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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 and [...]
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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 landscape [...]
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China and India – suddenly vulnerable

While economy (worsening is implicit) is such an over-talked topic that any headline with this word has become an eye-sore to me, it remains an inevitable truth. And as I settle back to a routine life, trying to catch up on past few months. There is no sign of a recovery in Western continents but [...]
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