Internet in India
I received this email from my Engineering classmate, "Mahesh, I was looking at the old math notes from my engineering and came across this question. You had also solved it. I hope you remember answers for this in case your daughter who is attending Engineering asks.Find the positive value of such that the area enclosed by the ellipse x^2/9 + … [Read more] about Whoa! Have I forgotten my engineering Math?
Today I attended the workshop of Robin Sharma "titled" - Lead Without A Title. This was organized by RangDe, a social investor based in Bangalore working all over India. Oneindia.com was one of the online media partners. This is this is the first time ever I have attended his workshops but I was amazed at the excitement many in the audience … [Read more] about Robin Sharma recommends 2 books and not to read news for 30 days!
Pitch Madison Media Advertising Outlook 2012 held in New Delhi on Feb 17, 2012 sheds some light on the advertising market in India for the year 2012. Before that some numbers for advertising marketing in India for 2011, Indian advertising grew 8% at Rs 25,594 cr in 2011 (Rs 9,300 crore in 2003)The last 5 months (September 2011 - Jan 2012) had … [Read more] about Digital advertising in India: 2011 report card, 2012 projections
I will get to the actual topic of Murse (read: man-purse) a bit later. Let us go over the background of mobile, tablet usage in India. The reducing cost of smartphones, tablets has been helping the internet trickle down to the masses, but we all wait to see the hockey stick effect in internet penetration in India. When most of the mobile users … [Read more] about Will Tablet sales in India push the sales of Murse, men purse?
Today Medianama broke the news of Flipkart acquiring Letsbuy. I must say it was good investigative journalism displayed by Medianama, such news is not easy to find. It is always interesting to read the comments, so far the news has received positive response. Medianama rightly points out that ecommerce consolidation has started but I must add … [Read more] about Flipkart + Letsbuy: Ecommerce consolidation starts in India