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Special // PORTAL PROFILES
TOP PORTALS
Traffic, own- point of contact. Seeded California-headquartered
ership, man- by Larry Page and Sergey Yahoo, was founded by the
Brin in a Stanford Stanford students Jerry
agement and University dorm in 1998, it Yang, (president and CEO),
has spread like wildfire. Blake Jorgensen (co-
other high- Larry Page and Sergey Brin founder) in 1994. Yahoo
are the founders of this today is present in more
lights of the online search giant. than 20 markets and
leading 56 PORTALS regions with 500 million
Yahoo India users worldwide.
portals in the Google India
Rediff.com
country. Yahoo began as a hobby
The Gurgaon-headquar- for its founders has evolved
According to tered Google India is the into a leading global brand One of the early birds to
comScore largest site in the country that has changed the way fly into the online space in
with as many as people communicate with the country as early as
MyMetrix, 15,350,000 visitors a each other, conduct trans- 1996, Rediff.com has gone
month, according to the actions and access, share, places-it was the second
Rediff is the comScore data as on July and create information. Indian site to get listed on
2007. The world's largest Though of foreign origin, the Mecca of online indus-
No 1 Indian search engine offers infor- Yahoo is the second largest try, the Nasdaq, and is the
portal in mation in many different site in the country with as largest domestic site and
languages such as Hindi, many as 15,318,000 visi- the fourth largest in the
terms of traf- Bengali, Telugu, Marathi tors a month. Yahoo offers country in terms of traffic
and Tamil. It has become its services in seven local with 7,966,000 people vis-
fic, followed such a phenomenon in the languages such as Hindi, iting the site this July,
country that even for matri- Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, according to comScore fig-
by the Times monial, job searches and Malayalam, Kannada and ures. Rediff.com addition-
Internet sites. shopping this is the first Telugu. The Sunnyvale, ally offers the Indian
126 ❘ Pitch ❘ September-October 2007
American community one ing times, work and trans- model in the world. The a concept and 95 percent
of the oldest and largest act. According to the Fortune magazine, in its of its 10 million pages are
Indian weekly newspapers, comScore data, this is the December 2000 issue, generated by its members
India Abroad. Founded in first largest site in the coun- selected Sify as one of the and participating members.
1996, Rediff.com is head- try with 4,809,000 visitors world's ten hot technology As on July 2007, it had
quartered in Mumbai with per month. companies to watch out 2,196,000 visitors a
offices in New Delhi and Management: Dinesh for based on this innova- month, ranking 23 among
New York. Its information Wadhawan, MD and CEO. tive business model. That the top 100 sites in the
and content channels apart, Sify is credited for country. Its services are
include news, business, Sify.com pioneering corporate net- being used by millions in
movies, cricket/sports, working services in the as many as 25 cities in the
auto, health, food, books, country. Again, this is the country and more than a
gaming, astrology, contests, Set up in April 1998, Sify, only ISO 9001:2000 certi- dozen cities in the US
lifestyle, home décor, formerly Satyam Infoway, is fied service provider for and Canada. Its main
women and several other one of the pioneers and network operations in the offices are in Chennai,
topics of interest. It also leaders in Internet, net- country. In 2003, Sify was Bangalore, Hyderabad,
offers a specialised site for working and e-Commerce awarded the prestigious Mumbai and Austin.
the US, Rediff USA. Ajit services, and also the first Frost & Sullivan Market Management: Param
Balakrishnan is the founder Internet company from the Leadership Award for IP Parameswaran, chairman;
and chief executive. country to be listed on the VPN markets. Satya Prabhakar, founder
Nasdaq. It provides inte- Management: Raju and chief executive; and
Indiatimes.com grated end-to-end solutions Vegesna, chief executive- Promod Haque, director.
for both corporates and and managing director;
individual consumers, with Suri Venkat, COO. MSN India.com
One of the pioneers in the a range of products and
online space, this site from services delivered over a Sulekha.com
the house of the Times common Internet back- This premium network
Group is a popular destina- bone infrastructure. Sify is from the Microsoft group
tion for the global Indian credited with developing This is one of the biggest offers its services in five
for its news and a suite of the country's first TCP/IP and most popular member- local language options
mobile value-added servic- network and offering multi- generated community and with its services now being
es. Covering everything ple services on a common social/ professional net- available in Hindi, Tamil,
from art to airlines, backbone infrastructure for working hubs integrating Telugu, Kannada and the
Indiatimes is taking the dig- an integrated Internet, net- social media and local Malayalam languages. It's
ital age into people's lives, working and e-Commerce commerce services. a popular site for news and
influencing the way they business model. This was Sulekha was started by networking and host of
live and respond to chang- the first such business Satya Prabhakar in 1998 as other services.
September-October 2007 ❘ Pitch ❘ 127
Special // PORTAL PROFILES
CFO. Kapil Kapoor of Management: R Sundar, ented professionals with
Timex India is an inde- president, Times Business dynamic organisations,
pendent director on the Solutions. from the Bharatmatrimony
company’s board. group. Currently it features
Jobstreet.com over 5,000 clients, 45,000
MonsterIndia.com job listings and over a mil-
lion registered jobseekers.
A part of the Web18 group The renowned technology
JOBSITES from the Network18 sta- magazine PCWorld has
The flagship brand of ble, JobStreet.com is of selected it as the best-
Naukri.com Monster Worldwide Inc, Malaysian origin and offers designed portal in this cat-
Monster entered the coun- a suit of interactive recruit- egory. It is owned by
try after buying out ment services. JobStreet Management: Murugavel
Naukri.com was incorpo- Jobsahead.com in 2004 for Corporation Berhad is a Janakiraman, founder &
rated in May 1995 under around $400 million from leading online recruitment chief executive officer.
the Companies Act as Info the Dalmias, and is the company based in
Edge India. Operating second largest jobsite in Malaysia, and is a leading
through a network of 45 the country according to site in the entire Asia-
offices located in 30 cities comScore data, ranking 15 Pacific region, and is listed
across the country, as well among the top 100 sites. on the Malaysia stock
as in Dubai, Naukri went The leading online global exchange. Web18 took
public in April 2006. The careers network was over with 50 percent of the
Dubai office primarily founded in 1994 by Jeff India stake for nearly $2
engages in sales, marketing Taylor, and operates from million and provides on-
and payment collection 26 countries. going media support to the TRAVEL
activities. According to the Management: Dhruvkanth business.
comScore data, Naukri is Shenoy, vice-president, Management: Mark MakeMyTrip.com
the largest job site in the marketing for Asia. Chang, founder and CEO;
country in terms of traffic, Anand Iyer, India CEO.
ranking 13 amongst the Timesjobs.com MakeMyTrip.com was
top 100 sites Indians visit. ClickJobs.com launched in 2000 primari-
The company is headquar- ly to tap the booming US
tered in Gurgaon. This is the online recruit- to India travel market,
Management: Sanjiv ment services from the ClickJobs.com is a leading offering the NRIs online
Bhikchandani, CEO; Times Business Solutions premium, yet affordable ticketing and travel consul-
Hitesh Oberoi, COO; and from the Times group, and job portal, built around the tancy support. The portal
Ambrish Raghuvanshi, was launched in 2004. promise of matching tal- launched its India opera-
128 ❘ Pitch ❘ September-October 2007
tions in 2005, and today it tomers to select from over bookings. Over three Travelguru.com
is the largest portal in this 1,200 domestic hotels and percent 13 million tickets
genre, ranking 10th among from network carriers and booked everyday are
the top 100 sites in the low-cost airlines, besides done on irctc.com. Promoted by two Harvard
country in terms of traffic, providing restaurants and comScore ranks it at 40 Business School alumni
according to comScore shopping information on out of the top 100 sites with significant travel,
data, for July 2007 period. 500 domestic destinations. in the country. technology and corporate
Later on it extended its comScore ranks it at 25 experience and a team of
services to hotel, holidays out of the top 100 sites in Yatra.com professionals from indus-
and car rentals bookings. the country. The portal is tries such as hospitality,
MakeMyTrip.com com- owned by Kleiner, Perkins, travel and trade, financial
mands a four percent share Caufield & Byers, and services and e-commerce,
of Indo-US air travel mar- Sherpalo Ventures. This leading online ticket- Travelguru has done its bit
ket, which is pegged at a Management: Hrush Bhatt, ing portal was founded in redefining the way India
hefty Rs 4,500 crore. founder & director for by Dhruv Shringi and travels. It is funded by
Management: Deep Kalra, product & strategy; Stuart Manish Amin, but is now Sequoia Capital India,
co-founder & chief execu- Crighton, founder & direc- part of the Web18 group. formed after a merger
tive and Sachin Bhatia, tor for Business develop- Yatra helps businesses between Sequoia Capital
co-founder & CMO. ment; and Sandeep and consumers to book and WestBridge Capital
Murthy, chief executive. airline, bus and hotels Partners.
Cleartrip.com and car rentals either Management: Ashwin
IRCTC.com online or through the Damera, CEO & co-
This is the telephone or mobiles. founder, and Ganesh
Launched in 2006, largest rail- Yatra's multi-language Rengaswamy, co-founder
Cleartrip.com is the coun- ticketing por- customer service centre
try's second largest online tal not only in enables customers to Zoomtra.com
travel portal according to the country but also in make well-informed and
the latest comScore matrix, Asia with over Rs 1100 cost-effective bookings.
which ranks it 25th among crore in annual rev- comScore ranks it at 58 Zoomtra.com is a travel
the top 100 sites in the enues. An arm of the out of the top 100 sites. It search engine, and dis-
country. Built on the prom- Railway ministry, it has funding from plays comprehensive
ise of providing simple, aggressively promoted Reliance Capital & information from multiple
reliable, and responsible rail-based tourism Norwest Venture Partners. travel providers, based on
service by offering compre- besides, offering both e- Management: Haresh one's preferences and
hensive products with tickets and email tickets Chawla, CEO; Dhruv help select travel options
competitive pricing, of the Railways and hotel Shringi, and Manish fast. This portal is part of
Cleartrip.com allows cus- and tourism package Amin, co-founders. the Studio Smile group.
September-October 2007 ❘ Pitch ❘ 129
Special // PORTAL PROFILES
Management: Harish 340 flights daily across 44 comScore, this is the Oberoi, COO; and
Bahl, managing director destinations within the maiden venture from the Ambrish Raghuvanshi,
and chief executive country and also operates BharatMatrimony group chief financial officer.
officer. flights to Nepal, Sri Lanka, and is also the country's
Singapore, Malaysia, No 1 online matrimony Shaadi.com
Flyairdeccan.com Britain, Thailand, and service provider.
The credit for Belgium. Its low cost avatar Established in 1997, it
beginning is JetLite, previously Air has developed a business Founded in 1997 to pro-
online air tick- Sahara, which it bought model to provide services vide a superior match-
eting should definitely go over last January. Being a both offline and online making experience by
to Air Deccan, the coun- legacy carrier, it has not and has 2,300 affiliates. It expanding the opportuni-
try's first and the largest been selling its seats has also extended its ties available to meet
low-cost airline, launched through the net, but services to cater to NRIs potential life partners,
in August 2003. The lead- recently, especially after by setting up operations today Shaadi.com has
ing independent online Air Sahara buyout, it has in the United States, operations in India, the
traffic monitoring agency also been actively selling Dubai, Canada and more US, Britain and the UAE
comScore of the US ranks seats online. comScore recently in Britain. and claims over 300 mil-
it at 72 out of the top 100 ranks it at 90 out of the top Management: Murugavel lion page-views a month.
sites in the country. When 100 sites in the country. Janakiraman, founder and Management: Anupam
launched, Air Deccan tick- Management: Naresh chief executive officer. Mittal, CMD.
ets could only be available Goyal, CMD, Jet Airways.
online. Deccan Aviation, Jeevansathi.com SimplyMarry.com
in which UB Group with
26 percent stake, but with
management control while Set up as Jeevansathi SimplyMarry.com is the
Capt GR Gopinath and Internet services, this online matrimonial portal
Capt Samuel are the leading matrimonial site from the Times Business
founders and other major was boutght over by Info Solutions stable. The portal
investors. Edge India, the owners of uses the latest technologies
Management: Capt GR the Naukri group of por- available in the online
Gopinath, MD. MATRIMONIALS tals in September 2004. environment to provide
As on June 2007 this site members with fast, rele-
JetAirways.com Bharatmatrimony.com had a database of more vant and best matching
than 1.71 million profiles. results in strict confidence.
Management: Saneev Management: R Sundar,
The largest domestic airline Ranked 17 out of the top Bhikchandani, chief exec- president, Times Business
Jet Airways operates over 100 sites in the country by utive officer; Hitesh Solutions.
130 ❘ Pitch ❘ September-October 2007
group in 2006 with a Equitymaster.com
pan-India coverage of
listings, news, views and
provides an extensive Owned by Quantum
inventory of developers, Information Services, this is
brokers and other profes- one of best financial infor-
sionals, a wide range of mation service providers in
products and services the country. This site is
PROPERTY directly or indirectly FINANCIAL based in Mumbai.
related to the red-hot real SERVICES Management: Ajit Dayal,
99acres.com estate industry in the founder and CEO.
A part of the country which has been Moneycontrol.com
Naukri.com getting a lot of foreign Indiainfoline.com
group, this capital.
was incor- Management: R Sunder, Moneycontrol.com was
porated in May, 1995 president, Times Business conceived and formed as The India Infoline group
under the Companies Act Solutions. a personal finance portal comprises the holding com-
as Info Edge India and in 1999. The company pany India Infoline and its
became a listed company was acquired by e- subsidiaries and straddles
in April last years. It has a Eighteen.com, now the entire financial services
network of 45 offices Network18 group, in space with offerings ranging
located in 30 cities in the IndiaProperty.co 2000. Today, from equity research, equi-
country as well as an IndiaProperty.com is part Moneycontrol.com is one ties and derivatives trading,
office in Dubai. The of the BharatMatrimony of the premier end-to-end commodities trading, port-
Naukri group is head- group and is the first ISO business and finance por- folio management services,
quartered in Gurgaon. 9001:2000 certified por- tals in the country and the mutual funds, life insurance,
Management: Sanjiv tal in the country and largest in this space. fixed deposits, GoI bonds
Bhikchandani, CEO; provides in-depth infor- According comScore to and other small savings
Hitesh Oberoi, COO; and mation on buying, selling data for July 2007, it is instruments to loan prod-
Ambrish Raghuvanshi, and renting on real the 30th largest site ucts and Investment bank-
chief financial officer. estate, and provides a among the top 100 sites ing. The portal 5paisa.com
customised interface in the country in terms of is another offering from the
MagicBricks.com across property categories traffic. It is owned by the group. Indiainfoline is listed
making each listed prop- New Delhi-based on both the BSE as well as
erty unique. Network18 Group. on the NSE.
MagicBricks.com was Management: Murugavel Management: Surya Management: Nirmal Jain,
launched by the Times Janakiraman,CEO. Mantha, CEO, Web18. founder and chairman.
September-October 2007 ❘ Pitch ❘ 131
Special // PORTAL PROFILES
Sharekhan.com 2007. The bank has over entered the real estate youth icon by MTV India
950 branches and 3,300 business in 2005. recently. By far this is the
ATMs in the country most popular and the
One of the pioneers in the besides being present in 17 Indiainfo.com largest portal in the coun-
online share trading space, countries. It's online finan- try in this space today.
Sharekhan offers a host of cial services arm ICICI Recently, it has added a
services. While its 'classic Direct.com offers a wide An integrated Internet number of new features to
account' offers online trad- range of banking and company, it delivers con- Orkut, and now it sports a
ing and gives research con- financial products and tent, community and com- chic modern look, Hindi
tent, its 'speedtrade' is a services to corporate and merce to consumers and transliteration, a user inter-
next generation online retail customers. businesses. Indiainfo.com face in five Indian lan-
trading that brings the also provides a range of guages such as Hindi,
power of a broker's termi- IndiaBulls.com channels offering the latest Bengali, Marathi, Tamil,
nal to your PC and the in entertainment, lifestyle, and Telugu; more photos,
'dial-n-trade' service pro- food and many other infor- updates from friends and
vides the convenience of One of the pioneers in the mation based services. last but not the least, secu-
buying and selling shares online share trading busi- rity tips to emphasise safe
over the phone. With over ness, the Mumbai-based Internet usage. The new-
200 share shops across 90 IndiaBulls is a diversified look Orkut gives a refresh-
cities in the country, company with interests in ing new clutter-free design,
sharekhan.com provides real estate and other areas. making it easy for one to
in-depth analysis of mar- It has 640 branches all navigate through the inter-
kets, analyses before, dur- over the country serving esting features on your pro-
ing and after market hours. more than 4,50,000 cus- file. While Hindi
tomers with its wide range Transliteration allows one
ICICIBank.com of financial services and SOCIAL to scrap in Hindi using an
products from securities, NETWORKING English keyboard, the addi-
derivatives trading, deposi- tion of five new local lan-
ICICI Bank is the largest tary services, research and Orkut.co.in guages help one interact,
private sector bank in the advisory services, con- connect and express one-
country and second largest sumer secured and unse- self with greater enthusi-
after the State Bank with cured credit, loan against This social networking site asm and freedom. It also
total assets of Rs 3,44,658 shares and mortgage and from the Google stable has gives you larger storage
crore as on March 31, housing finance. Listed on become such a craze space helping you store
2007 and profit after tax of the BSE, NSE and the amongst the youth that it more photos and comes
Rs 3,110 crore for fiscal Luxembourg bourse it has been voted as the with more security tips.
132 ❘ Pitch ❘ September-October 2007
Fropper.com with the objective of mak- is a full-service software Contest2Win.com
ing new friends, communi- gaming entertainment
cating with old ones, shar- company and a part of
This is the first friendship, ing photos and posting the Reliance Anil Established in 1998, this is
dating and social network- journals and comments etc. Dhirubhai Ambani Group a consumer media plat-
ing site in the country, and Management: Siddharth and was set in early form for contests.
was launched in 2003. Roy, COO. 2007. Though very new, Originally started as a
Fropper is the short form it is the largest gaming brand promotions website,
for 'friend hopper', and MingleBox.com portal in the country with it has grown into an enter-
extends the philosophy of over with 2.5 million reg- tainment destination with
no one's a stranger, and is istered users, and over people playing more than
a destination for building, Claims to be the country's three million page views a lakh times on the site
maintaining and enjoying fastest growing community daily, and is ranked at 26 daily. This portal is funded
meaningful relationships. site. Based in Bangalore among the top 100 sites by ICICI Ventures and
With over two million and specialises in business, in the country, according eVentures, a venture capi-
members, it is the first site technology, media and to comScore data, offer- talist formed by Soft Bank
to offer such interactive design, it has funding from ing 300 games. Another Asia and Rupert Murdoch's
features for Indians global- Sequoia Capital India. offering from this is Star group.
ly, all for free. It is owned Management: Kavita Iyer, Zapak.tv, a first of its kind Management: Alok
by the People Group. CEO; Sanjay Aggarwal, audio-visual online con- Kejriwal, chairman; Raj
Management: Navin CTO; Sushma Abburi, V-P. tent, offering audio-visual Menon, COO.
Mittal, husiness head. content on just about
anything in the realm of Buzz18.com
BigAdda.com gaming. Zapak.tv already This enter-
has a stock content of tainment
over 1,500 videos. portal is
This youth networking site Another offering is owned by the Network18
from the Reliance Zapakgirls.com, the first group and provides the lat-
Entertainment of the ever-gaming destination est on movies, music and
Reliance ADA group, for women in the country. television, offering film
GAMING/
allows its registered mem- That apart it offers Zapak reviews and previews,
ENTERTAINMENT
bers to set up personal pro- mail. trailers, wallpaper down-
files that can be linked Zapak.com Management: Arun loads, celebrity interviews
together through a network Mehra, CMO; Rohit and music reviews.
of friends. Members can Sharma, COO; Sudipto Management: Surya
view each other's profiles Zapak Digital Entertainment Mazumdar, CTO. Mantha, CEO.
September-October 2007 ❘ Pitch ❘ 133
Special // PORTAL PROFILES
Seventymm.com registration or member- moted by Infocom
This ship fee or any deposit. Network and has a data-
online base of over 6.48 lakh
movie rental service BigFlicks.com registered users. This is
offers access to over one of the few online net-
15,000 flicks across mul- works credited with an
tiple languages, providing ISO 9001: 2000 certifica-
the most expansive selec- BigFlicks aims to offer the tion. Conceptualised in
TRADE/B2B
tion of DVDs/VCDs. It biggest range of quality 1996, this portal offers
offers free shipping and entertainment, panning Indiamart.com comprehensive business
pick-up facility. across a number of local solutions to the global
languages such as Hindi, community of exporters
Moviemart.in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, It builds and operates and importers through its
Punjabi, and Kannada. It online B2B marketplaces wide array of online serv-
offerings are available focusing specific industries ices, directory services
This online DVD rental either as 'download-to- and geographies and offers and facilitation of trade
company is said to the own' or for 'free stream- business opportunities by promotional events.
first subscription-based ing'. It also offers 'down- way of directory listings, Management: Bikky
online DVD movie rental load-to-rent' and 'sub- portal sponsorships, web- Khosla, chief executive
service delivering DVD scription' services. catalogs, aggregated ban- officer.
movies rental in New ner advertising, tender
Delhi and Mumbai with Raaga.com notifications, trade offers PowerYourTrade.com
free delivery facility. It buyer/supplier verification
charges no late fees too. service and e-mail cam-
This online music store paigns. This site is owned Managed by the coun-
CatchFlix.com ranks 47 out of the top by the India Infoline group try's leading media net-
Catchflix 100 sites in the country and claims 55 million page work Network18, this site
offers the in the latest comScore views a month from 10 brings together expert
convenience of renting ranking, thus making it million visitors from across advice, stock news and
DVDs online with deliv- the largest such offering the globe. analysis information and
ery and pickup of select in the country. This web- Management: Dinesh content that subscribers
movies ranging from clas- site offers songs and Agarwal, founder & CEO. can use to improve their
sics to new releases and videos in Hindi, Tamil, investment decisions as
all original DVDs. Clients Telugu and Malayalam. Tradeindia.com also stock purchase/sale
need to pay only for the While songs and videos decisions.
DVDs they rent. There is come for a prcie, devo- Management: Surya
no monthly subscription, tional songs are free. TradeIndia.com is pro- Mantha, CEO.
134 ❘ Pitch ❘ September-October 2007
automatically identifies son-to-person trading. The com, making it India
India-related content on products listed on eBay plaza the world's largest
the web and organises it India include apparel & India-centric e-commerce
in such a way that one accessories, books & company in the world
gets the most relevant magazines, cameras & with over one million
results fast. Other than optics, cars & bikes, coins online transacting cus-
the promoters, it’s funded & stamps, computers & tomers globally. Fabmall.
by Sequoia Capital India, peripherals, consumer com was a leading brand
SEARCH ENGINES and angel investors. electronics, fitness & in the domestic e-com-
Management: Anurag sports, health & beauty, merce space with over
Khoj.com Dod, CEO & founder; G hobbies & collectibles, 3.5 million products
Managed Mishra, COO & founder. home, décor & furnish- available. Unnatural of
and owned ings, jewellery, kitchen & this domain, Indiplaza
by the Sify home appliances, manages a loyalty pro-
group, which is one of mobiles & accessories, gramme for its leading
the pioneers in Internet, movies & music, musical brands. Indiaplaza is
networking and e- instruments, services & based in Austin, Texas,
Commerce services, it is real estate, tools & hard- while its India operations
an online directory of ware, toys, games & are being managed from
links, news, features in baby, travel, tickets & Bangalore and Chennai.
English. This search vouchers, video & com-
engine is powered by E-COMMERCE puter games, watches and
AltaVista. For foreign everything else. It has
searches, it has an agree- eBay.in over two million regis-
ment with Google. Formerly tered users today. eBay
Management: Raju known as was founded in
Vegesna, CEO and MD; Bazee.com, it was bought September 1995.
Suri Venkat, COO. over by eBay Inc in 2004.
eBay India, a 100 per Indiaplaza.com MISCELLANEOUS
Guruji.com cent subsidiary of eBay
Inc, is one of the coun- Webdunia.com
try's biggest online trad-
This is the first crawler- ing communities where Fabmall.com is one the
based search engine in anyone can sell or buy pioneers of e-commerce
the country and offers almost anything, offering here. It was recently
India-related content. Its auctions, fixed price and acquired by a US e-com- Founded in 2000,
proprietary algorithm classifieds modes of per- merce firm Indiaplaza. Webdunia.com is the first
September-October 2007 ❘ Pitch ❘ 135
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Hindi language portal in Chhajlani, founder and own studios. researchers and profes-
the country, and is part of chief executive officer. Management: Sunil R sional lensmen to create
the leading Hindi news- Nair, chief executive & its repertoire of content.
paper group Nai Dunia. Nautanki.tv co-founder; Vikram The group also runs
Webdunia's other group Prabhu, co-founder & ModelsGuru.com which
companies are Diaspark head of content. is the biggest online and
Inc US, in founded 1995 offline models directory
and Suvi Information ImagesBazaar.com in the country.
Systems, founded 1988, Set up by a group of indi- Management: S Mahes
which partners with with viduals in November hwari, founder & CEO.
the global giants like 2006 in Mumbai,
Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Nautanki.tv provides ImagesBazaar.com VisageImages.com
Adobe, Nokia, and LG video content creators, Profile: A fully-owned
and domestic majors like filmmakers and creative subsidiary of Mash Audio
Reliance Infocomm, souls a way to reach out Visuals which is an ISO VisageImages is an online
Times Group, Rediff, Tata to global audiences and 9001:2000 certified com- image bank with the
Tele Services and Sify for find new ways to mone- pany, ImagesBazaar.com finest international and
their language needs. It tise their art. Widely provides creative profes- Indian imageries, owned
has nine language portals recognised as one of the sionals with an impera- by the Hyderabad-based
today—Hindi, Marathi, pioneers of online video tive resource for search- Visage Media. It repre-
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, media, it is an easy-to-use ing, purchasing and sents photographers, and
Malayalam, Gujarati, free service, and is cur- downloading exclusive libraries, while executing
Punjabi and Bengali— rently available on 1,583 Indian images. It is a col- its own shoots to create
each of which offers qual- web properties. Dubbed lective endeavour of over relevant modern day
ity news from the world as the YouTube of Asia, it 50 passionate photogra- imagery. That apart, it
of politics, sports and is the first online video phers led by renowned represents the world's
human interest stories, entertainment platform in lensman Sandeep largest online imagery
Bollywood, lifestyle, reli- South Asia, webcasting Maheshwari who has cre- company GettyImages, as
gion, science, IT, career, two million original ated a world record in the master delegate in the
astrology, literature, etc. videos everyday to over professional photography. country as well as South
Headquartered in Indore, eight lakh viewers, out of An Indian answer to the Asia. Visage is present in
Webdunia development which a hefty 70 percent global giant GettyImages, Hyderabad, Mumbai,
centres operate from are from top seven cities ImagesBazaar creates New Delhi, Chennai, and
Indore, Chennai and in the country. Unlike and distributes a wide Bangalore, with sales
Thiruvananthapuram. many others, it creates range of images. Its coverage across the
Management: Vinay most of its content at its employ fulltime creative SAARC region. s
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