August 20th, 2007
AgencyFAQs reports that Oracle has launched a Hindi version of its online learning community - think.com, that has over 75,000 active students from India and reached over 1100 schools in India.
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August 20th, 2007
ICICI Bank, IBM and IFC have jointly setup and launched website India.SMEToolkit.org an awareness website to help small and medium enterprises increase efficiencies, productivity, capacity and access to new markets and capital - through the right tools and information.
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August 17th, 2007
The Watch India portal has added three new Zee channels for free initially in an effort to boost traffic to their online video site. Content from Zee Cinema, Zee Punjabi and Zee Gujarati is now offered for free online. The long term plan of Watch India is to convert free viewing into paid viewing at […]
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August 17th, 2007
The company behind Shaadi.com, Fropper and Mauj has launched their real estate portal at makaan.com - following the strategy by other leading dot commers in India that run India centric real estate portals like - 99acres.com, MagicBricks.com, IndiaProperty.com and PerSquareYard.com. As an initial strategy, they will definitely try and cross-sell the new offering to their […]
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August 16th, 2007
Hindu reports that CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) Application forms for scholarships, examinations and renewal along with eligibility criteria and scheme can now be downloaded from CBSE.nic.in .
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August 16th, 2007
In a move thats come about 2 years late, Indiatimes has finally woken up to launch my.indiatimes.com - a web space that allows users to personalize their news feeds and web start up pages. The concept is already popular and widely used by netizens world over on sites like Netvibes and MyDesktop.
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August 13th, 2007
Yet another city centric consumer generated opinion information portal - Citipals.com has launched. The site carries information on services and businesses like restaurants, pubs, discos, health, beauty points and coffee houses has been launched with a slight twist. Manish Baldua and Ashish Baldua - Co-founders, are saying that they have a model that is different […]
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August 9th, 2007
B M Birla Science Center in Hyderabad, has setup an online presence through its website at BirlaScienceCenter.org . The center is well known in India for its scientific research and science programmes. The website would provide information of the institute, such as Birla Planetarium, Science Museum, Dinosaurium, Nirmala Birla Gallery of Modern Art, International Institute […]
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August 8th, 2007
Ezeego1, a cox-&-kings promoted venture, has opened its first offline store in India to provide travel and holiday related assistance, such as hotel bookings, flight bookings, visa info and travel insurance help. They plan to expand to 40 franchisee based shops by the end of 2007 and to 300 shops within the next 3 years. […]
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August 6th, 2007
Yahoo! India would like to make ads look more like content to users. At a very basic level, this is already being done by Google Adsense and Google Adwords systems, which allow advertisers and publishers to mask content such that it blends in with page content and looks more like content. George Zacharias, MD of […]
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