Today News!

 

 

• Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) (Hong Kong) which provides mobile value added services in India has appointment Satish Kejriwal as Chief Operating Officer for India. Kejriwal joins from Air2Web India, where he was COO. As per the he has around 19 years of experience in telecom, and in the past has been associated with BPL, Alcatel, Airtel and Data Access.

 

• Venture Capitalists invested over $777 million in 57 deals in India during the first three quarters of 2007.

 

 

Today News.

 

• Smile Interactive plans to set up 97,000 assisted e-commerce kiosks across India in the next three years. Through these internet kiosks, the company will offer music downloads, airline and railway tickets and other products available on the Net.

 

• Times Financial Services (TFS) has tied up with Reliance Communications International (RCI), the US based subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCOM) to offer mobile remittance services.

 

• Hyderabad-based digital marketing company Ybrant Technologies is acquiring Israel-based online advertising company, Oridian, for $13 million (approximately Rs 52 crore).

 

• US-based digital marketing agency Zeta Interactive has launched its operations in India. The Indian office, led by Pradeep Vegunta (managing director), is located in Hyderabad and has a staff strength of 140 employees. The company offers a wide range of services including email and search marketing, website development, creative, and business intelligence services.

 

• SureWaves a new generation media convergence company, has appointed Sanchit Sanga as AVP - Business Solutions. Sanga was earlier national director at GroupM Interactions, the digital media planning and buying arm of GroupM India.

 

 

 

 

 

Today News.

 

 

• Apnaloan.com (ALC India), a Sequoia Capital funded personal finance site is in talks with Chrys Capital, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital and Sequoia Capital to raise up to $15 million.

 

• UTV Software has informed the BSE that they have called off their “discussion” with Malaysian DTH and Pay TV co Astro for a TV joint venture in India; that venture was supposed to be UTVs youth focused business Bindass, which was launched earlier this year.

 

• The number of internet users in India in the ever user or claimed user category has increased by 40 per cent at 46 million in September 2007 as compared to 32.2 million in September 2006.

 

• Nitin Desai's ND Studio, Anil Ambani’s Reliance Entertainment has sealed yet another 50:50 joint venture — with London-based Great Wheel Corporation (GWC), the IPR holders of iconic viewing and observation structures such as the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer.

 

• Filmy, the Hindi movie channel from the Sahara stable, has elevated Nilesh Bhanushali to national ad sales head.Bhanushali was regional ad sales head for the western and southern region.

Today News.

 

• Sun TV Network's FM station 93.5 SFM is all set to launch in Pondicherry on 4 December through its subsidiary Kal Radio.

 

• The Bloomberg television service has been named the 2007 International Television Channel of the Year by The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB).

 

• Dell, the personal computer makers, has awarded its worldwide marketing, advertising and communication operations to WPP Group PLC, a holding company that owns almost 250 smaller agencies. The account is worth $4.5 billion and will last for three years.

 

• Nazara Technologies a company focused on creating mobile content around cricket, is reported to have received around $7 million (around Rs. 28 crores) in its second round of funding.

 

• Radio One 94.3 FM, a BBC and Mid Day Joint Venture has set up a voice portal for Bangalore, reports exchange4media. The portal gives access to comedy programs like Rajni Sir, K T Kunjumon and Chamrajpet Charles, answer a quiz, and also leave messages that will be aired on the radio station.

Today News..

 

• WPP Digital has acquired 75 percent stake in Quasar Media, a subsidiary of the Smile Interactive Technology Group. Quasar provides services in digital media, creative, search marketing and optimization, mobile marketing, among others, and services clients like MakeMyTrip, Monster, Microsoft, Motorola, LG, Zapak and VISA. It was founded in 2005 and has offices in Mumbai and Bangalore. Quasar, which employs 73 people, reported revenues for the year ended March 31, 2007: Rs 103.6 million with gross assets at the same date of Rs 149.5 million.

 

• ETV Networks, which operates 12 TV channels has launched ETVNetmart.com to allow media planners, advertisers and agencies to bid and buy advertising spots, reports exchange4media.

 

• Indiagames will be the exclusive distributor in India for content from NASDAQ listed game developer Glu Mobile. This includes games, ringtones, wallpapers related to Age of Empires III Mobile, Brian Lara’s Cricket 2008, Kasparov Chess, Looney Tunes, Zuma, Atari Legends 3, Pong, Asteroids Deluxe,

 

 

 

 

Today News..

 

• Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and CEO of Info Edge India (Naukri.com), has been included in the list of 20 finalists for the ninth Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2007.

 

• WPP world’s second-largest advertising and marketing services firm which operates in more than 100 countries, is reportedly acquiring Delhi-based interactive agency Quasar Media.

 

• LiveMint the website for HT Media’s business paper Mint, has launched MarketInfo, a business information segment that provides Company Information, details on performance of Mutual Funds, Stock Markets, live domestic and international market information, results, corporate announcements.

 

• India has about 159.7 million GSM-based mobile subscribers at the end of October, according to figures released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) yesterday.

 

• Bharti Airtel changes the name of its broadband and telephone services unit to Telemedia Services as it gears to launch internet television and DTH operations.

Today News.

 

• Star today promoted its chief operating officer Uday Shankar to the post of CEO and moved up its senior vice president Jadgish Kumar to fill in Shankar’s vacancy.

 

• Printo has received a second round of funding of Rs. 250 million (around $6.25 million) from Sequoia Capital to help fund its national expansion. The company has charted out a national expansion plan that they expect will cost them around Rs. 1000 million (around $25 million).

 

• UTV reported Interactive revenues of Rs. 10.04 crore for the quarter ended September 30 2007. UTV Interactive includes earnings from the companys Gaming, Animation, Post-Production and SFX businesses.

 

• Mahesh Samat has been named the Managing Director of the Walt Disney Company (India). Samat over twenty years of experience across India, Asia-Pacific and Europe, and joins from Johnson & Johnson, where he was MD for Southern Europe, based out of London. Before that, he has worked with Kellogg’s for India, Warner Lambert/Parke-Davis and Boots India Limited. He’s an IIM graduate. Samat will be based out of Mumbai, and report to Walt Disney International President Andy Bird. He’ll be responsible for all of the existing Disney businesses in India, except the ESPN-Star Sports joint venture.

 

 

Today News.

 

 

• Sify Technologies Ltd. appointed Vijay Kumar as its chief financial officer. Kumar’s previous posts include serving as the assistant general manager of investment banking for Sundaram Finance Services Ltd., Chennai, which he left to begin an independent audit and consultancy business.

 

• Suku Murti, regional business director for entertainment, sports & partnerships for WPP Media, has resigned and is joining Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADAG “in a group role”. Murti is expected to join Reliance ADAG on Wednesday. His role could go beyond pure media play.

 

 

Today News.

 

• Mobile value-added services provider Handygo has launched a new video caller application that enables incoming calls to a mobile phone to be accompanied by an audio-video clip.

 

• MSN India has a new design for its home page with options of a wide or narrow layout and of changing the colour of the page.

 

• Sify has announced the change of its name from Sify Limited to Sify Technologies Limited. According to Sify, this is in line with the company’s strategy to position itself as a technology company with deep expertise in IT infrastructure management.

 

• Sify Technologies Limited has appointed M P Vijay Kumar as chief financial officer.

 

• Jobs portal TimesJobs.com has launched BossMeter.net, an open contest where employees can nominate their boss in the great bosses’ list and ask their colleagues to vote. According to TimesJobs, the top five bosses with maximum votes and their nominators can win holiday vouchers and exciting prizes from TimesJobs.com.

 

• Interactive marketing agency Percept Knorigin has launched an ad network company called AdChakra Advertising Network. AdChakra’s services would include search engine advertising and display advertising with campaign management and reporting facilities. The ad network company is based in India with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.

 

• Computer Associates (CA), an IT management software company, Wednesday launched a new campus of India Technology Center (ITC), making it the largest development facility of the company in the world.

 

• ITC  has developed a mobile device management (MDM) product, which can manage an entire corporate mobile infrastructure from a single consol.

 

 

Likely new entrants in Indian Telecom

• DLF -22
• Unitech -22
• India Bulls Real Estate - 22
• Datacom - 22
• Alliance Infratech - 22
• Parsvnath - 22
• Shyam Telelink - 21
• BPL Mobile - 21
• HFCL - 21
• Spice - 20
• Swan Telecom - 14
• STel - 6
• ByCell - 5
• Cheetach - 2

Source: OutlookBusiness | October 20, 200

Spots on The Horizon

Education

• Private Equity
• Design Services
• Next wave BPO
• Package Food
• Retail Services
• Localised Internet
• Micro-power
• Cold Chain & Warehousing
• TV Content

Source: OutlookBusiness | October 20, 2007



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Posted By kathy to e-Revenge at 10/11/2007 09:16:00 AM

Running meter in standing auto

Bangalore traffic police given an opportunity to auto drivers to loot
public money in a professional way. Meters are runing faster in
signal standing auto than regular. It cashes half the journey cost. As
a public i want to understand why we common people pay for terrific
road traffic for which we regularly pay all our taxes on time.

Telecom News/27th Sept.

 

 

• Sept 27^th :-Sistema JSFC, Russia's largest private consumer services firm, on Wednesday bought 10 per cent stake in telecom operator Shyam Telelink for $11.4 million, marking the entry of a Russian company in India's rapidly growing telecom space.

 

• Sept 27^th :-Videocon has applied for mobile licences in all 22 telecom circles in India with joint venture with an American company Verizon and can hold a 74% stake in the company.

 

• "Kasturi", the new Kannada TV channel owned by Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, went on air on Wednesday.

Telecom News 25th Sept. 07.

 

 

• Sept 25^th:-Indian Space Research Oraganisation is planning to launch a satellite that will provide direct link to the mobile phone handsets.

 

• Sept 25^th:-The department of telecom (DoT) on Monday announced October 1 as the deadline for accepting new licence applications.

 

• Sept 25^th:-The Bombay High Court has issued a notice to the income tax department, following a writ petition by Vodafone Essar challenging the tax department’s move to levy capital gains tax following the Vodafone-Hutch deal.

 

• Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL and Spice, are undertaking a major shift in their strategy and tying up with handset makers to offer bundled handsets.

 

• A $3.95 billion syndicated loan backing Indian telecom group Essar Communications India (ECIL).

 

 

Telecom & Media News/24th Sept 07

• Sept. 24^th:-Novatium & MTNL will sell computing service against the traditional model where the customer buys the device and then takes a connection from a telecom company or internet service provider to access the net.

 

• Sept. 24^th:- US-based UTStarcom, which had recently bagged two IPTV deals Bharti Airtel and MTNL, expects more deals for triple-play services in India.

 

• Reliance Industries is likely to enter the telecom sector soon and is exploring various options in the sector.

 

• Sept 24^th:- Stepping up their protest against Sun Network's newly launched direct-to-home (DTH) service, cable operators today blacked out Sun Network's channels in many parts of Tamil Nadu.

 

 

 

 

 

Telecom News/22nd Sept.

• Sept 22^nd:-Vodafone, Idea Cellular and Spice — have jointly asked the department of telecom to treat their pending applications for mobile licenses ‘on a different footing’ by considering them on a ‘top priority’ basis, when compared to other applicants.

 

• Sept 22^nd:-India's wireless market, the fastest growing in the world, crossed another milestone, with the subscriber base crossing the 200-million mark in August.

 

• Sept 21^st:-Real Estate major Unitech has decided to enter mobile telephone service in all 22 circles of the country. The Unitech board cleared a decision to this effect on Friday and the company plans to leverage its telecom tower manufacturing capabilities for the diversification.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telcom News/20th Sept. 07

• Sept 20^th :- Reliance Communications (RCOM) recently launching ultra budget handsets with prices starting at Rs 777, the industry buzz is that Vodafone would lower the entry barrier to an unbelievable Rs 666. There’s also news that Vodafone may follow the pricing model of Rs 666, Rs 777, Rs 888 and Rs 999 for its ultra-cheap handsets.

 

• Sept 19^th :- Gemini Communication has bagged a Rs 10-crore order from BSNL for installation and commissioning of telecom equipments and accessories across 11 circles in India including Andaman and Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Kerala.

 

• Sept 19^th :-Vodafone, will keep intact its predecessor's assurance of following customers wherever they go while telling them to 'Make The Most Of Now'. Which could cost between Rs 80-100 crore.

 

• Film distributor Eros International and Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday said they will co-invest in Indian movies that are scheduled to be released in India and overseas.

 

• Nimbus Sports on Wednesday said it has tied up with Hong Kong's leading mobile operators for providing mobile clips of the Barclays Premier League football matches for next three seasons up to 2010.

 

 

 

 

Telecom News/19th Sept 07

 

• 19^th Sept:-Essar group sold Shipping Stop Dot Com, which has a licence to offer national and international long-distance services, to BPL Mobile just ahead of applying for pan-India universal access service license (UASL).

 

• 19^th Sept:-Chinese communication major ZTE is targeting revenues of $350 million by selling GSM network equipment and an additional $100 million from its broadband division in India this fiscal.

 

• 18^th Sept:-Cellular major Bharti Airtel has awarded a 150 million-dollar deal to Chinese vendor Huawei for building and managing GSM mobile infrastructure for its Sri Lankan operations for next 3 years.

 

Telecom & Media News/18th Sept. 07

 

• Sept 18^th:-Reliance Telecom and Airtel are among 12 companies for Qatar's second mobile licence as the deadline for submission of bids ended.

 

• Sept 18^th :-Vodafone, which had got the government’s permission to rename Hutch-Essar as Vodafone Essar, is set to unveil the new branding for the company in Mumbai this week.

 

• Movie-buffs can hope to enjoy their visit to cinema halls without loosening their purse strings if the Information and Broadcasting minister succeeds in persuading states to reduce entertainment tax on films.

Telcom & Media News/17th Sept.

• Sept 17^th :-BSNL and MTNL has said regulator Trai’s direction on opening up domestic leased circuit (DLC) would lead to hoarding of last mile connections by the private sector, rendering the two PSUs uncompetitive.

 

• Sept 17^th:-India has now become the second largest market for Chinese handset major ZTE and accounts for a third of the company’s handset sales by volume after China.

 

• Sept 16^th:- International IPR watchdog WIPO has directed a Saint Kitts-based company to transfer the domain name bhartiairtel.com to the domestic telecom major.

 

• Sept 16^th :- Essar group company Essar Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited (ETIPL) is in talks with cellular operator Aircel for leasing out its towers.

 

• Sept 17^th :-- PVR Cinemas has been conferred with the 'Retailer of the Year' award by India Retail Forum (IRF) 2007, for its corporate social responsibility initiatives including those for the underprivileged children.