With a motive to offer mobile marketing solutions to other media players, advertising and marketing agencies, HT Media Ltd has tied up with a Britain-based firm Velti Plc. Under the new joint venture, the Velti Plc holds 65 per cent stake. According to a statement issued by HT Media, the company ...

There have been several incidents that show you can generate good business provided you have the aptitude and ability to turn any situation to your favor! Take for instance the case of Samir Ansari, a young entrepreneur from Nagpada. Ansari, 23, who has created an internet website after the name of ...

Subhash Ghai-owned film producing company, Mukta Arts has consolidated its position in business and entertainment industry by acquiring 51 per cent stake in Coruscant Tec Pvt Ltd. The Coruscant Tec Pvt Ltd is a top Chennai-based mobile Value-Added Services (VAS) Company founded by Ajay Adiseshann ...

After a lot of waiting the DreamWorks SKG, a major American film studio, inked deal with India's Reliance ADA Group led by Anil Ambani for setting up a $1.2 billion film company. This will pave way for the American studio, co-founded by director Steven Spielberg, to come out of the folds of the ...

A Chennai-based entertainment company Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture in China has set up a theatre there. This theatre, located in Huainan, was inaugurated on September 17, 2008 and has been named the Huainan Pyramid Longzhe Theatre Entertainment ...

The Alliance Group of Chennai, which owns the Real Estate Television, has decided to spend Rs one billion on it over the ensuring two years. The Real Estate TV is India's first 24x7 English channel dedicated to the reality sector. It got launched in July this year.  
 
The CEO of the ...

European regulators have confirmed that they are investigating the deal between Google and Yahoo for anti-competition laws. Evidently, US Department of Justice too has started investigating the deal for the deal is expectedly against anti-competition laws. The deal of $800m between the two Silicon ...

After buying 49% stake in TBWA India, TBWA Worldwide along with Omnicom has become the sole owner of the enterprises. Before the acquisition TBWA was a shareholding company of George John, Kurien Mathews, and N Krishnan. George John did have the largest of the three local shareholders. However, ...

Gurdip Bhangoo has quit as BBC's Asian programmes head and joined Sony Entertainment Television India as its head of programming. He had been overseeing the BBC's Asian Programmes Unit (APU) that has established itself as prime producer of programmes pertaining Asian diaspora in Britain, apart from ...

It is for quite some time now that Google had been trying to break into the business of TV advertising. Its endeavor received a shot in the arm on Monday, September 8, 2008 after NBC Universal said that it will allow the Internet giant to sell some commercials for its cable networks. The two ...

Twentieth Century Fox, an International production house, has joined hands with Asian media firm Star to launch the Fox Star Studios. Their aim is to produce local language films in Asia and their distribution all over the world. Jim Gianopoulos, co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, said that ...

Sources inform that Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's media and entertainment branch, Reliance Big Entertainment has bought away a majority pie in the Willow TV of United States. The Willow TV is the biggest portal in the world for live internet streaming of important cricketing action. Officials from ...

Times Infotainment Media Ltd, the subsidiary of the Times Group, is preparing to repackage its very popular UK rock music station brand Virgin Radio as Absolute Radio. Slated to be launched on September 28, the Times Group in the meantime will undertake an exhilarating 16-week multi-platform ...

Barring India, the Facebook has scrapped the online copy of the popular Scrabble board game 'Scrabulous' from its social networking site. Facebook took this step following a copyright tussle over the game. On Monday, August 25, Facebook announced that it has removed Scrabulous off its site after ...

The Indian government has taken strong objection to the promotional piece of Axe's 'Dark Temptations' deodorant, in which a model wearing the deodorant that has a chocolate scent, eliciting unbearable reactions from women. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has sought information from the ...

The quest to grab more eyeballs by launching regional television channels is on in full swing. This time around, it is the Star India Private Limited which has introduced its very first regional entertainment channel in Bengali called Star Jolsha. It will broadcast a whole array of programmes to ...

UTV Software Communications, an Indian Media and entertainment firm, has announced that it has bought away 80 per cent stake in the True Games Interactive, a gaming company based in California. This acquisition took place through its gaming arm UTV Interactive.
 
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The current fiscal will see the Dish TV invest around Rs 100 Crore to Rs 125 Crore on marketing, brand promotion and customer-acquisition initiatives. Mr Jawahar Goel, Managing Director of Dish TV, informed that they had invested Rs 103 Crore during 2007-08 on similar tasks.
 
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The Dubai Expo to be held in November 3-5 is all set to attract more than 13,000 visitors from 47 countries. The Domus group, organizers of the event has revealed that over 200 exhibitors which represent nearly 600 brands would participate in the show. The expo is Middle East's premier exhibition ...

Targeting the substantial Bhojpuri speaking population of north India, the Mahuaa Media Private Limited (MMPL) has launched the 24 hours general entertainment channel in Bhojpuri titled Mahuaa TV in India. A first of its kind in the country, the channel was recently launched by Railway Minister ...

The Walt Disney Company has acquired 15 per cent of UTV Global Broadcasting Limited (UGBL), the UTV Software Communications’ broadcasting arm, for Rs 118 Crore. At present 300,000 equity shares of the company is held by the Walt Disney.
 
About 15,00,000 equity shares of Rs 10 each in ...

In order to expand its customer base the ESPN, which broadcasts sport-related programmes 24x7, has acquired the Racing-Live.com. A multi-lingual web-site, Racing-Live.com focuses on F1 motor racing, Moto-GP and Superbike coverage, rallies. In a nutshell, one can say that the Racing-Live.com is ...

A prominent Indian business news daily has reported that STAR India may purchase a majority stake in the general entertainment channels of the Asianet Entertainment. It, however, did not cite a source. STAR India is a unit of the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation.   
 
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The world’s largest media conglomerate company, News Corporation owned by Rupert Murdoch has announced that it aims to invest $100 million in India for starting six regional TV channels. India is one of the fastest growing media markets in the world.
 
Speaking on this issue, Murdoch ...

Office of Communications (Ofcom) has fined the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) a total of £400,000 for breaching its Broadcasting Code pertaining unjust conduct of viewer and listener competitions. Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the communication ...

Internet search biggie Google Inc. bought away four-month-old Omnisio Inc on Wednesday, July 31. Google states that it plans to employ the technology of the start-up firm for mixing online videos and adding comments to videos into its YouTube video site. How much the acquisition cost Google was not ...

The Internet giant Google has been sued for about €500m or $779m by Mediaset, the Italian media group, allegedly over ‘illegal commercial use’ of video clips which are copyrighted on YouTube.  This has happened after America’s Viacom and Spanish broadcaster Telecinco of ...

Media czar Rupert Murdoch is in his sixth visit to India, and this time he has many jumbo dreams to execute; one of them is to forge joint partnership with Times of India group. Interestingly, Murdoch has been known for big take over in media sector all across the world.
 
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UTV Software Communications, the media and entertainment company promoted by Ronnie Screwvala has registered Rs 25.08 Crore net profit for the first quarter ended June 30, 2008. In the corresponding period the previous year, the figure stood at Rs 9.09 Crore and it therefore marks a rise of 176 per ...

NDTV Good Times, India’s leading travel and lifestyle channel has entered into a distribution partnership with Dialog TV of Sri Lanka. Rahul Sood, NDTV (Head - Distribution & Affiliate Sales) commenting on the deal said partnership with Dialog TV to offer NDTV Good Times to viewers in Sri ...