Reliance plans foray into mobile epayment services

Reliance Entertainment is working to partner with financial institutions to provide mobile epayment solutions, reports Hindustan Times. However, law and accounting issues allowing peer to peer money transfer may hold back the initiative.

Bigtree Entertainment launched bookmyshow.com - a ticketmaster clone

Bigtree Entertainment, part of the TV18 group of companies, has setup an online movie ticket booking website called Bookmyshow. They have covered 27 cities so far and include bookings to - Adlabs, PVR, Fun, Inox, DT Cinemas, Wave, SRS, M2K, Prasadz, Chanakya, 24 Karat, Movietime and Velocity. Payment can be made online via credit card […]

The Desi video sharing scene

Business Standard reports that the problem with Indian video sites is that they contain a lot of copyright infringing content uploaded by users. This infact, is a global problem. Funny ads, bollywood songs etc are being uploaded and shared amongst users. Also, since only 3 million of the 25 million Internet users are on a […]

Reliance launches BigAdda.com - claims 100,000 members

Reliance Entertainment has made its move into the desi social networking + blogging + media sharing space with www.bigadda.com. They plan to spend Rs 5 crores to Rs 6 crores for marketing within 2 to 3 months, targetting Internet, Radio, TV and Outdoor media. The site went into Alpha stage in early May 2007 and […]

Airtel users can now access various Google services on their mobile

Airtel has tied up with Google India to allow their mobile users to access various Google tools such as Gmail, Spreadsheets, Google docs and Google Search. This move is said to enrich the user experience and Shailesh Rao, managing director, Google India is very upbeat about it. “The alliance will also help extend Google’s services and […]

FutureBazaar.com to setup Internet Kiosks to boost sales

Futurebazaar.com seems to have struck the right chord with its kiosk initiative. As a pilot experimental project to asses the marketplace, they placed Internet Kiosks within their retail stores in some key cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi. Anyone could walk into the store and browse the electronic catalog using the Internet ebabled kiosk. Once […]