The online travel industry is set for consolidation. 7 months back, desiya was acquired by TravelGuru (rumored value: $25mn) and now, TG, the online hotel aggergator has sold it’s majority stake to Expedia for $17mn (source). The deal values TravelGuru and Desiya.com at about $30 million, which to me looks like a value erosion. TravelGuru [...]
MAD-GK has partnered with CareerLauncher and ZipCash for content and advertising respectively. The application is preloaded with 400 questions and in future will be able to live stream via GPRS (for now, you don’t need any kind of connectivity to run the app, as it’s preloaded with qns.). The application does solves a major need [...]
Like it or not, your company may officially snoop into your email conversations and check if you are sharing confidential data to competitors. CCI (Competition Commission of India), has recommended that enterprises put in place a system of internal audit aimed at checking business manipulations by their employees. The regulator’s suggestion is based on the [...]
Reliance BIG Enteritanment is on a deal spree. After signing a Hollywood deal with production houses like Nicolas Cage’s Saturn Productions, Jim Carrey’s JC 23 Entertainment, George Clooney’s Smokehouse Productions, Chris Columbus’s 1492 Pictures, Tom Hanks’s Playtone Productions, Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Jay Roach’s Everyman Pictures that will yield up to 30 scripts [...]
What’s the price of iPhone in India? While the initial frenzy of $199, i.e. Rs. 8,000/ has settled down, it’s time to look at the price component of iPhone in US. Update [March 26, 2010] : Price of iPhone 3GS in India As per iSuppli report: Manufacturing cost of new iPhone is $173 (excluding the cost [...]
Image via Wikipedia In this post I shall talk about brands as I understand them and as they are applicable to digital brands. Please note that this list is still in beta and will evolve with time. Your feedback would be really appreciated. This is required because we need to stop looking at startups as [...]
Picture is worth a thousand words and this one clearly depicts a typical startup financing cycle. Agree/Disagree? [via wikipedia]
If you wish to capture images from your mobile phone and live stream them (or do a remote monitoring), MultiEyeVision Observer seems like a fit product. MultiEyeVision Observer is a Mobile phone that is also capable of functioning as a remote monitoring camera. The “Observer” is a preconfigured and preloaded mobile phone, and is available [...]
Online movie rental service market is going strong and both Seventymm and MovieMart.in are expanding their services to smaller cities in India. Seventymm 70,000 customers and plans to reach 4 million subscribers with revenues to the tune of Rs 1,500 crore in the next five years, Plans to spend $15mn in the next 5 years, [...]
After Vodafone’s iPhone pre-registration, it’s Airtel’s turn. Now that both the operators have joined the iPhone hype, Nokia has all the reasons to get worried and secure it’s turf. Nokia’s market share in India is ~60% and much of that has been achieved thru’ distribution and operator partnership. iPhone’s entry, expected price point (available for [...]
