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Overwhelmed by ever changing technology

April 11, 2012
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I am quite sure that  we all know someone who  has refused to keep pace with the technology. A few days back I mentioned to a young school going boy that I use Yahoo mail. He giggled and said “Who uses that ?”. I told him that I was using this from eight to ten […]

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Facebook vs. Google (Plus) – The search gets personal

February 23, 2012

Facebook recently came up with billions of dollars IPO. People who have invested in it are expecting to get huge returns. Normally IPOs get very pricey because the media hypes them up and people in the anticipation of great return often bid it to unrealistic levels. This has been the story at least in Indian […]

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Important 2011 year events and their impact on us

January 5, 2012

Happy 2012 to all the readers of this blog. In this post , I will discuss a few important events of the last year. 2011 brought in some of the best and worst news to the world. The good news includes democratization of information, birth of new enterprises and positive impact of social media on […]

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Facebook vs Google ( plus ) :The battle continues

July 20, 2011

If there is a fascinating subject of warfare where no casualties occur but the battle goes on,it is  Google vs. Facebook battle. I love to analyze the battle that has been going on between two large companies, one a giant and another a social media titan. The giant Google has sounded the bugle. No longer […]

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Hard work and great friends got a +1 for me

June 28, 2011

I got PR 1 for my blog a day back. I am really happy to see that the effort that I made have paid off. Many of my friends too have got an uptick in their page rank while a few did suffer some disappointment (not much a worry though). Approximately one year back, I […]

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Facebook Vs Google – Its a war out there

May 19, 2011

Facebook Vs Google – Advantage Facebook – analysis In my last post I talked about the fact that Google has a 10X threat on its hands in the Facebook vs Google- Only the paranoid survive. In war, an entrenched enemy defends itself well In a war, usually, a defender is well entrenched while an attacker […]

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Bribing your customer, Good or bad practice

May 12, 2011

Recently  Facebook announced that it is going to pay its users to watch its ad in return for some coupons/game points. I once got a query from a friend about a business model. He asked me that if it is a good idea to pay customers to come to his site. By paying them to […]

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Perception in business is reality

May 9, 2011

Perception in business is the reality and not the other way round. I wrote in diversification vs diworsification about many examples of companies trying to get into each other’s market. Many times the owners of business think of changing reality and thus changing the perception. However the truth is not always the winner(sad but true). […]

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Facebook vs Google battle- Who has the advantage and why only the paranoid survives?

February 26, 2011

As I look at the Facebook VS Google race that is going on today, I recall something. I read a book sometimes back called as “Only the paranoid survive” by Andy Grove. In the book Andy talked about how Intel faced intense competition but managed to came out as winner all the times. Leaving aside […]

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Why is the name of the business not that important?

August 2, 2010

Name of a business is an important to image of an enterprise. However spending a lot of time while neglecting other areas is not correct.

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