Hotmail Founder Sabeer Bhatia to Marry in Langkawi

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Hotmail Founder Sabeer Bhatia to Marry in Langkawi

The founder of Hotmail.com, Sabeer Bhatia is getting married next month. He has chosen the Island of Langkawi, Malaysia as the venue of his wedding.

Founder of Hotmail.com
In 1995, Sabeer Bhatia and his team realised the potential of a web-based e-mail system and thus decided to create one called HoTMaiL (the uppercase letters spelling out HTML - the language used to write the base of a webpage).In order to attract attention, the e-mail service was provided for free and revenue was obtained through the advertising on the website. Draper Fisher Ventures invested $300,000 on the project and the service was launched on July 4, 1996.

In less than six months, the website attracted over 1 million subscribers. As the interest in the web-based email provider increased, Microsoft eventually took notice and on December 30, 1997, Hotmail was sold to Microsoft for a reported sum of $400 million.

The Langkawi islands
The Langkawi island is a group of 99 islands (as stated in tourism brochures) and is located in the north western part of Peninsular Malaysia. It is also known locally as an island of legends. Tourists visiting the main island (Pulau Langkawi) on their sightseeing round island tour will most often hear their tour guides recounting the various story book history tales and local fables.

Events both locally and international in nature were drawn up for the yearly activities calendar. International exhibitions, such as the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (known by its initials LIMA) were included in that calendar.

It is the only place in the Malaysia where tobacco and alcohol are the cheapest; this is because of the duty free status given to promote tourism.

It has been more that two decades now since the efforts to promote tourism on that group of islands and today it is a popular tourist destination for the locals Malaysians especially during public and school holidays.

Hotmail Founder Sabeer To Marry In Exotic Langkawi

NEW DELHI, Feb 6 (Bernama) — Hotmail founder, Indian-born Sabeer Bhatia, who became an overnight millionaire after selling his web-based e-mail service to Microsoft, plans to get hitched in Langkawi Island next month.

Sabeer, 40, chose Langkawi as his preferred venue to wed Tania Sharma, on March 9, and dignitaries from far and wide are expected to bless the marriage at the Taj Rebak Marina Resort located on the world famous island.

“We wanted an exclusive island for the wedding. Sabeer wanted to have it in Hawaii but it would be too far for our guests. We were thinking of Phuket, Bangkok or Koh Samui (Thailand) but decided on Langkawi,” R.K. Sharma, the father of the bride-to-be, told Bernama.

source: Bernama.com