Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Minglebox
Monday, January 25, 2010 12:01 PM IST (06:31 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Education & training, Information technology; Technology
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Minglebox.com Now Powers Sify.com's Education Channel
The Service Offers the Best Quality Education Content and Products
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Monday, January 25, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- Minglebox.com, India's largest campus and education network, announced today that Sify.com, the popular consumer portal from Sify Technologies Limited (Nasdaq: SIFY), a leader in Consumer Internet and Enterprise Services in India with global delivery capabilities, has launched its online Education channel powered by leading education website Minglebox.com.
Visitors to Sify.com's education channel will now be able to research and compare different options for their career and educational needs. Minglebox.com has powered all the content on this channel with information on educational institutes, courses offered, campus photos and reviews posted by students and alumni.Students can prepare for entrance exams, check results and then apply online to educational institutes.
Venkata Rao Mallineni, Head-Portals & Consumer Marketing, Sify Technologies Limited, said, "With the number of students seeking admissions increasing every year, students and parents are moving to the Internet for information on colleges, institutes, courses available and entrance tests. As a site popular with young users, we have felt the need to cater to this demand in a meaningful way. We are happy to have Minglebox.com as a partner, for they have a deep understanding of the educational requirements in India, and an enviable track record of delivering best-in-class solutions."
Talking about the tie up, Kavita Iyer, CEO & Co-Founder, Minglebox.com said, "We are very pleased to be associated with Sify.com, one of India's popular consumer portals. I believe this association adds to the reputation of Minglebox.com as the best education site in India. It is in keeping with our objective of helping more and more Indian students make the right choices about their education and career. We have seen a great response from the student community with high usage of products like Minglebox e-CAT Prep for online MBA preparation, with day to day live updates on MBA entrance exams like CAT, MAT, XAT etc. A large number of students are using Minglebox.com for options in Engineering, Study abroad, IT/Software, Animation, Finance, Retail, Health care and other Vocational and Distance education courses".
Minglebox.com, which began as a campus networking site attracting thousands of college communities with its campus blogs, educational forums and Q&A sessions has now become a full fledged online educational platform with a vision of creating a one stop online destination for education seekers in India.
Today, Minglebox covers education for Indian students spanning MBA, studies abroad, Engineering, Vocational courses such as IT, Animation, Fashion Design, Media and more. Students spend a lot of time on Minglebox, preparing online for entrance exams for JEE, AIEEE, CAT, MAT as well as the GRE, GMAT etc with the help of its Test Preparation Tools. To support them in their preparations, Minglebox has a team of researchers and experts to answer any queries students may have. From admission news, notifications, alerts and deadlines to exam results for a large number of exams, such as the CBSE, AIEEE, VITEEE, CAT and MAT, everything is available at just one spot with no cost. Minglebox also has education search powered by a large database of colleges, vocational training institutes and courses in India and abroad.
After offering valuable tools like Minglebox eCAT Prep free of cost to MBA aspirants, the Sify-Minglebox partnership further strengthens Minglebox as the preferred destination for Indian students and young professionals.
About Minglebox
Minglebox is India's largest campus and education network founded by IIT-IIM alumni with rich industry experience and backed by the world's leading venture capital firms. Within a short span of 3 years, Minglebox is engaging over 3 million users on its education platform and is well-recognized among the education aspirant community who use the site for information, guidance and counseling on various career and education needs for MBA, Engineering, Study Abroad, Vocational Courses and more. Minglebox is ranked the no.1 educational website in India and has the unique distinction of being the only educational site in India's top 150 websites ranked by Comscore* in 2009. Minglebox has students from over 250 cities. Please log on to www.minglebox.com
*Comscore is the world's leading internet traffic measurement agency and its rankings are widely accepted in the internet industry.
About Sify
Sify is among the largest Managed Enterprise and Consumer Internet Services companies in India, offering end-to-end solutions with a comprehensive range of products delivered over a common telecom data network infrastructure reaching 550+ cities and towns in India.
A significant part of the company's revenue is derived from Corporate Services, which include corporate connectivity, network and communications solutions, security, network management services, enterprise applications and hosting. Sify is recognized as an ISO 9001:2008 certified service provider for network operations, data center operations and customer support, and for provisioning of VPNs, Internet bandwidth, VoIP solutions and integrated security solutions, and ISO / IEC 20000 - 1:2005 certified for Internet Data Center operations. Sify has licenses to operate NLD (National Long Distance) and ILD (International Long Distance) services and offers VoIP back haul to long distance subscriber telephony services. The company is India's first enterprise managed services provider to launch a Security Operations Center (SOC) to deliver managed security services. A host of blue chip customers use Sify's corporate service offerings.
Sify also caters to global markets in the specialized domains of eLearning Services and Remote Infrastructure Management Services. The eLearning Services business designs, develops, and delivers state-of-the-art digital learning solutions catering to for-profit, non-profit organizations, and governmental organizations in the fields of hi-tech, engineering, environment, healthcare, education, and finance. The Remote Infrastructure Management Services provides dependable and economical solutions around managed services, hosting, and monitoring.
Consumer services include broadband home access and the ePort chain of cyber cafés across 250 cities and towns. Sify.com, the popular consumer portal, has channels on news, entertainment, finance, sports, games and shopping. Samachar.com is the popular portal aimed at non-resident Indians around the globe.
For more information about Sify, visit www.sifycorp.com.
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