Indiatimes relaunches Indiatimes Mail with unlimited space, new features and new technology

In a very late move, Indiatimes has finally caught up with the other local and global players in the free web-based email market by revamping and relaunching its Indiatimes Mail service. The new service boasts unlimited space, collaborative document sharing, wikipedia searching, shopping, searching etc. without the need to leave the mailbox. Both AJAX and […]

Yahoo! India launched Advertising Vortal

Yahoo! India has launched an advertising vortal for the advertising and marketing community in India, at Advertising.Yahoo.co.in . The content includes podcasts, videos, webcasts from advertising gurus across the globe as well as interesting featured articles and content. The site also showcases some of the best creative works coming out of India, and provides aggregated […]

Education Institutes resort to Search Engine Marketing to create awareness

Higher education institutes across the country and resorting to Search Engine Marketing (SEM) to create awareness and market their offerings to their target audience. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar have been sighted as users of SEM to create awareness. Others, such as Wigan & Leigh College (WLC), Amity University, […]

Surprising study by IAMAI shows more net users in Calcutta than in Bangalore and Hyderabad

A study jointly conducted by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IRMB International in Nov 2006 - has surprising results showing more Internet users in Kolkata (Calcutta), than in Bangalore and Hyderabad. The “I-Cube” (Internet in India) report reveals that there are approximately 10.5 lakh active users in Kolkata as compared to 9.7 […]

Government of India targets 1 lakh broadband service centres by March 08

The government of India has very ambitious plans to setup one lakh broadband service centers across India by March 2008. The plan being chalked out will enable every six village in India to have one broadband enabled service centre. This unit will provide all e-governance related facilities to the the people of the villages. The […]

Bharatmatrimony hosts virtual matrimony meet

Bharatmatrimony.com has hosted a massive online virtual Swayamvar on 3rd August for all sub-castes of Agarwal community. Murugavel Janakiraman, founder and CEO of the  BharatMatrimony Group, has said, “Our matrimony meets and mega Swayamvarams have been a great success and we have launched Virtual Matrimony Meet on similar lines.” The virtual meet allows participants to […]

iXiGO.com now displays cheapest travel routes in India

The Indian travel Search Engine iXiGO.com has now launched a feature that allows people traveling from towns and big cities and vice-versa to find the cheapest travel fairs by showing various multiple airline combination routes. The search features allows further configuration by number of stops to be made and duration of the trip - thereby […]

Starcom IP India appoints Hari Shankar as Head

The Starcom MediaVest Group  has appointed Hari Shankar as Head of Starcom IP replacing Vamsi Vanka, who will now be assigned a regional role. Based in Bangalore Hari Shankar will directly report to Ravi Kiran, CEO-South Asia for Starcom MediaVest Group.
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Sulekha.com awards media planning and buying contract to Lintas’ media agency

A media planning and buying account pegged at around Rs 8 crore to Rs 10 crore has been awarded to Lintas’ Media Agency - Interactions. Sulekha.com, a portal for Indians living globally has been around since the early days of the Internet providing classifieds, yellow pages, social networking services and other portal features to Indians. […]

Ebay India plans new campaign to celebrate India’s 60th birthday

In order to celebrate India’s 60th Anniversary of Independence, Ebay has launched a unique campaign titled Spirit of India. Ebay showcases antiques of historical interest and rare memorabilia of India - and is targeting Indians who would like to own them. The campaign is divided into four main themes. Deepa Thomas, the Manager of Corporate […]