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Type of business | Public company |
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Web Portal |
Available in | English |
Traded as | NASDAQ: REDF |
Founded | 1996 |
Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
Key people | Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO |
Industry | Internet Services |
Revenue | $3.63 million (2015) |
Employees | 316 (Dec 2009) |
Website | rediff.com |
Alexa rank | 414 (October 2016[update]) |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | February 8, 1997 |
Rediff.com is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal, founded in 1996 as "Rediff On The NeT". It is headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and New York City.
According to Alexa, Rediff.com is the No. 24 Indian web portal. It has more than 300 employees. Most of the visitors to Rediff.com are from India, while the rest come primarily from the US and China. In April 2001, Rediff.com acquired and began offering India Abroad. As of February 2011, it ranked 295 on Alexa. Rediff.com was the first website domain name registered in India in 1996.
In 2001, Rediff.com was alleged to be in violation of the Securities Act for filing materially false prospectus in relation to an IPO of its American depositary shares.