Flipboard gets first Indian magazine on board

Flipboard, often billed as the Google News of the mobile world, has won its first media client in India in the shape of Condé Nast, the global publisher that runs magazines such as Vogue and The New Yorker. Vogue India has become the first magazine from India to have a customized version made available on […]

Aam Aadmi streams live coverage of Arvind Kejriwal speech at Bangalore

With many TV channels deciding to “go easy” on covering the events of Aam Aadmi Party, the fledgling political outfit has taken to the Internet to take its live transmission of Arvind Kejriwal’s speech to its followers. Arvind Kejriwal is addressing Aam Aadmi supporters at Bangalore’s Freedom Park. He is expected to say whether he […]

Digital advertising in India now about 10% of total – FICCI KPMG Report 2014

Digital advertising has reached about 10% of the total advertising market in India, according to numbers from the annual FICCI KPMG media and entertainment industry report. Digital advertising, including mobile advertising and online advertising, was the fastest growing segment in 2013 at 39%, followed by radio, which grew by 15%. Among the laggards were TV […]

Facebook wants to become a platform for public content

Facebook wants to emerge as a platform for public content, and not just private or person-to-person content, but is not really offering a video platform for content providers like Youtube, Facebook’s vice president for media partnerships said. “We want to be a platform for sharing of public content,” Justin Osofsky said at India’s FICCI Frames […]

Facebook now has an exclusive newsfeed for Pages

Facebook has unveiled a new newsfeed feature dedicated exclusively to Facebook pages. The new feature, that can be accessed at www.facebook.com/pages/feed, shows ‘stories’ only from Facebook Pages that the user has subscribed to. The idea seems to be to allow users to track news more effectively, while keeping out personal updates from Facebook friends out […]

BBC survey chronicles the rise of the mobile

A new BBC survey has underlined the importance of mobile phones in content consumption – especially news, and shown that Indians are ahead of others when it comes to using mobile phones for productivity purposes. The study, carried out among 6,000 smartphone owners in Australia, Germany, Sweden, India, Hong Kong and the US, found that […]