Content Generation

The company has entered into capital market entailing the public issue of 16 million shares at the face value of Rs 10 each in its bounty.

DQ opened the subscription of these shares during March 8-10, 2010 with the price band of Rs 75-80 per equity share of Rs 10 each. According to NSE data, the issue received total bids for 1113.5 million shares, over subscribing by around 86 times.

However the group expects to churn out Rs 150 Cr at its higher end on the price band. Further the group has raised Rs 25 Cr via the pre IPO placements to IDFC Investments and a grip on high net worth individuals.

Full Story: IPO of DQ Entertainment receives 86 times subscription - TopNews

There are a couple of different ways to look at SharePoint 2010. Although the technology perspective is important, maybe the most critical is how it makes the lives of business users easier.

Microsoft speaks a lot about the vision of “ECM for the Masses” as key underpinning of information management element of SharePoint 2010.

The previous 2007 version of SharePoint (known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or MOSS 2007) was a breakthrough because of its Web 2.0 add-ons, document management capabilities and its simplicity. The 2010 release promises even deeper features and capability.

Full Story: Will SharePoint 2010 stack up? - IDM.net.au

Full Story: DQ Entertainment IPO is very expensive - Economic Times

With Freej in mind, I find Inspiring Local Content, the theme of this year?s Arab Media Outlook (2009-2013), recently released by Dubai Press Club and Value Partners, extremely revealing. In this part of the world, local content has often come under fire for what some see as its failure to synthesise indigenous moral traditions and state-of-the-art production practices.

In many ways, the Arab Media Outlook, with its thorough statistical accounts, is a precious addition to our scarce knowledge about an evolving Arab communications landscape. But beyond the lessons that numbers reveal, another facet of local content deserves to be considered: quality. This won?t be achieved through total content indigenisation, but rather through the institution of a Freej-style ethos in our production culture: act local and think global. Local content must be more than ?filler? for multiplying media slots. It should be a subtle articulation of the nation?s identity through a global medium.

It is true that the proliferation of satellite television, the internet, and mobile telephony has enhanced our communications capacities across space and time. But as noted by one of the panelists at the Arab Media Outlook launch, we have realised that our ability to generate appropriate content is outpaced by the way technology advances. With over 600 operational satellite channels in the region, content producers find it extremely difficult to meet round-the-clock demands for high-quality programming. The most convenient remedy to this situation has been to fill in television time, even with total rubbish, just to keep transmissions running.

Full Story: Local media that's not globally relevant won't do - National

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Full Story: PHONE+ Seeks Channel Editor - Phone Plus