Indian Express is back in business. I mean they are back with their revamped e-commerce offering titled Shopping.Expressindia.com. It seems like the Indian Express e-commerce venture will not be driven by Rediff Shopping.

Spice Group recently bought the Indian arm of Cellucom which is a mobile retail chain. Though the BK Modi lead Spice Group has bought 100% shares of Cellucom the latter gets a 26% stake in HotSpot (Spice’s retail venture).

This New Year has been eventful for the DigiMouth Team. In our efforts to promulgate the Indian online industry to the world we have added two new sections:

Facebook Connect has been launched and now with the help of the same you can log onto other web siteswith your Facebook ID. The application was first announced way back in May 2008 but has seen the light this month. The bets part is that with Facebook Connect you can even see what your friends [...]

Indiatimes.com has two new offerings. Part of the Times InternetLimited Indiatimes.com is rounding up its web offerings with the introduction of iDiva, a woman’s portal and B2B which is an online marketplace.

Fox Interactive is here to stay. The digital arm of News Corp is all set to do business in India. Fox Interactive extends its digital advertising expertise by launching their online ad network

eShopping is the new mantra for Reliance ADAG. The company announced their desire to foray into the online retail space with RelianceMoneyMall.com. The new venture will encompass a vast product and service offering; from mutual funds to clothing and IPO’s to music. So you have access to a wide gamut of financial products and FMCG’s. RelianceMoneyMall.com [...]

The $ 91 billion micro-credit market in India has a new hero. DhanaX.com founder Siva Prasad has been nominated for the Pepsi MTV Youth Icon 2008. The social micro-lending site mentored by Morpheus Venture Partners has won many laurels and is tagged as “one of the most innovative companies”.

Predominantly designed for media planners the Google Ad Planner was launched in mid-2008 and made available to a few agencies. Now Google has opened the doors for the world as anyone with a Google account can access the Ad Planner.

“A child is a curly dimpled lunatic” says Ralph Waldo Emerson, and taming these lunatics can be a big issue. In fact some finicky parents cannot live without advice and tips from mags, blogs or even their neighbours. But now Indian parents can tackle many parenting issues with the help of the Internet. All thanks [...]

With industry losses of upto $2 billion from software piracy and counterfeiting Microsoft is all set to bring about a change. In their efforts to counter piracy Microsoft India has launched an e-commerce platform called BuyOriginalMS.com. The new platform has been introduced as part of their global anti-piracy initiatives.

In this new age it is proven that ‘content is king’. Well on the other hand even the consumer of the content is an emperor in their own domain. There is a sudden surge of user driven content and every new online startup is offering its users an active role in content generation.

The famed afternoon daily Mid-Day has revamped its website www.mid-day.com. The daily has been branding and positioning itself as the daily for young urban mobile professionals of India and revamp is part of the same. This move is even part of the Rs. 6 crore ‘Make Work Fun’ campaign. 

The makers of BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM), have been doing a lot of work these days. BlackBerry’s recent initiatives are aimed at capturing mainstream customers.

The state-owned telecom giant BSNL has passed an equipment tender for 93 million lines. Six international telecom network majors will be bidding in what is termed as the ‘world’s largest telecom equipment tender’.