Archive for the 'media coverage' Category

160by2 in the Newspapers..Free International SMS a Big Hit!

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

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Ntv Coverage

Sakshi TV Coverage

The response we have received so far on our launch of free International SMS has been overwhelming. We have people calling us from different places in Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia who thank us for how we have been helping them connect to their near and dear ones. It has been a [...]

160by2 - The Most Used Internet SMS Portal!

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

The laurels just keep coming. After being awarded the Website of year 2008 (ISP/Telecom), and our parent company included by Deloitte in their 2008 list of the 50 fastest growing tech companies in India and 500 fastest growing tech companies in Asia Pacific, we have now been recognized as the most used PC-to-Mobile Text Messaging [...]

Website of Year 2008 : We are Nominated!

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Great News! 160by2.com has been nominated for this year’s “Website of the Year” award. This award is annually awarded by Metrix Labs; Europe’s largest Online research agency. Previous winners of this award from India include Orkut.com, Youtube.com, eBay.in, Vodafone.in, TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com among others. Your vote can help us reach this league of the winners of the [...]

160by2 Takes a Green Turn!

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

It always feels good when we give something back to the community we grew up in, doesn’t it? That is exactly the way we felt when we partnered with Zee Cafe for their Green Turn initiative that was organized as a means to spread awareness about making our cities greener. Green Turn was organized on [...]

Our CEO Speaks - Media Coverage

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Recently, our CEO was interviewed on Mobile Advertising & the concept behind 160by2 by Nayanima basu of Indo-Asian News Service.
An excerpt of this Interview:
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“On one side were users who wanted free SMS and on the other side were brands and media companies trying to reach these [...]

“The Hindu” lauds 160by2 for ‘Slam the Spam’ policy

Monday, July 16th, 2007

We got covered in ‘The Hindu’ on last Saturday, July 14, 2007. This article was carried in the business pages of all editions of ‘The Hindu’. Here is the link to the article.
The article talks of current service offering of 160by2.com, and also reveals our larger plan. We have already built up a large user [...]

Brand equity of economic times says “Free bee all the way”

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Brand equity, the Wednesday supplement of Economic times wrote about 160by2. here is the link to the article on economictimes website. Preeti was talking about the other model where the consumers are paid to receive advertisements as SMS messages and compared them with 160by2. I did not like the way she ended the article where she says inspite of [...]