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Saavn — Bringing Bollywood to the World

Saavn (www.saavn.com) brings the best of Bollywood to the world. As the largest digital distributor of Bollywood entertainment, Saavn owns rights to hundreds of movies and over 250,000 music tracks, 20,000 music videos and 10,000 ringtones, including titles such as Jodhaa Akbar, Race and Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na. Saavn distributes its exclusive catalog and new Bollywood releases to over 75 global media companies including Time Warner, Verizon and iTunes and integrates Bollywood into their marketing activities.

The company's flagship Saavn.com is an online community that connects 4 billion global Bollywood fans around a shared interest in Bollywood, bringing them a rich Bollywood experience with free streaming audio and video, robust playlisting, commenting and profile pages.  Saavn is a joint venture of [212]MEDIA and Hungama Mobile and has offices in Mumbai, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto. Saavn's leadership position in the industry has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNN, Fox Business, Variety, Forbes, Cable World and Multichannel News.

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Los Angeles Times: Bollywood hopefuls head to karaoke tryouts
Jul 22 '09 —

One rarely expects to be moved to tears at a karaoke competition in a Lakewood strip-mall movie theater. But Neil Sheth, a whippet-thin 20-year-old from Palos Verdes Estates, had the crowd on the verge as he auditioned for BollyStar 2009, an open tryout for a singing role in a mainstream Bollywood film.

From MediaPost: State Farm Sponsors Bollywood Contest
Jul 7 '09 —

Aspiring singers, forget “American Idol.” State Farm Insurance and Saavn have partnered to find one talented U.S. singer to become the next Bollywood singing sensation and perform on the silver screens of India.

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Sportsvite

Sportsvite — Stop Playing With Yourself

Sportsvite (www.sportsvite.com) is a leading online community for recreational athletes, serving the 110 million Americans that play sports and engage in fitness. Sportsvite is a social network that builds connections between players, teams and leagues and a social utility that organizes their games and activities – from practices to pick-up games to league competitions. Sportsvite has been featured as the top social network for recreational sports in Time, New York Times, MSNBC, Entrepreneur, Maxim, Sports Illustrated, Fox News and ABC News.

Sportsvite reaches over 500,000 recreational athletes in top U.S. cities through Sportsvite.com and its Recreational Sports Network of sites. Sportsvite works with the premier sports and local media companies including ESPN, CBS College Sports and Internet Broadcasting to power their recreational sports offerings and has secured advertising from top flight brands including American Express, Coca Cola, Nestle, Kellogg's, Puma, Coors and Corona.

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Press Release: The Turkey Bowl Tradition Scores Online
Nov 24 '09 —

This year, thousands of families around America will be competing in the most anticipated sporting event of the season and bear witness to the biggest of sports rivalries: the Family Turkey Bowl. But with busy families scattered around the country or world organizing this annual event is harder than ever. Sportsvite.com, an online community to help organize and manage recreational sports activities, makes this feat easier by providing online tools to organize a game, send out invitations, assign positions, and find local playing fields.

Sportsvite and Powerbar Launch Fitness Portal
Jul 18 '08 —

Sportsvite and Powerbar partnered to launch the Powerbar Fitness Portal on Sportsvite.

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Speakaboos

Speakaboos — Classic Children's Stories

Speakaboos (www.speakaboos.com) is a children's website that celebrates classic literary properties such as Curious George, Snow White and Aesop's Fables through the voices of today's biggest stars including Kelly Ripa, Kevin Bacon and Minnie Driver. For children, we feature “storybook videos” (i.e. "music videos for books") with original illustrations and music accompanied by educational activities, games and contests that they can play alongside their parents. Parents and teachers enjoy story guides, lesson plans based on national standards, community content and resources that reinforce the educational lessons at home and in the classroom.

Our first release, the Arthur Celebrity Audiobook, earned a Teacher's Choice Award from Scholastic and was featured in Parenting, Family Circle, PBS Kids and The View. Speakaboos partners with premier educational organizations such as the National Education Association and contributes 15% of all revenues in return for distribution and promotion to over 3 million teachers and administrators. Speakaboos is currently in beta and is introducing a growing catalog of stories, fairy tales, nursery rhymes and lullabies.

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Press Release: Speakaboos Announces Children’s Classics for Spring
Apr 15 '09 —

Speakaboos announces its the release of its spring titles, featuring “Law & Order: SVU” star Christopher Meloni and “The Office” star John Krasinski.

KidScreen: Digital books speak to real-world readers
Apr 15 '09 —

Interactive applications can’t be too immersive these days. And in an effort to bring kids further into the worlds depicted in their favorite books, New York-based digital firm [212]media created a beta version of digital edu-tainment product Speakaboos that it’s prepping for a full launch later this year.

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SnakBlox

SnakBlox — Casual Online Gaming & Syndication

SnakBlox (www.snakblox.com) is a casual game publisher and powers a network of advertising supported casual games online across leading publishers such as Women's Entertainment Television, ESPN and National Lampoons. SnakBlox allows advertisers to use both high volume advertising and highly integrated sponsorship to reach casual game players. Snakblox will be launching its casual game syndication platform in the fourth quarter of 2008.

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SnakBlox Bollywood Trivia Game featured on MSN Canada
Jul 17 '08 —

SnakBlox partnered with Saavn and MSN Canada to launch a Bollywood Trivia Game to spotlight the opening night of the Bollywood Unforgettable Tour, the largest South Asian celebrity concert series in 2008.

SnakBlox Launches Home Run Challenge for Kellogg’s Earn Your Stripes
Jun 18 '08 —

SnakBlox, in partnership with ESPN, Kellogg’s and Sportsvite today launched Home Run Challenge, its second online flash game for the Kellogg’s Earn Your Stripes campaign.

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