Daijiworld Media
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| Type of business | Private limited media company |
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Type of site
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web portal |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | January 14, 2001 |
| Headquarters | Mangalore, India |
| Key people | Walter Nandalike (Managing Director) |
| Industry | e-paper, online news |
| Products | News & Information |
| Employees | 250 |
| Website | www.daijiworld.com |
| Alexa rank |
 19,792 (April 2014[update]) |
| Registration | optional |
| Launched | January 14, 2001 |
Daijiworld Media is an Indian private limited media company, headquartered in Mangalore, that provides news services, including the web portal, www.daijiworld.com. It was founded by Walter Nandalike, as www.daijidubai.com on January 14, 2001, primarily with the objective of relaying news from the Coastal Konkan region of India. It was later renamed as www.daijiworld.com, and established as a media company in 2007.
Daijiworld has currently a daily viewership of around 450,000 visitors from around 180 countries, of which 40% of them are Non-resident Indian (NRI) Mangaloreans. The portal contains a variety of columns ranging from daily news, events, special columns, cookery, and other information covering Mangalore, Coastal Karnataka, Goa, Mumbai, and Middle-Eastern countries, apart from national news from authorized agencies. Daijiworld runs Daijiworld 24X7 TV channel, which was launched on May 9 as test transmission, telecast from June 16, 2014 across coastal Karnataka through cable network and set-up boxes. The TV channel is also available on internet (www.daijiworld247.com) and also in Android and IOS app formats. It also publishes an English weekly named Daijiworld Weekly.
Daijiworld Media was a result of an April Fools' Day prank by Walter Nandalike, the Editor-in-chief of the portal. He had migrated to the Gulf for employment, with no knowledge of computers. Having learnt about computers, he sent his first E-mail to his friends on April 1, 2000 saying that he was hosting a site on the Internet, which was meant to be a joke for April Fools' Day. His friends took him seriously and started inquiring about the site. Surprised by the levels of interest, Walter started thinking seriously about the project. He learnt computers thoroughly, and eight months later on January 14, 2001, launched www.daijidubai.com, primarily with the objective of hosting information and news pertaining to Konkani language and society. The portal is now known as www.daijiworld.comDaiji in Konkani means "relation", and the portal was started by Walter and a group of writers of the Daiji Dubai Writers Forum with a view to promote and spread awareness of culture and tradition.
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