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Rediff/Rediffmail India Limited

Type	Public (NASDAQ: REDF)
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Key people	Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman & CEO Joy Basu, CFO (COO)
Industry	Internet Services
Revenue	$28.68 million USD (2007)
Net income	$6.96 million USD (2007)
Employees	252 (2004)
Website	www.rediff.com
Alexa rank	96[1]
Type of site	web portal
Registration	optional
Available in	English
Launched	1997-2-8; 12 years ago
Screenshot Main page as of 24 July, 2009

Visitors to rediff.com in 2008

Rediff.com India, NASDAQ: REDF is a news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York City, USA.

According to Alexa,^[2] Rediff is the No. 8 Indian web portal ^[3]. It is the only India-based website to appear in the first 100 websites. It has more than 250 employees.^[4] 87.8% of the millions of visitors^[5] to Rediff.com are from India, while the rest come primarily from the USA(3.4%) and China.^[6] In April 2001, Rediff.com acquired and began offering India Abroad.^[7] It is ranked 93 on Alexa.^[8]

Rediff products

• Rediff Mail: Web based e-mail which has around 65 million registered usernames.^[9] It offers unlimited free storage space. Rediff recently launched an AJAX based mail interface. Rediff Mail also allows users to send and receive mails in many Indian languages on Microsoft Windows. Rediffmail is also available on mobiles through the free mobile application.
• Rediff Bol: instant messenger with support for Hindi language^[10]
• 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.^[11]

See also

• Indian companies

References

External links

• Official website