Category Archives: finance

Still figuring the big Q of ‘monetization’

The Media and Infor­ma­tion indus­try has been strug­gling over mon­e­ti­za­tion for long now. It is obvi­ously a high time com­pa­nies started try­ing stuff out. So in 2010, we saw some bold attempts. I will take a shot on 2 major head­lines in this space: Like Unlike
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Challenging times for Media and Publishing

When con­sumer becomes the king, the pro­duc­ers may soon be becom­ing paupers. As tech­nol­ogy advanced by leaps and bounds, many indus­tries had tapped into it and dreamed of an assured future. When Sony won the Hi Def DVD war, lit­tle did it antic­i­pate that same tech­nol­ogy will under­cut its own motion pic­ture busi­ness as more [...]
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Witnessing a shift in career visions and realities

Few inter­est­ing excerpts from NYTimes’s “With Finance Dis­graced, Which Career Will Be King?” Today, the finan­cial cri­sis and the eco­nomic down­turn are likely to alter dras­ti­cally the career paths of future years. The con­tours of the shift are still in flux, in part because there is so much uncer­tainty about the shape of the eco­nomic [...]
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