From 1,000 employees a year ago to barely a 100 now: that is the gut-wrenching story of the Indian operations of online media major AOL.
The company plans to strengthen the offerings of its digital platform, Adtech, which it launched a few months back.
While AOL Chief Operating Officer Ron Grant is himself coming down to Bangalore to officially kick off the Indian face on Thursday, Yahoo!'s soft-spoken co-founder David Filo is set to announce a series of India-specific products tomorrow.
AOL has launched its next-generation of E-mail services in India, which include unlimited storage, effective safety and spam-blocking systems and mobile services ahead of its launch in the US and Europe.
America Online (AOL), the largest Internet service provider in the US, is set to launch its India portal over the next couple of months.
The products and content would be available to MTNL's broadband customers through a co-branded portal called mtnl.aol.in, MTNL Executive Director J Gopal told reporters on Tuesday.
It refuted the allegations that its three-day mega event had damaged Yamuna floodplains and hinted that it may approach the Supreme Court against the NGT's order which asked it to pay Rs 5 crore as compensation.
Amidst allegations of land grabbing, the Art of Living has decided to come clean and explain in detail as to how the land owned by it came into their possession in the first place.
If Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! goes through, the combination will mean stiff competition for Google and AOL in the Rs 230 crore online advertising market in India that is growing rapidly.
Global web services company America Online has appointed Maneesh Dhir as the firm's vice president to oversee the growth of its international portals and review new overseas business opportunities in Europe, Asia and Americas.
That's because India does not have a serious venture capital industry with an appetite for risk, observes T N Ninan.
The Art of Living said on Tuesday its faculty members and volunteers in Pakistan have been receiving threat letters and calls from the Taliban for over two months, accusing them of "conspiring against Islam".
US-based news and blogging platform Huffington Post on Monday launched its Indian edition in association with Times of India Group.
The water resources ministry told the NGT panel it has not granted permission for 'World Cultural Festival' being organised by Art of Living foundation.
The spiritual guru responds to Sheela Bhatt/Redifff.com's quick-fire questions with prompt answers.
The Art of Living Ashram in Bangalore is witness to a wealth of a different kind, as it hosts thousands of people from across 65 countries as meditation, silence, pujas and satsang mark the nine auspicious nights of Navratri.
Founder of the Art of Living Foundation, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, visited Iraq to meet with Iraqi political and religious leaders and to oversee AOL's initiatives in the strife-torn country.
A group of 35-odd people from the Middle East are seeking a different kind of IT in India's information technology capital Bengaluru. They have come all the way to write a programme of 'Inner Transformation' -- for themselves and for the people back home.
'The size or economic potential of no event can be a valid excuse to break the law of the land.'
He claimed that his foundation has already received invitation from Australia, Mexico and other nations for holding the next edition of the event.
Huffington Post has grand plans for India.
Seen as one-of-its-kind event, the festival offers a platform for spiritual and religious leaders, politicians, business leaders, peacemakers and artists to spread the message of global peace and harmony in diversity.
'No one realises that people with 90 days waiting period are shopping around which naturally increases the cost of hiring.'
All educational institutions in Shimla and Kullu districts will remain closed on Monday as heavy to extremely heavy rains continue to lash the state, district officials said.
Acquisitions are done to synergise with existing offerings of firms; to strengthen or enter new areas, platforms or geography; find new customers for its products; keep parts of the acquired organisation, perhaps the digital in the case of Mindtree, and to sell others to increase its own value. Never is it to grow the acquired organisation more than itself, says Pankaj Chandra.
Whether history will remember Edward Snowden as a traitor to his country or as a champion for free speech and less intrusive government is hard to tell, but the issues he has brought into focus need deep thought, writes Ajit Balakrishnan
'Does the government help ordinary citizens like you and me with our marriages, birthdays and anniversaries?' Rashme Sehgal reports on the controversy over the the Art Of Living Foundation's plans for a cultural festival on the Yamuna floodplains.
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