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 […]
Am utterly overwhelmed with tech issues of late….
PC: One hard disk went kaput recently, and I did a reinstall of the OS. Since then, the other hard disk has stopped working. Sometimes the PC just doesn’t load. The system appears to be overheating,and just shuts off sporadically.
Mobile: The screen of the N95 went black during […]
Well, a rather surprising, albeit boring budget. PC’s gone ahead and tried to please everyone, perhaps at the cost of corporate India. The 6000 crore waiver to farmers sounds good on paper, but there’s apparently a fine-print. I’m not too worried about the cost to the government - after all, money is a flow and […]
February 26, 2008 – 12:05 pm
There was an incident in a Tottenham game a few months ago, very shortly after Juande Ramos had taken over as the manager of the struggling team, that caught my attention. Soon after being substituted, midway through the second half of a successful game, a player (I don’t remember who) was walking straight into the […]
January 5, 2008 – 4:04 pm
so, like I’d mentioned earlier, I intend to go for a lot more events this year (and finish work by 6:30ish every evening). Since I’ve been out of the events loop for a while now, please do CC/forward me any event related mails/invites (Jai: if you’re reading this, please do send the habitat newsletter). So […]
December 17, 2007 – 3:54 pm
Saturday was a day of major purchases for me: bought a nice and wide 17″ LCD monitor, a new laptop, a Seagate FreeAgent 160 GB external HDD and 1GB of RAM for the now stuttering PC.
Buying the laptop
The parents were with me, since the laptop is (was?) for them: we went to the Toshiba, HP, […]
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