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Earnings: Sify’s In Losses In Q3; Legal Expenses Against Yahoo India Piling Up - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 24 Oct 2007 01:15 PM PST

From our India site ContentSutra: Indian portal and tech company Sify reported its Q3 earnings today (traded on Nadsaq), and its revenues were $37.02 million, up 6.4 percent from the…

Earnings: Google Execs Talk Online Ads, MySpace, Spectrum, More - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 18 Oct 2007 03:30 PM PST

A kitchen-sink kind of call for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for its expectation-beating Q307 results. Some of the points that stood out: MySpace: Sergey Brinn said Google has been “very pleased”…

This Weekend: In NYC For SAMMA Conference - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 28 Sep 2007 05:51 AM PST

I am in NYC today and tomorrow for the South Asians in Media and Marketing Summit 2007 at NYU. Since I happen to be one, I am moderating a panel…

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Indian Local Search Firm Four Interactive Gets $10 Million In Second Round - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 27 Sep 2007 11:23 AM PST

Four Interactive, a Bangalore-based online local search company has received $10 million in second round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Bank and Matrix Partners India. The company…

Competition Between Corporate VCs And Traditional Funders Heats Up - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 04 Sep 2007 05:03 AM PST

Increased activity from the corporate investment arms of companies such as Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and more recently Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) are…

Indian IPTV Firm Time Broadband Gets Investment From Dubai Group; Sells 40 Percent Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 23 Aug 2007 12:00 PM PST

From ContentSutra: The Dubai Investment Group has picked up 40 percent state in Indian IPTV company Time Broadband via their subsidiary Dubai Ventures. Now, last year, Time Broadband Co-founder and…

Indian Company Nimbus Bags Worldwide Digital Rights For English Premier League - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 13 Aug 2007 08:10 AM PST

Nimbus Sports, an Indian sports broadcaster, has been awarded internet and mobile rights for the English Premier League (EPL) for over 80 countries till 2010. The deal covers 1140 EPL…

Broadband Content Bits: Yahoo Rocket; Hong Kong-Olympics; Skype Videos - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 08 Aug 2007 04:26 PM PST

-- Yahoo: Rocket Science Laboratories, the production company behind reality TV shows such as Temptation Island and Joe Millionaire, has signed a non-exclusive, first-look programming deal with Yahoo. The deal…

Google Joins Band Of Angels In India; Takes 30 Percent Stake in Ventureast TeNet Fund - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 24 Jul 2007 09:50 PM PST

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is adopting an interesting strategy of investing in India: it is investing in angel/seed funds. It has done four so far, out of which two came out…

Yahoo India Invests In Local Ad Network Tyroo - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 18 Jul 2007 10:22 AM PST

Yahoo India has made a strategic investment in local online advertising network Tyroo Media...the amount was not disclosed, but the stake is upwards of 35 percent, the company said in…

South Asian Video Portal TinselVision Gets $3 Million Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 25 Jun 2007 09:00 AM PST

TinselVision, a South Asian-community focused online video portal, based out of Washington, DC, has received $3 million in first round funding. The round was led by Innovative Entertainment, a Geneva-based…

Earnings: Rediff Makes $6.99 Million Profit; Revenue At $28.68 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 16 May 2007 04:14 PM PST

Rediff India (Nasdaq: REDF), one of the biggest online portal companies, posted revenues of $2.00 million in Q4, up from $0.53 million for the year-ago quarter. It recorded $28.68 million…

Indian Social Networking Site Minglebox Raises $7 Million From Sequoia Capital - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 02 May 2007 01:59 PM PST

Our contentSutra editor Nikhil Pahwa is traveling in the U.S. this week but still managed to break the news that Indian social networking site Minglebox has received $7 million in…

Yahoo India Restructures R&D, Ahead of AOL India Launch Today - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 25 Apr 2007 03:21 PM PST

Being in the same city as AOL (Bangalore in India), and probably aware of AOLs plans (as secretive as they’re being about ‘em) Yahoo has announced a number of changes,…

Launching: ContentSutra India Job Board; Free For Now - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 23 Apr 2007 07:10 PM PST

We had been getting requests about a job board for ContentSutra, our Indian site, so we finally went ahead and made one through Edgeio: Check the right column on ContentSutra’s…

AOL Launching Next Week In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 19 Apr 2007 11:36 PM PST

An exclusive on our ContentSutra site: AOL President and COO Ron Grant is going to be in India next week for the launch of AOL’s India portal, which has been…

Indian Ad Network Komli Raises Funding From Draper Fisher, Helion - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 17 Apr 2007 08:22 AM PST

Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Helion Ventures have invested an undisclosed sum in Indian online advertising network Komli. But with Google such a dominant player, and there already other networks networks…

ContentSutra Delhi Meetup On Apr 20 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Apr 2007 02:25 PM PST

We’re doing a small meetup in Delhi for our ContentSutra readers in India...go here for details to register.

Indian Publisher Chandmama To Be Acquired By Geodesic Information Systems For Around $2.3 million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 Mar 2007 09:13 PM PST

In stock and cash deal, 94 percent of Indian childrens magazine publisher Chandamama is being bought by Software company Geodesic Information Systems for Rs.10.2 crores (approximately $2.3 million), reports Reuters.…

Asians Keen On Ad-Supported Content, Mobile Music: Survey - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 04 Mar 2007 06:12 PM PST

A survey by MindShare Asia Pacific Insights across the Asia Pacific region shows a strong demand for advertising-supported content and mobile music, according to ADIO Magazine. The survey of 250…

Google Invests In India’s Erasmic Early Stage Fund - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 Feb 2007 10:38 AM PST

From ContentSutra: We’d told you about Google investing in Seed Fund last month. Now ET in India reports that Google has also invested in Erasmic Venture Fund. The amount of…

WSJ Helps Launch New Business Paper In India; Its International Plans - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 01 Feb 2007 04:10 PM PST

In India, one of the biggest newspaper companies Hindustan Times has launched a new English-language business newspaper, the fourth fifth (thanks Kaps!) national business paper there. The paper, called Mint,…

US Entertainment Portal DesiHits Gets $1 Million Funding - 1 Comment
Posted By Sahad PV - Thu 01 Feb 2007 01:35 PM PST

San Francisco-based South Asian entertainment online channel Desi Hits has received $1 million in first round funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and Trident Capital (read release). Desi Hits has…

Content From 9 Newspapers Made Available Via WAP Portal In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 31 Jan 2007 07:19 AM PST

We’ve written earlier about a mobile paper application from Cellnext being piloted in India. Now Pressmart and IMI Mobile have launched something similar a WAP portal with content from 9…

Google Invests in India Via New Investment Firm Seedfund - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 23 Jan 2007 04:30 AM PST

You’re reading it here first: Google has made its first investment in India, and it has taken a different route than usual: it is investing in Seedfund, a new India-based…