Internet in India
Print community in the US has been blaming Google for their downfall. Now this fever has hit the Indian shores. Aroon Purie, chairman and editor-in-chief at The India Today Group, recently said they would not invest anymore in the digital space. I think they do see the importance of the internet, it is just that they will not invest anything … [Read more] about ‘Blame Google’ campaign in Print community hits Indian shores
One of the things I often hear from the VC world about the Indian language space is that UGC is lacking, and entering text in languages is difficult. Regarding UGC, all I would say is that Oneindia.in has seen a growth in language UGC (comments, article contributions, feedback emails). Indian Language Fonts Every language, … [Read more] about Indian language keyboard options
Publishers like Associated Press are asking for a revenue share from Google, bloggers and aggregators. But then Google, bloggers could also come back and ask the publisher to share revenue from the traffic generated by them (Google). There is no end to this sharing business. If a publisher doesn't want Google to benefit from their content, all … [Read more] about Newspapers, wire services, online publishers: It’s all war
A very interesting report, Men Online, from eMarketer which profiles the internet users in US, 95.9 million male compared with 103.2 million female Internet users Once men are online, they visit more sites and stay longer than female Internet users Men are avid search-engine users and participate in all forms of social media, particularly … [Read more] about US has more women internet users than men
IBM has been in 'failed' acquisition talks with Sun Microsystems for the past few weeks. Oracle has struck the deal to acquire Sun for $7.4b which works out to $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. You will find many blog postings related to this acquisition. There is one line item that directly effects us at Oneindia.com and Click.in - … [Read more] about Is it ‘Sun’set for MySQL, courtesy Oracle? Hope not..