Indian Users: Rediff

[stscac]

How popular is Rediff.com in India?

Just doing some research.

Thanks

-Steve

 

[RajanUrs]

Rediff figures among a handful of succesful Indian portals but in India the internet user population is quite low as compared to countries in N.America, Europe, Australia, Japan etc.

I heard Intel has invested in a number of India companies and Rediff is one of them. Probably they have a lot of plans in the pipeline for the future.

 

[holeinone]

Rediff.com is one of the Most Popular portals in India.....It is also one of the Only profitable .com company...It was Set up way back in times of the dot com boom...

 

[dongan]

My experience with them:

E-Mail: lots of spams i got. Needs super class of filtering.

E-Shopping: Timelt delivery and secured. (I purchased 4 times without having any bad experience)

Domain Management: Customer support and domain management CPanel are not good. I was very frustrated.

Last year i was using Rediff service and completely stopped now only because of poor service. I was satisfied only with their e-shopping.

 

[Rush]

You can consider it the homepage of 2 out of every 5 people. (Ofcourse i mean Indians)

 

[outsider]

Rediff is considered 'Easy' for all kinda stuff like mail, shopping.

So its famous in South India

 

[suthra]

Sorry posted in wrong thread

 

[holeinone]

Great To See Lotsa Indians Up and About in NP

 

[ash1sh]

Rediff is my homepage.
It is quite good...a reputed company.

 

[RajanUrs]

In India people use the internet for mostly email & chat, job search and resume submission, matrimonial search and submissions, stock trading, banking and shopping.

Indians shopping online is very limited and the number of business firms in India having online presence is also very low. Infact the most succesful venture in recent time has been shopping malls [I mean brick and mortar malls] with several small screen theatres in a mall. And to boost the retail segement the indian finance minister has announced opening up the market for foreign investment in retailing. So probably you will find more and more of these malls mushrooming all over the major Indian cities.

I am sure even small shop owners selling vegetables and groceries are making much more money than many domain and hosting providers in India

 

[stscac]

Thanks everyone for the information about Rediff. What do you see as the largest next big thing in India (non-internet/tech)

-Steve

 

[Scorpio]

Balakrishnan, 57, who had already started two successful companies when he launched Rediff in 1995. At age 24 he cofounded Rediffusion, an advertising agency that is now partially owned by Dentsu, the Japanese giant, and New York's Young & Rubicam. It is currently the fifth-largest advertising agency in India. (Despite the similarity in names, Rediffusion and Rediff have no formal relationship.) When Balakrishnan was 32, he cofounded PSI Data Systems, a computer manufacturing company that he sold to Bull, the now troubled but still independent French company, in 1989. Six years after that sale, at age 47, he plunged into India's fledgling IT industry with the launch of Rediff

Balakrishnan funded the company out of his own pocket until, in 1998, Bill Draper's venture capital fund invested about $1 million (then 25% of the company). It currently owns 15%. Rediff went public on Nasdaq in 2000, at $12 per ADR, and today is hovering around $21.

Its advertising and e-commerce fees may be modest by Western standards, but Rediff just had its second straight profitable quarter, netting $307,000. That's enough to merit a $600 million market capitalization. Balakrishnan and a small group of associates hold 32%.

The Rediff.com stock trade under the ticker symbol "REDF''. trading on the Nasdaq SmallCap market from the Nasdaq National Market

 

[holeinone]

The Next Big thing has got to be KPO(Knowledge process Outsourcing).Outsourcing of Knowledge based work...Like Clinical trials, Law etc...
Otherwise it has to be the heralding of the WIFI age..

 

[Keral_Patel]

It was a big thing at first.

Now it is a joke. No one using rediff nowadays. here.

I own a cyber cafe so I know how many people on average use rediff.

Only 0.5% maybe.

Most are still using good old yahoo and some are using gmail.

 

[RajanUrs]

Thanks everyone for the information about Rediff. What do you see as the largest next big thing in India (non-internet/tech)

-Steve

Many say medical outsourcing may become India's biggest thing in the near future but the infrastructure in India is still very much undeveloped.

At the moment the mobile industry is making huge fortunes....everyone in India seems to be owning a mobile phone.

 

[holeinone]

Many say medical outsourcing may become India's biggest thing in the near future but the infrastructure in India is still very much undeveloped.

At the moment the mobile industry is making huge fortunes....everyone in India seems to be owning a mobile phone.

That Means...1.1 billion Mobile phones :sold: . that isn't going to happen...
But A Mobile for evry houseold is a very real possibility..

 

[faisj]

It was a big thing at first.

Now it is a joke. No one using rediff nowadays. here.

I own a cyber cafe so I know how many people on average use rediff.

Only 0.5% maybe.

Most are still using good old yahoo and some are using gmail.

I agree. I lived in New Delhi 4 years ago. ( for 3 years )
That time the internet was hyping. ( i do remember only 0.01% there
had ADSL or DSL etc ) every one (incl. me use a dial up modem)

Rediff was that time pretty known...
These days I know through my friends their that most indians
are using the fact that the internet is global... ( they spend much more time online)
they go to many international sites and sign up for programs like hyves, hi5 and friendster etc...

as such... i think rediff is decreasing in value overtime..
( please dont get me wrong... its still remains a important site )

The above is my personal opinion




ps. nick_mayhem where are you from?