Rediff.com

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Rediff/Rediffmail India Limited
Image:Rediff.com.Logo.gif
Type	Public (NASDAQ: REDF)
Founded	Mumbai, India (1996)
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Key people	Ajit Balakrishan, Chairman & CEO Joy Basu, CFO
Industry	Internet Services
Revenue	Image:Green up.png $28.68 million USD (2007)
Net income	Image:Green up.png $6.96 million USD (2007)
Employees	252 (2004)
Website	www.rediff.com

Rediff.com India, NASDAQ: REDF is a news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York, USA.

As per Alexa rating ^[1], Rediff is the No. 5 Indian web portal. One of the notable feature of Rediff is its news articles related to national security of India.It is the only India-based website to appear in first 100 websites. It has more than 250 employees.^[2] Rediff.com also offers one of the oldest and largest Indian weekly newspaper, India Abroad, which it acquired in 2001.

1 Rediff Products
2 See also
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Rediff Products

Rediff Mail: Web based e-mail which has around 43 million online users.^[3] It offers unlimited free storage space. Rediff recently launched an AJAX based mail interface.
Rediff Bol: instant messenger with support for Hindi language^[4]
It also offers various other web based services such as web search, shopping, airfare search, hotel search, job search, classifieds, matrimonial service (Rediff Matchmaker), social networking (Rediff Connexions), blogging (Rediff iLand), stock update and porfolio, video-music-photo sharing platform (Rediff iShare) and a community-driven knowledge base (Rediff Q&A).