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: 0   Liked this article? Follow me on Twitter and Subscribe by [...]

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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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China and India – suddenly vulnerable

By Nistha | Published: March 9, 2009

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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People who defined 2008 – II

By Nistha | Published: December 26, 2008

The Dark Knight 2008′s highest grosser at box-office and all set to be re-released Jan’09 to cross the 1B mark, The Dark Knight hovered in news for Ledger’s death, his highly acclaimed performance and the movie’s outstanding sales record. The finest superhero movie yet, Christopher Nolan and his crew did a fab job in creating [...]

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