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Accreditation for Hospitals – A step in right direction !

by Viral Dholakia on March 16, 2010

The health care industry in India is emerging as one of the fastest growing sector of the country. The industry has witnessed a fast growth in areas of medical insurance and tourism. To an extent, the market for high-end health care services with the comfort of luxurious hospitalization is also witnessing a growth, if the [...]

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Internet Access at workplace: Should be or Should Not ?

by Arun Prabhudesai

Internet access at workplaces is restricted in most of the big & medium sized companies. They restrict blogs, social-networking, shopping sites, popular email sites (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo), forums, dating sites from being accessed while at work. Most companies do this as they think Internet access will affect productivity.

The question is – Does banning / [...]

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Bitter Pill: Is Sugar Industry headed for a Down cycle?

by Viral Dholakia

Just as the world was witnessing a gradual recovery, over the last year, from the worst crises after the Great Depression, the asset class which clearly stood out and could be easily termed as a star performer for the FY 2009-10 is Sugar as a commodity.

Sugar – As the best performer? Na…A jackpot by [...]

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Media Monday: IPL counter strategy by Channels-will it work?

by rabigupta

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IPL may be a hit among masses but I’m sure that it’s a nightmare for marketing guys of all other channels (except Set Max). All major entertainment channels started preparing long back to counter IPL. And its time to analyze what they are doing and whether its helping them or [...]

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How To Sell It Like Steve Jobs ? Apple iPad Selling Like Hot Cakes

by Ankit Agarwal

Call him crazy, arrogant and what not.But Steve Jobs does what he does best, “Sell a product like no one else can”. Well, the technology that goes in any Apple product is top notch too, but then so is the price.However, Steve Jobs manages to hypnotize the target audience with his presentation skills and make [...]

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Expressing Digitally: Bharti Airtel forays into Digital Media and Entertainment Business

by Viral Dholakia

The telecom market in India is slowly maturing and coming at terms to the reality of end of an era of weighing its business prospects led by higher average revenue per user (ARPUs) basis to gradually shifting at encoding the industry prospects, in this new decade, where the business may well be dictated by the [...]

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Indian Internet dilemma!

by rabigupta

I know each one of you is expecting an IPL post here, but I believe that you will be reading this post only if- 1. You are not watching IPL or 2. You are not watching IPL over youtube :).
It’s amazing how this internet industry has transformed and has changed many lives. No one could [...]

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Finance Friday: The Fate of Low Floating-stock Counters – Valuation Crunch in NMDC FPO

by Viral Dholakia

The Follow-on public offer (FPO) of the largest iron ore producer in the country National Minerals Development Corporation (NMDC) is currently open for subscription with a price band of Rs. 300-350 wherein the government plans to divest 8.38% stake in the market. The last date for subscription is today.

Markets Way of Assigning Valuations
The stock [...]

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Twitter Statistics: 74% still have less than 10 followers – 21% really active !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Twitter statistics have kind of become a rage – We already have feature more than couple of studies and research on this. Now Barracuda Labs has released the latest Twitter Report which shows that only 21% of all twitter can be termed as real active twitterers.

So how do they define an “Active Twitterer”

Has at [...]

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Indian Stock Markets Going Global, How Good Is It ?

by Ankit Agarwal

Ever since Mr.Bhave took the charge of SEBI, the Indian Capital Markets have had a metamorphosis of sorts be it via new regulations, ramped up security, new avenues to trade and various other initiatives.Most of these changes have had primarily two objectives,

To bring in more transparency in the markets and bring down the manipulators
To increase [...]

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Google App Marketplace: A Phenomenon in the making !

by Arun Prabhudesai

WoW ! Just spent half an hour at Google marketplace, added 5 neat free application to my Google Apps account – Cant tell you how thrilled I am with the ease of use and the kind of functionality enhancements it brings to Google Mail, Docs, Calendar etc.
We have been reading & hearing about Google Marketplace [...]

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B-School Placement Salaries: Are we being told the real Truth?

by Viral Dholakia

Finally, the placement season of ‘Top’ Indian MBA grads has begun (or, shall I say, ended the way it’s been projected that all have been placed already?). And with the placement seasons come eye-popping Salary figures as headlines in major newspapers. I never could understand the real reason for the major Institutes or major dailies [...]

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Ecologically Green: Biodegradable Chewing Gum finds its Way on the Street

by Viral Dholakia

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Chicza chewing gums, who claim to be the first ones to manufacture biodegradable chewing gum ever sold, went on sale in Waitrose stores in Britain. It is organic and biodegradable chewing gum pitted against highly-adhesive chewing gums which get stuck on roads and streets making life tougher for the cleansing staffs and authorities.

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30 Terabyte Hard-drive by an Indian – Gets offered 1.4 cr salary by Seagate !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates once said (I admit it is so clichéd to quote this), “640K ought to be enough for anybody” – I think the minimum specs we have today are 1GB memory and for Hard-Disks it is 60 Gigs (I presume).
30 years since that statement was made, we are now looking at Hard-Disks [...]

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Remote Controlled Street Lights: Civic Authorities go Hi-Tech !

by Arun Prabhudesai

It is always a delight to come across this kind of news – India’s capital city, Delhi, will see country’s first remote-controlled street lights operational that will be use Internet & Mobile technologies to function !
Most of the Street lights in India are either manual or they use timers to switch on and off. Once [...]

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