Sruthijith KK
Mar 10, 2009 7:10 AM
ET Now, the upcoming business channel from Times Global Broadcasting Pvt Ltd, is close to announcing a content deal with Thomson Reuters (NSDQ: TRIN), according to a person familiar with the matter. Reuters held a 25.82% stake in Times Global Broadcasting, which also broadcasts the general news channel Times Now,…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 21, 2008 7:55 AM
Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN) is expanding its mobile news service for farmers in to another part of India. Reuters Market Light offers data on crops and weather plus 17 commodity prices to agriculture workers and already claims 60,000 subscribers in the Maharashtra region. Now the wire is rolling out the…
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Nikhil Pahwa
May 28, 2008 5:49 AM
The past year has see Reuters launch an India specific website, a service targeting farmers called Reuters Market Light in Maharashtra, and most significantly, and on the television front part ways with BCCL (Times of India Group) over Times Now. Reuters has been talking to prospective partners in India over…
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Nikhil Pahwa
Feb 14, 2008 10:14 PM
We’ve written earlier about the Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) planning to exit Times Global Broadcasting, it’s joint venture with BCCL (Times of India Group), that owns the channel Times Now. Now Exchange4media reports that Reuters is selling its 25.82 percent stake in the venture to BCCL, for which it had paid…
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Nikhil Pahwa
Jan 23, 2008 9:52 AM
Well, the rumour has been around for a while now - I first heard about it in December, but was unable to confirm it; “Why break off a successful partnership?” I was told. Now Mint reports, quoting sources, that after CEO Sunil Lulla’s exit from Times Now, the Reuters-BCCL joint…
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Nikhil Pahwa
Oct 3, 2007 8:28 AM
We’ve written about the Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) Market Light (RML) before. Now, as per a release, Reuter’s is pleased with it’s pilot test in Maharashtra (they got 7500 signups), and are now planning to go paid with the service - charging Rs. 60 (around $1.5 per month). Let’s see how…
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Nikhil Pahwa
Sep 10, 2007 5:05 AM
Azhar Rafee, Reuters Asia’s EVP of Media had told Contentsutra this in an interview a couple of months, and now the official announcement: the company has launched an ad-supported site for India, and a mobile site. I just tried the site, and there isn’t much South Asian content - nothing…
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Anupama Chandrasekaran
Aug 5, 2007 8:46 PM
The Economic Times reports that Reuters launched Reuters Market Light, a service that provides information on crop prices, weather updates and other agri-related news via SMS, in April 2007 in Maharashtra and currently has 7,000 registered members. Plans are on to extend this service to Punjab , Karnataka and Madhya…
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