| URL | www |
|---|---|
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 1993 |
IndiaWeekly is a commercial website serving India and itsdiaspora, providing them with an online shopping platform for entertainment products like movies, music, and gifts.
IndiaWeekly has over one million fans onsocial networking siteFacebook.[1] At one point it owned 54% of the online IndianDVD market as per a court document.[2] Shivesh Kumar is the founder of IndiaWeekly.[2][3][4]
IndiaWeekly sued its competitor Nehaflix for an amount in excess of a million dollars in the U.S. Federal Court, alleging that they hacked into their computer system and stole its trade secrets.[2]After a lawsuit which involved more than 250 court filings and which lasted around five years, IndiaWeekly finally got the Nehaflix.com website to be permanently shut down in a settlement.[2]
In April 2011, IndiaWeekly received a favorable ruling from a senior US District JudgeMelancon Tucker, who ordered that allYahoo records of Nehaflix for 2002 to present, including all customer records, be handed over to counsels of IndiaWeekly.[3][4] A document fromYahoo that was produced as a result of a subpoena issued to them by IndiaWeekly stated thatYahoo records contained over 150,000 customer orders that were received via website Nehaflix.com.[2] IndiaWeekly received all of these customer records in the settlement.[2]