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One of the events that has been overshadowed somewhat is the proposed auction of WiMAX licenses along with the 3G license auction in a couple of months (hopefully!). Given the low internet penetration within the country, broadband technologies can go a long way in increasing the number of interne...
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Ranjan Das, the youngest CEO of corporate India left behind a startling legacy. His sad demise on the 21st of October to a massive coronary was reason enough for some of the big corporate honchos to take notice.Work – fine, affects the company in a big way. Life – Helps when you are refreshed at ...
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This is an article by our guest strater – Sasmita Patnaik – a student from XIM , Bhubaneshwar. We thank her for her thoughts and hope she would continue writing on strat.in!Today we often talk of concepts like Globalization and World Economy. While we reinforce these ideas again and a...
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This is a guest article by Saswata Das. He graduated from IIM Calcutta earlier this year and works in the Financial sector. We thank him for his article and look forward to his future articles!With trade volumes of IRFs in NSE barely touching the 1000 mark these days, it seems that all the initia...
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We live in a world connected better than ever before – An era where wireless and broadband have enabled seamless connectivity powering creating and sharing of information never experienced before. Accessing or searching information no more continues to challenge people. It is the filteri...
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Just recently I bought my first ever iPod touch. Its a brilliant device and amply illustrates why Apple is justifiably the leader in this field by a margin. Essentially what such tech devices do is that they take one core need of their consumers and try to completely satisfy those. Over time, the...
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I am doing a project for one of the world’s leading companies in its domain. Everyone of you has/is still using one of their products. I cannot officially reveal the name as i have signed an NDA with them. The post below is purely a personal insight and opinion that i have gained from inter...
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A shocking statement and an even more shocking revelation by BCCI CAO Ratnakar Shetty have the Indian cricketing world in a tizzy. Prof. Shetty came up with the statement that IPL has taken away the importance of the national cap from young players and they no longer have the same pride in making...
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After the general elections earlier this year, there was a huge hue and cry about voter turnout. In Mumbai, it was as low as 35% in some constituencies. A laundry-list of reasons were given- summers, holidays, heat, no leave in the private sector etc. So, the authorities are trying to address thi...
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An avid cricket fan, say Swami was watching the India-Pakistan cricket match in Mumbai at his office. Since it was a long weekend, he had to catch a flight to reach his home in Bangalore. So, he left the the small TV sets in office albeit reluctantly. But, Swami was keen to stay in touch with the...
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As some of my batch mates went from IITs to MITs and other US Universities around the world, the number of publications in their resumes started to increase at an exponential speed. To me this phenomenon really did not make a lot of sense as how can a student or his research change within a coupl...
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Ever since Rio De Janeiro has bagged the right to host the 2016 Olympics, there has been a raging debate in the Indian media whether India, who is often mentioned in the same breath as Brazil (in fact, they are 2 pillars of the new economic powers BRICS) when it comes to economy, is ready to bid ...
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International Business Machines is an organization that has seen the troughs and the crests of the computing industry right from its inception. The firm itself has undergone revival and has painfully learnt its lessons. One of those lessons has imbibed in it the spirit of always being ahead of th...
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As India turns the corner towards slowly but surely becoming a developed nation, its middle class has also begun to catch on to a popular “vice” among the more developed countries- Video games.Producer side dynamics:A hit Bollywood thriller about a man with short-term amnesia has inspired India&#...
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OriginThe origins of Taurus could be traced to the 1986 event known as the “Big Bang”, during which the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was turned into a self-regulating organization under the oversight of the Bank of England. Many regulations were lifted and ultimately the open-outcry ma...
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We have had some amazing advancements in the telecommunications/ entertainment industry. Every gadget has had one objective in common though – introducing ‘ease of use’. The iPhone took ‘ease-of-use’ to another level with its capacitive touchscreen technology. Next c...
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There have been good cricketers; there have been great cricketers, there have been legends, and there have been even Gods. But away from the hustle and bustle of a noisy cricket field a certain bespectacled Bengali gentleman, 10 year-old daughter sitting next to him, makes plans for the annual Du...
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Milton Friedman, in his famous quote, “The business of business is business”, implied that companies should not bother about any responsibility towards the society. But off late, there are quite a few companies who have gone out of their way to contribute to the society. The million dollar questi...
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Interest Rate Futures were launched with much fanfare on August 31st, 2009 by NSE. The intention by SEBI was honest – to let the Corporates (including FIIs), individuals (both Indian and NRIs) to hedge risks arising out of fluctuations in Interest rates. We, at strat.in had also been upbeat about...
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The following article is part of a series on strat.in – called Startup September. In one sentence, Bhumi is a 3 year old NGO that lights the fire that questions questionable leadership.The anatomy of an itch serves as an irritant. Its symptoms include a certain hyperactivity that transcends...
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Abhishek woke up around 9 this morning. He was rather tensed about his impending CREST quiz. I wished him best of luck for it. At 6pm I came to know that it didn’t go too well. Even though we are classmates at IIM Calcutta, I have not seen or spoken to him once in the last 2 weeks. So how do I kn...
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The idea is not new, the concept is also not really new but the execution is new! Location based services are now capturing the world at an amazing pace!To think of it a mobile phone was a location based service. It provided a moving point of contact for a person. Now with the launch of iPhone ap...
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Hrishikesh Thite is a second year management student at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. This unabridged article was originally written as a term paper for a course on Analysis of ICT Markets. It is fairly long, so consider yourself forewarned. There is a summary of sorts, at the end,...
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Hrishikesh Thite is a second year management student at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. This thought piece was written as part of a submission for a course on Analysis of ICT Markets. It is fairly long, so consider yourself forewarned.Microsoft released the Windows 7 Release Candidat...
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A mobile phone has become as ubiquitous as a wrist watch these days; one rarely leaves home without it. However, if asked about the economic benefits of having a mobile phone, most of us wouldn’t look beyond that important conference call we were able to attend while in the car or being able to ...
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