Motorola is strengthening their Android team, in a move to simplify their development process. Motorola has been struggling to come up with a worthy successor to its Razr range of phones and its shift towards Android is to come up with handsets that give serious competition and reclaim their market share.

Get ready to play games based on real-life events and people. Yes, you read it right! Koffii.com, a new online gaming and social networking website, has unique games like Laloo Ki Laadli (based on the popular politician) and their own version of Stick Cricket.

Hyderabad based digital marketing solutions firm, Ybrant Digital is gearing up to acquire Scott Richter’s Media Breakaway. The acquisition will apparently cost Ybrant about $100 million. Scott Richter is the famed spam king while he even owns a leading performance-based online advertising and direct marketing company, Media Breakaway. Scott’s company has been in the limelight [...]

Network 18, as a network, is growing in leaps and bounds. After acquiring MTV, their new TV venture has been the biggest step. Colors, the upcoming Hindi channel, have launched a website for the online savvy audience. Branded around the look and feel of the channel, the website will offer downloadable show-related content along with [...]

Rediff.com recently pulled the curtain off its own developer program called the Rediff Platform. The company announced the launch of the program at Delhi’s Proto.in startup event. Rediff states that the properties are been designed to support Facebook’s markup language tool.

Forget sending money orders to distant villages or visiting an ATM or standing in a queue at a bank. Indian telecom giant Bharati Airtel has tied up with four banks SBI, HDFC, ICICI and Corporation Bank to offer m-banking services to not only the metros but the smallest towns in India. Bharati Airtel aims at [...]

The government’s final verdict on the M&A norms is in favour of startups. The new operators can enjoy the freedom to sell majority stake in their companies. Telecom Secretary Siddartha Behura conformed that the government would not be reviewing the M&A norms.

“No one knows what women want!” Well I guess this big question even put the Walmart team into a flurry. Even they now believe that fashion comes with a big price tag. The fashionable line of women’s wear that Wal-Mart Stores online division has been selling since last August is slated to be put out [...]

T-Series is on a suing roll. The company with a 60% market share in the Indian music industry is the lone crusader against content piracy. MSN, MySapce, BharatStudent and Guruji are some of the few websites that will be receiving legal notices from Super Cassettes Industries (T-Series). The legal notice has been issued as the [...]

UFO Moviez, the digital film distribution service of Valuable Group has found great interest in defunct Video-on-Demand (VoD) service MovieBeam. The Group will be making a $100 million investment in the next two years. This move surely helps Valuable Group to tap into the North American market. UFO Moviez is one of the world’s largest [...]

According to industry sources Sony Ericsson is considering a merger with Indian handset maker Spice Mobile. The BK Modi Group owns 64% of Spice Mobile demanded for Rs. 80-100 per share. This price range would in turn value the company at up to $174 million. Though Spice Mobile sources have agreed that talks are on [...]

Yahoo surely knows how to push the bar higher. In its efforts to better its search capabilities Yahoo is relying on the best brains in the world. Its has partnered with varied technology universities like Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and our good old Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai.

There has been a sudden surge mobile VAS (value added services) companies trying to change the Indian market. Paid mobile content is still mushrooming in India yet many investors and companies believe in a gradual yet tremendous growth in the coming years.

The wallet is taking novel forms every year. Now you do not need a physical wallet anymore – no cards, no cash, no change. Simply flash your mobile and pay for anything, anywhere. In a bid to offer Indian customers with the convenience of paying bills with their mobile phones or PC’s Delhi based Oxigen [...]

It is evident that the world has opened their eyes to India. The acquisition of ContentNext Media by the Guardian News & Media (GNM) is evidence enough.