Mumbai

India’s SMS GupShup Raises $10 Million

Liz Gannes in Social on August 30, 2011 at 11:30 pm PT

Users of the Indian social network SMS GupShup send four billion messages per month, accounting for about 10 percent of India’s texting traffic.

Stock Stronger as Yahoo Preps to Report Next Week–But Employee Departures (and Return of Yodeling!) Rattle

Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2009 at 12:39 am PT

In one week, Yahoo will report its third-quarter earnings, after the market closes. And so far, its stock is showing signs that investors are hoping for better days ahead for the Internet giant. Other good news: A pair of bullish analyst reports yesterday. But, a spate of executive departures, with chances of more to come, are worrisome. As is the excessive yodeling Yahoo is once again encouraging.

Who’s Going to Work for Nikki Finke?

Peter Kafka in Media on September 4, 2009 at 5:56 am PT

Nikki Finke, the Hollywood power blogger who recently began working for Jay Penske’s Mail.com Media Corp., has a new Web site. And soon, she will have a new employee–a “well-known figure from established media.” But who is it?

Riveting Tragedy=Boring Twitter Debate

Peter Kafka in Media on November 27, 2008 at 9:56 am PT

This is now clockwork: Some kind of calamity happens somewhere. Shortly after, an Internet debate breaks out about who did a better job of breaking and/or covering the story–citizen journalists/bloggers or boring old mainstream media. But if you want to find out why the Mumbai attacks happened, or why India is seemingly beset with terror attacks, you’re out of luck no matter where you turn.