 the Revenues plummeted 50% YoY to touch US$4.50 million from US$9.10 million. The Net Income also suffered badly as it included non-cash goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges thereby reporting a net loss of US$8.86 million against a net profit of US$1.1 [...]

It was not so long ago when Bharti Airtel announced the acquisition of 100 millionth Subscriber in India. Now it has stunned everyone by announcing revival of merger talks with MTN Group,South African Telecom major.

The talks is however in preliminary stage but it seems that this time market is assured of a final outcome. This [...]

Nokia has soft launched the much anticipated online content and software store known as Ovi Store. Earlier on WATBlog we have emphasized on the importance of Ovi for Nokia. The roll out began with Australia and will be launched globally soon. Ovi Store will host various Applications, Games, Widgets for mobile devices. Ovi will also [...]

In continuation to our previous post on Videocon Launches Ecommerce Site For Retail Chain Digiworld, we have detailed conversation with Videocon Ebiz Head Mr.Vishal Srivastava on their movement in e-commerce industry.

How much initial investment is pumped into this project?
We have substantial investment budget upto 8 figures.
How are you planning to advertise your ecommerce portal?
We are [...]

For a lot of startups hiring can be tiresome job. Unlike big firms, you don’t often find people lining up at your door front for work, and even if by chance you do, one doesn’t find the perfect skills on display. The reason of course being good talent is costly, hard to find and in all probability are happy somewhere because they are good..on a general note. However, this doesn’t meant startups don’t have the right to have good talents on board, on the contrary most startups who go on to become successful do so because of a very strong initial team (beyond the co-founders).

Indians like all internet users around the world are now demanding interactivity in the TV medium along with the convenience to watch what they want and when they want it. And keeping along with such demands, web TV has emerged in a huge way in the sub continent. Whether it is the Indian or US [...]

Virgin Mobile, in partnership with Yahoo and Planet M are attempting a rocking feat! 100 hours of live music - Rockathon!

The event titled ‘The 24×7 Rockathon’ is being performed live at Planet M’s store on Brigade Road, Bangalore and is being streamed on the web at Rockathon.in. Around 50 music bands from all across the [...]

Tata teleservices partners with Yahoo India to innovate and launch unique services for its Indian subscribers. They launched  a co-branded home page for all Tata-teleservices users that will have access to all Yahoo and Tata services like Bill Payment, Bill details, tariff plans , promotions, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Search,Yahoo News etc on the same page. [...]

Tata has announced it plans to open an e-mall in next two months. Tata e-mall will be an e-commerce solution offering all Tata groups companies products online thus saving the time and effort of the customers, providing them good variety, offers and convenience of shopping at home.
Success Tasted With Mjunction
The decision of opening an e-mall [...]

It looks like the Digital Media revolution is panning out across India in a big way. To reiterate the thought Technology Tracker 2009, an online survey conducted by media agency Dentsu states that Internet and digital habituation is on the verge of reaching an all time high level.
The survey goes on to conclude the following [...]

Rediff.com for Lifebuoy, the initiative is a drive for cleanliness and hygiene, which was taken to the people of remote villages and towns of 10 states in India. This is the first time that Lifebouy is coming on the web to advertise and promote itself.

Basically these were hitcounters, the first of the traffic measurement tools to come on the web. One might still find them in many blogspot blogs where bloggers proudly display their traffic numbers. However, with growing traffic, and sophisticated traffic measurement, these have almost died a slow death. Now, Google Analytics have decided to bring this back in fashion with thier latest announcement.

In line with this thought, Yahoo has announced that is now shopping for newer features and better tools to integrate into its product portfolio. It had earlier discarded some incumbent products like Geocities earlier this year, and with Jerry Yang stepping down they clearly are on the lookout for some freshness in their now stale system.

You are reading it here first: Rajshri Media is soon to launch RajshiMobile.com and RajshriTamil.com(sites still not live). According to our sources RajshriMobile.com would be a CRBT download site and content would be created by Rajshri Media itself. While RajshriTamil.com as the name suggests would focus on video content in Tamil and would be on [...]