Last Friday, my new digital media site - Medianama.com - went live with an interview with S. Sivakumar, the CEO designate for Times Private Treaties, the ads-for-equity investment arm of Bennett & Coleman Co Ltd (BCCL), which owns some of India’s largest media properties - the Times of India, Times Now, The Economic Times, Mumbai […]
May 31st was my last day with ContentNext Media (and at contentSutra), and I’ve been on something of a sabbatical since. Expect an announcement from me soon. Have done a few posts on this blog - which just goes to show how difficult it is for me to take a break from blogging. contentSutra was […]
MIH India Global Internet, the holding company for Indian Internet properties like ibibo.com, dwaar.com, onefamily.com, Newscola.com and bixee.com, and ad network AdWinks, has entered into an agreement to divest as much as 50 percent stake (less one share) to China based Tencent Holdings. Tencent, in turn, will invest at least $7.5 Million in MIH India […]
So almost six months after struggling handset manufacturer Motorola acquired online and mobile music distribution company Soundbuzz, Motorola has launched music distribution service MotoMusic in India. MotoMusic powers the MOTOROKR E8, two versions of which are priced at Rs. 15.455 and Rs. 13,999 respectively. The launch of MotoMusic is significant, since it comes before the […]
SatNav Technologies has raised $7 million in a first round of funding from Sequoia Capital India. The amount of stake diluted has not been disclosed, though Mohit Bhatnagar, Operating Partner with Sequoia says that it’s a significant minority stake, and two members have joined the board. SatNav was incubated at Satyam Computers, under the Satyam […]
There’s something amiss in this article in the Mint: it creates the incorrect impression that all Internet conglomerates like Info Edge, Times Business Solutions (TBSL), Consim Info and Web18 are drawing advertising away from horizontals like Indiatimes and Rediff. The article infers that this might be to blame for Rediff’s “declining growth in revenues” - […]
Mobile payments company Paymate announced (BS, ET) today that they had raised a second round of funding of $9 million. The funding has been led by Mayfield Fund, and Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers (KPCB) and Ram Shriram’s Sherpalo Ventures have also returned as investors. Coruscant Tec co-founders Ajay Adiseshann and Probir Roy will retain […]
I’ve been spending far too much time on the PC over the last two years. The result - a sore neck, shoulders, wrist and occasional lower back problems. The ideal thing is to take regular breaks, but if you’re addicted, you don’t have much of a choice. The following are guidelines that I’ve created for […]
November 29, 2006 – 11:25 pm
The blog, I mean.
Pliss to updates your links and RSS feeds if you’re linking/using RSS readers
- I’m now at www.mixedbag.in and, yes, on Dreamhost.- The RSS Feed is at http://www.mixedbag.in/feed/, for now.
May install all those Feedburner, Digg etc things, though I think they mess up the design.
The design of the new blog will evolve, but, […]
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