Top 10 News @ Digital

1. Both of India’s biggest Horizontal portals’ Rediff and Yahoo have changed the look and feel with improved UI for their Homepage’s
   1. Rediff has a complete clutter free look and decided to have no advertising on Homepage
   2. Yahoo has new look with full of apps and widgets to engage their audience more on Homepage
   3. There is no change on their ad pricing till date
2. TimesofIndia.com gets a new design to support global ad-banner sizes, now standard ad banner size of 300×250 pixels is available and 240×400 has been discontinued. The number of tabs in the top navigation bar on the homepage has also been reduced and the website has also included headlines from all of the 29 city supplements of The Times of India newspaper.
3. TimesofIndia.com, emerged as the world`s No.1 English newspaper website in terms of page views. According to the latest figures from comScore, TimesofIndia.com recorded 159 million page views in May 2009 and was way ahead of the New York Times, Sun, Washington Post, Daily Mail and USA Today websites.
4. Microsoft India has launched Windows Live Planet, a social networking site designed for the Indian internet users in the 18 to 25 years age group. The company claims that WindowsLivePlanet.com is not just another social network and is devised as a new way to connect to new friends.
5. WSJ (Wall Street Journal) launches career site for financial professionals, Fins.com
6. Facebook, which was founded in February 2004, claims to have over 250 million active users, out of which more than 120 million users log on to Facebook.com at least once a day.
7. NDTV Convergence, in association with Zapak.com, has introduced a games section, called NDTV Games.
8. India could have 500 million internet users, 100 million broadband connections and 100 million connected devices by 2012, provided infrastructural bottlenecks are removed and 3G and WiMax networks are rolled out early, according to MAIT (Manufacturers` Association for Information Technology).
9. Auto portal CarWale.com has been relaunched with a new design that aims to break the growing misperception amongst its users that CarWale is primarily a used-car listing website. CarWale.com now wants to position itself as a leading auto portal that focuses on research and information related to new cars.
10. Ibibo Web has launched Tradus.in, an online auctions platform that will focus on building a community of buyers and sellers with co-existence of dynamic and fixed price models.

Top Pic of the Week (Even Google needs to advertise)

Google India recently launched ads in internet and local newspapers across 10 Indian cities, to promote awareness and benefits of Google Search among audiences who are new to internet.