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5 things that great brands do!

by Kaushambi on February 8, 2012 |

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What do you think makes great brands so powerful, long lasting and unique even when they’re not selling products and services that are radically different from one another? Have they really got their fundamentals strong or are they simply relying on smart advertising? Let’s check out what great brands really do and how they make [...]

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Yahoo Mail Home displays Full-page Fastrack Ad [Desperation?]

by Arun Prabhudesai
Yahoo Homepage

I visited Yahoo Mail probably after a few months as my amazon account is attached to it and mails come to that email ID. However, I was taken by surprise when the page loaded – I was a bit confused for couple of seconds wondering if I landed on “Yahoo typo” homepage. But that was [...]

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Why IKEA may change household furniture Industry in India!

by Kaushambi
IKEA

Although the Scandinavian giant IKEA has been trying to come to India since 2000, it hasn’t been able to set itself up yet. And this was mainly because of the tight FDI rules in India until recently. But with the Indian government having finally shifted from a 51 percent foreign ownership cap to 100 percent [...]

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Compulsory 1 year rural stint for MBBS students: Good news or bad?

by Kaushambi
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Studying medicine in India has always been in the news for some reason or the other – whether it is about increasing seats, common entrance tests being introduced, government packages being announced for medical colleges or what not. This time around, the debate is regarding the duration of the currently 5½ year long MBBS course [...]

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Naukri.com launches Android, iPhone & BB Apps – Introduces HTML 5 site

by Arun Prabhudesai
Naukri Apps

Naukri has finally launched dedicated mobile apps for its Job search engine. Being the biggest Job site in India, they should have come up with these apps earlier – However, its better late than never :). From the looks of the apps they have released, they have done a good job of it. …

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Top 5 social learning trends in India in 2012!

by Kaushambi
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Social media learning, which is a significant component of the e-learning industry, is gradually being adopted in the Indian academia and corporate in a big way. 2012 will only see more inclusion of social media in e-learning systems across India. As Mint reports, about a quarter of business proposals approved by one of the largest [...]

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Amazon enters India with Junglee.com Product Ads!

by Arun Prabhudesai
Amazon Product Ads

Amazon has finally made an official India debut, but don’t raise your hopes in anticipation that you will have the similar product buying experience as its parent Amazon.com – infact, far from it. Amazon comes to India as Junglee.com, essentially a shopping comparison engine. According to news broken by Rajat Agrawal of BGR and then [...]

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Indian Mobile Subscriber base reaches 893.84 Million [Dec 11]

by Arun Prabhudesai
subs

9.47 Million new mobile subscribers were added in December 2011 taking the total tally to 893.84 million as on December 2011. December also registered the highest growth rate since March last year. Past 6-8 months, there had been a constant slide in the Mobile subscriber growth rate. Indian mobile subscriber addition since March …

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Social media trends of India in 2012!

by Kaushambi
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Companies are going to aim at targeting more sales and customer engagement conversions, bloggers are going to increase their affiliate marketing opportunities and more movements like IAC are going to give birth to more number of Anna Hazare’s through social media in 2012 in India. In short, 2012 is going to be a big year [...]

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How analytics could have saved team India the blushes in Australia!

by Dr Vikram Venkateswaran
sports-cricket-001

Recently a good article in economic times compared the performance of the Indian cricket team to Nokia. The used data from the 1990’s to show how Nokia’s slide had begun well in the late 90’s but the implication of that slide was felt much later. Team India on the other hand just had a 2 [...]

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UIDAI Phase III Approved & Funded – 20 Cr. Aadhaar cards to be released by March!

by Editorial Staff
aadhar

Its nice to see that UIDAI is not only back on tracks, but they are now aggressively setting targets to achieve. Here is a statement released by Government yesterday, The Cabinet Committee on Unique Identification Authority of India related issues (CC-UIDAI) today approved commencement of Phase-Ill of the UID scheme …

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E-Tutor Tablet: A Rs. 7500 Cloud Based Tablet for students! [Image, Specs]

by Arun Prabhudesai
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Looks like we now have an elite cousin of Aakash coming up – It is called “E-Tutor Tablet”. Many mainstream media newspaper including Times wrote about it saying it was yet another Government initiative. However, this initiative is anything but Government’s… The news also mentions that this “E-tutor tablet” is a joint effort of …

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Giving a Job Interview? 5 Mistakes you should Avoid…

by Kaushambi
interview

If famous career coach Usha Albuquerque’s tips for avoiding job interview blunders in India are anything to go by then it’s pretty clear that you need to look beyond the usual word of advice given in a job interview – such as dressing appropriately, coming on time and so on. Here’s a quick …

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Ruby vs Python vs PHP Face-off [Programmer’s preference Infographic]

by Arun Prabhudesai
programming languages, infographic

This post is probably only for techies, specifically developers. I generally do not publish posts that are highly tech-oriented. However, a techie in me could not pass this one. Guys at Udemi have published a great infographic that compares three programming languages popular with developers currently – PHP, Python & Ruby. …

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The Hindu punches Times of India in face with this Super Creative Advertisement!

by Arun Prabhudesai

The below “The Hindu” Advertisement is creative at so many levels, I can’t describe. Whoever, has made it, has punched ToI in the face, all keeping themselves within the legal boundaries of what is allowed. The advertisement indirectly takes a jab at low quality of news covered by Times of India and how their readers [...]

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