Indiatimes is the Internet subsidiary of The Times of India Group, under which, some of the largest websites in India - The Times of India, The Economic Times, Navbharat Times and Maharashtra Times operate.
Apart from News, Sports, Cricket, Astrology, and a number of other things, the portal also offers Shopping & Travel. Indiatimes is the flagship brand of Times Internet Limited. Times Internet limited is in turn promoted by The Times Group, which has a 90% stake in it. The remaining 10% stake is held by Seqouia Capital, which invested in this company in 2005.
Most of the content on Indiatimes is derived from Bollywood affairs, gossips and rumors that are masqueraded as news. The pictures shown on the website are semi-pornographic in nature in order to attract traffic to the website and generate ad revenue. Here is an example - Picture Stories - Teenage Sex Myths Busted [1]
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Indiatimes Shopping claims it is India's largest online shopping platform featuring over 30,000 products for sale across a wide range of categories such as apparels, accessories, jewellery, consumer durables/electronics, books, music, movies, etc. [2] [3]
Hotklix.com,[4] owned and operated by Indiatimes is a bookmarking website.
itimes.com is the social networking site. [5]
Recently Indiatimes shopping had tied up with Land Mark and have listed 3 Million Books of various categories. For more details:
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