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How much does your company need to spend to acquire a new user?

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7 Jan 2008

Recently heard over at AlooTechie, that BharatStudent.com, an Indian social networking website for students is planning to spend about Rs 25 crore over the next two years.
About Rs 6.25 crore would be the capital cost, while the remaining 18.75 crores “would be infused into scaling up our human resources pool, creating visibility of the portal [...]

Pagalguy is down!!

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28 Jul 2007

This is definitely something I haven’t seen before. Pagalguy is down. I see this error message I show below.

They use a third party software for their forums, maybe there is a glitch in that code somewhere. Though I don’t think there’s a huge possibility of that happening. Who knows maybe it was an admin mixup [...]

BharatStudent.com : Spamming on Orkut?

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26 Jul 2007

AlooTechie wrote about BharatStudent.com claiming 1.4 million registered users in four months, but the comments sections brings out a completely different story.
The discussion starts with the huge number of features on BharatStudent.com and moves to it being a Orkut and Youtube mixture. However, eventually it moves to the loads of porn and spamming done by [...]

Is failing a guarantee that you will fail?

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14 Jun 2007

I find it impossible to think about Bill Gates life before he got rich. But here in an interview he explains how it was. Read on it’s not much different from all of us.
Most of all I like the part about ‘I did the best of those who failed’. Failing is no guarantee that you [...]

The Latest in Online Education

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15 Apr 2007

Education is one of the biggest priorities for any nation, and this is why it hurts when politicians manipulate it to gain political advantage.
With the advent of the internet, online education or e-learning was destined to grab a major market share of the education industry. Even though it is quite impossible to penetrate rural India [...]

Reliance to help students ‘ Crack Admissions in Colleges Abroad ‘

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24 Mar 2007

Reliance, has announced the launch of a package titled ‘Crack Admissions in Colleges Abroad’ (CACA) for students aspiring to study abroad. The program has been launched in collaboration with the eminent Cyber Security Guru ahm.. Ankit Fadia and Aditya Singh, both ex students of Standford University. It would be accessible at all 241 Reliance World [...]

Global Indian : turning Indians into global citizens

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20 Mar 2007

Global Adjustments, pioneers in cross-cultural education have created a website called Global Indian. The idea to is help individuals learn about varying cultures, to help them understand and behave their global clients in a better way. What is right in one culture, can be completely different in another, and it is learning this difference which [...]

Satyam moves to Virtual Learning

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18 Mar 2007

Satyam has started the digitization of it’s training modules for induction, entry-level training, continuous competency development, performance evaluation, and career-path development, which will be served to it’s current and future employees via Satyam Learning World (SLW).
SLW is an organization wide, e-learning service, which includes learning management system, a content management system, a virtual classroom tool, [...]

Finishing schools in top colleges, to increase employability

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15 Mar 2007

The infamous Ministry of HRD has now decided to start finishing schools which would impart skills to the graduates while also brushing-up their knowledge of core subjects. These programs which would run for about two months, would initially be set up at NITs (Jaipur, Kurukshetra, Durgapur, Warangal, Trichy, Kozhikode, Suratkhal) and IIT’s.
The idea is make [...]

The 5000 crore industry

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5 Mar 2007

How big do you reckon the coaching industry is in India? According to ET it is close to 5000 crore
Industry estimates note IIT coaching accounts for Rs 500 crore, MBA for Rs 300 crore, medical entances for 250 crore and civil services for Rs 200 crore. Ritesh Hemrajani, director, Applect Learning systems, an IMS [...]


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