Posted on January 8th, 2008 by dhirender
Indian education portal StudyPlaces Inc has secured its first round of institutional funding of $3 million from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Ram Shriram’s Sherpalo Ventures and Info Edge Ltd according to VC Circle.
Founded last year, StudyPlaces has received angel investment from Nikesh Arora, President of Google Europe, and Sanjiv […]
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by dhirender
Sitagita.com, an Indian women’s portal, has launched what it claim is the first all India online women’s home business directory with free listings for women’s home based businesses.
Though a good idea for a women’s portal, the implementation could definitely be better. The current model does not appear very scalable in terms of showcasing a larger […]
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by dhirender
Percept Knorigin, the digital media arm of Percept Holdings has acquired Searchize, a search engine marketing company based in Mumbai according to LiveMint.
Started in 2004 by Ryan Govindan, Searchize deals in search related marketing and analytics services including organic search optimization and contextual paid advertising on popular search platforms like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by dhirender
Email Marketing spends will grow to $2.1 billion by 2012, an increase of 75% over the $1.2 billion marketers spent on email during 2007, according to estimates released by JupiterResearch. Wonder what this means for Spam.
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by dhirender
Sony BMG dropping copy protection on its music downloads wraps up the big four. Starting January 15, Sony BMG will be starting a new service called Platinum MusicPass that will feature digital albums from its artists in the MP3 format. The format does not use DRM protection.
“The introduction of MusicPass is an important part of […]
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by dhirender
As this article in Reuters notes, the music industry had an awful 2007 as total album sales plunged 15% to 500.5 million units, according to tracking data from Nielsen SoundScan. Online album sales rose an abysmal 2.4% to 30.1 million units and a 19% growth in 2006. The figures represent the lowest total and the […]
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