Digital Media Company, ValueFirst has acquired Way2online - a Hyderabad based Consumer Focused Internet Technology Company, which owns and operates Way2sms.com and 160by2.com – in an all cash deal (expected to be in the ballpark of Rs. 200 Crores) We earlier reported or rather broke the news of Way2SMS acquiring 160by2 in December, 2011.valuefirst The VFirst transaction is one of the largest acquisitions...
The Indian Music Industry (IMI), an industry consortium of 142 music Companies, has obtained orders from the Calcutta High Court directing all Internet Service Providers (387 ISPs) to block 104 music sites. Court orders were obtained on 27th of January, 6th February, and the 1st and 2nd of March 2012. ISPs have been directed by the court to block all 104 sites within...
An Akamai Technologies report, titled State of the Internet Q4 2011 holds the answers to the queries of those of you who think that the state of the Internet (no pun intended) is particularly deplorable in their part of the country. The report, which helped itself with data from the company’s Akamai Intelligent Platform has found the Internet connectivity in India to be...
On Wednesday, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced that it decided not to grant an appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay trial. After a nine-day trial in April 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström were found guilty of assistance to copyright infringement and sentenced to one year each in prison and payment of roughly $7 million in damages. Each defendant appealed...
We learned a lot of things about Facebook from its IPO filing. But there is one detail that sticks out for its improbable exactness: The $1.000 billion in profits Facebook reported for 2011. The number wasn’t $998 million. It wasn’t $1.003 billion. It was $1.000 billion right on the dot. Is this just a happy coincidence, or did Zuckerberg “manage” earnings to make a statement? Companies have many...
Shaadi.com has brought a very innovative and a bizzare app called the Angry Brides designed to target the Indian dowry system. It will give all those angry women a chance to hit those snobbish engineers, doctors or pilots, we mean virtually. You can play this game on Facebook where women can beat up grooms with their heels, broomsticks, pans, eggs, shoe or a...
Che is a 2008 biopic about Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro as Che. The film is actually a merged version of two films by Soderbergh: The Argentine and Guerrilla. The first part focuses on the Cuban revolution, from the moment Fidel Castro, Guevara and other revolutionaries landed on the Caribbean island, until they toppled...
Where will the next dance innovation originate? Here are six videos that offer a clue. Know any cool new dance techniques that we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments, or better yet, post your own video. ...
