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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: Like Unlike
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Desperate enough for unpaid internships?

By nistha | Published: May 6, 2009
Econ­omy is strug­gling. Jobs are van­ish­ing. Fresh col­lege grad­u­ates have nowhere to go: defer grad­u­a­tion, accept any employ­ment (unpaid tem­po­rary posi­tions) or use a con­sul­tant to keep the visa sta­tus afloat. In not so pop­u­lar fields, stu­dents have always gone for unpaid intern­ships in dream of con­vert­ing them to full-time. But the phe­nom­e­non is now [...]
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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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