Times Internet Limited (Indiatimes.com), a part of the Times Group, has acquired a 50% stake in Webnotions Books India, which owns an online book marketplace A1Books.co.in. Owned by Shinu Gupta, the US-based Webnotions was founded in 1995, and entered India in December 2007.
As part of this investment, the Times Group will create value for A1Books […]
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Lawyers, like other professionals, are now free to advertise their services on the Internet as the Bar Council of India informed the Supreme Court that it has relaxed its rules on the issue in view of the changing global scenario.
The BCI’s latest turnaround marks a significant departure from its earlier stand under which it took […]
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Education-related technology solutions provider Idenizen Smartware has received venture capital funding of $2.25 million (Rs 9 crore) from Vinod Dham-led NEA-IndoUS Ventures, to fund its pan-India growth plans.
Idenizen plans to use the funding to set up branch offices and servicing centres, and market its patented product, SmartCampus, to educational campuses and institutions nationwide.
“The investment will […]
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Total Broadband subscribers base has reached 4.38 million by the end of June 2008 as compared to 4.15 million by the end of May 2008, a growth of 5.5% according to Trai.
This also represents a growth of 74% over the subscribers numbering 2.52 million on June 2007.
Broadband is still described as speeds in excess […]
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Cuil pronounced “cool,” the new search engine on the block, is in the news for quite a few reasons:
It’s already raised about $33 million in two rounds of funding
It’s founders and execs include 3 ex-Googlers
They claim to have a larger index size than any other search engine (”Cuil searches more pages on the Web than […]
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Starting with In.com, Web 18 seems to be moving towards a design philosophy marked by a lot of white space, less colours that are also easier on the eyes, and extensive use of AJAX. Indiaearnings seems to be following the same philosophy, and so is MoneyControl.com if the redesign of the markets page is any […]
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Scheduled to launch towards the end of 2008, The Medpedia Project is a global effort to collect, organize and make understandable, the world’s best information about health, medicine and the body and make it freely available on Medpedia.com in a manner easy to understand for everyone - the preview pages are very clean and rather […]
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In a first, Thomas Cook (India) Limited, launched Indian Railway reserved ticket booking facilities on its portal thomascook.in - the only travel solutions portal that offers this facility at present. IRCTC is the only other website which provides this facility, which is run by Indian Railways. All other websites such as Rediff and Cleartrip offer […]
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Business Standard seems to have changed it’s online interface to a more Web 2.0ish design complete with gradations, etc. The focus on advertising is pretty clear given the rather large number of banners (I counted 12 internal and external banner spots on the home page), which could also be contributing to the page size (one […]
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We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even […]
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