Anand Bazaar Patrika is a West Bengal media conglomerate catering to Bengali audiences around the globe.

It has numerous websites under its presence,

1. www.anandabazar.in & www.telegraph.in. – 2 Bengali dailies.
2. www.epaper.telegraphindia.com – E paper websites.
3. www.telegraph.in/wap - Mobile websites users
4. www.indiainfocom.com – Information Tech news
5. www.anandautsav.com – Durga Puja festivities
6. www.tilottama.in – Beauty pageant contest
7. www.thetelegraphstore.com – Shopping website
8. www.mjoy.in – Gaming website
9. www.ilovekolkata.in – Kolkata specific website

Management

• Kedar Gavane, Manager – New Media Channel

Kedar has done his post graduation from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Prior to ABP, Kedar has also worked with Infosys Technologies. Kedar is now the Manager overlooking new media initiatives at ABP Group from Bangalore.
Website: www.abp.in

Contact Address:

ABP Head Office

6 Prafulla Sarkar Street
Calcutta 700001 India

Tel: 91 33 22345374, 22216600, 22378000
Fax: 91 33 22253241

Additional Information:

ABP has also launched a gaming website, www.mjoy4free.mjoy.in tying up with an US based agency Greystripe for their services. ABP’s mjoy4free also has a wap site, for mobile users to directly look and connect through their handset.

Company Profile:

Web 18 is an internet media arm of a leading media and entertainment corporate Television Eighteen India Limited.

Their web ventures include,

IBNlive.com, a news portal
MoneyControl.com, a financial portal
commoditiescontrol.com,
PowerYourTrade.com,
IndiaEarnings.com,
CricketNext.com, Sports portal
CompareIndia.com, a product comparison site
JobStreet.com, jobs classified site
Yatra.com, a travel site
Tech2.com, technology news portal
Urban Eye Media, Interactive marketing agency
Buzz18, Entertainment Website

Management:

• Surya Mantha, CEO

Surya Mantha, a BTech in computer science and engineering from IIT Kanpur, also did a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and an MBA from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. He started his career with the corporate research Group of Xerox Corporation. Before joining Sify, he spent several years at Real Networks in Seattle WA, US, in several marketing and management roles, including GM of Broadband Solutions and head of evangelism and GM solutions and business operations for the Real Broadcast Network (RBN), Real’s Content Delivery Network.

• Neeraj Sanan, CMO

Sanan was earlier working at Dabur India Ltd in the consumer care arm as deputy general manager (marketing). In his various roles at Dabur India, Joyco India and ICI India, Sanan has been involved in understanding consumer behavior and their markets.

Other Executives,

• Joyson Thomas
• Vidya Kumaraswamy
• Varun Singh
• Anand R Iyer
• Rajendra Daga

Corp. Address:

Express Trade Tower,
Plot No. 15-16, Sector-16A, Noida,
Uttar Pradesh – 201301, India.

Tel no: 91-0120-4341818, 3987777
Fax no: 91-0120-4324106

Investors: Web18 got its first round funding, $ 10 million from a New York based venture capitalist firm, Tracer Capital.

Additional Information:

Television18’s consolidates its internet related business into Web Holdings Ltd and plans to invest and stabilize operations in the news, entertainment and its other transaction orientated businesses across the web.

Company Profile:

Exchange4media.com was set up in May, 2000 and is widely accepted as the portal that presents news and fresh perspectives in the broadcasting, media, advertising and marketing domain.

Management:

• Anurag Batra, – Editor-in-Chief & MD,

A B.Tech in Computer Sciences and a Management Graduate with specialization in Marketing, from one of India’s top Business Schools, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon. Batra has a multi industry experience having worked with India ‘s largest advertising and media services firm HTA (now JWT and Mindshare). He is also a member of the sales & marketing committee of the Delhi Management Association. blogs

• Amit Agnihotri – Co founder, Director & Editor

A commerce graduate and an MBA from MDI, Gurgaon, Amit last served advertising agencies HTA (now JWT), and RK Swamy BBDO in Delhi. Amit is also an academician and a visiting faculty at select B Schools. He is also the Editorial Director for all other magazines that the group publishes.

• Nawal Ahuja, Co founder and Director

An Engineering Graduate and MBA, Nawal last worked in the Telecommunications industry with the RPG group. Bsed out of Mumbai, Nawal oversees all operations of the group in this core market.

Websites:

www.exchange4media.com / www.pitchonnet.com / www.impactonnet.com / www.franchise-plus.com / www.franchise-plus.com.

Key Competitors:

www.agencyfaqs.com

www.indiantelevision.com

Contact Address:

Exchange4media, Gaurav Luthra,

Email: gluthra@exchange4media.com,

1208 & 09, Kailash Building, K. G. Marg, Connaught Place
New Delhi – 1 India

Additional Information:

The publication house is based in India and present in five locations: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Chennai. Exchange4media also has five offline print magazines in its portfolio: namely PITCH, Impact, Franchise Plus, Realty Plus and exchange4media.com. & over the next year exchange4media plans to launch more niche titles and expand outside India too

Company Overview:

Industrial Products Finder was visualized and conceived as an industrial new-products-news monthly by R. V. Pandit, and was launched as such in October 1972. It launched its online subsidiary in 2000 June.

• The other online services offered are: ww.bypd.in, which was launched on 01 April 2007 as the Bharat Yellow Pages Directory on the Net. It lists industrial products dealt by Shops/Firms located throughout India.

• The Indian Textile Journal – ITJ, which is a textile publication. It has expanded its coverage to include trade and commercial information, new products & processes, technological breakthroughs, corporate profiles and trade fair information.

• Automotive Products Finder – APF which is the latest offering from IPFonline Limited. It makes available factual content relating to the automobile sector and provides information on suppliers/manufacturers of auto components and products.

Management

R V Pandit, Founder & Publisher

R V Pandit, a Publisher, Journalist, Restaurateur and a Film maker is the Founder and the Owner of the online publication, Industrial Product Founder Online.  He also runs ahis specific R. V. Pandit website. He launched IPF  in the year 1972 and took it online in 2000 by appointing L. Subramanyan, Chief Executive, IPFonline in 2000.

Website/s: www.ipfonline.com, www.bypd.in, www.indiantextilejournal.com, www.automotiveproductsfinder.com

Contact Address

IPFonline Limited New No.17, Old No.7
Shafika Building, 2nd Floor
Kodambakkam High Road
Nungambakkam, Chennai – 600 034.
E-mail: cs@ipfonline.com

Telephone: 91 – 44 – 28261234
Fax: 91 – 44 – 2826 2737

City: Chennai

Investors: IL&FS Venture Corporation & HDFC have invested in IPF, Industrial Products Finder.

Additional Notes:

The magazine, being industry – centric in nature, is made available only through prepaid annual subscriptions to businesses, industries and technical / managerial personnel. Ipfonline.com is a portal for business visitors to interact, participate, and buy/sell industrial products. The portal is a storehouse of information on industrial products and services.

Company Overview

Springer, began its operations on October 2002. Springer deals with publishing of journals in the Science, Technology, and Medicine sector. They develop, manage and disseminate knowledge – through books, journals and the Internet. Their products range across all media (books, journals, newsletters, CD-ROMs, databases, online services, organization of seminars and conferences).

Management

Sanjiv Goswami, Managing Director

Sanjiv Goswami is the Country Manger for Springer India, looking after sales & promotion in South Asian countries which include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka.

Website/s: www.springer.com , www.springerlink.com , www.sps.co.in

Contact Address

906-907, Akash Deep Building
Barakhamba Road
New Delhi 110 001
tel +91 11 23 35 99 46
fax +91 11 23 35 87 16

Additional Information:

They publish in six major fields: science, medicine, business, technology, architecture, and transport.

Company Overview:

Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is an Interactive Technology company being operated from Bangalore. Greynium was launched on the 1st of January 2006 with the acquisition of Indiainfo.com Ltd. Their wide range of services include,

• Application Development
• Portal Solutions
• Interactive media
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Web Hosting and Data Centre
• Staffing Services

Greynium also owns, www.oneindia.in.

Management

B.G Mahesh, CEO

B G Mahesh is the CEO of Greynium Information Technolgies Pvt Ltd. One of his ealrly ventures was Mahesh.com, a popular portal among NRI’s during the mid-1990’s. Mahesh has also been the CEO of Indiainfo.com a public company, before joining Greynium Technologies. Mahesh received his Graduate degree in Computer Science from University of Alabama at Birmingham and his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from University of Mysore. Mahesh’s Blog

Sriram Hebbar, COO

Sriram Hebbar is the Chief Operations Officer at Greynium Information Technology Pvt. Ltd. Sriram, was responsible for spearheading the Times Interactive Marketing division at Bangalore. He started his career in 1990 as a sales executive; He has also worked with Sesa Seat Information Sytems Ltd, The Times of India group and Indiainfo.com Ltd. Sriram has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from IGNOU and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Bangalore University.

Website/s: www.oneindia.in , www.greynium.com

Corporate Address:

Bangalore Office

Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
17/1, Shanthishree Industrial Complex
5th Floor, Rupena Agrahara
Hosur Road,Bangalore – 560 068

Voice : +91-80-2518 0800
Fax : +91-80-2518 0801

City: Bangalore

Additional Notes:

Oneindia.in. (part of Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd) is an integrated Internet portal, delivering content, community and commerce to Indian consumers, businesses and the global Indian community.

Company Overview:

Nautanki.tv is a place for people to watch Indian content by sharing, commenting on, and viewing videos either via the network of web properties that serve nautanki.tv content or by logging into nautanki.tv website. The service is currently free for everyone. Nautanki.tv primarily is an online video media network.

Management

Sunil Nair, CEO

A graduate from Pune University Sunil Nair is the CEO at Nautanki.tv. View his Linkedin. Profile

Anchuttan Kutty, National Sales Head.

Achuthan Kutty, National Head of Ad Sales and Alliances: Prior to joining Nautanki, he was the Head of Business Development at Media2Win. And prior to that Kutty was CEO of BridgeOverTW.com. View his linkedin Profile

Websites : www.nautanki.tv

Blogs: www.nautankitv.blogspot.com/

Social Network: http://nautankitv.ning.com/

Investors:

Nautanki.tv Online has received around Rs.1 crore in angel investment from Mumbai based investment bankers.

Corporate Address: Nautanki.tv online india private limited
288,First Floor, Jaihind CHS,
Opposite Kataria Colony, Shivaji Park,
Veer Sawarkar Marg, Mahim.
Mumbai 400016, India.
+91 22 24454538

City: Mumbai

Additional Notes:

The Company has tied up with Reliance Communications to make its channel Soul Curry from its online video media network ‘Nautanki.tv’, available on Reliance Mobile World. Nautanki has so far signed up around 25 independent content providers on a revenue sharing basis, to create original content for their channels. The company is currently in the process of creating an online video media network, which allows Internet properties to syndicate their channels.

Company Overview:

Sixer is a social networking site exclusively based on cricket.It is an online platform  connecting global cricket fans. Sixer enables a fan to share his cricket life, his team’s accomplishments and submit news, pictures, videos, match analysis, to be viewed by other fans around the world.

Management

Name: Raj
Designation: Founder

Name: Kishore Kumar
Designation: Vice-president

Website: www.sixer.tv/

Its Blog: www.sixer.tv/blogs

Investor: LINUS Capital

Key Competition: Tired and Tested, FanNation, FanSpot, NHL Connect, SportMates

City: Hyderabad

Additional Notes: With Sixer, a cricket fan can also:

• Join a fan club of  favorite player, local city/metro club or start a private club
• Upload cricket related news that can be read by other cricket fans
• Upload/watch pictures and videos uploaded by other members
• Get live scores of games

Company Overview:

The parent company of Hindustan Times Online is one of India’s biggest Media houses. On the internet, HT publishes the news and information portal called www.hindustantimes.com. It also has a classifieds site HTClassifieds.biz. Their portals include Hindustantimes.com, mobile content site 4242.in, HT Next and LiveMint.com

Management

Piyush Shah, Head, Online Business, Check out his LinkedIn profile

Pooja Puri, National Sales Director

Websites: www.hindustantimes.com

Key Competition: Times of India

Additional Notes:

As part of its expansion into electronic media, HT Media, through its subsidiary HT Music and Entertainment Company Ltd., has entered the FM radio market in key Indian cities through a consulting partnership with Virgin Radio. The channel, Fever 104, is currently available in Delhi and Mumbai.

HT Media has also launched a national business newspaper, Mint, to publish Journal branded news and information in India. View the website at www.livemint.com

Corporate Address:

Delhi Office
HT Media Limited, 18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi – 110 001, India. Tel: +91 11 55561405

Fax: +91 11 23704688
City: New Delhi

Mumbai Office

HT Media Ltd

Palai Plaza, Opp Hotel Midtown Pritam

Dadar Station Road, Dadar (East), Mumbai-400014

Ph: 022-66175800

Company Overview:

Sify provides Internet, Networking and e-commerce related services. Sify provides networking services, data operating services and built customer relation management programs for their corporate clients. Sify also provides broadband service access, iway cyber cafes, dial-up internet access & an online portal having content revolving around news / entertainment and lifestyle for its consumers.

Sify’s product & services,

• Corporate services

• Consumer related services

Management:

Name: Raju Vegensa
Position: CEO & MD Sify

An entrepreneur at Silicon Valley, Raju Vegensa has 2 of his independent ventures ServerWorks Corporation and ServerEngines LLC working. ServerWorks started in 1994 and was bought over by Broadcom Corporation in 2001. Raju Vegensa still serves as CEO and MD at ServerEngines and ServerEngine operates out of 2 locations Texas and Hyderabad in India. Raju Vegensa has also been a venture capitalist and has his private firm Infinity Capital Ventures. Raju Vegensa has been the MD and CEO for Sify since 2006.

Name: Suri Venkat
Position: Chief Operating Officer

Suri Venkat joined Sify in August 2006 as its Chief Operating Officer after a successful career in large organizations such as ITC Ltd. He has also built an infrastructure company, Energy Infrastructure Development Group( CAPEX: USD 500) as an entrepreneur.

Personal Links: rajuvegesna@sifycorp.com

Investment:

Sify is a public Ltd. company and Sify is its ticker signal. Sify reports net profit of $ 2.3 million for the year 2007.

Website: www.sifycorp.com

Corporate Services:

Sify Limited
II Floor, Tidel Park,
No.4, Canal Bank Road,
Taramani, Chennai – 600 113, India.
Phone: +91 44 2254 0770-77
Fax: +91 44 2254 0771

Email to customercare@sifycorp.com

Additional Information:

While providing end to end solutions to corporates & consumers, Sify also is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company.