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  • KyaZoonga sells all tickets for Sachin’s match within 15 hours

    KyaZoonga sells all tickets for Sachin’s match within 15 hours

    MUMBAI: Within 15 hours Kyzoonga.com, the official online ticketing partner for Mumbai Cricket Association’s (MCA) 2nd India vs West Indies Test match, which will also pull down the curtains on Sachin Tendulkar’s illustrious international Test career, sold all the allotted tickets for the match.

    Apparently, the site had crashed within minutes of opening sales on Monday because of heavy online traffic. The site witnessed close to 20 million hits in the first hour itself. The website remained clogged till very late as all the cricketing fans wanted to book a ticket for the over-hyped match. According to reports, the site had only 6,000 tickets for sale for the general public for the master blaster’s last match.

    However, the objective of the organisers was to ensure wider reach and also that no person was allotted more than two tickets.

    The buyers who have been successful in booking tickets can start collecting their tickets now from the Mumbai Hockey Association counters, next to Wankhede Stadium. Customers are required to get the validation documents as outlined on the site and on their confirmation page.

    The buyers, who couldn’t book the tickets successfully but have seen a balance deduction, will be refunded soon.

  • ShipRocket offers high-speed dispatch and shipping service for e-retailers

    ShipRocket offers high-speed dispatch and shipping service for e-retailers

    MUMBAI: KartRocket, an e-commerce platform for SMEs and retailers, has launched a new powerful order-processing and shipping service for its e-retail clients, ShipRocket.

    The one-click service, based on the SAAS (Software as a Service) model, allows e-commerce ventures to enjoy the benefits of the highly efficient delivery management service. ShipRocket enables its clients to dispatch a shipment, pick a courier company, assign an airway bill number and print a shipping label amongst other facilities.

    The service prints all packing slips in batches providing easy access to all customers and order information in one place. Order statuses change automatically from ‘dispatch’ to ‘shipped’ and from ‘shipped’ to ‘delivered’, facilitating the tracking of order history for a particular order.  The final consumer is notified via auto-emails and SMSes when the order moves through dispatch and delivery. ShipRocket manages remittance from various companies and is fully integrated with Amazon and eBay.

    Kartrocket.com CEO and co-founder Saahil Goel commented on the new service saying, “ShipRocket is a phenomenal new technology that we have introduced to smoothen the work of those who want to sell their products online. The service has extended coverage with shipping enablement to over 12,000 pin codes including 6,000 COD pin codes. We follow the policy of a uniform contractual agreement for all clients, enabling multi-vendor management with vendor panels for all our clients. We truly hope to revolutionize the e-commerce space with this excellent introduction.”

    Keeping true to its promise of providing unmatched coverage and reach to its clients, the company is looking at adding more shipping service providers in local regions in the quarters to come.

  • Gozoop wins digital and social media mandate for e-commerce portal Dhamaal.com

    Gozoop wins digital and social media mandate for e-commerce portal Dhamaal.com

    MUMBAI: Gozoop, which recently acquired Red Digital, won the social media mandate for the e-commerce portal, dhamaal.com. The objective of the whole campaign is to drive traffic to their website and make it the best shopping portal in India.

    The activity will be carried out in two phases. The first phase will create awareness of the portal and make customers comfortable with the platform, while in the second phase dhamaal.com will move on to promote their categories of product and gratify the fans by holding exciting contests.

    Commenting on this, Gozoop managing director (India) and co-founder Ahmed Naqvi said, “GoZoop is excited to make things happen for Dhamaal. We look forward to run awesome campaigns and deliver results that help build lasting relationships between Dhamaal and its customers. It’s all about making people happy, the results will follow.”

    He further added, “The initial feedback has been quite overwhelming. Having worked with most of the e-commerce companies in India, we bring to the table an experience and expertise that will deliver a wow.”

    “Gozoop was our first choice the minute we decided to go for a social media campaign as we had worked with them in the past and were very happy and satisfied with their level of service and professionalism. We are sure that with Gozoop’s association, our brand and website Dhamaal.com will get the necessary exposure it needs and will become a success in a very short time,” said Dhamaal.com CEO Hanif Sama.

    Dhamaal.com is an online market place selling products ranging from apparels, watches, mobiles and electronics to home and lifestyle items like washing machines and televisions. Since its inception Gozoop has worked with e-commerce portals like Snapdeal, FashionandYou, Quikr, Groupon, Majorbrands, Deals&You, Pepperyfry and Rocket Internet Startups among many others.

  • Music industry seeks protection of IPR, enforcement of laws

     
    Music industry seeks protection of IPR, enforcement of laws
     

    MUMBAI: Riding high on technological changes, the music industry and its affiliates in India are not seeking much intervention from the finance minister this time round, except for better enforcement of laws.

    The Indian Music Industry (IMI), the body that looks after the interests of most of the music companies in the country, says that there is not much it expects from the Union Budget. But the Phonographic Performances Limited (PPL), the licencing arm of the IMI, is looking at some concrete intervention.

    PPL CEO Vipul Pradhan believes there should be a provision in the budget to reduce the VAT on cassettes. He says, “We are hoping the government reduces the VAT on cassettes, which is 12 per cent currently. The VAT applicable on CDs is four per cent which makes it more feasible for the people to opt for CDs instead of the audio cassettes. Reducing the VAT on cassettes also at four per cent will help in their sales.”

    “Also, the government has to undertake some kind of initiative for protection of intellectual property and rights. The growth of a country is determined by and large by the sale of computer and entertainment software and piracy is killing the industry. So, it is necessary to form a separate body to protect the intellectual property and also funding is required to educate the common masses about the ill effects of piracy,” adds Pradhan.

    The governing body for the music industry down south, Simca, too is not looking for drastic changes, but a stricter adherence to prevailing laws. Simca general secretary SL Saha says, “There are no budgetary or fiscal requirements that I expect in the budget but proper enforcement of the prevailing acts to promote the industry.”

    PDM Entertainment COO Aman Anand, who recently organised the Sunburn Music Festival in Goa, wants a lowering of entertainment tax in the budget.

    Mobile content company DNS Networks is looking at tax benefits for producers and film making companies, to enable good production values in films, which in turn help mobile content get marketed profitably throughout the world. “Mobile content based on movies, including music, will get an indirect but big boost if filmmaking corporate houses can avail of these tax benefits,” says DNA Networks’ MD Devashish Mishra.

    The Internet and Mobile Association of India’s wishlist for the Union Budget recommends that the nascent e-commerce industry in the country be encouraged by the removal of service tax on online internet transactions done through credit cards, debit cards and net banking transactions, a move that might help the online music stores that have been started by some music companies and content aggregators in the country.

    The IAMAI has also recommended that the state governments be directed not to impose entertainment tax on internet and broadband services.

    People Infocom CEO Manoj Dawane says, “The Indian Mobile VAS Industry is on a growth path, and the times ahead promise opportunities that will need to be capitalized on and avenues that will have to be chartered. Given the existing scenario, we hope for a Budget that provides our space the support to make the most of the opportunities presented.

    “Telecom and media are two of the most important interrelated industries for the MVAS space. Considering both these sectors, we would look forward to the implementation of a single levy system for the telecom sector making telecom services more affordable. We would also look forward to some relief in the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT).”

    “It would be favorable for service tax regulations to be kept simple, which will result in increased compliance and greater tax collections, along with making Tax filings and administration simpler and taxpayer friendly,” adds Dawane.
  • Reliance Communications’ Falcon Cable System becomes operational

    Reliance Communications’ Falcon Cable System becomes operational

    MUMBAI: Reliance Communications owned Falcon Undersea Cable System has started its operational from today unleashing international bandwidth between India, Middle East and Europe.

    The Flag Telecom Global Network would be the world’s largest undersea cable system covering 65,000 route kms, with the launch of Falcon. The current bandwidth on India-Europe route is controlled by VSNL and Bharti.

    “Falcon will have an equally powerful impact on the economic front, driving higher levels of trade, commerce and global integration,” Reliance ADA chairman Anil Ambani said.

    The vision at Reliance ADA group is to ‘give millions of ordinary people across the world the means to realize their dreams, the power to shape their destiny, the chance to fulfill their true and diverse potential,” Ambani added.

    The Flag Global Network bridges the distance between 35 diverse developed and developing economies, connecting the global economic hubs in USA, UK, Germany, France, Middle East, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Japan to name a few.

    The Company’s Flag is the first global network of this scale to provide integrated connectivity on one seamless network to the three highest growing regions; India, Middle East and China; in terms of international bandwidth demand.

  • Hathway launches digital cable in Hyderabad

    Hathway launches digital cable in Hyderabad

    MUMBAI: Even as the government is assimilating views of the various industry stakeholders on how to roll out conditional access system (CAS) smoothly, multi-system operators (MSOs) are busy plotting expansion of their digital cable TV service.

    Hathway Cable & Datacom today announced the launch of its digital cable in Hyderabad. The MSO has already rolled out its digital services in Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Bangalore.

    Digital cable TV services are offered to the customer through a remote controlled digital device, which will be accompanied by a fully functional sleek smart card.

    “The advantages of the digital set-top boxes (s) is that the consumer does not have to pay extra money in their monthly cable TV bill but in turn can enjoy over 150 digital channels. The device costs over Rs. 2500,” Hathway said in a release.

  • AOL and Warner Bros. to launch the first broadband television network In2TV

    AOL and Warner Bros. to launch the first broadband television network In2TV

    MUMBAI: AOL and Warner Bros. are saying “Welcome Back” to thousands of classic TV shows with the launch of In2TV, the first broadband television network, on AOL.com.

    The network offers the largest collection of free on-demand TV shows on the web, including full episodes of favorite Warner Bros. programs from the past 40 years such as Welcome Back, Kotter, Chico & The Man, Alice, Growing Pains, Sisters, Kung Fu, Lois & Clark and many others, along with interactive features and viral videos that enable audiences to experience and interact with television programming in an entirely new way.

    “In2TV breaks new ground as the first true broadband television network. With the largest collection of full length television programming anywhere on the Web, plus interactive features and viral videos all free and on-demand, In2TV will appeal to existing fans as well as introduce these shows to a whole new generation. In2TV is another important milestone in the evolution of video on the Web, and is one more way that we are making AOL.com the best destination for video online,” said AOL Media Networks executive vice president Kevin Conroy.

    “In2TV begins to realise the true potential of web-based TV by putting the viewer in charge of their own TV schedule online. This opens up new opportunities for platforms and program distributors alike and points to the prospect of exciting new paradigms in online and interactive entertainment soon to come,” said Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group president Kevin Tsujihara.

    “In2TV offers consumers access to an unprecedented collection of Warner Bros. TV favorites including thousands of great dramas, comedies, animated series loaded with unique interactive features. We’re proud to team with AOL on this first-of-its-kind broadband network and, in the near future we will be adding more recent programs and other TV related content from our studio and other producers that you can’t find anywhere else on the web,” said Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution president Eric Frankel.

    Available exclusively through the AOL.com Web site (http://www.aol.com/in2tv), the In2TV service lets fans watch hundreds of episodes from dozens of shows every month, along with quizzes, puzzles, photo galleries and polls tied to the various shows. The shows are organiaed into six genre-themed channels (with two more to launch this summer), including:

    LOL TV: Laugh Out Loud with everyone’s favorite comedies from Welcome Back, Kotter which made a household name out of John Travolta to the slapstick antics of Cousin Balkai and Larry in Perfect Strangers as well as the Emmy-winning Chico and the Man, Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper and Head of the Class.

    Dramarama TV: Fans will enjoy the unaired “lost” pilot of juicy soap Falcon Crest and all the drama of five-time Emmy nominated Sisters, plus there’s Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Spenser: For Hire and the family favorite Eight Is Enough.

    Toon Topia TV: Kids and adults alike will flock to animated fare such as Beetlejuice, Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid, The New Adventures of Batman and Histeria!

    Heroes and Horrors TV: Sci-Fi and Horror come together in heroic proportions with Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Babylon 5, Wonder Woman, V and Freddy’s Nightmares.

    What a Rush TV: Rev up for plenty of action-adventure when East meets West in Kung Fu, plus La Femme Nikita, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Dark Justice and The Fugitive.

    Vintage TV: Fans find all-time favorites such as Growing Pains with Kirk Cameron, F-Troop, The F.B.I., Maverick and Alice.

    In2TV also features highly engaging viral short-form videos and programming themes that repackage some of the greatest moments in television in exciting new ways.

    In addition, In2TV offers “In2Active TV”–unique interactive experiences that test fans’ knowledge of TV trivia and offer addictive games and challenges.

    In2TV provides advertisers with compelling video inventory for instream broadband advertising as well as opportunities for sponsorships and accompanying banner ads. Video ads, 15-second and 30-second spots, will be limited to a total of one – two minutes within each 30-minute episode as compared to eight minutes of advertising on broadcast television.