International premier news portal BBC.com has launched three new dedicated editions of its website for India, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand respectively. These new editions will reportedly offer an “immersive and localized” BBC.com experience for its audience. It will provide in-depth analysis and breaking news coverage that will appeal to the audience’s needs and interests. To aid with this coverage, BBC.com has built a new Asia-Pacific team based in Singapore who will be working alongside other journalists from the BBC’s international news service. Chris Davies, acting managing director, for BBC.com explained: At ...
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Google Redesigns its Indian Edition of Google News
Google yesterday announced the redesign of its UK and Indian editions of Google News, in a effort to unify the experience across its various editions. It claims that these editions offer a richer visual navigation, similar to its US Edition, in order to make the website more browsable. It also allows you to discover trending and popular news with ease, and provides more options to improve the news and sharing experience. The "Personalize" button present at the top right of your screen allows you to add any specific news topic like Astronomy, Cricket, and Parliament ...
Sep 21 2011
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Tata Docomo and Network18 Offer Breaking News in Video
With all the recent new mobile and tablet technology, consuming news can be really fun - think Flipboard, Twitter, YouTube, and many more. And in India, receiving breaking news is getting fun too, especially when video news can be sent straight to your mobile. That’s very possible, and it’s here in India today. Tata Docomo has just announced its brand new Video News Alert feature for all its 2G and 3G subscribers. The feature will provide breaking news alerts in a video clip format, where users can either stream to view ...
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“Tiger Wife” Wendi Deng Mauls Murdoch’s Pie Attacker, in NMA Animation [VIDEO]
Wendi Deng (pictured in a pink jacket) is the Chinese-born third wife of the News Corporation overlord Rupert Murdoch. And now, after a speedy leap to her husband's defense when confronted with a protestor/prankster brandishing a "pie" on a paper plate, she is being lauded as a "tiger wife" by some people. In that spirit, Taiwan's Next Media group has sprung its digital animators into action, in a video that reports the event and also turns Mrs Deng, 42, into an actual, leg-mauling tiger. There's also a rather disturbing three seconds ...
Jul 4 2011
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Alibaba.com Rewards Hero Mother Who Saved Child From 10th Floor Fall
Alibaba.com will reward one its workers with 200,000 RMB (which is about US$31,000) in cash after she miraculously saved a young child that fell from a tenth-floor apartment window. The woman, now known across China as the 'Hero Mother,' saw a neighbor's child clinging to a window-sill and positioned herself for a life-saving catch of the two-year old kid. The 'Hero Mother' is 31-year-old Wu Juping (pictured right), an employee at Alibaba HQ in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. She herself is a new mother. Speaking to national television yesterday - ...
Jul 1 2011
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Para Group Acquires Online Media Giant Detik.com
Detik.com, the first and most popular news website in Indonesia, has been acquired by Para Group. Well, rumor on the acquisition has already started spreading a couple of days ago, thanks to Rama and his team at DS. Para Group is owned by Chairul Tanjung, one of top 150 richest Indonesians (24th to be exact, according to Globe Asia magazine) with over $900 million in wealth. He also owns a number of businesses, such as Bank Mega, Trans Corp, and Carrefour Indonesia. Para Group has been wanting to buy Detik since two ...
Jun 29 2011
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China’s Radio, TV Ministry Clamps Down on Online Video News
China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) is clamping down on the news content of online video sites such as Youku and Tudou, more tightly regulating which media outlets are actually allowed to produce and/or broadcast news. Tudou's own video news portal has been shut down, renamed only as 'Hot Items', and which now shows a watered-down variety of amusing video clips. Youku and Ku6 have been luckier, after apparently satisfying SARFT's newly rigid regulations, and have kept their video news channels intact. Note that Tudou's remains at the ...
Jun 29 2011
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Major Chinese Websites Go Red for Communist Party’s 90th Anniversary
July 1st marks the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and already a number of China's major websites and web portals are 'going red' in celebration, with specially-created front-page themes showing billowing national flags, and the traditional Commnunist insignia of a hammer and sickle. Pictured above are the current front pages at video-sharing site Youku.com, and web portals Netease (163.com) and Sina.com.cn, two full days before the event. Most websites that I've spotted running the regalia have opted to include a 'close' button which can return the site ...
Jun 23 2011
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VIVASocio Mashups Social Media, News, and E-commerce For Indonesia
The online world in Indonesia is buzzing about the arrival of VIVASocio, a new e-commerce site by Indonesian giant Bakrie Group and popular news site, VIVAnews. Remarkably, this site combines social media, news portals, and ecommerce into one single platform, blending web elements that we usually experience separately. VIVASocio is also believed to be Bakrie Group’s first step towards BTEL 2.0, Bakrie's vision to integrate all Bakrie media and tech - Bakrie Telecom, Bakrie Connectivity, Visi Cipta Media – under this one company, which is a holding company for ANTV, TvOne and ...
Apr 26 2011
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Facebook is 3rd Favorite Online Source for Election News in Singapore
A study commissioned by Today revealed that the 17.4 percent of Internet users in Singapore rely on Facebook for General Election news, making it the third favorite online source in the country. Yahoo is first at 48 percent and Channel NewsAsia claims second spot at 23.8 percent. The study also found out that Internet users in Singapore prefer traditional media over online sources. In a multiple question format, 63.7 percent of the respondents prefer the newspaper, 57.9 percent pick television and 57.7 percent voted for the Internet. Despite less people learning the ...
Feb 11 2011
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Ravi Venkatesan Quits Microsoft India
The head of Microsoft India, Ravi Venkatesan has announced his resignation. This is the second time a top official has quit the software giant in the last six months. The previous top official- Rajan Anandan, who left Microsoft India, was named head of Google India operations last month. "It has been a privilege for me to work with a company that impacts billions of people across the world with its products and services, and to be part of an industry that has shaped how the world views India The best ...
Nov 29 2010
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Twitter is Already a News Network
We wrote about the possibility that Twitter may launch its own news network. It is time to quash the rumor. There will not be any. “Reports about those plans are greatly exaggerated,” Matt Graves of Twitter told Penn Olson. “Twitter itself is already a news network,” he added. It’s true because we often receive first hand breaking news from eyewitnesses of earthquake and disasters in tweet forms. Even events (like Grammy), political struggles or a simple birthday party gets its own hashtag on Twitter. Twitter didn’t plan to be a news ...
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