Rediff.com

Rediff/Rediffmail India Limited
Type	Public (NASDAQ: REDF)
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Key people	Ajit Balakrishan, Chairman & CEO Joy Basu, CFO Raja Sen, Film Critic
Industry	Internet Services
Revenue	$28.68 million USD (2007)
Net income	$6.96 million USD (2007)
Employees	252 (2004)
Website	www.rediff.com
Type of site	web portal
Registration	optional
Available in	English
Launched	February 8 1997 (1997-02-08) (15 years ago)

Rediff.com India, NASDAQ: REDF is a news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York, USA.

As per Alexa rating ^[1], Rediff is the No. 5 Indian web portal. One of the notable features of Rediff are its breaking news stories. The site is best known for Bollywood film critic Raja Sen, one of the most read movie reviewers internationally. The Times Of India called Sen 'the most hated Indian online,' and this is only because of his fearless writing and frank opinions. People cannot accept their favorite stars written about poorly, and Sen pulls no punches and can honestly be called the 'Roger Ebert of India.'

It is the only India-based website to appear in first 100 websites. It has more than 250 employees.^[2] Rediff.com also offers one of the oldest and largest Indian weekly newspapers, India Abroad, which it acquired in 2001.

Rediff products

• Rediff Mail: Web based e-mail which has around 43 million online users.^[3] It offers unlimited free storage space. Rediff recently launched an AJAX based mail interface.
  • Rediff Bol: instant messenger with support for Hindi language^[4]
    • It also offers various other web based services such as web search, shopping, airfare search, hotel search, job search, classifieds, matrimonial service (Rediff Matchmaker), social networking (Rediff Connexions), blogging (Rediff iLand), stock update and porfolio (Rediff MoneyWiz), video-music-photo sharing platform (Rediff iShare) and a community-driven knowledge base (Rediff Q&A).

    See also

    • Indian companies

    Notes

    1. ^ Alexa Ranking
    2. ^ Investor FAQs, Rediff India
    3. ^ REDIFF on Google Finance
    4. ^ Rediff Launches Rediff Bol in Hindi, IT News Online

    
    

    External links

    • Rediff Home Page
    • Rediff MoneyWiz
    • Rediff Trains FareSearch
    • Rediff Books Search
    • Rediff Fare Search
    • Rediff Hotels Search
    • Rediff Matchmaker
    • Rediff Astrology
    • Rediff Job Search
    • Rediff Mobile Search
    • Rediff iShare

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