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Close on the heels of the recent announcement about Tagit launching its imaging technology exclusively with Nokia camera phones in the Indian market, comes the agreement between GroupM and Tagit to form a strategic alliance. It will enable GroupM agencies to offer Tagit’s innovative, interactive platform for direct marketing on mobile phones to brands in India.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 1:04 PM

EXIDE Industries is planning an image makeover. On cards are a reasonable increase in its campaign budget, which now stands at about Rs 15 crore, and the introduction of new campaigns including a `corporate campaign'.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 9:02 AM

It was a packed hall that listened in rapt attention as NDTV's Prannoy Roy quizzed and cajoled and revealed facets of the lives of two of the biggest giants in the IT world today – Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft, and N R Narayana Murthy, Founder and Chief Mentor, Infosys.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 9:01 AM

BusinessWeek has announced plans to reposition its approach to global markets. On the anvil are a single global edition and a focus on online and local language editions.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 9:00 AM

Zee Sports, which is on a high after bagging the telecast rights for the India-Sri Lanka Test series, has added more excitement. In order to further popularise cricket across different regional markets, the channel has announced simultaneous ‘Hindi, Tamil and Bengali’ audio feeds apart from English for the Test Series.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 8:59 AM

The visit of Bill Gates had raised speculations about some major announcements from Microsoft. The IT company didn't disappoint when it announced on Wednesday that it would be investing $1.7 billion in India over the next four years across select focus areas.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 8:58 AM

Samsung India Electronics Ltd (SIEL), one of the digital technology leaders, recently completed a decade of its business operations in the country. Launched in India in 1995, SIEL has come a long way and is ranked in the top 3 slot in most product categories that it sells in India.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 8:57 AM

Manish Mathur, who was instrumental in setting up CubeM, the entertainment division of BroadMind, is moving to P9 Integrated. His exit comes close on the heels of Navin Shah, former head of BroadMind Entertainment, who is also moving to P9 as CEO.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 8:56 AM

The marketing and brand team at CNN-IBN is fast falling into place. The forthcoming channel from the TV18 stable has just appointed Pugmarks CEO, N Dilip Venkatraman, as Director, Marketing. Venkatraman joins the channel in the next two weeks.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 8:55 AM

With the fast transition of the Indian retail industry towards an organised format, it is important to estimate the size, the rural and urban opportunities and the potential of each category. The first session of FICCI Footfalls, an international conference of opportunities and challenges in retail, discussed the Indian retail opportunity at length.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 8:54 AM

Following the successful launch of the news via SMS facility, Malar Publications, publishers of Tamil evening daily ‘Maalai Malar’, is looking forward to entering the FM radio arena soon. A re-launch of the evening daily is not being ruled out, while an IPO is also on the cards.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 8:54 AM

If you are eager for the arrival of the second phase of FM radio stations, then you will have to wait some more. The Phase II FM stations won’t be arriving before the year 2007, according to I&B Ministry sources.

exchange4media Staff Dec 8, 2005 8:53 AM