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Rediff/Rediffmail India Limited
Rediff.com.Logo.gif
Main page as of 24 July, 2009
Type of businessPublic (NASDAQ: REDF)
Type of site
web portal
Available inEnglish
Founded1996
HeadquartersMumbai, India
Key peopleAjit Balakrishnan, Chairman & CEO

Joy Basu, CFO (COO)
IndustryInternet Services
Revenue $25.43 million USD (2009)
Net income $11.25 million USD (2009)
Employees316 (Dec 2009)
URLwww.rediff.com
Registrationoptional
LaunchedFebruary 8, 1997 (1997-02-08)
File:2008rediffVisitorsv2.PNG
Visitors to rediff.com in 2008

Rediff.com India (NasdaqREDF) is a news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal. It was founded in 1996[2] and is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York City, USA.[3]

According to Alexa,[4] Rediff is the No. 9 Indian web portal.[5] It is the only India-based website to appear in the first 100 websites. It has more than 316 employees.[6] 89.1% of the millions of visitors[7] to Rediff.com are from India, while the rest come primarily from the USA (3.4%) and China.[8] In April 2001, Rediff.com acquired and began offering India Abroad.[9] It is ranked 93 on Alexa.[10]

Rediff products

  • Rediff Mail: Web based e-mail which has around 65 million registered usernames.[11] It offers unlimited free storage space.[12] Rediff recently launched an AJAX based mail interface.[13] Rediff Mail also allows users to send and receive mails in many Indian languages on Microsoft Windows.[14] Rediffmail is also available on mobiles through the free mobile application.
  • Rediff Bol: instant messenger with support for Hindi language[15]
  • It also offers various other web based services such as a web search, shopping, classifieds, a matrimonial service, social networking, blogging, a music-video sharing platform and a community-driven knowledge base.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "rediff.com - Traffic Details from Alexa". Alexa Internet, Inc. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  2. ^ "Rediff.Com reports Q1 results: India revenue up 42%". Financialexpress.com. 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  3. ^ "Rediff.com India Ltd, Business Wire India, Press Releases, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayal". Businesswireindia.com. 2009-12-14. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  4. ^ Alexa Ranking
  5. ^ "Top Sites in India". Alexa. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  6. ^ "REDF : Rediff.com India Limited FAQs". Investor.rediff.com. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  7. ^ 5 million unique visitors worldwide
  8. ^ At least 66 per cent of the visitors come from India
  9. ^ "Pioneering publisher Gopal Raju passes away". India Abroad. 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
  10. ^ "Rediff.com Site Info". Alexa.com. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  11. ^ REDIFF on Google Finance
  12. ^ NULL. "Rediff.com introduces web-messenger in Rediffmail". Moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  13. ^ "Hotmail vs Rediffmail - Difference and Comparison". Diffen. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  14. ^ "A software to make typing Indian languages easier: Rediff.com Business". Business.rediff.com. 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  15. ^ Rediff Launches Rediff Bol in Hindi, IT News Online
  16. ^ "Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News". Reuters.com. Retrieved 2010-07-16.