Makkad G's 10101
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Hello,
Here's your issue of Makkad G's 10101 for April 1–15, 2008.
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Makkad G
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Talk of the Town
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AOL India sells its call centre operations in Bangalore to Aegis BPO
AOL India has decided to sell its call centre operations in Bangalore to Aegis BPO Services, an Essar Group company. Under the deal, Aegis will take over employees of AOL's call centre operations in Bangalore on its rolls and provide customer service and technical support to AOL customers.
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MakeMyTrip outsources call centre operations to IBM Daksh
Travel portal MakeMyTrip.com has decided to outsource its contact centre operations related with post sales queries and flight ticket booking requests to IBM Daksh. As part of the deal, IBM Daksh will take over about 230 employees from MMT on its rolls. The company evaluated six companies before awarding the deal to IBM Daksh.
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Flight tickets of budget airlines may become costlier if booked on travel portals
Budget airlines are reportedly planning to make the fares offered by online travel agents costlier than that offered by their own websites by reducing the commission paid to the travel agents and loading on some extra charges if the ticketing comes through the travel portal.
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Google introduces voice-based local search service in Hyderabad
Google India has introduced a voice-based local search service in Hyderabad where users can call a toll free number (1 800 41 99 99 99) and get information about restaurants, movies and other local businesses.
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IPL bans websites from covering its Twenty20 cricket competition
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MakeMyTrip records Rs 1,000 crore in sales in 2007-08, claims 40% market share
Online travel company MakeMyTrip.com has said it recorded sales of Rs 1,000 crore in the financial year ended March 2008, making it India's largest travel site, with a 40 per cent market share. MakeMyTrip also claims to sell over 8,000 flight tickets, 1,000 hotel room nights and over 100 holiday packages every day.
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Tyroo develops premium Technology Inventory for advertisers
Ad network Tyroo Media has developed III-Tier premium technology inventory targeting separate genres of end users and decision makers for advertisers and media planners. While the Tier-I inventory targets IT managers and decision makers, Tier-II targets IT developers, engineers and programmers and Tier III inventory targets end consumers.
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ReligareOnline rated as most user-friendly financial portal by JuxtConsult
ReligareOnline.com, an investment portal owned by Religare Securities, has been rated as India's most user-friendly financial information website by an online research and advisory firm JuxtConsult. The JuxtConsult research conducted on the online financial portals involved all the leading players in the segment ReligareOnline, MoneyControl, ShareKhan, IciciDirect and MyIris.
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Info Edge (Naukri) plans to acquire equity stakes in Internet start-ups
Info Edge India (Naukri.com), which made its first investment in Delhi-based education portal StudyPlaces.com earlier this year, has decided to acquire equity stakes in Internet start-ups as part of its growth strategy.
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NDTV Convergence to organise New Media Congress on 8 May in Delhi
NDTV Convergence is organising New Media Congress on 8th May 2008 in New Delhi. This is part of the company's endeavour to be recognised as a thought leader in the new media space, reports exchange4media.
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IBNLive.com selected as Official Honouree in 12th Annual Webby Awards
IBNLive.com, a news portal managed by Web18, has been selected as an Official Honouree for the News category in The 12th Annual Webby Awards. The Webby Awards is the leading international award honouring excellence on Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film & video, and mobile websites.
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Classifieds site OLX.com raises $13.5 million fund
US-based classifieds website OLX.com, which currently operates in 40 countries and 15 languages including Hindi, has raised $13.5 million from General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund and DN Capital. The company had raised $10 million in September 2006 from the same VCs and various angels
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Guruji.com eyes Rs 20 crore in revenues by 2009
Internet search engine Guruji.com, which was launched in October 2006, expects to become profitable with revenues of $5 million (approximately Rs 20 crore) by the end of 2009 or early 2010. Guruji has already started monetising its traffic by adopting the pay-per-click revenue model.
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WebSight!-Spin the Web. Explore!
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OS2i, a global recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) company with offices in UK, US and India, now has its its Internet recruitment training program for the Indian recruitment industry.
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LaunchPad-Just Born Online (I just love the Betas!)
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Shah Rukh unveils his IPL team's website KolkataKnightRiders.com
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan has launched KolkataKnightRiders.com, which provides information about his Indian Premier League (IPL) team - the Kolkata Knight Riders.
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Ibibo unveils travel search engine Dwaar Travel
Ibibo Web's search engine Dwaar has introduced a travel aggregator service Travel.Dwaar.com that aims to help users find and compare flights, rail, buses and hotels for lowest fares.
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Essel group launches entertainment portal MyPopkorn.com
Essel Group's Digital Media Convergence has launched MyPopkorn.com, a video-driven entertainment portal that offers an interactive multimedia content in the form of webisodes of television shows, Bollywood and Hollywood promos, movie clips as well as national and international news.
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StudyPlaces.com launched to help students select right course for further study
StudyPlaces, a global education information provider based in US, has launched an online education information portal that aims to help students find, compare, evaluate and then select the right course, institute and country for their further study.
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Guruji.com launches Live Cricket Score on Guruji mobile search
Internet search company Guruji.com has launched Live Cricket Score on Guruji mobile search. The new feature, which is available on WAP/GPRS enabled mobile phones, will help the cricket fans access the cricket score even when they are on the move and can't access a TV or computer during a cricket match, Guruji has said.
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ClickIndia.com launches city specific online local guides
Neighbourhood classifieds site ClickIndia.com has launched online local guides that offer city specific information, maps, advertisements and events. Its online city specific local guides are currently available for Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata.
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NDTV Convergence launches Hindi news site NDTVKhabar.com
NDTV Convergence, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NDTV Networks, has launched a Hindi news site NDTVKhabar.com for the increasing number of Internet users who prefer Hindi as their primary language of news consumption.
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IBM launches social network to advance Service Oriented Architecture
IBM has launched Smart SOA (service oriented architecture) Social Network that aims to help people connect with each other, through either in person or via blogs or virtually, and enhance their skills around SOA.
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Indiatimes launches social networking site iTimes.com
Times Internet Limited (Indiatimes.com) has launched iTimes.com, a social networking site that would allow users to make friends, scrap them, share photos and videos, and even email them without having to visit some other site. (via ContentSutra)
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iXiGo introduces hotel search engine
Travel search engine iXiGO.com has introduced a comprehensive hotel search feature which will enable customers to search and book accommodation in real time with instant confirmation across 4,500 hotels in 320 Indian cities.
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TradeIndia.com launches news portal for SMEs
B2B portal TradeIndia.com has launched SME Times, a news portal for the small and medium enterprises. The news portal will offer articles written by its staffers, experts and freelancers, besides a daily dose of news.
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MagicBricks allows property seekers to call property sellers for free
Real estate portal MagicBricks.com has launched a 'Click to Call' service that will allow property seekers to make free calls to premium property advertisers across the country who have posted their premium properties on the site.
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SilverInnings.com launched to address information needs of elderly people
People for Social Cause, an NGO (non-governmental organisation), has launched SilverInnings.com, a website dedicated to the needs of elderly people. The website will host sections on health and medical issues, finance and investments, law, leisure activities and hobbies, help line and counselling services and a directory of old age homes and other services needed by the elder population and their family members.
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SitaGita.com launches blogging platform for women working in BPOs
SitaGita.com, a portal for women, has launched Sigi BPO Buzz, a blogging platform targeted at women working in the call centre and business process outsourcing industry. Sigi BPO Buzz aims to create an online environment for women where they could meet, discuss, share and voice their views about the advantages, disadvantages, and issues they face.
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Naaptol.com allows users to buy products from offline merchants
Naaptol.com has launched a comparison based social shopping portal that allows users to find, compare and buy products from either an online or offline merchant. The unique aspect of the portal is that it provides details of prices being offered by both online as well as offline merchants and also offers merchant details for consumers to connect directly for any offline purchase.
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Nexus-Link.Un.Link
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Yatra.com in talks with Kuoni for acquiring its corporate travel arm
Online travel company Yatra.com is reportedly in talks with a leading travel services provider Kuoni for acquiring its corporate travel arm.
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Ybrant Digital's ad network partners with Swedish online media group G life
Oridian, an ad network owned by digital marketing solutions company Ybrant Digital, has entered into a joint venture with Swedish lifestyle and social network G life AB. Under the agreement, G life, through its subsidiary Livsstilsnätverket, will act as an agent for Oridian in Sweden, with exclusive license to sell online advertising over the Oridian network in the region.
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Alok Vaish joins Yatra.com as CFO
Online travel company Yatra.com has appointed Alok Vaish as chief financial officer of the company. Prior to joining Yatra, Alok Vaish was CFO of Hindustan Sanitaryware, a publicly listed bathroom products company in India.
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L D Sharma launches affiliate, search engine marketing company
L D Sharma, former director of search and affiliate at DGM India, has launched Shoogloo Online Marketing (OnlineMarketing.co.in), an online marketing company that specializes in affiliate marketing and search engine marketing.
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Arzoo ties up with Ammas.com for travel related queries
Travel portal Arzoo.com has partnered with Ammas.com, a leading knowledge exchange platform, to provide answers to its users for all their travel related queries.
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Indiatimes Travel partners with MSC Cruises to offer international cruise plans
Indiatimes Travel in partnership with MSC Cruises, which is a part of Italy-based Mediterranean Shipping Company, has launched Cruises.Indiatimes.com to enable travellers book online international cruises across the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.
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Google partners with United Nations to track refugee movements
Google has partnered with United Nations High Commission for Refugees to track refugee movements around the globe. The Internet search company has said it will use its Google Earth program to display satellite images with additional information about refugees overlaid on the geographic detail.
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Zeta Interactive names Anil Unnikrishnan president of its India operations
US-based interactive marketing company Zeta Interactive has named Anil Unnikrishnan as president of its India operations. Unnikrishnan replaces Pradeep Vegunta who recently announced his retirement from the company.
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NaiDunia (Webdunia) appoints Arpan Chatterjee as chief marketing officer
NaiDunia Group, which owns NaiDunia newspaper and multi-lingual portal Webdunia.com, has appointed Arpan Chatterjee as chief sales and marketing officer of the company. Prior to joining NaiDunia, Chatterjee was associate vice president, marketing, sales and customer support at CyberMedia's online tech job portal.
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Google to deliver ads on Yahoo search pages
Yahoo has partnered with Google for a limited test of Google AdSense for Search service. Under the deal, Google will deliver relevant ads from its Google AdSense network alongside Yahoo's own search results.
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That's all for now folks!
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Makkad-G
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