Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
ON MANAGEMENT - Fannie Mae names new off...
ON MANAGEMENT - Fannie Mae names new off...
Fannie Mae shook up its senior management in a move it said was designed to drive the mortgage company’s efforts to conserve capital and contain a surge in costs stemming from defaults...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
CIIE-Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship
Fostering Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship
CIIE(Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship) aims at fostering innovation-driven entrepreneurship through incubation, research and dissemination of knowledge. CIIE was setup by IIM, Ahmedabad in 2001 and is supported by Government of Gujarat and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Since CIIE inception, a host of organizations, professionals, academicians and networking partners within India and across the globe have been closely associated with the initiatives of CIIE. Some of the ongoing projects of CIIE are also being backed by Wadhwani Foundation (set up by IT entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, USA), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (GoI), Piramal Foundation and Microsoft.
Setting up of CIIE was an outcome of the first national workshop on Indian Incubator for Innovation Based Enterprise (I3E) at IIMA in 1998, which brought together innovators, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, technology administrators and academics to understand the processes and policies related to commercializing technology based innovations by individual innovators. Expertise at IIMA in areas of technology network, management, grassroots level innovations and entrepreneurship development, provided the necessary impetus and the intellectual basis for this initiative.
Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship aims at fostering innovation and entrepreneurship development through research, incubation, consultancy and training in hi-tech and mass impact technologies to enhance welfare and competitiveness of the Indian economy. The three main focus area of CIIE include
- Incubation: To incubate technology based innovations and help commercialize them through an enterprise
- Research: To conduct research as well as training and develop educational material on topics related to innovations and their evolution into viable enterprises
- Dissemination: To disseminate research findings and related information on the management of innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship.
site URL : CIIE
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a small break
I think i need a break, Tired of posting and formatting on blog. Hands are paining, eyes are watering, and brain to zonkeddddddddddddd.
Plus too much to study and write for college work, Again hands are paining, eyes are watering and this time brain is out.
so catch all you guys after a small break, will be posting some thing really really important, and my regular weekdays posts.
no personal things and reviews on both my blog and micro blog
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Ambassador - The Ambassador of India
The Hindustan Ambassador is a model of car manufactured by Hindustan Motors of India. Ambassador has been in production since 1957 and Ambassador is based on the Morris Oxford model first made by the Morris Motor Company at Cowley, Oxford in the United Kingdom.
more on ambassador : Ambassador
source : Ambassador, livemint, wikipedia
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R.K. Swamy, His Life and Times
Source : Hindu
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An Autobiography by V. Ramnarayan, launched by Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Commerce
Lauding R.K. Swamy as one of the Trimurthis of Indian advertising, along with Mani Iyer and Alyque Padamsee, Mr. Ramesh also credited him with giving the public sector a new dimension through advertising.
1 - RK Swamy: The 'Grand Old Old Man' of Indian advertising
2 - R.K. Swamy passes away
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RK Swamy: The 'Grand Old Old Man' of Indian advertising
R K Swamy hats off
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The Advertising Agencies Association of India president Sam Balsara calls him the Grand Old Old Man of Indian advertising.
R K Swamy, 80, the founder chairman of the Chennai-based advertising agency, R K SWAMY BBDO, passed away at his residence on Thursday.
R K Swamy is said to be among the first few entrepreneurs in the advertising industry to have set up his own agency at the ripe age of 50. He launched R K SWAMY Advertising Associates Pvt Ltd in Chennai, after having worked nearly 30 years at India's largest agency JWT.
And thanks to R K Swamy's passion, RK Swamy featured among the top 10 agencies in India within the first five years of its operations. "Besides, R K Swamy clearly put Chennai on the map in Indian advertising," adds Balsara.
To ramp up growth, R K Swamy brought in an international partner BBDO Worldwide in the late 80s and converted his company into R K SWAMY BBDO Advertising.
RK Swamy also wrote a book "India -- How to succeed without tears" which revealed his deep understanding and analysis of what India needed to do to emerge as a serious economic power.
Source : Rediff, Hindu
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R.K. Swamy passes away
R K Swamy hats off
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The Advertising Agencies Association of India president Sam Balsara calls him the Grand Old Old Man of Indian advertising.
R K Swamy, 80, the founder chairman of the Chennai-based advertising agency, R K SWAMY BBDO, passed away at his residence on Thursday.
R K Swamy is said to be among the first few entrepreneurs in the advertising industry to have set up his own agency at the ripe age of 50. He launched R K SWAMY Advertising Associates Pvt Ltd in Chennai, after having worked nearly 30 years at India's largest agency JWT.
And thanks to R K Swamy's passion, RK Swamy featured among the top 10 agencies in India within the first five years of its operations. "Besides, R K Swamy clearly put Chennai on the map in Indian advertising," adds Balsara.
To ramp up growth, R K Swamy brought in an international partner BBDO Worldwide in the late 80s and converted his company into R K SWAMY BBDO Advertising.
RK Swamy also wrote a book "India -- How to succeed without tears" which revealed his deep understanding and analysis of what India needed to do to emerge as a serious economic power.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) - among top 5
Some Eye Poping facts of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation:
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) is amongst the five metros in the world out of over 130 to generate an operating surplus.
- In the last one year, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) has brought down its operating ratio to 0.52 from 0.64
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) reduced employees per route kilometer from 48 to 39 YoY (05-06 to 06-07). The global standard is 45 employees per route kilometer.
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's(DMRC) earnings per employee witnessed a growth of 149 per cent from Rs 382,000 per employee to Rs 953,000 per employee.
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's(DMRC) earning per commuter has increased by 27 per cent to Rs 11.27 from Rs 8.88 during the period.
- The punctuality and reliability of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) during 2007-08 stood at 99.95%, up from 98.29 %
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC) trains run an average of 400 kilometre per day, when compared to global standards of 350 to 380 km.
source : Business Standard, IBEF
India is advancing, be PROUD - Delhi Metro Rail Corporation(DMRC).
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site of the week - Economy Watch
EconomyWatch.com, the complete Economy, Business and Finance portal, has been online since 1999.
Every day EconomyWatch adds economy news and features stories to EconomyWatch's thousands of archived stories. We have complete sections on the World Economy, including key markets such as US, China and India.
In Investing EconomyWatch cover Economic Indicators, World Stock Markets and Real Estate Investment. EconomyWatch also include detailed coverage of the world's Major Companies and Industries, including new section focusing on Energy including Oil and Renewable Energy.
EconomyWatch have extensive reports in the Personal Finance section on Credit Cards, Banks and the Mortgage Industry.
Featured This Month
Oil, religion and the Saudi Arabian economy
Spain's dynamic economy could be in for a hard landing
A primer on Indian inflation
Our guide to Mutual Funds
The Forbes 2000 Global Companies
site : EconomyWatch
Monday, August 18, 2008
Thums Up - Taste the Thunder
During late 1970s, the American cola giant Coca-Cola was banned by the Indian government. Following this, the Parle brothers, Ramesh Chauhan and Prakash Chauhan, along with then CEO Bhanu Vakil, launched Thums Up as their flagship drink, adding to their portfolio of older brands Limca (lime flavour) and Gold Spot (orange flavored). Thums Up was basically a cola drink, but the company never claimed it as such. The formula was just as closely guarded as the famous Coke formula. During the same time, the owners of Coca-Cola’s bottling plant, Pure Drinks Ltd., launched Campa Cola and Campa Orange, both of which had a higher dose of carbon dioxide.
The Thums Up logo was a logo showing a red thumbs up hand gesture with a slanted white serif typeface. This would later be modified by Coca-Cola with blue strokes and a more modern-looking typeface. This was mainly done to reduce the dominant red color in their signage. The picture shows the thums up mountain or thums up pahaad(in Hindi)manmad hills which has a natural top like thums up logo and is a popular sight from trains .Its famous caption until the early `80s was, “Happy days are here again”, coined by then famous copywriter Vasant Kumar, whose father was spiritual philosopher U. G. Krishnamurti. Later it was changed to "Taste the thunder!".
more on :- > thumsup-taste-thunder with an article from Mint
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MOMOMUM - Mobile Monday Mumbai - MMM
Mobile Monday is a open community of mobile professionals and enthusiasts. It is a forum to network, share knowledge and discuss developments in the mobile world.
Mobile Monday Mumbai’s monthly event:
- Held on a Monday of every month
- Held at the premises of a volunteering host company
- Opportunity for companies to showcase themselves
Topic:
TRAI’s consultation paper on VAS
Agenda:
- Panel discussion
- Arvind Rao, CEO, OnMobile
- Beerud Sheth, Co-founder, SMSGupShup.com
- Viren Popli, SVP & Head - Mobile Entertainment, Star India
- Raj Singh, MD, ActiveMedia
- Group Discussion
- Dinner
When:
Monday, 18th August
6.30pm - 9.00pm
Where:
Pleateau Hall,
Club Peninsula,
Peninsula Corporate Park,
GR Kadam Marg,
Lower Parel, Mumbai.
Click here to register.
planning to go, lets see if it turns up
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Abdul Kalam on knowledge and leadership
Highly motivating, his speech on 15th Aug 2008
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Friday, August 15, 2008
SOW : Abdul Kalam's Homepage
I am sorry i am late for this week's site of the week. But as it is said everything happens for a reason, so as this.
I was really thinking what should be this week's SOW(site of the week). But i was not getting time either to post it on the blog. I normally post it on Tuesdays (12th AUGUST)
And then came 15 August; India's Independence day. There was a function arranged by SIES society the parent group of our college (SIESCOMS).
Also on this occasion SIES started SEAT an education trust to sponsor students' education. Since our ex president Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam strongly believes in education and the power of it on the minds of small childrens, our college really managed to call him to innugurate this trust.
He delivered a wonderful speech on Education Knowledge and Leadership. I will try and get the speech if possible.
It was the most memorable Independence Day of my life. So all my search ended, coincidently was thinking of dedicated SOW related to India/Independence, when Kalam sir announced his own website.
Hence presenting Site of the Week :-> http://www.abdulkalam.com
He even said that, if anybody has any kind of query s/he can mail it to apj@abdulkalam.com
And then goes his slogan: " Please repeat after me I CAN DO IT, WE CAN DO IT, INDIA CAN DO IT."
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Monday, August 11, 2008
101 most beautiful car wall papers - part 01
Collected from 101 most beautiful car wall papers widget from NetCarshow website.
Will be posting 3 wallpapers in every post, every week probably.
on CYBORG'SKALAA and current post at link with tag listing
Hajmola chatkara
Dabur Hajmola - the tasty digestive
Originally Ayurvedic digestive medicine.
First to be branded as a product
Mix of traditional Indian culinary herbs, spices and edible salts.
Market leader with 75% share of the digestive tablets segmentin India.
"CHATPATR SWAD JATPAT ARRAM"
more story and article on hajmola at -> HAJMOLAsource : Livemint, Wikipedia, Dabur
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Fortune 500 Logos
logos of fortune 500 companies under one roof
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Saturday, August 09, 2008
Twitter Meetup
The first chance to meet all the Twipeople.
I think it is being organized for the first time at least in Mumbai.
Details as follows
| Host: | |
| Type: |
| Start Time: | Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 8:00pm |
| End Time: | Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 12:00am |
| Location: | White, The Modern Italian Cafe, Ozone Club, Srirang Sabade Marg, Siddharth Nagar, |
| Street: | Near Siddharth Municipal Hospital and VIBGYOR High School, Goregaon (West) |
| City/Town: | Mumbai, India |
Phone: | 912228735646 |
link to register at : Facebook
Startup Saturday Mumbai - Aug 2008 - Anand Lunia, CFO, SeedFund.in
Schedule
- Date: August 9, 2008, Saturday
- Time: 3.30 - 6.30 pm
- Venue: EMBA1,Grd Flr,S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Munshi Nagar, Dadabhai Road, Andheri(W) Mumbai - 400058. Map, SMS address to phone
- 3.30 -4.30 pm: Demo by of Uhuroo Enterprise Web2.0 application by Kaushal Sarda, Founder, Collcraft Technologies
- 4.30 - 5.30 pm: Talk by Anand Lunia, CFO, SeedFund, on Term Sheets: What to watch out for before closing a equity deal
- 5.30 - 6.30 pm: Networking and snacks
Friday, August 08, 2008
Who is a Financial Planner
"Heard about CFP or rather Financial Planner? Its nothing but Certified Financial Planner. It is yet another course acronym in Finance domain. You have heard CA, CS, ICWA, then you have the next hyped CFA, then CPA, then CRP and then you have CFP.
Actually speaking good there are more and more careers coming in finance and accounting domain other than the standard courses.
CFP for Financial Planning is offerd by FINANCIAL PLANNING STANDARDS BOARD INDIA [FPSB].
So here is probably one of the first course that prepares you for Financial Planning.
Following is the FAQ from its website, for you guys to get a glimpse of."
Who is a Financial Planner?
A Financial Planner takes a holistic view of the financial life of people and helps them in reaching the goals they have envisaged. Financial Planning requires a great deal of empathy, an understanding of individuals' ambitions in life, their financial position and an expertise in creating wealth for individuals, by judicious investment. A fast growing population of wealthy professionals, a growing industrial and services sector and the emergence of a number of choices for investments have created significant opportunities for professionally competent financial planners.
What does a Financial Planner do?
A Financial Planner determines his client's short, medium and long-term aspirations, then develops and applies the plan that has been agreed upon. Together the Financial Planner and the client will review the plan at least once a year and revise it if the need arises.
Who employs Financial Planners?
A Certified Financial Planner having been through a rigorous education and experience process is geared to boost client's confidence and satisfaction. Financial Planners often choose to establish their own financial planning practice either by themselves or together with other planners. Others work for:
- Banks
- Financial planning organizations
- Life insurance companies
- Accounting or law firms
- Stocks and securities brokers
- Fund managers
- Credit counseling organizations
The website is : fpacademy.in
Following are the pamplets for the same:
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
mid week quiz : Tycoons and Magnets
Which Indian entrepreneur was India's first woman brew master?
Kiran Mujumdar Shaw
Name the Indian business tycoon who became the Air-India chairman at a time when private airlines were being nationalized.
Ratan Tata
Name the NRI business magnate whose father once ran a small foundry in Punjab.
Swaraj Paul
Which software head honcho is nicknamed 'Magus' meaning 'wizard' in Persian?
Shiv Nadar
Answers by Friday Evening.
Please reply only through comments.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Vakow - a cool new startup
Connected my twitter with Vakow! It's cheaper to post and works on all mobile operators in India. Visit http://www.vakow.com/twitter/
Tuesday - site of the week - India Image
We all talk about e-governance, transparency, right for information. But how many of us know the different types of websites provided by Government of India. Do we know that there exists something called as "India Image".
As it is commonly said that we are converting from memory based culture to intelligence based culture. This is because now a days getting information is not a big deal. But interpreting it intelligently is really big deal. On the same lines our very own government has started an initiative called as India Image.
India Image is a program to establishment Government of India's presence on the web. India Image Project, initiated in the year 1996. India Image is a popular programme of NIC with an objective to facilitate the establishment of a firm presence of Indian Government entities on the World Wide Web. India Image entails provision of an entire spectrum of web services to the Government sector as well as running specialized Portals for the benefit of citizens and other stakeholders.
The website : India Image
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Monday, August 04, 2008
"Lifebuoy hai jaha tandurasti hai waha"
"Starting from today I will posting articles on some of the top and famous Indian Brands.
OH!!! Do not get shocked, i am not a brand manager sorts to write on brands, these are the brands that where featured in one of the Mint's Branding Supplements.
The posts are the scanned copies of these articles.
It will be posted every Monday, as Mondays are dedicated for topics on branding,advertising,communications, etc... in that category.
If someone has some good articles regarding this please mail it to me, and I will feature it on the blog. "
"Today's brand is LIFEBUOY"
..............more story at -> LIFEBUOY
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Friday, August 01, 2008
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