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If you are noticing India Inc's moves of late then you are bound to notice a trend. Most of the companies are rushing for the rural areas. Be it telecom, banking, computing or the auto industry. What prompts the companies to look for rural…

After biometric passports the action moved to PAN cards. The income tax department has decided to issue biometric PAN cards for new applicants and to those seeking re-issue. These biometric PAN cards would also make sure that one person can…

The CAT exam which is used for admissions by most of the MBA institutes in India and most importantly IIM's is going online. This move was contemplated in 2008 but, it will be implemented from 2009. CAT 2009 will be a computer based test…

IPL 2009 has a lot of new things to its name. A pre-dominantly Indian tournament moved to South Africa, Knight Riders fiddled with the idea of multiple captains, Modi used his brilliance to come up with strategic or tactical timeout's. Then…

I am hearing news about smart this, smart that and smart everything where every device has some kind of intelligence built in. Not the I Robot kind of intelligence. At least not yet. But, Smart Grid which is intelligence for electricity…

Do you know what Rickshaw means ? The name “Rickshaw” comes from the Japanese expression, "ji riki shaw" which means "vehicle powered by man". The concept of the rickshaw first came to China, then India and…

I found this for the first time. BPO Voice an online network of BPO professionals has a survey and a report about the economic outlook for BPO and outsourcing industry. I felt it is appropriate to get a broader sense from our readers.…

It is not a April fool joke and the date is a strange coincidence. Our financial year starts from April 1 and thus the coincidence. This news is doing the rounds in the Blogosphere for a few days now. I was just waiting for the conventional…

Need an idea for a startup in Bangalore? Dig a borewell, rent or buy 4 water tankers and you are in business. You might want to lease 4 more tankers in summer. It might not be the exact startup idea you are looking for or not even the most…

Sulekha, the popular free classified portal will soon become a paid services for its customers. Earlier it used to be supported by the corporate advertisements. But there was a decline of 25% ad spend by them. It is expected to go down…

It is only a week since I blogged about Indian retail in for a heady mix. Now, we have the case of Subhiksha which is battling for survival. Subhiksha which was started with 1 store in 1999 has grown to more than 1000 stores by the end of…

When it comes to cost cutting, the immediate measure any organization resort to is firing. Indian companies are not that fortunate. Part of it is culture and part of it is the Indian labor laws. Companies have to come up with innovative…

Am I excited? Hell ya. You don't get anything for $10. Not even a mobile. A computer for $10 that is some serious progress. Desktop, laptop, netbook and now a $10 laptop. What do you call it? We have blogged about this $10 laptop way …

Surprised? Well, don't be I will give you reasons. Last week I have posed a rhetoric question : Do we really need newspapers? Since then there was a good discussion about pros and cons. If I were to quote Yash alone it would be a post.…

Alternative energy is any energy that does not depend on oil of middle east. That seems to be the apt description. It could be Solar, Wind, Nuclear, Bio-Fuel and everything else in your imagination except oil In his book "Hot, Flat and…

Sachin Tendulkar is one of my favorite cricketers. I was disappointed when he was not included in the ICC all time great's list. The only thing I hate about Tendulkar is his hunger for centuries. Not sure why but I just hate it. How does a…

Success of a country will depend upon capital it has and the capital it can generate. Capital is mostly generated by innovation. Whenever innovation comes down or the countries stop investing in education and research the result shows…

Print media in India is flourishing. If we take the past 2 years of incidents into account, Indian newspaper industry has seen tremendous growth. I am not talking about the revenue of the industry but the choices available to the consumer.Â…

People of Delhi handed Sheila Dikshit a third straight victory in the capital. Without wasting any time and without losing the good work she was doing, Madam Chief Minister is implementing one more ingenious idea. Allow advertising on Autos…

Tata Teleservices has sold a stake of 26% to Japan's NTT DoCoMo. The deal value is $2.7 bn. Tata Tele has 30 million CDMA subscribers and is rolling out its GSM services. Some say the deal is over-valued and some say its not easy to put…