eBay India Census Guide – Mumbai leads the E-Commerce Race (2)
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eBay India has shared the online behavior of Indian netizens (analyzed the online behavior of shoppers and sellers in 28 states, six union territories and the top 100 cities over 2007) and there are some interesting insights: USB drive registered the maximum sales on eBay. Value mobile handsets, MP4 players, USB MP3 players and diamonds were the other popular items. City Wise: Mumbai leads the race followed by Delhi,Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai Hyderabadis bought the ...
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So what will you do with Rs. 500 (i.e. ~$10.5)? For some, it’s ‘nothing’ (will spend on booze/smoke/branded underwear), for others it’s quite a lot! (tution fees, ration and lot more ) Diversity.Expectation.Life. Related posts:Importing post permalinks from new Blogger to WordPress: step by step guide Well, this has been one of the most requested post,...Rate/Review/Share your Candid Feedback with Startups We launched Indian Startup ecosystem a few days back and...TiE-ISB 2008 Winners TiE-ISB has ...
How much is your data worth? Lets hear from Spam Industry (1)
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Got this mail /spam from a bulk mailer agency - shows worth of your personal data. Worth of 50K CEO’s pesonal email ids is Rs. 10K! Database of Mumbai car owner is worth 5 times that of Kolkata! All India CEO data is worth Rs. 1/entry! Interesting data point, I must say. What’s your opinion? –here is the email forward (badly formatted) — — S.no Database Types Description Format Quantity Price (INR) 1. All India ...
NTT DoCoMo acquires 26% stake in Tata Tele Services (1)
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NTT DoCoMo, as was speculated earlier has acquired 26% stake in Tata Teleservices for $2.7Bn (i.e. Rs 12,770 crore) The deal values Tata Tele @ $10.4 Bn , i.e. Rs 50,270 crore - DoCoMo will buy 6% from Tata Sons and other group companies and the remaining 20% will be new shares issued by Tata Teleservices Deal numbers that you should know Tata Tele is valued more than RCOM’s market cap. Tata Tele has 25 ...
Is microblogging the ultimate test for an idea? (1)
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While I was offline and on holiday, I started thinking about permanence and the ‘half-life’ of content and ideas. Is print a better medium for archiving content, in the event all electronic systems are turned off or destroyed in a catastrophe? Or is the electronic medium far better for simply getting an idea into the world, where it may take on a life of it’s own? Originally it was a comparison between print and blogging, ...
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‘silence’, 2008 sarah-jane lynagh is a young photographer who explores large themes in her work from a personal perspective. her photographs are characterized by the use of unconventional materials such as parts of dead animals, which she turns into props. these props are used to augment portraits, where the body is the main concern. ‘her intent is to turn the body inside out and subvert the role of the meat making it an attachment to ...
88% of Mumbai Wireless Networks are open for hackers (1)
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Now this is something that sounds really scary! Deloitte studied the Mumbai wireless networks and here are some interesting results: Of the total networks sampled (6700), around 36% appeared to be unprotected i.e. not having any encryption on them. 52% were using low level of protection i.e Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption Only 12% networks were using the more secure Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) or WPA2. 1852 appeared to be business wireless networks. Of these, ...
Bharti changes Brand Identity - to diversify into Retail, Financial and Agriculture Business (2)
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Bharti has unveiled it’s 2020 vision and talks of relying less on telecom business and more on new businesses which include retail, financial services and agriculture. Currently, Bharti’s 80% revenues come from the telecom business, which it wants to reduce to 50% (by 2013). At Bharti, we have always believed in undertaking transformational projects that have a positive impact on the society and contribute to the nation building process. We have demonstrated this philosophy by ...
MobMe Partners with Malayalam Daily, 44K Registrations in a day (3)
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Kerala based startup, Mobme (read their inspiring story) has partnered with Malayalam Daily, Mathrubhumi and is powering its Mobile Channel for sending news and alerts to mobile users over SMS. Within a day of the launch, MobMe witnessed an awesome 44,00 registrations - to keep the numbers in context, we are talking about local content subscription delivered on mobile (Mobme suggests that ~15% of users have gprs connectivity and the rest are just fine with ...
Wikipedia Helps a poor man pass his 11th grade exams (2)
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Wikipedia does good thing to the world and as per Jimmy Wales, it did help a poor Indian pass his 11th grade exams. “..met this young man on the street who told me that he had used Wikipedia to pass his 11th grade exams.” “Wow, that’s really cool, right? We’ve had some impact, even in such a place where I’m talking to this guy, and there’s mud streets, and cows, and it’s really quite a ...
India Inc set for layoffs (3)
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Now that Diwali is over,expect some crackers from the HR department! Layoff As per Assocham’s new report ‘Jobs scenario, post-Diwali’, India Inc. is likely to announce lay offs of nearly 25% - 30% of its workforce within the next 10 days across seven key industrial segments (steel, cement, ITeS/BPO, financial and brokerage services, construction, real estate and aviation). Apart from layoffs, companies are also planning to cut down on perks/bonuses etc. Weaker rupee is also ...
