Archive for the ‘indian languages’ Category
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
A particular VC has been asking me for a very long time, "Mahesh, what is your take on ecommerce in Indic? Will Indian internet users accept an Indian language ecommerce site?". I have been giving him my views but I did not have any data to back.
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The year 2012 seems to have begun well for the Indic space - print and online media in India have been writing about Indian language space on the internet. Economic Times on Jan 24, 2012 (Republic Day) carried an article titled "Internet’s Next Growth Story to be Scripted in Vernacular ...
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
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PS: My article was published in Thinking Aloud! magazine (December 2011). The entire issue focused on Indian languages on the internet and mobile.
India has about 100 million desktop & 50-150 mobile internet users. These numbers vary depending on whom you ask. IAMAI’s ...
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
The latest comscore press release "India’s Local News Destinations See Visitors from Outside of the Country Account for a Significant Share of their Global Audience" talks about the traffic the popular Indian sites are getting from outside India (safe to assume most of the users from outside India are NRIs).
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Friday, November 4th, 2011
For a while the discussion about domain names in Indian language has been going on. India is about to get its own internationalized domain names (IDNs). China and Russia have their own IDNs for a while now.
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