Category Archives: finance

Still figuring the big Q of ‘monetization’

By Nistha | Published: April 29, 2010
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:
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Challenging times for Media and Publishing

By Nistha | Published: July 22, 2009
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

By Nistha | Published: April 17, 2009
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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