BWI: NewsHunt is now the most downloaded Indian Mobile News App!

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Rediff.com (India) Ltd.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011 03:15 PM IST (09:45 AM GMT)
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NewsHunt is now the most downloaded Indian Mobile News App!
Crosses 2 million downloads on GetJar, ahead of international news apps

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, February 01, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- Eterno Infotech's NewsHunt is the most sought after application for Indian newspapers on mobile. The application has crossed the 2 million downloads mark on the popular app store GetJar, ahead of other international newspaper apps. Speaking on this occasion, Patrick Mork, CMO for GetJar said, "GetJar, the world's largest open app store, is happy to be a part of the booming Indian Telecom market. GetJar has been working closely with companies like Eterno to bring revolutionary applications like NewsHunt to Indians across the globe. With more than 2 million downloads of NewsHunt, NewsHunt is one of the most downloaded mobile application under the News Category on GetJar. We are very confident that there will be many more download of NewsHunt along with other Indian Mobile application in the days to come."

NewsHunt is a mobile newspaper platform that enables users to browse the latest news of the regional language newspapers on their GPRS enabled mobile phones. The application can deliver regional language newspapers even on phones that do not support that particular language font.

Users can download the NewsHunt app on their mobiles for free at http://www.getjar.com/mobile/30299/newshunt

At present there are more than 35 English as well as regional language newspapers including the top regional dailies like Andhrajyothy, Andhraprabha, Amar Ujala, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Dinamalar, Midday, Dinamani, Prajavani, Eenadu ,Indian Express, Kannada Prabha, Loksatta, Mangalam, Malayala Manorama, Mathrubhumi, Deccan Herald, Dainik Navajyoti, Divya Bhaskar, New Indian Express, Punjab Keshari, Sakal, Sandesh and many more are available through this application.

Speaking on the occasion, Umesh Kulkarni, Founder of Eterno Infotech, said "We are very excited to achieve the multi million users milestone for NewsHunt application after the similar success of our IndiSMS application. We are already delivering the News and Classifieds content in 9 Indian languages to the NewsHunt readers. To coincide with 3G roll out in India, Eterno is launching Music and Video services as well."

ABOUT ETERNO

Eterno is a leading Mobile Media company with a special focus on delivering Indian Language content across wide variety of mobile platforms. Eterno's Mobile Applications have powered media delivery for various media like News, Music, Video etc over 3G, GPRS and SMS.

Eterno is currently focused on its flagship product NewsHunt which is a Mobile Newspaper Platform. Eterno has partnered with more than 35 leading Indian Newspapers for NewsHunt. NewsHunt allows end users to browse News and classifieds on their mobile phones. NewsHunt has won numerous awards and recognitions. Eterno's mobile applications like IndiSMS and NewsHunt are used by millions of users across the globe.

Eterno was proud partner in developing Nokia's Nokia Life Tools Pilot project in India, Rediff.com's Rediffmail on Mobile. Eterno's SMS platforms are used by leading Indian operators like Airtel, Idea, Tata DoCoMo etc.

For more information on Eterno, visit http://www.eternoinfotech.com



CONTACT DETAILS
Shreya Dutta, Rediff.com (India) Ltd., +91 9999684959, shreya.dutta@eternoinfotech.com

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