Sunday, December 2, 2012
I happened to attend TedxGateway at NCPA, Nariman Point at Mumbai today. Thanks to Bloomberg for sponsoring my corporate ticket. Overall a fantastic experience with some awesome and inspiring speakers. Here are key take aways:
1. TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling...
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Monday, October 29, 2012
One of my Bloomberg colleague's facebook comment prompted me to write this post. This is what Paras Doshi has to say:
He counted numbers of political posters up on Mumbai streets while driving to work. In 1.9 kms of stretch, there were 106 posters!!! Now I tried to think who are putting up these posters and why:
1. Political...
Monday, October 29, 2012 2
Thursday, October 11, 2012
RailRadar, an application which gives you muscle to track Indian Railways trains in real time. It uses the Google Maps platform to deliver timings, location, station, routes and schedules of more than 6,500 trains on a real time basis.
RailRadar has been developed by Centre for Railway Information System
and uses a top level...
Thursday, October 11, 2012 0
Monday, October 8, 2012
Facebook recently landed up in a new
controversy after a U.S. security researcher discovered that the social
networking site added 'Likes' simply by sending a web address to a
friend using the company's private messaging feature. Facebook has
admitted that it does scan the private messages for links, but does not
use them as “Likes”...
Monday, October 8, 2012 0
Monday, September 17, 2012
How many times we have came across the quote - "vo engineering kar raha hai". It means he is studying engineering. Literally, everyone is pursuing engineering in India it seems thanks to exponential growth in engineering colleges and IT companies recruiting in masses.
I tried to analyse how once a novel and rare profession has lost its...
Monday, September 17, 2012 1
Reserve Bank of India kept key Repo and Reverse Repo unchanged today in its announcement. However, it decided to cut Cash Reserve Ratio by 25 basis points to 4.5% in its mid quarter review of the monetary policy on Monday. CRR
is the minimum proportion of deposits that banks must hold with the
central bank. The CRR reduction is...
Sunday, September 16, 2012
How many times have you seen tall claiming advertisments from Amity University or IIPM. Many questions over last few years have been raised on such educational setup. Recently, I came to know that Amity University which boost itself for research and patents, actually has only limited research so that University can advertise such...
Sunday, September 16, 2012 0
What is Indian Retail market shape?
Predominately, The Indian retail sector is unorganised. It consists of "kirana" stores or small stores in every corner of the road. They are typically managed by single owner or family members. These are pan shops, general stores, convenience stores and multi commodity vendors.
FDI in...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
After have downloading Office 2013 for many months, I finally installed and tested it. Though there are not many new changes, however following are worth mentioning.
Much-improved interface
Office 2013 has got much improved interface, doing away with the
sometimes-distracting 3D look of the Ribbon, and adding swaths of flat
color....
Saturday, September 15, 2012 0
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
World Crisis: One of the biggest blackout hitting 600 million people in northern and eastern states including the capital Delhi. Here is what is happening with respect to this crisis:
What is an electrical grid?A
power grid is an interconnected network of transmission lines for
supplying electricity from power suppliers to consumers....
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 1
Monday, July 23, 2012
As seen in old Hindi movies, trade unions, on back on militants, are creating problems for businesses to grow. This has been phenomenon in Gurgaon for quite sometime. The violence at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar
factory, which killed one senior employee and injured close to 100
others, bodes ill for the future of not just Maruti...
Monday, July 23, 2012 0
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Slower growth and high volatility, Reserve bank is expected to cut Repo and Reverse Repo rates by 25 basis points in its policy review on Monday, 18th June, 2012.
What are current rates?Repo Rate - 8%
Reverse Repo Rate - 7%
RBI has room to support economic activity as industrial production growth remains weak and inflation...
Saturday, June 16, 2012 0
Earlier this week, ratings agency Standard and Poor's raised concerns over India's investment grade ratings and said India could be first BRIC nation to lose this grade status. This event was rather predicted as India factory output data came flat in April. I am not a big fan of S&P or Moody ratings, this reminds me how...
Sunday, May 20, 2012
JPMorgan Chase, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, suffered a trading loss of at least $2 billion from a failed hedging strategy. This post looks at deeper reason and analysis of what triggered this loss.
What happened?
It is believed after the entire loss math that JP Morgan did hedging or rather entered into bets with CDX family of investment...
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Microsoft has come up with another game changing idea in search engine space. It has introducted “personalised search
results" with data coming from Facebook and LinkedIn.
According to Derrick Connell, corporate vice president of Bing,
the update will roll out in the next few weeks. Users will be receiving
a notification after...
Friday, May 11, 2012 0
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Last quarter Apple sold iPhones like banana in China, the figure touched 8 million. No doubt that it is the best smart phone available, still I think it is unsustainable going forward.
This exorbint sales helped Apple post record breaking profits in U.S. Analysts have praised the effort and seem too bullish for my liking. I have...
Saturday, May 5, 2012 0
Google has come hard to big blog networks with huge links and term them as "Fake SEO" techniques. Below is screenshot of what big webmasters are receiving:
When did it start?
It seems all the buzz started with de-indexing of large link networks. It means that Google will remove these networks (inter-linked, self sustain planet...
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Today, I got a call from a good friend who was asking for benchmark lending rate charged from bank. He was looking to finance his home loan and was confused with these terms. I thought I should write a post on this topic clarifying few of these complex terms.
Prime Interest Rate
The bank minimum charges prime interest rates for any lending,...
Sunday, April 1, 2012 0
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Microsoft has decided to keep us guessing if windows phone 7 apps will run on windows 8.
The rumor catches marke from I’m A WP7, an app that helpfully reports the version numbers of operating systems that run the app. As you can see in the image below, the first two entries are for Windows Phone 7, but at the bottom it reports...
Sunday, March 25, 2012 0
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Google is set to incoporate "semantic search” technology, which will allow the engine to understand the actual meaning of the words. It is move to go more towards human behavior. Google is developing the database after of Metaweb Technologies in 2010. Google, however, seems to have copied it from Bing. Microsoft's Bing search engine...
Sunday, March 18, 2012 0
I know this is rather a controversial post this time but I feel it is important to express my experience of Mumbai.
Its been almost a year since I moved to Mumbai. At the start, I did not like Mumbai and everyone whom I interact still don't. People who I always turn for advise said that I will start liking it, however its been...
Sunday, January 29, 2012
I thought Nokia will soon shut shop after rivals becoming giant everywhere. Did you also thought alike?
Well, Nokia is making a comeback in Indian market atleast in the low-end segment. The recent rupee depreciation compelled the Indian phone brands to hike the price of low-end models, thereby losing the market grip. Nokia not only made...
Sunday, January 29, 2012 0
Today I found interesting case study of Pagalguy.com created by prestigious IIM Bangalore. I have read 100s of case studies (not by choice) during my stay at International Management Institute, premier B School in India. I primilarly read Harvard Case studies which are treat to read. Few points that I found worth sharing on this:
1. Ill...
The holidays are over, CES has concluded, and Apple has revealed its blockbuster earnings. What's next? Why, the latest iPhone rumor, of course. The iPhone 4S is barely in users' hands, but there are already reports of the fabled iPhone 5 finally becoming a reality.
According to 9to5Mac, "reliable sources" at Foxconn tell the blog...
Saturday, January 14, 2012
The ultra low-cost Aakash tablet is mainly aimed at students and focusses on overhauling the Indian education through technology. The government is already providing the Aakash tablet at a subsidised price of Rs. 1,730. Soon, you will get the tablet on rent in your college libraries. The device will feature pre-loaded video lectures for...
Saturday, January 14, 2012 1
The Airport Metro Express Line of the Delhi Metro will now feature Wi-Fi connectivity at all its stations. An in-train broadband connectivity service will also be provided soon. Reliance Infrastructure has teamed up with You Broadband to provide the service.
A Reliance Infrastucture spokesperson commented on the launch:
“Since internet...
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