From the best selling author of ‘Five Point Someone’ & ‘One night at call centre’ comes another dark, witty tale about modern India. Based on real life events, the origin of the story for ‘The 3 Mistakes of My Life’ itself is dramatic. It started with Chetan Bhagat receiving an e-mail from a stranger, Govind who had taken sleeping pills in an attempt to suicide and was writing to him on his death bed. A thoroughly shaken Chetan tracked the boy down to an Ahmedabad (Gujarat, India) hospital. Fortunately he was still alive to tell the tale. This book is loosely based on the three mistakes Govind made in his life.
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Do you blog online? Millions of bloggers post content online every day. Many people read and comment on blogs. Within this communication, some legal issues are bound to arise. I am writing this article to make you aware about top 3 legal points that you as a blogger must know.
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Yahoo may announce a deal with Google in a time to come. The tests of those ads were successful. But regulators are not the only ones with fears that Yahoo needs to alleviate. Wall Street and shareholders have been waiting with baited breath to see if Microsoft and Yahoo could reach an agreement on price for the proposed acquisition. But the two remain divided on the value of Yahoo and Microsoft is expected to make an announcement about the takeover.
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Our pick of the month is a really empowering book – The 8th habit by Stephen R. Covey.
After the phenomenal success of The 7 Habits series 18 years ago, international bestselling author Stephen R. Covey has come up with his next book, The 8th Habit. With The 8th Habit, he opens up an entirely new dimension of human potential, and shows us how to achieve greatness in any position and any venue.
This profound and groundbreaking new book of next-level thinking reveals what Covey calls the Knowledge Age where the real power is the individual, not the larger machine.
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Wikipedia, the people’s encyclopedia, has received a $3m donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to be paid in equal chunks over three years. Which is nice. Even nicer, the money hails from a charity, and not from philanthropic venture capitalists, who may or may not have commercial designs upon Wikipedia’s ads-unsullied pages.
Wikipedia has always been a community-based website available for free for all the users on the web. However, due to maintenance costs and other expenses, users were invited to donate money to the Foundation in order to keep the service alive and provide more and more articles to the web.
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ComScore, Inc. a leader in digital media research along with the Kelsey Group, UK conducted a study for understanding the impact of online consumer reviews on offline purchase behavior. They examined the impact of consumer-generated reviews on the price consumers were willing to pay for a service delivered offline.
The study examined the offline sales impact of online reviews for restaurants, hotels, travel, legal, medical, automotive and home services. Nearly one out of every four Internet users (24 percent) reported using online reviews prior to paying for a service delivered offline. Of those who consulted an online review, 41 percent of restaurant reviewers subsequently visited a restaurant, while 40 percent of hotel reviewers subsequently stayed at a hotel.
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Sometimes a single incident can change the entire course of your life. That too in a split of second. Vantage Point is a movie about one such incident that touches the life of more than one person and how it is seen from the perspective of 8 different people.
The US President has been shot. And a series of bomb explodes, massacring people and creating mayhem among the city dwellers. A terrorist attack has just struck the world summit in Spain where the President was addressing a meeting on the global war against terror.
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Once in a while I saw an ad banner from Google rendering “Donate for Hurricane affected gulf areas”. Surprisingly nowadays many websites and companies are stepping into the noble cause of spreading awareness about some of the incurable diseases like AIDS, polio, tuberculosis and many more.
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Did you know that your company could make a bigger profit by focusing on the market share consisting of people who form two-thirds of the world’s population? That the world’s fastest growing market is at the bottom and not the top of the fortune pyramid? ‘The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’ by C.K Prahalad prompts MNCs to look at globalization strategies through a new lens of inclusive capitalism.
The book reveals that the world’s most exciting, fastest-growing new market is where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid.
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Once in a while, it feels really good to enjoy a lazy Sunday afternoon with a good movie. This weekend I decided to pick something different for a change. Charolette’s web, a delightfully filmed version of the book by author E. B. White.
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