Monthly Archives: November 2010

This Could be the Future of the Print Media

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

Richard Branson launched Project, a digital magazine just for the iPad. The monthly magazine will cost $2.99 a month. Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch is working on an iPad only daily (newspaper) called The Daily. In related developments, the New York Times … Continue reading →

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Week’s Tweets 2010-11-21

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

Friend Arvind Sahay at IIM A awarded the Devang Mehta Award for the Best Business Professor in Marketing Management in India. Congrats! # That's it? A $4B scam and he just walks away? | The Hindu : Communications Minister Raja … Continue reading →

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IT Services Should be Setting Agenda on Human Cloud

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

GigaOm’s conference NetWork 2010 next month is about the future of work. Mathew Ingram describes the collaboration in distributed teams as the Human Cloud The biggest change, for both workers and companies, is a move toward what we call “the … Continue reading →

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Investment Hates Uncertainty, Especially in the Law

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

A couple of unconnected things are throwing dark shadows over this dream run that Foreign Direct Investment into the Indian economy has been having. One, the Income Tax department’s claim on Vodafone for $2.5 B related to its acquisition of … Continue reading →

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Week’s Tweets 2010-11-14

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

Interesting and important reading for MBAs | FT.com | The narcissistic world of the MBA student http://bit.ly/dovrwR # If you are at a services company with access restrictions | Browse the Web with your Email Address | Amit Agarwal http://bit.ly/dxL5ke … Continue reading →

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Kenya Challenges Corruption

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

There is something going on in Kenya. In the last 3 months several ministers have resigned an/or have been charged with corruption charges. Here are a few links. What is it about the Indian system that makes it impossible to … Continue reading →

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Chart of the Day

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

This chart plots the trend line for Trade in Services as a percent of GDP. Trade in Services includes both imports and exports. The data is from the World Bank’s excellent databank. Till the mid 90s India’s Trade in Services … Continue reading →

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Comparing Chinese Manufacturing and Indian Services

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

I was doing some number crunching for the book and came up with this chart. When you hear the phrase “outsourcing of jobs to India and China”, which you do often in American politics today, there is going to be … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

Wells fargo just declined a cc auth for me in India. Again. Anyone know a visa card that won't automatically get declined in India? # ..fit into 140 chars. <end of test> (3/3) # I'm trying out a a new … Continue reading →

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Keane and Sonata

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Basab Pradhan

Last week NTT announced the acquisition of Keane. With roughly a billion dollars in revenue, this was a major acquisition, just a few months after their acquisition of Intelligroup, a $126 million IT Services company. Now, the ET reports that … Continue reading →

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