• IBM takes Crowdsourcing to the next level with its Real Time Translation Project

    by Ankit Agarwal

    If you thought crowdsourcing only worked for creating marketing/design campaigns and soliciting community feedback, think again? IBM is changing that and taking crowdsourcing to the next level with its latest project. Christened N.Fluent , the project is a text translation based project which has been internally crowdsourced among IBM

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    SFO helping Bangalore to be the next valley ?

    by Ankit Agarwal

    Bangalore, the next Silicon Valley? Now, the community has always been divided on this one. With its early mover advantage and it being home to probably the highest technology companies in India , some say Bangalore is ‘the’ contender to become the next Silicon Valley. A certain section of

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    An Airline That Is Bucking The Trend,Paramount To Expand Fleet and Provide Value Additions

    by Ankit Agarwal

    The Indian airline industry has been living on the edge for sometime now. With skyrocketing fuel prices , the operating margins of all major airlines are being shot. Moreover, with the Indian skies opening up to a lot of players , it has become a different ball game to

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    Did someone just forget to test the new IIM Prometric (Online Test Taking System)

    by Ankit Agarwal

    Oh Boy!! A Saturday morning cannot be more eventful and worrying then waking up to a news (or rather a tweet) which says, CAT servers crash in Chennai, Bangalore, Bhopal and Lucknow (via @ndtv) Websites crash all the time and so do one of the best made software’s.But, when

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    Finance Friday: How do you manage your expenses?

    by Ankit Agarwal

    Let’s face it. How good are you at managing your finances? I speak for myself and I know I am very bad at it. With finances I am not talking about investments and the savings , that I somehow do a decent job maintaining. What I am referring to here

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    Rural Market is The Way To Go, Walden invests in CoOptions technologies

    by Ankit Agarwal

    The Rural sector has been seeing some steady action in recent times. With the global economy shrinking in the past year and half, organizations have been exploring new untapped markets to create demand. Indian Rural Sector – a highly unexploited sector despite having a sizable population makes it a

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    Is twitter Geotagging feature a sign of things to come

    by Ankit Agarwal

    Twitter has been rolling out interesting new features in phases recently. A nifty little Retweet button in twitter web was something that the user’s had been asking for quite sometime. It is another matter that twitter rolled it out in a way that has had its share of criticism. Twitter

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    TRAI fixes the fee for number portability

    by Ankit Agarwal

    Telecom sector has been the talk of the town ever since DOCOMO created a stir with its per second billing. What followed was a continuous barrage of price wars among the competitors with Reliance heading the pack. Eventually TRAI made it mandatory for all telecom operators to restructure the

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    Finance Friday:The Great PSU sale is on, Government To Raise Crores

    by Ankit Agarwal

    Lo and Behold!! The Indian Government is all geared up for the sale of a lifetime.What’s on offer here? A gamut of Public Sector Units(PSU’s) which will be subjected to disinvestment and a partial stake will be offered to the investors via the Stock Markets.The government is pushing hard

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    Gaming Is a Darn Serious Business , Zygna secures $15 million in funding

    by Ankit Agarwal

    Zynga-The game studio specializing in making games for social networking sites has recently secured a funding of $15 million in venture capital. The company has been on a roll ever since it introduced games for Facebook. What started with Mafia wars turned into a rage with its another sticky

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