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One of the biggest problems due to the proliferation of social networking is the spam invites you receive from perfect strangers to the various social networking websites. I am extremely careful online, but I still face this deluge of unwanted mails. The worst culprits are: Facebook – “Check out my photos” - who wants to [...]
If you have an internet business which is exclusively online, there is always a lot of competition since the entry barriers are low. One of the things to track is the costs which other companies who could compete with you have, so I found this post (and comments ) on startup costs interesting. In India [...]
As this article indicates, corporate espionage is widespread in India today , and some Indian companies are very careless about their internal security systems. With the lifestyle people lead, “integrity is the cheapest commodity that can be purchased in India today” and I will write more about it later. In the internet sector, you will [...]
These articles on Cybercrime networks in Mumbai and the e-crooks confirms what something that has troubled me for the last two years. From the article The latter two cases indicate social engineering, where the victim has been spied on and cultivated. The Pune man had to have had a reason to believe he had African [...]
Most of the online news coverage in India relates to startups and VC funding, but is Venture capital or an angel investor really required for an online business . Most startups in India waste a lot of time and energy trying to get funding when they should be focussing on growing their business. You can [...]
India Today, India’s largest magazine publisher is not going to spend any more money on digital media, they are not getting the returns they want. You can make money from content, but you have to keep your overheads really low. Most big Indian media companies have plush offices and highly paid employees( very important for [...]
Unlike the rest of the world, the number of internet users in India is decreasing . Part of the reason is that there are almost no Indian websites which are worth visiting, most are just copy cats of foreign websites. They are simply not value for money, why will any one want to spend money [...]
This post on Google’s venture capital arm Google Ventures , summarises what I have believed for long Corporate venture capital, according to many, constricts innovation rather than foster it. I’m inclined to go with the view, particularly as speculationGoogle launching a venture capital arm called Google Ventures. The Mountain View, California-headquartered search giant has not [...]
So salaries are being reduced in the mainstream media companies, earlier there was talk of layoffs too. Unlike the developed countries where major newspapers are closing their print editions, the mainstream media has flourished in India in the last few years. However, at least for the English language papers, it is going to be a [...]