Archive for the ‘internet portals’ Category

User Generated Content In India: Its Evolution & Opportunities

Monday, November 28th, 2011

On November 16, 2011 VCCircle had organized an event "VCCircle Digital Content & Investment Forum 2011" in Bangalore. I was asked to moderation a session on User Generated Content. The panelists were,

Oneindia is India’s second most popular Local News Destination amongst NRIs: Comscore

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).

When will online journalists in India get free housing and awards?

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

The print and TV media in India are no doubt the hot favorites of the governments in India (Central/Federal & State) and the politicians. The government spends sizable amounts of money on the already cash rich newspapers. Most of us in the internet industry have waited to get a piece ...

Not just politicians, now offline & online stores after non-metros, villages of India

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Our politicians often claim "I am a poor farmer", other than owning farm lands not sure how many of them have ever done real farming. Indian retail industry is about $43,500 crore, will grow to $84,000 crore by 2015 (Pitch Magazine, March 2011 issue). Offline retail stores like Marks & Spencer, ...

Only 2% of radio stations are dedicated to news

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

As kids we grew up listening to just one radio station - All India Radio. The tone of every news bulletin, every jockey was the same - monotonous. It wasn't even clear if the news item was good news or bad news.