Posted on July 17th, 2007 by anumks
The India Today group is planning to launch a general interest portal in the next six to eight months. This site will feature free content from it’s different channels like print publications, television channels and events. India Today is creating a horizontal search across their multiple channels. They are also planning to provide the contents […]
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Posted on July 17th, 2007 by anumks
JupiterResearch, claims that social networks and online communities have little effect on influencing online retail sales. The study finds that social and community sites are driving about 12 percent of online shoppers to buy more than planned. (sourced from tekrati). Some interesting facts
53% of online shoppers go directly to the retailer website while they are […]
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Posted on July 17th, 2007 by anumks
Reliance communications acquired a US based Ethernet service provider, Yipes Communications (link here), for Rs 1,200 crore in all cash deal, reports Dnaindia. This will be the largest ever acquisition for reliance communications and this will give a larger foot print for Rcom in the USA.
Yipes is the leading provider of managed Ethernet and application […]
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Posted on July 17th, 2007 by anumks
I have been hearing rumors about Rediff being possible acquired by Google or Yahoo. The unsubstantiated report first came in Hindustan Times (link here). It says that it got the information from investment banking sources saying that the management of Rediff is in talks with the global companies for a negotiated takeover deal.
And I have […]
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