Internet in India
I was too lazy to come up with a headline, so decided to reuse the heading of the article I wrote in 2012 "Will India see an Internet inflection point by 2014?". Reliance Industries is going to be investing in a big way at home, in India - $30 billion over the next 3 years! In yesterday's Reliance AGM few announcements made that would interest the … [Read more] about Will India see an Internet inflection point by 2015?
Facebook and Twitter are seeing very healthy & promising growth in the mobile ad revenues. To strengthen its mobile advertising revenue Twitter announced today that it is acquiring mobile native ad specialist Namo Media (no relation with India's PM NaMo). Needless to say the combination of native advertising and mobile is a killer one and … [Read more] about Twitter Acquires Namo Media!
Delhi clearly hogs all the attention when it comes to admissions to undergraduate courses every year. All over India it is safe to assume admission time is very stressful in families. Every aspect of the admission process is torturous - getting application form, buying bank demand draft to pay the application fee, then submitting the form with a … [Read more] about Was Delhi University using the wrong webserver?
Every year IAMAI does a great job in releasing a report on Local Language (Indic) usage in India. Few highlights from "Local Language Report 2013" are listed below, Increase in availability of local language content can increase the user base of internet users in India by 25% (majority of this coming from rural areas) 43% of the non-users of … [Read more] about 43% of the non-users of the Internet in India are willing to go online if content is provided in local language
Today is International Women's Day. Came across this report and thought it was the most appropriate day to blog the findings. Women spent more time on average using smartphone and tablet applications than men did during the fourth quarter, according to a Nielsen study. The study also noted that the average American spends nearly 60 hours a week … [Read more] about International Women’s Day – Women outpace men in mobile usage