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Jul 03, 2009

UTV New Media hires Manish Agarwal as CEO

UTV New Media has appointed Manish Agarwal as its chief executive officer. A UTV spokesperson has confirmed the news to Campaign India.Agarwal comes in place of TN Prabhu who has decided to call it quits. Prior to this, he was marketing director at Microsoft India's Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) division.Before Microsoft, he was VP-marketing, Rediff.com. Agarwal has also worked for Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) as senior brand manager, with Infosys Technologies as senior software engineer and Reliance Power as assistant manager. 

May 27, 2008

UTV New Media acquires 76% stake in IT Nation

UTV New Media, the digital media arm of UTV Software Communications, has acquired a controlling stake of 76% for a consideration of Rs 15 crores in IT Nation, online technology company.UTV New Media wants to invest around Rs. 120 crores over the next two years in a combination of the Internet space with a portfolio of 10 portals, in the digital music space, in the online technology space with IT Nation and in the online business space with UTVi.com the business website.