Rediff.com

Rediff.com
Main page as of 24 July 2009
Type Public company
Traded as NASDAQ: REDF
Founded 1996 (1996)
Headquarters Mumbai, India
Key people Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO
Industry Internet Services
Revenue $3.63 million (2015)[1]
Employees 316 (Dec 2009)
Website rediff.com
Alexa rank Negative increase 332 (April 2016) [2]
Type of site Web Portal
Registration Optional
Available in English
Launched February 8, 1997 (1997-02-08)

Rediff.com is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal, founded in 1996[3] as "Rediff On The NeT".[4] It is headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and New York City.[5]

According to Alexa,[6] Rediff.com is the No. 24 Indian web portal.[7] It has more than 316 employees.[8] 89.1% of the millions of visitors[9] to Rediff.com are from India, while the rest come primarily from the USA (3.4%) and China.[10] In April 2001, Rediff.com acquired and began offering India Abroad.[11] As of February 2011, it ranked 295 on Alexa.[12] Rediff.com was the first website domain name registered in India in 1996.[13]

In 2001, Rediff.com was alleged to be in violation of the Securities Act for filing materially false prospectus in relation to an IPO of its American depositary shares.[14]

History

Awards and recognition

Rediff.com was recognized as a CIO Choice 2014 in the category of Enterprise E-Mail Solution (SME).[22] CIO Choice-recognized brands are chosen through an independent advisory panel of imminent CIOs as well as an independent survey of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and information and communications technology (ICT) decision makers from across India.[23]

References

  1. "Rediff Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2016 Results". Rediff.com. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. "Rediff.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  3. "Rediff.Com reports Q1 results: India revenue up 42%". Financialexpress.com. 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  4. "Internet Archive Wayback Machine rediffonthenet.com".
  5. "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.
  6. Alexa Ranking
  7. "Top Sites in India". Alexa. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  8. "REDF : Rediff.com India Limited FAQs". Investor.rediff.com. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  9. 5 million unique visitors worldwide
  10. At least 66 per cent of the visitors come from India
  11. "Pioneering publisher Gopal Raju passes away". India Abroad. 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
  12. "Rediff.com Site Info". Alexa.com. Retrieved 2014-03-15.
  13. "India completes 20 years of commercial internet". Indian Digitel Review. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  14. "Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates, LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Rediff.com India Ltd. Seeking Damages on Behalf of Purchasers of Rediff American Depository Shares - REDF". May 25, 2001. Retrieved Jul 17, 2013.
  15. "Rediff records 15 percent growth in registered user base". Medianewsline.com. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  16. "Rediff.com introduces web-messenger in Rediffmail". Moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  17. "Hotmail vs Rediffmail - Difference and Comparison". Diffen. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  18. "A software to make typing Indian languages easier: Rediff.com Business". Business.rediff.com. 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  19. "Mobile email service from Rediff.com". The Hindu. 2010-10-21. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  20. "Rediff News Android App". Rediff.com. Retrieved 2012-09-14.
  21. "Now share videos, music on Rediff’s iShare". Livemint.com. 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
  22. "CIO CHOICE 2014 Recognized Brand - Rediff.com". CIO Choice. Archived from the original on August 30, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  23. "About CIO CHOICE". CIO Choice. Retrieved April 4, 2015.

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