Money

Inflation has kind of become a Yamraj (the god of death) – It is gaining in strength day by day and taking a toll of things. Obviously, you have heard of onions touching close to 60 rupees a kg and Garlic going upwards 300 rupees a…

Paypal woes continue for Indian users. Early this year in February, Paypal had completely stopped withdrawals to India, be it for Individuals or Business citing RBI regulations. However, few days later they had resolved local bank…

Almost 99% (if not more) of all the blogs and sites are residing in the long tail. So where is the money in the long tail? This long tail content is being provided by the independent writers, bloggers and hobbyists writing in their own…

Most of you must be aware that China’s per capita income (average income of an individual per year) is more than double of India – India’s is close to $3000 whereas, China’s is close to $6000 (after accounting for purchasing power…

These two acquisitions were the cynosure of all eyes in the past years. Is the world looking at these big-ticket acquisitions with the same respect? I doubt it. Corus to me is the first thing that went wrong for Tata group. It paid a…

I got an interesting comment on one of my previous posts on Pune Real Estate. The commenter – Ranjeet – provides a story of how a bubble builds up especially in real estate space. I found it quite interesting and thought it would be…

The Indian advertising market has been growing at extremely fast pace since last 5 to 7 years, thanks to consistent economic growth of around 9% and huge rise in the number of Multinationals entering India in last few years. What better…

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…

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…

The income levels of Indians have increased phenomenally over last few years and so is the standard of living. The economy is on the rise and India is coming out from being called a third world country to a developing country.