Posted on February 28th, 2008 by dhirender
Web company Lime Spot LLC, which gave us the P2P file sharing LimeWire, has recently launched LimeExchange.com from India, a platform for small and medium enterprises to get in touch with professionals for work outsourced by them. The range of services include Website Developers, Designers, Corporate Bloggers, Programmers, Designers, Legal Consultants, Data Entry Professionals, etc.
The [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by dhirender
According to this VCCircle post, Cleartrip, has received $18.5 million funding in Series C from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mahindra Group, taking the total funding received by Cleartrip to a little over $30 million. Earlier, Cleartrip had received $3.7 million funding (September 2005) from Kleiner Perkins and Sherpalo, $8 million from DAG Ventures and Gund [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by dhirender
Interactive advertising in the U.S. will grow from $22.5 billion in revenues in 2007 to $62.4 billion by 2012, according to “The Kelsey Group’s Annual Forecast (2007-2012): Outlook for Directional and Interactive Advertising.”
The report also predicts global interactive ad revenues will reach $147 billion U.S. by 2012, up from $45 billion U.S. in 2007, rising [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by dhirender
In a rather innovative and very useful initiative, the students of the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), have put together a directory of scholarships on offer from around the world reports the Times of India.
Named A2Zscholarships.com, the website has been put together by over 200 students, and currently, the site provides details on almost 500 [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by dhirender
Restaurants in Europe, the United States and Japan are testing a technology that would allow diners to order their food direct from a screen at their table instead of depending on a fellow human being to note their choice, reports Reuters. The idea may be only the latest gimmick in a trade which is driven [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by dhirender
As India braces itself for higher internet and TV penetration, children may not have to travel to the tuition classes or to wait for a home-tutor.
They can opt for a online tutoring or can engage themselves with TV sets to make education an interactive and insightful learning experience, says the Business Standard.
The worldwide market for [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by dhirender
As part of its media campaign for Women’s Horlicks, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare has launched a website on women’s health issues, www.indianwomenshealth.com, that provides information on subjects such as pregnancy and nutrition. Future plans include creating a community and allowing women to share their experiences through blogs and to create groups.
Speaking to agencyfaqs!, Shubhajit Sen, vice-president, [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by dhirender
Launched as a as a pilot in May 2007, AdSense for video is finally out for public – available to publishers who, at a minimum, serve one million video streams each month and are based in the U.S. with English language sites.
As the Google Adsense blog states:
“we’ve tested a variety of ad formats with the [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by dhirender
According to comScore’s monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace, January 2008 saw Americans conduct more than 10 billion core searches, up from 9,636 million in December.
Google Sites marginally extended its share of core searches to 58.5%, while Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 22.2%, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.8%), AOL LLC (4.9%), and [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by dhirender
Microsoft has announced the launch of its digital advertising platform in India, Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, which will provide display, rich media, contextual and video advertising solutions, with NDTV Media as the exlcusive sales partner.
The overall digital advertising market in India is valued at nearly Rs 500 crore, and is growing at an annual rate [...]
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