Round 1 goes to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The iPad, as expected, has caused a big stir, and given people like Walt Mossberg reason to gush with enthusiasm about the death of laptops. Throughout, as various members of the press have mused about the death of Amazon’s Kindle, I feel compelled…

Days after it said that IPL was hastening the death of test cricket, it has emerged that the venerated London-based MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), the world’s oldest cricket club and the former governing body of international cricket, is considering buying an IPL franchise when it expands in 2011 (via TOI).…

From our sister site MocoNews....Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is in merger talks with Spice Mobile, an India handset-maker and division of BK Modi, according to the Economic Times, which cited sources close to the deal. Spice Mobile’s Web site says their phones focus on the intersection of “information,…

Cleartrip has tied up with Star India’s mobile application PLUS, to deliver travel related information to users. The service allows users to access travel information and make reservations via the client’s interface. The release has Sandeep Murthy, CEO, Cleartrip, stating their tie-up with PLUS will give them access to 200…

Multi Screen Media, the company formerly known as Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television, has sold 32 percent stake to the BK Modi group for $320 million, report Variety and NDTV. The acquisition is through Modi’s company MCorp Global. MSM hasn’t confirmed the deal, although Exchange4media.com sources have. Some details on…

Despite the advent of the powerful-but-expensive PS3, Sony (NYSE: SNE) appears to be keen on making the most of the success of the PS2 in India. There are around 325,000 PS2s in India (market price - around Rs. 7000), while Sony reportedly sells around 1200 PS3s a month. Business Standard…

Pyramid Saimira has informed the BSE that Aurona Technologies, a company that they had acquired earlier this year, has entered into an agreement with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) to develop a console game based on Hanuman for the PS2 console platform. Sony will distribute that game in…

The Cricket World Cup debacle appears to have Multi Screen Media (formerly, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television) hard: the company is going to end the fiscal year with a negative cash flow of around Rs. 200 crores ($50 million) reports Business Standard. The company has to pay for a loan…

This is big: responding to ContentSutra’s question about MultiScreen Media’s upcoming New Media Initiatives, CEO Kunal Dasgupta said that the company is working with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to set up a Fantasy Cricket League around the Indian Premier League (IPL). Dasgupta is bullish on…

Kunal Dasgupta, CEO of Multiscreen Media (formerly - Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television) spoke about an interesting change of strategy from the film Jab We Met, which helped reduce the impact of piracy. Films and Home Video Jab We Met was a film that changed rights scenario the theatrical release…

Updated: So much for this, and as we said below, our sources also denied a deal: Sony (NYSE: SNE) is denying any such sale: “Sony Online Entertainment is not for sale and the report that Zapak is purchasing Sony Online Entertainment is completely erroneous and false,” a company spokesperson for…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television (SET) has been renamed Multi Screen Media (MSM), a move which CEO Kunal Dasgupta told IndianTelevison reflects a change in company’s strategy. SET intends to invest in mobile, movies, the Internet and Out Of Home (OOH). The Sony board has approved the change of name,…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) sells around 8000 consoles a month in India, and the country has around 300,000 PS2 consoles, and 90,000 PSPs, reports Sify. The company has also started manufacturing its own game DVDs in India - instead of importing them - and this has helped bring prices of games…

Warburg Pincus, Blackstone and Standard Chartered Private Equity are among the Private Equity players looking to buy the 32 percent stake in Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television reports ET. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) holds 62 percent in SET, while Indian promoters including actor Jackie Shroff, Shemaroo Films MD Raman Maroo,…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) appear to have synchronized their gaming console announcements for India: While MS announced the launch of xBox Live (details here), Sony announced the launch an Indian version of its PS2 game - Singstar Bollywood - with a tie-up with Sony BMG and T-Series…

The Zee group has come out all guns blazing on the issue of allocation of licenses and spectrum for Mobile TV in India. The group has told the TRAI in comments submitted on Mobile TV that just having the capability to transmit TV content doesn’t mean that Telecom operators do…

There’s no way of verifying these numbers, but Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) reports that in the final nine days of the show Indian Idol, the finalists received 70 Million SMS’, amounting to Rs. 210 Million ($5.25 million). The numbers are, however, being questioned. The report got one thing wrong - they…

Seems very strange, but Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is setting up cinema halls at its highway fuel stations. Cinemata, a Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television company will be providing films for the initiative, and these will be beamed via digital distribution. Digital distribution, says Keshav Shenoy, GM (Highway Retailing),…

“The mountains are raging”, says Pradip Pradhan, secretary of Indian Idol contestant Prashant Tamang’s fan club. A businessman has offered Rs. 1 crore to the singers campaign. People are going from house to house, asking for contributions. I was told recently that there are banners at the Sikkim border, asking…