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The Indian telecom regulator has informed that, according to data provided by service providers, as many as 29.24 million subscribers submitted number porting requests during the month of December in 2011, as compared to 25.83 million porting requests in November 2011, an increase of 13.17% month on month. The maximum number of requests in Zone-I(North …

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Jagran Prakashan has reported financial results for the quarter ended 31st December 2011 with total income of Rs 324.03 crore, a 13.29% increase over Q3-FY11′s income of Rs 286.03 crore. The company’s net profit after tax was at Rs 41.30 crore, a decrease compared to profits of Rs 52.64 crore that it reported in the same quarter, …

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MediaNama has learned from multiple, reliable sources that Amazon is launching in India as Junglee.com. At the time of writing this report, Junglee.com doesn’t load, but sources in at least two Amazon partners have confirmed the development. The company, as we had reported in November, is expected to launch a marketplace, with partnerships with multiple Indian …

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Another month of slow growth for Indian broadband: the connection base was up only 1.30% to 13.30 million at the end of December 2011, from 13.13 million at the end of November, according to the Indian telecom regulator TRAI. The mobile connection base increased to 893.84 Million in December as compared to 884.37 Million in November, …

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British tabloid, The Daily Mail, has introduced a dedicated edition for India on its digital platform, Mail Online, reports The Guardian. In fact, the edition has been dubbed as Mail Online India and is co-branded with the Indian newspaper, Mail Today, in which, The Daily Mail has a 26% stake, while the rest is owned …

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Walt Disney has formally announced that it will acquire, through a subsidiary, a controlling interest in UTV and integrate operations of the two companies. This comes shortly after Disney made a buy back offer for acquiring 12,215,776 equity (29.96%) shares from the public shareholders of UTV Software Communications. Post de-listing, Disney will have a controlling stake of 80.25% …

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Google now redirects visitors to Blogger blogs – traditionally hosted blogspot.com to blogspot.in domains, reports Techdows. This means that those visiting blogs from India will be redirected to .in equivalent domains. Note that this isn’t just applicable to blogs by Indian users, but any blog hosted on blogspot. For example, if you visit Greg Mankiw’s …

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