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Weekly Roundup Newsletter, Every Friday

Vishal L — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:42:10 +0000

We’re going to send all readers a weekly digest every Friday that will highlight all that has happened in the desi online world for the week. We thank all our readers!

Zapak Super Gamer

Vishal L — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:28:15 +0000

Zapak.com has launched Zapak Super Gamer an online gaming contest with sponsors Parle-G and Hewlett Packard. The contest is targeted at kids in India.

Games2win team wins tournament

Vishal L — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:26:09 +0000

A games2win sponsored team called Temple of 7 has won the Indian leg of World Cyber Games 2007 held in New York.

Reliance to acquire Seventymm - rumors?

Vishal L — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:24:47 +0000

A few sites are reporting that Reliance is in talks to acquire Sequoia funded Seventymm so it can merge it with its own Bigflicks.com venture that has some overlapping areas.

Sulekha.com now on R-World

Vishal L — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:22:35 +0000

Sulekha.com has inked a deal with Reliance to provide their Yellow Pages online content to R-World users.

3.5% of emails in India contain virus

Vishal L — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:54:52 +0000

Message Labs has reported that 1 of 28 emails in India contain a virus, analyzed from a study in the month of August 2007. Also almost 30% of all email is spam.

Times Business selects media agency for Rs 50 cr budget

Vishal L — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:52:11 +0000

Zenith Optimedia has won a Rs 50 crore worth media contract for placing media adds for Times Business Solutions which owns TimesJobs.com, SimplyMarry.com, MagicBricks.com and Ads2Book.com.

Info Edge to enter Student Social Networking space

Vishal L — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:50:22 +0000

There’s an unconfirmed rumor that Info Edge - the guys behind Naukri, 99 acres, Jevansaathi, and very lately Brijj - are launching a Social Networking site in the education space.

Rediff and anEcho come together

Vishal L — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:08:01 +0000

Rediff has joined hands with anecho.com - a site promoting young amature non-professional artists. The site can be accessed at anecho.rediff.com .

SimplyMarry allows realtime profile updates

Vishal L — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:40:11 +0000

SimplyMarry.com an initiative of the Times of India group will now allow registered users to update their profile, see the changes immediately and make the updated profile visible for all to see in real time.