This post is especially for women readers of my blog. Women’s Web team is conducting a survey on ‘Women and Entrepreneurship’ in India. The result of this survey would be shared freely on their website. The team feels that with more women in India starting businesses than ever before, it’s a good time to understand…
Finally there is something exclusively for the Indian product management community :-). PMs in India would be glad to know that IPMA (India Product Management Association) has now formally announced its launch. This association will be inaugurated on Sun Nov 28th 2010 in Bangalore by Ramkumar Narayanan, Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and User…
Indian consumers are spending more and so it does not come as a surprise if Neilsen’s recent report states that India is leading the ad spend market in overall Asia. Indian consumers have now the pocket to spend and the willingness to upgrade; be it any class of the society there is this inner need…
When I watched Dabangg last weekend, the first thing which caught my attention was a new category of opening credit – “Online Anti Piracy Partner”. Oh yes I do notice the opening credits and brand mentions :), blame it on my previous job which was actually into entertainment industry and as a part of my…
Some post updates: My last post on “Aided Social Media Engagement” has been reproduced by VCBytes, I had added some more content to the new post, you can read the full content here. Me new post at Pluggd.in on “Digital version of books invading print industry“: The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the…
In my last post itself, I had written about ebooks picking up faster than estimated internationally. But as I had thought, the trend of physical vs. ebooks sales does not seem to be following the same curve in India. Here is an update on e-book industry in India which came in press recently – Craze…
Until few months back, Amazon used to sell 48 Kindle copies for every 100 physical copies of books that it offered in both formats. But the figures definitely seem to have taken a dramatic change now. Amazon.com, one of the US’ largest booksellers, announced on Monday that for the past three months, sales of books…
A decade or two back the word coaching or tuition was an option for the weak students, but now it is as much a norm for any student (esp. the aspirants of exams like IIT, AIEEE, PMT etc.), as say a senior school passing certificate. From board exams to school tuitions, IITs to medical, CAT…
Recently Nokia had announced a new version of OVI maps available for download at no cost & within few days of their launch only, Nokia observed a huge upsurge in their download numbers. Since the launch of the new version of Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been 1.4+ million downloads with over…
A quick update: Would like to share two of my articles which got published on two different portals this week, thanks Pluggdin & BlogAdda for selecting these! Digitization of Indian Cinema @ http://www.pluggd.in: http://www.pluggd.in/digitization-of-bollywood-indian-cinema-297/ Movies you don’t know you’re going to love @ http://www.blogadda.com: http://blog.blogadda.com/2009/07/22/5-must-see-world-movies Would love to see your comments on these.
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