From the category archives:

survey

India’s GDP to touch 205 Trillion Rupees by 2020: Edelweiss Report

by Viral Dholakia on March 21, 2010

On March 17, Edelweiss Capital has released a research report “India 2020, Seeing Beyond’ which says that India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is likely to quadruple over a period of 10 years. It further states that India is likely to be a US $ 4.5 trillion economy over the next decade. [...]

{ 0 comments }

An iPad-er – To be or not to be

by Arun Prabhudesai

Just read this report on iPad – It mentions that iPad is seeing huge wave of demand, even though it has got late coming into the market.

As per the recent changewave survey – iPad is showing a huge wave of pre-launch demand for the iPad and offers key evidence that the Apple tablet will have [...]

0 comments March 6, 2010 Continue Reading →

Paying for online content [Global Perspective]

by Arun Prabhudesai

Nielsen published a report recently which talks about consumers preference for paying content online – Majority (85%) of the netizens who were surveyed are of the opinion that online content should remain free for consumers. The Nielsen survey is based on inputs from more than 27000 consumers across 52 countries. More than [...]

0 comments February 20, 2010 Continue Reading →

65% Indians check 3 travel sites before making a online flight booking !

by Arun Prabhudesai

65% Indians check 3 travel sites before they make their online flight booking – This is the finding of the survey conducted by INSEAD MBAs on behalf of iXiGO.com from August 2009 to February 2010, with responses from over 2,500 Indian online travelers from across a diverse [...]

0 comments February 18, 2010 Continue Reading →

Trust in Indian headquartered Companies Maximum – Government at minimum

by Arun Prabhudesai

According to Edelman Trust Barometer survey Indian headquartered Businesses are most trusted by Indian’s, whereas, predictably the Government is the least trusted of all the entities surveyed. This year’s survey shows that trust in TV news has come down drastically over last 2 years from 61% to 36% – and why not – Have [...]

0 comments February 16, 2010 Continue Reading →

Generation Y Indians Most Technology Oriented compared to Global Peers [survey]

by Arun Prabhudesai

Generation Y or the Millennial’s or the Young Indians are the most technology oriented people compared to their global peers – This is the finding by Accenture’s survey on global research on Millennials’ use of technology.

If you are not aware, Millenial’s are generally referred as people who are between 15 to 30 years of age [...]

2 comments February 12, 2010 Continue Reading →

Mobile Internet Users grow 245% [India] – Facebook becomes most popular mobile social network [global] – Report

by Arun Prabhudesai

Opera today released the state of mobile web report which found that Facebook usage by Mobile users has jumped over 600% compared to last to become the most popular Mobile social network. Unique users of Facebook grew more than 600% during 2009, helping the site surpass VKontakte, formerly the most popular social network among Opera [...]

4 comments January 26, 2010 Continue Reading →

Indian Education Report 2009

by Arun Prabhudesai

2010 in someway can be called as the year of Education. Since Congress has come into power, and more specifically Kapil Sibal has become the HR minister, many new path breaking initiatives have been announced.
Infact, recently Kapil Sibal told British Media that it is seeking $400 billion from Government to pump in Indian Education System. [...]

1 comment January 16, 2010 Continue Reading →

Top Business Predictions for 2010

by Arun Prabhudesai

Gartner announced yesterday its key Business Predictions for 2010 that will probably change the business we do today – The 2010 Business predictions span 56 markets, topics and industry areas and more than 250 predictions in total. Here is a run-down on some of the key business predictions made by Gartner: [...]

1 comment January 15, 2010 Continue Reading →

Top 20 Technology Schools in India

by Arun Prabhudesai

Its been long time since we have published any of the top lists – Trak.in used to see a lot of them in 2008, somehow it went down in 2009. But 2010 promises to be different. We will be making concentrated effort on bringing you various Top Lists ( They serve as a good reference [...]

9 comments January 14, 2010 Continue Reading →

Move aside Financial Sector, FMCG is now the preferred Industry for campus placements

by Arun Prabhudesai

The recession seems to have bought about a sea-change in the way Indian B-School students are looking at their future employers. Till last year, Financial services was the most preferred domain by these soon-to-be-graduate students. However, recent survey done by Neilsen – Campus Track B-School Survey – is showing an emerging trend, where students [...]

5 comments December 22, 2009 Continue Reading →

Global Advertising Industry Perspective: U.S Vs Rest of World !

by Ankit Maheshwari

Most of the start-ups as well as established companies in internet space primarily targets US audience. This is understandable as US Online Advertising market stands at a whopping USD 24 billion and is at least four times bigger than the second largest market that of UK. In developing countries, it’s a rarity [...]

5 comments December 1, 2009 Continue Reading →

India more prosperous than China !

by Arun Prabhudesai

Most of you must be aware that China’s per capita income (average income of an individual per year) is more than double of India – India’s is close to $3000 whereas, China’s is close to $6000 (after accounting for purchasing power parity). In short, average Chinese citizen makes double the money than average [...]

5 comments October 31, 2009 Continue Reading →

A Technology Brand is discussed every two minutes Online !

by Arun Prabhudesai

A Technology brand is discussed every two minutes in an online conversation – This unique finding has been published by Digital Brand Index (DBI) specifically for India. The DBI has been undertaken by Edelman in collaboration with Brandtology, which provides business and brand online intelligence services. The quarterly DBI revealed: 74,452 online conversations pertaining [...]

1 comment October 22, 2009 Continue Reading →

Top Outsourcing Cities in the world

by Arun Prabhudesai

top-50-emerging-outsourcing destinations

India has reiterated its position as the top Outsourcing Destination in the world – 6 out of 8 cities figure in the list of Top Outsourcing Cities in the world according to the report – Top 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing Cities - jointly released by CyberMedia and Tholons Research group. Here [...]

1 comment October 21, 2009 Continue Reading →