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.
The auto industry have not been visible at all in the last six months.In Rediff Net Q4-FY13 Ecommerce Revenues At $0.6M; $2.33M India Advertising
With this latest innovation, the most up-to-date and relevant news stories from India and around the globe are now at readers' fingertips – instantly, when they want itIn Top 10 Indian Tech news of the week [Sept 17th-23rd]
We had a 40% stake in Eterno and we sold it for about $1 million.In Rediff Q4-FY12 Concall: On Advertising Trends, Eterno Sale, Mobile & E-Commerce Business
We don't plan to hive-off e-commerce business and don't plan to raise any capital on that. We essentially believe in the marketplace model.We are working to improve the efficiency of the e-commerce system.In Rediff Q4-FY12 Concall: On Advertising Trends, Eterno Sale, Mobile & E-Commerce Business
We have our mail in 11 languages and some of our sections like Money Wiz in Hindi and Gujarati. But these are still relatively early days for localisation considering we are at an early stage of internet development in India.In All About: Exclusive digital news websites
We use them when we need to get inventory at rock bottom prices. We don't have inventory to give them, and even if we did, we would not give it to them.In Rediff Q3-FY11 Call: Advertiser Segments, Vubites Expansion, Mobile Deals
We believe the revenue growth in the Indian Internet industry will come through adoption of Internet services by small and medium business broadly located in 200-odd towns across the country and our future success depends on how well we can design and deliver the services to these small businesses.In Internet growth will pick up in 2011: Rediff.com
Certainly, the GroupOn type of thing is a natural for us. We're a natural inheritor for that kind of business, but wait for that announcement, we're not ready yet.In Natural For Rediff To Get Into The Group Buying Space Says Ajit Balakrishnan
Rediff PlayGully is a unique combination of internationally popular casual games and Rediff's social media platform MyPage attracting users from all over India, specifically from the Tier II and Tier III towns.In Rediff PlayGully brings home the fun from international games sites
Why is it that we have more readers than CNN-IBN has viewers, but they're still earning a lot more from advertising?In From 7 mn to 100 mn: Rediff’s Ajit Balakrishnan on how the rest of India can catch up to the Internet
Rediff CEO, Ajit Balakrishnan said.In Rediff Q2FY13: Revenue At $3.84M; Net Loss Declines To $2.34M
