Press Releases

  Taking IT Convergence to the next level, MagicBricks.com the leader of the online property space now extends itself to the small screen, introducing India’s Fastest Mobile Property Portal – MagicBricks Mobile.   Launching MagicBricks Mobile, Mr. Sudhir Pai, Business Head, MagicBricks.com said “MagicBricks Mobile, is the fastest mobile experience offered by any property portal in this space., with enhanced UI & Navigation, intuitive refine and search options property seekers, can now find their dream home and contact the seller, within seconds from their cell phone.”   Now any GPRS enabled mobile user can search for properties to buy or rent based on property type, budget, city, locality, bedrooms and even property owner (individual, broker, builder). They can view details...

Launches   Ask questions and get answers from the leaders in real estate industry   In our continuous endeavour to offer better services and product benefits to our users, MagicBricks.com launches a new, interactive LIVE chat session for all.   GuruTalk is a new initiative by MagicBricks.com where anyone can connect with an eminent property Expert in a LIVE chat. This new platform will be available on Tuesdays, every fortnight, between 12-1PM....

Transparency 2.0 with MagicBricks.com   Cool and useful features that exist on MagicBricks.com, which most users might not be aware of.   Many people think MagicBricks.com is only into property listings, but from its inception in 2006, the aim was to provide a one-stop realty solution. Since then, MagicBricks.com has been continuously ascertaining the needs of the property seekers and owners and steadily adding tools to empower its users. While being the most referred online resource for Indian realty, MagicBricks.com has a long list of empowering features, but there are some recent innovations that, which, users might not be familiar with. So here, we have listed five features from MagicBricks.com, which help users with unmatched clarity & ease of use...

  Employee engagement through better employee communication and involvement is considered as the key strategy for employee retention by most organisations, reveals a TimesJobs.com study.   Employers are predicting a cash hike of 10-15%. However, they are focusing on employee development & growth as the key retention strategy, this appraisal cycle.   The TimesJobs.com study involving responses from over 1,000 HR managers across industries revealed that majority (82%) find retention a bigger challenge than scouting for new talent. To address the retention problem, 84% of employers prefer employee engagement strategies over monetary benefits.     Most (40%) employers claimed to have set in place a structure for better employee communication and involvement. About 36% vouch for providing growth opportunities to...

  All these are in focus in the December issue of TJinsite, the monthly newsletter produced by TimesJobs.com, the leading jobs portal promoted by the Times Business Solutions Ltd.   The BPO industry offers a plethora of jobs in various areas of specialisation such as operations, recruitment and training, marketing and operations. For an industry, which is struggling to convince candidates that BPO jobs are more than tele-calling, and customer service this is good news. TimesJobs.com’s new data supports the BPO industry that there is more to a BPO job.     TimesJobs.com, courtesy its robust database, brings you a breakdown of the job postings by areas of specialisation during Nov-Dec 2010 in the BPO industry....

  According to a poll conducted by TJinsite, the knowledge and research wing of TimesJobs.com, India’s leading jobs portal, HR managers across industries find hiring for mid-level the biggest challenge.   “Middle management serves as a link between the executive level and the top management,” says Chirag Shukla, AM – HR, Saumya Constructions.   Therefore, communication, leadership and technical skills are all required at this level. The complexity lies in the nature of the position which calls for as much authority as accountability and responsibility, reason the respondents.   Besides, technical jobs are in considerable demand. However, HR managers are grappling with matching skills to requirements of technical positions. Even educational qualifications are an area of concern here. Where recruiters...

Launches SimplyMarry.com has been striving to make the match-making process a pleasure to be enjoyed rather than a duty to be endured. Simplifying the match-making process is the reason behind pioneering MatchTech™ – a simple solution, based on extremely complex algorithms and computational intelligence.   For the First Time in the World, in the match-making space has anyone been able to give a combined score out to 2 unrelated criteria.SimplyMarry.com’s MatchTech™ score is derived from the astrological match as well as the physical and socio –economic match. Others have independently generated matches based on astrology or physical & socio economic criterion – but never both together.   SimplyMarry.com’s MatchTech™ not only computes matching profiles based on the User’s own profile...

Data Theft Attempt leads to arrest of 1 person in Hyderabad   With India standing on the brink of a 3G data boom, Internet is at the cusp of becoming accessible to everyman’s pocket. The Internet has enabled entirely new forms of social interaction, business activities, and organizations, thanks to its basic features such as widespread usability and access.   While this 3G revolution is set to reduce remoteness and connect people across the globe, unhindered by physical proximity factors, the flipside is that Cyber Crime and criminal exploitation of the Internet are hitting all time highs with wrongful activities ranging across online identity fraud, phishing, denial-of-service attacks and data theft have reached alarming levels.   A recent episode of...

Use your Phone & Get a BPO Job TimesJobs.com, has launched a path-breaking product for that the BPO Industry that ensures success – literally at your fingertips – anywhere anytime. Introducing DialBPOJobs – a toll-free 1800-3000-3003 service available 24X7, where the Internet provides the backbone and a mobile phone is the only device the jobseeker needs to access. With Corporate India’s resurgent economy – Jobs are back and the demand for talented manpower is on the upswing. In such a scenario, can cutting-edge innovation from India’s leading recruitment portals be far behind? Explaining the rationale for launching the new DialBPOJobs service, Mr. Sudhir Pai, TimesJobs.com said “The mobile phone has become an integral extension of today’s youth, and, with the...

A recent episode of data theft, illustrates how malicious and virulent this menace can be, where just two people – Amol Kamble (21) and S J Alapat (23), allegedly ran a criminal syndicate under the name of King Infotech in Pune, duping IT companies and financial institutions by stealing their data and pirating it at cutthroat prices. The possibility of others being involved is being probed.   Times Business Solutions Ltd a Times Group company, which owns TimesJobs.com recently lodged an FIR with the Cyber Crime Cell of the Pune police through its Legal Head Mr. Aamod Gupte, after obtaining adequate evidence. Mr. Gupte remarked “We received information that King Infotech a Company in Pune was selling TimesJobs.com data to...

Proudly Promotes   HUM=TUM : The Equality Manifesto Campaign is being promoted by SimplyMarry.com, in affiliation with The Times Group, to encourage life-partner seekers to declare their belief in an egalitarian union, by accepting that the core of an equal marriage is the coming together of two individuals with mutual respect and freedom.   25 March 2008: Gender Equality is the basis of a strong society, and like charity, begins at home. Mutual respect for personal identity & individual preferences, and an equal status in making decisions including those of parenthood, family & household responsibilities, social interactions and career-related decisions, are part-and-parcel of tying the knot amongst youth in urban India.   SimplyMarry.com, India’s only metro-monial site, from The Times...

Brix Research Regional Value Analysis Reports Released by MagicBricks.com A valuable guide for the realty industry, investors and end-users who want to study the market before buying their dream home or making an investment decision. Brix Research, the knowledge centre of MagicBricks.com, India’s No. 1 property portal, promoted by the Times Group, has issued its Regional Value Analysis Report Volume 1 Issue 4, across India. The report tracks and analyses the changes in real estate values across regions – city-wise & locality-wise. These reports track real estate values and transactions across 22 cities. Locality-wise trends during the Oct-Dec 2009 period have been tracked with analysis of linkages to the past quarter. West, North and South India Regional Value Analysis Reports...

18 January 2010: Times Business Solutions Limited, the online classifieds division of The Times Group, has launched the technology-specific career portal – TechGig.com, that aggregates everything tech-related at one place for technology professionals; Techies now have the means by which they can significantly enhance their professional growth and success with the latest industry news, views, jobs and much more.   TechGig.com is the world’s first technology-specific, customisable, career portal that not only provides through the best tech jobs exclusively posted by top employers in the sector, but news, blogs, and buzz across the industry. Using TechGig.com, a techie can apply for jobs, personalize their tech space, learn & grow professionally – all on one site.   Speaking on the TechGig.com...

MagicBricks.com, India’s No.1 Property Portal from the Times Group, has consolidated its leadership position in the online real estate space by recording the maximum number of Unique Visitors to its website, as adjudged by comScore, the global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital marketing intelligence. In its effort to provide the best response to its customers, MagicBricks.com has consistently improved on attracting unique visitors to its website over the last 3 months. As per comScore, MagicBricks.com attracts 9% more unique visitors compared to its nearest competitor and is way ahead of the website that has slipped to third position with 125% more unique visitors than them. Unique visitors is a statistic describing traffic to a...

MagicBricks.com, India’s No.1 Property Portal from the Times Group, has consolidated its leadership position in the online real estate space by recording the maximum number of Unique Visitors to its website, as adjudged by comScore, the global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital marketing intelligence. In its effort to provide the best response to its customers, MagicBricks.com has consistently improved on attracting unique visitors to its website over the last 3 months. As per comScore, MagicBricks.com attracts 9% more unique visitors compared to its nearest competitor and is way ahead of the website that has slipped to third position with 125% more unique visitors than them. Unique visitors is a statistic describing traffic to a...