Ajit Balakrishnan

About Ajit Balakrishnan

Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rediff.com India Limited. Mr. Balakrishnan is also a director of Rediffusion-Dentsu, Young & Rubicam Limited, where he has served since March 1993, and a director of Rediffusion Advertising Private Limited and PSI Data Systems Limited. Mr Balakrishnan holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Kerala University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He also attended the Owner/President Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Mr Balakrishnan has won numerous awards for his entrepreneurial and management skills including the Path Breaker Award given in December 2000 by Dataquest, a leading Indian IT publication.

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1. “ Location-awareness in applications is critical for hyper-local search and local advertising besides many evolving social networking and enterprise applications. Imere's technology is very cost effective in delivering location awareness. ”

   In Rediff.com Invests In Location Sensing Tech Firm Imere

2. “ The economic environment for online advertising in India continues to be challenging. Indian advertisers in the credit card, home loan, online travel, jobs, matrimony, shopping and real estate segments who normally account for about half of all online advertising in India continue to face difficult business conditions ”

   In Rediff Reports Q1 Net Loss Of $1.43M; 7 Pc Sequential Growth In Revenues

3. “ It's an investment which has not gone where all of us thought it would. ”

   In Slash-and-burn trend taking root in start-ups

4. “ You must also address the lack of an intelligent domestic VC industry. ”

   In Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan On 3G Licencing, VCs In India, Indic Languages, Broadband, E-Commerce

5. “ Our revenue numbers for the quarter were also adversely impacted by a 25% year on year average depreciation of the Indian Rupee vis-à-vis the US dollar ”

   In Rediff.com Invests in Education

6. “ We have hired close to 25 tech people and reduced around 50 from all the other departments, so in a sense we are becoming a more tech-oriented company. ”

   In Rediff.com Posts Q4 Net Loss Of $8.86 million; New Interface, Investments Update

7. “ It's a clutterfree environment, facilitates access from mobile phones, has less intrusive advertising and makes use of collective intelligence to aid content discovery. ”

   In Rediff.com Posts Q4 Net Loss Of $8.86 million; New Interface, Investments Update

8. “ But we are committed to creating properties that delight the customer. Money will follow. ”

   In Rediff.com Posts Q4 Net Loss Of $8.86 million; New Interface, Investments Update

9. “ The two young people who were running that site have decided to move on and take up other jobs. ”

   In Rediff.com Posts Q4 Net Loss Of $8.86 million; New Interface, Investments Update

10. “ Both are in line with our move into mobile and Indian languages. ”

    In Rediff Increases Stake In Tachyon To 26%; P4C Is Now LocalAds

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2. Don’t Rediff & Sify Have To List In India This Fiscal?

   Explore Article MediaNama.com (Feb 24 2010)

   ...aNama’s emailed queries on whether the company is mandated to list in the Indian market, Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan had this to say: “As an Indian company we are destined to list in India at some point; the exact ti... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Rediff Net Loss Down To $1.64M, Revenues Up 18% QoQ As Advertisers Return

   Explore Article MediaNama.com (Jan 28 2010) Acquisition

   ...e in USD terms to post $3.63 million compared to $3.08 million in the September quarter. Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan said online ad revenues improved with the cautious comeback of advertisers from the financial serv... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Ajit Balakrishnan   Rediff   USD

4. Rediff Loses Director Who Was Executing Its Minimalist Shift; Salil Chandrashekar Resigns

   Explore Article contentSutra.com (Dec 7 2009)

   ...he execution of the portal’s minimalist approach. The shift, the brainchild of founder and chairman Ajit Balakrishnan, has met with mixed reactions from users and (by design) lower home page revenues. Rediff Loses Dir... (Read Full Article)
   

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5. eCPM Rates Same Says Rediff CEO; Rediff, Yahoo & Cult Following

   Explore Article MediaNama.com (Nov 9 2009) Social Networking

   ...i users) rates have not decreased for NASDAQ listed Rediff.com in the last two quarters, Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan told MediaNama on the companys conference call on Friday. “The real decrease is lower activity; for... (Read Full Article)
   

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6. Rediff Losses Widen Even As It Invests In 'Improving Customer Experience'

   Explore Article contentSutra.com (Nov 6 2009) Acquisition

   ...rowth in our user base, as measured by ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Media Metrix,” Rediff chairman and CEO Ajit Balakrishnan said in a statement. Balakrishnan said the company will continue this strategy and invest in produc... (Read Full Article)
   

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7. News Digest: Vodafone, Bsnl, Mtnl, 3G, Intel & More

   Explore Article MediaNama.com (Nov 3 2009) Maps/Local , Telecom

   Comment "If no roaming scheme is introduced in any one of the networks sure people ll move over to that......" - aarthi123

   ...tworks. (Read more at Telecom Talk) Avenues 2009, Mumbai: “India will miss digital revolution bus” Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and CEO of Rediff.com said that the if the government does not take proactive measures to ... (Read Full Article)
   

   1 Comment Mentions:   Ajit Balakrishnan   Rediff   Diwaskar Chettri

8. Rediff.com Invests In Location Sensing Tech Firm Imere

   Explore Article contentSutra.com (Nov 2 2009) Mobile , Social Networking

   ...ions. Imere’s technology is very cost effective in delivering location awareness,” Rediff chairman Ajit Balakrishnan said in a statement. Rediff will use Imere’s technology in its applications. (Read Full Article)
   

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9. Rediff Acquires Location Sensing Co

   Explore Article VCCircle (Nov 2 2009) Mobile , Social Networking

   ... to bring high levels of user location accuracy without entirely being dependant on IP addresses. Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO, Rediff.com said “Location-awareness in applications is critical for hyper-local ... (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Rediff Invests in Location Sensing Co

    Explore Article VCCircle (Nov 2 2009) Mobile , Social Networking

    ... to bring high levels of user location accuracy without entirely being dependant on IP addresses. Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO, Rediff.com said “Location-awareness in applications is critical for hyper-local ... (Read Full Article)
    

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11. Rediff Upgrading RediffBlogs, Migrating Users From iLand?

    Explore Article MediaNama.com (Sep 16 2009)

    ...ff iLand, it’s blog based community, to its blogging platform Rediff Blogs: Rediff Chairman and CEO Ajit Balakrishnan’s blog has been migrated from iLand, as has the old Cricket blog of Rediff and India Abroad editor ... (Read Full Article)
    

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12. Jet Airways wins the First Web 18 Genius of the Web Awards 2007 ...

    Explore Article live-pr.com (Sep 8 2009)

    ...gle India, Mr. Anupam Mittal, Chairman, People Group, Mr. Sanjeev Bhikchandani, CEO, Info Edge, Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman & CEO, Rediff and Mr. Neeraj Roy, CEO, Hungama. The Web18 Genius of the Web Awards ar... (Read Full Article)
    

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13. Jet Airways wins the First Web 18 Genius of the Web Awards 2007 ...

    Explore Article PR Urgent News (Sep 7 2009)

    ...gle India, Mr. Anupam Mittal, Chairman, People Group, Mr. Sanjeev Bhikchandani, CEO, Info Edge, Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman & CEO, Rediff and Mr. Neeraj Roy, CEO, Hungama. The Web18 Genius of the Web Awards ar... (Read Full Article)
    

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14. Rediff CFO Joy Basu & Vp (Products) Zaki Ansari Leave Rediff: Report

    Explore Article MediaNama.com (Aug 7 2009)

    ...ber of appointments. We haven’t heard back yet from Rediff on either Ansari or Basu, and Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan’s phone is currently unreachable. The Emperor Needs New Clothes? During a recent earnings conferenc... (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Updated: Rediff Loses Another Senior Staffer; Vice President Zaki ...

    Explore Article Reuters India (Aug 6 2009)

    ...know of such exits, please leave a comment, or use the anonymous tip box on the home page. When CEO Ajit Balakrishnan was asked about this at a recent concall, he said the company is well staffed and that his people a... (Read Full Article)
    

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16. Breaking: Rediff Loses Another Senior Staffer; Vice President Zaki Ansari Quits

    Explore Article contentSutra.com (Aug 6 2009)

    Comment "Hello how to submit a article to avashya.com plz help" - Bilal Ahmad

    ...know of such exits, please leave a comment, or use the anonymous tip box on the home page. When CEO Ajit Balakrishnan was asked about this at a recent concall, he said the company is well staffed and that his people a... (Read Full Article)
    

    1 Comment Mentions:   Web18   Rediff Moneywiz   Joy Basu

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