Nothing causes as much anxiety in a family as when someone falls sick. Nearly 65% of India’s poor get into debt and 1% fall below the poverty line each year because of illness, according to National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) 2004. The answer, of course, is health insurance, but only 6% of India’s workers have it.
Read the article: Finally, a lifeline for India’s poor
How Apple, Airtel and Vodafone are ripping off Indian iPhone users.
Read the article: How Apple, Airtel and Vodafone are ripping off Indian iPhone users
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech in 2005.
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‘The search giant unveiled a US$4.4 trillion plan Wednesday to reduce the U.S.’s dependency on fossil fuels and embrace alternative energy. The proposal would yield a net saving of $1 trillion by 2030 and slash U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 48 percent, according to Google, which said it had been busy “crunching the numbers.”‘ – CIO
Read the article: Google Proposes $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan
Mr. Ratan Tata has said in his press conference that, “Two years ago, I said if somebody puts a gun to my head, you would either have to remove the gun or pull the trigger. I would not move my head. I think Ms Banerjee pulled the trigger.”
Read the article: An elegy for Singur
Fundamental advise on what needs to be done to build a successful online business but something that is often forgotten, neglected or misinterpreted.
Read the article: Recipe for a billion-dollar website
“Triumph of the nerds” – A documentary by Robert Cringley tells the story of the personal computer and how the industry evolved. Unsurprisingly it mentions Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve jobs and Steve Wozniak (Apple) and IBM, but there are some not-so-well-known figures that contributed significantly to the fledgling industry of the 1970s and 80s.
Here is a huge repository of articles relating to online marketing. These include how to use blogs, social media sites like Facebook, Digg, delicious, etc. to your benefit and other general marketing tactics.
“…a familiar line spouted by Americans these days is, ‘Why should the US curb energy consumption, when India and China are guzzling petrol and polluting the whole globe?’…”
