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Oct 31, 2008 7:44 AM
In an interesting move, Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile services company, has appointed Nikesh Arora, a top executive of Google Inc. on the board of the company as an indepedent director. Arora is one of the few top ranking executives at the search engine and is in charge of Europe.…
Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, Google, Orkut
Aug 10, 2008 4:01 AM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is adding to and building out it’s local language engine and porting it across their product range. Tamil has been added to Google News, Search, Blogger and Orkut. In addition, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam have been added to Orkut. Three more languages, a total of 8 out…
May 2, 2008 1:45 AM
Scrabulous, the Scrabble-like game and Facebook application from Kolkata based Agarwalla brothers, which hit the headlines after Hasbro and Mattel accused them of copyright violations, is all set to make its Orkut debut. Orkut launched applications last month. Jayant Agarwalla, VP (Business Development & Marketing) told contentSutra that the app…
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Companies, Google, Orkut
Apr 17, 2008 9:30 AM
—Google (NSDQ: GOOG) owned Orkut, widely acknowledged as the social network with the largest Indian community, launched applications today. Orkut has been building up to the launch of applications on its blog for a while now, highlighting apps like Reading Social, TypeRacer (I’ve won every game I’ve played so far),…
Apr 14, 2008 10:49 PM
Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) social networking site Orkut, which has a substantial Indian and Brazilian userbase, has gone mobile. They’ve launched a mobile version of the site - http://m.orkut.com, writes Siddharth Patel. I tried out Orkut Mobile, and it’s fine on the usability front. The homepage (post-login) has updates on scraps,…
Feb 12, 2008 11:55 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) owned social networking site Orkut, TV channel MTV India and telco Airtel have joined forces for a cross-media contest that allows users to bid to win a date with MTV VJs and three contestants selected by MTV. So what is each of them doing? Orkut is hosting…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Mobile, Social Media, Companies, Google, Orkut
Oct 9, 2007 2:20 AM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) owned social networking site Orkut is apparently planning to do the Facebook thing by opening up its Application Programming Interface (API) for developers around November 5, reports BusinessWeek. Google has refused comment. Third party applications are believed to have led to a 28 percent increase in Facebook’s…
Sep 2, 2007 11:49 PM
Google owned Orkut has introduced an interface which allows users access the site in multiple languages: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu. I tried the Hindi interface, and found that not all the content on a page is in Hindi (screencap). It doesn’t impress, because it caters only to the…
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