Universal Music Group (UMG), the Dutch -American music corporation with headquarters in the Netherlands and in Santa Monica, CA, has reached a definitive agreement to acquire a 30% stake in Excel Entertainment, an Indian film and digital content studio. UMG will pay $90 million for the stake, a deal that...
Lady Gaga to visit India, and maybe to record a song
Simi Garewal, (known in the West as the courtesan Kamala in Conrad Rooks' Siddhartha, 1972) currently hosts India's Most Desirable on News Corp.'s Star network channel Star One. Lady Gaga was a guest, in her first appearance on an Indian talk show, “I have seen a few Bollywood films and...
Lady Gaga to visit India, localize songs
Pop Singer and sensation Lady Gaga is planning a trip to India this year. "She’ll probably be doing a bunch of TV and possibly some performances,” according to Anjula Acharia-Bath, co-founder and CEO of Desi Hits!, a New York City-based company as reported in the Wall Street Journal. The strategy...
India's more Western-oriented than China, in internet searches
Among India's top ten search terms for its 80 million internet users were American firms Facebook, Google and YouTube. Most of China’s top search terms involve Chinese applications or web sites such as Baidu, Tencent,s QQ instant messenger application, gaming destination 4399.com , and video site tudou.com. If you look...