Tag Report: ‘India’
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GrapevineStar Media & Entertainment Alert – Growing China and India Media Markets
GrapevineStar, a leading source for media and entertainment intelligence announces and salutes AdAge Global and their most recent reports on the Media and Entertainment markets in China and India. .Ad Age Insights is offering two comprehensive new industry reports examining opportunities for media, marketers and agencies in China and India.
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GrapevineStar Social Media Alert – China’s Tencent launches English microblogging site
BEIJING: Chinese Internet giant Tencent has launched an English version of its Twitter-like microblogging service in a push to tap the overseas market, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The English version of Tencent Weibo is the first of its kind in China, Xinhua said, in a country where overseas social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook are blocked by a robust web censorship system.
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GrapevineStar Media & Entertainment News Alert – India Market is Growing – Disney Playing a Role
The Indian Media and Entertainment industry continues to grow at a healthy pace due to the rising rate of investments by the private sector and foreign media.
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries in talks with media firms to source telecom content. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries is holding talks with a host of media and entertainment firms, including Walt Disney. -
GrapevineStar Media & Entertainment Alert – India Market Outlook
The Indian Media and Entertainment industry continues to grow at a healthy pace. The rising rate of investments by the private sector and foreign media and entertainment (M&E) majors have improved India’s entertainment infrastructure to a great extent.
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GrapevineStar Supports Independent Content Creators – Himanshu Vora’s Indian Feature Film Fenêtre
Crowdfunding my first feature Fenêtre By Himanshu Vora | Everything was going per plan, but unfortunately in mid 2010 with the Indian economy flagging, the friend who had pledged to fund the movie announced with regret that he would be unable to invest further. It was a sudden and major setback in my aspirations to [...]
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What Makes India Hot for App Developers
Requests for programmers who write code for Apple’s iOS platform rose 20 per cent in the second quarter, according to Mountain View, California-based Elance. Demand for programmers with Android skills rose by 15 per cent, while developer requests for Research In Motion Ltd ( RIM)’s Blackberry devices increased by 3 per cent, according to the company.
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Trend Alert – Cities Hiring Digital Media & Entertainment Officers
Cities across the United States and in India, China, Brazil and others are raising the profile and importance of Media and Entertainment as well as the next generation digital technologies enabling media and entertainment. In the U.S. New York is leading the way. The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) Commissioner Katherine Oliver announced the hiring of Rachel Sterne as the City’s first Chief Digital Officer, a role established by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Commissioner Oliver with the goal of improving communication with residents and businesses by enhancing government transparency and working closely with digital media.
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Let’s Celebrate a Day in India Worldwide
The Times of India invites the entire nation to come together to help create this mosaic, with A Day in the Life of India. All you need to do is to shoot a photo or video , draw a cartoon or just tell us a joke , on anything you feel makes India, India. You can come up entirely with your own idea of what to create, or take up one of various assignments we have drawn up under each of these categories. For example, a video on “the chaos on our roads”, or a photograph on bizarre signboards messages.
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Licensing International Expo Launches Brand Showcase
“Entertainment brands are historically very good at producing consumer products tied to movies or TV shows, and now the non-entertainment brands are also finding truly unique ways to extend each brand’s life and increase revenue,” says Liz Crawford, show director for Licensing International Expo.
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Trend Alert – India Population Getting Richer, Per Capita Growth Grows 14.5%
India’s population growth is just part of the story, India’s income growth means that Indians are getting richer and therefore will be spending more on consumer products and entertainment. Read more here…
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DreamWorks Announces First Animated Musical, Monkeys of Bollywood
Composer A.R. Rahman and lyricist Stephen Schwartz have been hired along with husband and wife producing duo Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berge. Rahman scored 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire, while Schwartz was the lyricist for Broadway’s Wicked and worked on the TV show Glee.
Monkeys of Bollywood, which is set in Mumbai and inspired by the epic Hindu poem, “The Ramayana”
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GrapevineStar India Trend Alert….Hip Hop & Bollywood…Friday Nights are Hip Hop and R&B Night in Mumbai
Friday nights have certainly acquired a new meaning in the city of Mumbai, India. How’s that? Well, they’re exclusive hip hop and RnB nights at the High Lounge at Sahara Star and this Friday night too was one such party night, high on music!
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Hip Hop – UK’s #1….. Royal Wedding Hip Hop Party?
The UK’s take on hiphop has finally come of age. For the second week in a row Tinie Tempah is holding onto the number one spot in the UK’s national chart with the single ‘Pass Out’. (over 4 million Youtube spins)
The first time UK rap artists succeeded commercially was in the 80′s with artists like Derek B (RIP) The Cookie Crew achieving crossover success. Ice T even signed London crew: ‘Hijack’ to Rhyme Syndicate but this was not released in the US. -
GrapevineStar Trend Alert – India Social Media Report Edition 2 Released
Findings from India Social Media Survey, Edition 2, jointly conducted by Blogworks, one of India’s most respected social media consulting firms and NM Incite (A Nielsen/ McKinsey Company) were released today at IndiaSocial Summit 2010, here are the quick highlights -
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Hollywood and Bollywood Star Freida Pinto? A Global Drama Queen?
Freida is seen in America as a Bollywood star that has come to Hollywood. The truth is that she has never appeared in a Hindi-language film and has a way to go before she will be embraced by the Bollywood film community and its fans in India.What do you think? Would you like to see Freida Pinto in a Hindi language Bollywwod film.
