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Top Indian Brands on Social Media [Twitter & Facebook]
Media2Win, a digital Advertising agency based out of Mumbai recently launched real-time ranking of Indian Brands – Brands Going Social - on Facebook & Twitter Social Media Platforms. The BGS platform presents real-time data of…
India remains Top Outsourcing destination by large Margin for American Companies…
Even as talks of Outsourcing centered around recent ban by Ohio state – India remains at the top and most preferred Outsourcing Destination by large private U.S Corporations. According to recent survey released by Cap Gemini in partnership…
From Google’s Search to Facebook’s Discovery!
The world is changing and the web has been changing every day. Web is becoming more social as more of us are participating in the social media. Tweeting, sharing and connecting has been the new mantra of web. We are consuming information in…
Social Shopping anyone? Indians are moving in droves to buy goods online!
Till now, you must have heard about increasing number of Indians joining social networking sites and increasing Internet penetration across the nation. But have you heard of Indians buying goods online? Not many? Think again! Here are…
Ohio Bans Outsourcing – Another blow for Indian Software companies
The U.S state of Ohio has now banned outsourcing of Government projects to any off-shoring companies outside of U.S. The Ohio Governor has gone ahead and declared: “No Public Money should be spent on services provided Offshore. The…
Yahoo re–strategizing search! Will it work?
A couple of posts ago, I had talked about how Yahoo is working on its social media strategy. Its two applications – Yahoo Buzz and Yahoo Pulse are creating quite a buzz in the market as has been shown by the recent Comscore Report. Taking…
Online Vs Offline Bookstores – Mapping experiences…
Call me old-fashioned but I am yet to accept books in electronic version (now called e-books). For me, reading a book is about the whole experience rather than consuming the content. The touch and feel of the book in my hand makes a…
[Updated] HCL bringing 100,000 $35 tablets in partnership with MHRD
Update: We have learned from reliable sources in MHRD that there has been no such agreement taken place between HCLTech and MHRD. HCLtech has declined any comments on this. Also, IIT Rajasthan has been given the mandate to take the…
HDFC Bank leads in E-Transactions, SBI in Value
According to Bank Statistics monthly report released by RBI yesterday, HDFC Bank stands at number one position when it comes to number of e-transactions taking place in India, while SBI is ahead in terms of value of transactions. ICICI…
The un-promotion of the techie tribe…
This article is a follow-up to the post we published earlier - IT Sector : Why Promotions Are A Function Of Experience Rather Than Skill/Expertise? Famous Indian Fetish – Management roles I have had experiences to represent my…
Impact of Technology Trends on Businesses
There has been a lot of talk about how consumer technology has evolved and its effect on our lifestyle etc. Here are few examples of how technological revolutions have impacted (or will impact) on the way we do business. Cloud Computing:…
Indian female Mobile Web usage lowest in world! [Opera Report]
Mobile Web Usage is overwhelmingly dominated by Men – 96 percent of all to be precise. According to latest Opera State of Mobile Web report, only 4 percent female users use Mobile web lowest in the world. Even countries like Nigeria (5.4%)…
Watch what you write, Wipro tells its Employees – comes out with Employee Blogging Policy!
Indian Corporates are slowly waking up to the hazards of content going online, often damaging enough for the company to sit up and take notice. Last month, Infosys was the first company to come out with official Social Media Policy for…
After Google Wave, the end of Orkut is nigh?
Google’s social networking initiatives seem to be in a complete free–fall and now the killer nail in the coffin could has been hit. Orkut which has always been successful only in the Indian and Brazilian markets, had over the past year or…
IBM – The darkhorse in the Indian IT sector!
It is common knowledge that the IT sector is the largest employer of human capital in the country. TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Mahindra Satyam and Cognizant together employ more than 10 lakh people across the world. But as usual, their highest…
WTF ! Google does it again – Gives away half of Kashmir to Pakistan on its Map !
I am not sure why Google is doing this – Repeatedly Google has been messing around with India’s Map, especially the Northern India-Pakistan border. Google Insights, which offers analytics on searches done on the search engines now shows…
Yahoo – Change is the name of the game?
One has always said that there are the best and the rest in every field. Even in the field of search engines despite the presence of other players like Ask Jeeves, Bing, Baidu etc, Google is the undoubted leader. I am sure you all must be…
$35 Tablet revealed [Video]
The cheap $35 tablet released by MHRD (Indian Govt.) was probably the most talked about news last month. We were one of the first blogs to bring in that news and then it got covered wildly in online and offline media.
Till now the whole…
Online Mobile Prepaid Recharges – Moving Forward from Comfort to Freebies !
The telecom industry in India is growing at a breakneck speed, and the majority of the contribution has come from the mobile segment, what with the fixed line phone business in India logging a negative growth in 2009-10. Going much deeper…
B–Schools across the country in the fast lane to create a virtual presence!
Despite a lot of advancement of technology, only about 60 million people across the country have Internet access. But the silver lining among this is that 72% of this population are school and college students and youngsters in the age…