Times Internet Limited leads Indian online space yet again

Timesofindia.com, zigwheels.com and gaana.com top their
respective categories; timesdeal.com 2nd largest deals site

Times Internet Limited (TIL) has been once again ranked as the top Indian internet network in India. The comScore data released for September 2011 places TIL ahead of its competitors Network18 and Rediff.com to claim the top slot.

As per the data released, the month of September saw 17.5 million unique visitors to the TIL sites, as compared to Network 18, which managed 15.7 million visitors and Rediff.com with 15.4 million visitors. Times Internet Limited’s audience base has grown over 50 percent in last one year (Sep-2010 to Sep-2011), on par with Facebook’s growth and more than double of Google and Yahoo’s.

Among the network’s sites, The Times of India and the Economic Times websites continue to be the leading news portal and financial newspaper portal respectively. With 7.8 million unique visitors The Times of India website has more than double the traffic of that of the nearest competition in India.

Gaana.com, within three months of launch, has become the number one music streaming website, with 3.17 million unique visitors. What is exciting to note is that 2.5 million of those visitors come from India alone – a figure that has tripled in the last three months. Gaana.com provides free and completely licensed music—ranging from the latest Bollywood releases to regional music and International songs—to its listeners through a unique interface. It is also the first major music site deployed in HTML5, and fully compatible on the iPad , thereby making it accessible across as many platforms as possible.

In the auto category, Zigwheels.com made it to the number one spot with 1.6 million unique visitors. Zigwheels.com is increasingly becoming the preferred destination as the expert source for automobile news, reviews, videos, research and more. And in the hyper-competitive deals space, timesdeal.com had the 2nd most traffic of all deals' sites in India last month.

Commenting on the results Mr. Rishi Khiani, CEO, Times Internet Limited said, “Reaching a leadership position in five of our verticals is indeed motivating. This is a result of our continuous effort on innovation and enhancing the user experience, and we intend to keep pushing the envelope with all our verticals. The Times network also offers our advertisers a platform to reach out to a wide spectrum of diverse audiences.”

Through the Indiatimes.com portal, TIL touches the lives of a large audience. Whether it is news, shopping, music, information on automobiles and more, TIL provides a one-stop convenient gateway to satisfy diverse needs.

ET tax wizard

Three days left, and you haven’t filed your returns. Try the ET tax wizard, it’s so easy to use and it just takes 5 minutes to fill the form. Don’t believe us; listen to some of the testimonials that grateful netizens from all over the country have been inundating us with.Omar Sharif, Domain Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. in Mumbai, wrote to us that the interface “very user friendly…indeed it made my life simpler”. Geetanjali P., an Analyst with a major computer manufacturing MNC in Bangalore says it “greatly simplified the tax filing process for professionals like me”. Nipun K, a fellow Analyst in an MNC IT firm in the Graden City the Tax Wizard was “a great and easy-to-use tool by Economic Times”.But for the final word we’ll go to 79-year-old Sunder Thadani in Mumbai. He’s been trying his hand at e-filling for the past three years, but found it “very difficult to use”. This is when he came to www.tax.economictimes.com and discovered the ET Tax Wizard.

Rakhi – Celebrate the Eternal Bond of Love

Once again Indiatimes Shopping, one of the largest online shopping brands, is ready to delight its customers with its great Rakhi offers. Not only is there an outstanding range of Rakhis and Gifting options but also the promise of an Assured Gift with every purchase- a dazzling Pearl Pendant! Coupled with 50% cash back scheme running across the site, customers will be delighted shopping for Rakhi. Indiatimes Rakhi collection offers its customers widest range of Rakhi options to choose from with unbelievable offers
There are classic Rakhi ideas like Rakhi thali’s Mithai hampers, dry fruits and Rakhi Packs. Then there are designer Rakhis like Pearl Rakhis, Zardozi Rakhis, Gold Rakhis, Silver Rakhis. Not to forget the cute range of cartoon Rakhis for kids. All these Hampers with Rakhi can be delivered within India as well as abroad. There are separate categories for “Send Rakhis to USA” & “ Send Rakhis Worldwide”.Rakhis start at a very attractive prices of Rs 65 and prices of Hampers for instance Mithai hampers start at Rs.99/-, dry fruits at Rs.101, Designer Rakhis start at just Rs.89/-
And if you are interested in giving gifts then Indiatimes Shopping won’t let you down. There is a huge variety of Gifts to choose from across categories - electronics, apparels and accessories, jewellery and lots more.
There is an amazing collection of electronic products ranging from MP3 players / ipods, mobile phones, Branded digital cameras, camcorders, home décor, assortment of home appliances, LCD’s, laptops etc all offering upto 75% discount.
Talking about apparels and accessories, there is an extensive line of apparels/clothes, lingerie and apparel accessories that includes men's apparel, ladies apparel, shirts, t-shirts, trousers, bottoms, skirts, traditional Indian clothes, sarees, salwar Kameez/ Salwar suits, Indian ethnic wear and many more. On branded apparel discount is up to 60% off.
In Jewellery there is a wide collection ranging from Pearls, diamond, semi-precious stones, sterling silver and gold starting from Rs. 149/- onwards. There is also an extensive range of Bracelets starting @ Rs.100 and Chains starting @ Rs.99, Earrings, rings , pendants and many more