Indianomics

Bharti Airtel has entered the elite club of top telecom companies. It is at number 25. It is the only Indian company in the list. Britain’s Vodafone which recently acquired Hutch is at number 1.
The study conducted by UK based brand valuation firm Brand Finance Plc, uses the parameters to calculate the brand value of [...]

We all hate being locked into a contract with our service provide. Be it Airtel or Vodafone. iPhone was available in India with only two (Airtel & Vodafone) service providers. If you are using any other GSM provider then iPhone isn’t for you. That is all going to  change now. Code [...]

Online shopping is yet to take-off in India. ET has published an article about the rise of online shopping in India following the terrorist attacks. Diwali would be a good start for the online trade. Sooner than later online trade will kick off and in a big way. The cycle that US went through [...]

SOS Children is the world’s largest charity for orphans. SOS Children UK in collaboration with Wikimedia has released the latest series of Wikipedia selection for schools in DVD format. The organization has embraced BitTorrent for this release. The previous releases were in DVD format and were distributed offline. This latest release is equivalent to [...]

Gmail has at last introduced the Smiley support. Gmail was first introduced on April 1, 2004. Its been more than 4 years and it is the only email client I have used for more than 4 years. Other email clients already have the emoticon support. I never really thought emoticons were that big a [...]

Google’s Android operating system, which power the G1 mobile, is released for the open source community. G1 phone, which combines the features of iPhone and Blackberry, has promised a lot. Google Phone is slated to release in December in India. It would also be interesting to see how applications developed for Google’s Phone stake [...]

It’s been only one season and Deccan Chargers is already up for sale. Many people have talked about Indian Premier League (IPL) as a business model. It is also a case study for some management students. Some said teams like Kolkata Knight Riders have already made their profits because of the merchandise and Shah Rukh [...]

Bankbazar is your one stop (almost) shop to find a suitable personal loan. It is a neat web2.0 tool to check on the telemarketer who just called you and also to know about the prevailing loan rates.
It has tied up with at least 6 private banks. I did not see any PSU in the list. Also missing [...]

Norway will be investing $2bn in Indian equity in the next three months. This would be done through their sovereign wealth fund. This fund comes from the surplus money of the Norway government’s pension plan.
The total amount of money with sovereign wealth funds in the world is estimated to be close to 3 trillion dollars. [...]

There are 2 IT parks in Kerala, Technopark in Trivandrum and Infopark in Kochi. Kerala is planning to add 2 lakh IT jobs in the next 5 years. It now employs around 45000 in IT sector. One startup coming out of Technopark, Trivandrum is started by a young group of 4 students just out of college. [...]