Kerala IT firm’s Arabic video sharing portal a hit

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Rain Concert Technologies Pvt Ltd, a leading IT company in Kerala, has developed a new Arabic video sharing portal that has become a hit in Saudi Arabia, a company official said Thursday.

M.S. Vinod, the managing director of the company, said their new video sharing portal www.ma8ta3ee.com, is hugely popular in Saudi Arabia.

“This is similar to Youtube but more advanced. In our programme anyone can upload from their mobile and it first goes into an administrator who checks if it is fit for display. Then it is put up on the portal,” said Vinod.

Rain Concert is an IT firm which is into mobile-web-electronics convergence.

Beginning their operations in 2006, today the company boasts of zero attrition rate with 120 professionals and a 600-plus clientele in 15 countries.

“In the next two years, we are planning to add another 200 professionals and this fiscal we are on course to achieve Rs.8 crore in turn over, up from Rs.2 crore in the last fiscal. And in three years, we will achieve a turn over of Rs.100 crore,” said Vinod.

Currently the company has offices in Dubai and Saudi Arabia and are soon opening another one in Qatar and the African continent.

Their applications and tools are used in mobile websites, home security devices with mobile phones and home automation devices.

“Right now an application which has the ability to use mobile phones for our personal security is in the final stages for patent approval,” added Vinod.