It has been seen in many Indian IT ventures, that they have expanded their portfolio amidst global recession. When I first encountered 9.9 Media group, I came to know about their ReviewMe clone, Create Online Buzz (a blogger driven advertising venture). After that this year in March they launched Consumer Mate, a notebook buying advisory web site. So, this non-stop serial portfolio extension of  the 9.9 Media group was at the time of global recession. But, their expansion policy is not stopped on the verge of global recession as it is on the way to end. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently said that,

The global recession is coming to an end faster than thought a few months ago and may already be over, but recovery will rely on massive government spending and low interest rates for some time

Recently, ConsumerMate.com has extended its category by adding Mobile Phones and LCD TV’s beside Laptops. So, with this category extension ConsumerMate.com user will now be able to find their suitable mobile phone or LCD/Plasma TV at latest Indian street prices. It is also a welcoming news for users to visit this site again and again is that its unique features such as Ask us or Guru Gyan, Compare Models, Buying guide, Hot Deals and Test centre ratings by Digit, etc. are also easily accessible.

Another few new addition that I found over there are Price Drops and Contest section, that I think is more futuristic approach of ConsumerMate.com, because Price Drops shows latest price drops of different brand models that help users a lot in decision making and Contest increases more user engagement on the ConsumerMate site by allowing its users filling up review and grab some prizes.