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 […]
Vodafone India has launched its own games and app platform in India, weeks after the mobile operator launched its Music and Sports offerings. While Vodafone had tied up with players Hungama.com for its music services, it has tied up with Disney India for its games and app platform, which can be accessed via its Vodafone […]
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 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 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 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 […]
The global digital music market is expected to grow $9 billion worldwide in 2014, a report by Mahindra Comviva and Ovum Consulting said today. Across the nine markets surveyed (both emerging and developed), the share of devices used for listening, purchasing or downloading music has changed dramatically in 2013, as compared to 2010. Computer share […]
The cloud services market in India will grow at close to 30% this year to about $550 mln, according to technology forecasting firm Gartner. The rate of forecast is three times the 10% growth that Nasscom has predicted for the domestic IT and BPO market in the year 2014-15. Gartner’s forecast includes only public cloud […]
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 […]
