Posted on December 31st, 2009 by dhirender
Hulu, the online video destination that claims to stream only premium content (read as full episodes of tv shows and entire movies)on an ad supported model seems to be on a pretty good growth path. Unfortunately, the service is currently available only in the US. Financials on the service don’t seem to be available, so [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2009 by dhirender
Advertising spending on Facebook is soaring while MySpace is tumbling according to eMarketer’s Social Network Ad Spending: 2010 Outlook, so much so, that Facebook will surpass MySpace in advertising revenues in 2010, a year earlier than expected. Projections show that MySpace will bring in $490 million in worldwide advertising revenue in 2009 but only $385 [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2009 by dhirender
With the Airtel Mobitude 2009 survey (India’s First Mobile Phone Usage Survey), Airtel has sieved through the 220 million mobile downloads across music, images and games and the billions of smses its 116 million user base has made to arrive at trends, preferences and choices of the Indian mobile user. Some highlights:
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Posted on December 29th, 2009 by dhirender
Dreamed up by the guys at Bazaar Labs, Flixup! is a web and iPhone application that helps you make entertainment choices based on understanding what movies people are talking about on Twitter.
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Posted on December 28th, 2009 by dhirender
Shedding aside its railway PSU image and embracing good business sense, the railways ministry-controlled Indian Railways Tourism and Catering Corporation (IRCTC) has begun selling air tickets to passengers as part of its holiday tour packages. While air travel to some international tour packages, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, etc. have been around for some [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2009 by dhirender
Location is clearly the way forward, and Twitter is gearing up for it with the acquisition of Mixer Labs, the guys behind GeoAPI – a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications. With this, Twitter will not only allow you to answer the question “What are you doing now?” but add the contextual relevance [...]
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