Congrats to Rafat Ali & NextContent Team
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 11th, 2008Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Podcast, Technology, Web 2.0
Congrats to Rafat Ali and his team at ContentNext. They are being acquired by UK’s Guardian Group for over $30 million according to Kara Swisher of BoomTown.
Hats off to Rafat for starting this as a one-person site and growing it to a media group. Jemima Kiss of Guardian writes about Rafat’s rags to riches story and he is truly one of those tough entrepreneurs, who is laser focused on what he wanted to achieve.
Om Malik has a really nice post congratulating Rafat and his team. I am guessing that ContentNext’s acquisition is the talk of many Silicon Valley bloggers and not the launch of Apple’s new iPhone.
A couple of years ago I did this interview with Rafat in London. Rafat was there to attend a new media conference organized by Reuters.
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Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
