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Here's your issue of Makkad G's 10101 for December 15 – December 31, 2007.

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Talk of the Town

iXiGO, MakeMyTrip, BharatMatrimony among 100 IT Innovators

Travel portal MakeMyTrip.com, travel search engine iXiGO.com and matrimony site BharatMatrimony.com have been included in the list of India's most innovative technology companies, 100 IT Innovators 2007, by Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies).

Guruji.com plans to launch SEM service

Local search engine Guruji.com is planning to foray into the search engine marketing segment in the first quarter of 2008. The local SEM segment is reportedly worth about $40-50 million in India and is expected to reach around $100-120 million in the next three years.

Zapak spending Rs 2 crore to promote Live Multiplayer Games

Online gaming portal Zapak.com has rolled out a 360 degree campaign to promote Live Multiplayer Games that enable people located in different places to participate in a single game at the same time. According to Arun Mehra, chief marketing officer, Zapak.com, the company is spending half a million dollars, or about Rs 2 crore, on the campaign.

Seventymm eyes Rs 100 crore revenues from 3 lakh users

Bangalore-based VCD/DVD rental service company Seventymm.com claims to have 40,000 users of which 50 per cent are from outside India. The company is now targeting three lakh users generating revenue of over Rs 100 crore.

Naukri job fair in Delhi witnessed 45,000 walk-ins

Info Edge India, which owns jobs site Naukri.com, has said its two-day job fair organized on 22nd and 23rd December in New Delhi witnessed the participation of over 45,000 job seekers of whom over 750 received spot offers and about 4,000 candidates were short listed by companies for interviews during the next 2-3 weeks

Rakesh Verma selected amongst Top 10 GPS businessmen of 2007

Rakesh Verma, managing director of CE Info Systems (MapmyIndia.com), has been selected amongst the world's top 10 GPS businessmen of 2007 by GPS Business News.

36% of users access internet from cyber cafes: Report

Cyber cafes continue to be the most favoured internet access point accounting for nearly 36 per cent of the active internet users (16.8 million) in India, according to the I-Cube (Internet in India) 2007 report jointly published by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International. The report found that more people accessed internet from homes than from offices, the percentage being 30 per cent and 25 per cent for the year 2007.

Alibaba.com eyes over 6 lakh customers in India by end of 2008

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com plans to double its Indian user base from the current 340,000 members to over six lakh customers by the end of 2008.

Social networking site Orkut tops Google Zeitgeist 2007 list for India

Google India has released its first ever annual Google Zeitgeist report according to which Orkut, YouTube and Gmail are the three fastest rising search terms that users from India have been submitting to Google, in 2007. According to the report, Aishwariya Rai, Sania Mirza and Mahatma Gandhi are the most searched Bollywood celebrity, sportstar and political leader respectively.

TCYonline.com launches exam preparation service for students

TCY (Top Careers & You) Learning Solutions has launched an online testing service through its education portal TCYonline.com. According to TCY, the new service would help users to better prepare for their exams and improve their reasoning, verbal and other skills.

38 million people in India are using mobile phones to access internet: TRAI

According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, the number of Indians using their mobile phones (both GSM and CDMA) to logon to the internet has increased from 16 million in 2006 to 38 million in 2007.

Burrp compiles a list of New Years parties across 8 cities

Social lifestyle listings portal Burrp.com has compiled a list of New Years parties "to help users locate the best place to be on the New Years Eve." The list currently provides information about 100 parties across eight cities — Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. "With contributions pouring in from users as well, we are likely to double the number of parties by 31st Dec," Burrp has said.

Info Edge (Naukri) to raise fresh fund; invests $500,000 in StudyPlaces.com

Info Edge India (Naukri.com) has decided to raise fresh fund through various available mechanisms in India and overseas. Info Edge recently announced that it has invested $500,000 in an education portal StudyPlaces.com through its wholly-owned subsidiary Info Edge (India) Mauritius.

E-commerce transactions expected to reach $100 billion in 2008

The e-commerce transactions, currently growing at the rate of 30-40 per cent in India, are expected to reach $100 billion in the year 2008 as companies increase the use of internet to cut costs and improve speed and efficiency, according to Bikky Khosla, CEO of business-to-business (B2B) portal Tradeindia.

WebSight!-Spin the Web. Explore!

Mid-Day.com, the site contains an e-paper version of the tabloid, interactive material and content from its editions in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. It has also added an interactive platform called Fun Factory to engage readers.

LaunchPad-Just Born Online (I just love the Betas!)

Wortal launches events site BuzzInTown.com

Wortal Technologies has launched BuzzInTown.com, an end-to-end events website that provides events listings, venue details, user-generated ratings and online ticket booking facilities. The site also offers communities, forums, calendars and event alerts.

Travelocity India introduces flights booking facilities

Travelocity India has introduced domestic and international flights booking facilities on its website Travelocity.co.in. According to the company, the new range of 450 domestic and international airline choices includes both low cost and full service carriers.

Sulekha.com classifieds ads make available on mobile phones

Sulekha.com, a social networking and local commerce site, has introduced classifieds ads on WAP-enabled mobile handsets. The new service would allow users to view the classifieds listings, post a classified ad and access them through their mobile handsets. It will also allow users to receive responses for their classified advertisement through SMS.

CBSETutor.com launched to provide online tutoring to school students

New Delhi-based Unified Learning has launched CBSETutor.com, an e-learning site that aims to make it easier for students of the CBSE curriculum to self-learn and test themselves interactively.

Oktatabyebye.com launches online bidding for hotel bookings

Online travel community site Oktatabyebye.com has launched Boli Lagao, Ghumne Jao!, an online bidding programme for hotel bookings at destinations like Manali, Goa, Shimla, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kodaikanal and Tirupathi.

Chandamama relaunches its website Chandamama.com

Chandamama, which has behind it a sixty years history of story-telling, has relaunched its website Chandamama.com. At the new site readers would be able to enjoy comics and stories based on popular characters like Vikram-Vetal and Akbar-Birbal. Stories from Panchatantra and Jataka Tales will also be available on the site.

Campus18.com launches contest to identify 'Best Video Talent'

Tangerine Digital Entertainment's youth portal Campus18.com has launched Digistars, a video contest to identify India's 'Best Video Talent' in film making, acting and editing.

Games2win launches online game called Fantasy Cricket

Games2win.com has launched Fantasy Cricket, an online game in which players get an opportunity to create their own unique cricket team by choosing team members from a list of global cricketers.

Nexus-Link.Un.Link

Metacafe appoints Publicitas Digital as online sales partner in India

Metacafe, an online video sharing community, has appointed Publicitas Digital for the management of its digital advertising sales in India. Under the agreement, Publicitas will oversee the promotion, sales and management of Metacafe's digital advertising space on its website Metacafe.com.

Arvind Mahendru joins Group M Interaction as managing partner

Interaction, the digital agency of Group M, has appointed Arvind Mahendru as managing partner. Prior to joining Interaction, Mahendru was deputy general manager (content acquisition) at Bharti Telecom.

FXLabs acquires gaming portal Knibble.com for $3 million

Hyderabad-based FXLabs, a leading developer of game products for PCs and videogame consoles, has acquired casual gaming portal Knibble.com from US-based Interactive Media Technology for $3 million.

HolidayIQ to power Google India Local search for hotel reviews

Travel community site HolidayIQ.com has been selected by Google to provide user generated content, including hotel reviews and hotel photographs to Google India Local search.

Sulekha.com partners with State Times to share its blog content

Sulekha.com has signed an agreement with State Times, a Jammu-based English daily newspaper that recently launched its Delhi Edition, under which State Times will publish selected blog articles from the Sulekha.com blogging network.

Yahoo India appoints Publicitas Digital as Online Sales Partner

Yahoo India has appointed Publicitas Digital as its sales representative in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Gujarat where Publicitas will sell advertising on the Yahoo network.

9.9 Mediaworx acquires Jasubhai Digital Media

Media start-up 9.9 Mediaworx has acquired the brands and businesses of Jasubhai Digital Media. JDM publishes a computing magazine Digit and a gaming magazine Skoar and runs their websites and events associated with them.

Quasar to handle digital media duties for Reuters India website

Reuters India has assigned Delhi-based interactive agency Quasar Media to promote its website Reuters.co.in through online and mobile campaigns including display and search advertising. Social media sites will also be used to create a buzz.

WOW-Worth 'O' Watch!