India is on the verge of a sustained demand for wireless networking, says a recent Wi-Fi Alliance-Tonse Telecom report predicting that the Indian market will more than treble in size over the next 3-4 years - from around $263 million (Rs 1,050 crore) during 2008-09 to reach $891 million (Rs 3,560 crore) by 2011-12.
The report […]
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As this article in Business Standard states, over 14,000 Indian service providers, can be found on freelance marketplaces such as Guru.com and Odesk.com, while over 4,000 Indian service providers can be found on Elance alone. While Guru.com boasts over 4,972 active Indian freelancer profiles on their site, Elance’s payments to India was 40 per cent […]
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Internet services company VeriSign Inc said registry fees for .com and .net domain names would increase as per its agreements with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), effective October 1.
VeriSign said the registry fees for .com and .net domain names will increase to $6.86 and $4.23 from $6.42 and $3.85, respectively. [Via]
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According to a recent report by Ficci and Pricewaterhouse Coopers, the Indian gaming industry is projected to grow to from an estimated size of Rs2.7 billion in 2007 to Rs14 billion by 2012, ergo a cumulative growth of 39% over the next five years. [Via]
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Internet advertising increased 15.9 percent in 2007, while spending across all media grew at a rate of 0.2 percent compared to 2006, according to a report released by TNS Media Intelligence. Growth is attributed to budget shifts from blue chip advertisers.
Expenditures for the Internet totaled $11.31 billion, up from $9.75 billion in 2006. In terms […]
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When Cemaphore Systems launches its service MailShadowG later this week, it will be the first service that automatically brings together synchronization for mail, calendars and address books between Google’s Gmail (and soon MSN and Yahoo! as well) and Microsoft’s Outlook.
MailShadow for Google Apps, is being pitched as a “email continuity and disaster recovery solution.” In […]
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According to a recent report from Jupiter Research, for every song that is legally bought, about 100 songs are illegally exchanged over the Internet. This is reflected in the revenues of the major music companies, which in 1998, earned a whopping Rs 1,52,000 crore ($38 billion) worldwide. In 2008, that revenue is expected to halve […]
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India is all set to become the second largest wireless network in the world ousting the US to the third slot by April this year reports the Business Standard. According to data available China tops the list with over 540 million wireless customers in February 2008, followed by the US with 260.50 million and India […]
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Expect Sulekha to come out with an IPO sometime in 2009, by which time the company expects to clock revenues of about $30 million (Rs. 120 crore) says the Business Standard.
The company which started its operation in 2001, is putting in place a solid business model to entice the small and medium businesses by providing […]
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Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) have together picked up 15% stake in the Future Group’s
(Pantaloon) e-commerce portal Futurebazaar.com according to this post in ContentSutra.
The Future Group has the warehouses and the supply chain, and Futurebazaar.com will be offering the sale selection on the web.
While the amount invested remains under wraps, ContentSutra […]
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