The IV Holdings Blog: Content Syndicate

Content Syndicate wins top award at Silicon India's Startup City.

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:44:59 GMT

Content Syndicate wins top award at Silicon India's Startup City. After two successful editions of Silicon India's Startup City event in Bangalore, the third edition was held on September 12, 2009 in Mumbai. Startup City 2009 is an open platform for startups to showcase their innovative technology, meet potential investors, business partners and customers. The day-long event drew... [read more]

Yahoo's Maktoob deal opens door for Arab tech sector

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:10:20 GMT

Yahoo's Maktoob deal opens door for Arab tech sectorThe technology entrepreneurs of the Arab world have long played the supporting role to the region’s higher-profile property developers, traders and merchants.But when Yahoo announced last week that it would acquire the Jordanian web portal Maktoob, for a sum believed to be more than US$75 million (Dh275.4m), this small but important community enjoyed... [read more]

Maddy Reddy: Content market in the Middle East is still in its ‘infancy’

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:03:53 GMT

Maddy Reddy is Founder & CEO of Content Syndicate, an internet based platform that helps publishers and corporations commission, distribute, buy and sell previously published and/or tailor made content in more than 200 languages.Q. Kindly introduce yourself and your company.A.I'm a technology journalist by profession, or that's how I started my career more than ten years ago.Content Syndicate was... [read more]

Maddy Reddy: Content market in the Middle East is still in its ‘infancy’.

Mon, 11 May 2009 15:21:28 GMT

Maddy Reddy is Founder & CEO of Content Syndicate, an internet based platform that helps publishers and corporations commission, distribute, buy and sell previously published and/or tailor made content in more than 200 languages. Q. Kindly introduce yourself and your company. A. I'm a technology journalist by profession, or that's how I started my career more than ten years... [read more]

Venture capital the new hope for technology start-ups

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:27:00 GMT

Below is an article that was published in The National , a UAE newspaper.Featured on: April 10th, 2009. (Source: www.thenational.ae) -----------------------------------------Venture capital funds in the Middle East are emerging as alternatives to speculative investment in property and financial markets, internet industry professionals were told at the Submit conference in Dubai this week. The development... [read more]

Content Syndicate Ramps Up Senior Management

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:44:00 GMT

Content Syndicate® announced the addition of senior management across technology, business divisions in the first phase of its expansion plans. Dubai, United Arab Emirates: 7 April 2009 Venkat Amirisetty is the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) overseeing the development of Content Syndicate’s online platform strategy. Prior to the new position, Venkat was based in Silicon ... [read more]

Dubai start-up gets capital boost

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:28:13 GMT

A Dubai digital media start-up has received a multimillion-dollar cash injection from IV Holdings, a Jordanian venture capital firm.Content Syndicate, an internet platform that helps publishers and media professionals to buy, sell and syndicate digital media, has been operating from offices in Dubai since 2005.Its business model – to connect those demanding content with those producing it – is being... [read more]

IV Holdings invests in Content Syndicate

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:55:00 GMT

Dubai/Amman, United Arab Emirates/Jordan: February 7th, 2009Content Syndicate® has announced that it has received strategic investment from Interactive Ventures Holding Company (“IV Holdings”), a leading venture capital firm based out of Amman, Jordan. The funding will be used to support Content Syndicate’s rapid growth and development of its innovative content services platform."In its private beta... [read more]

Content Syndicate wins TiE-ISB award

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:31:00 GMT

At a recent event jointly organized by TiE and the Indian School of Business (ISB), Content Syndicate emerged as the winner in the ‘Cool Start-ups’ category.TiE-ISB Connect 2008 took place at ISB Hyderabad from November 5th to 7th. Sponsors included Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Times of India Group, Satyam, Totem Infrastructure and the Indu Group.This is the third year for TiE-ISB Connect and it is... [read more]