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Ankit Agarwal

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

by Ankit Agarwal on March 14, 2010

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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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 [...]

2 comments March 11, 2010 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: Vodafone Application Store, Self-Charging Phone From Nokia

by Ankit Agarwal

Vodafone Launches its own Mobile Application Store
It was always on the cards, wasn’t it.After the stupendous success of Apple iStore and the growing popularity of Android marketplace, there is no denying that fact that Application stores are the way forward for telcos.Among India telecom operators, Airtel already has a app store in place and Aircel [...]

1 comment March 9, 2010 Continue Reading →

Air India To Fly An All Women Crew!! Brand Building ?

by Ankit Agarwal

Just when you thought that Air India has not been in the news for sometime, here it is albeit this time for not-so-embarrassing reasons. Infact, this time it is for good and in a true celebration spirit.Yes,

Air India will deploy an all-women pilot team on the ultra long haul, non-stop flight (AI-141) from Mumbai to [...]

7 comments March 8, 2010 Continue Reading →

Bangalore Cops Armed With Blackberries, Will It Help Keep Corruption In Check

by Ankit Agarwal

Next time you see a cop on Bangalore’s road playing around with a Blackberry in his hand, you better be careful.He might just be checking your history of traffic violations and might hold you down for not clearing you earlier violations.

Bangalore traffic police has reached the last leg of Project Blackberry, a completely electronic traffic [...]

3 comments March 5, 2010 Continue Reading →

An Ad Mad World Out Here, HUL & P&G Lock Horns

by Ankit Agarwal
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Even in this era of all-things-internet, there is no denying the fact that  Television advertisements have a defining impact on the brand positioning. With TV ads, brands  put their best face forward and reach out to a mass target audience.

TV Advertisements like any other forms of advertisements have one primary objective – Conversion. A brand [...]

3 comments March 3, 2010 Continue Reading →

CAT 2009 Results Are Out , Servers Down Already

by Ankit Agarwal
CAT Test Reults online

The most awaited exam results are out finally. After much drama surrounding the CAT 2009 due to the paper less version of the exam , the exam results have been declared. We all knew how the PROMETRIC CAT09 unfolded .Everything from virus attacks , crashing servers and various other issues with the computer based CAT [...]

1 comment February 28, 2010 Continue Reading →

Google Energy ? Commendable Foresight Or Crazy Diversification

by Ankit Agarwal

You have to give it to Google. It never ceases to surprise the world with its seemingly unorthodox style of operations. Be it their oh-so-cool work atmosphere, strategic marketing tactics generating tons of hype even before the product launch, the fascination with Beta launches, and last but not the least their acquisitions and business deals.

Google [...]

8 comments February 20, 2010 Continue Reading →

Social Gaming Monster Zynga comes to India, Can It Disrupt Indian Gaming Industry?

by Ankit Agarwal

Whoa!! The creator of Love-It or Hate-It “Ville” games Zynga has gone international. More than that, the first international office location that the Zynga folks have zeroed in happens to be none other than India’s very own ( though debatable) Silicon Valley Bangalore.

Zynga in its latest press release has confirmed that it has opened Zynga [...]

2 comments February 18, 2010 Continue Reading →

Bharti Airtel’s Wild Acquisition Plans Seem To Be Backfiring

by Ankit Agarwal

May be it’s only me, but looks like Bharti Airtel is hell bent on chasing Fool’s Gold. Bharti has been chasing inorganic growth at a maddening pace primarily to expand globally. One of the top most telecom operators in India, Airtel enjoys a huge subscriber base in India and wants to penetrate the international markets [...]

16 comments February 15, 2010 Continue Reading →

Maruti 800 To Make Its Journey Into History Books,To Phase Out Of 13 cities

by Ankit Agarwal

The dynamics of the consumer marketplace have changed phenomenally in the last few years.In this never ending pursuit to meet customer demand, the manufacturers have been forced to revisit their products and deliver new and better product variants every now and then.Now, the whole marketplace thrives on better and new products ever so frequently that [...]

5 comments February 14, 2010 Continue Reading →

Google going full throttle in Social Space, Acquires Aardvark

by Ankit Agarwal
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Google to me is a brilliant example of keeping place with the dynamics of the market place. The undisputed king of search has never ceased to surprise me with its knack of identifying user needs and cashing onto the opportunity. The icing on the cake comes from the way they execute. They have always [...]

7 comments February 12, 2010 Continue Reading →

Telecom Tuesday: 4G Talks, BSNL Enterprise Unit , Mobile Entertainment and More…

by Ankit Agarwal

TRAI To Start The Process For 4G
You have to give it to the telecom regulator TRAI for its ability to make headlines day in and day out.The 3G spectrum allocation is yet to materialize and is continuously getting delayed.Yes, the government is playing its true self too by poking its nose, but could someone tell [...]

0 comments February 9, 2010 Continue Reading →

Golden Temple To Start Online Donations – Going Mainstream?

by Ankit Agarwal

It really struck me at the first time, but then when the whole world is online and e-commerce is entering our homes, what stops donations  going online too. Yes, we are talking about temple donations which to my knowledge amounts to a lot of money.

The devotees of the Golden Temple Of Amritsar can now make [...]

3 comments February 8, 2010 Continue Reading →
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