Yahoo!'s first quarter financial results may have been a disappointing, but that hasn't stopped them from acquiring a hefty stake in Indian internet advertising company Tyroo Media. Yahoo! hasn't revelaed how much it paid. The hefty stake of Tyroo lays the groundwork for Yahoo!'s upcoming Indian roll outs of its new search-based advertising platform, Panama, and RightMedia's graphical ad technologies.® Yahoo! India has grabbed a 35 per cent stake in the Guragaon-based Tyroo, which runs a small business-centric ad network spanning roughly 1,200 sites. Unlike Google Adsense, Tyroo is non contextual Interestingly enough, advertisers can run both graphical and text-based ads on the Tyroo network even if they don't have a web site - still a bit of luxury for subcontinent small businesses. ...

Brazil's ruthless victory (3-0) against old rivals Argentina to win the Copa America for the second time in a row, has helped moved them back to the top of FIFA's world rankings. Argentina also moved up to 2nd place, with World Cup Champions Italy slipping to 3rd place. Brazil were knocked off top spot in January, having previously led the rankings for an uninterrupted run of more than four years. The recent flurry of matches on the American continent has also helped Mexico to move up by 16 places to 10th off the back of their appearance in the Gold Cup final and the semi-finals of the Copa America. The other prominent changes are Croatia entry into Top 10, climbing from 11th to 7th place. While England and Czech ...

A leading UK University today conferred an honorary doctorate on Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty for her outstanding contribution to cultural diversity. The Leeds Metropolitan University has, in the past, honoured prominent Indian personalities who contributed to India's emergence as a fast developing cinema-proud nation during its 60th year of freedom struggle.Mangalore-born Shilpa Shetty is the youngest actor from the Indian film fraternity to join ranks of Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi and Yash Chopra who have been earlier chosen for the honour. The Bollywood actress said, It came as a huge surprise to me and I am really humbled by the gesture, Sharing the platform with great stalwarts like Amitji (Amitabh Bachchan), Yashji (Yash Chopra), and Shabanaji (Shabana Azmi) is a huge honour. Describing it as a ...

Meet Mr Luv and Kush, twins of Shatrughan and Poonam Sinha. They want to be “actors”, can somebody please tell them we already have one superstar Tushar kapoor. And he always put us in misery when we see him on the screen. He also happens to be son of a superstar jumping jack Jeetendra. I don’t understand what’s wrong with these few yesteryear superstars “sons”, why they aren’t good-looking or why they haven’t got that macho looks and talents from their fathers. Whereas the daughters (Ekta Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha) are quite bold and successful in their respective fields.  Luv and Kush Sinha Update 23-03-2010 Luv Sinha is making his debut with Raj Kanwar's SADIYAAN ...

The Leading newspaper of India, TimesofIndia, published a news of 11th July 2007 with a title  Sex flies off Gujarat govt website which shows upto what extent the media can go to sensationalize the issue. It was just a silly mistake of not changing the link on the webpages to the new website giicindia.org but TimesofIndia portrayed all the matter in such a manner that people thinks, employees of Gujarat Govt are running a "Porn business" through Goverment website.   Background Gujarat Govt registered the giicindia.com on 24-Sep-1998 and the website was working fine until it got expired on 09/24/2006. Due to the lack of funds, understanding, foresight or you can say domain business knowledge, Gujarat govt didn't renew the domain and instead registered a new domain giicindia.org ...

John Noel Management, who shot into fame during Shilpa Shetty - Jade Goody controversay, is once again in news for its decision to sign the nastiest contestant Charley Uchea of Big Brother UK. John Noel always had pick of the best housemates and this time he has targeted Charley as a potential money-spinner. The news was revealed on Russell Brand's weekly radio show. Fans are furious after finding she will be represented by John Noel — also agent to Big Brother host Davina McCall, Little Brother host Dermot O’Leary, comic Russell Brand and ex-agent to Jade Goody. Fans suspects she had been given behind-the-scenes coaching. Some of fans are saying, “Why call it Big Brother? Why not Noel’s Talent search?”

The unverified takeover rumor of Rediff.com by Internet giants Google and Yahoo are milling around the internet. The rumor came from the HIndustan Times, who reports  â€œUS-based Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo are eyeing Rediff.com India Ltd, which runs one of India’s most popular consumer Internet portals, for  a possible acquisition”. The Hindustan Times quotes “investment banking sources” saying that the management of Rediff “was in talks with the global companies for a negotiated takeover deal”. Rediff.com is a NASDAQ listed company and leader in the Indian market, providing news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services for Indians both in India and worldwide. Recently, JuxtConsult, a Delhi-based online research firm, has reported in its annual study on the Indian Internet ...

The Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson as their new cricket coach at press conference in Karachi today whereas BCCI is still looking for the options after being declined by Graham Ford . Board chairman Nasim Ashraf told a news conference that Lawson had been preferred over two other short-listed candidates, Dav Whatmore and Richard Done. He dismissed claims that Arjuna Ranatunga's comments regarding Whatmore played a part in the decision, or that the players, many of whom were in favour of Lawson, had exercised their influence unduly. Ashraf said,  Lawson is our choice and we are confident he will help the Pakistan team into a new era of success. Geoff Lawson, a level 3 qualified ...

The footballer Thierry Henry has split with his English wife Claire who is also known by her modelling name Nicole Merry after four years of marriage. The couple have a two year old daughter called Téa There had been claims their marriage was put under strain by Henry's £16 million transfer to Barcelona last month and that the 27-year-old Claire,who was born in Croydon, Surrey, wanted to stay in London. Henry, who is French, had been seeing Claire for two years at the time of their wedding. They were married in a lavish ceremony at Highclere Castle, Berkshire, in July 2003. Henry Family in happy days  A statement through his lawyers said, Thierry is extremely saddened by the breakdown of his marriage. ...

After getting naked with wife Victoria for the latest edition of America’s trendy W magazine, the 32-year old former England Captain, David Beckham, has finally joined the World Wide Web and has launched his own website, www.davidbeckham.com, which also have a blog. The website covers News, Football/Soccer, Blog, Lifestyle (must be Posh's idea), David Beckham Academy and Charity. The England star, who was unveiled as a Los Angeles Galaxy football club player last week, admits on site it took him a long time to getting round to setting it up. The Football ( now Soccer ) Star writes on his blog, Hi everybody,Thanks for joining me on davidbeckham.com – it does seem incredible ...