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Bharti Airtel bitten by the conglomerization bug – 9 new verticals !
Conglomerization is nothing new to India. Almost all the business houses are obsessed with spinning off separate business units. Sometimes in related fields and sometimes in totally unrelated fields. It is so prevalent that even Infosys…
ISD at Rupee 2 per minute, STD at 50 paise!
Couple of months back, most of the mobile companies slashed their local and STD rates by as much as 40%, making STD calls rates at 1.50 paise per minute. India already has the cheapest call rates worldwide and I did not expect the rates to…
Mumbai gets smartcards for local trains and BEST buses
During my train travels from New Jersey to New York via Subway, I used to always think of how it would be to have a similar ticketing system for journey in crowded Mumbai local trains. The first thing that came to my mind - it was just not…
Recession and Indian IT services industry
Mark (name changed) wanted to outsource some of his development work. A typical outsourcing process starts with bidding, where companies from different cheaper countries including India would bid for projects. He asks one of his manager (An…
Yahoo’s new Ad solution targets user behaviour, hopes to increase click through rates!
Now, I feel this is a serious threat to user's privacy. Even though the Yahoo! officials have assured that they follow strict privacy policy, a normal user will be quite uncomfortable knowing that everything he/ she does is tracked and…
The new era of mobile content broadcasting and distribution
It is amazing to see how television broadcasting has changed over past 10-15 years. Earlier, we used to watch anything that was dished out to us on Doordarshan, be it Nukkad, be it films division cartoons (do you remember those?) or Sunday…
Buy movie tickets, make payment and even select your seats – All through mobile!
Indian mobile subscriber growth does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon. It is no wonder that most of the services are going mobile. Users now want all information to be available on the web, be it local search, banking, bill…
Will this new ‘Googly’ trump Microsoft once again?
Quite a few things happened these last few days in the social networking space. While tons have been written about Microsoft valuing Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook at $15 billion , we mostly missed Yahoo's decision to let go of Yahoo! 360…
Broadband in India: Is it going to ever improve?
One of the major problems that I face during my travel to India is the speed and reliability of broadband connections. In US, majority of users have 4 to 6 mbps lines at their home and reliability problems are next to none. Downloading a…
Indian Mobile Commerce set to grow in leaps!
Mobile commerce in India is gaining quite a bit of momentum, and why not. India currently boasts more than 200 million mobile subscribers growing at nearly 100% yoy. Online E-commerce is yet to catch up, but it also has started picking up…
Search your properties on Mobile with MagicBricks !
MagicBricks, one of the leading Indian real-estate portal launched a mobile version of their site- MagicBricks mobile. They are supposedly the First Indian mobile property portal. The users need to download a small application on their GPRS…
Should you have a mobile version of your website / Blog?
If you walk on the any of the city streets in India, you will rarely see people without mobile phones. More than half of these people have new generation mobile phones sporting big screens and GPRS having internet access. Infact, as per a…
6 important tips for Corporate Bloggers
As you may know I am an ardent advocate of corporate blogging. As much as a Corporate blog program can work as a great marketing and image building tool, it can work exactly opposite if you do not give enough importance to certain aspects…
Indian Internet Usage: Interesting statistics and analysis
I came across a snapshot of report ?India Online 2007? released by Juxtconsult recently. The report gives details on the survey carried out on Internet usage in India. Some of the findings that were listed really surprised me. I will have…
Indian Search Engines : Who is winning the race ?
India centric localized search engines market is saturating fast, real fast. In last year alone there must have been more than 10-15 Indian local search engines launched. Some smaller and some bigger. Some with huge funding and some with…
Top 50 Web1.0 Web-Sites of India
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India’s Internet usage lowest in Asia – Google scores lowly
ComScore, a leader in providing consumer insight behavior reports and research has for the first time come out with a comprehensive review of Internet behavior covering 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The ComScore report revealed…
The Indian software professionals are in big demand for 2 M’s….Money and Marriage!
A young Indian IT professional in India is earning more than double the average salary than any other profession. They are also likely to see their salaries jump more than any other professional in the country right now - with salaries…
Top 200 list of H1B employers in the world !
Unsurprisingly, the Indian outsourcing dominate the list- In a Big Way ! Out of the top 5 companies, 4 of them from India. The only exception being Microsoft Corporation. The other significant US companies are IBM and Oracle who come 8th…