Come August 1, 2009. You must have your credit cards verified by your issuing banks to transact on Indian e-commerce sites. Articles related to this have been covered by a few sites: Medianama, Pluggd.in. Cleartrip has been aggressively (and responsibly) sending out mailers related to this topic by promoting https://www.cleartrip.com/secure/ in their mailers. I registered […]
Internet Portals
Post Elections: Which netas are still active online?
Few of our politicians had started tweeting during elections. Now that the elections are done who is still active? There was a “plug” in Bangalore Mirror which talked about SM Krishna tweeting and just one sentence about Shashi Tharoor‘s tweets. The only politician who is twittering and very sensibly is Shashi Tharoor. He writes exceptionally […]
Should Google News monetize? Yes, why not?
Few months ago Google made its intentions of monetizing from Google News [official announcement] public, Google is also rethinking its practice of providing some Web services without ads, so that it can generate more revenue. On Nov. 17, Google began running ads on Google Finance, a financial-news site, and said it would soon start showing […]
What would Indian Millionaires Want From Brokerage Websites?
The stock market is being beaten to death everywhere, they say in India it will tank to 6,000 levels. India has a decent number of Brokerage websites. According to “What Millionaires Want From (US) Brokerage Websites” 79% — visit their investment provider’s Web site at least a few times a year and 83% of those […]
Social Media is free, but marketing isn’t
Twitter, Facebook, Orkut are free to use, leveraging them for marketing purposes takes time, expertise and money. According to an article in Businessweek by B.L. Ochman says, Integrating these tools into a corporate marketing program requires skill, time, and money. The budget for an effective social media marketing campaign begins at $50,000 for two to […]