Saregama sets up instore digital kiosks

Saregama India has setup 25 kiosks in Nokia stores to sell PC-to-USB card downloadable music for Rs 12 a pop in Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

CitizenXpress.com launched by ABC News

A community news portal which allows users to upload and publish information, news, photos and videos in real time without any gate keeping has been launched by ABC News at CitizenXpress.com.

Lastminuteinventory.com to go live in September 2007

Lastminuteinventory.com website that allows users to purchase unsold inventory on TV, Print, Outdoor and Online - at the last minute, is said to go live shortly in September 2007. The site is operated by Densu Media - the Indian arm of Japan-based Dentsu group.

BankofIndia website visitors vulnerable to browser exploit

The BankofIndia website recently suffered an exploit that dumps malware into visitors PCs through the browser. Its best not to visit the site until this has been fixed. It is believed that fully patched IE and Firefox browsers should be safe from the corrupted Bank of India website.

Times of India buys stake in TravelMasti.com

Times of India Group has acquired a stake in TravelMasti.com, an Indian travel portal that offers online hotel reservation and information. It is rumored that  TOI will give  TravelMAsti.com free ad space in exchange for the stake -  but this is not confirmed. The provision of ad space in exchange for equity is something TOI […]

Red Herring Asia 100 announced

A big congratulations to the finalists who made it to the Red Herring Asia 100. They are - CarWale, RealAcres, Gameshastra, Regalix, MeritTrac, PayMate, OnYoMo and Kerala.com

More on Reliance and BigFlicks ($100 million more)

Reliance plans to spend $100 million to create, promote and operate online video-on-demand and video rental portal BigFlicks. This is definitely going to be a big blow for others like Seventymm already in the space of video rentals and Rajshri who provide online video-on-demand services… or will it heat up the competition and drive prices […]

Globus plans online presence

Fashion apparel brick-and-mortar chain of retails stores, Globus, is planning an online e-commerce presence to strengthen its brand, reach and revenues - starting October 2007.

BigFlicks model to compete with Seventymm

Reliance run BigFlicks.com will also add on a physical mail rental and delivery system similar to Netflix in USA and Seventymm in India, in addition to its video-on-demand online streaming and download to view / own model.

Autumn Online Auction at SaffrontArt

Dinesh Vazirani run Saffron Art website will host an Autumn Auction online comprising of 115 art works from 43 artists from India, on September 5th and 6th 2007. Earlier spring and summer online auctions were able to generate $4.3 million and $9 million respectively.