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How to Install Wordpress on your Computer [Wordpress Weekend] (pluGGd.in)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:28:00 +0000

We love wordpress and started ‘wordpress weekend’ to share tips to use wordpress effectively.

If you run a wordpress blog on your server, it’s strongly recommended that you play with wordpress themes/plugins on your local computer first (and push to the server later) – and for this, you need to install wordpress on your local machine.

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Feeds Recommended by Google Reader now available inside FeedDemon (Digital Inspiration)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:37:00 +0000

If you are subscribed to "n" number of blogs inside Google Reader (or FeedDemon) but have the time to consume more content, Google Reader offers an interesting feature for you called Recommended Feeds.

It works something like this. Google Reader looks at all the feeds that are you currently subscribed to and then, like any other music recommendation service, it generates a list of new feeds that may be worth adding to your reading list (Puru Pratap Singh, a class IV student from Gurgaon in India, has won the Doodle 4 Google contest and you can see his artwork live on the Google India homepage.

The theme of this year’s Google Doodle contest was "My India".

Dennis Hwang, who is the creative genius behind every holiday logo that you see on the Google homepage across countries, was ...

Nachiket Pantvaidya To Become MD At Fox TV Studios India (contentSutra.com)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:15:00 +0000

Fox Television Studios India is hiring Nachiket Pantvaidya as managing director, a person familiar with the development said. An announcement is expected soon.

Fox Television Studios is the TV production unit of News Corp.‘s Fox Entertainment Group, and is a leading producer of TV shows globally, alongside companies such as Mediaset-controlled Endemol and Bertelsmann AG’s Fremantle Media. Endemol has had a good run in India, with shows such as Bigg Boss, while Fremantle recently said it is setting up shop in India.

News Corp.-owned Star India is the country’s leading private broadcaster.

Both Pantvaidya and Fox TV Studios India’s current head, Mohinder Walia, were unreachable for comment. Neither responded to text messages.

Pantvaidya was, till recently, CEO ...

Korea's GS Home Shopping Invests $18.5 Million In HomeShop18, Valuing The Firm At $123 Million (contentSutra.com)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:46:00 +0000

South Korea’s GS Home Shopping, the world’s third largest home shopping network (as per this release), will invest $18.5 million in HomeShop18, a Network18 subsidiary. GS will hold 15% stake in the company post the investment. Parent Network18 will invest $5 million and will continue to be a majority shareholder with a 51% stake post dilution. GS’ investment values HomeShop18 at $123 million.

Saif Partners holds a 30% stake in the company.

The partnership also entails strategic cooperation in the areas of sourcing, merchandising, broadcasting and logistics. GS will post key employees at HomeShop18 and will also train HS employees in Korea.

Another South Korean network, CJ Home Shopping, had forged a JV with Star India for a home shopping channel. It is yet to go on air. ...

PVR Buys DLF's DT Cinema For Rs52 Crore In Stock & Cash; Separate Stake Sale To Thailand Firm (contentSutra.com)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:20:00 +0000

Multiplex chain PVR Ltd is buying realty major DLF Ltd’s cinema chain DT Cinemas, which currently runs 26 screens in Delhi, Gurgaon and Chandigarh. PVR will also get exclusive rights to be the key ...

‘Time has come for small startups to kick butt’ (Alootechie News)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:05:42 +0000
Abinash Tripathy, currently founder and CEO at Infinitely Beta, and former managing director, Zimbra APAC at Yahoo, has written a blog post titled, ‘Why the great Indian media companies will fail on the internet’. Tripathy believes that the online media industry in India is in big trouble. However, he still hopes that “we can create quality companies in India that apply technology and innovation to cool services that consumers love.” An excerpt:

Saturday Startup Review: BillsReminder.com – Now Remind Yourself To Collect Your Money (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:04:00 +0000

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Weekly Digest (6th-13th Nov 2009) (MEDIANAMA: News & Analysis of Digital Media in India)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:47:58 +0000
Date: 6th to 13th Nov 2009 For Previous Editions: Weekly Digest Archive Earnings -Vodafone India Revenues Down 7% QoQ, ARPU At Rs.222 -eCPM Rates Same Says Rediff CEO; Rediff, Yahoo & Cult Following -RCOM Call: Handset Revenues Were Included In Wireless Revenues Editors Picks -Google To Buy AdMob For $750M; The Display Play; In India-The Holy Grail Of Data Revenue Share -The End [...]

Indian Digital & Media Stocks - 13th Nov 2009 (MEDIANAMA: News & Analysis of Digital Media in India)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:41:10 +0000
Indian Digital & Media Stocks for the week ending 13th Nov 2009: Deccan Chronicle 13 November 2009:Stock Buyback Geodesic 10 November 2009:Press Release 9 November 2009:Limited Review for the quarter ended Sep 30, 2009 IBN18 12 November 2009:Result of Postal Ballot 10 November 2009:Demise of Independent Director IOL Netcom 9 November 2009:Outcome of Board Meeting Network18 13 November 2009:Press Release 10 November 2009:Demise of Chairman & Independent Director 9 [...]

One97 Communications Plans IPO In 2010; Is The Co Ready, Market Conducive? (MEDIANAMA: News & Analysis of Digital Media in India)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:30:38 +0000
Mobile VAS company One97 Communications is planning for an IPO in the next two quarters, MD Vijay Shekhar Sharma told VCCircle, and raise around $100 million in order to fund expansion in India and abroad. So far, the company has raised around $25 million from Intel Capital, SAIF Partners and Silicon Valley Bank in two rounds, and [...]

BigAdda to feature daily coverage of Yamaha India Bike Rally (Alootechie News)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:18:44 +0000
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Accion International Invests In Bihar-based Saija Finance (VC Circle)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:50:00 +0000

In one of the rare microfinance deals in Northern India, Accion International, a Boston-based nonprofit organisation investing in microfinance institutions globally, has picked up 49.5% equity stake in Saija Finance Pvt Ltd for $500,000. Accion has invested through its equity investment arm, Accion Gateway Fund, and it is its fourth investment in India.

Saija Finance is a Patna-based microfinance start-up, which provides financial services to micro-entrepreneurs, and low and middle-income families in India. The company believes the funding will help it expand its services in other states as well. “We plan to offer individual and group loans to over four lakh people by 2014, and roll out financial literacy training as well,” said the company in a statement.

Currently, Saija Finance is operational in Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. This will be the first instance of private equity investment in Bihar.

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Orkut fined half a million dollar for fake profile (pluGGd.in)

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:33:00 +0000

Brazilian court has fined Orkut $500,000 for allowing fake profile on the site. Civil court case, filed by race car driver Rubens Barrichello in 2006 has his fake profile depicted him as a toy turtle.

In another India incident, Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) arrested a man for allegedly posting obscene (morphed) photographs of a former colleague on Orkut. After profiling the victim as a call girl, he mentioned her residence and mobile numbers in the profile as well (via).

Given the way profiles can be maligned, do you see a need for profile authentication service for social networks in India?

Twitter does have the service for authenticating celebrity profiles, but what about Orkut/FB etc? Will you pay for that ‘Verified’ seal?

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Download Free Books for your Kindle Reader (Digital Inspiration)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:54:00 +0000

The Amazon store now has more than 360,000 books that you can download and read on your Kindle e-book reader.

Read Kindle Books without the Kindle Reader

If you don’t have the Kindle device, you can still enjoy any of these Kindle books on your Windows computer using the free Kindle for PC application. Amazon is also working on a Mac version of Kindle Desktop but until that happens, you can download the free

Rohit Bansal Steps Down As COO At India TV (contentSutra.com)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:23:00 +0000

Rohit Bansal, COO at Independent News Service Pvt. Ltd, which runs India TV, has stepped down. Bansal, who has worked at the firm for five years since 2004, has been active in the broadcast policy circles and was a familiar face at industry gatherings. Bansal confirmed the development. August 31 was his last day at the channel.
India TV was founded by journalist Rajat Sharma and is regularly ranked among the top three most viewed Hindi news channels. Its content often attracts controversy. More on the firm from a previous story here.

“I feel sad to be leaving behind a team that did such entrepreneural work. But life has to move on and it’s time to find a role that captures my existing skills with the knowledge I have acquired at HBS,” Bansal said. He recently attended a two-month advanced ...

Track Your RSS Feed Clicks with Google Analytics (Digital Inspiration)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:12:00 +0000

Would you like to know how may people are visiting your site via RSS feeds?

If you are using FeedBurner to syndicate the RSS feeds of your blog, you can now easily track all the incoming traffic from feed clicks through Google Analytics.

Just open your FeedBurner dashboard, click the title of your RSS feed and choose "Configure Stats" under the Analyze Tab. Tick the options that say "Item views", "Item click" and "Track clicks as a traffic source in Google Analytics" and save.

In addition to click counts, you’ll also know ...

Free Virtualization Software for your Windows PC (Digital Inspiration)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:09:00 +0000

Virtualization software helps you run multiple operating systems on the same computer.

For instance, you can use a virtualization tool like Apple Boot Camp or Parallels to run Windows on your Mac computer or you may use the free Virtual PC program from Microsoft to run Linux, DOS or even multiple Windows environments inside your Windows PC.

Virtualization tools aren’t just for geeks.

You may use these programs to try out other operating systems on your computer without disturbing the existing setup. Or, if you ...

IMI Mobile Raises $13 Million In Funding From Sequoia Capital (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:40:00 +0000

The funding is surely coming easy for mobile VAS providers, it seems as One97 just few days ago announced their plans to go public and now

Google Chrome OS Download Could Be Just A Week Away! (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:12:00 +0000

If Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has his sources in place, it seems likely that the much talked about

GSM Subscriber Base Higher By 10.3 Million In October (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:26:00 +0000

The action witnessed in telecom tariffs in recent past seems to have provided a boost to net subscriber addition count for GSM telephony. The total subscriber base in October was seen higher by 10.32 million compared to 9.03 million recorded in September. The total GSM subscriber base stood at 355.2 million in October.

SMS Based IM, Social networking – The Next Killer App For Indian Mobile? (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:56:00 +0000

Couple of years ago I stumbled on an idea of SMS based IM and social networking, though the idea gave me goose bumps with the extent of potential market, I was eventually convinced that mobile internet will be the thing, partly because I was already working on a mobile internet based idea and left only repenting now.

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IndiaMart launches online tender notification service (Alootechie News)

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:17:34 +0000
IndiaMart.com has launched an online tender notification service available at Tenders.IndiaMart.com. According to IndiaMart, the service will allow users to access tenders floated by government and private organizations from all over India. IndiaMart claims that the service currently provides access to over 50,000 live government tenders, corporate tenders, global tenders and procurement notices from India.

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Download Free Books for your Kindle Reader (Digital Inspiration)

Rohit Bansal Steps Down As COO At India TV (contentSutra.com)

Track Your RSS Feed Clicks with Google Analytics (Digital Inspiration)

Free Virtualization Software for your Windows PC (Digital Inspiration)

IMI Mobile Raises $13 Million In Funding From Sequoia Capital (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

Google Chrome OS Download Could Be Just A Week Away! (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

GSM Subscriber Base Higher By 10.3 Million In October (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

SMS Based IM, Social networking – The Next Killer App For Indian Mobile? (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

IndiaMart launches online tender notification service (Alootechie News)

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Weekly Recap – Blackberry App in India, Google’s WiMAX Ambition..and more (pluGGd.in)

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Feeds Recommended by Google Reader now available inside FeedDemon (Digital Inspiration)

Nachiket Pantvaidya To Become MD At Fox TV Studios India (contentSutra.com)

Korea's GS Home Shopping Invests $18.5 Million In HomeShop18, Valuing The Firm At $123 Million (contentSutra.com)

PVR Buys DLF's DT Cinema For Rs52 Crore In Stock & Cash; Separate Stake Sale To Thailand Firm (contentSutra.com)

‘Time has come for small startups to kick butt’ (Alootechie News)

Saturday Startup Review: BillsReminder.com – Now Remind Yourself To Collect Your Money (WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India)

This is part of an ongoing startup review series supported by our sponsors Sun Startup ...

Weekly Digest (6th-13th Nov 2009) (MEDIANAMA: News & Analysis of Digital Media in India)

Indian Digital & Media Stocks - 13th Nov 2009 (MEDIANAMA: News & Analysis of Digital Media in India)

One97 Communications Plans IPO In 2010; Is The Co Ready, Market Conducive? (MEDIANAMA: News & Analysis of Digital Media in India)

BigAdda to feature daily coverage of Yamaha India Bike Rally (Alootechie News)

Accion International Invests In Bihar-based Saija Finance (VC Circle)

Orkut fined half a million dollar for fake profile (pluGGd.in)