Over the past few years, the most significant divide in the field of marketing has been the chasm between the digital folk and brand marketers. The digerati talk about engagement, obsess about tracking data across the funnel, and have an undying belief that technology can and will change the world. Whereas the brand-driven marketers look…
With 350 million internet subscribers expected by June 2015, India is fast becoming an internet economy to reckon with, globally. With e-commerce market pegged over Rs 63,000 crore and digital payment over Rs 120,120 crore, the dynamics of internet in India is changing and evolving with every passing day. Moreover, the government has expressed its…
The BJP’s student wing ABVP has turned into a big campus bully. Not only has it campaigned against the “forced conversion of Hindu girls”, but it is also against live-in relationships, worked to stop a beer festival in Chennai and raised a number of other ‘serious’ moral issues in Delhi University.
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Sulekha.com, India’s leading platform for ‘local service need fulfilment’, today shared the results of a study undertaken on the online market for CCTV Surveillance in India. Second highest demand for CCTV camera security systems—especially connected ones—is from Bengaluru. The usage is for a wide variety of interesting contexts such as monitoring of kids and pets…
To keep a check on touts roaming in and around the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) headquarters in Bandra, the housing body will be fitted with a full surveillance system. The office will be equipped with high density ultraviolet-fitted CCTVs in every nook and corner.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of world’s largest public platform Facebook, has come out in support of the victims of the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo who were killed in Paris last week for the magazine’s sustained work in drawing cartoons that were insulting to Prophet Muhammad and Islam, among other religions. Sharing his own experience in…
My old boss, MJ Akbar, had only one commandment in journalism, so far as I remember. This was (and I am paraphrasing him): write whatever you want about any subject, but never make fun of religion. I am not sure whether this was said because he wanted his newspapers to show respect for religion or…
My old boss, MJ Akbar, had only one commandment in journalism, so far as I remember. This was (and I am paraphrasing him): write whatever you want about any subject, but never make fun of religion. I am not sure whether this was said because he wanted his newspapers to show respect for religion or…
National Association of Software Services Companies facilitated an interaction, between DeitY and the Industry on various challenges being faced by the sector, while participating in various e-Governance projects. The meeting chaired by Shri R.S. Sharma, Secretary DeitY, was attended by senior government officials from DEITY, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance and the Department of…
The scheme, part of the Central government’s National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), will be implemented in all 30 districts with the setting up of 5,713 CSCs across gram panchayats in the coming months. The CSCs will provide hundreds of Government to Citizen (G2C) and Business to Citizen (B2C) services such as payment of utility bills, booking of railway…