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

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 … Continue reading

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Pagalguy is down!!

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 … Continue reading

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BharatStudent.com : Spamming on Orkut?

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 … Continue reading

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Is failing a guarantee that you will fail?

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 … Continue reading

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The Latest in Online Education

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 … Continue reading

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Reliance to help students ‘ Crack Admissions in Colleges Abroad ‘

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, … Continue reading

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Global Indian : turning Indians into global citizens

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 … Continue reading

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Satyam moves to Virtual Learning

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 … Continue reading

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Finishing schools in top colleges, to increase employability

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 … Continue reading

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The 5000 crore industry

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 … Continue reading

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