Articles from Ankit Saxena

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Markets: Bollywood, Gaming, Maps/Local, Mobile, Outsourcing, Social Networking, Telecom, Travel, Video
Financing: Acquisition, Funding

  1. Reliance Soft Launches GSM Service. Targets 25% Market Share On Debut

    WATBlog.com (Sep 29 2008) Mobile , Acquisition Explore Article

    Company has been giving. The company has distributed around 10,000 test SIM cards to its employees. RCom has invested around Rs.800 crore and erected 2500 towers. By mid-December, the company plans to launch the full GSM service. The testing began in the cities of Mumbai, Bangalore, Surat, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Ludhiana. The second stage of funding will involve [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Reliance Industries Limited

  2. Will Google Phone Charm India?

    WATBlog.com (Sep 26 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    Google phone will debut in India in December this year, reports Business Standard. The price will be higher than what the user has to pay in the United States ($179 or Rs.8200). The handset will be an HTC device, and will be launched through a possible tie-up with some operator. As we discussed, the Google phone [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Airtel

  3. The Google Phone - Will It Truimph Over iPhone ?

    WATBlog.com (Sep 25 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    T-Mobile has launched the first phone based on Google-backed Android operating system. Yes, the first ‘Google Phone’ is out. The handset itself has been manufactured by HTC. Comparisons to iPhone are inevitable. Blogosphere is loaded with reports of the first G-phone finally hitting the market. The reviews (opinions, actually) are mixed all over. From the time [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google Phone   Google   Apple Inc.

  4. Adlabs Cinemas Inks Deal With SureWaves For Content Delivery To LCD Screens

    WATBlog.com (Sep 25 2008) Explore Article

    Adlabs Cinemas, the film exhibition arm of Reliance ADAG group has tied up with SureWaves for content delivery to the digital LCD screens present in Box Office, lobby etc, reports Afaqs. Not to be confused with Digital Cinema, in which the film itself is distributed to the cinema theater screen. Here, it’s the screens, outside [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   SureWaves   Reliance Industries Limited   Reliance ADAG

  5. Satbav Technologies Launches Initiative For GPS Enthusiast, To Enable Community Involvement

    WATBlog.com (Sep 24 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    Satbav Technologies, a Hyderabad based IT company has just launched “Citizen Mapper” - an initiative for encouraging the community involvement in enhancing the quality of its GPS software database. This includes rewarding the user for suggesting new Point of Interests (PoI). The user gets a credit of Rs.5 every time a Point of Interest is added [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Nokia

  6. Funding Updates : Ojas Invests In TeliBrahma, Helion Ventures Invests in9.9 Mediaworx

    WATBlog.com (Sep 23 2008) Explore Article

    Ojas Ventures, along with Invesntus Capital has announced a funding of $2 million for TeliBrahma. TeliBrahma has Bluetooth advertising solutions for mobile devices. Joining the board of TeliBrahma will be Samir Kumar of Inventus and Pavan Krishnamurthy of Ojas. TeliBrahma operates in the emerging mobile-advertising market. Though its offering is different from others, as it doesn’t uses [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   9.9 Media   Helion Venture Partners   Mediaworks

  7. Mukta Arts Forays Into Mobile Content, Acquires Coruscant Tec

    WATBlog.com (Sep 23 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    Mukta Arts, the film production and company owned by veteran film producer-director Subhash Ghai, is foraying into digital content production and distribution, reports Afaqs. The company has acquired a 51 per cent stake in Coruscant Tec, which will help it distribute and deliver content to the mobile devices. On this, Subhash Ghai, Chairman, Mukta Arts, says, “The [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Mauj Telecom   Coruscant   Reliance BIG Entertainment

  8. “Hulla” Available For Download on Bigflix

    WATBlog.com (Sep 23 2008) Bollywood Explore Article

    Bigflix.com, the movie rental company of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has bagged the rights of the recently released Hindi film “Hulla”. Starring Sushant Singh, “Hulla” promised to be a laugh riot. Hulla was produced by Big Pictures, another Reliance Entertainment company. The news item from Indiantelevision.com said Bigflix bagged the rights to the film. Really? [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Reliance Industries Limited   Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group   Gurmeet Singh

  9. DoT Allows Foreign Players To Bid For 3G License Without An Indian Partner

    WATBlog.com (Sep 19 2008) Telecom Explore Article

    In a landmark decision, the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has decided to allow the foreign companies, interested in offering telecom services in India to bid for 3G license in India, without partnering with an Indian player, reports The Hindu. However, the said company will have to partner with an Indian company before starting the operations, as [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Apple Inc.   Department of Telecommunications

  10. India Wakes Up To Securing the Wifi connections. Thank You, Mr. Terrorist ?

    WATBlog.com (Sep 18 2008) Explore Article

    So, all the recent terrorists have been tracked to Mumbai. Also, it was made clear than the terrorists were smarter than the average Indians. The terrorists used others Wi-Fi networks to carry out their communication. The terrorists were smart enough. The Indians were not. I cannot help but remember the tag line of the recent Hind [...] (Read Full Article)

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  11. Shoppers Stop Opens Up Online Store

    WATBlog.com (Sep 18 2008) Explore Article

    Shoppers Stop is going online, reports Afaqs. The idea is not to create an alternative revenue-source to the offline stores, but to develop an extension to the present business. On this, Vivek Mathur, customer care associate and vice-president, corporate planning and e-commerce, said, “We are not looking at the site as a separate business. It is an [...] (Read Full Article)

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  12. Review : AmarChitraKatha.com

    WATBlog.com (Sep 17 2008) Explore Article

    As we had reported yesterday, ACK Media has launched AmarChitraKatha.com today. (related Article : (Related Article : Amar Chitra Katha : Round 2) WATBlog takes a look at the eagerly awaited website and gives you an exclusive and first ever complete review of the website. So, here is what we saw. The homepage is good. On top-right, username/password [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amar Chitra Katha   AskLaila   Creative Commons

  13. Nokia Launches Mobile Ad Network. Adds Airtel, Sprint

    WATBlog.com (Sep 17 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    Nokia has taken a significant step in being a Mobile Ad Network, by adding Sprint and Bharti Airtel to the list of carriers, reports Reuters India. Last year Nokia acquired Enpocket to start building its Mobile advertising business. Enpocket.com now redirects to advertising.nokia.com. Two days back we have covered the trend of Publishers Creating Their [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sprint   Nokia   Airtel

  14. Mauj Mobile To Power Radio City’s Mobile Presence

    WATBlog.com (Sep 16 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    Mauj Telecom has inked a deal with Radio City, the FM radio channel to power all mobile activities of Radio City. The deal is for 2 years. This includes Mauj managing the 57007 short-code mobile service of Radio City, through which, the audience can take part in various contests and programs. Also, Mauj will be [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Mauj Telecom   Apurva Purohit   Manoj Dawane

  15. Startup Review : Uhooroo.com

    WATBlog.com (Sep 15 2008) Explore Article

    ( The following Startup Review is being done with help from Harshal ) What is it about? Well, Uhooroo describe itself as : A platform for musicians to show case their talent & get feedback from the music community on their auditions, A platform [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Mozilla Firefox

  16. DoT Makes Player Specific Changes To The 3G Policy ?

    WATBlog.com (Sep 12 2008) Mobile , Telecom Explore Article

    Amidst news of companies launching iPhone and Nokia getting ready to combat that, how many of us actually take into account that we do not actually have a 3G infrastructure in place, yet, to take advantage of the goodies these Super-phones have to offer? Well, ofcourse we do have our Bluetooth enabled handsets and our [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Business Standard   Apple Inc.   Nokia

  17. Nokia Adds Microsoft Email Function To Phones

    WATBlog.com (Sep 11 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    Nokia will be adding Microsoft Mail for Exchange in its E and N Series of phones. The series runs on Nokia’s S 60 platform. It has added the software to almost 80 million mobile devices already, reports ET. Mark Louison, head of Nokia’s North American operations, said, “Microsoft Mail For Exchange is the world’s most popular e-mail [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Nokia   Blackberry   Microsoft

  18. Endemol Enters Gaming

    WATBlog.com (Sep 11 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    So all you TV junkies out there (I am one!), Endemol must be a familiar name among you. No, those who still can’t remember this name, are just not watching enough of television. So let me tell you about it. Endemol is the International company behind the shows like Fear Factor, Big Brother (Big Boss in [...] (Read Full Article)

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  19. Google To Provide Satellite Internet Access To The “Other 3 Billion” in Africa

    WATBlog.com (Sep 10 2008) Explore Article

    Google has joined hands with HSBC to provide high-speed Internet access to the people of Africa and other emerging countries, reports Forbes. Along with cable operator Liberty Global, Google has joined hands with a group calledO3b Networks to contribute in the project. O3b stands for the “other 3 Billion”. The project aims at providing the backend to [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Gmail

  20. Why Ovi Is Important To Nokia?

    WATBlog.com (Sep 9 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    When you have a 60% market share of a rapidly increasing mobile handset market in India, what else can you ask for? Well, more. And for Nokia that’s the Mobile VAS, another rapidly growing market. In India. It was almost one year back, when Nokia announced. Described as an integrated services platform Ovi was a platform [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Mauj Telecom   Apple Inc.   Nokia

  21. Startup Review : Diditz.com - “i Am What I Do”

    WATBlog.com (Sep 5 2008) Explore Article

    Sometime back, I received an invitation from Diditz.com, another of such sites. The site is in its alpha stage right now. Here is what I thought of it... (Read Full Article)

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  22. Interview With Msn Live Search Product Manager

    WATBlog.com (Sep 4 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    LIVE Search is gaining importance in Microsoft’s online strategy. Microsoft announced new features, last month. WATBlog interviewd Ravi Datanwala, Group Manager- Live Search and questioned him about the new features in LIVE Search. Here are the excerpts. Q-  Google failed to monetize the MySpace search earlier. Now, Microsoft is putting LIVE [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Microsoft

  23. Google Chrome: Everything You want to know about the google browser

    WATBlog.com (Sep 2 2008) Explore Article

    Here it comes, the much awaited Google Browser. They call it Chrome. Google announced it in its official blog. Interestingly, they have described the entire technology behind Chrome in a comic. Here it is. Google Chrome, from what I have seen till now, is not just another regular browser, build on top of an existing base. The [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Nokia   Google   Apple Inc.

  24. Digital TV Watchers Spend More Time In Front of TV

    WATBlog.com (Sep 1 2008) Explore Article

    A report by the television rating agency TAM says that the viewers of digital TV spend more time watching Television than those having analogue TV. Digital TV includes DTH and the Conditional Access System (CAS). TAM data shows that digital TV watchers also watch more number of channels compared to the analogue TV audience. 186 minutes, [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bharti   Reliance Industries Limited

  25. Events Update: Google Developer Day, India

    WATBlog.com (Sep 1 2008) Explore Article

    Google has announced the Google Developer Day in to be held in Bangalore on 18-October-2008.  The event is free to attend by anyone and is intended for software developers and students. The event will focus on Google API in specific and web applications in general. Prasad Ram, head of engineering and R&D at Google India said, “It’s [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Prasad Ram   Microsoft

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