Internet in India
Today's Economic Times carried an article about the big hits in Bollywood, the ones that cross a minimum of Rs 100 crore ($188 m). These days crossing Rs 100 crore collection within 2 weeks has become a habit for few Bollywood stars. This article had one interesting piece, who gets how much from the movie ticket you buy. These days many stars … [Read more] about Who gets how much when you buy a movie ticket in India?
During the 3rd week of every month, we get a report card of our traffic performance from ComScore. We know our traffic numbers from Google Analytics but third-party reports are used by advertisers to judge the performance of various sites. Recently ComScore held a webinar "The Rise of India’s Digital Consumer and What it Means for the Future". The … [Read more] about Oneindia.in gets 9.6% of visitors for News in India
According to a report from Nokia Siemens Network mobile internet traffic has grown by 50% in the first half of 2012. Other important points from the report are, 54% increase in mobile data traffic in India between December 2011 and June 2012. Data traffic generated by 3G services has increased by 78% while that of 2G services has increased by … [Read more] about India has enormous appetite for consuming mobile data services on the go
Handmade paper was fashionable while I was growing up. Just recently I learnt in Sri Lanka about products being made out of Elephant dung. The Pinnawale elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka is very similar but better than what we see in the Dubare elephant camp in Coorg. A couple of shops in Pinnawale (Sri Lanka) were selling products made out of … [Read more] about Handmade paper is passe, go for Elephant Poopaper!
Last year Mint had carried an article about magazines in India planning on Indian language editions in order to increase their reach. Kind of late in publishing the summary of that article [Niche English magazines plan vernacular editions - no longer available on livemint.com] but better late than never, Magazines Hello!, Lonely Planet, Better … [Read more] about Marketsize of magazines in India