Cinéma - Article - Inde : les géants de l'Internet parient sur la vidéo premium en streaming. Yahoo!
India a lancé MoviePlex, un service de diffusion de films en streaming financé par la publicité, qui permet aux internautes de visionner à la demande une sélection de films dits « Bollywood », produits par les plus célèbres studios de cinéma indiens. Les films sont proposés dans leur intégralité et en toute légalité. Pour son lancement, la plateforme de Yahoo! Proposait huit films, dont Aakrosh, Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji, et Rock On!!. MoviePlex souhaite ajouter de nouveaux contenus tous les quinze jours, son objectif à terme étant de mettre à disposition des internautes indiens des milliers de titres.
. [1] soit amené à se tailler la part du lion dans le volume global de contenus, selon Nitin Mathur, le directeur marketing de Yahoo! Ce lancement intervient suite à l'incursion récente de YouTube sur le marché indien avec YouTube Box Office, un service analogue à Yahoo! Avertissement pour un contenu de catégorie A sur Yahoo! Be it Silicon Valley or tough Indian terrain, women entrepreneurs still battle prejudices. ET Bureau May 24, 2012, 06.57AM IST Be it in the entrepreneurial heaven that is Silicon Valley or the rough and tough terrain of India, some notions die hard.
Indian women entrepreneurs still battle prejudices and stereotypes that their male peers don't have to endure. Silicon Valley: Home Advantage, Home Disadvantage Being a woman from India shapes their success. It also shapes the regressive response of their own community towards them, reports Rituparna Chatterjee. In the 1990s, Pooja Sankar was a shy girl growing up in Patna.
Haunted by that experience, in January 2011, Sankar launched Piazza, an interactive website that allows students to ask, explore and answer all kinds of questions under the guidance of their instructors. Sankar's story highlights the unique situations Indian women entrepreneurs are in, even in the entrepreneurial heaven that is Silicon Valley. Parikh is forced to use a genderneutral alias online to communicate more easily with engineers, both male and female. An Indian Entrepreneur visits New York: “I was born in the wrong country :)” - India. An interview with Aditya Sahay, co-founder of India based Radbox, who visited New York for a few weeks.
He describes his experiences and lessons from the visit. I was 30 minutes late for the interview, thanks to a shoddy Internet connection, and after I logged into my IM client, I’d already received a message from Aditya; enquiring “Are we on?”. I’d met him a few months back, and his no-nonsense personality comes fleeting back to me as I read those three words and realized he was on time, and I was late. “I wanted (generally) to do a US trip – kind of explore if we can base ourselves there, and get some feedback and visibility”, Aditya says. He explains that most of his customer base is in the US.
“I visited TechStars in New York and worked out of their office for a couple of days as David Cohen’s guest. Well, what sort of impact? It turned out Aditya and Radbox were not on a hockey stick curve. “The thing with US is there’s a lot of noise too. What does the Indian Social Media Landscape look like? Letsbuy.com Raises $6 Million. January 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team Indian ecommerce startup Letsbuy.com, a consumer electronics retailer, just raised $6 million in funding.
Investors in this first round of institutional financing included Helion Venture Partners, Accel Partners and Tiger Global. Accel Partners apparently likes to hedge its bets, as it invested in Flipkart as well, an ecommerce startup that focused initially on books, but is gearing up to expand into consumer electronics. Investors are optimistic, however. TechCrunch: What Indian Entrepreneurs... India’s Prizm Payments On Track To Hit $50B In Transactions, Plans Square-Style Service For Feature Phones. One of the more innovative moves in mobile commerce has been the rise of services like Square, PayPal’s Here, iZettle, Payleven, and mPowa, which are based around using a dongle to turn a smartphone into a payment processor.
Now Prizm Payments, an India-based payments company, is eyeing up how to bring that concept to its home market’s 670 million+ mobile subscribers, by offering a similar service that will work not just with smartphones, but with the feature phones as well. A limited rollout of its service, covering about 200 merchants, is expected to begin this month, with a wider-scale deployment coming down the road. And Prizm is also gearing up for a new round of funding that sources say could raise between $100 million and $200 million to help fund new payment innovations like mobile payments, as well as a bigger drive into e-commerce and international expansion.
But approaching something like mobile payments will come in gradual steps. Meet India's First Billion-Dollar Internet Startup.