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Google brings the Great Online Shopping Festival to India
Google has partnered with more than 50 retailers (Including Flipkart and snapdeal) to plan for an online shopping bonanza called “The Great Online Shopping Festival“. It is the Indian equivalent...
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Honey Laundering: Chinese honey sold in US as “Made in India” to evade duties
Have you heard about “Honey Laundering”? Well, its a complete operation and art that the Chinese have now perfected. And countries like India are sitting ducks! So China is exporting honey...
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Customer Profiling: a win-win for businesses and customers
Customer profiling is a win-win situation for both, the businesses and the customers. Customers get a personalized experience – including discounts; while Businesses can sell directly and correctly.
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Melinda Gates on her life, relationship with Bill Gates and her Passion!
We have heard a lot about Bill Gates, but hardly anything about Melinda Gates. Here is Melinda talks about herself, her relationship with Bill Gates and also about her work...
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Indian companies most fraudulent in the world after the Africans!
We Indians keep lamenting about the politicians and their corruption. Because they are the easy target. The truth is that even the businesses are as bad. It now comes to...
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Indians hoard 20,000 tons of Gold worth 75% of India’s GDP!
We Indians love Gold. We all know that India is the largest Gold market in the world. But did you know how much gold we Indians keep with us? Here...
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PVR to acquire Cinemax properties: What does it mean for Film Releases and Investors?
PVR Ltd. is acquiring 95.27% stake in Cinemax India. Cinemax chain of multiplexes, are owned by the Kanakia Group, and operates 138 screens in 39 locations across the country. PVR,...
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“Stay Interviews” being used by Indian companies to keep their best talent from leaving
An interesting process that has helped companies keep their best talent from going out is being used in IT firms. It is probably really required there. Here is an example...
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Is World Investors’ Honeymoon with “surging India” over?
Interesting discussion between Ashish Chauhan, MD and CEO at BSE Ltd, and Ashish J Singh, chairman of Bain & Company India at the World Economic Forum Ashish Singh discusses the...
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Sahara Group Acquires landmark New York Plaza and Dream Downtown hotels
Subrata Roy’s Sahara group is buying two iconic hotels in Manhattan near the Central Park. The New York Plaza and Dream New York are going to be theirs for 4,400...
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HSBC running is doing Hawala – money laundering – operations in India and US!
Hawala is a transaction where a person gives the operator money in Indian Rupees and his agent collects money in another currency at a special conversion rate. Remember Indian laws...
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How site’s load speed impacts its success and revenues of the e-commerce sites
Impact of slow loading websites is tremendous on their success. Web pages that load slowly can literally destroy the future of the online venture. Here are some interesting facts: 18%...
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Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Tata are slashing talktime and freebies
For the prepaid telecom customers in India, changes have been introduced in the shape of reduced talktime and lesser freebies. For others, tariff revision is not far off. Why? Because...
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India largest Gold Market; India and China’s Gold demand is 55% of the World!
This festive season, India has again regained its spot as the strongest Gold market in the world, overtaking Greater China. The Gold demand in Indian and China in the third...
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Consumers willing to trade Privacy for Personalized Experience via Social Media this holiday season
The Consumer attitudes are changing a lot! In a recent Accenture survey, near 2/3rd participants said that would trade increased privacy for more personalized offers – which means that people...
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Samsung Galaxy SIII beats iPhone 4S hands down globally!
While the whole world is going gaga over Apple and iPhone, it is Samsung with its Galaxy powerhouse phones which are kicking some serious ass behind the scene. Strategy Analytics...
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Volkswagen launches Used Car Sales Operations
Maruti has a big market in used car sales. But I am not sure if there is any big company which has taken the “seconds” car market seriously. Here is...
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Roche’s Hepatitis Drug Patent Revoked by India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board
In a major win for Indian drug companies which manufacture generic drugs for major ailments, the India’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board revoked Swiss giant Roche’s patent for a hepatitis C...
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Delhi has 88% TV Penetration of its total households; 100% Digitization achieved; How will Digitization Help
Delhi is one city in India which now has 100% TV digitization. Every household which has a cable for TV has a set top box to receive content. The overall...
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Crony Capitalism: Kejriwal’s Ambani expose’ in brief
The expose on Mukesh Ambani by Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan was indeed explosive. The way Arvind Kejriwal is going, he will shake up the entire system in an unprecedented...
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India’s poor being used as guinea pigs for trials by Multinational Drug Companies
Some British and German drug companies have been using poor people in India as guinea pigs to conduct human trials of their new drugs. They use falsehoods, deception and outright...
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India is adding 18 mn Internet users every year @ 41% growth rate!
In the coming years, India will become a major market for online products, information and services in every area. It is one of the world’s fastest growing market and has...
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India is 132nd out of 185 in Ease of Doing business
Overall, India has a pretty bad record in the ease of doing business. Out of a total of 185 countries, India ranks 132 in a World Bank study! This page...
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How UPA Govt took coal blocks from Coal India and gave to companies for captive use
The sad story of India’s Coal public sector company – Coal India is pretty damning and depressing. While Dr. Manmohan Singh keeps coming up with cuter faces and alibis behind...
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Goldman Sachs new Bangalore Office site has an on-site tomb
Goldman Sachs is the Investment bank to work for. It is the place for the hard-nosed professionals with million dollar take homes. In India the Goldman Sachs employees have a...
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Tatas are a $100 billion Conglomerate. India’s first!
Tatas is India’s first $100 billion conglomerate. I am not sure if many in the Indian media have noticed it and commented on this extra-ordinary milestone and achievement. Without fanfare,...
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Starbucks Enters India.
Finally, after a lot of wait and hand wringing, Starbucks has opened its first store in India. With 4,000-square-foot, two-level store in historic Horinam Circle Starbucks opened a new chapter...
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Fuzzy Math of India’s Cell Phone Market and its Growth Potential
India’s total subscriber’s base is 300 mn, but its mobile connections are over 900 mn (close to a bn) now. It follows the strange situation in the developing markets, where...
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India is running out of mobile numbers!
With world’s second largest population and a deep penetration of the cell phones already reaching a billion and growing, India has a unique problem at hand. It is running out...
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Is Netflix preparing to launch its service in India?
Netflix has come out with a new job ad that suggests this movie distribution juggernaut may be entering India very soon. This is what the ad is looking for: We...
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Bangalore Real Estate Market Outpaces NCR and Mumbai Metropolitan areas
The Bangalore real estate market saw sales of 15.58 million sq ft of residential space in the first quarter of this fiscal year. This amounts to 13.9% share of the...
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How did Satyan Gajwani become Times Internet CEO at just 27? (And his reply!)
In this day and age of celebrity egos and anger, it is interesting to come across someone who is comfortable being what he is and trying to make sure his...
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Indian achievers choosing to come back to plum posts in India
What is common between Venkatesh Kini, Akhil Chandra, Gautham Mukkavilli and Seema Modi? They all are expats who have done well abroad in their careers and have now headed back...
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Alang, largest global ship breaking center – a boon or a curse?
Half of all the ships dismantled and broken down at the end of life in the world end up in Alang, Gujarat in Gulf of Khambhat. Alang is 50 kms...