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  • Disney India joins hands with Liberty to launch ‘Avengers’ footwear

    Disney India joins hands with Liberty to launch ‘Avengers’ footwear

    MUMBAI: Disney India has joined hands with Liberty to launch a special range of footwear featuring Marvel’s Avengers.

     

    Liberty has introduced over 50 styles featuring the Marvel Avengers namely Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and Thor. The range is launched to add to the on-going fervor around The Avengers: Age of Ultron scheduled to release on 24 April, 2015.

     

    The range includes flip-flops, casual shoes and sandals and is available for boys above four years. The design depicts each character’s most recognised icons through its varied prints and is available in multiple shades of blue, red, green, and white. The shoes are fully adjustable with velcro fasteners and laces to provide a perfect custom fit, and cushioned insole making them comfortable and play-worthy. 

     

    The range is priced between Rs 399 – 1499, and is available across all exclusive Liberty showrooms and select multi brand stores. The products are also available online on Amazon.in and Libertyshoesonline.com. 

  • Raghav Bahl’s new venture The Quint makes its debut

    Raghav Bahl’s new venture The Quint makes its debut

    MUMBAI: Months ago he introduced his digital baby The Quint on Facebook. Since January after publishing stories on the social media platform, Indian media mogul turned entrepreneur Raghav Bahl’s latest venture The Quint has finally made its online debut.

     

    After their stint with television, Bahl along with his wife Ritu Kapur, co-founded a digital company called Quintillion Media. The mobile focussed digital platform covers a wide array of news sections. These include politics, opinion, technology, world, entertainment, life, India, business and sports. A photo section dedicated to mostly Hollywood and Bollywood content, besides a video and podcast section is also a part of the new-born website. To lend a lighter tone to the content, a WaterQooler section features humourous and interesting anecdotes that are popular from around the world. The website is currently running in its BETA version.

     

    The content for the website is being created by the in-house content team of editorial writers as well as wire stories. A separate section on the website called “QuintEssential” has stories that are exclusive and personal posts that have been written by the founder duo, including the making of The Quint. Another section featuring on the home page, “Trending” includes stories and videos that are have been going viral in the cyber domain.

     

    The website is seeing a growing traction on its social media platforms. For example, its Twitter handle currently has more than 3,000 followers and more than 7,000 Facebook likes. Access to these two media is available above on the top right hand corner of the webpage.

     

    As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, the company was registered on 23 August, 2014 with an authorised capital of Rs 130 crore. It invested in a start up venture known as Quintype, based in the San Francisco Bay Area with entrepreneur Amit Rathore as CEO and chief product officer. The website has been powered by Quintype offers cloud based solutions for editorial assignments as well publishing formats for mobile phones, tablets, desktop etc.

     

    Most of those in the news team include former staffers of Network 18, Bahl’s former company that was sold to Reliance Industries for Rs 700 crores. Former Web18 VP Roshan Tamang is the digital media consultant for the venture.

  • Raghav Bahl launches The Quint

    Raghav Bahl launches The Quint

    MUMBAI: “It’s actually a no brainer. If you have to reinvent, you have to simply start from scratch,” said Raghav Bahl as he introduced the team behind his latest venture- The Quint. 

     

    The man is gearing for his newest venture. After their stint with television, Bahl along with Ritu Kapur has, co founded their digital company called Quintillion Media. The name has been derived from the Quintillion (Kwin-til-yuh-n), which means the numerical one followed by 18 zeroes. 

     

    The company was registered on 23 August, last year, bearing the registration number 270795 with an authorised capital of Rs 130 crore. It invested in a start up called Quintype, based in the San Francisco Bay Area with entrepreneur Amit Rathore as CEO and chief product officer. At Quintype, Bahl is the chief strategist and board member while Kapur is the chief customer looking after the product and also a board member.

     

    In a video released on Facebook, the media mogul is seen introducing Quintillion’s first digital baby, which will be a mobile-first, algorithmic digital hand held news service named www.thequint.com. 

     

    The office is based at Noida’s Film City just a few buildings away from that of Network18.  

     

    Going by Indian tradition, not surprisingly an auspicious ‘pooja’ was performed in November, last year, as the startup is gearing to soar high. The content will be high on visual and imagery and crisper with the text. It will not be limited to news but also cover genres like technology, health among others. The aim of the platform is to ‘be the signal over the noise’. The current logo is that of the alphabet ‘Q’ in white and purple over a canary yellow background. On Facebook, it currently has 579 likes since its launch on 9 January.

     

    Giving his views on social media, Bahl wrote on Facebook, “Social media, especially Google and Facebook, are an independent journalist’s best friends, giving his piece a viral velocity impossible within the linear confines of newspapers and TV”

     

    All in all, it remains to be seen how this reinvention takes form as it gears to take over competitors like Scroll, Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post India.