Roshan Tamang, VP for news, sports and entertainment at Web18, has resigned. This is his last week at the Network18 Group firm. Tamang confirmed the development, but would not say where he was headed. According to a source, Tamang is joining Indiatimes as VP. We are awaiting comment from an…

The Internet Service Providers Association of India, an industry body of ISPs, has moved the Competition Commission of India alleging that the government’s delay in allowing Internet telephony is “favouring mobile operators and preventing fair competition,” Business Standard reports.  

Times Internet Ltd COO Sunil Rajshekhar, who, we reported in May, was stepping down from Bennett, Coleman’s flagship Internet firm, has moved to group company Vijayanand Printers Ltd as CEO. VPL publishes Vijay Karnataka, The Times Of India Kannada and Bangalore Mirror. Rajshekhar confirmed the development, which e4m reported first.

Sunil Rajshekhar, chief operating officer at Times Internet Ltd, is leaving the company, according to a person familiar with the situation. Rajshekhar will however, be around for a few months till a new CEO takes charge and will help through the transition period. Dinesh Wadhawan had stepped down as CEO…

NDTV has taken a significant step towards monetizing its videos online. The broadcaster has partnered with video ad service Vdopia to serve ads on its newly launched video site Tubaah.com as well as on the live online feed of the group’s business news channel on ndtvprofit.com. From the release: “According…

RockeTalk, a free social networking application for mobile phones that lets users chat, form communities, download and share files, has tied up with Indiatimes to power its India-centric content as well as collaborate on ad sales. Users in India can download the RockeTalk application using Indiatimes’ 58888 short code. “While…

Deepak Sogani, CFO of Times Internet Ltd, has quit the firm that runs the Times Group’s flagship portal Indiatimes.com. “I have accepted a position outside TIL,” Sogani told contentSutra, confirming the development. “The new position is in Mumbai, that is where I have spent most of my life and now…

—Indiatimes mobile arm, 58888, has unveiled an ad ringback tone service called Adringles. An internal communiqué CS managed to obtain suggests they are currently soliciting ads for Airtel’s AdRBT (NYSE: BT) platform. The website doesn’t give any indication of which operators the service is live on, but makes it clear…

Indiatimes has launched a local search service in partnership with OnYoMo reports Pluggdin. The service can be accessed via Indiatimes’s wap portal as well as via SMS (ASK to 58888). I tried out the SMS search service with the query “Wall E Bandra” and was instead provided with results pointing…

Times Internet, the online arm of BCCL/Times Group, has taken a 50 percent stake in Webnotions Books India, the parent company of online books site A1books.co.in. No details on how much is being invested into Webnotion with this deal. Webnotions USA was founded in 1995, and the India branch based…

Update: The robots.txt files have been updated, and crawlers are now being allowed. Update: Mohit Hira, Director of Marketing at Indiatimes, informs us that the company was in the midst of maintenance and upgrades, which required them to temporarily block all crawlers until today. These crawlers will be reinstated in…

So it’s been well over a year and a half in the making, and the in the meantime the bloom appears to have gone off the social networking boom in India: finally Times Internet (Indiatimes) has soft-launched its social networking site - itimes.com. Take a look around here (screencap). itimes…

Times Internet (Indiatimes) claims to have launched India’s first “Mobile Voice” service; by the looks of it, it’s a voice portal service using their short code 58888, given a new name. We reconfirmed from Times Internet - the voice portal service from the company is not new. What’s new?: both…

Times Internet Ltd (Indiatimes) has launched GameZone, a free ad-supported gaming portal on the mobile powered by mobile gaming company Hovr. This is similar (if not identical) to the Greystripe-Anand Bazar Patrika deal, which we had reported last year. Then, US based mobile game aggregator Greystripe had powerered ABPs portal…

[by Cerius Shah] Close at heels of the launch of NDTV Active, Indiatimes has launched its own mobile application. Content appears to be ported from the site, so expect economictimes.com, timesofindia.com and a ‘live’ Times Now feed in addition to stocks, cricket and services. The application has been developed by…

Any idea on how Sify’s city specific portals - chennailive.in, hyderabadlive.in, bangalorelive.in and delhilive.in - have done? Now the TImes of India has launched a city specific site for its city specific paper - Kolkata Mirror. Amitava Bhattacharya, General Manager, The Times of India Group, has told exchange4media that the…

[by Cerius Shah] So they come out of the woodwork. Everyone’s favourite punching bang has re-launched its gaming section. I noticed they had dedicated gaming servers and tried them out. All the servers were down. To make matters worse, the site is loaded with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) ads for other…