Internet in India
The print and TV media in India are undoubtedly the hot favourites 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 for a piece of that pie (however small is OK; we need a beginning). A … [Read more] about When will online journalists in India get free housing and awards?
Lately, Google has been talking a lot about mobile internet and internet usage in India. According to Google-India, India will have over 200 million internet users by 2013. Other points from the report, India has 100 million internet users now (September 2011) - only 8% of 1.2 billion are online in India. India will add 200 million Internet … [Read more] about God, uh I mean Google says internet usage in India to explode
Twitter has released the Hindi version of their interface yesterday. Most of the sites have given a thumbs down to the level of localization Twitter has gone into (see Medianama & Pluggd.in). Recently Twitter announced it has 100 million active users globally. 40% of active users use Twitter for news. India has about 3-4 million Twitter … [Read more] about Twitter embraces Hindi, will it help?
There was an interesting article about "Why do companies rebrand?" in yesterday's issue of Economic Times on Sunday (Aug 28-Sept 3, 2011, page 16, Bangalore edition). I am unable to find the article on their site. For some reason logos have always been of interest to me - more than the graphic the reasoning, thought process which goes behind the … [Read more] about Why do companies change their logos?
IAMAI & IMRB report India will have 46 million mobile internet users by Sept 2011, just recently Google India reported the number to be 150 million. The gap between the two numbers is huge, pick which ever suits you. Few details from "Mobile Internet in India Report 2011" carried by IAMAI/IMRB [download entire report], Primary research … [Read more] about India has anywhere from 46m to 150m mobile internet users