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    1. Weekly Digest (17th-24th May 2013)

      MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: CCAvenue, E2E, Spice Digital and Times Internet for their support. Earnings-Mar13 - Dish TV Adds 0.2M Subscribers In Q4-FY13; Lowest Addition In 23 Quarters - Rediff Net Q4-FY13 Ecommerce Revenues At $0.6M; $2.33M India Advertising - MakeMyTrip Q4-FY13: $6.5M Loss; Air Ticketing Revenue Down 26.3% YoY - Vodafone India Q4-FY13: 3.3M 3G, 37.3M Data [...]
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    2. UIDAI Launches 3 New Aadhaar Based Authentication Services; Concerns

      Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has launched three new Aadhaar enabled services – an authentication services using Iris, an authentication service using one time pin (OTP) and an electronic know your customer (eKYC) service. It also announced that currently over 400 million residents have been enrolled for an Aadhaar number, while about 350 million Aadhaar numbers have [...]
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    3. NDTV Appeals Against Nielsen Lawsuit Court Dismissal

      New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) has filed an appeal against the New York Court’s dismissal of its lawsuit against Nielsen for the alleged manipulation of TV ratings and viewership data in February 2013, reports LiveMint. NDTV has refused to comment on the matter to the publication while Nielsen has told the publication in an email [...]
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    4. Problems With Twitter’s 2-Step Authentication Process In India

      (By Apurva Chaudhary & Vikas SN) Earlier this week, Twitter introduced a two-factor authentication process through SMS, in a bid to strengthen the security of Twitter users after it faced high profile account hijacking last month. This process allows Twitter users to add a verified mobile number and a confirmed e-mail address in their account settings and [...]
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    5. Penguin Books India Launches Inked For Young Adults; Just Another Blog?

      Penguin Books India has recently launched a website targeting young adults between 13 – 21 years of age called Inked which also has an offline imprint division. The company claims to have over 20,000 registered young adults on Inked website, although we didn’t find any registration process on the site at the time of writing this article, [...]
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    6. Digest: RCOM, Directi, BSNL, MakeMyTrip, Irctc & Jet Airways

      Reliance Communications has tied up with Loop Mobile allowing both the companies to share their mobile towers to offer a pan-India 2G Intra-circle roaming (ICR) coverage to subscribers of both the networks, reports Times of India. This essentially means that RCOM and Loop Mobile 2G GSM users will not have to pay any extra roaming charges on [...]
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    7. TLabs Incubated Happay Launches Its Prepaid Mobile Wallet

      TLabs incubated VA Tech Ventures Pvt Ltd. has launched its operator agnostic, prepaid, mobile wallet, Happay that syncs with mobile number and SIM card to allow P2P and B2C transactions. This ZipCash enabled mobile wallet does not require a bank account integration. However, users are required to submit KYC documents for transactions above Rs 10,000. [...]
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    8. Chart: Dialup vs Broadband Connections In India As Of December 2012

      The total number of dialup connections in India stood at 25.33 million as of December 31, 2012, up 5.49% from 24.01 million at the end of September 2012, according to the latest numbers from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. At the end of December 2012, the number of broadband subscribers was at 14.98 million, [...]
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    9. Dish TV Adds 0.2M Subscribers In Q4-FY13; Lowest Addition In 23 Quarters

      India’s largest Direct to Home television services operator, Dish TV has added 0.2 million subscribers for the quarter ending March 31, 2013, taking its total net subscribers to 10.7 million subscribers. This is the company’s lowest subscriber addition in the past 23 quarters. Dish TV had last recorded similar additions in the quarter ending June 30, [...]
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      Mentions: Ebitda Jawahar Goel
    10. RCOM Uses Aadhaar-based Authentication Process For New Connections

      Reliance Communications will be using Aadhaar’s online authentication process to activate new connections. The company claims to have tested this solution in a non company owned multi brand small retail outlet and claims to be the first telco in the country to offer Aadhar authentication in both company owned and non company owned multi brand small retail outlet. [...]
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    11. Dentsu India Acquires Network18′s Stake In Webchutney

      Network18′s venture capital arm Capital18 has inked (pdf) an agreement with Dentsu India group to offload its entire stake in the digital advertising agency and consulting firm Webchutney for an undisclosed amount. While the financial terms of this agreement were not disclosed, Network18 informed that this divestment was in line with its strategy of monetizing its investments and claimed the [...]
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    12. Plustxt Now Offers Indic Language Input For Facebook, Twitter & Google+

      Instant messaging app Plustxt has updated its Android app to add a nifty feature of allowing users to post to Facebook, Twitter and Google+ in various Indic languages supported by the app. Plustxt is currently available as free download on the Google Play Store. How this integration works is that, one can login to the app through [...]
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    13. Amazon’s Android Appstore Now Available In India

      It looks like Amazon Appstore has finally gone live, about a month after it announced plans to expand the store internationally, (Hat tip Anupam Saxena). Users can download the Amazon App Store app from Amazon Website. Amazon’s app store brings features like 1-click purchase, one free paid app/game everyday, among others. Users can also test apps on [...]
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    14. Chart: Speed Wise Broadband Subscriber Base Of Top 10 States

      With 47.61 lakh subscribers, Maharashtra has the largest Internet (<256 Kbps) and broadband (>=256 Kbps) subscriber base in India as of December 31, 2013 followed by Tamil Nadu with 28.59 lakh subscribers, according to the latest numbers released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). Some observations Except Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, all the top 10 [...]
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    15. Language Learning Platform CultureAlley Raises Funds From KAE Capital – StartupCentral

      Jaipur-based Intap Labs, which runs online language learning platform CultureAlley, has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from KAE Capital, the Mumbai-based early stage investor, reports Mint. The firm has picked up a minority stake in the company, said the report.                       Founded in 2012 by Nishant [...]
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    16. PlatformPlay Can-Sell-Will-Sell: To Monetize NLPCaptcha’s Ad Inventory

      Rammohan Sundaram’s piling on the deals, all right. His newly formed company has now agreed a deal to monetize the entire sales inventory of NLPCaptcha, which is claimed to be India’s largest Captcha advertising platform, albeit in a phased manner. NLPCaptcha monetizes captcha codes using advertising, replacing the usual blurry (or mathematical) codes that one has [...]
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    17. Rediff Net Q4-FY13 Ecommerce Revenues At $0.6M; $2.33M India Advertising

      Online Indian Media business Rediff.com has reported its 19th straight quarter of losses, despite India Advertising revenues increasing 9% quarter on quarter to $2.33 million, a third consecutive quarter of increase. The increase was attributed largely to an increase in spends by clients in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance industries (BFSI) segment – which [...]
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    18. Rediff Had Sold Stake In LBS Co Adnear For $1.14M

      Rediff.com has sold its stake in Adnear (previously known as Imere), a location based company which it had bought a minority stake in, in 2009, for $1.14 million, Rediff.com has disclosed. In November 2012, AdNear had raised Rs 35 crore (around $6.2 million at current levels) from Sequoia Capital India and Canaan Partners. AdNear offers [...]
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    19. Times Mobile & Techfront Launch FollowOn App To Offer IPL Content

      Times Mobile Limited has partnered with Techfront, an mVAS provider, to launch a mobile app Follow On to provide users with additional content on their mobile during a live match on May 21 and 22, 2013 at Kotla. The application is available for download on Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone. Features: We tried the app on our Android [...]
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      Mentions: Pepsi Google IPL
    20. Biosense’s uChek Provides Urine Analysis On iPhone

      GSF India-backed Biosense Technologies has launched a iOS urine testing app called uChek. Available in India and the United States, the company claims that uChek can be used to test for 25 different medical conditions including diabetes, kidney, liver and bladder problems, pre-eclampsia and hypertension, and urinary tract infections. Users can install the app on their [...]
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